Our thoughts directly affect our wellbeing, mental health and reality

Tony Robbins has been so influential for me lately. Many motivational speakers like Tony Robbins teach that by changing our mind, we can change our life. Tony Robbins has seminars where he helps people that are suicidal and depressed, for example, and after his seminar they have lost those symptoms. So many people have been positively changed by his seminars that Tony Robbins was approached by Stanford University to have a scientific study to show the benefits compared to the traditional approach for depression, which is therapy and a pill. The study found that 100% of participants with clinical depression were symptom-free 30 days after completion of the five-and-a-half-day course ‘Date With Destiny.’

More studies also support that changing your thought patterns is as effective as taking medication for depression and anxiety. The research is still in its infancy however I do believe that mindfulness, meditation and motivational speakers can help us change our thought patterns which are a massive contributor to our mental wellbeing and our reality.

References:

DeRubeis, R. J., Siegle, G. J., & Hollon, S. D. (2008). Cognitive therapy versus medication for depression: treatment outcomes and neural mechanisms. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 9(10), 788–796. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2345