Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.
Illness transforms the things you most fear into the things you crave and would hold onto if you could.
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
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