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The Surprising Harm Of Being Around Negative People
Written by: Beverly AmbrosioArticle Overview: The words someone else speaks or the actions they take in your presence can change the actual structure of your brain! How you choose to spend your time and who you choose to allow into your sphere of influence matters greatly. Experiencing negative situations or negative people not only changes the structure of the brain, but memories of those interactions get stored in the cells of the body and remain long after the event took place.
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The Surprising Harm Of Being Around Negative People
Being
stressed to the max or feeling overwhelmed is a way of life for many these
days. Unfortunately, it is also a way of
shortening life. Too often, the power
and effects of stress are underestimated.
Likewise, the power and effects of being around negative people and
events are underestimated.
We
all know people who are so negative we cannot wait to get away from them. Science is now revealing that is exactly what
you should do. Get away and stay
away! It is actually harmful to your
health. Although we all have a bad day
every now and then, some people have bad days and drama on such a regular basis
it consumes them. If you allow it, being
in close contact with them on a regular basis will consume you also.
In
addition to negative people bringing you down and affecting your mood, research
in the field of neuroscience has discovered others can actually have an effect
on the physical structure of your brain!
Think about that. The words
someone else speaks or the actions they take in your presence can change your brain! How you choose to spend your time and who you
choose to allow into your sphere of influence matters greatly.
You
may have heard the analogy of the human brain being compared to a computer hard
drive. That is actually an excellent
analogy because once information in any form is received, it is embedded into the
neurons of the brain. Once information
is embedded, it can be difficult to remove, just like when trying to remove information
from a computer.
Experiencing
negative situations or negative people not only changes the structure of the
brain, but memories of those interactions get stored in the cells of the body and
remain long after the event took place.
This occurs at the cellular level when the memory of the event is
encoded into the cells at certain regions of the brain and body.
The
negative or stressful event creates “neural traffic” to and from the central
nervous system and triggers a “fight or flight” response. During this traffic within the cerebral and
peripheral nervous system, sensory receptors are either picking up information
or carrying it away. Each sensory
receptor then encodes the nature, location, intensity and duration of the
stimuli.
The
best approach for effectively dealing with negative input and managing stress is
to be pro-active. Prevention is the key. You can do this through awareness and choice.
It is essential to become aware of what
is going on around you and within your body and mind.
One
of the best and easiest things you can do in a stressful situation is to simply
breathe. Remind yourself to take a few
deep breaths and continue to control your breathing. Anxiety will begin to diminish. One, because you have redirected your focus,
and two because breathing influences the sympathetic nervous system to regulate
blood pressure, heart rate, circulation, digestion and other bodily
functions.
When
you are experiencing emotional stress, the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated
and affects a number of physical responses.
Muscles tense, breathing becomes either shallow or rapid, the heart rate
increases and we begin to perspire. Controlled
breathing causes stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system which then
results in relaxation and reversal of the stressful responses that were
elicited by the sympathetic nervous system.
Breathing
also provides oxygen to the circulatory and respiratory systems to purify our
blood by removing poisonous waste products that are circulating throughout our
blood systems. Irregular breathing will
hamper the purification process and cause waste products to remain in
circulation. The lack of necessary oxygen
leads to the build up of the waste products which in turn causes fatigue and
heightened anxiety states.
In
just a few minutes you can control your breathing and redirect your
thoughts. With practice, simply saying
the word “relax” (or any other positive word you choose that represents
calmness to you) while you are breathing, your brain and body will react
accordingly. Notice which areas of your
body are tense and what symptoms you are experiencing while going through the
breathing process. As you do, imagine a
hand or massage roller easing away the tension in that area. You can also create a scene in your mind of a
calm and relaxing place and see yourself in that place relaxing.
Practice
the technique on a consistent basis until it becomes a habit. It typically takes anywhere from 30-45 days
for new neurons and neural pathways to be formed within the brain. New neurons and neural pathways (connections
to other cells) means new information is being encoded in those cells and
pathways in the brain. When the new
information overrides the old, the brain has a new reference point and a new
habit is created. When it becomes a
habit, stress management for you will be on autopilot within your
subconscious.
Again, prevention is the key. Reduce or eliminate the amount of time you spend with negative
people. When stressed, simply breathe.
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