Up Your Outlook

Day in and day out, we go through our paces. We eat, sleep, work, and train, and do all the other things that make for a regular day. Most of it we accept as just part of life. Some of it, we take to heart. We do our best, sometimes getting in a muddle and once in a while doing just brilliantly.

How you do is NOT who you are, but sometimes we associate our performance with our person.

 

Ever watch a tennis player who was

having a bad day? Such a person can start calling himself names such as “stupid,” or even resort to throwing or damaging his racquet. Usually such behavior just brings on more of the same performance problems, and the downhill spiral continues. On a day when everything goes right, an athlete feels entitled to shout, “I am the king of the world,” as Cassius Clay did after his completely unexpected defeat of Sonny Liston on February 25, 1964, when 43 of 46 sportswriters picked Liston to win.

The question of the day, however, is not about how those various positive and negative thoughts affect us, as they surely do. The question is, “for how long do they affect us?” The answer is: Forever, to some degree.

Peter MeWilliams changed the consciousness of the people when he brought forth a new concept in his 1995 book, “You Can’t Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought.” Negative or positive, our thoughts are heard by every cell of our body, and each cell responds accordingly. Where nerve messages begin their trip to every cell of the body from the brain at the speed of light, hormones slowly travel through the circulatory system at a relatively glacial pace. Yet those very hormones affect our future thoughts.

Practice wisely, so as to succeed time and time again.

Like waves bouncing off the walls of a pool after a big splash, or echoes repeating on and on, the hormones and nerves bring the same slowly fading message repeatedly to our cells. Successful performances bring on more successful performances, and failures bring on more failures. Practice wisely, so as to succeed time and time again. Once that fight was won, and Clay declared himself to be “The Greatest,” he remained The Greatest, in his mind and in ours, to this day.


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Dr. Douglas Graham, a lifetime athlete and raw fooder since 1978, is an advisor to world-class and motivated athletes and trainers from around the globe. He has worked professionally with top performers from almost every sport and every field of entertainment, including such notables as tennis legend Martina Navratilova, NBA pro basketball players Ronnie Grandison and Michael Porter Jr., track Olympic sprinter Doug Dickinson, pro women's soccer player Callie Withers, championship bodybuilder Kenneth G. Williams, Chicken Soup for the Soul coauthor Mark Victor Hansen, and actress Demi Moore. As owner of a fasting retreat in the Florida Keys for ten years, Dr. Graham personally supervised thousands of fasts. He was in private practice as a chiropractor for twenty years, before retiring to focus on his writing and speaking. Dr. Graham is the author of many books on health and raw food including The 80/10/10 Diet, The High Energy Diet Recipe Guide, Nutrition and Athletic Performance, Grain Damage, Prevention and Care of Athletic Injuries, and his latest, Perpetual Health 365. He has shared his strategies for success with audiences at more than 4,000 presentations worldwide. Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern raw movement, Dr. Graham is the only lecturer to have attended and given keynote presentations at all of the major raw events in the world for each of the last eight years. Dr. Graham has served on the board of governors of the International Association of Professional Natural Hygienists and the board of directors of the American Natural Hygiene Society. He is on the board of advisors of Voice for a Viable Future, Living Light Films, Vegetarian Union of North America, and EarthSave International and serves as nutrition advisor for the magazine Exercise, For Men Only. Dr. Graham is the raw foods and fitness advisor for The801010Forum.com. He taught the Health Educator program at Hippocrates Institute, served as the "source authority" for Harmonious Living, and authors a column for the magazines Get Fresh! and Vibrance (previously known as Living Nutrition). Dr. Graham is the creator of "Simply Delicious" cuisine and director of Health and Fitness Week, which provides Olympic-class training and nutrition for people of all fitness levels in beautiful settings around the world. He will inspire, motivate, educate, and entertain you like no one else in the health movement can.