Headaches have a lot more to do with emotions than you think. Do you want to know why? Here we tell you.
Last update: January 01, 2022
The headache looks like a shadow that surrounds us with its excruciating pangs. At times it can be highly disabling, while at others it becomes a tenacious companion who accompanies our daily life. But what is it due to? Today we talk about the relationship between soul wounds and headaches.
It is often an invisible veil that affects our quality of life, as well as the most common disturbance among the population, since adolescence. When we investigate migraine triggers, the most common are stress, anxiety, and even depression.
Leaving aside the purely organic or physiological factors that can make you more or less prone to suffer from this disorder, there are psychological and existential dimensions that can aggravate these static so frequent.
Relationship between wounds of the soul and headache
There are many emotions we feel every day, but not all of them are positive. Stress, anxiety or sadness cause obvious chemical changes in the body.
Stress, for example, causes high cortisol spikes that will "shape", so to speak, many of our most basic vital functions, such as blood pressure.
In turn, the sadness activates a number of neurotransmitters that can weaken the immune system, and this can cause persistent headaches.
Although there is another fact to be taken into consideration, which we may have experienced for ourselves at some point. Stress and anxiety narrow many arteries, but when we relax - or try - the blood vessels of the brain dilate, thus creating headaches.
This is why these ailments are so common on weekends or, simply, when we go home after a day of work and stress. In other words, just try to unplug and rest and here comes the headache.
Any negative emotion that invades our mind will have an impact on the body if it is persistent over time.
The sadness that lasts for months will take away our energy second by second, like an inner devourer that will reveal itself in the form of fatigue and headache. In turn, this state will become a sort of ouroboros, a mythological creature that devours its tail forming a circle.
Emotional pain results in physical pain and physical pain in turn promotes depression. A high risk, which is why it is important to learn how to manage emotions day by day, setting priorities and setting limits.
Healing the wounds of the soul to make the body happy
"Take care of your emotions and be happy", a common self-help phrase that is not always easy to implement. How can this be done? We need that stressful job to support the family. Problems at home, with a partner, with children, financial problems… What to do?
Life's problems aren't always solved with extreme decisions: quitting your job or partner. We should always start with goals a short term, that is, achievable.
Set limits, be aware of how far you can push yourself and distribute your time appropriately: hours of work, personal leisure and rest. Always find a time for yourself during the day, for your thoughts, for your identity.
That the time you spend with your parents is always of quality, fosters your self-esteem and prevents anyone from manipulating you, invading your personal space or attacking the values ​​that are important to you. Protect yourself, love yourself, get excited about something every day.
Conclusions
Taking care of yourself relieves tension, hence the headache. Remember that happiness can always be recovered and that we all deserve to be happy. It is an aspiration and a reality.
Sleep well, enjoy everyday life, balance stress until it is mastered at an appropriate level so that the tension that damages the body no longer exists. Preventing headaches from becoming that persistent leivmotif in life sometimes requires small changes. Taking care of yourself physically and emotionally is an obligation and a duty that we cannot neglect.
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