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"Depression is too often considered to be an issue of "mind over matter." Friends, family, and sadly, even therapists, will tell you that self-discipline is the way you can kick these mind-states. The truth is, rather than being crazy, neurotic, or hopelessly psychologically damaged, you may simply be deficient in certain nutrients. Most mainstream medical practitioners overlook the fact that mood, behavior, and mental performance all depend on your balance of neurotransmitters, the chemical messengers of the brain. It's not just mind over matter, but matter over mind, as well." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"They try to think positively; they try to put "mind over matter." In one form or another, this is what most self-help books promote. "Think positively," "just do it," and "mind over matter" are common themes. Others focus on stress management, behavioral modification, and relaxation techniques. Don't get me wrong;—these are great skills to have. Undoubtedly, we could all do better with stress management and could benefit from honing these skills. However, this is not what will eliminate pain. It doesn't require positive thinking. It requires accurate thinking." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Concluding the 2001 editorial, he wrote: "cancer may not be a question of mind over matter, but mind does matter."36 Spiegel's conclusion seems reasonable to us. Do mind-body techniques increase longevity among terminal cancer patients? We don't know. Nor does Spiegel, at least not yet. What we do know are two things about medical science: first, clinical trials are complex imitations of reality; we must expect an array of findings, many of which contradict one another. It follows that scientific progress is rarely a straight road; rather the path to understanding is a crooked one." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Mind over Matter Humbled by the complex simplicity with which the human organism thrives and perpetuates itself, the true inference of mind over matter can be conceded. Despite the theoretical controversy surrounding the practical presumption of what controls what, in the final analysis, the universe is constructed of energy and information. While matter and energy are undeniably interchangeable, matter is created from energy, and the movement of energy governs the function of matter. One needs to look no further than the brain itself to see a demonstration of this in action." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"On the crudest level, Jahn had proved that, at least on the subatomic level, there was such as thing as mind over matter. But he'd demonstrated something even more fundamental about the powerful nature of human intention. The REG data offered a tiny window into the very essence of human creativity - its capacity to create, to organize, even to heal.*? Jahn had his evidence that human consciousness had the power to order random electronic devices. The question now before him was what else might be possible." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"It's not just mind over matter, but matter over mind, as well. The keys to your brain function are the chemical messengers of mind and mood called neurotransmitters. As they travel around your brain and nervous system, they help determine how you feel. 113 Here's the important part: we can influence our brain function by supplying the right nutrients to make our brain cells and neurotransmitters work at their peak." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Pain relief may be mind over matter. According to new research, just the belief that a pill will relieve pain can cause the release of endorphins, the brain's natural pain-fighting chemicals. This finding is the first direct evidence that endorphins play a role in the well-known placebo effect. THE STUDY Lead author Dr. Jon-Kar Zubieta, an associate professor of psychiatry and radiology at the University of Michigan Medical School, and his team induced pain by injecting a concentrated saltwater solution into the jaws of 14 healthy young male volunteers." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Think positively," "just do it," and "mind over matter" are common themes. Others focus on stress management, behavioral modification, and relaxation techniques. Don't get me wrong;—these are great skills to have. Undoubtedly, we could all do better with stress management and could benefit from honing these skills. However, this is not what will eliminate pain. It doesn't require positive thinking. It requires accurate thinking. Accurate thinking means understanding how psychological factors affect our physiology. Only when we understand this can we truly heal ourselves." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Without your conscious control you have actually practiced "mind over matter." Testing Your Mind/Body Response At this point, I recommend you learn a simple muscle test derived from the healing method of Behavioral Kinesiology. This test will demonstrate to you that at each moment your thoughts, intentions, desires, etc. exert total control over your body. I will refer to this test several times in this book whenever it may be useful to find out whether a particular food, medicine, beauty product, situation, environment, or even a particular desire is conducive to your health or not." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Whether you choose to weaken or strengthen your body, in both cases you are practicing "mind over matter." Placebo—The True Healer? The placebo effect works in a similar way. Placebo is a Latin word, which translates as, "I shall please." If something pleases you, it automatically triggers the release of pleasure hormones in your body, which means that in the event of an illness, you are likely to experience a healing response. In the field of medicine, the placebo effect is a phenomenon described as a measure for testing the efficacy of new drugs or therapies." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Beyond what science has documented about how thought and emotion cross the physical world, millions of people have reported mystical phenomena that defy rational explanation—miracles of prayer, healing, and grace, eyewitness accounts of mystics in India performing astounding feats of mind over matter, and shamans in the jungles along the Amazon River summoning the weather. I myself have witnessed continuous synchronic-ity, miracles, and what can only be described as magic for which I have no reasonable description." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"It's not just mind over matter, but matter over mind, as well. The keys to your brain function are the chemical messengers of mind and mood called neurotransmitters. As they travel around your brain and nervous system, they help determine how you feel. 113 Here's the important part: we can influence our brain function by supplying the right nutrients to make our brain cells and neurotransmitters work at their peak." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Some of these are credited with being extraordinary examples of "mind over matter." An excellent guidebook on creating the "miracle mindedness" that fosters these remarkable transformations is Let Go: Let Miracles Happen, by Kathy Corboda. High ideals ?be they the yearning for freedom, a desire to raise up the populace, a quest for economic independence ?have enabled countries in modern times to manifest peaceful revolutions. By choosing the peaceful protest over violence, they succeeded in birthing new nations." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Our phrase "mind over matter" is a relic of the earlier paradigm, and should be replaced by expressions like "body-mind," words from China and the Orient where medicine has not separated mind and body, as in the West. Part of John Diamond's attack on acupuncture was to use the phrase "mystic East" in a more or less pejorative way: Professor Pert's research on neuropeptides indicates that there is substance to this so-called mysticism." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "Recall mind over matter, and the "true biological phenomena" that even in the dry account of the Royal Society of Edinburgh can be "very powerful." Candace Pert calls psychoneuroimmunology "a scientific revolution with tremendous implications for how we deal with health and disease." Professor Vernon M.S. Oh has commented that mind-body relations are "as clinically undeveloped as they are pervasive." Alas that they are undeveloped in the clinic. Indeed, if your clinicians are not interested you may have to become your own clinic, as we will discuss. But pervasive mind-body relations are." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "Thus "mind over matter" is not an empty phrase. Folk wisdom is right to intuit the connection. Why do patients hear so little about this area? They may hear more in the United States than in the UK, though not always from their consultants. David Weatherall's patient, of course, lived long enough for the "more holistic" approach to have a chance. And Sir David made progress only after talking to him for several years and slowly gaining his confidence. Here is a major problem. Doctors work under intense pressure. Where is the time?" - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "Since mind is a part of temperament—the mental part of the word temperament—allow me to start by emphasising the force of "mind over matter" in a very basic way: It is well known that the suggestion especially by a doctor that a particular form of treatment is effective, can be very powerful . . . especially where the supposed benefits are reinforced by a caring physician who has built up a strong personal relationship with the patient. This . . . response represents a true biological phenomenon, possibly mediated through links between the central nervous and immunological systems." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"This is not merely a case of what has been called "mind over matter." No, this is an example of mind as matter; the two are one and the same, linked inextricably by the laser-like quality of your fixed attention on the object at hand. Now I am going to teach you a preliminary exercise that will enable you to be successful at the Two-Point technique, which is the foundational tool for everything we do in Matrix Energetics." - Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.)

