It makes sense that if our thoughts and beliefs can affect us in such powerfully positive ways, they can also affect us in negative ways.  

This fact provides strong encouragement to choose positive thoughts and beliefs. Positive thinking profoundly affects your well-being.

As we have seen, what we believe about our health impacts our health.  The following passage makes the connections between thoughts and health, but it also takes it a step further and shows us how thoughts even affect our destiny.

• Watch your thoughts; they become your words
• Watch your words; they become your actions
• Watch your actions; they become your habits
• Watch your habits; they become your character
• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Because our thoughts shape who we are, it is vitally important that we are careful with what enters our minds.  It is important for us to think about what we are feeding our minds through TV, movies, music, radio and the Internet.