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How Negative Thinking Can Hurt You
Negative
thinking has been shown to lower your I.Q. Negative thinking changes the
physiological characteristics of the brain, impacting its
functioning, which can lead to a reduction in the intelligence of
children and adults.
We give our
children many tools for succeeding in school, with the intent
that this early training will help them to succeed later in life.
Why not also give them the valuable tool of knowing how
negative thinking can affect not just their school performances, but can
hurt their overall health. Why not offer them the tools they need
for more positive thinking and better health. The tools to encourage
more positive thinking are just as important for adults. Negative
thinking can seriously impact a person's work performance,
resulting in fewer promotions and fewer earnings, and an increase in job
dissatisfaction. Elderly adults are also at risk from the affects of
negative thinking. Negative thinking is known to cause an increase in
depressive-episodes for many, especially the elderly.
The brain
is responsible for receiving and interpreting the information contained
within the impulses that the central- nervous system creates and
transmits to the brain when we see, hear, smell, or touch something. Our
eyes could not see without our brain interpreting visual impulses first.
We would not be able to hear or understand words being spoken to us, if
our brains did not first interpret the auditory impulses of language and
noise for us. We would not know that a flower smells wonderful or that a
hug feels good if our brains did not interpret the impulses created by
scent and touch for us.
Negative
thinking blocks impulses from being properly transmitted between
the central-nervous system and the brain. When this happens, there are a
number of consequences as a result. Your brain cannot interpret impulses
correctly, and this affects the functioning of your brain and body. You
will experience trouble with comprehension of the stimuli around you
(people, and things.) You will find it harder to remember things,
resulting in missed appointments and misunderstandings with others. The
hormones that act as a conduit between the cells of the
organs in the body, the central and immune systems, and the brain, will
not be at the level that the body needs to function. This leads to
fatigue, sleep disturbances, emotional upsets, physical complaints, and
a susceptibility to colds and flu.
One
negative thought normally leads to another, and soon your mind is being
bashed with wave after wave of negative
thoughts. If you do not do something to stem the tide of
negativity running amuck in your mind, it can really hurt the
health of your mind and body. You can begin to repair the
damage that negative thinking has already caused to your health and
prevent negative thinking from hurting your health in the future with
positive, self-affirmations, and relaxation techniques such as
deep-breathing to release negative thoughts from your mind. Exercise
is also recommended as a tool for repairing the damage of
negative thinking and as a preventative measure against future
damage.
Exercise
can help you to increase the hormones in your body responsible
for happy emotions. Exercise too can give you a positive focus
for your energy so you won’t be wasting it on the negative thinking
that can hurt you and your health. Exercise helps every
part of your body to work better. Visit,
www.personalpowertraining.net and learn more about what exercise can
do for you in terms of reducing your negative thinking by
building your body’s level of happy hormones, enabling the
body and brain to work better, and to find the
exercises, equipment, and resources you need for the best health
possible.
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