Physiological stress, then, is the link between personality traits and disease. <\/p>
Certain traits \u2014 otherwise known as coping styles \u2014 magnify the risk for illness by increasing the likelihood of chronic stress. Common to them all is a diminished capacity for emotional communication. <\/p>
Emotional experiences are translated into potentially damaging biological events when human beings are prevented from learning how to express their feelings effectively. That learning occurs \u2014 or fails to occur \u2014 during childhood. The way people grow up shapes their relationship with their own bodies and psyches. <\/p>
The emotional contexts of childhood interact with inborn temperament to give rise to personality traits. <\/p>
Much of what we call personality is not a fixed set of traits, only coping mechanisms a person acquired in childhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Emotional competence requires: <\/p>
– the capacity to feel our emotions, so that we are aware when we are experiencing stress;<\/p>
– the ability to express our emotions effectively and thereby to assert our needs and to maintain the integrity of our emotional boundaries;<\/p>
– the facility to distinguish between psychological reactions that are pertinent to the present situation and those that represent residue from the past. What we want and demand from the world needs to conform to our present needs, not to unconscious, unsatisfied needs from childhood. If distinctions between past and present blur, we will perceive loss or the threat of loss where none exists; and<\/p>
– the awareness of those genuine needs that do require satisfaction, rather than their repression for the sake of gaining the acceptance or approval of others. <\/p>
Stress occurs in the absence of these criteria, and it leads to the disruption of homeostasis. Chronic disruption results in ill health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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