How Far Can Positive Thoughts Take You?

Shanel Perry

The power of positive thinking has become one of the hottest topics in recent years providing happiness, good health, success, wealth and more and it has been said to be one of the most powerful assets you can have in today's cut throat world.  It can directly affect ones physical health and has been linked to pain reduction and life span. Your body is controlled by your brain and positive energy will stimulate through the body.  In 1963, a study of 2,280 men were tested for their optimism or pessimism and their link with heart disease.  In 1986, 1,306 of the men were tested again, showing that pessimistic men were 50% more likely to get heart disease than those who were optimistic.  A Toronto study has also proven that thoughts affect the way visual systems can filter our perception.

"Those with positive attitudes had more information coming into their visual cortexes than those with negative attitudes. Pessimistic people literally have tunnel vision! Optimism allows the brain to take in more information and process more of your environment." 

So open your eyes a little and remember that you are capable of doing anything you set your mind to.

Steps to Positive Thinking: 

1.  You have to expect good things to happen.  This is something that you can't cheat, you have to actually believe that what you want is going to come to you.  Visualize something that you want to achieve or where you see yourself in 5 or 10 years or even just next week.  This is called the "law of attraction."  Do not second guess a potential opportunity with negativity, believe and most importantly, don't let fear get in the way of your happiness or dreams.

2. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones.  Even if a negative thought crosses your mind just for a second, take a minute and refocus on a positive thought.

3.  One of the most important steps to positive thinking is making sure you surround yourself with positive people.   Pessimists can bring you down and suck the positivity out of you, so move on and find optimistic people.



Source: http://phys.org/news163244296.html