50 Days of Hope by Lynn Eib

Author:Lynn Eib
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Inspirational, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Cancer, RELIGION / Christianity / Christian Life
ISBN: 9781414374574
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2012-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

All this hype claiming that if you don’t have a positive attitude and that if you get depressed you are making your tumor grow faster invalidates people’s natural and understandable reactions to a threat to their lives. That’s what I mean by the tyranny of positive thinking.22

The truth is, Dr. Holland says, “stress, depression, and grief do not increase the likelihood that cancer will develop or that it will come back if you’ve been treated before.”23

I can tell you for sure that if not staying positive made cancer recur, I would have been dead many times over.

Now if by some slim chance you are really the kind of person who likes to think positive all the time, copes with life by always thinking positive, and finds it impossible to think any other way, I certainly am not going to tell you to stop thinking positive. But please, don’t expect that everyone else needs to be just like you.

I believe we were created to feel many emotions and that life is best lived when we acknowledge those emotions and express them in a healthy manner. Moreover, I believe tears are really a gift and that everybody—even a positively positive person—benefits from a good cry now and then.

If you ever tasted a tear trickling down your face, then you know they are salty. But tears are much more than salty water. They’re actually a complex combination of proteins, enzymes, lipids, metabolites, and electrolytes.

We all have three different kinds of tears: “normal” tears that continuously keep our eyes lubricated, irritant tears that wash away foreign substances, and emotional tears that we cry for reasons like sadness and pain. Scientists who study tears can look at these tiny drops of water and tell the difference between the first two types and the third kind because emotional tears have much more protein and less oil.

Some tear researchers theorize that emotional tears carry hormones from the brain, which release calming endorphins and flush toxins out of the bloodstream. This helps our body return to a reduced-stress state.

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