Article Title: A One Word Tonic for Creating a Positive Change in Your Life Author Name: Doug C. Grant Contact Email Address: doug @dougcgrant.com or dcgrant@horizonview.net Available On-Line at: www.dougcgrant.com/great.txt Available by Autoresponder at: great@smartautoresponder.com Word Count: 596 Line Wrap: 60 Characters Category: Anti-Aging Copyright Date: 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email to doug@dougcgrant.com

A ONE WORD TONIC FOR CREATING A POSITIVE CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE

by Doug C. Grant

"How's it going?"

That's a simple greeting. Except it seems as though after climbing the 50-year f ence we tend to get a little less enthusiastic about our response.

A typical answer is often, "Oh puttin' up with the usual aches and pains. But at my age you can't expect anything else."

Bad answer...bad thinking...bad consequences!

Here's the right answer to 'How's it going?'

'GREAT!'

Okay, so maybe you aren't feeling so great. Doesn't matter.

Or maybe you think a 'woe-is-me' routine will earn you a sympathetic response. Not likely. People are not routinely devoted to feeling sorry for other people's problems. Sorry about that. But it happens to be true.

So what's so great about the word 'GREAT'?

It can do more for you than a pill or a potion. Here's why.

You have inside your head two minds...one conscious the other subconscious. The subconscious controls about 90% of your mental activity, which also happens to include your state of health.

For example, consider the sugar pill. It has absolutely no formulated ability to heal. Yet when someone is given a sugar pill and told it's a new wonder drug that will cure their 'whatever'...guess what? Often their 'whatever' symptoms disappear. They feel great. Life is wonderful again.

Then they receive the truth. The pill is nothing but sugar. Within hours the 'whatever' symptoms come screaming back. This happens so frequently it has even been given a name. It's called 'The Placebo Effect'. And that's your subconscious at work.

The word 'GREAT' also works on your subconscious.

When someone asks how you feel and you respond, 'Great!', you are actually talking to your subconscious. It listens. It believes.

Tell it enough times that you feel 'Great!' and it will do everything in it's considerable power to bring that feeling into reality. Of course if you go away mumbling to yourself that actually you feel pretty lousy, your subconscious will also listen to that and cancel any 'Great!' feelings it might have been working on.

True story. Some good old boys decided to play a joke on one of their number. They stationed themselves at various places along the accustomed morning route of their victim and individually greeted him with something like, "Hey Ted, you look terrible. You should be home in bed."

Ted laughed off the first two encounters. But after the fifth greeting, he headed home. He spent the next week between the sheets being terribly, ridiculously but very physically ill.

It comes down to this. If the mind can make you sick it can also make you well.

Don't take my word for it...try it.

Start out the day determined to respond to every "How ya doin'?" greeting with the tonic word, 'Great!' Refuse to get dragged into any recital of aches and pains...particularly yours.

Stiffen your back, keep your chin up and float the word 'Great!' on the tip of your tongue. Even if you start the day feeling lousy, chances are you'll end the day feeling a whole lot better. Keep it up and that 'Great!' feeling will become a way of life for you. Not bad for one little word.

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