How wealth affects our health and well-being

There is no doubt that wealth affects our health and well-being. With far more money comes a greadt reduction in stress. Having our needs more than adequately provided for opens up our mind in far more positive ways, allowing us to experience life better, as we easily acquire new products and services, as well as travelling far more often. With wealth comes a far more relaxed lifestyle. The usual '9-5' grind disappears, unless you have to work longer hours to maintain it, and it's not just there in plentiful and far more abundant results that doesn't necessarily need hard work to service it.

With the daily grind for most part removed, wealthy people do indeed see the world from a far different perspective; they become far more enlightened and knowledgeable in many aspects of their 'new' and 'enhanced' life. But even saying that, after achieving that wealth, new stresses can result. Stock market and money market pressures can weaken and inflate your investments. The new pressures could be in losing it, and even in maintaining it. After all, living a far more affluent lifestyle can easily drain one's riches before one's eyes. This can cause an increase in stress and anxiety. Even in good economic times-there's still a great chance that a wealthy individual can loose everything-or at least a substantial part of it.

So, exchanging one stress for another can happen, still affecting health and well-being. Becoming too tied into a very affluent lifestyle can have serious ramifications for an individual, if suddenly he or she loses everything. Being wealthy can easily do that. There are huge risks associated with it-with good and bad stresses. Wealth can make us feel beyond exhiliration, adding years to our life, in a profound re-discovery of our world through the eyes of somebody suddenly blessed with great wealth.

It can be excellent for health, with a far better diet, and the profound re-discovery to look forward to every day. But it can also be bad for health, with a far more decadent lifestyle observed. Overall, wealth is incredibly beneficial to most of us. But it does have a dark and sinister side that can be far more detrimental to health and well-being than just an ordinary working Joe and Jane who may acquire these luxury items and lifestyle at a much longer rate. But is happier and healthier because they are getting there one step at a time.