Release emotion with acupuncture

The mood and emotion are influenced by many events in lives, such as sleep, hormones or even weather. A trauma particularly affects emotion which can last longer than it should. When a trauma happens, no matter how big or small, its memory makes a mark in the brain. This creates negative, painful emotions or distress which put you in a state of constant stress, anxiety or depression. They not only are harmful to the mental health, but the physical health too. With recent new research techniques, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning and functional MRI studies, the brain region that is associated with emotion is clearer. The right occipital lobe, the left insula, the left thalamus the amygdala and the hippocampus is related with sadness. The hippocampus is strongly linked with memory, and it makes sense that awareness of certain memories is associated with feeling sad. Sadness has been studied more than the other emotions because depression may last for a long time; the effects of antidepressants can be measured based on improved symptoms. Acupuncture can help reduce activities of these brain regions and release emotion.