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.
Participants were asked how strongly they agreed with the statement, "I often have the feeling that I am being treated unfairly," after which they were tracked for almost 11 years, on average.
Are there things in your life that you perceive as injustices? Thoughts that you have been hanging on to for a while? Well they could be making you sick.
What's more these events you have been hanging onto may not even have been totally negative things. In fact often the things we perceive as being negative are really just that, a perception. Now I know what you are saying, but my stuff was definitely negative! Well have you really analysed it to be sure that is true or are you just judging it based on your perceptions and emotional responses. I mean if Nelson Mandela can find positives in being jailed for all those years, then maybe you can at least feel less negative about your situation.
Well here is a tool to help you find out. It is really simple, make four columns. In the first column write the negative aspects of your particular situation. Take your time, make it as long as possible. Now in the second column write the positive things about the situation. This might be harder but take your time, you will be surprised how many there are, in fact you need to make this column as long as the first (this bit isn't easy but bear with it). Now in the third column write all the positives of that situation never having happened at all. Now in the final column, write all the negatives of the situation never happening.
What you will find is that once you have written out these four lists your level of injustice will feel lower. The cool thing about that is that it also means your level of health will be higher.
This process is, at least in part taken, from a bigger collapse process pioneered by Dr Demartini.
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