| TheSquealer |
04-06-2013 05:15 AM |
You've just described magic, illusions, religion, healing/medicine, conspiracy theorists, even hunger and so on. Mind and body are one system. A great deal of what we believe to be physical is little more than a trick of the mind, ... and quite often wrong.
Imagine for a moment what tasting salt on your tongue merely because the thought of tasting salt entered ones mind - which we can understand is not real at all but seems quit real, says about ones interpretation of the physical world around them.
What else is real or not real or just grossly distorted interpretations or even fully imagined, yet believed to be real? Hunger is not real. Being full is not real. These sensations feel physical, yet occur 100% in the mind.
It's a widely studied phenomenon that a disturbingly large percent of the success of any medication in patients is just as much due to the placebo effect as it is the medication.
How are others controlling you, your thoughts and even your own life trajectory? I am going to play racquetball in a few minutes, and in spite of being competitive we joke around a lot. When a certain person serves to me who us very good, I think of different ways to get him to picture the worst serve possible... "You know what I was just thinking? I was remembering last Tuesday where you had (I slow my speech and emphasis these words), the worst serve you've ever had". The problem with thoughts is that you can't unthink them.. So he's now pictured himself being horrible right before he serves. If its a terrible serve , I'll make similar seemingly innocuous remarks until his game falls apart completely. Essentially turning his own mind against his own body in a way that he can't even correct.
The mind is an incredible thing. It is a shame so few make any attempt at all to understand it, themselves and others.
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