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Spoiler: it might be much longer than you think. Living forever was once the remit of science fiction movies and a quest for the super rich. But research shows that we might be able to live for much longer than we think. When you think about getting old, it’s likely you’re imagining being in yourMore

‘I’d rather die than have a transplant’ Nomad, 68, reveals how he recovered from kidney failure WITHOUT any treatment – despite being given a 2.5 per cent chance of survival A nomad has claimed he recovered from kidney failure without any medical treatment – despite doctors giving him a 2.5 per cent chance of survival.More

I’m a longevity expert who studies centenarians. Here’s what they have in common and how you could live to 100+. Americans strive to live healthily into old age. It’s what fuels the multi billion dollar diet industry and keeps buzzy dietary supplements flying off the shelves. A vast majority of Americans – about 77 percentMore

Harvard scientists find eight surprising social factors that raise your risk of an early death – including living in an unclean neighborhood, not seeing your children or being disrespected Your friends and family not spending enough time with you is not only annoying, but could also shorten your lifespan. A joint research team from HarvardMore

9 Miraculous Medical Recoveries That Still Can’t Be Believed Surely you can’t survive with only half a skull. Or can you? We’ve got the miracles behind these amazing stories and others that are certain to inspire you. This is what today’s medicine (and maybe a few angels) can accomplish. 1. The first 23-week preemie toMore

Doctor claims these five simple exercises can ease discomfort – from practising ‘3-4-5 breathing’ to writing down positive thoughts Is it possible to think yourself out of pain? That’s what one doctor with more than 20 years’ experience believes. Dr Deepak Ravindran, clinical lead for pain medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading, hasMore

People who live in Japanese island of Okinawa often live into their 90s or 100s Colin Rose spent much of his 50-year career studying the science of anti-ageing Senior associate at the Royal College of Medicine shares lessons from Japan What if you could slow down the rate at which you’re ageing, extend healthy middleMore

Late one night in a small Alabama cemetery, Vance Vanders had a run-in with the local witch doctor, who wafted a bottle of unpleasant-smelling liquid in front of his face, and told him he was about to die and that no one could save him. Back home, Vanders took to his bed and began toMore

Most doctors agree that the mind has a profound effect upon a person’s sense of wellbeing. Research has shown that optimists have a powerful, positive effect upon their health, and everyone knows you can think yourself into being ill. Children are great at it if they have an exam the next day at school. ForMore

Many physical health problems have a psychological component, and this is particularly true of pain. We know from countless studies that our minds play an extraordinarily important role in how we experience chronic pain like that associated with lower back problems. People with chronic pain who are lucky enough to see a specialist are oftenMore

Spontaneous remission of cancer is defined as the remission of cancer without any treatment, or with treatment that would not be expected to cause a tumor to decrease as much as it does. Spontaneous remission may be partial or complete and may be temporary or permanent. Also known as “St. Peregrine’s tumor,” cancer has beenMore

The immense power locked up in human consciousness is beyond the comprehension of most of us. While our unconsciousness minds run 95% of our daily lives without breaking into a sweat, it can also achieve the magical and miraculous. By using skills that were familiar to the ancients but lost in the modern world, ourMore

“You better get your things in order, you probably have about six months to live,” the nurse told Loreen Willenberg upon returning test results that showed she was HIV-positive in July 1992. The test measures antibodies to the virus that the immune system develops several weeks after initial infection. The nurse’s words were standard adviceMore

In the first issue of Acta Haematologica in 2019, Pasvolsky et al. [1] describe a 32-year-old woman diagnosed in June 2014 as having classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL) nodular sclerosis type stage IIA. The diagnosis was based on the presence of an enlarged left cervical lymph node. Chemotherapy with the ABVD regimen was planned but the patient refusedMore

The interaction of our thoughts with the physical material world is of huge interest today, garnering increasing attention by academics around the world. Despite a wealth of scientific data showing that one can influence the other, and even more evidence proving that certain emotional states can lead to chronic illness, many who work in mainstreamMore

