Cardiovascular diseases are increasing sharply in number depending on conditions modern life, which constantly requires increased emotional stress from people. The mildest cardiovascular symptoms that occur against the background of short-term emotional stress are: transient tachycardia, arrhythmia, arterial hypertension or hypotension.
Functional disorders: a feeling of freezing in the heart and pre-cardiac pain, short-term fainting states of varying depths, angina attacks without any electrocardiographic and anatomical disorders, which in some cases can lead to death. All of these symptoms are often preceded by significant emotional distress, often in the form of fear and anger.
Psychosomatic diseases are primarily myocardial infarction and chronic arterial hypertension. By the way, scientists believe that hypertension is often associated with the presence of a conflict between high social control of behavior and the individual’s unrealized need for power.
Let's consider some personality traits of people suffering from chronic coronary heart disease. It is no coincidence that they speak of “heartfelt excitement”, “heartfelt affection”, “cordial attitude”, “tremor in the heart”. All the feelings that a person experiences are reflected in the work of the heart and leave traces on it. Sometimes successful heart surgery does not bring healing because the causes of the disease are not eliminated. The heart is usually associated with love. The question arises: why the breakup of relationships, the loss loved one often leads to heart disease? If a mother does not give her child enough warmth, he will show feelings towards his doll that he would like to feel in his mother. The doll becomes a substitute for a loved one. Some cardiologists suggest that sometimes the heart turns into a symbol of a loved one and all those feelings that for some reason cannot be expressed openly are transferred to it. A person is afraid to show others his dissatisfaction. A woman does not dare to object to her loved one and in order to reduce melancholy and avoid depression, she tyrannizes her own heart, taking out her irritation on it.
American scientists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who studied the characteristics of people with coronary heart disease, discovered certain behavioral characteristics in them. Cores often belong to the so-called “A” type. People of this type have the highest risk of heart disease. They usually say that people who need to be careful, first of all, are elderly people, hypertensive people, tobacco smokers and those with high cholesterol levels in the blood. It turns out that behavior is more important than cholesterol.
What is type "A"? This is how people behave who are in constant struggle with the world around them. Their ambition, aggressiveness, belligerence, conflict, impatience, irritability, competitiveness and hostility towards competitors, coexisting with emphasized politeness, are often caused by stress.
Type A behavior is manifested in the fact that a person wants to shortest time do as much as possible and achieve maximum results. He doesn't make it all the time. He always needs more. He is constantly waiting for something. His attention is turned to tomorrow. It is clear that when a person is torn apart by many desires and passions, some of them contradict each other. Something has to be given up. Therefore, it is almost impossible to avoid internal conflict.
A person with Type A behavior is dissatisfied and hard on himself. Such people often do not pay attention to their ailments. If necessary, they work even when they feel unwell. They don't seem to know what anxiety is. In fact, this means that anxiety manifests itself in them only in a veiled form. For example, in this: these people are extremely restless and excitable. Sometimes they lose their temper, behave tactlessly and rudely, and become enraged for no particular reason.
In addition to type "A" behavior, there is type "B" and type "C" behavior. The first is characterized by a free attitude towards the world and the people around him, satisfaction with the existing situation and a lack of tension. Type “C” behavior is associated with timidity, stiffness, readiness to come to terms with any twists of fate without any resistance and a constant expectation of new blows and troubles.
In the second half of the 1980s, the German scientist Franz Friczewski clarified the idea of type “A” and divided it into three subclasses. The first group includes people who are withdrawn, inhibited, and restrained in their facial expressions and gestures. They rarely lose their temper, but if they do break up, they cannot calm down for a long time. Another group are people who are good at hiding their feelings, but are very nervous inside. The third group are people who are accustomed to vigorously express their attitude to everything that happens. They are sociable, waving their arms, gesticulating, talking loudly and laughing. They often lose their temper, get angry, start swearing, but immediately forget the reason for their anger.
