The mind-body debate is as old as modern philosophy and ever since its very beginnings, it has produced two prominent lines of thought. So, get ready to discover why your mind is the most powerful thing in the universe after God and how you can use it to change your brain and your life as well! Mind controls matter In “Switch on Your Brain,” Leaf – a life-long student of both medicine and the Bible – explains through science and Scripture the logic and soundness of this concept. Nowadays, however, we know that the brain is plastic and that it changes and adapts constantly, sometimes in response to our very thoughts. Up until a few decades ago, scientists considered this not merely a bold claim, but a pseudomedical one as well. In other words, we are victims neither of our biology nor our upbringing, but toxic thinking patterns.īut that’s good news! Because it suggests that by changing our own thinking, we can change everything, including our health, life and destiny. Caroline Leaf in “Switch on Your Brain” – is that only 2% to 25% of the diseases that plague us come from the environment and the genes. The flip side to this staggering statistic – writes Dr. In fact, their meta-analysis has recently shown that a whopping 98% of all mental, physical, and behavioral illnesses are in some way connected to one’s thought life.

According to the Harvard Medical School’s Mind-Body Institute, that number may be bigger, much bigger.

A recent study by the American Medical Association found that stress is an important factor in 75% of all illnesses and diseases that people suffer from today.

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