SELF-HEALING CONFIDENCE
Author Howard Friedman believes there is such a thing as “self-healing” personality. Studies of patients with illnesses raging from arthritis to heart disease and cancer show that such psychological characteristics as mood, behavior and belief systems can promote more rapid healing of a variety of diseases as well as injuries. Friedman, author of “Personality” (New American Library, 1992), spent several years analyzing statistical findings on headaches, ulcers, arthritis and asthma, as well as heart disease and cancer. His research provides significant supporting evidence for general theory linking personality and the healing process. “…someone who feels constantly depressed and hopeless is more likely to have health problems. People can attain a superior self-healing state when there’s a good match between the kinds of things they like to do and the kinds of things that they are doing, in both their personal and work lives. Overall, those people who manage to achieve this balance maintain better health than do others. People who resist disease…
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