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Health can be contagious

Health can be contagious

     I remember my Aunt Trudy.  Whenever she was in the room, people were always laughing.  She knew how to make people laugh.  Her humor was never hurtful, although sometimes self-deprecating.  Her laughter lit up the room and was contagious.

     We’ve all known people like Trudy, whose joy and wit make others happy.  Their humor is catching.  Smile at someone, they smile back.  A smile can be contagious - so can anger, gossip, worry, and fear.  The best and the worst of human emotions can easily travel from one person to another.

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     But what about health?  Can health be transmittable?  We all hear about infectious diseases and how they spread.  Can health spread?

  Well, let’s consider this. If our thought effects our health – and it does – then it is not such a big leap to understand that qualities of thought that tend to make us healthier, can be spread from one individual to another – producing similar

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