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We hear so much today about health and well-being and the importance of keeping ourselves well.  When the word health comes up, it often evokes images of our physical health, such as preventing certain diseases or weight control.  But, health also involves our emotional well-being, which definitely impacts our physical health.  It’s like a circle, with a never-ending point; you can’t have one without it impacting the other. Often, I have seen people with emotional problems that have not addressed it, which has led to stress, anxiety, depression,  which led to health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease or obesity. 

A root-cause for health problems is negative thinking.  How, you might ask, does this affect either our mental or emotional health?  Well, negative thinking drags us down.  It does “funky” things with our psyche, our motivation, our drive.  It prevents us from competing tasks or goals and it prevents us from moving forward.  Negatuve thinking can make you feel bad about yourself and it can “tell” you that you that you can’t do whatever it is you want to do.  Have you ever tried to lose weight and got off  your diet after you had a bad day or fought with your spouse or kids? What happens - you are mad, and you keep replaying the incident over and over again in your mind, creating a negative thought, which leads you to eating in an effort to comfort yourself. However, this only leads to you beating yourself up over breaking your diet.  So the negativity perpetuates itself and the cycle continues. All of this can eventually affect both your mental and physical health.

So, if this sounds like you, there is hope. Your negative thoughts do not define you and you do not have to keep them with you.  You can turn these negatives into positive thoughts, which lead to positive actions and behaviors.  The key, first off, is making the decision that you want to be more positive.  If you attract positives into your life, you will be more positive and you will have positive situations come to you, as opposed to being negative and feeling as if the world is against you.  You need to do things for yourself to become more positive, such as being more aware of positive thoughts or events that have come in to your life; record these postives, such as in a journal, for a week so you can become more aware.  We often overlook positive events, we take them for granted. But being more aware of the good things in our lives will lead to more positive thoughts, which then will affect our mood and, ultimately, our behavior. How will you choose to live your life?