HEALTHY ATTITUDE, CAN IT REALLY HELP?

HEALTHY ATTITUDE, CAN IT REALLY HELP?

We all know that good nutrition, exercise and proper medical care are vital to maintaining good health. What about your mental health attitude? Mounting evidence suggests that a strong connection exists between our mental attitude and physical health.

The Health Emotions Research Institute of the University of Wisconsin is one of the first comprehensive centers dedicated to the scientific analysis of how emotions, particularly positive ones, influence disease and overall health. They have been able to scientifically show how major organ systems, such as the cardiovascular and immune systems, function during periods of positive and negative emotion.

Whether from life-threatening illness, or excessive efforts to succeed, it is believed that stress, if experienced long enough at a significant intensity, can lead to serious illness, maybe even cancer. This may have to do with its affect on the immune system. Many researchers tell us that our attitude can help determine the effects stress will have on our health.

In one study with couples trying to resolve long-standing disagreements, the more stressful the argument the more both people’s immune system abilities dropped. The good news, however, is that a different, more positive response to stress changes the biochemical events that occur. Less cortisol is released, and less damage may be done to the body.

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