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Positive Thinking
Positive thinking and a positive attitude are necessary to help you become healthy. There are negative effects on your health if you do not have a positive attitude or do not think positively. Thoughts can create stress in our life, and it’s been documented that stress negatively affects health in many ways. Research shows that around 87% of illness can be attributed to our thought life, and approximately 13% to diet, genetics, and environment.
Studies conclusively link more chronic diseases (also known as life-style diseases) to an epidemic of toxic emotions in our culture. These toxic emotions can cause migraines, hypertension, strokes, cancer, skin problems, diabetes, infections, and allergies, just to name a few. As a negative thought begins to develop, it activates a section of the brain that releases emotions related to the thought. If it’s a negative or toxic thought, one of those insidious “downer” chemicals is released, stimulating the release of yet another, which stimulates the release of yet another.
Chemicals released by negative emotions can affect your brain’s nerve cells, causing difficulty in retrieving memories. That, in turn, suppresses the ability to remember and think in a constructive way. Chemicals released in the brain as a result of positive thoughts don’t cause this kind of damage, research shows.
