morale of soldiers during the battle is no less important than their weaponry and equipment of tactical training.Panic is able to break the heart, and the weak will lead to death long before you have exhausted all chances of survival.Full horror can paralyze a person, deprive him of his speech, and even stop the heart.There are cases where after the earthquake found the dead bodies of men and women, who had no external injuries.
Another one example of the power of the spirit over the body are such things as self-hypnosis, hypnosis, dreams, the unconscious impulses and desires.Being immersed in an unconscious state by hypnosis or self-hypnosis, a person changes its inherent physiological reactions to external stimuli.For example, there are cases when using hypnosis instilled insensitivity to pain and burns.Touching the body of a pencil left a crimson trail and cause pain.
Acting on the psyche can bring it to the point of tension that it will certainly have a negative impact on the whole person and to health.The patient, the patient hysteria, though his body organs are not damaged, can suffer paralysis of limbs, lameness, deafness, blindness.Outwardly healthy person may gradually fade away if he is to convince that he is terminally ill and will soon die.
Another surprising fact the interaction of mind and body is the appearance of stigmata on the body of religious fanatics.The stigmata are wounds on the hands and feet that correspond to the location of his wounds on the body of Jesus Christ.These signs of divine mercy "elect" is obtained after long and persistent thoughts about the sufferings of Christ that made them a strong desire to repeat their own.
stigma noted many religious ascetics and saints in various epochs of Christian history, what survived numerous legends.Starting from the XII century to the present day, there were more than 300 such cases.For example, at the end of the last century, a Belgian girl Louise Lato became famous for the fact that on Good Friday she appeared bleeding wounds on his hands and feet.And at the end of XX century the wound "Jesus Christ" on Easter began to appear at the Bavarian peasant Theresa Neumann.The survey showed that a temporary origin of these injuries actually coincides with the beginning of Passover.It was at this point, they begin to bleed.But the most surprising was the fact that they are not inflamed and festered, and blood flowed from them spontaneously.A week later they heal without leaving scars.
Stigma occur not only in the religious-minded people.There are cases where a passionate experience of someone's physical pain was the cause of the stigmata on his body.For example, a girl who was present when the punishment whips brother because he empathized during execution that her back was covered with bleeding welts.In the book Gorky "The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin" is an episode where the husband hits his wife with a knife in the liver.The imagination of the writer captured this scene so that he fell fainting, and then on his body in the area of the liver, which was hit the unfortunate woman found a bright crimson streak.In the same way Balzac, drawing the battle, heard the groans of the wounded, and Flaubert, describing the scene of poisoning Bovary, felt the taste of arsenic in my mouth.
All these phenomena are well known in the medical practice and are proof of two-way communication of mind and body.However, some dualists tend to use this as a bidirectional arguments in favor of the ability of consciousness to conduct their own "policy", even against the dictates of the body.Gandhi experimented in the sexual sphere, trying to prove the ability of consciousness to control the carnal life.He deliberately surrounded himself with young women, in order to train their will and to prove the freedom from sexual drives.He allowed them to touch him, to behave freely and at ease in his company.
Sometimes he went further in his experiments and went to bed with one of his young followers.Although both were naked, however, they do not touch each other.Gandhi insisted that being with a naked female body, he felt very brotherly feelings, and he did not have the desire to enter into sexual contact.Thus, the spirit is able to subdue bodily desires and to influence physiological processes.
In this regard, advocates of the concept of "intangible consciousness" physiologists ask: "How do show us, consciousness can be generated by the brain as gall, for example, the liver?" In their view, it is inappropriate to call a property of the brain consciousness.In the material world every object has properties: color, smell, shape.Meanwhile, our thoughts have no color, no shape, no smell.Thought can not touch, can not feel their weight or smell.The very thought, according A.Menya, "it is impossible if they wanted to take up" or register the content using any device.For example, using EEG power can register the oscillations produced by the brain.However, using it is impossible to discern "the flash of consciousness."