Slow Down and Tune In to Take Care of Yourself. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies. Friedrich Nietzche Parked in a dimly lit garage in the middle of the city at around 7pm, I sat in the driver’s seat, seatbelt still on, texting two different male acquaintances who hadMore

Everybody feels negative emotions once in a while, but these emotions have a stronger effect on your health than you may realize. Every time you think about regrets, experience resentment or replay bad memories in your head, your body suffers just as much as your mind. That’s why harboring negative emotions can lead to devastatingMore

The idea that a positive outlook on life and a cheery disposition help to stave off illness is as old as the hills. Perhaps surprisingly, this adage is much more than an old wives’ tale. Over the last few decades, the intriguing and pervasive links between neuroscience and the immune system have slowly been uncovered. What mightMore

To die, sometimes you need only believe you are ill, and as David Robson discovers, we can unwittingly ‘catch’ such fears, often with terrifying consequences. Beware the scaremongers. Like a witch doctor’s spell, their words might be spreading modern plagues. It’s a consistent phenomenon, but medicine has never really dealt with it We have longMore

Experts can even predict who’s likely to suffer or recover, based on brain structure and personality. The mysteries of chronic pain have proven as frustrating and persistent as the suffering of some 50 million U.S. adults who deal with it. Caused by everything from injuries and strokes to arthritis and diabetes, and sometimes for noMore

A few patients have made rare and unexpected recoveries leaving doctors scratching their heads, says David Robson. Can these cases provide vital clues for tackling cancer? It was a case that baffled everyone involved. The 74-year-old woman had initially been troubled by a rash that wouldn’t go away. By the time she arrived at theMore

While certainly true that the human mind and body possess an innate healing capacity, the phenomenon can only be fully unleashed by activating specific powerful triggers. True healing is a complex biological process, not magic. Here’s the basic definition courtesy of Wikipedia: Healing (literally meaning to make whole) is the process of the restoration ofMore

A study finds meditating cancer patients are able to affect the makeup of their DNA “I think, therefore I am” is perhaps the most familiar one-liner in western philosophy. Even if the stoners, philosophers and quantum mechanically-inclined skeptics who believe we’re living an illusion are right, few existential quips hit with such profound, approachable simplicity.More

7 Ways to Heal Your Body by Using the Power of Your Mind, Backed by Science. A few simple changes to the way you think could make a big difference to your physical health. There’s a clear connection between the way your brain thinks and the way your body feels. Just like you can useMore

Hypnotic Healing and the Mysterious Relationship Between Mind and Body. In the 1840s, a Scottish doctor living in India named James Esdaile was frequently visited by men with enormous tumours (weighing up to 45 kg) in the scrotum, caused by mosquito bites. The operation to remove them was so painful that men would often putMore

Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists and patients – people who are taking a new look at the meaning ofMore

After seven years of research, I’m finally writing my long-awaited book Sacred Medicine, the third book in the trilogy, following up Mind Over Medicine and The Fear Cure. I know a lot of you are kind of waiting on pins and needles for this book, and I feel a little daunted by the responsibility of all the wisdom, experiences,More

Standard therapies were not working. But once I discovered the role of the brain in physical pain, I began to mend Chronic pain is an ongoing epidemic. It debilitates around 28 million adults in the UK alone. Yet society seems to have grown comfortable with there being no cure. Perhaps this is because we haveMore

The Keys to Curing Chronic Illnesses Through the Mind-Body Connection Emotions, Mind, and Spirit Donald M. Epstein, D.C., author of The Twelve Stages of Healing and Healing Myths, Healing Magic, has often said that healing is “an inside job.” He means that the most essential components to healing, such as life force, harmony, regeneration, and repair,More

