Our immune system and overall well-being is dependent not only on good diet and exercise but also on our mental strength and our thoughts. A lot depends on the way we talk to ourselves when we are in trouble. Many times when we are in an adversity, the images, thoughts and beliefs that run in our mind can determine a win or defeat at the end.
There are numerous cases where people recovered from many health conditions just by believing that they were given an advanced medication while they were given a sugar pill without their knowledge. This is the power of human mind and belief. Scientific term for this phenomenon is ‘Placebo effect’.
This is how any nutraceutical or pharmaceutical product’s effectiveness is scientifically tested, researched and analyzed. They give few people the real medicine and few people a fake pill. After a while they analyze if the results of taking the actual medicine is better than that of the people taking fake pill. There are some cases where the placebo effect dominated or equalized the results of the real medicine.
Means just the strong belief of taking a powerful medicine itself healed many people who in fact took a fake medicine (sugar pill).
The same is true for the exact opposite as well and it is called ‘Nocebo effect’. No matter what drug we take or healthy lifestyle we follow if we believe and think that there is no hope, nothing is going to save us, we don’t have the power to fight back, then our immune system weakens internally. The moment we are fearful, nervous, stressful, anxious and believe in negative information, we tend to lose hope and get depressed. This lowers strength of our immune system in our body. In the absence of a strong immune system, any kind of external microbes like virus or bacteria can spread faster and can cause more infection then usual circumstances.
What can you do in tough and difficult times
- Have faith, have hope, have belief, have trust.
- Do the best you could to strengthen yourself physically and mentally.
- Eat healthy food, have some physical exercise and movement, take enough rest by sleeping well and take nutritional supplements in optimum dosages.
- Strongly believe that you have the ability to fight and come out victorious .
- Expose yourself to positive news and information. Avoid negativity and fake news.
- Watch, listen to something that makes you optimistic about future and motivates you to do better.
- Involve yourself in activities that gives you positive energy.
- Help and support others in which ever way you can.
- Be critical, realistic and scientific in your thinking as there is a lot of misinformation outside.
- Be a pillar of strength to your family and community instead of spreading fear.
- Pray for all those people who are providing their selfless services during tough times.
As some great person said
“Do the best you could do with what you have and where you are. Be resourceful rather than looking out for resources. Believe and stand for something in life so that you do not fall for anything“
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