A healthy mindset is essential for experiencing the wellness and quality of life we most desire. The thoughts we hold and our subsequent emotional responses shape our perceptions of the world. What we think and how we feel magnetize like energies. The life we experience is a product of what we believe based on what we sense. A mindset has a direct impact on our bodies. If we attend only to what we think is true and the subsequent data that it brings to our awareness, the realm of interpretations shrinks. A healthy mindset finds beauty, perfection, and peace where its opposite also takes up residence. It’s a rain shower on a work site that momentarily cools a blistering hot day, offering a second wind and sense of pride for a job soon to be hard won.
A Healthy Mindset for Prevention
Over ten years ago, I spent long hours training clients in the middle of August. Boxing in winter, my feet appeared corpse-like, lacking circulation, but summertime sessions were like boxing on the sun. The air conditioner in the studio was ineffective in quelling the oppressive humidity, and without the industrial fan we named Carl, no one except the MMA team would dare train in the tropical conditions. My spandex athletic shorts stayed wet for hours until I left for an evening swim in the local lake with my daughter. During this time, I developed symptoms consistent with a urinary tract infection. It didn’t surprise me when I had a disconcerting realization: I needed a prescription.
I’ve had the luxury of having a robust, healthy mindset regarding my physical wellness and rarely visit a doctor. With no primary care doctor on record, I met with a licensed practical nurse (LPN). The pee test revealed bacteria indicative of a minor UTI, and there was blood in my urine.
“You’ll need to return for bloodwork and other tests.”
I had no intention of returning unnecessarily, so I explained that I’d done extreme abdominal exercises the day before. Only I knew how much I could overdo, and I was sure it caused the test result.
“I appreciate your time, but I just want the prescription. I’m good. Thanks!”
“What do you mean you’re good?” She snorted!
What came out of the nurse’s mouth next was shocking.
“You might have bladder cancer!”
“I just met you, and you’re gonna use the C-word!”
I left imagining scenarios of her planting poison seeds in the minds of patients with medical anxiety.
I have a good sense of my body. My approach is to listen to it first. Medical advice should be a complement, not a compromise that is made to meet cookie-cutter protocols. A healthy mindset is critical to wellness. When I’ve fed my body stress or talked about an ailment or injury, discord ensued. Reflecting on how amazing my body serves me fortifies it!
The Power of Suggestion
The methods used by a preventative culture to induce fear have indoctrinated our way of living. This hijacking of creative power aligns our energies with maladies. Health insurance and pharmaceutical companies bombard our lives with marketing that withers our expectations of good health without their help. Know that your imaginative power can strengthen or weaken you. Safeguard your energetic flow by recognizing when it’s growing malady. Consider the various ways you can reframe your inner narrative to cultivate a healthy mindset and overall improved wellness.
The Power of Your Focus
When I ran groups for survivors of trauma, my self-identity aligned with old traumatic experiences. There was a time when conversations about coping with an activated nervous system, nightmares, and the prevalence of predators brought forth a most notable shift. It heightened all the symptoms I experienced at an earlier time in my life. My focus on abuse survivors blinded me to evidence of healthy relationships. Aside from my studio, there appeared to be no safe and empowering communities, homes, and spaces for young women and girls.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Embodying a healed identity and sharing a new story brought an empowered view—a healthy mindset that understands its power.
Ask yourself: Is this self-definition aligned with who I truly am? If you define yourself in ways that feel disturbingly familiar, you’re likely choosing thoughts from an outdated narrative. Allow the greater truth of wholeness to adjust your perception, bringing a new reality into focus. A healthy mindset helps you imagine yourself on a mountain top, not hiding in a closet.
Recognize When the External Mars Your Mindset
I find it imperative to avoid pharmaceutical commercials. I avoid them for my sanity and because I don’t want to amplify the harm they cause by letting my indignation fuel it. My mom is suggestible, always has been. I’ve recently had to discontinue a free streaming service she’s enjoyed because of its incessant repetition of a drug commercial. One of dozens of disclaimers in the Ad states the drug is not for people with dementia because they are 5x more likely to suffer a stroke. I recoil each time I hear it. Why contaminate her mind with an insidious affirmation? These commercials implant toxic nuggets of thought into each listener’s subconscious. Even without this harmful statement, the list of the drug’s potential to cause damage spat off for 30 or more seconds leaves my gut in a knot.