Scientists are using a special device to shatter cancer cells in a lab A new cancer treatment is using resonant frequencies to shatter various types of cancer cells. In his TEDx Talk, “Shattering Cancer with Resonant Frequencies,” Associate Professor and Director of Music at Skidmore College, Anthony Holland, tells the audience that he has aMore

[Note: This is part 3 in a series on chronic pain. Click here for part 1, or here for part 3.] “Maybe you just imagined that your pain was gone,” he said. He was messing with me, and I knew it. Craig, a 60-something man with a disheveled, grey pony tail had stopped at my booth. This was at a local health fair a few yearsMore

We may be wrong to assume older people can’t learn as well as younger ones by Camilla Cavendish. ‘Beep!’ This is one of the most maddening computer games I’ve ever played. I’m tracking a flock of birds, and when I hit the right one, it explodes with a satisfying ‘phutt’. But as I get betterMore

By Sayer Ji, Founder of Greenmedinfo.com. Have you ever wished you could regenerate those brain cells you sacrificed in college? Do you fear that your aging brain is in a perpetual state of decline? Medical science is being rewritten to show that we CAN improve the health of our brain, and that repairing damage is notMore

Mother Earth is a healer. The Native Americans knew it, our ancestors knew it and in the 1940s, the Canadian government knew it. According to a recent article in The Walrus magazine, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took notice when wounded WWII soldiers were sent home to recover in a makeshift, “ramshackle” medical centerMore

Common Factors among Some of the Reported Cases of the Spontaneous Remission and Regression of Cancer after Acute Infections. Abstract An immunological mechanism has been suggested for some of the case reports of the spontaneous remission and regression of cancer after an acute infection [1]. The basic suggestion made is that two or more acuteMore

New research is discovering that the way you think about life can fend off infection, help you live longer and even spare you from the surgeon’s knife. Nobody likes catching a cold. But it seems that we all have a pretty effective weapon that can reduce our chances of getting one – being happy. InMore

Your mind can be a powerful tool for relieving achy joints. Imagine waking up one morning with joints so stiff and achy you can barely move them. Instead of reaching for the nearest bottle of pain relievers, you close your eyes, breathe deeply and visualize your pain as a glowing orb floating serenely away fromMore

A group of troubling disorders cause very real symptoms, but have no discernible physical cause. Finding out why is revealing how we can all unlock the power of mind over matter By Clare Wilson AMANDA PAYNE’S seizures weren’t going away, despite taking strong epilepsy drugs. One time she felt the warning signs just before getting offMore

STORY AT-A-GLANCE Dr. Mark DeBrincat, a chiropractor also known as the “Good News Doctor,” recovered from severe injuries that kept him in severe chronic pain for 15 years using neurofeedback, essential oils and pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) treatments With the use of eight essential oils, DeBrincat was able to remodel the tissue in his spine,More

Astonishing new research uncovers the mind’s capacity to revamp itself can vanquish pain and defeat ‘untreatable’ ailments Overview: Agony expert Dr. Michael Moskowitz fell and his thigh bone broke Following his agony was a genuine ten out of ten Be that as it may, at that point he lay still sitting tight for the emergencyMore

Could gluten’s toxicity extend to the nervous system, producing symptoms identical to classical Parkinson’s disease? A remarkable case study adds to a growing body of research indicating that wheat’s neurotoxicity is greatly underestimated. A remarkable case report describing the dramatic recovery of a 75-year-old Parkinson’s disease patient after following a 3-month long gluten free dietMore

As the Duchess of Sussex nears her due date, speculation has been stirring about what her royal birthing plan might look like. Fresh from the news that the Duchess is enlisting the services of a doula, comes the revelation that Meghan is planning to use hypno-birthing techniques when she gives birth to her and PrinceMore

Do you know the true power of the subconscious mind? There are a lot of fascinating stories that you may come across the Internet – about how a mother lifted a car to save her child, or how people with dissociative identity disorder can see clearly with their host personality but may need prescription glasses with another! WhenMore

