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Connection between Mind and Body - Heal yourself

Amongst the many mysteries of the human personality, one of the remarkable once is the mind-body connection. Interestingly though the mind is subtle, and the body is gross, yet our mental thoughts have their physical consequences upon the parameters of the body.   An interesting experiment was conducted by Dr. Stewart Wolf ‘when pregnant ladies would visit his clinic with symptoms of vomiting, he would try this out. He would give Ipecac to them a drug that induces vomiting and naturally, the symptoms would increase. He would then say, “I’ve got a wonder drug that has just been released by great pharmacy company and I’m going to give it to you. It was tried on 10,000 patients and worked every time”. With those words he would administer the same Ipecac. The ladies would take it and symptoms of vomiting would disappear through the night. How did that happen? When I read this story I try to understand why does vomiting happen? Interestingly, there is no physical mechanism that induces