Overreactive personality

Nature

Many of our present day illnesses (cancers, heart attacks, for example) are stress related disorders. People are either responsive or reactive. If reactive, they tend to be at-risk much of time because they confuse the relative with the absolute. They tend to think (or believe) they are right, that their perceptions are true statements of absolute reality. They tend to delude themselves in their seemingly self-righteous rectitude. The more reactive a person is, the more that person is subject to illness and disease. They get sick, suffer and die often times from something other than natural old age.

Claim

Once sick, the reactive person tends look outside him/herself for what that person believes is the best cure from the best source on the market today. On the other hand, once sick, a responsive person tends to look first within and takes stock of the current situation with a spirit of calmness and equanimity. Such people assume responsibility for what has occurred, for what they have done (sins of commission) and for what they have not done (sins of omission) without praise or blame. They then set out on a healing programme, which may include curing attributes. They also come to realize that they can effect change for the better by changing their behaviour. By accepting the human condition they can also understand and accept that not every physical ailment can be cured. Sometimes healing takes the form of acceptance of the inevitability of one's death without surrendering to the fear of the unknown.