Maintaining optimism, hope and positivity for healing

Hi everyone!

I hope you'll come along and join us for a discussion on how to remain positive whilst dealing with mental and physical health issues, and why maintaing a good outlook and perspective on life is so important.

I know from my personal experience of living with and trying to heal from mental and physical health issues that sometimes it can be tough going. I can easily fall into the mental traps of hopelessness, defeatism and despondency, and wind up asking myself 'what's the point?'

Maintaining hope and faith that change is possible is a really crucial aspect of healing. In a study where 1000's of cases of remission from health issues were investigated to uncover the commonalities, these were the nine beneficial factors that were identified in all cases:

🥦 Radically changing your diet

⚕️ Taking control of your health

🌿 Using herbs and supplements

💡 Following your intuition

🤯 Releasing suppressed emotions

😃 Increasing positive emotions

🫂 Embracing social support

🙏🏼 Deepening your spiritual connection

♥️ Have a strong reason for living

As you can see, increasing positive emotions plays a part in healing, arguably the most important part in my opinion. Last week I read the case study of a chap who healed himself with laughter!

In the research that I've done on healing, again and again I come across the importance of belief and how powerful the placebo and nocebo effect are, and how maintaining a positive, optimistic outlook upregulates genes for healing and down regulates those for inflammation and illness.

Let's talk about all of the ways we can keep ourselves happy on our quest for health! Community and social support, as you can see from the above list, is also a key factor in healing, so let's all help each other feel a little better ☺️

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