I heard a program yesterday in which a man stated that happy people are healthier than unhappy people. He noted that when a person is grieving the resistance is down. Have you had any experience with this?

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I also heard in a program that dirty people live longer than healthy people. :confused:

Mentally I agree. But not so much physically. A happy person can still be unhealthy and vice versa.

"As a man thinketh..."



Peace

Mark

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I think that a happy person has a more active immune system and a greater resistance to diseases of all kinds. Related to this aspect, there are so many cases when persons have for example fought cancer for a long time, and then some stupid nurse happenes to say that they´re incurable, and so the person dies in no time at all.

Personally, there have been a few cases when I've felt lousy on jobs, and, despite normally being generally healthy, have developped a respiratory tract problem. When I got myself a new job, I was immediately healthy again.

I've ben asking myself lots of times, if this was the case as well when I had my stroke. My job situation was lousy, my private life was way too strenuos and complicated, I smoked too much etc. etc.

On the other hand, I was not too badly fit, havin been running all over the place with an Irish Setter dog. Doctors all said that my surprisingly fast and thorough recovery was thanks to my having played basketball at the university and the dog running.

The story comes to a very happy end. I understood that I had to change my lifestyle, so I left my job and my fiancée and moved to the other coast of Sweden.

I'm not fit enough to carry on with a normal job, so I'm on a not exceedingly generous disability pension, but with my modest needs, I feel no financial constraints in my life. I'm as happy as (n)ever before, and (thus) mainly healthy.