The Art of Great Health
E-Book by Gary Brodsky
What's the single most important factor for predicting lifelong good health and longevity?
- It's not eating "right."
- It's not exercise.
- It's not maintaining a "healthy" weight.
- It's not getting regular checkups.
- It's not making sure you get the right vitamins and minerals.
- It's not the purity of the air you breathe or the water you drink.
- It's not giving up smoking.
- It's not having "good" genes.
- It's not the country you live in.
- It's not access to advanced medical care.
So what is it?
It's what you believe.
Scientific studies of the spirit mind connection reveal that mental states are reflected immediately in your biochemistry-the chemical messenger system that controls how your body functions.
And what triggers those mental states? Only your beliefs- Your choices of belief determine how you respond to life.
That means that focusing your attention in ways that generate feelings of conflict, anxiety, tension, worry, stress, anger, depression, mistrust, or conflict can lead to very real physical effects in your body.
Your habits of attention and reaction can produce high blood pressure, lowered immune response, asthma, digestive disturbances, infertility, insomnia, back pain, skin problems, colds and flu, headaches-the list goes on and on.
Doctors say that more than half of all doctor visits are for stress-related problems.
When you consider how powerfully our emotions and attitudes affect our bodies, it shouldn't be surprising that doctors estimate that 60 to 90 percent of all patient visits are for stress-related symptoms.
These are problems for which your doctor will find no physical cause-problems that conventional medical care often cannot solve.
Science validates the power of the spirit mind connection.
Scientific studies have shown that spirit mind factors-such as an independent attitude and an optimistic outlook-influence health and longevity more than anything else.
More than what you eat. More than how much you exercise. More than "good" genes. More than whether or not you smoke.
Scientific research has shown that using that using the mind reduces doctor visits, speeds healing, reduces use of pain medication, shortens hospital stays, causes symptoms to interfere less with life, and improves patients' sense of control over their health.
Scientific research shows that spirit mind factors have a far greater effect upon your health than diet, exercise, exposure to germs or toxins, smoking, genetics, or any other known health risk factors.
In fact, these scientific studies show that people with what we think of as "good" health habits (eating "right," exercising, not smoking, getting lots of sleep) who do not have beneficial factors like an optimistic outlook tend to be markedly less healthy than people with health-promoting attitudes who have "bad" health habits.
That means that the person who has a generally relaxed and optimistic outlook and eats cheeseburgers every day probably has a better chance of staying healthy and living a long life than the tense pessimist who rigidly avoids consuming fat and runs four miles a day.
But if the mind is such a powerful tool for health,
why aren't we using the spirit mind approach routinely?
Despite increasing scientific validation of the healing power of the mind, we rarely turn to the mind heal yourself approach to health except as a last resort. And the reasons are obvious: there's not much support for this approach in the mainstream of medicine.
But the truth of the matter is this: the only thing standing in the way of using this approach to health is each of one us. That means there's only one thing that needs to change in order for the spirit mind approach to become an integral part of unlimited great health in every area of your life:
YOUR MIND.
If the mind is our most powerful tool for health, as many trusted health experts and scientific research indicate it is, why aren't we using this for health?
Know how to deal with any disease, physical or mental, romantic or financial in the early stages, before it becomes the kind of disease that will become a reality.
The way things are now, it seems that most people would rather be diagnosed with chronic or terminal disease than acknowledge that the way they react to life is making them sick. It seems we'd rather say, "I was REALLY sick but no one believed me!" than use the power of the easy mind and spirit connection to reconnect with health before our symptoms become so physical they are difficult to deal with.
The power of the spirit mind connection is clear--but what's the active ingredient?
It seems like great news that scientific evidence reveals mental factors are the most powerful influence on health.
For so many people, modern medicine alone isn't solving their problems. Taking pills hasn't sufficiently eased their symptoms. Or their symptoms have disappeared in one area and new symptoms have cropped up in other areas.
And while it's true that deliberate use of the spirit mind approach to health requires less from you than conventional medicine does, the effort is more unfamiliar than overwhelming.
Now, learning to think differently does not take any more work than opening a bottle of pills.
Learning to look at life differently solves the problem at its source, while only taking medicine does not. And learning to look at things differently is a skill that can be used in many other areas of your life. Are these factors important enough for you to make the minor effort of changing mental habits? There is only one answer it is found in THE ART OF GREAT HEALTH.
To your health,
Rev. Gary Brodsky
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