Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - Self Efficacy and Dr. Bandura

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Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - " Self Efficacy and Dr. Bandura "

Do you think that what you believe can have a significant affect on your

physical health? I do, and I will tell you why. For many years now, I have

been working closely with Dr. Albert Bandura of Stanford University, the

world's leading authority on efficacy theory. Efficacy theory is a

scientific way to describe how our beliefs about our abilities affect those

same abilities and, indeed, our entire lives.

For over 30 years, I have been teaching people that what they believe

affects everything they are and do. Dr. Bandura has been doing research for

about the same time, trying to determine just how this works. He found that

our beliefs about our ability to change health habits, and about the degree

of control we have over our lives, have a profound affect our health.

These beliefs determine whether we will actually do what we need to do in

order to stay healthy. They also determine how well we handle stress.

Excessive stress has been linked directly to weakness of the immune system.

Bandura's researchers found that it is impossible to predict how well a

given patient will do based on medical evidence alone. Arthritis patients

learned to control their pain without drugs, as well as they did with drugs.

They also reduced their dependence on doctors and slowed the progression of

the arthritis.

I still teach that our beliefs directly affect our health and well-being.

Thanks to Bandura and others like him, the research to help explain how this

works is also available to you.

Lou Tice

The Pacific Institute

Blessings,

Charlene

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