Being optimistic may increase physical health and mental functioning, a recent study showed.
Researchers assessed health survey results of 447 patients who completed a personality test in the 60s and a follow-up self-assessment in the 90s. When the tests were compared, it was found that pessimists reported poorer physical and mental functioning, as well as lower quality of life, than optimists. Additionally, out of eight measured scales (physical functioning, physical role limitations, bodily pain, general health perception, vitality, social functioning, emotional role limitations, and mental health), pessimists scored lower than the national average on five of them.
The results supplement a past study that indicated optimists tend to live longer than pessimists do. However, while these finding suggest that attitude may play an important role in health, questions remain about whether this can be applied practically by health care practitioners.
Mayo Clinic Proceedings August 2002;77(8):748-53
Your mental attitude has a major influence on your health. A truth of life is that the thoughts you consistently focus on are often manifested into reality.
Wouldn’t it be nice to manifest some good things in your life? We tend to get what we expect, so focus on expecting some good things, even when life seems to be saying otherwise.
W. Clement Stone, who passed away earlier this year, was fond of promoting being an inverse paranoid.
He took the position that the world was conspiring to make him happy and successful and that everything that happened to him was for his own good. This is a marvelous attitude to take and one that can easily be adopted by using psychological acupressure techniques like EFT.
If you haven’t looked at the free EFT manual yet, it provides you with a comprehensive resource for learning this effective technique. You can go to the Affirmations and Goal Setting Page for effective strategies on how to implement positive perspectives.
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