Hello Again:
Obviously the most emphatic example of the simple fact that fear can affect ones physical health is the story in my book about Helen Irving. Even more impressive, in my opinion, is the story about the soldiers in Korea and the high levels of plaque in their arteries.
To extrapolate from these stories and determine that other physical problems have a mental origin is not really far-fetched at all. The problem is that the situation becomes far more complex as you get into other areas of sickness and disease.
Cancer may be one of the most difficult diseases to pin down in this area. If you are told that you have a 20 % chance to survive a particular cancer, would it be wrong to put forward a positive attitude in the face of such poor odds?
One must keep in mind that it is a considered fact that if one thinks positively, it has a beneficial affect on ones immune system. Some researchers believe that we are bombarded by cancerous cells all the time but our immune system destroys them before they can harm us.
Taking the two above ideas into account then, --- it becomes self-evident that thinking positively about ones situation is much more realistic and beneficial than being negative.
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