To be a World class city means desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and to have pride in possessions. Sacramento, California is a loving community and a great place to raise a family. They want to keep their treasure hidden and land untouched. The city of Sacramento takes no part in the unfruitful works of the unlovely, but instead exposes them. As he goes through childhood, the individual moves from being dominated by the need to learn and maintain his safety and security to stage of testing out his abilities in a more social area. In this stage, which comes in middle childhood and early adolescence, he needs assurance that he has a permanent place in the family, that his parents value and love him. He spends more and more time out of his home, as he goes to  school and outside to play, but he needs as a base the sense that his home and family’s love are always there, whenever he decides to return. Many children test this out by running away, pushing parents to declare that their love is flexible and stretchable. Parents may fail to recognize that running away is a testing of the quality of their love, not a rejection of that love. During this time, a child often adopts new adults into his life: teachers, friends, others’ parents, playground supervisors, or scout leaders. An insecure parent faced with this situation may think he or she has failed and the child has abandoned him or her for another seemingly more competent or more loving adult. Of course, if parents really are not giving enough love or feeling of belonging, the child may actually be going outside his home to satisfy those needs. However, usually this is not the motivation. A fixation is an abnormal attachment to some person, object, or level of development. Those needs which he shares with the animals….are important. ….However, even their complete satisfaction is not a sufficient condition for sanity and mental health. These depend on the satisfaction of those needs and passions which are specifically human, and which stem from the conditions of the human situation: the need for relatedness, transcendence, rootedness, the need for a sense of identity, and the need for a frame of orientation and devotion.

A child who finds that his parents are threatened or angered by such testing often panics. Many a child assumes that love has a price tag on it—is subject to conditions, as in a contract. And unfortunately, there are parents who attach strings: “I will love you if you will just work hard and get good grades. I do not love you when you run away.” These may seem like fairly innocent comments to a parent, but they can be a real source of fear for children. As a young person moves into adolescence, assuming that his survival needs are met and he has gained a sense of autonomy, security, and love, he now faces a still more difficult task. Now, the child-become-adolescent must begin to answer the difficult questions, “Who am I?” and seek satisfaction for his individuality needs. Disaster, depression and sorrow often precede illness. Taylor (our intrepid student) found after finals week, stressful events reduce the body’s natural defenses against disease. More surprising is the finding that major life changes—both good and bad—can increase susceptibility to accidents or illness. How can I tell if I am subjecting myself to too much stress? Immediately after the distress of those days, the Sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. Some 30 years ago, Dr. Thomas Holmes and his associates developed a rating scale to estimate the health hazards faced when stresses add up. According to Dr. Holmes, there is a high chance of illness or accident when you are stressed out to the point you do not feel well. Research has also shown that the health of college students is also affected by stressful events, such as entering college, changing majors, or the breakup of a steady relationship. People who have high stress scores are much more likely to actually get a cold. There must be more to stress than major life changes. Is there not a link between ongoing stresses and health?

When a man of robust and vigorous constitution has a fit of sickness, it produces a much more powerful effect than the same indisposition upon a delicate valetudinarian. Nature is health; for health is good, and nature cannot work ill. As little can she work error, get nature, and you will get well. In addition to having a direct impact, major life events spawn countless daily frustrations and irritations. Also, many of us face ongoing stresses at work or at home that do not involve major life changes. The impact of minor, but frequent stresses, such as distressing daily annoyances, hassles, or microstressors takes a toll on your well-being. Hassles range from traffic hams to losing classroom notes and photographs; from an argument with a neighbor to an employer’s unrealistic demands. However, you have to realize that the stress occurs in people, not in the environment. Stress is always related to personality, values, perceptions, and personal resources.  What can be done about stress and feeling excessively hassled? We know not what we do when we hate. Hate is a thankless thing. So, let us only hate hatred; and once give love play, we will fall in love with a unicorn. Ah! The easiest way is the best; and to hate, a man must work hard. A good response is to use stress management skills. For serious problems, stress management should be learned directly from a doctor or at a stress clinic. Where ordinary stresses are involved, there is much you can do on your own. The maximum of the healthy man is: up, and have it out in exercise when sleep is for foisting base coin of dreams upon you. And as the healthy only are fit to live, their maxims should be law. Too much health is inductive disease. As we have screen, chronic or repeated stress can damage physical health, as well as upset emotional well-being. Prolonged stress reactions are closely related to a large number of psychosomatic illnesses. In psychological factors contribute to actual bodily damage or to damage changes in bodily functioning. Psychosomatic problems, therefore, are not the same as hypochondria. Hypochondriacs imaginary that they suffer from disease.

