STRESS
Okay, test time. What's the "mind-body connection" really called in medicine? It's psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) and it refers to how stress robs your body of its ability to ward off disease and illness. Allow stress to build up and you can not only develop a physical disorder, you can make one you already have worse. Yes, it may actually all be in your mind in that how you live and what type of lifestyle you lead, in other words, how you approach life, may lead to physical illness. Skip a vacation, forget about keeping joy and laughter (one of the best medicines) in your daily life and you've begun the journey to dancing on a wire between health and illness.
One word of caution, however. Stress comes from both the good things in our lives and the bad ones. So, everything is stressful, but it's the way that we learn to manage it and put it in perspective that helps us survive it. Try this test and see how stressed you are: The Holmes-Rahe Scale.
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