Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Can your mind actually make you physically sick? The answer might surprise you.

25 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that many instances of personal illness are triggered by mental processes. He describes the experience as more of a feeling than a thought, noting that the thought precedes or accompanies the feeling. He identifies periods of chronic stress, heightened self‑devaluation, shame, and guilt as especially likely to precede sickness. The speaker also mentions that he has abandoned many conventional, conditioned beliefs about what causes illness and promises to explore those ideas later in the video.

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Have you ever had a thought that you realized made you sick? I would say virtually every time that I get sick now, it's because of a thought. And it's more of a, like, I would say more of a feeling than it is a thought. I would say that the thought obviously precedes or is accompanied by the feeling, but it's in periods of perpetual stress or periods of heightened self-devaluation, or periods of feeling lots of shame and guilt. Yeah, is when I get sick. And I would say that's especially so as I've dissolved a lot of the other conditioned beliefs regarding what does make us sick. And we'll get into that later on.