Making The Best Of Your Situation...good medicine!

I wanted to lay down in my bed a little longer than my usual "wake up at the crack of dawn" self. I have a lingering flu bug that won't leave me alone. Each day of this lovely virus I think I will wake up feeling better, but it's the kind that wants to stick around and get to know me a little better. I love to be active, busy and social, it's just in my DNA I guess you can say, so for me to be laying and sitting around like this for a pesky little flu friend (who isn't my friend at all) is feeling like quite a sacrifice to me.
I have made the decision this morning however, even though my visitor is still with me, to cooperate with the flu and be his friend instead of an enemy and instead of asking him to go all the time, I am thanking him (it) for the visit and inviting it to write with me, research needed information on the web, organize my computer desktop and other related business I have sitting in front of me on my desk. I noticed about 1 hour into this kind of attitude, my mind perked up, my mood became happier and my whole body actually started to feel better! I really am amazed thinking back to about 1 or 2 hours ago my condition of laying and moaning in my bed and feeling bad for my sick self!
I am convinced there are so many times we do have the power in our minds to think ourselves into a healing...I am not referring to a New Age philosophy but that from the Word of God in the bible.
In Proverbs 23:7 "For as a man thinks within himself, so he is" and Philippians 4:8 "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, or true and if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on these things." Also the next verse says that the peace of God will be promised to us if we do.
OK, I know there are times when we really ARE so sick and ill that positive thinking cannot heal it and we need meds or a doctor visit, and I know I still have the flu here with me, I am referring to how we deal with problems and events beyond our own personal control and how we can and have the ability through the Holy Spirit to change our mind's condition over them and rejoice in them.