What Really Creates Health And Wellbeing?

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Article Title: What Really Creates Health And Wellbeing?

Author: Margaret , Ph.D.

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Most of us know that eating well and exercising is important

for good health. Yet often we hear about people100 years old

and older that are still vital and have not eaten perfectly or

exercised much. What is the secret of their good health?

Research indicates that a major factor in good health – more

important than genes, food, or exercise – is how we handle

stress.

Our bodies are equipped with a “fight or flight” mechanism that

enables us to mobilize our strength when necessary. This

mechanism allows us to fight or flee from real and present

danger. However, this mechanism is also activated when we

BELIEVE there is danger, even when no actual survival danger

exists.

For example, it is appropriate for the fight or flight

mechanism to activate if you are being physically attacked.

When the stress response is activated, blood is taken from our

brain and organs and put into our arms and legs to enable us to

fight or flee. Our immune system shuts down to give us more

energy to physically protect ourselves and ensure our survival

in the moment. Once the danger is over and we have discharged

the stress through fighting or running, our bodies go back to

normal and blood again flows to our brain and organs.

However, what if your thoughts are creating the stress? What if

you are imagining being attacked, or being rejected, or losing

money, or losing your job, or losing a loved one? In this case,

there is no actual real and present danger occurring in the

moment. Yet the body does not know the difference between

something that is really happening and something that you are

thinking about. The body goes into the stress response the

moment you think scary thoughts. But instead of being able to

fight or flee, you are stuck with the anxiety caused by your

thoughts. The blood is in your arms and legs with no way to be

released. You can’t think very well due to as lack of blood in

your brain, your organs are being robbed of necessary

nutrients, and your immune system is not functioning properly.

Strenuous exercise may release the stress response, but if you

keep thinking the scary thoughts, it will just come right back.

Perhaps the most important thing you can do for your health and

wellbeing is to become conscious of your thoughts that create

stress and become adept at changing your thoughts. People who

have learned how to let challenging things roll off their back

generally have good health. People who allow the challenges of

life to constantly stress them out often have health problems,

even when they eat well and get exercise.

Our minds have been programmed from infancy with many untrue

thoughts – many false beliefs. It is when we think these untrue

thoughts that we cause ourselves anxiety and our bodies go into

the stress response. However, we all have a “Wise Self” that

knows truth from lies. When we move “out of our minds” and into

our knowing, we will stop thinking the thoughts that cause

anxiety and instead operate from the truth of our knowing.

Thoughts that are untrue cause anxiety. The truth brings peace.

If you have a thought that you cannot survive being rejected or

being alone, you will feel anxious. However, while this might

have been true as a child, it is not true as an adult. Your

anxious feeling is letting you know that your thought is

untrue. If you then think – from your Wise Self rather than

from your programmed mind: “I can handle rejection. I’ve been

rejected many times and I have not died. I’ve been alone many

times and I have not died,” your body will release the anxiety

and you will feel peaceful. Your peaceful feeling is telling

you that you are now thinking the truth.

The very best thing you can do for your health and wellbeing is

to become aware of the thoughts from your programmed mind that

create anxiety, and practice thinking the truth from your Wise

Self that creates inner peace.

About The Author: Margaret , Ph.D., best-selling author of

eight books, including " Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By

You” and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding healing

process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her web site for a FREE

Inner Bonding course: http://www.innerbonding.com or email her

at mailto:margaret@.... Phone Sessions.

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