We all know that to grow, plants and flowers need water and light to grow. Well, what if you were told that we as humans are no different and that our physical bodies soak up the environment that surrounds us like sponges? If you’ve ever noticed a feeling of being uncomfortable in a specific groupMore

Many of those in the Western world suffering through depression do so needlessly because they wrongly believe pharmaceuticals are the only solutions. Thankfully, safe, gentle alternatives exist that can bring your mental well-being back into balance — holistically and drug-free. Why I Put Down My Prescription Pad When I talk about medicine and mental healthMore

Macular degeneration is the most common cause of blindness among people 55 and over who once had normal eyesight. That’s why it is often called age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. It can also occur rarely among younger people within a six to twenty year age span. Conventional medicine is relatively clueless about its cause, blamingMore

Hannah Jenkins speaks English in the morning and German in the afternoon. It’s not a routine she chose to adopt – but something her brain requires her to do. It all started with a cycling accident. Her partner Andrew Wilde was halfway up a mountain in the US state of Montana when he received aMore

Gut-directed hypnotherapy delivered by psychologists appears as effective in group or individual sessions, potentially offering a new treatment option for irritable bowel syndrome in primary and secondary care. Hypnotherapy might help relieve irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) complaints for some patients for as long as 9 months after the end of treatment, according to a randomised controlledMore

In Brief The Facts:New studies are showing that placebos are becoming more effective in treating illness. Doctors are continually perplexed by these new understandings. But many of us have known intuitively for centuries. Reflect On:How much do you believe in the possibility that you can heal yourself? Could you see this a new form ofMore

Sharry Edwards is an innovative pioneer in sound technology and has developed voice-wave software to cure virtually everything known to man!  Imagine using your voice to analyze any medical condition within you?  Imagine learning about a physical condition long before you knew it even existed within you?  According to Sharry, frequencies are medicine of theMore

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal. Vironika Tugaleva I plodded up the half-mile hill that led to my house, my backpack weighing heavily on my shoulders in the insistent summer heat. The mild breeze that drifted off the Boston harbor was a cruelMore

In November 2014 the peak psychology body in the UK, the British Psychological Association, released their new flagship report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. It was a watershed moment in the mainstream treatment of mental illness, containing statements such as this: Hearing voices or feeling paranoid are common experiences which can often be a reaction to trauma, abuse or deprivation.More

People can die simply because they have given up on life – and it can happen within days, according to research. Dr John Leach, from Portsmouth University, said his study showed ‘give-up-itis’ – or psychogenic death – is a real medical condition. His research found people can pass away in as little as three daysMore

Overweight people who used a new motivational intervention called Functional Imagery Training (FIT) lost an average of five times more weight than those using talking therapy alone, shows new research published today by the University of Plymouth and Queensland University. In addition, users of FIT lost 4.3cm more around their waist circumference in six months—andMore

Mentally reframing pain as a pleasant experience is an effective regulation strategy that acts independently of the opioid system, finds new human research published in JNeurosci. The study supports clinical use of mental imagery techniques, such as imagining a new context or consequence of a painful event, in conjunction with pain-relieving drugs. Chantal Berna, SiriMore

There was a dark irony to Michael Moskowitz’s injury: A leading Bay Area pain specialist, who had fixed hundreds of patients in his decades-long career, could not fix himself. In 1994, at age 45, Moskowitz injured his neck in a waterskiing accident, leading to chronic, debilitating pain. He tried everything: rehab, rest, drugs. Nothing worked.More

How using your brain could help your bones. Perhaps you’ve heard of the “placebo effect” in clinical trials — that strange situation when some people who don’t receive a beneficial intervention see a benefit to their health anyway, for no obvious reason. By way of explanation, most clinical researchers think that when participants believe they will improveMore

It is surprisingly difficult to explain what we feel when we are hurt, so doctors are developing new ways of assessing and treating agony. One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, “I’ve got this awful pain just here.” She prodded her abdomen and made a face. “It feels like something’sMore