Previously, myocardial infarction was called “the disease of managers.” Then it became clear that the heart attack had nothing to do with social status, nor with profession. However, the prevailing mood in society affects the increase in the number of heart diseases. Society rewards energetic Type A people who dream of power and a prestigious position.
- - - Psychosomatics of diseases of the cardiovascular system
In our culture, the heart is the symbolic center of love. “These words come from the heart”, “I feel it in my heart” - this is what we say. We love with our hearts. “The heart responded, the call of the heart” - and so we say.
Also, as V. Sinelnikov, a practitioner of psychosomatic science, says, the heart is the center of joy, the life center of a person. It pumps vital blood, the personified life force. And also joy, writes Sinelnikov.
Love is life.
Heart problems, heart pain are problems with love. This is the inability to express your love for loved ones, for the world around you, as you would like. And, attention, to yourself too.
The heart and the lack of love
Each person has hidden huge reserves of love for everything around him. But not everyone feels them, much less manifests them, as they should. In this case, love is blocked inside the person. Why? Each of the “blocked” people thinks differently and is wrong in their own way. For some, the world is too imperfect to love, and so are the people in it. Someone wants to find a suitable, “worthy” partner for this. Someone is afraid of being rejected by showing their love. Usually all these blocks are subconscious thoughts about one’s own imperfection. Lack of love, but above all for yourself.
Our heart not only gives love, but also receives it. If the channel through which a person gives and receives love is disrupted, then you should not be surprised that your heart hurts.
Often a person does not want to give love to others just like that. He wants love to be given to him first. “And in gratitude he will open his heart,” “The path to the heart.” You see, even the language reflects these changes - a closed heart, an open heart. More often, however, the second is mentioned.
This all means that a person is afraid of being rejected if he begins to give love. That his feelings will be accepted without gratitude or used in some way. A person closes himself and does not love, does not want to love. Perhaps he will still meet someone else who will love him and begin to give him warmth, love and tenderness, without expecting anything in return. Perhaps soon our cold ice will thaw and open like a flower. But it could be different.
Analyzing cases of heart disease in families, I came to a consistent picture. If one of the spouses has heart problems, then most likely he is the one in the family who loves his spouse. I’ll put “loves” in quotation marks, because not everything is clear here. But it is this person who is the first to reach out to another with manifestations of his tender feelings, and expects manifestations of love in return. What about the second spouse? And the second husband is so-so. He either really doesn’t love, or he doesn’t know how to show his love. There is no exchange of energy, and it is the lover who needs his closed partner who suffers from this.
The heart and marriage of convenience
Katya had recently graduated from school and was waiting for Konstantin to leave the army. She didn't know any other guys or relationships with them. She had no special feelings for Konstantin, but her parents insisted that she wait for him. He promised to marry, and it was clear from everything that he was a decent guy. Without feeling any special crush or love, Katya obediently waited for Kostya and married him.
All her life Katya lives behind Kostya, “like behind a stone wall,” treats him with respect and believes that it is on the principle of a husband’s reliability that a family should be built. Even now she demands attention to herself, like a child: either she is worried about something, or she is again not doing well with her work.
Over time, Konstantin developed heart disease.
Here is Inna. Her husband is cold, may not speak for weeks if he is offended, does not praise her in any way, does not show sexual interest: this woman has constant pain in her heart. He is generally closed, emotionally, verbally, in touch. He is greedy, and not only for love, but also for money.
Once upon a time, his wife liked his external “calmness,” but over time she got tired of “begging” for her portion of attention from him every time, behaving well and pleasing her husband. She began to break down, her husband was offended and completely closed down. At first glance, it is clear that this man is very vulnerable, that he is full of fears and complexes, due to which he is very afraid of disturbing his precarious internal balance from the outside.
