The Science of Being Well

"The Science of Being Well" is a book that was written in 1910 by a guy named Wallace Wattles. In it he talks of what it takes for being healthy. While there is a section on what he thinks people should eat which is basically just eat when you are hungry, the majority of it focuses on our thoughts.

Can we think ourselves sick? Do our thoughts create our pain and injuries?

The whole concept is being reinforced and even proven by science now. Our thoughts send out chemicals that tell the body to feel a certain way. When we are self critical, negative, always complaining and focusing on our pain what we get usually is more of it.

When you start focusing on what it is that you can do for yourself to create health, your whole perspective can change.

Part of it is also being grateful for what you do have so that you can stop focusing on what you don't have. When you have back or neck pain, you are probably saying "I don't want this Pain". You are continually focusing on the pain.

When you start changing your thoughts to "What can I do to be more healthy?" there comes a slight sense of relief.

What you can do is start taking better care of yourself and get regular massage therapy session. Acknowledging your needs for stress relief is a big step in moving towards health.

And massage can assist in helping to calm the body down so that you can start to become more aware of what it is that you are telling yourself about the pain or you can begin to learn more about what the message of the pain is about.

Healing happens when you change your thoughts.

As Mr. Wattles says in the Science of Being Well, "The Power that Heals is in the patient himself, and whether it shall become active or not does not always depend upon the physcial or mental means used, but upon the way the patient thinks about these means...This healing Power is dormant or active, according to the way a person thinks. He can always quicken it into activity by thinking a Certain Way."

You can read the full text in an E-book format that is available for free at Science of Being Well