Optimism: The Way to Happiness and Good Health

It seems like common knowledge: having positive thoughts will keep a person in good spirits and will be promotive of good health. However, in hindsight, everything can seem like common sense. Thanks to recent research, we now know for a fact that our thoughts do indeed shape our reality and optimistic thoughts will likewise breed happiness and good health. Negativity is quite detrimental to us for the primary reason that it brings about stress, which is the cause of many diseases, disorders, and ailments. In fact, stress has even recently been shown to be a cause for cancer. Eliminating negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones will ensure us that we become happy and healthy. By projecting optimistic thoughts into reality, we not only help ourselves, but others. When people receive the transmissions of thought-energy that have a positive signature attached to them, they too will feel better and more positive. With the reality of interconnectedness and oneness, everyone benefits as a result of being positive.

The research related to how our state of mind affects of well-being has been increasing in recent years and is confirming a very ancient aphorism, which is that our consciousness creates our reality. All thought is creative and therefore thoughts have the power to create of destroy. We have this incredible power and we may not even realize how influential it is. However, by looking at the research and by experiencing this for ourselves and being aware of this happening, we can become fully convinced that this is a reality. New research has found that people who naturally  notice negative information over positive information are more susceptible to stress. These results show that that biases towards noticing negative things in life, especially when they occur on the subconscious level, might predispose people to anxiety disorders. The researchers in the study related to this found that those who had a strong subliminal bias towards negative, rather than positive, material showed a stronger physiological reaction to both laboratory-based and real-life stresses. Nonphysical thoughts truly do affect the physical body in ways we may not have imagined to be possible.

Moving over to the positive spectrum of things, we are able to now see with full conviction that optimism is not only psychologically, but physiologically healthy. New research has shown, for example, that being happy and being naturally optimistic cuts the risk of developing heart disease and other problems associated with the heart. It seems like all the old sayings about a broken heart are true after all. This study has been championed as being the first study to find such a strong link between positive emotions and a lower risk of heart disease. Two of the reasons given for such a reality are that optimistic individuals may have longer periods of rest or relaxation physiologically and that they may recover more quickly from stressors, and may not spend as much time ” reliving” them, which in turn seems to cause physiological damage. Both of these reasons hold to the reality that our consciousness creates our reality and that all thought is creative. Knowing this gives us the power over our health and well-being.

New research has also shown that when we are feeling more pessimistic we will be less able to fight off viruses, which is a sign of a weaker immune system. In the study, when people were feeling more optimistic, they also had rather stronger responses to an immune challenge. There is a feeling of vulnerability in those who experience pessimism and this then is reflected in the existence of a weakened immune system. When optimism went up, so did their immune response. When pessimism crept in, the immune system weakened. This demonstrates that optimism is able to improve the immune system for the better well-being of a person.

Not only is happiness provided by optimism within our thoughts, but good health is as well. As recent study are showing us, positive thoughts results in better health and a happier life experience whereas negative thoughts give us diseases that are both physical and psychological in nature. The age-old aphorism that our consciousness creates reality is a direct reflection of the quantum reality in which we exist. Our thoughts do indeed shape our reality and so it is important to be aware of what kind of thoughts we are forming and projecting because their effects may be detrimental or beneficial to ourselves. Be optimistic and see how shifted of a life experience you will have compared with a former and more negative experience. As the song Be Happy by Eclipse says,”feeling sad is such a waste of time so just be happy, just try.”