| Western Medicine has come a tremendous way and | | | | A negative mental attitude can kill just as much as |
| can now heal cancers, previously deadly diseases, and | | | | positive attitude can have a healing effect. A nurse |
| many other health problems. Western medicine has | | | | once told me that she refrains telling patients who |
| become so prevalent that it has pushed out a | | | | are terminally ill that this is the case. Instead, she |
| number of previously effective healing practices that | | | | focuses on helping people fight and see positive |
| are much simpler, cost effective, easier and more | | | | things they can attempt or look forward to. The |
| pleasant to apply. Additionally, sound and long-term | | | | nurse told me that she has been doing that after |
| focus of health is great for disease prevention. | | | | earlier on her career she was more straight forward |
| I am not aware of particular studies done on healing | | | | with her patients and a number of them lost hope, |
| by mental attitudes, but I have personally seen a | | | | stopped fighting, and did not make it. Once the nurse |
| number of people be helped from changing their | | | | started being more encouraging, she reported seeing |
| attitudes to be more positive, and have a reverse | | | | a higher survival rate among her patients. She then |
| health effect when their mental attitude became | | | | started to put more emphasis on mental attitude |
| more negative or hopeless. | | | | positivity, and giving her patients hope and a feeling |
| Personally, after working on a company that was | | | | of being needed. She told me that this resulted in |
| struggling, I went through a lot of stress and began | | | | overall increased patient well-being. |
| to experience back pain that kept getting worse as | | | | Ultimately, Western science deals with things that are |
| the amount of my stress was increasing. Once the | | | | quantifiable and measurable. Mental attitude is difficult |
| company began recovering, I became happier and | | | | to measure and science has not focused on the |
| my stress became "good stress" as I was happy to | | | | effect of attitudes on health. It is too bad because |
| work hard. Surprisingly, my back pain began to be | | | | many people can focus on their attitudes and mental |
| better. I also noticed myself having more energy for | | | | positivity which help them improve their health. |
| daily activities. | | | | |