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Mar 23, 2007
Physical beauty and mental beauty – are they interconnected?
by Tim
 When we heard someone is never get angry, but grow a tumor instead, it sounds crazy. However, some doctors confirmed this is not joke then a serious thing we should carefully discuss. One doctor, who worked over two decades of family medicine, including seven years of palliative care work, was surprised how consistently the lives of people with chronic illness characterized by emotional shutdown. We are calling this the paralysis of negative emotions, in particular, anger. So now it is time for us get final answer about physical beauty and mental beauty-are they interconnected?Are mental and physical beauty really interconnected?Pattern of some doctors who said those are connected holds true in a wide range of diseases. It is wide area, from cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis to inflammatory bowel disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Patients with these illnesses seem incapable of considering their own emotional needs. These patients also have problem with compulsive sense of responsibility for the needs of others. They all have difficulty to say no or some other mental problem. Many studies, in several continents, confirm the prevalence of these patterns in people with chronic conditions and diseases. The suppression of anger contributes to the onset of cancer and other diseases. It happens because we cannot observe the mind and body separated. The brain’s emotional centers directly and powerfully connect with the immune centers throughout the body. Emotions such as anger serve exactly the same defensive role as the immune system. It serves to the body the way to protect our boundaries and to keep us from overwhelm by external forces. Similarly, both emotions and the immune system, when healthy, also serve a repair function. They help us to heal when we have sustained some trauma or when something has gone wrong internally. Emotions and immunity works together, which is the same system of defense and repair, so when we suppress any aspect of that system, other parts suppress as well. Preventing physical disease with mental healthIn one study, women with breast cancer had difficulty expressing anger toward their physicians. She also had diminished activity of a group of immune cells called natural killer or NK cells. They had a poorer survival rate than did women whose anger was more clearly to express and whose NK cells were better able to attack the tumor. It follows that an essential preventive measure against cancer and other diseases is an awareness of what emotions we are experiencing. It is also important healthy expression of these emotions. These same qualities are also important to the healing of those who gets diagnosis of some illness. However, there is no quick route to emotional awareness because many of us have lost that capacity in early childhood. We must begin by practicing paying close attention to the body. We must pay attention to the tension in the neck, a flutter in the abdomen, a headache, a sudden hoarseness of voice, unexplained muscle pain. We have to watch also the outbreak of a rash, poor sleep and disturbed bowel habits. These and many other phenomena can be symptomatic of some underlying emotional disturbance. We must ask ourselves what in our lives, in our work, in our relationships bother us, and we have never been paying attention to. Why, and to what, is our body saying no is important question we must answer. Is physical beauty more important or mental?We all know many people claim inner beauty is more important than physical beauty. We could say it the way that virtue is more important than beauty. Nevertheless, we must wonder why so many people would jump to the defense of virtue beauty in the same time. The problem could be that we are so accustomed to knocking beauty. That is why, conditioned to it, when someone says how beauty is important, we have to rush out and knock it. In addition, it is completely inappropriate to say anything about Virtue in this context. Not only because nobody attack virtue in any way, but also because there is no reason at all why the mention of physical beauty should trigger thoughts of virtue. To speak of virtue as inner beauty is highly metaphorical and as literally true. All this might leave us with an observation about vanity. Why is it vain, as many of you have said to care for one’s appearance? It is true that there is other, more worthy pursuits one could engage in. however, many people congratulates themselves on not being vain. They do not want achieve vanity in a way, which suggests that they are somehow better, they have better things to do with life than attend to their appearance. At the end it turns out those better things people might do with their life are not immediately apparent as better. That is why answer to this question is depends from person to person. We are all different and we all see different things are more important for healthy and happy life. Men’s disagreements about beauty
 In the fact, men disagree about what they find beautiful. It happens because we do not have access to the actual internal states of men, only to their reports. Moreover, men’s reports of their internal states are notoriously unreliable. In other words, we do not know what emotional precursors they experience saying what is better or more beautiful. All we know is what they say about their reactions to different types of beauty. This is more likely than not to be wrong because there are at least four types of bias, which cause men’s reports of their experience of beauty to be unreliable. So where it the problem and what is the point about this different vision what is beautiful? The first problem concerns problems of their vision. We must ask if the person has report seen the object that he is talking about? Is he perhaps mistaking it for another or has he seen it or merely its reproduction? It could have been small, distorted, off-color reproduction. Has he seen it in sufficient light or with sufficient leisure and is the speaker’s vision impaired. It could happen he is color blind, for example. To this category of errors belong also problems of knowledge because the viewer may not understand what the painting portrays. In other words, he may not know what it is that he is seeing and that is why we might misunderstand him. The second problem concerns our ability to discern our own emotional response. There appear to be great individual differences in the functioning of the emotional stimulus-response machinery since two extreme conditions suggest some possible limiting cases. However, we must know one person cannot be beautiful for everyone and this should be normal. What would happen if whole world would adore only few beauty types? What is kalophobia?Kalophobia is disorder when person is trying not to look good. There seems to be a difficulty about this hypothesis of kalophobia, or hate of beauty. However, this is not a moral difficulty that it is repellent, but a logical one. In this meaning, it does not make sense, which means that it cannot be true. The problem is kalophobia is a strategy devised by ugly people to counteract the deleterious effects of their ugliness. It benefits not only the ugly but also the plain, in-between sort of people. When confronted with beautiful competition, such people are supposed to say something derogatory about beauty and beautiful people. They should say it with the intention of undermining their competitors’ natural advantage. However, some people think there is another strategy open to this kind of people that could be more effective. Should we treat mental and physical disorder the same way?Since we have heard for many political debates concerning mental health parity, we must answer to this question. The fact is mental health parity is the idea that mental disorders should be treated with the same level of respect as are physical disorders. Since mental and physical beauty is both important, we should equally treat these disorders. The reason that the parity debate exists at all is that our institutions has the idea that mental disorders are somehow fundamentally different from physical disorders. This is not true off course, and we must know they both require the same right to treatment. Though we know today that this view that mental disorders are different or inferior to physical disorders is false, the legacy of these older prejudiced beliefs still rules. For example, any coverage for mental disorders is inferior to that provided for physical health concerns. At the end, mental and physical disorders are actually diagnosed using separate diagnostic books. In no other field of medicine, this exists. Mental disorders doctor diagnose using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and physical disorders using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. As we might conclude, this is huge mistake, because similar that mental and physical beauty are interconnected, the same way are disorders. |
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