The authors point out that hostility and anger have been associated with cardiovascular disease, death, and asthma, and that previous research has suggested that changes in mood can have short term effects on the lungs.
Anger and hostility will alter neurological and hormonal processes, which in turn may disturb immune system activity, producing chronic inflammation, suggest the authors. An accompanying editorial comments that the physiological components of anger and stress overlap, and stress is well known to affect the immune system. "Indeed it is hard to find a disease for which emotion or stress plays absolutely no part in symptom severity, frequency, or intensity of flare-ups," writes Dr Paul Lehrer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey, USA. Chronic anger may permanently alter the normal body responses to and physical and psychological stressors, he suggests, and add to "wear and tear."
It seems that practising what you preach could help to a longer and healthier life. I would have thought that there's a 'spiritualty of forgiveness for health' just waiting there ... hmmm that's a useful idea ... a short course on forgiving and letting go which makes non-cringey connections to the teaching of Christ. Could be a goer, don't you think?
ScienceDaily: Anger And Hostility Speed Up Decline In Lung Power:
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