Mind Over Matter

It is rightly said that our mind is our own resident physician. What’s more, our body too is as intelligent as our mind; the two, in unison, are our internal healing system’s most powerful allies. Our mind works through the brain and nervous system; in so doing, it sends powerful notes, or messages, to our body. This is fundamental to prompt, or plod, the functioning of our healing mechanisms. This is also, doubtless, the foundational principle of nature’s most natural, time-tested, all-encompassing approach integral to homeopathic treatment.

- Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor

The philosopher Aristotle eulogised, that, “Just as you ought not to attempt to use eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.” The Roman poet Virgil, likewise, postulated that ‘mind moves matter’ — a postulate that ancient Eastern philosophers and physicians emphasised upon and established no less eloquently. The ancient Greek physician Galen proposed that gloomy women were, for the most part, prone to cancer of the reproductive organs — the likely cause being prolonged depression.

Our body is as intelligent as our mind; the two, in unison, are our internal healing system’s most powerful allies. Our mind works through the brain and nervous system; in so doing, it sends powerful notes, or messages, to our body. This is fundamental to prompt, or plod, the functioning of our healing mechanisms.

It is primarily through such communication networks, or feedback ‘loops,’ that sophisticated mechanisms work to send precise, split-second information from our body back to our brain.

The best part is the mind is always in ‘personal’ contact with our body’s ever-changing internal environment. Besides, it functions in concert with our healing system. Put simply, it corresponds to a classical metaphor — where there are nerves, the mind can traverse at the speed of thought.