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Mind/Body connection: how emotions can affect your body

Carlotta L
6 min readOct 3, 2021

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Hello beautiful soul!

Have you ever considered that emotions are signals, that your body is telling you that something needs to be looked at?

Our emotions are linked to our bodies, allowing them to have a significant impact on our emotional and physical well-being.

When we become aware of which suppressed emotions are affecting our physical body, we can start listening to these signals and therefore bring harmony to our emotional and physical health.

In fact, feeling an emotion is not just a psychological experience, we experience it with our whole body.

I am reminded of a client, who many years ago had a healing session with me. Her left knee was bothering her to the point that walking became almost a difficult task to achieve. During the session, she shared with me that 20 years prior she had an argument with somebody. That argument left an imprint in her subconscious mind (a trauma) which she carried on her physical body (on her knee) for many years. With the information she gave me, I helped her to release the trauma related to the argument, and from that moment onwards, the knee pain was gone.

The way you think, feel, and act has an effect on your body, and every ache, pain, or other physical struggles, affects your…

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Carlotta L
Carlotta L

Written by Carlotta L

Searching for meaning in our emotions and feelings. Doctoral researcher in counselling psychology and psychotherapy. www.selfhealingclinic.com/ig

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