A short talk discussing how thoughts influence physical health: the speaker frames the brain as an organ that processes inputs (like a computer program) and drives bodily responses to maintain homeostasis. Negative thoughts (e.g., 'I feel tired' or 'I'm in pain') can trigger cellular chemicals and reactions that reinforce discomfort and inflammation; positive thoughts can have the opposite, beneficial effect.
Your body is operating according to the input that it's receiving. Your brain is just another organ like your liver, like your kidneys, and it operates according to what your mind is telling it to do and the information it's receiving from your body and from the outside world. And your mind is just like a computer program. It's taking that input and then it's giving an output based on previous coding and data that it was told to use. So, and you've probably heard me say this before, that your body's always trying to be in balance. It's trying to be in homeostasis. So your brain will continually tell the cells in your body to be congruent with your thoughts. So, for example, if your thoughts are focused on negative things like I feel tired, I'm in pain, it will produce chemicals and reactions in your cells to validate those thoughts and feelings. It will keep you in that vicious cycle of discomfort and inflammation. But the opposite is true, and that is so powerful.
