Interesting. You sound like a Cherokee who insists that bad thoughts create illness. We say that thoughts have power to heal or to hurt. I believe that it is more complicated than either. However, like riding a single water ski, it's all a matter of balance and energy. I can tell you that certain kinds of cancer have no pain until they kill you.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Diminishing life expectancy of the poor REH wrote: > So feeling bad gives you cancer. Rather than Cancer makes you feel > bad. I'm not up to date on my science so I'm open to correction. That said: + The immune system is complex (in the technical sense) and not fully understood. But there is indication that ongoing emotional states influence its performance. + The role of the immune system in controlling cancerous or potentially cancerous cells is also not fully understood but such effects exist. It's easy to infer from those observations that prolonged episodes of feeling bad may predispose your immune system to fail, both in resistance to exogenous infection and to endogenous deviant, malignant and potentially metastatic cells. Of course, *knowing* you have identifiable, diagnosable cancer will make you feel bad so there's the possibility for harmful positive feedbac there. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
