Positive Mental Attitude and Illnesses

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I have always been a proponent of positive thinking even before it was popular. It seemed to me, way back when, that a positive attitude was more healthy and successful than an negative one. I can remember when I felt almost as though I stood alone in this belief. About 40 years ago, I was told I had MS and would be in a wheel chair by the time I was thirty. That is definitely not a happy thought. I listened to this news, thought about it, then decided that I was going to do everything I could to ensure that their prediction would not come to fruition. The doctors thought I was crazy. They thought that I should be taking the news seriously. I was. I just process in a way that was different than they did. I was not going to let it drive me into invalidism. I continues to coach cheerleading, teach a little dancing, and raise my girls. I fought through the pain and the frustration and kept a goal in mind. I was not going to be relegated to a wheel chair for the rest of my life. My doctors pled with me to go talk to someone. I would not. I kept going and going, like the energizer bunny. I exercised, ate healthy and got rest. I am way past 30 and I am not sitting in a wheelchair. I get around on my own two feet. I fight the pain and am blessed with the rewards of a positive mental attitude. I am now being told that with all of my physical issues that I probably would not be here on earth if not for that positivity. One of my doctors call me the most stubborn person he ever met. I am happy to say that I passed this valuable trait down to my girls. How do you feel about positive thinking? Do you think it has a big impact of illnesses?