6. ATTITUDINAL Research studies have shown the direct connection between mind and body. What you think and feel can directly affect your body and how it functions. Attitude is one of the few mental aspects we have control, over. Life's events happen to us - we have no control over that - how we react to them is what we have control over. Usually when we start to change this attitude we think we are not being realistic. We also start to feel silly and sometimes happy again. We may think that we are making up some fantasy and acting too positive. We are not asking you to take the Pollyanna approach of being blind to injurious events. If we can objectively look at life it has both positive and negative aspects to every event. The positive side just has more benefits and research now proves this to be correct. Looking at the possibilities and positive outcomes in life is a learned habit. It will also increase your life span, your health and your energy.

HINT Try this little test - count how good things you notice through the day. Count how many bad things. Compare. You be the judge as to how you wish to view life - it is your choice. Depending on what you chose will depend on how it will affect your health.

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