Yet it is also an opportunity for individuals to choose more responsibility for our own lives without worrying about shadowy fears. There are many identified risk factors in lifestyle, environment and genetic factors for illness and injury, but these are not fated nor immutable. Our resistance to them begins within ourselves, with our perceptions, our cognitive abilities and our innate harmony. We may not be able to control reality, but we can have more control over our reaction to it. Fear is not healthy, nor is the need to control others.
Intimacy is healthy, taking risks is inevitable and beneficial.
A nutritional diet and moderate exercise is important for health, but if you enjoy what you eat and how you play, your immune system will benefit more than by disciplined regimens of things you dislike. Even lawyers who believed in the importance of what they were doing and had a sense of purpose were the healthiest. And self-delusion might just explain the Unabomber's robust health.