The ‘Attitude Factor’: Are your attitudes damaging your health?

Research indicates that your prospects for good health and long life can be remarkably dependent upon mental habits learned in childhood. These attitudes cause emotional reactions which can strongly affect your immune system, circulatory system and even your risk of accidents. The strength of this correlation between attitudes and health may have been grossly underestimated.
 
In 1973 Dr. Grossarth-Maticek gave a brief test measuring habitual feelings of pleasure and well-being to thousands of older people. Twenty-one years later, he compared the test scores with health status. The results were amazing: the 300 people who had scored highest turned out to be thirty times more likely to be alive and well 21 years later than the 200 lowest!
 
The practical implications of this experiment are staggering! Though the test focused only on mental factors, it appeared to predict future health more effectively than a much longer test on traditional risk factors.
 
Improving health with attitude training
 
Though the idea of improving your health prospects by changing attitudes may sound like a fantasy, experiments have shown that a small amount of training spread over a year can be amazingly effective. In 1973 an amazing experiment indicated just that.
 
1200 people who had scored poorly on attitude tests were divided into two equal-sized groups. One group of 600 was given a self-help brochure and six, one-hour training sessions spread over a one year period. The other 600 were given no training or placebo training.
 
When the health status of the two groups was checked 13 years later, 409 of the people given the training were still alive versus only 97 of the equal-sized control group! If you think it's too late for you to change, think again: the average age of the people in the experiment was 58!
 
To find out more about The Attitude Factor and to take a self-evaluation test please follow the link below:
 
www.attitudefactor.com
 
Copies of the ‘The Attitude Factor’ can be borrowed from 3rd Age Centre reception.
 
If you are interested in participating in a programme based on this concept, please see the Attitude Jogging programme details.