Follow
your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think. ―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
You
will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your
mind. ― Roy T. Bennett
Nothing
can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” ―Thomas
Jefferson
As we continue on our journey to accomplish our dreams and goals, it
is always great to be reminded how important the mind is on this journey. To prove this statement, science is a great
resource.
Dr. Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist, decided to research the
perception on how much we think we exercise compared to how our bodies actually
look. Langer talked with hotel maids to
see how much they feel they worked out.
As we all know, they are very active in their jobs, but 67% of the maids
did not believe they worked out and about 33% did not believe they got any
exercise at all.
The researchers measured the maids body measurements that would indicate
overall health including body-fat, waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, weight
and body mass index. These numbers
indicated the maids’ perception of not exercising even though their job had
them regularly exercising.
Langer divided up the 84 maids into two groups. Half of the group was told how many calories
each of their daily activities burned and also told them that the surgeon
general considered their lifestyles to be “active” based on their jobs. When the researchers returned one month
later, the educated group had a decrease in their systolic blood pressure,
weight and waist-to-hip ratio.
Additionally, there was a 10 percent drop in the 42 maids blood
pressure. There was concern that the
maids had changed their behavior and that is why the decrease may have
happened. However, researchers talked
with both the maids and their managers and there was no change in their
behavior.
Langer believes that the change in the maids’ measurements was simply
a change in their mindset because they had been educated about how much
exercise they did daily. She believes
that our bodies may respond to a mindset over what we are actually doing.
If you have a strong mind
and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. ―Paramahansa Yogananda
CHALLENGE: How do you need to change your
mindset to help you accomplishing your dreams and goals?
Resources
http://jnsci.org/files/html/2017/e384.htm
Change Your
Thoughts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-aBnBtsYKY
Positive Affirmations to Change Your
Attitude - https://www.terri.com/positive-affirmations-to-change-your-attitude/
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