How love, hate, “barter” and self-esteem relate
If your heart hurts, do not rush to blame your loved ones for not loving you. We ourselves close ourselves at that moment, we close our channel of love and life energy when we are offended by the lack of love from others. “They don’t love me, they treat me badly, but I with all my soul...” When this thought hurts a person, then somewhere deep down in his soul he himself feels unworthy of love, insignificant.
Even when we feel love in our hearts, we do not always know how to express it correctly, so that others feel it fully. Secondly, many people have impaired acceptance of love from others. This happens again when a person considers himself unworthy to be loved.
And when a person says that he hates the whole world, it means that his huge reserves of love energy are still being realized, but in a distorted form. Hate is also love strong love, only it appears the other way around, inverted.
Some people expect their partner to show them lots and lots of love, a whole waterfall. I want him to be gentle, affectionate, respectful, open his soul, share his secrets. I want her to understand, appreciate, support, and be happy about you. And if this is not the case, then a heart wound is guaranteed. Again, literal and life combinations of words in our language are “heart wound”, “broken heart”.
We are beggars, says teacher Osho. We come to each other and expect to be given love. It's like two beggars asking each other for coins. But they have nothing to give each other, because they are both beggars. To love, you don't need to expect love in return, says Osho. Need to love the world, and yourself in this world, and then people will come to bathe in your love. Love should bloom like a flower and flow like a stream that doesn't care if anyone admires them or not, they remain beautiful.
Psychological causes of heart disease
There is a word that kills the heart and cardiovascular system. This word is stress. Well, how can you protect yourself from stress if it’s everywhere, you ask? In this regard, psychosomatics pays attention primarily to internal stress, not external stress. On the internal tension of a person.
People prone to heart pain “take everything to heart,” literally in this sense. Psychosomatics teaches that such people believe in the need for tension and stress in their lives. They are not relaxed, because for them life is constant tension, constant excitement. And there is unrest. Whatever ultimately happens in the lives of such people, it is experienced as stress.
If, from the point of view of someone else, there is nothing to worry about at all, then the potential “core” will still find a problem to worry about. Often such people are very worried about loved ones, feel sorry for them (which is often not useful in any way, and can even cause harm), empathize and have compassion to the detriment of themselves. One way or another, all potential “core people” have a strong fear of loneliness, a certain “chill.”
Prohibited, but “key” phrases in this case, reflecting what is happening:
The heart bleeds.
I'm a compassionate person
- "In hearts"
World is not fair.
Stone on the heart
My heart sank
Is life suffering? No. Life is joy. And the heart is a symbol of the joy of life. And when a person himself, in his emotional world, deprives himself of the joy of life, then the heart responds to this with pain. Yes, external circumstances can play a big role here, but in the end a person comes to a situation where he is left alone with a lack of joy, and only he himself can change something here in better side. If the situation is prolonged, then the heart declines, because at some level it seems to be rendered unnecessary.
Stop reading literature where people constantly suffer and suffer. This is the position of a victim, a victim of people, a victim of this world, but the world of the victim is not limited to the real world. There are many other, clearly more interesting positions in this life to choose from.
To begin to get rid of the habit of straining and find for yourself stressful situations, which means to free your heart, you should learn one thing. Many people, whether rich or poor, married or single, young or elderly, live in this world and feel relaxed most of the time. You can live easily, without stress. It really is possible. And it's not immoral, and it's certainly not heartless. This is the right way to live.
Feel if there is something unpleasant in your chest? Something tugging or heavy? Get rid of it, free yourself, straighten up, take a deep breath and get used to breathing like this always.
The heart is a muscular organ that, through its contractions, ensures blood flow through the blood vessels. According to the consensus of experts, the heart is the most important organ in the human body. It is known that more than half of deaths are associated with heart disease.
Cardiovascular diseases are classified into groups such as: dysfunction of the heart (contractility, conductivity, excitability), the influence of oxygen supply (ischemia, necrosis), the nature of the lesions (dystrophy, inflammation, sclerosis), diseases due to parts of the heart (myocardial diseases, pericardium, endocardium and malformations).