Tell a child they need to undergo another painful medical procedure, and you’ll probably have a kid who’s racked with fear and anxiety. Tell that same child they’ll have a chance to zap flying cheeseburgers in outer space while their doctor works on them, and they might feel a little different. That night-and-day difference inMore

Summary: Study explores how interpersonal synchronization could help to decrease pain. Source: University of Colorado at Boulder. Fathers-to-be, take note: You may be more useful in the labor and delivery room than you realize. That’s one takeaway from a study released last week that found that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of aMore

Learn how mastering ‘mental movies’ can affect your experience of pain, so you can gain some long-awaited relief. How do you live with ongoing pain? Misery, exhaustion, feeling depressed, anxiety, restrictions and desperation. These are just a few words that I have heard from people who are living with painful conditions. We all have someMore

The best-selling author, who died June 22 at age 93, was endorsed by Larry David and touted as a ‘hero’ by Howard Stern. A physiotherapist once told me I’d be a “train wreck” by 40. I was a 19-year-old with chronic back pain and no one knew what to do. I stopped running, stopped liftingMore

Surgeons and their patients are finding that virtual reality can relieve the pain and stress of operations – and it’s safer and cheaper than sedatives. Jo Marchant travels to a Mexican mountaintop village to visit a clinic with a difference. na Maria has never been to Machu Picchu. The 61-year-old always wanted to visit theMore

Surgeons have completed the world’s first deep brain surgery using hypnosis instead of an anaesthetic to control the patient’s pain. Doctors carried out the deep brain stimulation procedure to cure the 73-year-old patient’s severe trembling hands. In the procedure, the brain regions which are responsible for the tremor were electrically stimulated, causing the tremor toMore

Preparing for any Special Operations training program can be challenging and often lead to questioning yourself if you are tough enough to endure. Who knows at the moment when you become physically exhausted will be you able to suck it up and not quit? This week’s email question has more to do with mental toughnessMore

It’s lightning-fast and every bit (even the scream) serves a purpose. Your nervous system is designed to help you respond to pain with astounding speed. Good thing, too—if the reaction were slower, a simple cooking burn could end up threatening your life. Let’s walk through the process: 1. THE POINT OF INJURY Your nerve cellsMore

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” – Buddhist Proverb Your pain, your illness, your present discomfort, is nothing to be ashamed of. It is not a sign of your failure, nor a punishment, nor a test, nor even ‘bad luck’. It is neither meaningless nor the meaning of your life. But it does contain greatMore

Pain specialist Dr Michael Moskowitz was 49 when he and a friend decided to take a look at some army tanks and other armoured vehicles that were about to take part in a parade. Dr Moskowitz couldn’t resist climbing up onto a tank turret. But as he jumped off, a metal prong caught his corduroys,More

He’s a sideshow legend with a talent for deep-tissue skewerings. What can he teach us? The first time I saw Zamora the Torture King—the stage name of performer Tim Cridland—was at Lollapalooza in 1992. As one of the featured acts in Jim Rose’s Circus Sideshow, he walked barefoot on razors, electrocuted himself to become aMore

The only thing I can’t stand is discomfort. Gloria Steinem Of all the skills I’ve learned in the past 7 years of changing my life, one skill stands out: By Leo Babauta Learning to be comfortable with discomfort. If you learn this skill, you can master pretty much anything. You can beat procrastination, start exercising,More

In an earlier article, “How Mindfulness Can Help with Physical Suffering,” I noted that bodily discomfort has three aspects to it: (1) the unpleasant physical sensation itself; (2) our emotional reaction to the discomfort, such as anger or fear; and (3) the thoughts that are triggered by the discomfort, such as, “This pain will neverMore

Why fake medicine can make you feel better. Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century German physician, believed a mysterious force he called “animal magnetism” could be used to cure people. Mesmer’s theory was that there was invisible fluid in the body that could be controlled by magnetized objects and that disease was a result of “obstacles” toMore

