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OUR EMOTIONS

Our emotions govern our lives and behaviour. We do not go through life thinking; we go through life feeling.

A person may have a fear of spiders which their intellect tells them is stupid and irrational, yet they are frozen with fear when they see a spider because their emotions are much more powerful than their mind.

Why can a person when asked to walk on a six-inch wide beam that is lying on the ground accomplish this without difficulty, yet when asked to walk across the same beam that has been raised off the ground by six or so feet, find it almost impossible or even terrifying to do? What has changed may possibly be the realisation of the risk involved in slipping or falling.

The anticipation of the possible danger has altered perhaps one's confidence by creating a fear or other emotion which will affect the accomplishment of what was a simple action into a difficult or even an impossible one. It is how we rightly or wrongly perceive things that dominates our lives.

THE EFFECTS OF AN ILLNESS ON A PERSON

It is not the disease, the illness, the accident, the event or

happening that is of paramount importance, but the effect it has upon us. Let me illustrate this by relating the following incident.

A young lady is walking along the High Street when she suddenly trips over a loose paving stone and sprains her ankle. It hurts a little, but she manages with the aid of a stick to hobble to the office where she is a computer operator. She completes her day's work, goes home and watches TV for the evening. All she has experienced is a slight discomfort for a short while.

Another young lady is walking down the same High Street and slips over the same loose paving stone, spraining the same ankle in a similar way to the previous female. The difference is that the second lady is to play in the final of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships. The effect of the sprained ankle on this person is devastating. It leaves her almost suicidal. Her years of hard work and training, her dreams and her ambitions are suddenly shattered. Yet the first lady is left almost unaffected. It is not just the disease or the illness, but the effect it has upon us that that is so important and must be treated.

WE MAY NEED OUR ILLNESS

This statement may cause raised eyebrows. I can do no better than to repeat Dr Christine Page's explanation of this:

"There was a high-powered business man, whose life was spent eating, drinking, sleeping, business. First in the office, last to leave, seven days a week. Suffered a minor heart attack. This necessitated hospitalisation and rest. Whilst convalescing he realised that if he carried on in the same old way, he would probably die of a major heart attack. He needed this illness to pull him up sharply, to frighten him into changing his lifestyle."