Power of the mind in feeling good!

Posted by admin on February 26th, 2009 filed in General

Power of the mind in feeling good!

It is surprising just how much our own mind and thoughts control both our physical health and our emotional health. It has long been established that the power of positive thought is immense. Cancers have been beaten, terminal illnesses overcome and depression cured all from the changing a mindset. Negative thought actually does have a physiological reaction on our bodies, it lowers our immune system making our bodies struggle to fight infection and illness. Positive thought has been shown to increase our abilities to fight illnesses and make our bodies stronger. How often have you seen a negative thought individual get ill in comparison to a positive person – my guess would be far more frequently!

You may be saying that you cannot help it if you get negative thoughts, well that is just not true. All of us have that little inner voice that runs a monologue inside our minds. We are the ones that control how that voice is orientated! You can have your own personal cheer squad if you can focus on retraining your inner voice to being positive and reinforcing rather than negative. It is not easy at first, you will often find that your inner voice will start to berate you when something goes wrong and you just have to refocus that voice to look at the situation differently and praise you instead. Take for example you make a mistake at work. Rather than allowing your personal monologue to comment on how you are stupid and it was a silly error to make – change it! Let it complement you on how you handled the error and that now you know not to make that mistake again. See – it’s easy! With practise this can be automatic and you will find you are a much happier and healthier person!

Gail Davie