Monday 30 August 2010

HOSTILITY WILL HURT YOU

Does any of the following describes you?

1 sarcastic, cynical and filled with bitter humour
2 biting in your criticism of others
3 untrusting and suspicious of others
4 defensive, paranoid and self-protective
4 'self-focussed'rather than '"other focussed"
5 lacking in tolerance for the behaviour of others
6 turned off to other's conern, caring, or nuturing
7 bitter over real or imagined negative treatment you've received from others
8 quick to attack others for their real or imagined faults and failings
9 inwardly outraged over the unfairness of life
10 hide behind a wall or shield, unwilling to allow others into your life
11 feel like a bomb ready to be detonated

If you can identify with many of the above descriptions, you may be suffering from a dangerous emotional sydrome - hostility. Hostility not only hurts you and the people close to you, it can also kill.

Extracted from the book entitled EMOTIONAL FITNESS:coping skills for the ups & downs in life

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