General symptoms of the disease: acute compressive pain with burning, radiating to the left hypochondrium; tingling or squeezing pain in the heart area; constant aching tightness and discomfort in the heart area; painful sensations that paralyze the entire left side bodies; pain radiating to the neck, shoulder blades, lower back; feeling of fullness in the chest, feeling of emptiness.
Along with the listed symptoms, other signs of heart disease may also be observed: rapid heartbeat, increased sweating, shortness of breath, fever or chills, nausea, swelling, headache, anxiety or fear turning into horror, low or high blood pressure, lack of air, weakness, loss of consciousness, etc.
The causes of heart disease are:
- hereditary predisposition,
- mental illness,
- hormonal changes,
- changing of the climate,
- stress, etc.
It is also necessary to highlight negative factors that contribute to heart dysfunction: smoking and alcohol, excessive use of medications, excessive consumption spicy dishes and tonic drinks, excessive physical activity or its lack, lack of sleep, prolonged work at the computer, overwork, etc.
The most common heart diseases are the following:
Heart rhythm disturbances: sinus tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, extrasystole, sinus bradycardia, etc.
Chronic heart failure- a condition of the heart in which it is not able to fully pump blood due to diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
Inflammatory heart diseases(endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis) are caused by bacteria and viruses, toxic substances, etc.
Sclerotic heart damage– cardiosclerosis.
Congenital heart defects(mitral valve prolapse, etc.) and acquired (valve defects, in which either the pumping of blood is difficult (stenosis) or does not close completely (insufficiency)). Appear due to chronic heart disease, previous inflammation, and unhealthy lifestyle.
Cardiac ischemia(CHD) is a heart disease associated with insufficient blood supply to the myocardium (the thickest and most powerful part of the heart wall) due to atherosclerosis or thrombosis of the coronary arteries. Causes the development of angina pectoris (angina pectoris) and acute myocardial infarction.
It is known that the heart symbolizes the ability to give and take Love. Blood is the joy of life. A person whose heart is filled with Love lives in joy.
But if the heart, as an organ of love, rejects love and the joy associated with it, then it starts to hurt. Such a heart literally shrinks, becomes like a cracker, or even worse, like a stone. In a person, such qualities as callousness, harshness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, cruelty.
Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common psychosomatic ailments. It has been revealed that people suffer from heart disease constantly experiencing negative emotions, and positive-minded people do not know problems with this organ. At the same time, you can notice that psychosomatic pain sensations appear during experiences.
The human heart is very sensitive to emotional experiences. This can be seen even by how the strength and frequency of the heartbeat changes during joyful or stressful moments in life.
The functioning of the heart is also influenced by nerve centers. And their overexcitation, especially the sympathetic plexus located in the heart, negatively affects the condition of this organ.
On the other hand, stress in life negatively affects the vegetative nervous system, which regulates the functioning of the heart. Because of this, the heart muscles begin to contract involuntarily and the blood vessels constrict.
Psychosomatics of heart pain
From the above it follows that the very first cause of heart disease lack of love.
The next reason is ignoring love and its value due to the desire for a career and material well-being.
Often due to suffered strong emotional experiences a person closes his heart and becomes indifferent.
Observations revealed psychological characteristics people suffering from heart disease. The first type of people is self-centered, hysterical, noisy. Second type - neurasthenics who have an unstable, weak nervous system and are easily unbalanced. The third type of people suffering from heart disease is psychasthenics with natural suspiciousness, who are subject to unreasonable fears and obsessive thoughts. Fourth type - shy psychasthenics with a feeling of insecurity, incapable of solving even simple life problems.
It should be noted that such personality traits are formed in childhood, when the child lives in a conflict-ridden family and is very worried about the discord between dear people - dad and mom.
