The Connection Between Mind And Body

 I have often talked about how stress and fear affect your health. How when you're stressed your body reacts to it and you become sick over what you are afraid of or are stressing over. There is research out there about this. This is not just something I pulled out of the sky, this is real.

It also says how your attitude can affect your sickness if you have no hope if you believe you will never get well if you say over and over that you're sick then what you put out will come back to you.

I remember when I was with my ex. I ate right, I exercised every day, and I should have been healthy yet I felt sick every day. I had headaches, my body ached, and I caught every cold and bug known to man. I got vertigo, and I always felt like crap, why? Because I was so unhappy, so stressed, so miserable that it manifested into sickness. Since I have been divorced I have been sick twice and both times were when I let stress control my feelings. How is that for a correlation between mind and body?

I have some dear friends. They all have terrible diseases that they battle each day.

MS, Crons, Schermdoma, Heart issues, back problems, Lupus, and some have it all rolled into one, yet every day when I talk to them, they are grateful to be here. They are positive and happy, they have an incredible outlook on life. They never talk about how bad it is for them, only how great life is, even though I know how much pain they are in. I can't imagine how bad the medicine they must take every day is, the doctor visits and tests they must endure, yet the world would never know as they never focus on that just the positive. 

These strong and brave women know the connection between having a positive attitude and their diseases even though they know these diseases will never go away. They have chosen to focus all their energy on healing themselves and being a role model. They lived their lives being grateful, living and loving every morning they are given.

These strong, beautiful women teach me to never take my health for granted. To live in the moment and that they are not their illness, they are positive women who just happen to have one.

So today my friends realize that what you put out there affects your life, your body, and your soul, that even if you have a disease it doesn't have you, how you feel every day is up to you. You choose how you feel, look at my friends who are the most positive women I know and look up to, and know you too can do anything. 

"And just when the caterpillar thought his life over...he turned into a beautiful butterfly"