18/01/2026
Every emotion creates a state in the nervous system. That state influences hormone release, muscle tone, immune function, digestion, heart rate, and energy availability. In other words, how you feel, or how you don’t let yourself feel, shapes what’s happening in your body at a very real level.
When emotions move through the system, they complete their cycle. Fear mobilizes and resolves. Anger creates energy for action and then settles. Sadness brings withdrawal and restoration. The body returns to baseline.
When emotions are ignored, suppressed, or overridden, that cycle doesn’t complete. The nervous system stays activated, even if you appear calm or functional on the outside. Over time, that unresolved activation becomes your baseline.
Many people were taught early that certain emotions were unacceptable, inconvenient, or unsafe. So the nervous system adapted by dampening sensation and staying in control. That adaptation can work for years. Until the body starts expressing what the person no longer can.
Healing is about creating enough safety for the nervous system to allow emotions to move again, in tolerable ways.
When emotions are felt, biology shifts.
When they’re ignored, biology still shifts.
The difference is whether the body gets to come back to balance.
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