ABSTRACT
Buckworth and Dishman pointed out that as long ago as 1899 William James said that ‘our muscular vigor will ... always be needed to furnish the background of sanity, and cheerfulness to life, to give moral elasticity to our dispositions, to round off the wiry edge of our fretfulness, and make us good-humoured’ (Buckworth and Dishman 2002: 91). Maybe now we are ready to listen to this message!
