Living Life

If it is a negative emotion that you have internalized, it is likely to build up as a disease. I could look at my mother who coped with the death of two husbands and the stress of “going back to work” and I could see the origins of a hyperactive thyroid and the increased metabolism that went with it. Surely she could have developed that later but the emotions that she absorbed probably caused the onset of that and that then set the stage for other ills, like a decrease on bone density, diabetes and an eye ailment. If I could have known that years ago I might have been better able to warn her of what would happen and how to better cope with the trauma.

The negative emotions that go with unhealthy competition can be internalized. An individual might think he is unworthy and lose his self esteem. Such a person can come up with an autoimmune ailment, perhaps one of those disease where there is an abundance of immunoglobulins that accumulate under the skin and start to cause a scaling of the superficial layers, perhaps it can be psoriasis. There is no definite cure for this other than gene therapy and all cures treat the symptoms not the cause. The root of the physiological change is the accumulated stress.

In the above examples if one can recognize when an onset is going to occur one may be less likely to entertain the thought of being depressed or feeling stressed out. Recognition of the onset is as vital as is turning the negative into something positive. In addition one has to set goals and actually believe they will attainable in order to focus on the process and less on the static along the way, including the rhetoric from friends that would not make the same decisions.

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