inside Ninja's Brain

The mind and the human brain are couple of the most vaguely understood things in general science. The biggest reason why we are not able to understand it is because its about the most basic and integral part of us that we attempt to learn.

Some of you might have heard from your friends that he is allergic to something, but then all of a sudden in a place where that thing is not present, he would start having an allergic reaction!!! Again sometime, you might tell a lie and act really well (in short convincing your self that you are sick) about being sick and then you end up being actually sick. Again You might hear that three of your friends who were with you for dinner the previous night were sick from the food and you would feel sick yourself though you would not have eaten the actual thing which might have made them sick.. Experienced that anyone???

The next statement I put here would create a lot of outrage amongst many readers but as always, please read till the end before you jump to conclusions. “The Mind is responsible for most diseases and ALL the ‘miracle’ healings”… When i put across this statement, it implies that, those sudden allergies you get, the headaches, migraines etc which at most points do not have an explanation are all play of the mind. Similarly the so called healers or faith healing are all manifestations of the same concept. As always, I am ready to give you solid reasons for why I say this. But first let me ask you this question: Do you believe, that pregnancy can be caused by the mind?? Ie, if a girl (or at times even a guy) really really wants a baby, can this translate into a pregnancy? If something as complicated as pregnancy is possible due to manifestation of the mind, then a trivial allergy or a minor cancer should be child’s play for it right!!!

Well my answer to the question above is both Yes and No. The mind cannot get a girl pregnant (which would anyway take the whole fun out of the process!! J ). But it can give you ALL the symptoms of pregnancy (which is the YES part of the answer). The stomach swells up, Breast enlargement, Nipple discolorations, the craving for the some food, arching of the back, periods stop and at times even the widening of the pelvis. Everything seems true except that, there wont be an actual baby in the womb.. There would only be gas and fat!!! Hard to believe??? It’s true. This phenomenon called fake pregnancy is known by the term pseudocyesis. Its a well documented medical phenomenon and has been first recorded in about 300 BC. As most people would have guessed, it is quite rare and occurs in about 2-3 cases per 10,000 actual pregnancies. The shocking part is that it has been even observed in males too!!! The symptoms are so accurate that most gynaecologists are unable to even distinguish between an actual pregnancy and a case of pseudocyesis unless the high tech gadgets like MRI and Ultrasonic kicks in, during which they see no babies in the womb!!!

Explanations for this range from demon pregnancies to alien impregnation to Ghost births… It is also accounted as virgin births. But there is a scientific explanation to this. This has been observed in people who have either been forced or compelled to get pregnant by friends and family or by people who really wanted to get pregnant. In the case of guys its been reported with males who extremely wanted to share emotional empathy with their pregnant female companions (heh heh heh, be warned guys..). How this happens is quite simple if taken at face-value. The mind decides it wants a baby. This thought somehow get physically translated and reduces the level of dopamine and norepinephrine which in turn reduce the production of FSH which starts off the cycle.. If the whole explanation is to be given, it would render the post unreadable due to the medical terminologies. Anyway summary: mind wants baby -> mind kick starts some things -> all symptoms come alive -> since no sperm, No baby is actually there -> end of story.

Now the reason I went on to explain this much about pregnancy is due to the fact that pregnancy is one of the most complicated physical transformation and that too in a timed fashion. Unlike an allergy, tumour or a cancer, which usually just involves one small change, pregnancy involved so many. Another experiment conducted at the Mcmaster university on mice showed that the mind can indeed create diseases for the body. In this experiment, the mice were given a compound which reduces their immunity along with saccharin which is harmless. So whenever this was done, the mice fell sick. But after sometime, they gave it simple saccharin and guess what? The mice fell sick again. Not only did they fall sick, but there was a dramatic decrease in their immunity levels!!! So how did that happen? Another example is the condition called MPD or multiple personality disorder which was made famous by the film ANNYAN. Most people know about it but there are some slight points which were missed by most of us. A person who suffers from MPD will have distinct or separate personalities but, did you know that they can have different physical characteristics too??? One personality may have short-sightedness while his alter personality might be 20/20 on vision.. One personality may be unable to light 20 KGs along while the other may find it a child’s play. How is this possible again? Another case similar to my friend’s case is an experiment in which people allergic to pollens where told that a plastic flower was real, most of them had a allergic reaction to that though absolutely NO pollen were present in the flower!!! All this are accounted for the ability of the mind to directly influence the body!

Now for the good part. A simple question here would be, Well can this be used in the opposite direction? Can the mind Heal the body? Can it help us? Yes… The mind can be used to help heal the body, something which has been happening for a long time but under a name called faith healing or miracle healing. Faith or complete trust can be defined as a process of convincing one inner subconscious of something. This is where I usually get the question of whether I am an atheist or not.. (NO COMMENTS). This post has nothing to do with god. But i assure you one thing, all the people who say or claim as being the faith healers are FAKE. But i would not exactly complain as they indirectly convince others mind to believe in them and that they could heal them. This concept of using the mind to heal or create physical changes in the body has been experimentally proven. It was tried with people with AIDS, where a mind experiment resulted in much improved levels of immunity. Although medical science is unable to pinpoint exactly how to trigger this, we know that if we beat around blindly enough times, we’re ought to hit the pot!!! So comes the question of whether we would be able to make ourselves believe like the mice mentioned earlier, where a sound of a bell can release jerk the body into remembering the tetanus shot we received some time back thus saving ourselves from the booster shots required every six months. Or maybe prevent the production of histamine which causes allergies in a similar way.. It would be pretty helpful. Some have actually been proved to work.

I have a tendency to believe it. I have not had an allergic reaction i can remember, nor do i get fever often. I am also devoid of headaches and other such symptoms. I do not take medicines too. Maybe all this is because I firmly believe that my body is capable of producing its own set of antibodies as and when required. Maybe somehow it has been translated into a physical form for me. I cannot be sure or confirm if this is true for me but science suggest and has proved that this is a true fact. That the mind can be over the body.

On a concluding note, I would want to my friends who experience this to try and convince their mind that they is not part of the ailing group (dont ask me how) !! Hopefully, you mind will heal you!!!

Hope you all find the doctors in you!!! J

-Ninja-