There is robust medical evidence to indicate that the power of the mind over the illnesses of the body is profound. This is no more evident than in the beneficial effects of regular meditation on the perception of chronic pain. The evidence for the benefit of meditation is so strong as to make one wonderMore

I have no intention of running a 130+ mile ultramarathon. And I have no desire to eat vegan. And yet, I could not resist the transformational tug of Eat and Run, a memoir by ultramarathon champion (and plant-based diet advocate) Scott Jurek. Turns out, Jurek’s amazing achievements began with the everyday questions we all ask:More

In 2006, Michelle Barton tackled California’s Orange Curtain 100K, which is 10 circuits on a 10K out-and- back course. “It stank,” says the 38- year-old from Laguna Niguel, California. “It was one of my most painful races—mentally and physically.” But then, around mile 50, she had an epiphany: “If it’s going to hurt, I wantMore

The latest research in biochemistry reveals that your brain can actually self-medicate. Illness is best cured with drugs. That assumption has prevailed since pharmaceuticals became widely available. But in recent years there has been a growing interest in alternative medicines, many of which employ mental or spiritual powers to heal the body. Now research intoMore

A few simple changes to the way you think could make a big difference to your physical health. There’s a clear connection between the way your brain thinks and the way your body feels. Just like you can use your body to reduce your psychological distress, you can also use your mind to improve your body.More

I’ve written a lot over the years on the subject of the mind-body connection. The origin of my interest actually goes back to when I was 11 years old and I was in the school library. A book fell of the shelf beside me. It was ‘The Magic Power of Your Mind’ by Walter Germaine.More

Placebos can’t cure diseases, but research suggests that they seem to bring some people relief from subjective symptoms, such as pain, nausea, anxiety and fatigue. But there’s a reason your doctor isn’t giving you a sugar pill and telling you it’s a new wonder drug. The thinking has been that you need to actually believeMore

Erik Vance didn’t go to a doctor until he was 18; he grew up in California in a family that practiced Christian Science. “For the first half of my life, I never questioned the power of God to heal me,” Vance writes in his new book, Suggestible You: Placebos, False Memories, Hypnosis, and the PowerMore

We all need reading glasses, eventually, don’t we? Well, maybe not. At least one author says eye exercises can prevent you from needing reading glasses altogether. It’s worth knowing why we need reading glasses in the first place. As we age, our ability to focus on something up close is slowly impaired, creating the needMore

How real is the placebo effect? Can a pill actually cure an ailment, even if that pill contains no medicine at all? Our Cover Story is reported by our Susan Spencer: You may know it from those mildly embarrassing TV ads. But Linda Buonanno knows it from daily life. She has struggled with IBS —More

“Every part of your body has its own consciousness or its own soul.” These transformative words, spoken by indigenous medicine women, began my journey within to discover the extraordinary healing capacity of the human body. When this perspective was introduced to me, I was suffering from a severe chronic pain disorder. I suddenly imagined incorporatingMore

In a small village outside of Milton Keynes, dogs of all ages and breeds are trained to sniff out cancer from thousands of samples, in a routine that will one day save lives. At Medical Detection Dogs’ HQ, a major trial is underway where pets are taught to sniff out prostate cancer from urine samplesMore

According to ancient spiritual teachings, souls incarnating as human beings are granted individual destinies on Earth, giving us each the opportunity to express our innate wisdom, love, creativity and power in this physical world. Having a history of previous incarnations on this planet, each of us are also born into a particular set of karmicMore

While researching the book Cure, science writer Jo Marchant wanted to understand how distraction could be used to nullify pain, so she participated in a virtual reality experiment. During the first part of the experiment, Marchant sat, without distraction, with her foot in a box of unbearably hot water. “It felt like a very intenseMore

