Jonathon wrote:I wonder. The mind-body connection. I mean the can be changes in the physical body just from thinking a few sexual thoughts, so I wonder if there is some cognitive switch somewhere/somehow that enables a person to just think about something/think in a certain way and the physical body acts on it and heals itself?
Yes. You can activate the healing mechanism of the body but for that you need to be relaxed Dr Lissa Rankin says the healing mechanism of the body only flips on if we are relaxed not in fight of flight response. In that video it explains how you can do it, you can do meditation, having a good relationship, sex, yoga, tai chi, doing pleasurable activities... oxytocin, dopamine, nitric oxide, endorphins relaxes and gives us pleasurable experiences so by doing meditations or doing pleasurable activities daily your brain releases them.
You do not need to think in a certain way so that the body acts and heal it self you just relax and the body automatically activates the healing mechanisms.
Belief is very strong the placebo and nocebo effect shows that.
I also want to add this, there is a technic to ameliorate or get rid of some pain completely by just putting your hands on that place and concentrate on the pain for a minute and for me it disappears like 80-90%