It is important to understand that each disorder in our body has not only physical but also psychological causes.

Our way of thinking influences what happens to us and determines good and bad aspects of our life.  Listen to your own words.  If you notice that you express the same thought repeatedly, a few days in a row, it has become your mental template.  We all live by our thoughts – they direct our actions.  If our thoughts are full of anger, fear, pain, sadness, and vengeance, what kinds of actions can they result in?  If our thoughts are positive, we can usually expect all the best in our life but negative thinking can only bring difficulties and failure.

It appears that our way of thinking not only determines our life’s successes and failures but also has a vital influence on our health.  For example, many people suffer from headaches, neck pains, and back pains.  What could be the cause of these pains?  Our neck can be mentally associated with flexibility.  In our thoughts and actions, flexibility means the ability to approach a problem from different points of view and creativity in finding a solution.  People who are stubborn, unable to compromise, and cannot see the problem from their opponent’s point of view will suffer from headaches, neck pains and back pains until they learn to treat somebody else’s opinion with greater compassion and understanding.   If we habitually criticize everybody and everything, our joints and muscles start hurting.  When anger and hatred dominate our thoughts, our body “burns out” and is susceptible to infections.  If we keep dwelling on some injustice we suffered long time ago, it “consumes” our body and eventually leads to the creation of cancerous cells and then cancers.

We should work on eliminating negative thoughts and stereotypes as early as possible to achieve not only psychological but also physical health.  It is a very difficult art to learn, and we all have to learn it on our own.