Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide 18

Can Believing Make You Well?
- If stress can make you sick, can believing make you well?
- We can consciously choose to improve our health
- A common element of belief is expectation:
- If we expect actions to help us, they often do
- Learning is at the core of
changing your expectations
to a positive outcome
Notes:
Pg 159-160, Sternberg, Esther M., 2001, “The Balance Within,” W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
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