So, heart disease due to nervousness is characteristic of people who are used to keep emotions under control; accustomed take everything to heart; compassionate people trying to take on someone else's pain; workaholics, those who believe that they need to earn love through hard work in order to meet the expectations of others; people those who strive to do everything and live at a frantic pace who overload themselves, and even when feeling unwell, do not pay attention to the signals of their body, but continue to work.
It should be noted that a specific heart condition can also indicate specific mental problems.
Thus, arterial hypertension manifests itself due to unresolved negative emotions (often due to suppressed aggression, which originates from fears).
Atherosclerosis (high cholesterol and blocked ducts) indicates that a person does not experience pleasure and joy from life. Such people are sure that the world around them is bad and try to fight it.
Psychological causes of heart disease, identified by famous authors on psychosomatics
Louise Hay believes that the heart symbolizes center of love and safety. In her opinion, heart disease is caused by long-standing emotional problems, lack of joy, callousness, belief in the need for tension, stress.
Myocardial infarction, heart attacks, according to Louise Hay, are a consequence expelling all joy from the heart for the sake of money, career or something else.
Liz Burbo believes that any heart problems are a sign that a person takes everything to heart, What his efforts and experiences go beyond his emotional capabilities.
According to her, all heart diseases carry one important message for a person: “Love yourself!” Hence, if a person has heart disease, it means he doesn’t love himself enough and tries to earn the love of those around him.
Bodo Baginski, a Reiki specialist, writes that tachycardia indicates emotional disturbance, a violation of the person’s usual order, that something is out of balance.
According to the author, during a heart attack a huge amount of aggressive, not splashed out energy. A person needs to open his heart to himself and to others, and under this condition a heart attack will not happen.
Narrowing of the heart vessels, according to Baginski, is always associated with fear.
Dr. V. Sinelnikov writes that the heart symbolizes a person’s vital center, the ability to enjoy life, to live in harmony with oneself and the world around. Blood is a material symbol human soul, joy and vitality . The vessels are designed to deliver this joy and strength to every cell.
Sinelnikov believes that heart pain and angina pectoris arise from unsatisfied love for yourself, loved ones, the world around you and Life itself.
People suffering from heart pain experience lack of love(both to yourself and to other people) due to old grievances, regret, pity, jealousy, fear and anger. Such people they close themselves off from love and joy, they are convinced that the world around them brings negativity and stress.
Heart rhythm disturbance, according to the doctor, means that a person lost his own rhythm of life.
Another famous author O. Torsunov in his book “The Connection of Diseases with Character” writes that the condition of the muscle tissue of the heart depends on the presence of such qualities as kindness and peace in a person’s thoughts, emotions, speech and actions. Heart vascular health is linked with gentleness and optimism. Heart valves will be healthy if present tenderness, complaisance and love of work. Stability of the nerve tissues of the heart is provided by such qualities as optimism, trust in others and positive activity. The heart sac, according to Torsunov, receives strength from human stability and reliability.
Paths healing from nervous heart pain
In fact, there is only one way to heal from heart pain. This path was hinted at or openly indicated by all of the listed psychological reasons.
This way - opening the heart of love. Love for yourself, for loved ones, for people around you, for Life, for the World, etc. True, unconditional love.
How could it be otherwise if the heart is called to be a container of Love, and in its absence the heart begins to ache. So it's necessary bring love back because she was there once.
A person is born with Love in his heart. He's just starting to lose her piece by piece since early childhood, “thanks” to family scenes full of hatred and contempt and the indifferent or cruel attitude of loved ones.
What to do now? If you are an adult, then look for ways to return Love, restore it in full in your heart or in the heart of your child (if we're talking about about your sick child).
How? If we are talking about your heart, then confess your love to yourself, and with all seriousness: You are a particle of the Creator, unique, the only one in the whole world. As a son (daughter) of the Creator God, every person has the right to be loved. And first of all, be loved by yourself. Otherwise, there is no way: how can you love another person (your neighbor) if a person does not know what it is to love (starting with himself) and who will love a person if he does not love himself?
