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NHLBI Study Finds Hostility, Impatience Increase Hypertension Risk

I have been making an effort to improve my impatience and hostility for awhile now, not for my heart so much but because, well, frankly, I was a bitch. (Not to put too fine a point on it...)

I have made strides. (And my blood pressure, which was borderline high a couple years ago, is fine now, coincidentally.)

The funny thing about going from an obnoxious, hostile, impatient person to a calm, patient, good-tempered person is that no one believes you can do it.

I have been reading some Buddhist works, including writings by a monk named Thich Nhat Hanh.
He wrote a book called Anger which I bought a while ago but haven't started yet. The other day I went looking for it...not in my pile of books to read. Not on any of the book shelves. Not...anywhere.

When Victor arrived home that evening I was still searching. He asked what I was looking for, and when I told him he said...he smirked..."Are you gonna have a tantrum if you can't find it?"

Posted by Nic at October 21, 2003 06:23 PM | TrackBack