Thoughts become things? I’d like to share my learning, experience, and enlightenment as a doctor with the desire that it may be helpful in establishing a healthier life. The first question is, can the mind change matter? Here are two very famous and simple experiments that answer this question. The mind of a person can…
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Thoughts become things? The placebo effect The placebo effect is defined as a beneficial effect, produced by a placebo drug or treatment, that is due to the patient’s belief in that treatment. Simply put, believing that a drug has efficacy will lead to the healing effect even if it does not. This effect has been…
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Fractal theory refers to self-similarity, that is, the phenomenon in which the entire shape of a shape repeats itself identically when a small part of a shape is enlarged. An example is the image of a tree contained within a leaf. Furthermore, there is a concept called fractal cosmology. This is the theory that one…
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I remember reading Gulliver’s Travels with curiosity when I was young. In the country of giants, everything in the world was dozens of times larger than in Gulliver’s hometown, and in the country of dwarfs, it was the opposite. The microworld is the world of cells, molecules, atoms, and elementary particles that require observation tools…
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Let’s go a little further into the microscopic world and look at the smallest unit or entity of matter. In classical physics, atoms were considered the smallest unit of matter, but with the development of science and technology, even smaller substances or beings were discovered, and they were named ultrafine particles or quarks. However, it…
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There is a saying that what I eat lasts for three generations. Is that really the case? All living things on Earth have their own genes (DNA). Genes are the basic unit of heredity. Genes contain an enormous amount of information needed to construct and maintain living cells and are passed on to offspring through…
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Where does the human mind come from? And is it possible to control that mind with my rational will? The existing developmental theory of the mind was that human thoughts and emotions were nothing more than a phenomenon that emerged from the combination of nerve cells and numerous molecules. However, with the development of science…
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The mind is created by the interrelationship between ‘consciousness’ and ‘unconsciousness.’ However, it is a well-established belief that consciousness is only the tip of the huge iceberg called ‘unconsciousness’, which is the latent layer. Because the unconscious is formed by memories from birth until now, it makes us think that what we perceive with our…
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There is a saying, “Even if you enter a tiger’s den, you will survive as long as you keep your wits about you.” Here, spirit (精神) is an abbreviation for Jeonggishin (精气神), meaning to prepare the body, mind, and energy together. There is a saying, “Don’t lose your mind,” which is based on string theory,…
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