Thoughts vs Health

Can our thoughts affect our physical health?

How do our thoughts play a major role in the effects on health? The way we think can have a great potential to harm our biology. If biology has anything to prove, it is that our entire physical, biological, and emotional structures are all connected, so why wouldn't the impact from our thoughts or emotions affect us? Through the biology of our bodies, we are all connected. Does this mean our thoughts can have an effect on our health?

Yes, it does. Through our bodies, we have systems that allow our mind to connect through signals to our organs, emotions, and reactions. This allows our responses to certain thoughts and experiences to have an effect on our overall well-being. Our organs, nervous system, and emotions are all connected and have to work together to either induce joy and love or stress and anger. This can mean that through this connection, we can affect things like our organs by inducing the fight or flight response for prolonged periods of time, affecting our health through negative responses.

Due to being in the modern world of overthinking and stressful circumstances, we no longer have threats for survival in our way. We in the modern world can tend to prolong things way beyond the 90 seconds after the threat as we should. There are many things we prolong, the release of the survival response by dragging out the thought and feeling as if the threat is still right in front of us, in moments such as being late for work or when that person said something negative to us.

This prolonged thought process of overthinking actually induces the fight or flight response each time, activating the response within our organs and bloodstream.

Unfortunately, this is not a healthy response to be consistently tapping into, causing disease and poor health as the body cannot function in a safe and correct way, creating our mind to shut down and our bodies to produce more blood flow and rapid heart rates. We should be able to end the reaction within 90 seconds after the threat has left, Not achieving this can result in physical effects in the body and organs like disease.

How do thoughts affect our bodies?

Now we know how the thoughts we process can affect innate health, let's look at how positive thoughts and full health well-being can influence our health for the better. Our bodies have an innate natural ability to heal ourselves; after all, our mind's and body's job is to keep us alive.

This being said, sometimes our minds can understand erroneous threats from past experiences, subsequently causing unnecessary harm to our bodies and overall health. We need to understand we have the ability to heal ourselves through thoughts, well mainly our beliefs. Looking within to ask ourselves, how are my beliefs harming my overall health? Or what part do I play in affecting my healthy living? Once we have an understanding that our thoughts do impact our health, we can begin the process of eliminating some of those hazardous beliefs. Asking ourselves, "Am I fully fulfilled in every aspect of my life?" "What does my environment of work, relationships with people, finances, mental relationship to myself, diet, movement, what is my inner pilot light or intuition telling me?" We are able to induce the healing response through the way we think and allow our outer environment to be perceived.

Dr. Lissa Rankin, a qualified physician, became skeptical about the basics of medical procedure and dives deeper into the world of our beliefs and the placebo effect, grouping together stories and research on people with miraculous recovery in her book "Mind Over Medicine." She continues to explain the impact our thoughts and beliefs have on our overall health and our innate natural ability to heal ourselves through the same principles.

Creating healthy thoughts

Conclusion

If we can tune into our thoughts and beliefs, choosing our control over our minds and its responses, we have the ability to initiate the relaxation response the ultimate healing response within us when we need and decide.

Our health is most important; let's pay attention to the full need of what that means.