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Can the Mind Heal the Body?

Closer To Truth
Closer To Truth
Episode • Oct 12, 2017 • 26s
CONSCIOUSNESS - It is standard medicine that mental states can affect physical states. That's how placebos work—when sham drugs improve health, working by inducing the body to generate hormones. But some claim that the mind goes even further in healing the body, operating through consciousness in some nonphysical manner. Can this make sense?