Healthy Workout for the Mind Part 2
In my Healthy Workout for the Mind Part 1, I covered how the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind work together to cause not only the way you feel but also your state of health, immune system and levels of energy. In this healthy workout for the mind part two, I’ll cover how by changing your state of mind can have a profound effect upon your state of health.
I already outlined how having a negative outlook on life can cause negative feelings and emotions which have a direct effect on the way the subconscious mind runs your body as a whole. It can slow down your metabolic rate, affect your fat and body mass index, suppress your immune system and retard new cell production and growth. All this can lead to a less healthy body.
But this sorry state of affairs can be turned around quickly and easily.
All you need to do is change your mood. If you think that is easier said than done, think again. It is as easy as changing what your predominant thoughts are about. If you’re watching news stories all about how bad it is in certain parts of your country or in the world in general, or how frustrating your local bureaucracy is in fixing something that you believe can be fixed easily, or you’re reading a newspaper filled with doom and gloom stories, then your predominant thoughts are negative ones, filled with anger and frustration.
Why?
I mean why are you putting yourself through all that misery?
Is there anything you can do about any of it? Chances are there are not. So why get yourself all upset about things you can do nothing about?
What you’re doing is making yourself miserable, unhappy, angry, frustrated etc filling your thoughts with negative things and charging your emotions with negative feelings. All you will get from this is ill health and a degradation of your overall fitness and it could seriously shorten your life expectancy.
If you think that is far fetched, you are wrong. There is a lot of research into the effects of our emotions on our health that has been done over the last few decade and continues being carried out right now. Most of the conclusions are that continued negative emotions do depreciate overall health. If your health is negatively affected, then your life expectancy is reduced and susceptibility to illnesses increased.
All this is controlled by your emotions.
So to turn this on its head, having good emotions have the opposite effect on our health. Our metabolism improves, immune system improves, new cell creation and growth increases and our overall health and fitness edge becomes much better. When our overall health is better, we are less prone to contracting illnesses because our immune systems are much more efficient at fighting off infections, viral and bacterial attacks etc. Being less susceptible to illnesses naturally increases our life expectancy.
So how do you turn your emotions around from gloomy to happy?
Easy. Don’t watch the news on TV and don’t read newspapers for a start. They are full of predominantly gloomy stories because, surprise surprise, that’s what most people want to read about or watch! Good news doesn’t sell newspapers! Disasters and human tragedy increases sales exponentially. Its true!
That means most people prefer to learn about all the bad things that are going on in the world. And they are all damaging their health because of it. No its not nonsense, its fact.
To turn your own emotions around, all you have to do is think about something really nice, like a really happy memory you have, or a person you love, or a beautiful piece of music, or a particularly funny scene in a comedy movie you saw and keep that thought predominantly in your mind. I guarantee your emotional state will change for the better quickly and you’ll catch yourself smiling.
Do this on a regular basis and your predominant thoughts will lift out of the gloom into a much happier place. Your health, if deteriorated will begin to improve over time. This technique can be used to help you fight illnesses and even cancer can be sent into remission by a change in your emotional state.
If this is all too much for you to take in and believe, do some research for yourself. Look up cases of people beating illnesses without any medical reason and see just how many there are. Read about how people with terminal cancer went into remission causing their doctors, who may have given them obly a short time to live, to scratch their heads in disbelief.
Start to believe.
Belief is a powerful thing and goes hand in hand with faith. Whern you see the evidence before you, even though it may not be scientific, its there in spades for you to find and cannot be ignored.
A happy person generally lives longer and more healthily than a sad person.
Be a happy person!
