The power of positive thinking is so pervasive today that many doctors and nurses strongly recommend developing a positive mental attitude to prevent sickness, to help overcome medical setbacks like disease, and to assist in the recovery from surgery.
There is healing power in positive thinking. But can you heal yourself just by being positive, optimistic and focused? Yes! It is believed that positive thoughts are able to prompt physiological changes in your body that strengthen your immune system, decrease pain, and provide stress relief.

The “Power of Positive Thinking”, a self-help book by Norman Vincent Peale, published in the last century, first proposed the method of "Positive Thinking". It aimed to ensure that one could achieve a permanent fruitful and optimistic attitude through constant positive influence of his/her conscious thought. This was to be accomplished through affirmations/visualizations, thus allowing one to attain higher satisfaction and quality of life.
Similarly, in the book, “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, the Law of Attraction is explored and suggests that whatever energy, thoughts, or visualizations you put out into the universe, you will receive. So, if you send out negative vibes, or think something negative will happen, it probably will. If you send out positive vibes, positive things will be returned.
How to develop positive beliefs, and drive expectations to activate self-healing
Start by applying the right kind of positive thinking so that you direct your subconscious mind to help heal your body and improve your life.
1. Direct your conscious and subconscious mind to help you heal.
2. Apply positive thinking. Don’t worry, be happy. "Worry only takes the joy out of your day".
3. Find a way to focus on the positive. What are you grateful for? Start a mental list of the things and people in your life that you are thankful for.
4. Be optimistic.
