A new study of over 6,000 British civil servants has determined that people who perceive they have been treated unfairly are more likely to suffer a heart attack or chest pain. In fact those who believed they had experienced the worst injustice were 55 percent more likely to experience a coronary event than people who thought life was fair.
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Everybody knows someone who is painfully positive. No matter what is going on in their lives they still approach it with child like enthusiasm and a huge smile on their face. We also all know that person who is the exact opposite. They could win the top prize in the weekday lotto and complain that it didn't pay very well. In fact of you put these two people into exactly the same situation (stimulus) they would react very differently to each other, how is this possible? Aren't we all wired the same?
Have you ever wondered why dieting doesn't work? Or why most people let their gym memberships lapse shortly after joining? Or why that positive thinking book or seminar wears off a few weeks after you attended it. The reason is usually that you haven't really committed to change. You have decided to "give it a go" or you have set yourself a short term goal.
Are you stressing your way to cancer? A new report illustrates how the stress hormone norepinephrine accelerates the formation of tumours and facilitates the growth of existing tumours. As evidence mounts showing the chronic health effects of stress from cancers to strokes, and heart disease to diabetes, it has become more and more obvious that stress minimisation is vital for health and wellbeing.
Become an inverse paranoid for your heart and your head.
