I'm sure that you have read about people who ignored their pain and overcame major physical problems on their strength of will alone. What you don't read about is those who gave up, AGED quickly and died. You can guess which type is the more prevalent.

On a smaller scale, those folks you know who are always sick with something, is it possible that they draw this to themselves by their attitude toward life?

In "Science and Sanity" by Alfred Korzybski 1941, the author states: "It is well known that many psychosomatic symptoms such as some heart, digestive, respiratory & sex disorders, some chronic joint diseases, arthritis, dental caries, migraines, skin disorders, alcoholism, etc., to mention a few have a semantogenic and therefore neuro-semantic and neuro-linguistic origin."

(Which only goes to show that I have opened some pretty weird books.)

Remember: "Only the truly mediocre are at their best all the time".

If you are feeling that life is against you, that you haven't the talent, the wit, the ability to compete, and that the world is a really cold place, read