Weightloss, Health, Mindset and Laughter

Written by Jill and is filed under the Category: "A Champion Mindset"

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There is an increasing awareness of the relationship between weight loss and health in these days. This certainly seems logical since overweight conditions are for the most part a result of wrong eating and lack of exercise, both of which will affect your health as well as your weight.

However there is another area which is not quite as recognized as the other two, but which in fact plays an even bigger part in our succeeding with any resolutions to change our weight. This is the area of our mindset.

Can you stay in a negative frame of mind when you are laughing your head off?
Quite a few years ago heard a testimony of someone who was diagnosed with cancer and given just weeks to live. This person made a decision: “if I am going to die soon, I may as well die laughing”. Not TOTALLY positive, but at least he was moving in the right direction.

So they set off to the local video store to rent all of the old time funnies with stars such as Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello. These movies were their favorites and so they spent days watching these old comedies and laughing and laughing.

I certainly remember these movies, and my favorite comedy team was Laurel and Hardy.

Laurel and Hardy were crazy yet genius in comedy, a very unlikely pair (one from London and one from Georgia). I remember seeing many of their movies during my youth. Of course I am still in my youth

Interestingly enough, as I am completing this article, the public station (PBS) is playing on the TV in the background.

The program is a documentary about the old comedies and of course Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers are there.

For our cancer patient there was of course no room for remorse, sadness or any negative thinking during those days of such mirth. What was result of this exercise? Instead of dying laughing, they LIVED, the cancer gone. Two weeks of laughter proved to be an excellent prescription for health!

Yes mindset DOES affect our health.
Even physicians now agree that things like arthritis and many other ailments can be greatly attributed to harboring bitterness, anger and lack of forgiveness in our hearts and minds.

What about the role of our mindsets in weight loss?
A good twitter friend, Shileen Nixen, has an excellent testimony of how she was able to conquer her weight problem once she faced the fact that “it was the emotional and mindset part that needed major work”. See her article: Weight Loss Weigh More Than a Diet

And let’s face it, how mad or sad can you stay when you are laughing your head off? Of course you feel better. So it is clear that a good laugh can only have a positive affect on your mind. It will clear you mind, lighten your attitude and relax you.

There is also an excellent three part series on Mindset and Weightloss to be found on www.transformedfitness.com

The state of our minds plays a VERY important role in every area of our lives, including health and weight loss. After all Solomon who was the wisest man who every lived did say “As he thinks in his heart, so is he” Ps 23:7. (This truth has become more popular today with the producing of the film “The Secret”).

Solomon also knew that laughter is good! Proverbs 17:22 tells us “A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” Now that’s one medicine I can take! How about you?

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