In his book, "THINK BIG", Ben Carson talks of the same things I have written about. He writes interestingly about the need to think positively. The use of PMA or "Positive Mental Attitude"; have faith; you are what you think; I did it, so can you.
These are words that all of us have been told by so many over the years. And though we have heard them often, it doesn't make them any less true or more real. What it does mean is that we have a choice. We can either be negative about all that is around us or choose a more positive life attitude.
Ben Carson is a highly respected physician and he provides that our emotional state affects the hormones in our body. Hormones significantly influence white cells and the body's ability to fight disease. This means that we now actually have a scientific explanation for the fact that people who become very depressed do not do well in recovering from disease. The ability to lead a more positive life can help keep your physical well-being in better shape.
Maybe one could suggest that it doesn't mean we are physically better, just that we accept our physical state in better manner. For me, either way, if having a more positive attitude can keep me healthier or make make feel better about it, my existence is all that much better.
Ben Carson says, "if we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. We can choose the way we think. When people object to words like "positive thinking," then you can say, "Think Big, then!"
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In James D. Hornfishcher's book "Ship of Ghost's", he quotes Pfc. Jim Gee who is trying to rally a sick fellow POW with the following in regards to attitude: "There are three forces at work here. Like legs of a triangle. First food. either we have enough or we're dead. Second, health. That needs no explanation. Third, attitude, which is probably the best medicine. Food, health, attitude. They're inerlocked, each totally dependent on the other. We have to have all three. No food, no health. Bad attitude: the triangle collapses..."
In James D. Hornfishcher's book "Ship of Ghost's", the author relates the words of Pfc. Jim Gee, trying to rally his fellow POW, ill with dysentery, describing his view of survival. "There are three forces at work here... Like legs of a triangle. First food. Either we have anough or we're dead. Second, health. That needs no explanation. Third, attitude, which is proabaly the best medicine. Food, health, attitutde. They're interlocked, each totally dependent on the other. We have to have all three. No food, no health. Bad attitude: the triangle collapses...." The author further professes that 'survival' does not acurately describe the fight to stay alive for the POW's in Burma, but it is more attune to the word 'endurance'. In other words, if you can take the punishment from the Japanese guards along with starvation and the disease rampant in the jungle camps, then you will have endured, and hence, be one of the returned POW's.
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