Jan 18 2009
Stop THINKING Yourself Sick
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, extremely simply put, asserts that what you say is what you create for yourself. The cognitive therapy branch of psychology similarly works on the premise that thoughts precede (and create) feelings. People who recite affirmations are also in sync with these theories.
Therefore in accordance with these concepts, positive, happy thoughts should promote health and mental predictions of doom and gloom will create misery and dis-ease.
While I believed these to be true, I mostly believed them with my head only. Amazingly I recently had the theory brought home to me somatically.
My partner is a curmudgeon. There is no other way to describe him. So, in the past, when people would ask me how he is doing, my reply was “He’s a pain in the Butt.” I said this to indicate that he was a constant annoyance, but not causing a heartbreak. Well, happily I did not talk myself into any cardiac problems. On the contrary I talked myself into a very bizarre rash. I’ll give you ONE guess where.
Needless to say, this lesson was well-learned. While dealing with the symptoms, I ceased all attribution to anyone of any pains anywhere in my body. Now I do not hand over to anyone, including myself, the power to cause problems. Those sorts of utterances are no longer in my life. Hopefully, you can learn from my experiences instead of going through it yourself.
