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The Healthy Personality
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Since conventional, western allopathic medicine deals almost exclusively with illness and disease, there is not much scientific data on health itself. We know far more about bodily dysfunction than about what keeps us well. But recent trends towards more holistic and preventive health maintenance are leading to an understanding of why some people spend considerably less time (and money) on doctors and medicines than others. Clearly, natural diet, regular exercise, and stress reduction play important roles. Now evidence is beginning to accumulate about how certain psychological qualities also tend to protect health.
The Immune Power Personality (Dutton), delineates seven main traits that are common among very healthy people. According to author Henry Dreher, healthy people:
1. Tend to be attuned to their own mind-body signals of pleasure and pain, including such things as fatigue, anger and sadness.
2. Have the capacity to confide their secrets, traumas and feelings to others instead of keeping such things locked inside.
3. Exhibit the three C's: a sense of control over their health and quality of life; a strong commitment to work, creative activities or relationships; and an ability to see stress as a challenge rather than a threat.
4. Are appropriately assertive about their needs and feelings.
5. Tend to form relationships based on unconditional love rather than frustrated power.
6. Are altruistically committed to helping others.
7. Demonstrate willingness to explore many different facets of their personalities, which gives them strengths to fall back on if one fails.
Family and community are two more non-physical health enhancers, as reported in The Complete Guide to Your Emotions & Your Health (Rodale). It recounts the classic population study of the residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania, who’s better-than-average health turned out to be due to a strong social structure with “remarkable cohesiveness and sense of unconditional support within the community.”
“A close-knit community can act as a protective envelope against the stresses of the environment,” says Dennis T. Jaffee, Ph.D. co-director of the Health Studies Program at Saybrook Institute in San Francisco and author of Healing from Within (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.). Similarly, a good marriage, close friends and strong religion have also proven to be health-enhancing factors.
So is optimism. One study by Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. found a predictive correlation between a positive outlook and health over several decades. Men who scored optimistically in 1946 were healthier later in life than more pessimistic men. He also found that “college students with an optimistic explanatory style had few days of illness and made fewer doctor visits than did their more pessimistic peers.” (Mind/Body Medicine (Consumer Reports Books).
In The Creation of Health (Stillpoint), C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. and Caroline Myss, M.A. postulate a spiritual basis for healing and wellness which they contend underlies all physical and psychological factors. Their prescription: become an Elegant Spirit, guided by spiritual principles such as:
+ Unconditional love. + The power of thoughts, emotions and intention. + The identity of the one and the All. + Seeing yourself in others. + Seeing beyond boundaries. + Respecting all life. + Abandoning violence. + Simplifying your desires. + Meditation and the power of prayer.
We usually ignore our health until we lose it. A better approach is to see it as a process, a dynamic reflection of everything you think, say and do. In this way you can best protect your health, and have a greater understanding of the causes and cures of illness when it does occur.
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
Lonny J. Brown, HHC is also the author of " ENLIGHTENMENT ONLINE - The Newsletter for Spiritual Cyberspace.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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