We all are taught subtly that emotions are something that is not tangible. In fact, they are considered so low in value that we should never act according to them, only what’s socially acceptable. I was totally shocked to learn I had developed a gut issue, despite never eating an unhealthy or so-called gut health–disruptor diet or foods. During my journey of learning this work, I came across a book called The Emotion Code and that was the moment everything clicked. It felt like my mind had been blown open to the reality that emotions aren’t just thoughts in your head, they’re living energies shaping every function in your body.
That realization made me look at my whole body differently. I began to notice how often it had been trying to communicate, through pain, fatigue, stomach twists, or heart flutters, long before I ever got sick. But nobody teaches us to listen to those signals. We’re trained to silence them, to keep pushing, thinking our minds know better. Yet all that overthinking, suppressing, and numbing only turns down the very voice that’s been begging to be heard: the body’s.
Your body has opinions — strong ones
Every emotion you experience is translated into a chemical message. That message doesn’t disappear; it travels through your bloodstream and lands somewhere your liver, your heart, your gut, your adrenal glands. It’s like an email your brain keeps sending to your organs: “Handle this stress, would you?” And those poor organs, they never go on vacation.
This is not just metaphorical fluff. There’s actual science behind it. The field of psychoneuroimmunology studies how thoughts and emotions directly affect the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. When you’re constantly angry, fearful, or sad, your brain signals your body to release the same stress chemicals, cortisol, adrenaline, norepinephrine, over and over until your cells adapt to that emotional environment. That’s why long-term stress turns into chronic illness. Your body starts believing stress is the new normal.
Now, flip that. What if instead of sending your organs constant panic emails, you started sending them gratitude, safety, and love? That’s where transformation really begins.
The science of emotional storage
Your body doesn’t forget experiences. It records them. The brain and organs communicate through millions of nerve fibers, and they store emotional memories much like your brain stores facts. Your heart has about 40,000 neurons that can sense and process emotional information on its own. Your gut is filled with over 100 million neurons, creating what scientists call the enteric nervous system, basically, a second brain in your belly.
This is why you “feel it in your gut” when something’s wrong or feel your heart tighten when you’re anxious. These sensations aren’t poetic metaphors; they’re neurological signals. Your organs literally react to your emotions, adjust hormones, and send that feedback back to your brain, which means your body can influence your thoughts just as much as your thoughts influence your body.
And that’s where most people get stuck. They try to heal from the neck up, using positive thinking alone, while their body is still running the old emotional programs of fear and pain.
When I realized my liver had feelings
During my own healing journey, I had this weird moment of clarity one day while meditating. I felt a pulse of tightness in my right side, exactly where my liver is, and this strong wave of resentment surfaced. It wasn’t random. I’d been angry for years, at life, at my parents who hurt me, at myself. That emotion had been sitting there quietly, doing its biochemical damage while I tried to keep smiling.
So instead of ignoring it, I did something new. I focused on that area, breathed into it, felt gratitude for how hard that organ had been working all along, and sent a huge wave of love out of my heart. Around that time, I also found out my liver function tests (LFT) were not fine, apparently because of severe hormonal imbalance and estrogen not being properly detoxed through my liver. Any woman who’s been through that knows how painful it is: you get constipated no matter how much water, fiber, or gut supplements you take. I lived with this issue for almost two and a half years, and eventually, I got healed, completely, without conventional medicine. The tightness eased, not instantly but noticeably. I realized my liver didn’t need detox tea, it needed emotional detox.
We underestimate how much our organs are trying to keep us alive, even when we’re giving them chaos. They listen to everything , your inner dialogue, your emotional tone, your habits. When you hold anger, your liver takes the hit. When you suppress grief, your lungs feel it. When you live in constant fear and anxiety, your kidneys and adrenals go into overdrive. Betrayal, bad relationships, and toxic social connections often settle in the gut and colon, that’s why so many people develop IBS, allergies, or digestive issues that have no obvious medical reason. This isn’t spiritual talk; it’s measurable in hormone levels, immune response, and brain scans.
