Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf_The_Grey
Hey that's pretty cool you discovered that! Yeah that is definately the main reason I stick to my healthy diet. I fear cancer like the grim reaper and I generally want to avoid disease and live a long life. Oh of all things that are important to me, I want to live as looooooonnng a life as possible.
Thinking positive has a great effect on the mind/body. You say you fear cancer. If I ask you NOT to think of a black cat then in order for you to understand the statement you have to think of a black cat. So say you want to 'avoid disease'. If you think in this way a lot then you are focusing on disease rather than good health. So maybe you could say "I want to be healthy". You can expand this with questions like "How healthy?" "How will I know when I am at my optimum health?". You can make up lots of questions and they will be helpful as long as they focus on health rather than disease.

How long is as long as possible? It's possible it could be another 100 years or possible that it is 10 minutes *cue the fear*. It's like people who say they want to lose weight. How much weight? What will you look like when you reach your goal? So a more positive statement could be "I want to be x amount of pounds in 6 months time". How about "I want to live past 120 years with health and vigour". You can mess around with these statements until you find one that inspires you.

People say "THINK POSITIVE!"
The question I ask is "How?"