Did
you know that as much as 50 percent of diseases may be psychosomatic?
Therefore, it is not an overstatement that the mind and diseases are
interconnected.
Dr. Caroline B. Thomas, M.D., of John Hopkins School of Medicine discovered that cancer patients often had a prior poor relationship with their parents, attesting to the pivotal role of emotions in the development of cancer. In another study by Dr. Richard B. Shekelle of the University of Texas School of Medicine, it was found that depression patients were not only more cancer prone but also more likely to die of cancer than the other patients. If emotions play a pivotal role in cancer, by the same token, negative emotions may also adversely affect the symptoms or prognosis of any human disease. Thoughts of anger, despair, discontent, frustration, guilt, or resentment are instrumental in depressing the physiological processes, including the body’s immune response—a formula for promoting the development of an autoimmune disease.
According
to other studies, strong negative emotions, such as anger, can create
destructive mental energy that is health damaging. However, it is not so much
in experiencing raging anger as in not experiencing
it, or not wanting to
experience it that may cause diseases. In addition, feelings of hopelessness
and helplessness may also aggravate the symptoms of a disease. When one feels
being “trapped” with no way out—such as, when the doctor tells you that there
is no cure, except controlling the symptoms of any disease you may have, you
naturally feel incapacitated in thinking a solution out of the “dire”
situation.
The
feeling of being trapped is most destructive in that it incapacitates the mind
to come up with a solution to resolve the apparently insoluble situation. This
may cause the body to conserve too much oxygen—just like holding one’s breath
much too long—that ultimately leads to suffocation, and even death. Continuous
feeling of being in a deathtrap deprives one of oxygen, and thus inhibiting the
recovery process.
Given
the critical role of emotions in disease development, evaluate your emotions,
and how your mind may affect them.
Visit my site: Anger Management.
Stephen
Lau
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Stephen Lau
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