The contribution of negotiation to quality of life

Negotiation and the peaceful solution of problems and differences have been evaluated in many ways, cultures such as Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, among others, can be observed, where citizens have as a primary mechanism to find peaceful ways to maintain their coexistence, using the negotiation, mediation or conciliation as your first option.

Among the benefit factors are: lower costs, decongestion of the courts and tribunals, better indicators for a country and/or a company, balance at the family level and better relations with the neighborhoods; In short, there are many gains for the community and society when we disarm ourselves mentally and are encouraged to solve our problems through natural means and decide to negotiate.

Among many macro factors that are measured, I would like to lean today, to observe one of the ones with the greatest impact and that perhaps is not observed or studied with the importance it deserves, I want to refer to health, and the question it could be: How much does negotiating, mediating or reconciling our problems and differences impact health?

Conflict-related professions have high levels of stress, some studies classify military personnel, firefighters, airplane pilots, police officers, judges, lawyers and doctors within the professions that present exhaustion and mental health problems, all of this could help us to raise the need to lower the stress levels that are making the population sick, according to the World Health Organization’s own reports.

The conclusion is that stress levels make people sick, additionally it has been confirmed that part of our aging is due to them. Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2009, discovered that in the cell where our chromosomes are found, each one has a kind of cap called a telomere, which, as cell division occurs, shortens the telomere and the cell dies. cell.

The great contribution of Dr. Blackburn was that she found something she called Telomerase, an enzyme in cells that helps them stay vital, since they add DNA to telomeres. Imagine the laces of the shoes and the protectors that they have on the tips. If they are shortened, the lace frays, something similar happens to the cell, consequently, the cell dies, and as a result our life too.

And you will say and what does this have to do with negotiation, mediation and peaceful conflict resolution, it is very simple, it has been shown that if we resort to those forms the stress levels are better, and consequently the contribution of negotiating by the peaceful way contributes to health and lengthens the life of our cells.