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The Most Important Part of Your Wellness Program
by Susan Dunn

"There is no right way to do something wrong."
~ Unknown ~

Stress is a fact of life these days. We're all busy eating right, exercising, taking vitamins and supplements, getting 8 hours of sleep, and getting regular checkups trying to manage the escalating change and stress in our lives and stay healthy. We also work hard to eliminate the stressors that we can. But are you ignoring the most important part of a wellness program?

It's widely reported in the scientific literature that our emotions affect our wellness. According to Candace Pert, Ph.D. (see "Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine) our emotions exist in every cell of our body. Therefore they affect our immune system, and our immune system is our health.

According to Pert, "The molecules of emotion run every system in our body, and . this communication system is in effect a demonstration of the bodymind's intelligence, an intelligence wise enough to seek wellness, and one that can potentially keep us healthy and disease-free without the modern high-tech medical intervention we now rely on."

This is not to say don't see a doctor when you need to. Once sick, you must seek medical intervention. But if you understand and manage your emotions better it will bolster your immune system, and you'll have a better chance of not getting sick. Study after study shows what grief, fear, anxiety and anger do to our immune systems.

We all know people who are resistant to disease. Something "goes around" the office, and So-and-So over there never seems to get it. A viral stomach flu goes from one person to the next, except for So-and-So. What are they doing differently? They work in the same office!

"Three 10-year studies concluded that emotional stress was more predictive of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease than smoking; people who were unable to effectively manage stress had a 40% higher death rate than more emotionally managed individuals."

Emotional intelligence - identifying, understanding, managing and regulating your emotions (and those of others -lest THEIR emotions cause YOU stress) - allows you to more effectively manage the inevitable stress in your life.

Recently at the American Heart Association's 70th Scientific Session, Dr. Susan Everson, a researcher at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health stated, "Men who reported a high level of outward expression of anger - men who tended to have angry outbursts, had about twice the risk of stroke compared to men who controlled their tempers."

She further found that men who were stroke-prone had frequent experiences of anger and above average levels of job-related stress. [cited by David Perlmutter, M.D.]

Dr. Perlmutter feels that an "explosive personality" should be added to the list of important risk factors for strokes, which include elevated cholesterol, cigarette smoking, obesity, family history, and coronary artery disease.

Cardiologist Robert Eliot states that "anger and hostility results [sic] in a chronic urgency response. The heart is put on alert, blood pressure sky-rockets, and the immune system shuts down."

Dr. Eliot refers to a person in a chronically reactive state of anger as having the "hypertension habit," because he or she will gradually become addicted to the adrenalin "rush" to the detriment of their heart.

Anger kills. Whether we suppress it or repress it. And stress makes us angry. "Humans are the angriest of animals and anger is probably one of our oldest emotions. Anger is one reason human beings and not some gentler animal dominates the planet.

The great danger in anger is the seductive effectiveness in delivering a sense of short-term victory and protection of one's perceived territory. Unfortunately, to the victor also goes the heart bypass." [Paul Pearsall, Ph.D., The Pleasure Prescription.]

Look at what happens physiologically, in quick succession, when we get angry:

• Muscles mobilize for assault

• Brain shuts down immune system (interested in hurting not healing; surviving now not living a long time)

• Less blood flows to the brain to interfere with assault thinking

• Endorphins are pumped through your body so we can't not focus on this indignation

• Our bodies don't care about digestion so our stomach stops producing the layers of protective coating that protect us from our own toxic stomach acid

• Ironically, after a "battle," just as after marijuana, we're often hungry, and then throw down a huge celebratory meal on top of a stomach unprepared for the assault of stomach acid - result: stomach ulcers

• When we're angry and ready to assault, our physiological reaction is also to jettison the contents of the lower intestine . and this causes, if hostility is chronic, "defense diarrhea," and other forms of irritable bowel disease (spastic colon, colitis, bowel inflammation, constipation, and bowel pain). [Kumar & Wingate, "Irritable Bowel Syndrome," cited in The Pleasure Prescription]

What are we to do? Work on your emotional intelligence. Learn to recognize the early warning signals of over-stress and what to do about them. Connect up these signals with what's going on in real life and deal with them constructively. Get rid of the stressors in your life that you can, and then learn how to manage the emotions around it.

Add the study of emotional intelligence to your wellness program. Your health depends upon it.

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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~ Robert Benchley ~
Born September 15, 1889

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