Way Of The Peaceful Warrior Research Paper

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EMOTIONS Negative emotions are regular consequences of experiencing a phenomenon that we have felt contradictory and contrary to our expectations and fears. If we succeeded in achieving a state of mind where contradictions are accepted as some- thing natural, then we would not react to them and therefore we would not expe- rience negative emotions.
Since the human immune system is highly sensitive to one's emotional state, it can be said that the least negative emotions, the better the health. In his book Way of the Peaceful Warrior /L13/, Dan Millman wrote that the control of emotions con- sisted in letting them flow and releasing them. There is, however, a great problem: how to do this, how to let emotions flow, how to release

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