The Role of Environmental Factors in Health
from What's Going On Here?, Vol II, No 5
A frequent question is, "What about bacterial and viral agents in the health question?"
It is, of course, obvious that these environmental factors have a role in undesirable states of health, but could hardly be called the cause. If these invasive forms could attack all living things, everyone would be ill.
However, these agents do their damage when the host organism is weakened in some form. The factors that weaken human organisms are most often less-than-optimum inner feelings carried over a period of time. These less-than-optimum inner feelings are such states as anger, guilt, fear, resentment, self-pity, jealousy, frustration, etc. These inner feelings result in the organism mobilizing energy to fight or to run. Fighting or running seldom takes place; therefore the mobilized energy is unreleased. This produces neuromuscular tension. This requires adaptation in the form of unusual cellular activity. This activity lowers the resistance of the cells to the bacteria and/or virus already present. They can then invade tissue and start multiplying. Now the human organism begins to fight the presence of the micro-organism (adaptation); then the disorder is given the name of the activity of the micro-organism (measles, chicken-pox, herpes and so on).
Other factors that can result in lower resistance are inadequate nutrition, inadequate or excessive activity or activity under duress, sudden changes of temperature, concussion of forces, etc.
If a person has a lifestyle of near-optimum activity, these micro-organisms have little effect on the human organism. The major idea is, don't open the door to 'em.
