Blame Your Liver For Your Anger
from NaturalNews Anger Problems: Try a Liver Cleanse 7/09 by Kim Evans
In Chinese medicine, most organs are connected to an emotion, and your liver is the organ connected to anger. As a society, we see the effects of this quite clearly, but often are unaware of what we're seeing.
Your liver is your prime detoxification organ, so it's the main organ responsible for handling all of the chemicals coming into the body. But, if your liver is unable to render a toxin harmless for you, it'll store it for you to keep it out of your blood. Because this is common with 21st century diets and lifestyles, with time, a lot of people's livers become largely storage sites for toxins.
This produces a toxic liver and according to Chinese medicine, leads to anger problems and to people who have problems controlling or letting go of their anger. Obviously, the more toxic the habits and the longer they're done, the worse the situation becomes. Habits that take this to the extreme include smoking, taking drugs, and regularly eating junk or processed foods, or GMOs.
Anger itself is not a "bad" emotion, nor should it be repressed. Repression causes problems too because repressed emotions linger in the body past their time. The point is: the state of your liver can determine how you feel anger. When your liver is toxic, you'll feel it longer, more intensely, more passionately, and have a difficult time letting it go. It can become an overwhelming, overpowering emotion that gets the best of you and those around you. Of course, this affects your happiness as well as the happiness of those around you.
Today, however, many people dismiss the direct connection between the state of our body and the state of our emotions as trivial, because they don't understand the depth of the connection. They don't understand that the state of the liver is actually a fundamental determinate to how one will feel the emotion, which therefore directly shapes how one will act or react to what life brings.
Our jails are full of people who've spent most of their lives consuming processed, junk, pesticide-laced, chemically-oriented foods, and who have had drug and cigarette habits. Those habits mean that their prime detoxification organ, the one that's associated with anger, is taxed beyond belief. Anger problems are what you'd expect to see in people with habits and lifestyles such as these, and we shouldn't be surprised when they occur so regularly. Unfortunately, our criminal justice system doesn't recognize this connection. If it did, a large part of criminal rehabilitation would be built around cleansing the body and cleansing the liver to remove the underlying cause of this emotion in a dysfunctional form, as the dysfunctional expression of anger plays a large role in why prisoners are in prison.
Interestingly, a pilot study done in 2002 studied 231 prisoners given nutritional supplements. The supplements alone reduced the number of violent incidents by those inmates by a third, which reduced the total number of violent incidents in the prison by about a quarter. This led the Oxford researchers to claim that the effect of nutrition on behavior has been underestimated. Unfortunately, the role of accumulated toxicity in the body and liver from common diets and lifestyle habits - and its effect on our emotions and behavior - has also been underestimated. So too has the need for deep body cleansing to remove all of those chemicals and toxins from our bodies, once and for all.
Liver Support:
Liver Complex from Solgar
In Chinese medicine, most organs are connected to an emotion, and your liver is the organ connected to anger. As a society, we see the effects of this quite clearly, but often are unaware of what we're seeing.
Your liver is your prime detoxification organ, so it's the main organ responsible for handling all of the chemicals coming into the body. But, if your liver is unable to render a toxin harmless for you, it'll store it for you to keep it out of your blood. Because this is common with 21st century diets and lifestyles, with time, a lot of people's livers become largely storage sites for toxins.
This produces a toxic liver and according to Chinese medicine, leads to anger problems and to people who have problems controlling or letting go of their anger. Obviously, the more toxic the habits and the longer they're done, the worse the situation becomes. Habits that take this to the extreme include smoking, taking drugs, and regularly eating junk or processed foods, or GMOs.
Anger itself is not a "bad" emotion, nor should it be repressed. Repression causes problems too because repressed emotions linger in the body past their time. The point is: the state of your liver can determine how you feel anger. When your liver is toxic, you'll feel it longer, more intensely, more passionately, and have a difficult time letting it go. It can become an overwhelming, overpowering emotion that gets the best of you and those around you. Of course, this affects your happiness as well as the happiness of those around you.
Today, however, many people dismiss the direct connection between the state of our body and the state of our emotions as trivial, because they don't understand the depth of the connection. They don't understand that the state of the liver is actually a fundamental determinate to how one will feel the emotion, which therefore directly shapes how one will act or react to what life brings.
Our jails are full of people who've spent most of their lives consuming processed, junk, pesticide-laced, chemically-oriented foods, and who have had drug and cigarette habits. Those habits mean that their prime detoxification organ, the one that's associated with anger, is taxed beyond belief. Anger problems are what you'd expect to see in people with habits and lifestyles such as these, and we shouldn't be surprised when they occur so regularly. Unfortunately, our criminal justice system doesn't recognize this connection. If it did, a large part of criminal rehabilitation would be built around cleansing the body and cleansing the liver to remove the underlying cause of this emotion in a dysfunctional form, as the dysfunctional expression of anger plays a large role in why prisoners are in prison.
Interestingly, a pilot study done in 2002 studied 231 prisoners given nutritional supplements. The supplements alone reduced the number of violent incidents by those inmates by a third, which reduced the total number of violent incidents in the prison by about a quarter. This led the Oxford researchers to claim that the effect of nutrition on behavior has been underestimated. Unfortunately, the role of accumulated toxicity in the body and liver from common diets and lifestyle habits - and its effect on our emotions and behavior - has also been underestimated. So too has the need for deep body cleansing to remove all of those chemicals and toxins from our bodies, once and for all.
Liver Support:
Liver Complex from Solgar
