Is there any evidence??

I have been told that the power of positive thinking seems to hold water with a lot of people.  Does anyone here have any experiences where using positive thoughts and verbally willing an illness to heal will actually aid them in recovery?  Just thought I'd throw that out there.  I would like to believe this helps but I am also a skeptic by nature when it omes to alternative treatments.  My motto has always been the proof is in the pudding.   Would like to open my mind up to the possibility of anything.  Let me know what you all think\

I don't know if positive thoughts can heal anything but it can't hurt either. I am always telling people to think positive (I don't always follow it myself though :) ). It can't hurt to think positive but i definately think that by thinking negitive it can bring you down.

I am am absolute believer of positive thinking,as a therapist I see the results all the time in my practice!!! I so believe that happiness is a choice-and our thoughts are in our control-mental illness aside- choosing to look at things in the best possible light leaves us in a better place.
I have heard, too, that hypnosis-putting suggestions in-actually can slow bleeding during surgery and speed healing.  The mind body connection is so amazing and I don't think we have any idea how to harness the total power we have to heal ourselves from depression, anxiety etc. SO, positive affirmations, and more importantly keeping an attitude of gratitude workds for me! After all, as long as there is breath there is hope!!!
YOU have a wonderful day and thanks for posting this!!

I feel better just reading this!

I am a believer in positive thinking as well.

I absoluely believe that if I wasn't thinking positively I wouldnt have been released from the hospital soo quickly or felt so great after surgery. I set my mind to positive the moment I stepped into Maine Med on Monday and never stopped.

I began over a year ago reading a book called The Secret and then some other books by author Jack Canfield. They have helped me alot.

Best of Luck to you.

I agree with the positive thoughts!  It seems as though when I am acting or thinking negatively, negative things happen, but when I turn it around..........well, it always seems to go a little better!

I am a believer, I think just going into this surgery with such positive thoughts has helped me immensly, I have been so very lucky, I was released the next day and have been up and about since. I am doing and feeling great and have been since I left the hospital. Yeh I had come soreness, but I do not feel sore at all now (4 weeks out). I have worked the last two weeks with no problem. I do beleive having such a positve outlook going into this is the reason I feel so great !!!!!!!!!!!!!! At least that is what I would like to think and I does me no harm to believe..