The Importance of Positive Mental Attitude
Most of us do not realize the importance of positive mental attitude. We have been living almost all of our lives in poverty and afflictions, and we contentedly accept it as if it is our lot in this world.
Many people are in hospitals laying helpless in their sickbeds afflicted and suffering of imagined diseases which they have created by themselves. Many cancer patients should have easily recuperated had they known the power of positive mental attitude. Terminal cancer is reversible and curable even by natural medicine, much more by positive mental attitude!
Most of us are hypochondriacs! We have abnormal fears of almost everything. We imagine a lot of diseases in our mind without end. We seem to have been born with a phobia of bacteria, and we continually think that everything around us are carriers of diseases and we are continually in fear of it.
It is true that bacteria, microbes, virus and other pathogens are all around us. Some of them are air borne such as swine flu virus, and they multiply very rapidly not only in millions, but probably in trillions, quintillions, or even centillions. We are abnormally afraid of bacteria and the diseases they cause, and this is this fear in us that makes us very readily susceptible to all these diseases.
All the time we forget that we are the masterpiece of God’s creation and our body is not that frail to readily succumb to the assaults of all these pathogens around us. We are totally blind to the fact, and we always forget that in spite of all these dreadful diseases around us, we are still alive, and still wake up every morning alive and kicking.
As most research have proven, most diseases are 90 % caused by the mind, and only 10 % are caused by heredity, diet, and environment. It would help us a lot if we continually guard our mind from brooding on negative thoughts, such as failures, inferiority, diseases, death and so on.
To avoid all these dreadful diseases around us such as swine flu, AIDS, and all forms of cancer, we need to listen and obey the Word of God. In Philippians chapter 4 verse 8, God instructed us what to do to avoid not only the above dreadful diseases but also to spare ourselves from all the sufferings and afflictions that plagued this sinful world today. It says, ” … whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever thing are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”