It is my conclusion that healing really does start from the inside and works its way out.
I have only met a few people in life that did not want to truly change. I want to encourage every person reading this post to envision the progress you want to make with your health and wellness. Often we complain about circumstances instead of taking self-responsibility and just changing the circumstances as much as is within our power to do. The health of the body, mind and spirit, derives from not only proper food, exercise, and correct living but good thoughts as well. The way that our thoughts affect our wellness is often overlooked.
Our thoughts can be our ally, encouraging us to press on, eat healthy, resist negativity and to seek out solutions to health challenges instead of accepting a grim diagnosis as the final decree. On the other hand our thoughts can become our enemy, poisoning us with doubt, fear and dead stopping us dead in our tracks, causing us to not push forward towards heal and healing.
The good news is that you really can change the atmosphere, internally and externally. Our thoughts, whether positive or negative grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition. That explains why many people who are negative, gloomy, always sick, stay that way, and others who are positive, upbeat, and enthusiastic even in the midst of trying circumstances fare much better and seem to come out on top.
Science validates what the good books have been saying for centuries, fix your thoughts on things that are good, cheerful heart is good medicine, and the good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart. Internally, our cells are affected by our thoughts and emotions, according to new research by Dr. Bruce Lipton a Biologist at the University of Wisconsin. Cells are intelligent; they respond to our emotional and environmental stimuli, DNA is controlled by the signals outside of the cells including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. I want to encourage you as Dr. Lipton stated, “change the thought environment and the cells, and you change the behavior. Ask yourself today; what is the greatest source for your thoughts? What label will you use to describe your recurring negative thoughts? What is the plan that you will use to challenge your thoughts? In what ways do your thoughts affect your health and wellness now?
Fateria Johnson ND, CNHP
