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What health benefits will self-improvement bring?
You’ve probably heard the saying ‘a healthy mind creates a healthy body’ or learned in school that the mind controls the body through the central nervous system. Here are the ABCs to get you started on using self-improvement to benefit your health.
by Carol Talbot
A – AWARENESS Your thoughts are more powerful in creating a healthy body than you might realise. Most people know that if they want to be healthy it’s about eating the right foods and exercising regularly. Come on, it’s not rocket science! Somehow though, it’s still easy to get side-tracked by the pizza, burger, and chips! That’s a pattern of thinking and behaviour that would be useful to unlearn if you want to be healthy. It was in the late 1960s that
neurotransmitters were discovered. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that travel through the body carrying messages. Indeed, Deepak Chopra, in his book, Quantum Healing, described it by saying every single cell in your body is bathed in neurotransmitters.
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This also means that every single cell in your body is eavesdropping on your internal self-chatter. Simply put, every single cell in your body knows what you are thinking. Consider the impact on the physical
body of thoughts that you hold for a whole day, or a week, or a month, or even many years. You can then begin to understand why so many people develop psychosomatic illnesses and diseases in their body. Negative thoughts such as ‘I don’t deserve anything better’ or ‘I’ll never amount to anything’ have a huge impact on your body.
The key here is to start paying attention to your thoughts and listen to the language you are using with yourself on a regular basis.
B – BELIEFS A belief is something that you think over and over again until it eventually becomes true for you. It does not necessarily mean that it is right or even that it is true, however. Your beliefs create perceptions that affect your self- esteem, mental and physical health, as well as other areas of your life. The placebo is a wonderful example
of challenging beliefs about what is possible and highlights the impact our beliefs have over our health. Basically, a placebo is a ‘fake pill’ that should have no effect on your body. Tests and trials have proven again and again that placebos often work as well or even better than drugs or surgery. It appears the belief that the drug will work is often all that is needed to allow the
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