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More Than Meets the Eye Your Attitude Can Save Your Life |
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Can what you think and feel affect your vitality....in fact, can you go so far as to make yourself sick. . .or make yourself well? There's a lot of scientific research to prove that the answer to that question a resounding, "Yes!" For example, if you're a smoker, and you want to skip the lung cancer part, then best you keep an eagle eye on your attitude. The British Journal of Medical Psychology reported the results of a study, which indicates that people who feel helpless and hopeless are playing a deadly game indeed! Talk about zero vitality in every sense of the word - physically, emotionally, spiritually. Dr. J. H. Eysenck studied 3,267 men for ten years. He analyzed their attitudes and categorized them accordingly. The men were divided into four attitude types: 1. helpless and hopeless, 2. angry and aggressive, 3. men who shifted back and forth between one and two, 4. men who felt in control of and responsible for how they felt. At the end of ten years, 87% of lung cancer cases were clustered in the first group of "helpless and hopeless" men. Those smokers with type 2,3, or 4 attitudes experienced only a one percent death rate compared to a 17% death rate of those smokers who were categorized as helpless and hopeless. Resoundingly, an attitude of helplessness and hopelessness was far and away the worst possible attitude option from a health standpoint. Blair Justice, Ph.D. and author of Who Gets Sick, is a psychologist who specializes in the mind's influence on the body. He proclaims that "Hostile, cynical people are three times more likely to have a heart attack and six times more likely to die of it." Why would that be? The explanation seems to be that when a person is chronically hostile, they view almost any situation as hostile, threatening and suspicious and one that they must control. As a result of such thinking, the body shoots stress hormones throughout the body on a continual basis. Excessive stress hormones trigger an outpouring of cholesterols and triglycerides - both of which are associated with heart disease. In addition, chronically elevated levels of these stress hormones can also reduce the effectiveness of the immune systems and natural killer cells which protect us against foreign invaders. So the moral to the story is: continually check the altitude of your attitude! Trade in helpless and hopeless for capable and optimistic. Up your vitality quotient! It pays big dividends to dump depression, hostility and cynicism and opt for a vital, positive attitude. The results will astound and amaze you! Copyright 2006 Jill H. Lawrence http://www.rubyslippersinc.com |
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