
Alcohol & Hepatitis
Your emotions can affect the health of your liver
Most of our organs are connected to an emotion and your liver is the organ connected to anger.
The majority of people are unaware of the correlation between their anger and the effect it has on their liver because they don’t understand the depth of the connection. The state of the liver is actually fundamental to how we will feel the emotion, which could directly shape how we will act or react to what life dishes out.
Hard to accept life on life’s terms when one’s liver is toxic with unwanted chemicals!
It’s a bad start to changing the way we think - to change the way we feel - to ultimately change our behaviour by using food for comfort. Have you heard someone being referred to as having “sh#t on the liver”? This refers to someone who is in a bad mood or emotionally unstable.
Emotional overeating is often the result of a reaction to anger and resentment and we look for comfort food to soothe our troubled mind. Of course, anger itself is not a bad emotion, and it should not be repressed as this causes additional mental, emotional and physical problems. Another cause for reactive emotions is unstable brain chemistry and we will look at this in more detail in the near future.
Dealing with Anger
- Express your anger; talk about your hurt. It may help to write a letter to the person (if a family member) you are angry with explaining your feelings. If they have passed away, you can still write the letter and take it to the burying place, read it then burn it!
- Examine your anger. Who are you really angry with? Friends, Family, Strangers, Spouse. Or are you angry at yourself for triggering their mistreatment and whether it is fact or fiction. Often we react to someone when it is our own sensitivity and paranoia that stands in the way of emotional maturity.
- Perhaps alcohol, too much sugar, or drugs were a factor in the abuse you suffered. Alcohol and sugar will affect your brain chemistry and is toxic to your liver.
- Notice that a wave of anger is washing over you
- Notice that your teeth or fists are tightly clenched
- Observe tension in your shoulders
- Notice the urge to shout/push/scream/swear/throw, etc.
- Observe the thought, “I hate you” or whatever negative thought you are harbouring
- Take some deep breaths
- Loosen your hands and open them or put them in your pockets.
- Change an aggressive stance to a friendlier and inviting one. Stand back from the recipient of your anger – give them space.
- Adopt a half smile (not a smirk) and you will be surprised how this affects the other party.
- Take on an expression that you think communicates calmness. Keep breathing deeply.
- Try and change your expression to one of compassion, if the recipient is frightened or alarmed by your anger.
- Take the focus off the person you are angry with – stare at the sky, the wall, a tree and keep breathing deeply.
- Take time out and say: “How about we discuss this later?”
- Walk away and do something constructive – not destructive!
- Slowly and mindfully drink a glass of water
- Avoid, for the moment, the person you are angry with
- Think about how life might be hard for the person you are angry with
- Are they emotionally disturbed or ignorant about how you feel?
- Say out loud to yourself: “I can handle this situation”
- If you are driving, be cautious and concentrate on the road.
- Think about things that are inconsistent with your anger. Think about pleasant things, happy times, beautiful places, successes. If you are in the car, listen to some soothing music.
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