When you think of improving your bone health, if you're like most people, you think about physical things to do. For example, exercise more, especially weight bearing. Or eat higher quality food. Or take certain supplements.

While these are all important and valid in and of themselves, they do not complete the picture of what it takes to achieve full health of bones. That's because bones exist in bodies, and bodies are affected by emotions.

But can there be a link between bone health and emotional health? Or if there is, is it significant enough to affect bone health for better or worse?

The short answer is yes, absolutely. Here is one way your emotional health affects your bone health, and affects it significantly.

First, every emotion you feel has a corresponding 'molecule of emotion'. That's the term Candace Pert, PhD., used to describe how thoughts become physical and direct our bodies. That's how we're designed.

The problem comes in when we have emotions we don't resolve. In other words, we don't get done with them and so they keep replaying and bathing our bodies in the same molecules over and over. The short story is that in this kind of circumstance, those molecules make our bodies run more acid than is good for us.

Since our bodies are smart and self-balancing, they work to correct this situation right away. And the way they do that is to take calcium from our bones and return it to circulation so it moves things back in the direction of alkalinity.

So, an emotional state that's 'stuck on replay' is an emotional state that sets the body up to rob the bones.

Given the new science that reveals this connection, this is a good time to add to our conversation about bones  'emotional osteopenia' and 'emotional osteoporosis.'

For more information on how to maintain a healthier emotional state. visit

http://www.emotionaldevelopment101.com

Pamela Levin, R.N.
8/10/11

The Nourishing Company (NourishingCompany.com)  provides resources to feed the body, mind, spirit, emotions and relationships.

Source: http://www.emotionaldevelopment101.com

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