You Get What You Focus On

Posted on 5 April 2007

I never get ill. Seriously, I don’t think I have had more than 2 or 3 days off work in the last 10 years and it’s something that I am rightly or wrongly proud of. This doesn’t mean I suffer through illness and carry on, it means I simply never feel run down.

I thoroughly believe that you get what you focus your attention on in life, and that we become the product of our thoughts. Now I am not sure whether this is pure science fact i.e. like attracts like and that’s just physics or whether it is more esoteric than that and to be honest I’m not sure I really care.

I had a conversation about this with my mother-in-law when I was on vacation last month as she has had numerous health problems over the last few years. I pointed out rather smugly that I didn’t get ill and that I seldom even thought about it and never expected it in the way she seemed to, so why didn’t she just change the focus of her attention?

Then the day after we got home from our vacation I got really sick. This wasn’t a cold it was proper flu with the associated dizziness, aching limbs, blurred vision and hot and cold sweats. I was laid low in bed for 4 days and didn’t do much of anything for over a week.

A week or so after I recovered I had to travel back to the UK for a few days. I must admit that I don’t like long haul flights but endure them nevertheless as a necessary evil. When I was there I went to see some friends who have 2 kids, both of whom had been ill. You’ve guessed it; within two days I was feeling several degrees under resulting in a miserable flight home.

On reflection I think I should start to take my own advice more often. The minute I started to talk about being ill when I was on vacation my attention shifted to thinking about it and even wondering why I appeared to be so immune from general cold and flu viruses the majority of the time, even when they are in my own family. Then when I heard my friend’s children had been ill once again I started to think about it and even expect that I would end up suffering on my flight home. So I did!

Is all this a coincidence? I guess it could be but I tend to think not and seeing as changing my thinking back to how it was prior to going away costs nothing, then I’m prepared to embrace that belief again. I encourage you to try it out for a few months; after all, what have you got to lose?

I do want to point out at this stage that I am not saying that all illness is self imposed, just that there is never any harm in keeping an open mind to helping ourselves out whenever we can.

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