So they've been doing "studies" again on the mind-body connection.  That connection has only been demonstrated successfully for thousands of years across many cultures, but hey, knock yourselves out.  Because, you know, scientists are smarter now than they ever were in the past.  That's why they're having to rewrite the history of the universe.

I watched a great video by a guy talking about how genes are blamed for diseases.  He described how genes produce proteins in response to signals from the brain, and how the signals your brain sends to genes are causing production of proteins that cause disease, and how changing the signals from the brain had been proven to change the proteins produced and reduce and even eliminate disease.

This all was based, yet again, in the attitude, the thought patterns, and the emotional state of the person.  By now, this is becoming a very familiar theme.  It's no secret that when we're stressed or unhappy, we produce cortisol, the stress hormone.  But that's the extent of a lot of people's understanding, and it starts getting into medical-speak, so I'm gonna put it a different way.

Every thought you have creates chemical reactions in your body.  Even thoughts you're not really aware of.  When you're thinking negative, worried, or angry thoughts, you're creating a chemistry that causes your body to produce certain hormones and types of cells that you would need if there was a real threat.  Since the threat is in your mind only, in the past or the future, you don't need all these chemicals and all this adrenaline and cortisol and whatever.  And now that it's there, if you don't use it, it ends up feeling uncomfortable, and if you do this a lot, eventually it can actually do damage.

When you get your thoughts out of the negative, out of the rehashing the past and worrying about the future you can't control anyway, it's calming for the body.  Different chemical reactions happen as soon as you get out of that hamster wheel of negative thoughts.  The more you can stay out of the hamster wheel, the more you can heal yourself.  The body starts making repairs right away.  But you have to do your part.

Your body doesn't know it's only a thought.  There's an immediate reaction in there, and your brain sends information everywhere in your body, telling it to get ready for battle or to run for your life.  As soon as you break the cycle, and break that stream of thoughts, the messages from the brain are different.  Now the brain is telling things to stand down, red alert is over, at ease everybody.  The more you stay out of the past and future and negativity in your mind, the more you get back in balance inside.