Effects of Positive Thinking on Health

Positive thinking or what we call, being optimistic, helps us in overcoming stress and could even help u improve our health. Positive thinking simply means being able to approach the ugliness of life in a useful, productive and a more positive way. As an individual, we should not waste our time struggling on the unpleasant things of life. Instead, we should think on how to make that bitter situation into something that will be useful to us.

Self – talk is the unlimited river of thoughts running inside your head every second of the day. Self – talk can wither be positive or negative. These thoughts are acquired from logical and reasoning. Also, these thoughts can be acquired through the misinterpretation that we make from the lack of information and facts.

If the self –talk running inside the head are mostly negative, then our life will run in a pessimistic way. People like that are called pessimist. Approaching life in a negative way. On the other hand, if the self –talk are mostly positive, then our life will run optimistically. People this way are called optimist.

There are studies relating to the effects of positive thinking into an individual’s health. These studies shown that positive thinking can provide the following effects.

Lower rates of depression. Obviously, if an individual is too much busy thinking about how hopeless life is, his mind will then be in a state of stress and would not be able to function properly. Stress can also cause depression. Unlike an optimist, being able to approach life in a more productive way without thinking how it is hard to survive, he’ll then start to think of ways on how to encounter it and eventually, be able to overcome hardship which could help him in a major way.

If an individual is an optimist, he can live his life up to his 150’s. Positive thinking can be likely compared to the Law of Attraction. According to that said law, one way to attract the most you want for life is by wanting or needing it. The more you want something, then the more you attract its energy. Likewise, if an individual thinks positively, he’ll be able to attract positive energies that will help him greatly.

Positive thinking can contribute much to our health especially when it is positive. Thus, always think positively to be able to live life happily and more lively.