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Immune for life: stressing your "doctor within" IMMUNE FOR LIFE: STRESSING YOUR "DOCTOR WITHIN"
There's more to stress than being yelled at by your boss or being stuck in traffic. Stress results any time your body is called upon to adapt to different circumstances, and there are "good" and "bad" stresses. Anger, negative thoughts and depression are stressors that harm your "doctor within." I'll talk more about stress later, but for now let me say that stress is a major health problem.
Stress contributes to disease. And disease, in turn, is a very stressful event. You must protect your "doctor within" by learning how to avoid the dangerous stress-disease, more-stress-more disease cycle.
Mr. Grossbaum was an angry 60-year-old man. "That lousy partner of mine!" he used to say, shaking his fist. Mr. Grossbaum and his partner had founded a successful chain of dry cleaning stores on the West Coast. Two excitable men, they never got along well. Every time they fought, which was often, Mr. Grossbaum wound up with headaches and stomach pain. Finally, after 25 years of stress, he sold his share of the business to his partner.
He came to see me soon after, complaining of abdominal pain, headaches, high blood pressure, insomnia, nightmares and irritability. "My wife insisted I come," he said. "There's nothing wrong with me that going back and telling off that lousy ex-partner of mine won't cure."
Instead of learning to avoid stress, as I suggested, he called up his old partner to tell him exactly what he thought of him. They yelled at each other on the phone for ten minutes before Mr. Grossbaum ended the conversation by ripping the cord out of the wall and hurling the phone across the room. With his blood pressure sky high, his heart pounding and his hands shaking, he sat down to rest. Five minutes later he had a massive heart attack and died.
Mr. Grossbaum didn't know it, but fighting with his partner— or even thinking about fighting—caused his sympathetic nervous system to spew out high-voltage chemicals that eventually triggered the heart attack.
So there's no way to get around it: we've been wired in such a way that our thoughts are felt throughout our bodies. Good thoughts improve our health. Bad, distressful thoughts induce poor health.
We tend to think of our body and mind as distinct entities. That isn't true. Our mind and body are actually one and the same. It's convenient to separate them for discussion's sake, but they are really both aspects of a singular entity: you. What happens in your mind is reflected throughout your body; changing the chemical composition of your cells and body fluids, even affecting your ability to fight off disease. I'll talk more about this in Chapter Five, and show you how to keep your mind filled with the happy, positive thoughts that encourage good health.
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