How mental and physical health is affected by the way we perceive and relate to it. In the last few weeks, I’ve been fascinated to read several interviews with medical writer Jo Marchant. For her new book, Cure: A Journey Into The Science of Mind Over Body, Marchant has mined the literature on how thoughtsMore

Whenever someone who doesn’t know me quizzes me about what I do, I often find myself talking to a person’s raised eyebrows. As I explain that I’m a journalist who researches the connection between our mind, body and health, I usually find that I’m met with skepticism at best and cynicism at worst. Since releasingMore

You may be familiar with research showing that highly trained Tibetan monks are able to control their body temperature by using the power of their mind, even to the point they are able to dry wet blankets with their body heat. This was first recorded by Dr. Herbert Benson, one of the world’s leading scientistsMore

In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below. The healing efficacy of placebos has risen exponentiallyMore

While some people experience very real symptoms of illness, those symptoms may be induced by their thinking. Here’s a look at some of the psychological factors behind illnesses. 1. Placebo Effect Ted Kaptchuk at Harvard Medical School is studying how placebo treatments could work—without deceiving patients, which is a major concern for such treatment. InMore

Jon Robson gets to the root of symptoms of illness—the patient’s state of mind. Robson began studying an integrative system of healthcare called “meta-medicine” in 2008 and founded Meta-Medicine USA in 2012. Compelled and inspired by his mother’s passing at an early age, and having a family history of chronic diseases, Robson set out toMore

In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below. People who talked of a thoughts as influencingMore

Four years ago, I was suffering from constant pain and paralyzing fatigue, as well as from depression, stress, and weight gain. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in my early forties. Until then, my doctor and I had both chalked up my exhaustion, aches, and pains to parenting active children while working part-time. But eventually, myMore

Can we think ourselves sick? A twinge in your back; a sudden headache; a feeling of numbness in a limb; an inexplicable lump. Would you ignore the unusual feeling? Or assume the worst? For many Australians, just ignoring such feelings is not an option. Formerly known as hypochondriasis, illness anxiety disorder can see people becomeMore

The mind can be a powerful force over the body, producing often inexplicable changes to its normal functioning due to a variety of circumstances, Insight discovers. “You can’t separate the mind and body as much as we used to think,” says neurologist Dr Alex Lehn. “The mind can make you sick.” He’s speaking with Insight’sMore

Everybody knows about the power of the mind. It should be completely obvious that the human mind is amazing! Right? Well, maybe not. Just what the hell is the ‘power of your mind’ anyway? Just why exactly is the human mind so damn amazing? The point of this article is to inspire you with 25More

Do you have a lower pain threshold than your friends and family, but you can’t understand why? Here are seven possible explanations that might surprise you! 1. You’re not getting enough sleep Research carried out in Norway has demonstrated that people suffering from insomnia at least once a week had a lower pain threshold thanMore

Typical pain treatment research begins with an animal model — one that uses only male mice. The assumption is that males and females will respond the same way to new therapies. In male mice, immune system cells called microglia are responsible for processing pain signals in the spinal cord on the way to the brain.More

Bloomberg: When Deona Duke woke up from a medically-induced coma to begin recovering from burns that covered almost a third of her body, one of her treatments was hurling snowballs at penguins. The 13-year-old was set on fire when a bonfire exploded on her and her friend. To prevent infection, burn victims need their bandagesMore

That professional athletes use guided visualization and other Mind Power techniques to increase their level of performance is nothing new. In a previous Topic of the Month (see index) I wrote about basketball legend Michael Jordan’s method. He claims he spent as much time off court practicing making shots in his mind as he didMore

n her office in Little Rock, Arkansas, a thirty-nine-year-old woman sits deep in meditation. A regular meditator, she has been practicing for almost nine years and invariably finds it helps her relax. Today, however, her practice will take on a new twist. Using a simple visualization technique she will attempt to control her immune systemMore

