Life Fit Chat with Laura Lewis: Change your mind, change your matter

Life Fit Chat with That's Fit Life Fit Expert Laura Lewis brings conversation provoking tidbits to your table, served up with a touch of spice! Byte-sized information that pack some punch, brought to you every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday!

Did you know ... Roughly 30 percent of people who are given a placebo to help cure a negative health condition will totally recover, despite the predicted outcome of research scientists. The only determining factor that makes these people different from their non-placebo responding friends is their attitude, outlook on life and determination. In other words, they changed their mind. (52 Ways to a Healthy You Brown Books Publishing Group, www.LauraLewis.com)

Though the idea of improving your health by changing your mind may sound like a fantasy, experiments have found that a small amount of training spread over the period of a year can be amazingly effective. Dr. Grossarth-Maticek randomly divided 1,200 people into two equally divided groups, both of whom had scored poorly on a life outlook survey.

The first group were given a self-help brochure and six, one-hour training sessions over the period of one year while the other group received no information or training. When the health status of the two groups was checked over thirteen years later, 409 of the people in the first group of 600 were still alive versus 97 of the equal-sized control group!

If you think it is too late to change, think again. The average age of the people in the experiment was 58.

Change your mind, change your matter ... Mind your thoughts as they truly manifest into the matter of your reality.

Can you think of a time when your attitude affected your physical health? What about the people you spend time with? Do their attitudes bring you down or lift you up?

Action Tips

• Start each day with an "I AM" statement ... I AM vibrantly health. I AM happy, wise and blessed. I AM filled with abundant joy!
• Redirect your thoughts when they turn negative. Develop your own mantra to assist you. Keep it positive not negative. For example, I AM in a state of continuous gratitude, versus, I will not be ungrateful.
  
• Surround yourself by supporters not naysayers.
  

Let us know how you do!