How Do Emotions Like Anger And Jealousy Affect The Brain?

How Do Emotions Like Anger And Jealousy Affect The Brain?

Emotions that cause separation like hostility, anger, fear, resentment, shame and guilt — these emotions cause disruption of limbic or emotional brains which means interference with cell repair mechanism and so disrupt healing ability. It causes disruption of hormone levels, of self-regulatory mechanisms.

On the other hand, particularly the four emotions that the Buddhists talk about — loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity — the four divine emotions actually cause the limbic brain to go into symphony that accelerates the healing mechanism.

Om Namah Shivay.