how much do our thoughts affect our physical bodies? can suicidal thoughts and worrying a lot about the future unironically make you sick or go as far as make cancer easier to metastasize?
>>19303928
indeed they can, source, I have a tumor.
Direct correlation
>>19303928
Certain somotoform disorders can do anything from causing spurts of pain in random places, causing digestive problems, to stimulating the pituitary. It depends on the level of damage/deformation and where it has occurred.
>>19304686
somatoform*
See, it happens to all of us. Try not to eat or drink anything. Its all been poisoned.
>>19303928
The term 'Worried sick' sticks out. Find the source of the anxiety. Slay it. If its a relationship. Fuck it. Your 'health' is more important.
>>19303928
Sure, the placebo-affect can cure diseases that even modern science can cure
>>19303928
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSBaq3vAeY
There's actually evidence that being sick effects your thoughts and not the other way around.
>>19303928
There is evidence that your physical state, especially your GI bacteria, affects your mood/mental state
>http://archive.is/pOo4T
There is also evidence that meditation affects our physical bodies, like immune function
>http://archive.is/W22vQ
Wim Hof is also interesting in what he seems to be able to achieve with meditation and breathing techniques
>http://archive.is/UEZp6