Your organs learn from you
The most mind-blowing part? Your organs can actually be retrained, not by surface-level positivity, but by changing the deeper programming that runs your biology. This means addressing your inner chatter, limiting beliefs, and stored emotions at the subconscious level, where your body’s operating system truly lives.
Trying to think positive while your body has been programmed to feel hate or fear is like pressing the gas and brake pedal at the same time, you won’t go anywhere. The shift happens when you learn to access and reprogram that subconscious through scientific meditations designed for this purpose. These meditations calm the analytical mind, lower brain wave states, and allow the autonomic nervous system to learn new emotional habits that support regulation and health. Over time, the body stops reacting from stress and begins responding from coherence, and those emotions stop being forced and start becoming natural.
That’s what I mean when I say organs become conscious. It’s not that your heart or liver suddenly grows a mind of its own, it’s that they start syncing with your upgraded emotional state instead of staying trapped in survival mode. Once you reprogram the subconscious patterns through these meditative practices, the conversation between your brain and body becomes fluent again. They begin to communicate in balance, and that’s when real, measurable healing starts showing up, in your lab results, in hormonal harmony, and in how much energy you feel day to day.
People love to call it “miraculous healing.” I call it biological logic.
Why positive thinking isn’t enough
Let’s get something straight, you can’t think your way out of stored trauma. You can’t meditate for five minutes, say some affirmations, and expect your body to suddenly forget years of stress hormones. Healing the body means retraining the nervous system, not bypassing it.
When you start practices like heart-centered breathing or the blessing of body centers meditation (I wrote about this before, if you want to check that one later), you’re literally teaching the autonomic nervous system that it’s safe to relax. Your body needs proof, not promises. Each time you enter a calm, coherent state, your organs receive that signal of safety, and they begin releasing the old survival patterns.
That’s why people’s blood pressure normalizes, sleep improves, inflammation drops, because the organs finally get the message: we’re not in danger anymore.
The language of emotion
You don’t have to be a scientist to speak this language. You’ve already been doing it your whole life. When you say “my stomach is in knots” or “my heart is heavy,” you’re describing how your body feels your emotions. The difference now is that you can learn to respond intentionally.
Try this: next time you feel an emotion, pause. Ask yourself where it lives in your body. Maybe anxiety in your gut, sadness in your chest, frustration in your throat. Then, instead of resisting it, breathe into that space. Thank that part of your body for carrying that emotion for you all this time. You’d be amazed how fast tension starts to release when your body finally feels seen instead of silenced.
Healing from the inside out
There’s a reason why people who practice emotional regulation, meditation, and gratitude consistently show higher immune function and lower inflammation. Studies from institutions like the HeartMath Institute and Harvard’s mind-body research centers show that emotions of love and appreciation increase heart rate variability (HRV), a key marker of autonomic balance and resilience. When HRV improves, every organ system benefits.
Your body’s intelligence isn’t secondary to your mind, it’s the foundation. When you start treating your body as a conscious partner in healing instead of a problem to fix, everything changes. You begin to experience a feedback loop of health: the mind supports the body, the body supports the mind, and suddenly, wellness stops being something you chase. It becomes who you are.
Practical way forward
If you’re just starting, here’s something simple but powerful:
- Start small. Sit somewhere quiet and focus on your breath. Notice where you feel tension or emotion in your body.
- Name it. Is it in your chest, stomach, throat? Don’t judge it, just locate it.
- Acknowledge it. Silently say to that part, “I know you’ve been holding this for me.”
- Breathe into it. As you inhale, imagine softening that area. As you exhale, let go of resistance.
- Feel gratitude. For your body, for its patience, for keeping you alive despite everything.
- Repeat daily. The more often you do this, the more your organs will learn that peace is their new normal.
Final thoughts
Your organs are not machines; they are living memories of who you’ve been, and blueprints for who you can become. When you change what you feel, you change what they know. You can’t bully the body into healing; you can only teach it through presence and love.
I used to think my body was my enemy. Now, it’s my greatest teacher. And once you start listening to yours, it’ll show you what freedom actually feels like, from the inside out.
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