Study: Bottling Up Emotions Can Be Better
By LiveScience Staff
posted: 03 June 2008 09:56 am ET
http://www.livescience.com/health/080603-bottle-emotions.html

Score one for resilient types who keep things to themselves.

Contrary to popular notions about what is normal or healthy, new research has found that it is OK not to express one's thoughts and feelings after experiencing a collective trauma, such as a school shooting or terrorist attack. . .click here for rest of article

I really do not think that is healthy. That energy, with proper training and education, should freely flow through your body and out into the universe. As I have found bottling negative and even good emotions is not always the healthiest thing. This could take your body's natural energy balance out of wack. This can make you sick to your stomach or give you head aches and migraines. Releasing energy is always the best way to go.

I think it depends on the individual and the circumstance.  I believe my bout with breast cancer came from me bottling up feelings about an unhappy marriage for years and not having the courage to leave.  But in general I keep things to myself as more often than not, the response of people to whom I have opened up is just as upsetting as the original event.  I think everyone has to choose for themselves what to discuss and what to keep private.   Again, the old adage, " Know thyself" has alot of truth in it.

We can release these negative energies, however, without ever uttering a single word to anyone.

— Novia wrote

We can release these negative energies, however, without ever uttering a single word to anyone.

Yes, we can....thank you, Novia.

I have a tendancy to bottle things up.....and agree that depending on the situation...that is not something good to do at all....then again there are different ways to express yourself when it isn't bottled up and that to isn't healthy so either way depending seems we can't win :|

I have a tendancy to bottle things up.....and agree that depending on the situation...that is not something good to do at all....then again there are different ways to express yourself when it isn't bottled up and that to isn't healthy so either way depending seems we can't win :|