Scientific research, medicines and methods have been developed to treat and cure many diseases. For many mental and physical illnesses, we have successfully found treatments but still many people do not get cured.
Healing is a complex phenomenon. Perception of pain affects how your body perceives it. If we think a papercut is painful it will be painful, and the wound would take time to heal. But if we believe the papercut is not very painful our mind will tell our body that it isn't, we will not feel much pain and the wound would heal faster. Our belief has healing powers, our attitude and faith affect how our body reacts to pain and grief or any change of situations or the circumstances that led to it.
The veteran science journalist Jo Marchant also discussed this effect in her book "Cure" and shared the latest discoveries by telling the stories of the people who are being helped by cures aimed at both body and mind. 
A newly forged scientific discipline, psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, is a field that explores the body’s most subtle interconnections. It explores how stress, grief, our experiences (be it traumatic or pleasant), our emotions and our mindset affect our physical and mental health. Researchers are recording complex multi-directional communication systems that link the brain, mind, immune system, and all other systems of the body.
Our fears, hopes, desires and beliefs affect the body's response in continuously changing circumstances. Our health is most affected by our thinking. Stress, anxiety, and helplessness cause harm to our immune system which in turn causes grave health issues.
Depression, anxiety, stress, anger are major negative emotions that are responsible for the deterioration of health and similarly trauma, accident, poor health can cause depression, anxiety, stress, or anger. Stress be it physical or mental can be reduced by practicing relaxation response. To reverse the symptoms of stress, we need to consciously try to relax by being mindful of the situation and meditating or doing anything that brings the relaxation response.
Our habits dictate our responses and those responses become hardwired into our brain. So, in order to change the outcome, we would have to change the input for e.g. If you get motion sickness and you are trying not to get sick every time you get into a car, you will have to change your habits and your mindset that triggers it. As for motion sickness you can make these small changes that have been proven to control or keep the motion sickness at bay, taking the medicine beforehand, avoiding heavy meals, avoiding reading, sitting near the window, and getting fresh air can prevent motion sickness. These are preventive measures that can be taken beforehand to signal our brain that we are doing something different and will not cause the effect it usually does. For most people trying this technique works because they tune their minds not to get into fight or flight mode or start the defence mechanism that it usually does, which in turn tells our body not to react and keeps it in a relaxing phase.
Our bodies are conditioned to be creatures of habit. To change the outcome of a routine task, we need to reprogram ourselves by thinking the opposite of the usual results. When we train our minds to think of a different outcome, our body will react differently too.
Helplessness is quite depleting. It literally sucks the hope, energy, and happiness out. Constant chronic helplessness causes chronic stress. Studies have revealed that chronic stress can be damaging to immunity. Segerstrom SC, Miller GE. discussed this in detail in their study: Psychological stress and the human immune system. When we feel we have no control over our life or we are losing control over decision making capabilities, we get extremely anxious, stressed, and ultimately feel helpless. This state of helplessness is dangerously damaging for us.
To overcome the state of helplessness that could most likely escalate to illness, the stress-hardy people (people who stay strong and tolerant in stressful situations) adhere to the three C’s commitment, control, and challenge for effective stress-hardiness.
A newly forged scientific discipline, psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, is a field that explores the body’s most subtle interconnections. It explores how stress, grief, our experiences (be it traumatic or pleasant), our emotions and our mindset affect our physical and mental health. Researchers are recording complex multi-directional communication systems that link the brain, mind, immune system, and all other systems of the body.
Our fears, hopes, desires and beliefs affect the body's response in continuously changing circumstances. Our health is most affected by our thinking. Stress, anxiety, and helplessness cause harm to our immune system which in turn causes grave health issues.
Depression, anxiety, stress, anger are major negative emotions that are responsible for the deterioration of health and similarly trauma, accident, poor health can cause depression, anxiety, stress, or anger. Stress be it physical or mental can be reduced by practicing relaxation response. To reverse the symptoms of stress, we need to consciously try to relax by being mindful of the situation and meditating or doing anything that brings the relaxation response.
Our habits dictate our responses and those responses become hardwired into our brain. So, in order to change the outcome, we would have to change the input for e.g. If you get motion sickness and you are trying not to get sick every time you get into a car, you will have to change your habits and your mindset that triggers it. As for motion sickness you can make these small changes that have been proven to control or keep the motion sickness at bay, taking the medicine beforehand, avoiding heavy meals, avoiding reading, sitting near the window, and getting fresh air can prevent motion sickness. These are preventive measures that can be taken beforehand to signal our brain that we are doing something different and will not cause the effect it usually does. For most people trying this technique works because they tune their minds not to get into fight or flight mode or start the defence mechanism that it usually does, which in turn tells our body not to react and keeps it in a relaxing phase.
Our bodies are conditioned to be creatures of habit. To change the outcome of a routine task, we need to reprogram ourselves by thinking the opposite of the usual results. When we train our minds to think of a different outcome, our body will react differently too.
Helplessness is quite depleting. It literally sucks the hope, energy, and happiness out. Constant chronic helplessness causes chronic stress. Studies have revealed that chronic stress can be damaging to immunity. Segerstrom SC, Miller GE. discussed this in detail in their study: Psychological stress and the human immune system. When we feel we have no control over our life or we are losing control over decision making capabilities, we get extremely anxious, stressed, and ultimately feel helpless. This state of helplessness is dangerously damaging for us.
To overcome the state of helplessness that could most likely escalate to illness, the stress-hardy people (people who stay strong and tolerant in stressful situations) adhere to the three C’s commitment, control, and challenge for effective stress-hardiness.
- Commitment: Commit to an active, engaged stance towards life. Feel that life has purpose (whatever shape that may be), and that purpose can be motivational to actively attempt to influence surroundings and to persevere.
- Control: Accept challenges and to work to overcome and control them. Even when a situation is not possible to control, hardy people work to find what possibilities do exist for mastery and pursue them.
- Challenge: Stress-hardy people view stress as a challenge that can potentially be overcome if only, they can understand it properly. Their habit of looking at stress as a challenge to be overcome motivates them to address the causes of their stress in positive ways.
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