Rochester Healthy Living

3 True Stories of Positive Thinking and Becoming More Healthy

Positive thinking will help impact your health in a positive way. Negative thinking will also help impact your health in a negative way. The first story is a story of a mutual friend who was seeing a mental health professional. They were having some issues in their life and needed some help from a mental healthprofessional. The patient immediately started listening to the motivational tapes and thinking about how she was once successful in business and life. After a period of two months being depressed all the time, she to be advice and started listening to the motivational tapes. Someone then gave this man's motivational tapes for him to listen to. Your attitude in life, positive or negative, will impact your health in all areas. Are you willing to change to help your health?

Wellness is the pursuit of the best health possible through fit body, balanced mind and peaceful spirit.

Increase self esteem, self worth, optimism and confidence

Help forget your own physical or emotional pain

Help decrease stress and acts as a stress release

Improve immune response

Decrease feelings of depression and self doubt

Increase sense of balance and over all well being

So lets look at stress.

Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. Our bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood when there is a new demand on it.

These chemicals either give us more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if the stress is caused by physical danger, or a bad thing, if the stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength.

So basically good stress is when we have a demand on us and our body produces the chemicals to help us deal with this demand. An example of bad stress is worrying. Some common stresses today are survival stress, internal stress, environmental stress & work stress. People under large amounts of stress can become tired, sick, and unable to concentrate or think clearly. We need to find ways to release this stress.

Exercise

Some common stresses today are survival stress, internal stress, environmental stress & work stress. Improve immune response.

If we reduce our stress, we automatically improve our immune response.

Next we need adequate sleep, it is during sleep that our body repairs itself and our immune response increases. Three: Decrease feeling of depression and self doubt.

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CBT is a wonderful tool for dealing with self doubt.

Increase self esteem, self worth, optimism and confidence. As we decrease depression & self doubt we also increase self worth and optimism.

What is self Esteem?

Number Five: This is another big one, help forget your own emotional and physical pain.

Studies have found that nature has a wonderful healing effect.

Credit: University of Rochester

If you are at work ask them to put up a nature image where you can see it from your desk or even put a nature image on your computer as your desktop and take time to look at this and really imagine yourself there.

If you're like me, the quest to be in shape, manage weight and overall well-being, at times, feels overwhelming. And, as if the quest to be fit isn't hard enough, there's often other obstacles to overcome: health issues, time management, mustering up courage or energy. Even if you've been exercising for a long time, there's always new barriers to be broken. Tom would know. Principle #1 Move into the Fear.

If you can visualize creatively, then you can put your fears in check. Remember: your body loves you and has the potential to heal itself to perfection. Principle #2 Trust Your Intuition.

"Regardless if a person can walk or not, obstacles are as unique as people themselves. Next, Tom tells me he aims to meet those boundaries.

What then, about fear? If we move into the fear and meet it eye to eye what if fear meets us there? "So," I asked Tom: "are you ever afraid?

"After 19 operations in my life, I've really come to terms with fear," he says. "It really comes down to our most primal fear; fear of death. The bottom line: Staying afraid often keeps us from truly living.

Tom reminds me that a positive attitude is key, "Life is all about attitude." Make today the right time to face them.

In conclusion: Life Beyond The Boundaries.

When you've faced your fears and pushed your boundaries to the edges, what then? Tom smiles. "It's what makes life fun. Learn from them. Set goals, climb mountains!