We can eat right, exercise right, drink adequate water, and even sleep enough, but if we are lacking this one vital element in health, we will still be fatigued. We will strive to work harder and attain more, but enjoy it less. What is it that is so vital to our physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and attitudinal health that we will die young without it? What is that electromagnetic energy produced by the brain and the heart and based on our thoughts?
Most of us are aware of the powerful mind-body connection and how our thoughts affect our health; but nothing is as powerful as this one thing in changing that.
What is it? GRATITUDE!
The #1 thing an attitude of gratitude will do is increase our energy.
The healthiest happiest people I see in the Clinic are grateful, in spite of their circumstances. They have healthier immune systems because they worry less and their stress is lower. They overcome inflammation in the body by having improved digestive systems. They are able to shut off the sympathetic nervous system, or their high-alert fight, flight or retreat system. When the body is in constant alert mode there is no natural ability to heal the internal organs because the blood supply is directed to limbs to fight or run away! This causes premature aging and early burn out. We place ourselves at risk for all the common chronic degenerative diseases including arthritis, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke and numerous neurological brain disorders. While in this epidemic stress condition, this has become a way of life that has trained people to focus on problems. Because our focus determines our experiences, without gratitude, life becomes one of doom, gloom and depression. Opportunities for advancement and a great life will pass us by unnoticed.
Grateful people are optimistic. They have hope and they have faith that things can and will change. They expect great things and do not live in fear. They are content and do not have a lack mentality. They have the right focus on life, the right priorities and don't beat themselves up when they make a mistake. This reduces strife and chaos and builds self-worth in a huge way. A grateful attitude also affects the people around us and draws to us the things we desire. Gratitude keeps our focus off the problem or the people causing the problem. Grateful people don't get drawn into everyone else's drama and trauma. Why? Because they have the emotional energy to repel strife and stay focused on the positive. Healthy people attract healthy people. Living unselfishly promotes feelings of self worth, belonging, and peacefulness while the opposite produces feelings of rejection, bitterness and unworthiness.
We are all responsible for how we feel at any given moment. What are we creating? Good health or miserable disease?
We can all begin today by doing a little bit of self-evaluation.
How is my energy?
What is my attitude telling me?
How is my health? My weight? My relationships? My
finances?
Am I hopeful? Optimistic? (in spite of my current situation)
Am I in faith or fear?
Am I content?
Is my faith moving mountains or my fear creating them?
And most important, am I doing things in my life to create an attitude of gratitude, which will bring me my hearts desire in the future.
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