Many a great mind has offered up the possibility that stress can make you ill. This is not a new idea; it’s something that most of us accept to be true.
You know how when you’re in some sort of conflict with someone, a row for example, or you are worried or frightened by something you can feel a sort of knot in your chest, or a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach? Since I started becoming more attentive to and trusting in my emotions and my instinct I’ve become more and more convinced that this ‘bad feeling’ is at the root of many of the illnesses I have befallen at various times in my life. When I was in hospital having chemotherapy I was struck by how many of the patients being treated at the same time as me had experienced a major life trauma just prior to their illness, people who’d been caring for their partner with a long-term illness, who’d just experienced the death of a loved one, whose business was in difficulty. Ever had a really bad run in life, when nothing seems to go right? I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion, this is nothing new I know, that these negative thoughts and feelings just attract more of the same but that it is possible to flip the coin and to change them for something positive and good. Not only that, but that it is possible to heal the effects of the negativity that has already marked out lives. I’m not yet sure how, but I’m hoping that I’m going to start to find out.
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