Successful and healthy people have one thing in common, they have a zest for life powered by a positive attitude. Research has also shown that a positive mental attitude can also mean the difference between life and death for people diagnosed with terminal ailments.
To be happy, you need a deep inner conviction that you can shape your own happiness and you don’t need to feel helpless and at the mercy of fate. The zest for life is an important element when it comes to staying healthy. You need to feel that you can take an active role in driving through the potholes in life. You need to be the master of your own pleasure, enjoyment and happiness, but also have the ability to come to terms with crisis and failures. People who have an optimistic outlook in life, especially in trying times, have a good health protection factor.
Your inner attitude is your best bet when you need to overcome crisis in your life. That conviction within you that you can overcome problems with your own strength or with the help of other people. Psychologists have determined that successful people tend to credit themselves and their own abilities when they attain their goals, but they attribute their failures to external factors. For instance, if they succeed in passing an examination, they know this is a result of their talent and learning while weak results on a test are attributed to adverse consequences.
Successful people acknowledge their own shortcomings. For example if a person has a poor memory, they can take time to learn memory and study skills to improve their memory and help them cope with their study load. They understand their own strengths and weaknesses and make the effort to fortify their weaknesses and accelerate their learning ability with memory training. In other words, self-honesty is vital and the next step is to take remedial action. At the same time, people with a low level of self-esteem will tend to feel the opposite. If they accomplish something successfully, they will attribute their success to luck or other favourable external circumstances and coincidences, while they believe that their failures are due to their own inadequacies or lack of ability. In situation of crisis, an attitude like this, which is characterised by doubt in their own abilities, can easily lead to resignation, apathy or even depression.
“Our thoughts maketh us” and some of our thought patterns can bring us to the edge of despair and helplessness. Consider such negative generalisations such as; “I’m not good enough” or “I always have such bad luck”. If you show such negative attitude and feel that “this will not get better”, it can have a demoralising effect and make you feel more helpless. These attitudes are commonly found in depressive people.
Because of this, you should think positively to counter low moods or periods of melancholy. If you feel you are sinking into despair, first try to regain your composure by breathing deeply. Then it is time for positive thoughts. “I can fix this” or “No problem too big”. Tell yourself that the situation is not as bad as it looks. This will help you gain some perspective. If you look at the problem with some objectivity and detachment, you may find that the situation is not as bad as it first appears or things could be much worse. Any negative situation will lead to a positive results in the end. Attempt to find out what kind of “coping mechanism” work best for you. These remedies may appear to you as overly simplistic, but they can make you feel optimistic and encourage you to regain your strength and tackle the problem actively.
Just as negative thoughts or psychic influences can harm your body, positive thoughts and attitudes support the healing process. Knowing this, some of the sensational reports on miraculous healings and unexplained recovery of terminally ill patients we read in the papers start to make sense. In the scientific world, such cases are known as “spontaneous healings” There are cases in which cancer patients diagnosed as terminally ill have suddenly recovered and their tumours have disappeared, and doctors are unable to explain their healings. A research institute in California has registered thousands of such cases over many years. However, spontaneous healings are extremely rare, and it remains a phenomenon requiring much more investigation and research. In the meantime scientists are looking for the psychological keys that lead to spontaneous healings.
Research has indicated that cases of spontaneous healings-no matter how different their circumstances are, had one thing in common: the patients that are involved had dramatically changed their lifestyle after learning about their fatal ailments. They reviewed their priorities in life, putting less emphasis on things that were previously thought as important. For example, wealth, status in life and material possessions. They followed a healthier diet and lifestyle. They refuse to accept their “death sentence” and instead fought their way back to health both physically, mentally and spiritually. This would not be possible if a healthy, positive attitude had not been in place. So, if life puts you down, think positively. Something good always come out in every situation, no matter how bleak it may seem at the moment.
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