Hans Selye
Hans Selye
János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye, CC, was a pioneering Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist of Hungarian origin. He conducted much important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors. Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response. Charlotte Gerson considers him the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth26 January 1907
CountryCanada
Fight for your highest attainable aim/ But never put up resistance in vain.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
To be totally without stress is to be dead.
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.
Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.
It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.