Having a positive attitude is essential to your well-being. Your resolve to change and your enthusiasm towards life will be reflected in your physical and mental health. If you think you will fail, you will. If you think you will succeed, you may not, but you’re not beat before you start. Be realistic and honest with yourself.
Do not base your attitude on thinking things are worse than they are or better than they are.
Make sure you know the truth, get accurate information about your disease and its treatments and side effects. Be proactive in your health care; know what the doctor is talking about when you discuss treatment options.
Stay in the present; don’t make things worse imagining a future with pain, disability or loss.
Accept your situation but don’t overly identify with it, your disease may be a fapart of your life, but that doesn’t mean that it has to control your life.
Maintain your perspective; focus on things that bring peace, laughter, joy and meaning.
Watch your words and thinking, if you hear yourself talking negatively, substitute positive phrases. Say, I will find a way to live with your disease instead of saying your disease is ruining my life.
Try to relax, tell yourself that difficult times will pass.
Visualize health, not illness. Visualization is a powerful tool for self transformation.
Practice gratitude; make it a habit to find things you are grateful for.
Learn what you control and what you do not, there are things you can’t control, such as the fact you have your disease. However there are things you can control and your attitude is a major one.
Learn from your disease; ask yourself what I have learned about the value of life since having a disease that could be fatal if left untreated.
Get support, being with others who are dealing with the same issues can bring encouragement and hope.
Value your life; make sure it has meaning and purpose.
Life is not about finding yourself, its about creating yourself.
Make a “Bucket list” and start working on it feverishly. Enjoy yourself it’s later than you think
Love, cherish, and respect your fellow man and put the ones you love at the top of this list.
Help others, when it comes to stepping outside ourselves, probably nothing works as well as reaching out to others who are struggling.
Look at the world through the eyes of a child, full of joy, wonder, promise, beauty and excitement.
Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.