How to take change part 1

How to take change

I walked with my friend, a Quaker, to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the newsie politely. The newsie didn’t even acknowledge it.

A sullen fellow, isn’t he? I commented.

Oh, he’s that way every night, shrugged my friend.

Then why do you continue to be so polite to my him?’ I asked. Why not? inquired my friend. Why should I let him decide how I’m going to act?.

As I thought about this incident later, it occurred to me that the important word was act. My friends acts toward people; most of us react toward them.

Can your emotions kill you 2

my own interest in the sudden death syndrome gained impetus from the unexpected death of my identical twin brother from a heart attack in 1963. exactly 11 months later less one day the last day of mourning according to the jewish faith I, too, sufferward a heart attack. this occurred during the emotional strain of anticipating thr first anniversary of my twin’s death.

Soon afterward, I began collecting newspaper clippings on sudden death. With the aid of colleagues and medical examiners around the world, I compiled 275 cases in which death generally occurred within or hours of a major event in the person’s life. For the most part, the victims were not considered ill at the time; or, if they were ill, not in imminent danger of dying.

Can your emotions kill you 1

Can your emotions kill you?

by george engle, M.D.

A newly appointed president of cbs inc. died suddenly at the age of 51 the night after his father’s death.

A prominent british tycoon, prematurely forced into retirement after a bitter dispute with his company, died at the airport as he was leaving the country honoring the late Louis satchmo Armstrong, his second wife stricken with a fatal heart attack as she played st. Louis blues .

   coincidences? perhaps. still, one can’t help wondering whether these deaths might have been brought on by emotional strain.