Results of ” A Positive Mental Outlook “

Posted by Lew on February 16, 2009

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Okay, it’s time to go over what I found out with this little experiment…

While I stopped this experiment a few days short of the full thirty day experiment I do have some results anyway..

The idea behind this experiment, as I explained to my wife and to you my readers. was to see if it was possible to just ” focus yourself to have a better day physically and (especially ) mentally ” in dealing with this disease that I have.

Going back over the posts that were related to this experiment…

Positive Thoughts Begin With Positive Inspiration!

Okay, I found this idea to be true and in most cases was very effective on an everyday basis. Although, I will say that on at least two or three days out of the month where I was dealing with more than just one problem effecting me, reading Joel Osteen’s daily message was just not enough. But I do not consider this a failure on the principal.

Lew’s Journal

There were a lot of posts here during the month that this was going on, but the posts that I did in the journal as far as my eating were pretty important, just to see where I was as far as the food I was eating and how what I was eating might be effecting my condition. Now I thought that this might be important because the CSS, has certainly made some changes to my digestive system. I seem to digest and break down food a little slower than I did before, so ” Other Processes ” are definitely effected…and I’ll leave it at that.

One other thing that I need to point out is about my ” Sweets Intake “. I can be honest here and say, that on the average day during this experiment, I did feel better without the sweets than ingesting copious amounts of cake a day. I would say that this area was a big winner, all in all.

Following A Routine To Gain A Positive Result

This was a definite positive result for me. I tried to follow the same routine everyday, and added something tom the routine as I needed to. You know, when you already know that you, as a person, as an individual needs a small bit of structure, this is definitely the way to go. I would recommend to anyone who could use a bit of structure, to take baby steps, and only start with just two or three things to follow a day to begin with.

My problem was trying to do too much in my routine…In my case, taking all the pills I require before I head out the door, plus my blood tests, and having things ready, again before I hit the door for work, at times were a bit much for me, but as I said I have a lot that I have to do on average before I hit the door, so my routine might be a bit larger than what you might have to do.

Exercise

Unfortunately, in my case Exercise was not the factor I had hoped it would be. The best I was able to do on most days were some sit ups and a few push ups. I had wanted to use my ” Bowflex ” on a semi daily basis, but due to other things that I needed to do ( like getting snow cleared, which in and of itself was enough exercise for me! ) did not actually leave me with much energy or time to devote to this area. So here I would have to say this was a failure.

Staying Focused

I had talked about this in a very short post, and I did so because I was having some real problems with my asthma due to the cold weather here in upstate NY, having to go on a higher dosage of prednisone…which in the end just was effecting my moods, and attitude in general…so I thought that it might be a good idea to get some positive reinforcement by re-reading Joel Osteen’s book.

The problem here was the fact that I only started one chapter, and that was about all I was able to do..as I got too busy to read that book.

And I am still too busy to get back to reading the book…at least for the moment…so I would have top say that this was also a failure…but just so we are clear, I will be going back to reading Joel’s book again very soon.

Balance And A Positive Mental Outlook

Okay, while I meant well on this one, I have to be honest here and just come out and say that this was a failure for me. At the time that I wanted to try to apply this to the experiment, I was becoming overworked and stressed out in my life again.

I had promised my wife when I got out of the hospital back in June that I would slow my life down somewhat because quite frankly, ” I was way too busy for my own good “.

Running my one blog ( yes at the time I only had one blog! ) fanboy@50 along with the business associated with it, L&K’S Anime Otaku Heaven was really more than enough to have to deal with at the time when I had just gotten home.

And while I feel that this part of the experiment was not particularly successful, I am still striving to cut down on the amount of work I do, which for me anyway, is the only way I will have any type of balance in my life, compartmentalizing be damned.

In Conclusion

Okay, as I’m writing this at almost midnight, Eastern Standard Time and sipping a Hot Chocolate with some Kahlua Mudslide drink in it, and eating some (three actually ) Toll House cookies that Sue baked a little while ago, I see from what I’ve written here that this experiment kinda of came out even as far as success and failure ratios are concerned.

But the one thing that I have to impart to everyone is one simple thing…on days where I had everything as far as my condition going haywire, there was just no amount of ” Positive Mental ” anything that made a difference in my condition, so in this one respect…I would have to call the experiment a partial failure, because there were just times where when I needed that ” Mental Approach ” to really make a difference at those extreme moments with my health, and I just could not make it happen no matter what mental approach I tried to apply to help correct that one crucial aspect, which in the end was what this experiment was supposed to be all about.