When You Thank God Or Another, Your Heart Expands

When You Thank God Or Another, Your Heart Expands

When you thank God or another, your heart expands. This strengthens the immune system. Medical research indicates that positive emotions like love and gratitude enhance the immune system, the body’s shield against disease and illness. Our mental attitude has a direct bearing on the immune system. Positive feelings of gratitude and joy release endorphins into the bloodstream, the body’s natural painkillers. They are said to stimulate dilation of blood vessels and relax the cardiac muscles. You become strong. However, negative emotions such as anger, grief and bitterness dump high levels of adrenaline in the blood, constricting blood to the heart; it slows down movement of white blood cells which fight disease.

Om Namah Shivay.