I talk about the effect of emotions on health in Chapter 4, on the topic of Forgiveness and Apology. The last paragraph on page 32 I suggest asking your physician about the effects of hard emotions.
Today there was an article from Dr. Mercola that provided some references to this effect. One reference was to a study published in the American Heart Association publication Circulation that showed risk of heart attack after loss of a loved one “goes up by 21 times and remains 6 times higher than normal for several weeks.” The Mercola article also references another study from the American Journal of Cardioligy that showed that people with high risk of heart attack who reported being cheerful, relaxed, satisfied with life and full of energy had a 1/3 reduction in coronary events such as heart attack.
Pushing the negative emotions out of the way doesn’t help either. We have a book entitled “Feelings Buried Alive Never Die” by Karol K. Truman ISBN 0911207-02-3 that explains that repressing emotions does not resolve them. By the way, Chapter 18 of this book is one of our references for determining what emotion is connected to a particular disease. So the trick isn’t to simply deny negative emotions, but to find ways to resolve them and let them go, and more importantly to find ways to find joy in your life. Ignore the Monkey Mind that keeps trying to bring up the negative emotions, and find ways to keep a positive mindset. Remembering that everything in life is a blessing, even if you don’t see the blessing in the moment.