MELDING MIND AND BODY: SEEING, SAYING AND FEELING IT
“You know, Dr. Fox,” a patient said to me, “this visualization and affirmation stuff sounds suspiciously like positive thinking.”
Yes and no. Positive thinking is saying it, either out loud or in your mind. I combine that with seeing it and feeling yourself already being, doing and having all the good things you desire.
The combination of affirmations, visualization and positive thinking mobilizes the endorphins and other biochemicals to help give you the good feelings, enthusiasm, energy and health you need to be a success. Perhaps the greatest medical discovery ever made is the realization that we can change our lives by changing our thoughts. We don’t fully understand this process— not yet—but we know it works. »
Most people fail in life because they’ve predisposed themselves to failure; they’ve stuffed their minds full of “I can’t,” “it won’t work,” “impossible,” “it’s too hard,” “I’m not good enough.” All these thoughts are negative affirmations, or negations, as I call them. Negations are just as powerful as affirmations are. Negative thinking cripples the mind as surely as polio cripples the body. But there’s a cure for negative thinking: positive thinking.
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