Be Discerning
Everything that is advised does not necessarily benefit you. Choose to care for yourself in ways that feel right for you, helping you feel cared for and whole.
Participation in mainstream medical care:
- It is a privilege denied to many.
- Feeds the U.S. health and wellness industry, a multi-trillion-dollar business that lines the pockets of big business, not for public health but for profit. In 2023, it was valued at $2 trillion, according to the Global Wellness Institute (GWI).
- It can be both life-saving and potentially harmful.
- It leads some consumers toward a disease-focused mindset, dismissing natural, healthful, life-supporting habits and alternatives.
- It is a personal choice.
For those of you who wish to offer examples of why looking for disease through invasive tests each year is necessary to have good health, please don’t. If a life-saving intervention has been a blessing to you, I sincerely wish you health and happiness in all aspects of your life. If you feel justified in wishing ill health on those who don’t follow the expected prescribed protocols for medical adherence, know that intentional energy gathers momentum on its return to the sender. For the healthiest outcomes, feel good about choosing what you value and allow others to do the same.
A Healthy Mindset for Helping
When I was young, I was extremely empathetic and fearful of people committing harm to vulnerable people and animals. I obsessively worried over making sure no one felt left out, even if that someone was an inanimate object—a lonely pea on a plate had to be eaten, and every stuffed animal wished a goodnight. If I thought I missed one, I started over. It wasn’t a healthy mindset, but it was me. As I got older, I learned I wouldn’t survive living with my heart outside of my chest. I suppressed my emotions so I could do the work of helping without collapsing into a flood of tears or, worse, engaging in a verbal smackdown — a retaliatory outrage in response to injustice.
I found it necessary to shut off my emotions almost completely to work in crisis services. Entering a home with a baby strapped to a high chair, drinking root beer from a bottle, and eating Skittles was par for the course. Back then, I was just trying to get through each day. I was unaware of the power of my mindset. All I knew was that, with judgment and emotional intensity, I was not effective in achieving the best outcomes. Read more: Conscious Creation From What’s Foul.
A Shift To Helping Through Being
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Einstein (paraphrased)
Learning how to allow charged emotions to rise for real-time release while also pivoting toward a healthy mindset has taken a lot of practice. It’s a delicate dance of allowing what is undesired to be while simultaneously refocusing on what is pleasing, possible, and desired.
Faced with adversity, the human spirit still often finds beauty and goodness. I’ve often thought that it’s a testament to human resilience that people find moments of peace in the songs of songbirds, the beauty of wildflowers, and dreams of a warm, safe bed while being in a concentration camp or war zone. Surely, being a witness to harm at a safe distance, we can muster the energy required to lighten suffering instead of amplifying it. Let anger, disgust, and heartache be the fuel that pushes you toward mastery. It is not in matching consciousness that offers a healing salve, but in embodying our desired result.
Do what you can, when and where you can, with love. Remember, wherever you go, your mindset and state of being have the potential to be either an elixir or a venom.
Regardless of what is happening around me, I intend to find peace. What’s changed is my understanding of the power of my focus. Viewing life through the lens of a higher consciousness creates a healthy mindset. This elevated beingness attunes and draws to my senses what’s easy to interpret as equally beautiful. A consciousness that holds a frequency to the highest possible sensitivity, like a metal detector scanning a trash heap, will detect even small pieces of gold. Imagine what could happen if we approached our problems and concerns in this way. Unexpected and miraculous transformations happen!
Are you interested in supportive services to help create an environment that supports intentional living? Please visit me here: Estelle Bonaceto. The more your perceptions are optimized, the easier it is to make environmental upgrades, and vice versa. Please see my Coaching Services or Metaphysical Services (Spiritual Tools 101) pages to learn about services that will expand your thinking and support your discernment. Where in your life do you already operate from a healthy mindset, and where do you still believe you are powerless? I’d love to help you develop a mindset that recognizes the importance of your commitment to finding gold.
