THE ULTIMATE HEALTH PLAN -- Are you ready?
Author: Harvey Cohen, Ph.D.

The undependability, arrogance, and the high cost of health care leave us no choice.We are going to have to find a way to get sick less, and, perhaps, ultimately, not get sick at all.

HOW CAN THAT BE? Oh, it 'be' alright!

There is one element that is absolutely essential for maximum health, healing, and recovery,that no treatment, no medication, no remedy, or HMO, addresses to the degree it needs to be addressed. (Sooner or later that one element will be universal knowledge.)

That one element is an ATTITUDE OF HOPE AND OPTIMISM. A pessimistic/negative attitude of mind is the culprit that sabotages health, wealth, and overall well-being. The beneficial phenomenon that is an optimistic attitude is so much more than you could ever imagine, and deserves your serious investigation.

GET THIS-......This will blow you away: A 20/20 - ABC TV report found that the number one reason for the longevity of healthy, enthusiastic, mentally alert and physically active men and woman over 100 years of age is an optimistic, lighthearted, hopeful attitude. Not diet, not exercise, not drugs. The evidence is overwhelming.

Doctors agree that an optimistic, hopeful, positive patient is a better candidate for healing and recovery than a pessimistic, gloom and doom patient.

Research shows that optimists advance in age as healthy, spry,productive, agile, younger looking, enormously creative, life affirming, fun loving, ineresting, a 'pleasure to be around' people. Pessimists age as bores and pains in the _______. It's a GETTING BETTER, NOT OLDER thing!

The mind and the body are connected. Of this there is no doubt.Thanks to the likes of Drs. Bernie Siegel, Carl Simmonton,Deepak Chopra, William James, to name a few, sooner or later traditional methods of healing will be as obsolete as blood letting, leaches, and the horse and buggy.

NORMAN COUSINS, author of "An Anatomy Of An Illness" was one of the first to discover that optimism, laughter, frivolity, and lightheartedness naturally relieve stress and naturally release immune strengthening-healing endorphins into the body that are more powerful and effective than man-made drugs and remedies. Whereas worry, negativity, and panic, release harmful acids that bring about 'stress/anxiety', the forerunner to all dis-ease.

Yup, it's attitude that determines the effectiveness of traditional healing treatments, not the treatments themselves. Otherwise everyone would get the same results from the same traditional treatments, and not everyone does.

O.K., so you've heard a million times before that a positive mental attitude is desirable for a more uplifting quality of life. What you may not have heard, or even thought about much, or perhaps not taking seriously enough is that.......ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. Really!

Attitude, negative or positive, is an ENERGY, that, in the most remarkable manner, affects your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Of this there is no doubt.

It is not unusual to deny or not recognize one's own narrow-minded, negative nature, thereby causing unnecessary recurring unpleasantness.

Here's the kicker: A 'negative, doom and gloom, pessimistic attitude', the cause to life's bummers, is a HABIT picked up and learned from others, not something anyone is born with. Get it? Therefore, like any habit, can be broken. Of course if you do not know that pessimism/negativity is a habit, you continue to block much of the natural good stuff that is part and parcel to an optimistic mind-set.

To fully understand the natural phenomenal beneficial nature of an open-minded, positive outlook on life, and to be willing to spin off old limiting attitudinal habits that deny you more of the pleasantness in life, is the best game in town. The rewards will astound you.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING! Pick a good one. It's in your hands. Or rather, it's in your head. Get it? Got it? Good!








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Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., author, lecturer and television host,conducts self-discovery seminars for personal and corporate growth. He has inspired countless thousands to greater heights of success, creativity, and joy. Harvey's unique and impactful manner for communicating universal truths will inform you, thrill you, motivate you, and free you to live your life in the most joyous and prosperous way. His wit and wisdom will stay with you for a long, long time. Harvey's books and tapes are used world-wide as self-empowering resources by doctors, therapists, and educators, for their patients and students.

HarveyCohen@aaaha.com http://www.aaaha.com/optimum_health.htm

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