Our
emotional health depends on our attitude.
We can choose: To accept or refuse
love; grow from or surrender to challenges; enjoy or complain about our work;
modify our habits or let our habits modify us; cultivate tranquility or be
overwhelmed by stress; seize opportunities or cower in a corner; enjoy being
alive or dread waking up.
Proper attitudes create a life worth living and make
time worthwhile. Our response to life's difficulties determines our happiness
and health.
Within us resides the gift to accept responsibility for our own
bliss. We can shape adversity into an advantage. We can turn tragedy into hope.
We can live the life we choose.
The power to change gives us the opportunity
for a blessed and balanced life.
The blind poet, Milton, wrote, The mind is
its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
Thoughts
of two famous people underscore Milton's point:
Napoleon who had power, riches,
and glory said, I have never known six happy days in my life.
Helen
Keller, rendered blind and deaf from childhood meningitis, declared, I have
found life so beautiful.
Events and acquisitions fail to give us joy. Our
thoughts can.
Mind-body research, psychoneuroimmunology, proves that negative
thoughts produce stress hormones. Optimistic thoughts cause the release of
endorphins and other beneficial brain chemicals causing good feelings.
What we
think determines how we feel.
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