Joy of the soul preserves good health, prolongs life

by CR (015)

Article written by: Dr. Antonio Pinheiro Guedes

As a rule, good health and longevity are found among individuals who are calm, orderly and patient, who follow a regular pattern of life, who do not allow themselves to be overrun by the whirling of society, and who are not claimed simultaneously by a multiplicity of demands.

Those however, whose activity is claimed and aroused, almost ceaselessly, by a thousand different demands, who live annoyed and under depression, those are sickly individuals whose lives are seldom long and they add considerably to the obituaries.

Those are the pilots whose vessels, harassed by storms of life, many times sink in the middle of the voyage because the enraged waves of passion consume their strength, and with it the courage of the steersman, who falls defeated.

Most diseases are originated in the weakening of the spirit which, depressed and discouraged, fails to convey to the body the vitality which emerges from energy.

Joy is contagious. It invigorates blood circulation, conveys warmth to the body, enlivens and strengthens it, preserves good health, prolongs life.

Melancholy, on the other hand, is self-contained. It slows down circulation, takes heat away from the body, depresses and weakens it, ruins health, shortens ones's lifespan.

However, since ends meet and all extremes are harmful, if depression and sadness are fatal to life, excessive joy is no less harmful and may even kill.

We have shown and thus made clear that the soul's emotions, its depression and discouragement, resulting from the numerous and lasting difficulties of daily life, are predisposing causes of somatic diseases due to the state of weakness and lack of energy of the body to react against the environment. In this category are included all the agents - physical, moral, or social, capable of changing the body or altering health and destroying the human being. 

References

[1] Dr. A. Pinheiro Guedes, Spiritualistic Science, 1st Digital Edition, 1995

[2] Christian Rationalism, 1st Edition, Rio de Janeiro 1984