Annoying fact: The better our lives, the better our health is likely to be. Studies show that life is unfair in this way.
Among these findings: low job satisfaction is the number one predictor for future heart attack.
Socio-economic standing – income, educational level and power predicts general health better than any other single factor except age.
It gets worse. College students who remembered loving relationships with their parents have been found thirty years later to have far less illness than those whose parental relationships were more strained.
People who believe their spouses love them live longer. People with more friends are healthier. Laugher and happiness make the immune system work better.
It is almost as of our bodies know how we feel about our lives as of our immune systems and all our other miraculous self healing mechanisms get discouraged when we get discourages as if they feel hopelessness, grief, and stress when we feel these ways.
It’s not just that happy people exercise more or eat better – though they tend to. “Mind/body” research demonstrates that our bodies, especially our unconscious self care systems (such as the immune system), react to our life situations as strongly as do our conscious selves.
Health Reflects Life
