| From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free | | | | their health. Suppression of emotion, which creates |
| For Life | | | | internal stress, has been shown to negatively affect |
| Over 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates noticed a | | | | the immune system. |
| potential connection between personality traits and | | | | Because of the intimate connection between your |
| health conditions. Since he is considered by many to | | | | personality traits and health, try implementing the |
| be the father of modern medicine, is it possible that | | | | following three suggestions: |
| he was onto something? | | | | Take charge of your life. Feeling out of control is one |
| Current research is indicating that he was. Traditional | | | | of the most negative personality traits and health |
| Chinese medicine has known this for quite awhile, | | | | damaging points of view. Understand that you are |
| generally looking to the personality of a patient for | | | | constantly making choices in your life and that, in |
| diagnosis purposes. | | | | reality, everything that occurs in your life is a result |
| A variety of illnesses, ranging from chronic fatigue, | | | | of a choice you made. |
| arthritis, diabetes, asthma and various auto-immune | | | | Focus on the task at hand, without wasting energy |
| disorders have been shown to be a link between | | | | by letting your thoughts wander. This is actually one |
| personality traits and health. The main reason for this | | | | of the central concepts of Zen Buddhism, frequently |
| appears to be the fact that our personality traits | | | | summed in the following way: When hungry, eat; |
| tend to determine what causes us stress and how | | | | when tired, sleep. People frequently hear this and |
| we handle that stress. | | | | think that everyone does that when, in reality, too |
| Stress has an incredibly negative impact on the | | | | many people have a thousand thoughts running |
| immune system, dragging it down and making it | | | | through their head at every moment. In the book |
| function poorly. | | | | Cancer Free For Life, there are many examples and |
| Our personality traits and health often times seem | | | | ways to reduce stress in your life and techniques to |
| out of our control in this day and age. Far too many | | | | understand cancer in order to eliminate it. |
| people fall back on the common excuse that it is | | | | Eliminate worry from your thinking. When you boil |
| "just how I've always been," when discussing either | | | | down every situation in life, you find only two |
| half of the equation. | | | | different types...the situations you have control over |
| As an example, we've all been around people who | | | | and the situations you don't have control over. If you |
| seem to be able to take the stresses and negative | | | | don't any control, there is no point in worrying. If you |
| conditions of life in stride, without allowing anything to | | | | do have control, don't worry about it, just plan on |
| really bother them. At first glance, this personality | | | | making sure the best outcome is realized. Eliminating |
| trait would probably lead to good health, right? | | | | worry from your life is one of the most positive |
| If a person is truly unbothered by things then, yes, | | | | personality traits and healthiest thing you can do. |
| their personality traits and health are working | | | | This article is available for reprint for your website |
| together to create a positive outcome. If, however, | | | | and newsletter, provided that you maintain its |
| they are actually bothered by things but suppress | | | | copyright integrity and include the signature. |
| them, then that is likely to have a negative impact on | | | | |