The most potent weapon for achieving health is that of the mind!

The most potent weapon for achieving health is that of our mind.

Scientific research today shows us that the mind and the way we think is crucial for achieving good health, and living a healthy life.  Amazingly tests carried out when a patient is under clinical hypnosis show that someone who is told that they are being burned by a red hot object will physically produce a blister, even though the object they were touched with was at room temperature.  This happened simply because the patients believed that it would occur.

Current medical research goes as far as to suggest that up to 70% of successful treatments may be completely based on the understanding that the patient believes that the treatment will work.  We also know that stress has a huge factor in creating negative thoughts and feelings that are harmful to the body, as stress floods our body with negative chemical messages which can and do adversely affect our health, both mentally and physically.

 The mind is our most potent weapon in the battle for health.  By thinking healthily and believing that we can attain optimal health we literally flood our bodies with healing and feel good chemicals, which help us to lead a healthy life.  Believing that we can be healthy is key to this.  Ultimately whatever we think and believe in is what we experience in our daily lives.  Therefore thinking positive and healthy thoughts is crucial to our wellbeing, and ultimately our health.

Here are a few ways for you to adjust your mindset to promote good health.  Take a deep breath hold it excel it then repeat this for five to ten minutes.  Take a walk out in the countryside and immerse yourself in nature breathing in the beautiful fresh air.  Laugh a lot - when you do you allow more oxygen into your lungs improving your heart rate and boosting your immune system.  Writing a diary about emotionally charged events can also help you to understand deal with them after they occur.  Physically spend time with people, chat and have fun.  All of these will dramatically increase your sense of wellbeing when you repeat they daily over time.

 Also, be aware of where your energy is going.  If you're spending a lot of time thinking negative thoughts be aware that these could be contributing directly to ill health.  Think about things you enjoy doing and things that make you happy.  Visualize doing these things again and experience the feelings you felt when you did them for real - your body chemistry will change in a hugely beneficial way as a result.  Visualize again doing the things that you loved as a child in order to re-stimulate your body to react in a positive way.  Thinking positively can really help you to live a healthy and full life, and you can use these positive affirmations to help you to focus your thoughts on achieving optimal health.

 When you read these Positive affirmations, you will see that some of them are affirming about actions, for example, “I eat a balanced and healthy diet”.  Now the point of this positive affirmation is that when you affirm it you also need to take the necessary action in your life in order to achieve what it says.  There is not point affirming that you eat a healthy diet when you know that you don’t.  Unless you are prepared to take the action behind the affirmation, then all the affirming you can do will not help you achieve the goal within this positive affirmation.  Acting with intention to achieve is how affirmations work so well, firstly you focus your mind, and then you act with the intention to achieve it. 

Once you get your thoughts in order, then achieving becomes easy, as you act in line with your thoughts.  When your thoughts and actions are in line with each other, you are being true to yourself.  This harmony and integrity will allow you to focus even more on having healthy thoughts, and as you act in accordance with them, then you will begin to leader an even healthier life.  As you move forward in this way you become successful.  This is the true power of the mind, that thinking about what we want to experience and following it through with intention ultimately creates success.  It all begins with just a thought.  So make sure your thoughts are what you want them to be!  I wish you every success, and great health!

 

The above extract is taken from by soon to be released book called Positive Affirmations for Health!

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