| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Geoff332,)
I've always been a great believer in some level of psychosomatic healing. It doesn't require any mystical explanation: you body heals itself by generating chemical reactions (to knit bones, to kill diseases and so on). We know the brain influences some chemical reactions -- adrenline releases for example. It's relatively easy to believe that somehow the brain/mind influences how the body heals itself. I don't know enough about biochemistry or medicine to know anything about how complex it is for this to happen, but I can see that it's at least conceivable without reference to any spiritual force.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Do a web search on the organ in the brain called the Hypothalamus. It's involved in controlling the body's autonomic responses. Might shed a little light on this, although there is still room for discussion on whether belief (religious or otherwise) plays a major role in recovery.
Not a day goes by that I don't see something that reinforces my belief that people are idiots. |