How Powerful are Your Thoughts?

Your well-being is not only limited to your physical fitness alone, but it also cut across your mental and emotional health. There is a mind-to-body connection that maintains the standard of healthiness. Many challenges and stumbling blocks come our way in our day-to-day activities, and you can only overcome them with a settled and positive mind. Let me put this to you, negativity deprives you of possibilities and creativities. Research made it clear that your body feeds on what you think, act and feel. It keeps you busy and rebellious to your health. It is only a healthy mind that can think of a way out. This aspect of man’s health is always underemphasized, but it’s critical and requires all necessary attention.

The negative thought bothering you is the main source for most of your vulnerability and illness because it is the product of insecurity or depression either from past experiences. There is a saying that “happy people live longer” I’d bet you want to live longer. Negative thoughts communicate with the brain to release stress hormones. Though stress hormones aren’t bad, but shouldn’t be in excess. Long-term stress is going to be fatal. This article will be listing the effects on you and how you can find solace to cope with it. It will also show how to embrace positivity with its benefits.

Effects of Negative Thoughts

Suppression of Your Body’s Immunity

Negativity is a mental rejection signature. It’s a big-time factor of illness, from what I made mention of earlier on, the mind-to-body connection. A low level of thought (negative emotions) increases the risk of developing an illness. This illness could propagate from a lower sickness to bigger ones. For instance, anger. Anger is healthy, but if not controlled, a big problem is looming. It can result in the development of High blood pressure (hypertension), digestive disorder, heart diseases, and infections. Stress cannot be overemphasized. It’s negative feedback. If not properly managed, it can reduce your activeness and diet. Whereas both are vital requirements, your body needs. Negativity bugs out a healthy life out of you.

Cynicism and Dementia

Cynicism is a feeling or mentality of having a distrust about people’s motives, which is destructive to your health and a poor health factor. It is critical and can possibly lead to dementia, memory loss. Dementia is just like a loss in stock. There would be language loss and difficulty in comprehending problems. These finally lead to frustration, anger, and low self-esteem. It has a big influence on daily activities. Dementia had risen to be one of the common mental illnesses. It is increasing globally. Sought of a mental signature. It leads to heart disease, unnecessary thought, and complaints. It is a pessimistic view of things. Negativity at its rawness. A pessimistic life sees evil over happiness. It never expects a good outcome from anything whatsoever. It needs urgent attention. In addition, it also results in violence.

Alzheimer’s Disease

This is the most common form of dementia. They are mostly caused by the thought from the future and past. Our contemporary world suffers from different thoughts on how speculative the future would be, whereby anxiety sets in. Negative thoughts have a greater chance of causing Alzheimer’s. It develops between middle age and old age. Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain neuron in the cerebral and cortex, showing the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing amyloid-beta protein. It causes impaired thought, disorientation, personality, and mood problem. Also, delayed memory.

Chronic Stress

Everybody experiences stress from his or her daily activities. Fortunately, the body exerts a defensive mechanism that secretes chemical substances called hormones which are adrenaline and cortisol. It is coordinated by the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland in the brain. This secretion increases the heartbeat, breathing, blood pressure, and contracts the muscle. When the stress takes a longer time, the central nervous system finds it difficult to return back to its normal physiological state, thereby endangering the body. The effect of stress is linked to all parts of the body. Some of the complications are cardiovascular disease, integumentary system problems (eczema, acne), digestive system disorder (ulcerative colitis), obesity, eating disorder, mental illness, insomnia, headaches. Stress weakens your body’s immunity and depletes the responsiveness of your brain. Though stress is inevitable, its effect on our bodies can be reduced.

Low Self-esteem

This does not cause a direct impairment to your health. It is not capable of causing direct illness. It is self-condemnation and having a negative view of yourself. It causes negligence to self-care, hindering your activeness and diet. It prevents you from visiting the doctor. It could be from the challenges from the past. It’s a mental note. Its source could be financial troubles, poor treatment from your partner, parent (abusive relationship), or bully. People with low self-esteem are vulnerable to any infection. They tend to become violent. Low self is dangerous than how we thought of it.

Positive Thinking

This is the only solution to any negativity. It begat the dead possibilities and creativities. It helps to restructure the mind-to-body connection constructively. Well, life and experiences might have thrown you a lot of tantrums, disappointments, disapprovals, dejection, and a lot more, but you have to choose the bright side. It is necessary to stand up after falling.

Here are some powerful impacts of positivity.

Improved Way of Life

The way you live your life is in your willpower. Everyone wants the best life, and I’m sure you also do. Positivity erases self-rejection and places you on top.

Improved Health

Mind to body connection. A positive mindset enhances the brain to secrete happiness hormone, which is dopamine. It keeps your body excited to carry out its functions. The fear of visiting the doctor will be erased, and also the pessimistic or cynical view.

Stress Level Reduces

During our daily activities, stress is inevitable but doing them with negativity makes it diminishing. A positive mindset gives a signature to your brain that you can do it. Tasks are easily accomplished. Adrenaline and cortisol levels are reduced, and the body is capable of carrying out its functions.

Creativity

Creativity is increased. The spirit of “I can do it” takes over. At every moment of the day, possibilities are made obvious. Having a mind void of negativity is an effective eye-opener to life. The new discoveries reject the thrown tantrums and disappointments. The mind and the body feeds on positivity.

Cardiovascular Health

Stress is a big poor health factor of the heart. Reduction in the level of stress preserves your heart. Heart diseases like hypertension, arrhythmia would be avoided. Adrenaline and cortisol levels are maintained at the minimum level.

Resistance to Diseases

Diseases find it difficult to dominate your body system. Your sanity is well maintained. Your visit to the doctor and medical check-ups keeps you on a healthy scale. The body cells, tissues, and organs are excited to fight any invasion.

Also, your mental acuteness is retained, and you tend to look younger. Unnecessary thought and anxiety are taken away and filled with positivity. Stress is an aging factor. It kills the body cells and wears out more tissues. It is good to stay positive.

Here are some helpful hints for handling your stress or for coping with it.

• It is best you know the source of your stress. Knowing the source makes it easy to address. To make it easy, you can write it down because that will prompt you to take immediate steps. Throughout the day, keep your state of mind in view: monitor your state of mind.
• Build a good relationship with people around you. Avoid bad relationships. They are a complication to your mental health. Share the burden with them, and they can be of help to deal with your stress.
• Avoid getting upset and relax your mind. Always thinks about the things at stake anytime you get annoyed. Knowing your state of mind is a good start to relax your mind. Programs like yoga, meditation keeps your mind stable and also helps in building immunity. Always have a good sleep. Avoid any inconvenience and distraction. Ensure you have a sound sleep of 8 hours.

In conclusion, visit your doctor and monitor your state of mind. Your mental health must be preserved. Mental health, the mind to body connection. Stay safe.