The Power of Positive Thinking - Can We Literally Will Ourselves to Become Well?

Hi,

This what the Bible teach us about... Utter positive words. The life and death is in the control of the tongue... I really love reading this article...

Cheers,
Phil.
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My own sister-in-law has breast cancer which has spread to the liver. She is a great believer in the power of prayer and positive thinking, plus has had many courses of Chemo including six and a half years of Herceptin. Miraculously she has had multiple tumours on her liver for over 6 years and is still living a full and active life. Her doctor is amazed. It would be hard to say whether it was the amount of horrendously strong drugs, religious belief or positive thinking that has enabled this - most likely a combination of all three.
My main problem with the idea that positive thinking can cure you is that this puts a tremendous amount of pressure on a sick person. If their health deteriorates, is it because they just weren't positive enough, not a good enough Christian, their faith not strong enough. Beware of a God complex. We all have strengths and powers but at the bottom of it we are all human and falliable.
Being positive is very rarely a bad idea. It often helps but don't beat yourself up if it doesn't!

I guess the thought of trying to remain positive is just the thought of trying to make people feel good about any situation they are in, not to cure themselves. I have noticed that if I am sick and I think positively about the situation, I tend to feel better than being depressed about the situation. It is certainly not a cure....just a crutch!

We will all die one day, that is apart of life and I think the meaning of this Share is to tell people how powerful trying to remain positive is to our mental health.

try telling this crap to someone who is really sick --- not a silly cold -- if it were true why do people die... i guess really sick or old people forget to think positively

Thanks anonymous for your answer. No sick days in 5 years is amazing.

I'm not sure about serious illnesses but for the common cold there is nothing worse than to lie in bed and wait to get better. I always go to work and get over my cold in 24 hours. Sleeping too much reduces your metabolic rate and reduces the rate that you recover. Keeping active is tough when you feel sick but you get better quickly.
I haven't taken a sick day in 5 years.

if this is true, and im not saying its not. Would that mean a dr. gives you diseases, and cancers by diagnosing you or suggesting that they might happen by taking or not taking certain actions?

I absolutely believe this is true. I have done this myself. First of all I was told of a technique to conquer pain. Instead of being afraid of the needle or a proceedure
that you know causes pain like dentistry and anesthetic shots, embrace the pain. Do not tense up and expect the pain and then suffer. Instead relax let it happen and feel the pain. This minute you feel the pain and allow yourself to concentrate on the pain, you no longer feel the intensity and then it no longer hurts at all.

It is amazing!!! I miracle of sorts. I use it all the time for headaches, stomach aches, shots, etc. Just the other day I had to go for a mole removal and they told me the injection would sting like a bee. I relaxed and concentrated on the pain and it instantly went away. Just like that. When she gave me the injection for the second mole I never even felt it. There was no burn no sting. I could have fallen asleep.

So the mind is a very powerful thing. It is capable of anything. Since pain centers are in the brain and we have the ability to heal ourselves when we get a cut or scrape then why couldn't we heal ourselves of things like cancer, diabetes, arthritis, etc??

I have often asked myself, when I am tempted to indulge in misery, "What if someone came right now to invite me, right now, to a party?.....would I snap out of this?"
When the answer is, "Probably," I go ahead and snap out of it.