Your thoughts are the key. Thoughts become beliefs; thoughts and beliefs together help determine whether “good” or “bad” messages are sent from your brain to the rest of your body, including your immune system. What you think can literally make you sick—or healthy.

Your mind is like a factory, filled with assembly lines producing chemical messages. Speeding along the various pathways in your body, the messages bring happiness, depression, health or disease. How do you know what the message will be? You create many of the messages with your thoughts. You, and only you, determine if they are messages of joy or despair.

What are some of the “bad” messages? Anger and rage result in the production of large amounts of epinephrine (adrenaline) and other powerful chemicals. Long-term manufacture and release of these strong substances can lead to elevated blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers and other problems. Depression and self-doubt spur the synthesis of hormones such as cortisone. Cortisone is an important and necessary body substance, but too much of it can have a deadly effect on your immune system, encouraging infeciions and even cancer.

The messages you want to see spread through your body are those of health and happiness. And for that you must look to hormones such as the endorphins. As I explained in a previous book, DLPA to End Chronic Pain and Depression (1985), the endorphins, produced by various cells in your body, are responsible for lifting your mood and blocking certain kinds of pain. It’s postulated that chronic pain and depression are related to a deficiency of endorphins in the body.

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