"The extraordinary feats that these individuals can perform indicate the possibility of hegemony of mind over matter. The precision and certainty with which the blindfolded Kwan Ja Nim wielded his formidable sword in a situation where an extension of the trajectory of two or three inches could have resulted in death or severe injuries of his disciple certainly put his feat into this category. Those of us who witnessed Kwan Ja Nim's performance at Esalen felt strongly that what we had seen could not possibly be achieved by ordinary practice, no matter how long and arduous." - Stanislav Grof, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (Get the book.)

"You can put mind over matter! Not only that, but you can control your emotions by physically controlling your endocrine system. Which means you can put matter over mind! A Guided Tour of Your Brain To really understand how to put your mind over matter, and matter over mind, you'll need to know the basics of neurology. So let's take a brief tour of your brain, from the neck up. We'll be making three stops, at the three major divisions of your brain: the brain stem, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum. First stop: the brain stem." - Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory (Get the book.)

"Elsewhere she assures her readers that while scientists "look upon the human organism as little more than a machine, taking small interest in researches which evince the dominion of mind over matter," it was Keely's research that had "shown him that it is neither the electric nor the magnetic flow, but the etheric, which sends its current along our nerves." - Theo Paijmans, Free Energy Pioneer: John Worrell Keely (Get the book.)

"People talk about the power of mind over matter, but to rewrite the ageing software we need to have the power of consciousness over mind - higher awareness over DNA program. That's the way to change all the programs. I have had some visions and insights about illusory 'time' while I have been sitting here writing, in fact they are hitting me like machine gun bullets. Take the world we live in to be a movie you are watching on DVD. You press the button and the movie begins to take you from scene to scene. You are passing from A to B to C or, put another way, passing from past to future." - David Icke, Icke David, Infinite Love Is the Only Truth: Everything Else Is Illusion (Get the book.)

"Some of the very early experiments in human interaction with matter date back to the 1930s when Dr. T. Fukauri, a Professor at the Kohyassan University in Japan, demonstrated the ability of a clairvoyant subject to imprint words and pictures on photographic salts by merely holding the thought in her mind. He called the phenomenon "thoughtography." In the 1960s, Dr. Jule Eisenbud, a doctor at the University of Colorado Medical School, had similar and repeatable results with a "sensitive" who was able to project onto film his mental images when holding a Polaroid or TV camera." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"You may name this suggestive therapeutics or the power of mind over matter. All these designations are as useless as the name of the horse that Paul Revere rode. The fact remains." Chapter II SOIL Back to the farm is my message. It is really very interesting to take a poor piece of soil and make it productive in a short time by plowing deep and plowing under soybeans, green crops, etc., for fertilizer. To make some interesting experiments, plow your soil eight or ten inches deep in the fall with a turn-plow. Plant corn on a piece of poor ground the first year." - Jethro Kloss, Back To Eden (Get the book.)

"It's not mind over matter. That means if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. This is faith over circumstances. Christian Meditation / Eastern Meditation The word meditation is a red flag to many Christians because of its prominent role in the New Age Movement (which is a rehash of Eastern mysticism, including Buddhism and Hinduism). Meditation and prayer were designed by God for our fellowship with Him and are practiced all over the world by people of all faiths and walks of life." - KC Craichy, Super Health 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality (Get the book.)

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