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Teddybear
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 Posted - 03/23/2011 : 09:13:16
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"The most important part of the study," she says, "was that people who are only supposed to get more debilitated over time showed great improvement—regardless of the reason."
As in the men's retreat and the eyesight study, it seemed that people's states of mind were changing their bodies. "The main idea for all these studies is very simple," Langer says. "We take the mind and the body and we put them back together, so that wherever we're putting the mind, we're necessarily putting the body."
She rephrases it with typical bravado: "Nothing is uncontrollable. We just don't yet know how to control it."
The above-mentioned snippets of the article very much remind me of my RSI escapade.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Art-of-Living-Mindfully/63292 |
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wrldtrv
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Posted - 03/23/2011 : 11:22:57
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tennis tom
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Teddybear
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Posted - 03/24/2011 : 03:00:21
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After a few minutes of back and forth, Langer said it was just a "quick and dirty" study they could attach to her next idea: What if they took people with some condition, say, a rash, and got half of them to reconstruct what life was like the week before the rash. Would it go away?
This could be why symptoms often fade when you completely stop worrying about them and resume normal activity. |
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Wherever we put the mind, we put the body.
