While snooping around for topics to write about I found an interesting article on Mercola.com about how anger can impair lung function.

Now, while the exact mechanism is not explained (and hence gives the naysayers ammo) I don’t think it’s important.  The bottom line is this – carrying around negative emotions will have just as much effect on your health as all the quantifiable things out there, like diet, exercise, supplements, etc…

It’s my view that we’ve gone a little too reductionist in terms of what makes up our health.  Science has to identify and isolate factors that influence processes, and that’s how we find out about things like vitamin c, creatine, and collagen, to name a few.  But to believe that we are nothing more than an aggregated mass of molecules is a little ignorant.  Especially phrased that way.

To put it in cliché terms, the whole is more than the sum of its’ parts.

That is why you have to be conscious of your ambient emotion state.  Stress and anger seem to be the places most people spend most of their time in, but remember, how you feel about/towards something is a choice.  Do what you can to change what you can, and don’t worry about the rest, to paraphrase the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer.

Anyway, just a thought for today.