Mike
Carruthers:
Want
to be healthy and live a long time? Try keeping a journal.
Bernie
Siegel :
If you write your feelings, not your schedule but your
feelings down, you'll live a longer healthier life.
Dr.
Bernie Siegel, who's new book is, 101
Exercises For The Soul.
To
give you specifics, people with asthma (and I think arthritis
was the other thing), one group was told to go home and write
down their feelings everyday for half an hour. The other group
was told to write down what they did everyday. And at the end
of the month, the one's who wrote about their feelings were
healthier.
Bernie Siegel
believes that animals are great role models for living a healthy
life.
You know, they
don't need support groups and they don't go home depressed worrying
about the future. I have a friend who had cancer - adopted a
cat - and learned that the cat had cancer and they were both
told they had a year to live. And she said, "I came home
and I was depressed and the cat wasn't." And to make a
long story short, over 15 years later, they're both alive. And
I think if the cat hadn't had that attitude, I don't think my
friend would be alive today.
Bernie Siegel
believes that we should all live an "authentic" life.
And for good reason.
There are so
many studies that show what you call "the good kid",
you know, you're trying to make mommy and daddy happy and please
everybody and never express your feelings - you will turn your
emotions inward, and are more likely to develop all sorts of
diseases, from cancer to arthritis. But if you stop being the
good child to please others and express appropriate anger, then
you start on a path to understanding, forgiveness, health and
wellness.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net.
I’m Mike Carruthers and that’s Something You Should Know
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