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Bestow Beauty

02 Apr 2020
Featured, The Bestow Blog

The Power of Beliefs

The power of your beliefs on your physical body and your ultimate reality is only just being understood. 

 

Beliefs or mindsets allow us to react to recurring situations in our lives without having to re-analyse them each time we encounter them. For example if we find ourselves in a dark alley in a questionable part of town, we may automatically react as if we are in danger without even much conscious thought. Our bodies will flood with adrenalin, our heart will pound and we will become hyper alert. This is a perfect example of how a belief can impact physically on your body.

 

Alia Crum, a psychologist and researcher at Stanford University, and her team have done a lot of work in the area of beliefs and their impact on our physical reality. They have even shown that drinking a smoothie you believe to be high in calories, will decrease the level of hunger hormones in your blood much more than drinking one you believe is low in calories. Even when number of calories is exactly the same in both drinks! Now that is the power of the mind.

Our beliefs are powerful!  We now know they influence our bodies responses and our physical reality. But some beliefs are damaging and it’s now thought that our mindset around stress could be one of those negative beliefs.

What is your mindset about stress?  Do you believe that stress is debilitating, undermines your health and should be avoided?  Or do you believe instead that it is protective of your health, helps you grow and learn and should be embraced?

 

Whatever your belief is, the physical outcome of your stress is likely to reflect your mindset.  This was first discovered in one rather famous study carried out in 1998. In this particular study 30,000 people were questioned about the amount of stress they had experienced in the past year and their beliefs around that stress. They were then divided into three groups:

 

  1. Those that experienced little stress
  2. Those that experienced a lot of stress and believed it to be negative for their health
  3. Those that experienced a lot of stress but believed it to be positive for their health

 

Eight years later, researchers looked at the results, who still lived and who had died. Not surprisingly those people who had experienced very little stress over this time lived longer than those who had experienced a lot of stress but, here’s the catch. This was only true if those stressed people believed that stress was bad for them! Much to the surprise of everyone, the group that suffered the least fatalities of all groups was the people who had experienced the most stress but believed it was good for them.

The take home message from this study was that stress kills, but only if you believe does! If you believe it offers benefits to your health, you are likely to live longer.

The power of our beliefs is becoming more evident. They’ve the ability to influence your health and wellbeing. If you think your beliefs around stress need a re-think, read ‘The Upside of Stress’ by Kelly McGonigal or alternatively here’s a link to a free 45 minute online intervention. It’s free to do through the Stanford University.

 

This quick little activity will ensure you get the very best out of stress!

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