Thinking positively helps almost every aspect of your life. It makes you feel better, it makes you more likeable and it makes you mind less when things go wrong. One perk that most people don’t recognise is that it can actually have a positive effect on your health outside your mind as well. So if you go out into the world thinking as well as you can, you might just live longer as well as better.
perspective, perspective reduces stress.
Behavioural Effects of Positivity
Acting like a happy person is actually really healthy. Happy people are motivated, they don’t get put off their food, they sleep, they clean their homes and surroundings and they socialise with others. All of these things are good for your health. In short, positive people take better care of themselves. Simple as that.
Stress Related Illnesses
One of the biggest pieces of advice doctors give people when they are unwell is ‘reduce stress’. Stress related illnesses are common and can be horrible. Stress leads to a lack of ability to eat, drink, even sleep correctly. Being unable to maintain a simple upkeep on your own body is a real problem and you might not even notice that you’re doing it. Keeping a positive outlook keeps things in perspective, perspective reduces stress.
Blood Pressure
Blood pressure is tied into stress related illnesses, but serious enough that it deserves its own category. As you grow older a stressed, angry, negative life is one of the biggest causes of high blood pressure. The stress and temper issues build up over your lifespan and you end up with blood pressure issues. Keeping calm, positive, even happy, will allow you reduce your blood pressure without doing annoying things like changing your diet.
Humours Effects on a Body
Humour is one of the most amazing things you can do for your body. It might seem silly but keeping a good positive sense of humour will hold off a number of things. Keeping yourself happy and positive will increase cell function throughout the body. It will allow your body to oxygenate and repair itself better and assist you in building up your immune system and resisting diseases.
Energy
One of the biggest problems with depression is the fact that you lose your energy quickly. Positivity effects that in pretty much the opposite way. A positive person’s body processes essential chemicals more efficiently and burns energy less. This effectively allows you to do more and burn energy less, all that for the price of a smile.
Obviously these aren’t the only benefits and a person wishing to find out more should contact a psychologist, books, or websites like www.talkingminds.com.au for information on the effects of positivity and support on methods to remain positive. Staying happy will allow you to do more without making yourself sick, and to live longer and happier.
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too much stress can lead to depression. looking into the brighter side through positive thinking can lessen health problems and ageing as well hehe
I agree with you. With me, positive thinking opens up my mind and heart to more options in life. Problems comes and go, by thinking positively, it’ll help us focus on finding the solution.
Positive thinking is easy to do. And we can avoid stressful things like anxiety. I hate stress!
We all need to think positive in order to live a healthy lifestyle. I totally agree that stress relates to a lot of illnesses. That’s why I am trying not to get stress out too much.
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Yes! definitely positive thinking makes life easier. We might have problems in life that some are very impossible to tackle but we need to take a break and enjoy life.
Positive thinking and attitude does so much in a better outlook in life. THat is one thing that I will forever owe to my mother, she taught me that.
I used to worry over the littlest of things. I’ve read the book The Secret and have helped me a lot. Now, I always see the bright side of things.:)
it’s a very refreshing post. having faith in God helps me to be positive on my outlook in life. when problems come, i tend to worry but I always remember this phrase “why worry if you can pray?”
to stay positive, it needs discipline on mind setting, faith in God and being hopeful that there’s always a rainbow after a storm:)
That’s why I always keep a positive mindset. positive mindset = happiness.
This is something I wholeheartedly agree. 🙂 I know how positivity changes things – like really. I always tell that to my friends too. It’s not just the thought but the feeling you have too!
I try to be a positive thinker all the time and I think it really helps you relax.
This post is very new to me and it helps me to think positive in many ways. I used to be very pessimist before but when I lived with my husband I learned that thingking negative gives you unhealthy life..
this is definitely true, however, the hard part for me is to keep thinking positive. these have been explained well in famous books like “The Secret” as well, after all, if we do attract positive vibes the more we invite it to come into are life! 🙂