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People with a health mindset trust that they have some control over their health outcomes. They are willing to learn about health, adopt new behaviors, and commit to making a change with the confidence that it will produce change. In fact, some of these people have such faith in self-healing they have spontaneously healed themselves or responded to placebos alone.

People with a growth mindset know that putting in more time and effort can make them smarter, more intelligent, and talented. Those with a health mindset are healthier individuals! Why? Because they formed subconscious beliefs in their childhood that they could control their health—or they learned later in life that they could control their choices in health—and through practice and effort, they achieve better outcomes. Remember the saying, “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” If we want to be healthy, we must put in the effort to form healthy habits of thinking, living, and doing.

A health mindset doesn’t always come naturally, but once we understand that our beliefs influence our body at a cellular level, we can learn and develop the ability to improve our health outcomes. In fact, we have an incredible influence over our health skills and abilities, far more influence than we know. Except for extremely rare cases of strong genetics, our genes define only a limited amount for us.