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CanSocDem

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6. It's hard to be 'happy'...

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 24, 2014, 09:33 AM

Jan 2014

...when everything you read, think or experience revolves around waiting for your cancer to return. It sounds like a belief in inevitability, that in this case, seems to preclude "happiness".

Rather than succumb to the intellectual comfort of "inevitability" and use all the tools of this concept like science and the archives of medicine, this study seems to suggest, and you should take note that "happiness" precludes illness. In other words, stay happy-stay healthy.

If you let yourself be overwhelmed with fears of inevitability, you'll never be happy.

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Happier People Keep Healthier as They Age [View all] xchrom Jan 2014 OP

No real surprise. SheilaT Jan 2014 #1

Yes, I'll bet healthier people are happier as they age too. bemildred Jan 2014 #2

Interesting thought, that sick people who then get SheilaT Jan 2014 #3

Well, I'm just saying it can go either way. bemildred Jan 2014 #4

Yep, absolutely. SheilaT Jan 2014 #5

It's hard to be 'happy'... CanSocDem Jan 2014 #6

Good point. SheilaT Jan 2014 #7

The secret is controlling ones thoughts... CanSocDem Jan 2014 #8