Our Thoughts And Health –
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| The following questions feature in the book: NLP and Health by Ian McDermott and Joseph O’Connor. In the paragraphs below, please select between a response of true or false. The answers can be found lower down the page. |
- The single factor most likely to lead to a heart attack in American adults is the feelings and actions of chronic hostility in relationships.
- People can have asthma attacks from being near artificial flowers.
- Keeping a diary of your feelings about important life events gives a measurable positive effect on your immune system.
- Those men who do volunteer work at least once a week have a death rate of half those who do not.
- The pain relievers that we produce in our bodies – the endorphins and enkephalins – are 10 times as powerful as morphine.
- Watching tropical fish swimming in an aquarium lowers blood pressure and heart rate.
- People have been known to adjust their eyesight to nearsighted, farsighted or normal, changing the eye’s curvature very quickly so that an optician would write a different lens prescription.
- During a doctors strike in Israel, admittances to hospitals fell by 70% and death rates fell by 50%.
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Chronic hostility is a more significant factor than smoking and obesity.Williams, R, “Curing Type A: the trusting heart.” Psychology Today, Jan to Feb 1989, 36-42 - True.
Mackenzie, J, The production of the so-called “rose-cold”...American Journal of Medicine Science 9 (1886), 45-57 - True.
Psychologist James Pennebaker (compares the noting of important versus trivial events over 4 days).
Pennebaker, J, Hughes, C, and O’Hearon, R, The psychophysiology of Confession....1987 - True.
House, J., Robbins, C.,and Metzner, H, “The association of social relationships and activities with mortality, American Journal of Epidemiology 116 (1982) , 123-140?. - False.
They are 100 times stronger.
Ornstein, R, and Sobel, D, The Healing Brain, Simon and Schuster, 1987 - True.
Katcher, A, et al., The physiological consequences of interaction with the living environment in Katcher, A., and Beck, A. (eds), New Perspectives on our lives with Animal Companions, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. - True
Goleman. D., “Probing the enigma of Multiple personality”, The New York Times, 28 June 1988 - True.
- A spiritual perspective on why there is a link between our thoughts and health: Do Our Beliefs Create Our Reality?
- The next page - Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) – The Science Linking Our Thoughts And Health.
- Move From Let Us Change Our Thoughts And Health to a TV interview in which I talk about how positive thinking to me does not mean always having a smile on my face.
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Answers to the questions above relating to how do thoughts affect health:
These examples provide clear examples of how our feelings, thoughts and health are linked.
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