How Your Thoughts Affect Your Health
Do you know how your thoughts directly affect your physical well-being?
Your body is the physical part of your being designed to experience the world through your senses, feelings, and emotions.
Your body allows you to live within this physical dimension of reality and it is directly connected to your mind and soul.
To attain the highest possible state of well-being, you need to achieve consistency and balance between your body, mind, and soul.
When this occurs and you have positive thoughts about yourself, your body and your life, in general, feel reinforced and activate mechanisms that contribute to better health without you even realizing it.
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1. Watch this YouTube video:2. Listen to this episode of the You Are All You Need podcast (available on any podcast streaming service)
3. Continue reading this article :)
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The same happens with exercise and physical movement.
When we activate our body and move it -whether this is walking, running, jumping, dancing, skating, etcetera- this sends a series of chemical responses to our brain which causes a sensation of pleasure and well-being, which to a large extent helps create a calmer mind and avoids or reduces problems such as stress, anxiety, and depression.
It has been scientifically proven that your thoughts can cause you to become sick.
Problems that are common in today’s society, such as stress, depression, or anxiety, are proof of this, and can easily result in physical problems in our bodies such as muscular pains, ulcers, eczema, autoimmune diseases, digestive problems, and a long list of diseases that have their roots in our very thoughts, or our mind.
Depending on the information that you send your mind through the perception you have of the world and yourself, your mind interprets this and sets into motion mechanisms in the brain to align as closely as possible with that external perception you have.
So, every thought you have physically causes a direct chemical reaction in your body.
If your perception and your thoughts are negative, certain neurotransmitters in the brain activate and conduct the information to your body causing certain negative physical reactions such as palpitations, stomach pain, muscular pain, headaches and so on..
In other words, your thoughts effectively have the power to make you ill.
To prove this, you can do a simple visualization exercise.
Close your eyes, take several deep breaths and vividly create in your mind a very negative situation that you have experienced in the past, or simply a negative situation that you imagine could happen in your life in the future (the loss of a loved one, an accident, illness, losing your job, a very stressful moment).
Make it real in your mind, visualize it, live it, and let the feelings that come flow. Keep your eyes closed for a few moments with this image in your mind and analyze the sensations you can feel in your body for a moment.
The most likely is that you will notice a general sensation of tension, maybe faster palpitations of your heart, perhaps nerves or anxiety in the chest or stomach area, you may even feel like you want to cry.
All these physical sensations have been created from something that doesn't exist: merely thinking about these situations that were or will never be. Despite this, these thoughts have the capacity to physically affect you in the present, directly impacting your body.
If you try the same exercise but by bringing positive situations into your mind that make you feel joy, happiness, kindness, and affection…, the physical responses that you will obtain will be totally different.
A simple exercise like this shows how effective the power of our mind, and our thoughts can be. It is enormous when making ourselves healthy and filling us with energy and vitality or totally the opposite.
However, quite often we are not fully aware of the huge amount of negative thoughts that we have in our mind and how they are negatively affecting our body.
They can even be acquired beliefs and thought patterns that have been functioning for years on autopilot in your mind, and this causes a continuous internal imbalance which is only possible to CHANGE with a conscious attitude and by carrying out daily exercises to calm the mind and train new neuronal connections that send a message of love, friendship, respect, and compassion toward yourself and your body.
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I left my job as a teacher in 2015 to start an online education company with my husband that nowadays has over 8,000 students with a turnover of seven figures. I want to share with you how to achieve your best self.
How Your Thoughts Affect Your Health
Do you know how your thoughts directly affect your physical well-being?
Your body is the physical part of your being designed to experience the world through your senses, feelings, and emotions.
Your body allows you to live within this physical dimension of reality and it is directly connected to your mind and soul.
To attain the highest possible state of well-being, you need to achieve consistency and balance between your body, mind, and soul.
When this occurs and you have positive thoughts about yourself, your body and your life, in general, feel reinforced and activate mechanisms that contribute to better health without you even realizing it.
....
Really quick: there are actually 3 ways to enjoy this article:
1. Watch this YouTube video:2. Listen to this episode of the You Are All You Need podcast (available on any podcast streaming service)
3. Continue reading this article :)
....
The same happens with exercise and physical movement.
When we activate our body and move it -whether this is walking, running, jumping, dancing, skating, etcetera- this sends a series of chemical responses to our brain which causes a sensation of pleasure and well-being, which to a large extent helps create a calmer mind and avoids or reduces problems such as stress, anxiety, and depression.
It has been scientifically proven that your thoughts can cause you to become sick.
Problems that are common in today’s society, such as stress, depression, or anxiety, are proof of this, and can easily result in physical problems in our bodies such as muscular pains, ulcers, eczema, autoimmune diseases, digestive problems, and a long list of diseases that have their roots in our very thoughts, or our mind.
Depending on the information that you send your mind through the perception you have of the world and yourself, your mind interprets this and sets into motion mechanisms in the brain to align as closely as possible with that external perception you have.
So, every thought you have physically causes a direct chemical reaction in your body.
If your perception and your thoughts are negative, certain neurotransmitters in the brain activate and conduct the information to your body causing certain negative physical reactions such as palpitations, stomach pain, muscular pain, headaches and so on..
In other words, your thoughts effectively have the power to make you ill.
To prove this, you can do a simple visualization exercise.
Close your eyes, take several deep breaths and vividly create in your mind a very negative situation that you have experienced in the past, or simply a negative situation that you imagine could happen in your life in the future (the loss of a loved one, an accident, illness, losing your job, a very stressful moment).
Make it real in your mind, visualize it, live it, and let the feelings that come flow. Keep your eyes closed for a few moments with this image in your mind and analyze the sensations you can feel in your body for a moment.
The most likely is that you will notice a general sensation of tension, maybe faster palpitations of your heart, perhaps nerves or anxiety in the chest or stomach area, you may even feel like you want to cry.
All these physical sensations have been created from something that doesn't exist: merely thinking about these situations that were or will never be. Despite this, these thoughts have the capacity to physically affect you in the present, directly impacting your body.
If you try the same exercise but by bringing positive situations into your mind that make you feel joy, happiness, kindness, and affection…, the physical responses that you will obtain will be totally different.
A simple exercise like this shows how effective the power of our mind, and our thoughts can be. It is enormous when making ourselves healthy and filling us with energy and vitality or totally the opposite.
However, quite often we are not fully aware of the huge amount of negative thoughts that we have in our mind and how they are negatively affecting our body.
They can even be acquired beliefs and thought patterns that have been functioning for years on autopilot in your mind, and this causes a continuous internal imbalance which is only possible to CHANGE with a conscious attitude and by carrying out daily exercises to calm the mind and train new neuronal connections that send a message of love, friendship, respect, and compassion toward yourself and your body.
----
Ready To Upgrade?
➡️ If you enjoyed this article, you’ll find a much deeper analysis on how to start living a life full of passion and purpose in my book You Are Already Everything You Need
➡️ Click here to download the first four episodes of my book for free
➡️ Join the 20-Day Challenge in my podcast You Are All You Need and start walking together this journey of self-transformation
