Recent research seems to show pretty conclusively that
Just now, the difficulty is establishing which way the causal flow goes: is it aggresiveness causing poor lung function or vice versa, or something else?
ScienceDaily: Harboring Hostility May Be Linked To Unhealthy Lungs
Technorati Tags: research, aggression, psycho-somatic
the more hostile one’s personality—characterized by aggression or anger, for example—the lower levels one’s of lung function even after controlling for age, height, socioeconomic status, smoking status and presence of asthma.
Just now, the difficulty is establishing which way the causal flow goes: is it aggresiveness causing poor lung function or vice versa, or something else?
Right now, we can’t say if having a hostile personality causes lung function decline, though we now know that these things happen together. More research is needed to establish whether hostility is associated with change in pulmonary function during young adulthoodThe kinds of things that I've seen done and done in training, therapy and meditation make me think that biofeedback could be implicated here, though; that is it can work either way.
ScienceDaily: Harboring Hostility May Be Linked To Unhealthy Lungs
Technorati Tags: research, aggression, psycho-somatic
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