“Nothing is, unless our thinking makes it so”-Shakespeare

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.” ~BUDDHA


c) Think Well
Science has provided incontrovertible evidence that your state of mind profoundly affects the state of your body and vice versa. Scientists talk of the mind body spirit connection. Simply positive brain thoughts promote health whilst negative thoughts promote ill health and disease.

A great illustration of this was a very famous case in the US where a patient was diagnosed with a terminal disease and given 6 months to life. Well 6 months passed and sure enough the patient died, well on autopsy what did they find the patient died from? Nothing! There was absolutely nothing wrong with them! There had been a huge mistake in the original diagnosis. He had literally thought himself dead!

That is quite an extreme case but it perfectly illustrates the importance in the Mind Body connection. You take away hope and you are left with nothing. My own father in law, who had motor neuron disease, is another example he was told he had 12 months to live, and when did he die, 12 months and 1 day after his diagnosis.

As Gandhi said “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”

So negative thoughts are toxic and result in stress and illness. Positive thoughts, on the other hand, push you towards health.

Why is it that our thoughts can be so powerful? The answers lie within Quantum physics – reason being is that everything is energy including your thoughts and as with the basics laws of physics: like attracts like. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions and your actions become your habits.

What is also very important is that your brain cannot process a negative, so if I tell you not to think about a blue car what are you thinking about? Exactly, you are thinking about a blue car. Another classic example of this is with kids, you tell them “don’t fall” and what do they do? They fall. Their brains cannot understand a negative. Or learning to drive, don’t hit the kerb, crash!

So always focus on positive things such as health NOT sickness. If you are continually telling yourself “I will never be rid of this back pain.” You are exactly right!

Your mind is like the Genie from Aladdin and the Lamp – Your wish is my command! Energy flows where attention goes!

Henry Ford once said “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right”. It is so true! There are so many examples in the literature of patients literally thinking themselves well.

We all have so much stress in our lives yet so much of it is needless! So many of us live our lives either in the past or in the future! Well living in the past is much like driving a car from Fermoy to Cork by continually looking in the rear view mirror. How far would you get? Exactly, not far! Whereas constantly living in the future is living in never ending anticipation. Yet the time is now so live life now!

So what else can you do to help you think well? Basically anything that exercises your mind! Science has shown that reading, crosswords, playing scrabble all these past times are healthy pursuits. Learn a foreign language! Do a night class. Just exercise your mind and SWITCH OFF THE TV!

And also like your body your mind needs adequate rest. Anyone who says they can survive on less than 6 hours sleep a night is deluding themselves - Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, both suffered from dementia and other mental diseases. So get adequate sleep.