Principle 7: Positive Thinking Can Promote Good Health

Our beliefs create a unique biology within us which creates behavior. This relationship is cause and effect. It is equally true that changes in behavior cause changes in biology which directly cause us to change our beliefs.

The Law: Optimize Healthy Beliefs and Behaviors. Expect Speedy Healing.

Years ago, anyone who suggested that one’s emotional state caused heart disease, cancer or arthritis was mocked, laughed at, and publicly ridiculed.

These old intransient traditionalists are now dead; the new generation has arrived proffering new prisms of inquiry and backing it with solid data. Yes, your emotions matter. What you think does affect your biology which then affects your behavior and given the encouragement or the ultimatum, the reverse is equally true: behavior creates biology creates beliefs.

As a physician, I try hard to convince individuals to correct bad thinking, smile and laugh. When I am successful, they are successful. They get better and often heal themselves from headaches, insomnia and even fibromyalgia.

As a physician, I also get pretty rough on some people, particularly those who smoke, are overweight, or who are breakfast skippers. I have, on occasions, said that I would not treat them (give them their pain pills) if they didn’t change these behaviors. When I have been successful, they often heal their headaches, insomnia and yes, even their fibromyalgia.

Does this surprise you? It really seems almost like common sense now, and easier to explain than cell phones or wireless internet. We need to guard our thoughts and regulate our behaviors. Beliefs create biology create behavior and behavior creates biology creates beliefs.  We must know with conviction that angst, anger and animosity breed disease and smoke, smelly food, and still feet do not sustain vital life.

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