True love originates in your heart and spreads around. True Love brings only Joy and Goodness, both to the person himself and to those around him. Because if the heart is filled with Love, then a person has no time to experience negative emotions. He lives, enjoying every moment. He feels only GRATITUDE for everything that Life gives him (and for the trials that make a person stronger, and for happy moments).
So, if you want to have a healthy heart, return Love and Kindness to your heart.
Deal with psychological basis Psychosomatics helps any illness. The heart very often fails us, and the reason for this is not only plaques on the walls of blood vessels. Let’s skip the physiological reasons, a medical doctor will help you with this, and consider what causes heart disease in the mind.
One of the main organs of our body is a powerful pump. If not you, then someone close to you has probably experienced problems with it, which means you understand that diseases of this kind have a very serious impact on your health.
Hearts, let’s start from common phrases that we often hear. Remember which of the expressions you mention, or which of them is closest to you:
- don't take it too personally;
- It’s like a stone on my heart now;
- you can’t tell your heart what to do;
- I said it in my hearts;
- This news made my heart ache.
Such expressions and similar ones always indicate that a person gives himself too much than the world around him needs. Kindness, it would seem, cannot be a negative quality, and, nevertheless, if you stop thinking about yourself in favor of others, your heart will not stand it.
Pain for others
There is even such an expression: “there is not enough heart to love everyone.” It indicates that a person cannot, with all his desire, give all of himself without reserve. This is exactly the case when being kind is bad for your health. This is an incredibly difficult topic because it's hard to understand how you can be kind, but not too much? Or how to be selfish? And yet it is necessary to seek balance, and it lies in the fact that a person with heart problems learns to take care not only of others, but also of himself.
Your heart is literally telling you that it can’t handle the load, that it’s hard, it needs to stop. Working too hard, even if it is for the good, does not bring any benefit, but rather the opposite - it wears out your heart.
We need to show love to ourselves, and we very often forget about this, because we were taught not to be selfish, more love show to others. But if you have been diagnosed with a heart defect or are experiencing heart pain, then it’s time to think about giving yourself more love.
Imagine a runner. His goal is to run a marathon. To do this, he trains every day, gradually increasing his results. But what will happen to him if he, unprepared for difficult loads, tries to run a marathon on the first day of training? His heart won't take it.
Because of heartache the same thing happens - you force yourself to worry about others, as if you were trying to run a marathon without training. Even if we are talking about your children, parents or spouse, your heart must withstand the pain and it can only do this if you do not take everything too personally.
How to do it? How to stop worrying too much about your loved ones? Understand that this is not about becoming cold-blooded and soulless. You will feel anxiety and fear for your loved ones, but this will not harm your health.
You need to accept the fact that no matter how the fate of your loved one turns out, it is his choice. Yes, this may affect you directly, you may be involved in the problem, and you may even have to answer for something you did not do. And, nevertheless, you must find the strength within yourself to accept the choice of a loved one, even if he ruins his life (as a rule, this is what makes our heart hurt).
Cold mind
In addition to a lack of self-love, which you can also talk about, you may be overly emotional and this is also an imbalance. If problems arise with the main organ of your body, then the balance is shifted towards emotions.
It's not bad to be emotional, but it's not advisable to make decisions based solely on feelings. Your heart, if there are problems with it, indicates exactly this. We, as people, maintain a balance in our body between reason and feelings; this balance is constantly lost, but excessive distortion should not be allowed.
Emotions must respect reason, just as your reason must sometimes obey feelings. Try to look at the situation with more restraint, use an inquisitive mind and rationality. If you lack this or need support, then ask for advice from the person next to you, you will definitely have someone like him - cold, calculating, acting wisely. Learn from him a rational approach. By balancing excessive emotions, you can get rid of the disease.
This is what psychosomatics says. The heart is an important organ, do not forget to take care of it and do not neglect the advice of your doctor, as it is important to work on all fronts - both with the body and with thoughts.