Positive thinking, does it really improve you life?
My socks tell me that today is "Vitality Day", at least for me. They've been telling me positive things ALL week, which gets me to thinking about positive thinking. Does it REALLY make you're life any better? Or is it just a pattern of thinking that affects only how you feel about life?
People talk about how reality starts from the mind, but doesn't that sound a little bit like new age nonsense? Something a "MATRIX" fan would dream up on a high day. Surely reality is all around us, positive thinking can change that as much as chewing gum can affect your electricity bill. Do people who thinking positively have a better life than the rest of us? Or is it just a coincidence?
Research suggests that positive thinking can affect our health and even extend our life span.
http://www.livescience.com/health/ap_051128_placebo.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9806EFDF1538F931A3575AC0A9659C8B63
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-10-12-mind-body_x.htm
But we're still left with the question, does it really improve our quality of life? Does positive thinking make our lives less problematic or more peaceful? I'm kind of on the wall on this one, maybe some kind of mystic karma or just the old rule of thumb that what goes around comes around, causes me to believe that just possibly positive thinking really does give a less problematic life.
I take my own brother as example of this, it seems that no matter what comes along he lands on his feet. I've always put it down to the fact that he had the luck of the Irish, since he takes after my part Irish mother, but it could be that he's always had a happy-go-lucky attitude to life and so has had, so far at the meager years of 22 years old, a happy-go-lucky life.
Hope, and faith are powerful modes of thought. They effect our physical and mental health, so why can't positive thinking do the same on our external life? Reality does not start from the mind, but maybe our own relaxed attitude at life affects those around us, therefore effecting our external life and relationships. I suppose none of us can know for sure if a positive attitude to life saves us from problems in life, but with all the positive research going on, a positive attitude might just save our lives. That's all from me, tell me what you think.
People talk about how reality starts from the mind, but doesn't that sound a little bit like new age nonsense? Something a "MATRIX" fan would dream up on a high day. Surely reality is all around us, positive thinking can change that as much as chewing gum can affect your electricity bill. Do people who thinking positively have a better life than the rest of us? Or is it just a coincidence?
Research suggests that positive thinking can affect our health and even extend our life span.
http://www.livescience.com/health/ap_051128_placebo.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9806EFDF1538F931A3575AC0A9659C8B63
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-10-12-mind-body_x.htm
But we're still left with the question, does it really improve our quality of life? Does positive thinking make our lives less problematic or more peaceful? I'm kind of on the wall on this one, maybe some kind of mystic karma or just the old rule of thumb that what goes around comes around, causes me to believe that just possibly positive thinking really does give a less problematic life.
I take my own brother as example of this, it seems that no matter what comes along he lands on his feet. I've always put it down to the fact that he had the luck of the Irish, since he takes after my part Irish mother, but it could be that he's always had a happy-go-lucky attitude to life and so has had, so far at the meager years of 22 years old, a happy-go-lucky life.
Hope, and faith are powerful modes of thought. They effect our physical and mental health, so why can't positive thinking do the same on our external life? Reality does not start from the mind, but maybe our own relaxed attitude at life affects those around us, therefore effecting our external life and relationships. I suppose none of us can know for sure if a positive attitude to life saves us from problems in life, but with all the positive research going on, a positive attitude might just save our lives. That's all from me, tell me what you think.
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