There is nothing imaginary about asthma, a migraine headache, or high blood pressure. Do no harm to others for the sake of any good it may do you. An injury is the object of anger, danger of fear, and praise of vanity; goodness is the object of love. Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.  Severe psychosomatic disorders can be fatal. The person who says, “Oh, it is just psychosomatic” misunderstands the seriousness of stress-related diseases. Are stomach ulcers psychosomatic? For many years, stomach ulcers were thought to be caused by stress. However, recent medical research has linked stress and stomach ulcers that they form and believe that they are an infection caused by stress, which manifests bacterial infections of the stomach. Stress and lifestyle factors can contribute to stomach infection. However, it is more likely that a person suffering from stomach pain has functional dyspepsia. This psychosomatic disorder causes ulcer-like pain, but does not make holes in the stomach lining. The most common psychosomatic problems are gastrointestinal and respiratory (dyspepsia and asthma, for example), but many other exist. Typical problems include eczema (skin rash), hives, migraine headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, hypertension (high blood pressure), colitis (ulceration of the colon), and heart disease. Actually, these are only the major problems. Lesser health complaints are also frequently stress related. Typical examples include sore muscle, headaches, neck aches, backaches, indigestion, constipation, chronic diarrhea, fatigue, insomnia, premenstrual problems, and sexual dysfunctions. For some of these problems biofeedback may be helpful.

Neither love nor valor can withstand the influence of that sea-demon, [seasickness]. It is estimated that at least half of all patients who see a doctor have a psychosomatic disorder or an illness that is complicated by psychosomatic symptoms. Good and bad events occur in all lives. What separates happy people form those who are unhappy is largely a matter of attitude. Happy people tend to see their lives in more optimistic terms, even when trouble comes their way. For example, happier people tend to find humor in disappointments. They look at setbacks as challenges. They are strengthened by losses. Overall, happiness tends to be related to hardiness. It is a general personal characteristic, not simply a reaction to circumstances. At this point, we have left a basic issue unexplained: How does stress, and our response to it, translate into disease? The answer seems to lie in the body’s defenses against stress, a pattern known as the general adaptation syndrome. Researchers have noticed that the first symptoms of almost any disease or trauma (poisoning, infection, injury, or stress) are almost identical. The body responds in the same way to any stress, be it infection, failure, embarrassment, a new job, trouble at school, or a stormy romance. The G.A.S. consists of three stages: an alarm reaction, a stage of resistance, and a stage of exhaustion.

There is a reason that countries in the tropics tend to suffer disproportionately from deadly infectious disease. The heat and humidity makes it easier for many pathogens to survive and thrive—especially those borne by parasites and insects. That includes malaria, which kills 1 million people a year and afflicts as many as 1 billion people in 109 countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As global temperatures rise, the heat will likely enhance the ability of infected mosquitoes to transmit the disease and widen the geographical distribution of the bugs. Climate change will not be the only factor affecting the spread of malaria—far more important than temperature is the ability of governments to control the disease, which is why the rich tropical country of Singapore has all but wiped out malaria. However, a warmer World will be one in which malaria and other tropical diseases are an even greater threat to the World’s most vulnerable people, and in that day you will ask me nothing. If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your heart, your true inner nature—that is where the problem is.

Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say. However, at that very moment, God said to him: You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?! This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself, but is not rich toward God.  Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And you can expect that as long as you follow his rules, God will provide for you, too. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?