TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoYour thoughts are so powerful that if you imagine eating a lemon, your mouth will start salivating in preparationmessage-squaremessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down13
arrow-up183arrow-down1message-squareYour thoughts are so powerful that if you imagine eating a lemon, your mouth will start salivating in preparationTheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square25linkfedilink
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoYour thoughts are so powerful that you can trick your body into thinking you got medicine even if you really just got a sugar pill.
minus-squareTrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoSeems to me this is an under-studied phenomenon. What diseases could be cured with proper mind-training?
minus-squareorenj@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days agoI hate this about the body. If you can feel better by being tricked, skip the getting tricked bit and go straight to feeling better
Your thoughts are so powerful that you can trick your body into thinking you got medicine even if you really just got a sugar pill.
Seems to me this is an under-studied phenomenon.
What diseases could be cured with proper mind-training?
I hate this about the body. If you can feel better by being tricked, skip the getting tricked bit and go straight to feeling better