Can your mind heal you of cancer? Carl Stonier is an expert counsellor and he is adamant your mental state can be ´lifted´ to help you beat cancer. The power of the mind to heal cancer mindCarl Stonier, 55, recently completed his doctorate exploring the relationship between physical and psychological health. The results of hisMore

Mark has a wealth of knowledge on the topic of recovery and the ability to reduce pain with the help of the mind. His vibrant, passionate, open, entertaining and interesting style of delivery will help the listener understand recovery in a new light. Mark will help share why, and most importantly, how patients and clientsMore

When healthcare is expensive, the Amish culture of autonomy and thrift may be a way to balance communal support and individual responsibility. Sara Talpos finds out more. The Allegheny Plateau, sprawling across northern Pennsylvania and beyond, is an ecosystem of forested hills, with land that supports black bears, bald eagles and wandering turkeys, as wellMore

I have written this book to share research, examples and techniques to help develop a belief in how the mind can help control pain and quicken our recovery. Tim Cridland, a Pain Management and self healing master, very kindly wrote the forward. Tim has demonstrated his skills on Channel 4, The Discovery Channel as wellMore

Pain is, for the most part, unavoidable when you stub your toe, break your arm, or cut your finger open. It’s instantaneous and, in some cases, long-lasting, but it only feels as bad as you want it to. Yes, that’s right—that pain is all in your head. Now I’m not saying that pain is anMore

The placebo effect has to be one of the all-time most baffling scientific phenomena we’ve run across. This process, by which you can fool the body into healing with nothing more than fake pills and bullshit, is more than just the power of positive thinking. The more they study it, the more scientists realize thatMore

When dealing with a chronic pain or a longterm physical ailment, it’s important to be aware of the two separate parts it consists of; the physical pain, and our resulting mental anguish from it. Much of the suffering we identify with and experience through our pain is entirely within our heads. It comes from theMore

Rick Heller reports on new developments in neuroscience that validate the Buddhist teachings on pain and suffering. It’s further evidence of the many ways that mindfulness practice helps us deal effectively with pain. While many religions value introspection, scientists often view it with skepticism. After all, if something is subjective and cannot be measured, howMore

I have practiced Bikram yoga for over 5 years. A class is 90 minutes of yoga in a room heated to 110 degrees with 40% humidity. It’s insanely hot and muggy. Today, the yoga teacher was prepping a first timer prior to entering the room. He instructed her repeatedly to not leave the room duringMore

Ezra Bayda, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Darlene Cohen, and Gavin Harrison explain how to use Buddhist practice to manage physical pain. When touched with a feeling of pain, the ordinary uninstructed person sorrows, grieves, and laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical and mental. Just as if they were to shoot aMore

They should be dead. But a tiny number of people conquer lethal diseases. John Matzke was just 30 years old when he was told that he had only 18 months to live. At 6 feet 4 inches tall, with blue eyes and broad shoulders, Matzke cut an impressive figure. He’d been a football player atMore

The mind is the control center of the human being, even more so than you know. The mind can make decisions, learn new things and feel emotions — it can also heal the body. You heard it right, the mind can completely and utterly destroy all signs of disease from the body. One of the worstMore

Researchers have struggled to identify how certain states of mind influence physical health. One biologist thinks he has an answer When Steve Cole was a postdoc, he had an unusual hobby: matching art buyers with artists that they might like. The task made looking at art, something he had always loved, even more enjoyable. “ThereMore

Ninety percent of Americans say they pray — for their health, or their love life or their final exams. But does prayer do any good? For decades, scientists have tried to test the power of prayer and positive thinking, with mixed results. Now some scientists are fording new — and controversial — territory. Mind OverMore

Placebos Prove So Powerful Even Experts Are Surprised; New Studies Explore the Brain’s Triumph Over Reality. Many doctors know the story of ”Mr. Wright,” who was found to have cancer and in 1957 was given only days to live. Hospitalized in Long Beach, Calif., with tumors the size of oranges, he heard that scientists hadMore