its all just ideas, im not good with workings of the bodies, but id like some more opinions and some ideas please.

The human body is a very complex and balanced organism with miles of arteries bringing blood to every part of the body which in turn performs a specific duty in order to make the body work as a complete function. the heart pumps blood in order to keep the body working and the brain sends its messages that is received from the senses such as eyes for seeing, ears for hearing, mouth for taste, nerves for feeling and nose for smelling. For example when you put your hand on a hot stove, the nerves burn sending the message to the brain. The brain registers the pain from the hot stove and sends messages to the arm and hand which than pull the hand back in order to prevent further injuries. Without the brain the hand would continue to burn. The brain controls the bodies’ reaction to such events, but if the body was terminally ill, could the brain cure it?

There are ideas that pain is all psychological, and with great evidence. The brain controls the body and tells what to do when the body reports pain or outside activity. So could you control your brain to not tell your hand its burning? It is reported that most people only use 10% of their brain, could the other 90% contain the ability to stop messages manually from leaving the brain? If the brain receives the message of the hand burning and doesn’t send the message to hand telling it that it is in danger would the hand still hurt from the burn? Many people even today still practice meditation, or a state in which the body is relaxed and the mind is focused on what is needed to be focused on. People meditate to perform better in work, sports, school, or just to feel better. Could this focused mind be used to help the body heal, when needed? for example if you were about to run a hundred yard dash, and before you tell yourself you can do this, over and over again in your head. Would this improve your chances of winning the race? Your brain would send messages to your legs telling them to run like never before and the brain would let epinephrine out of the adrenal glands in order to increase heart rate and blood flow through your body. This release of epinephrine on demand would increase your chances of winning greatly. Unfortunately epinephrine is only released in situations where it is greatly needed, and in those situations the brain registers the situation as dire, and in need of the adrenaline........all i got so far, some more ideas please

the we use 10% of our brain is a myth, thats not true.

Some people are born with the condition where they dont feel pain. I'm not shur where the problem starts though. If the nerves develop wrong, or the brain doesnt understand what the nerves are telling it.

I've heard that some monks can actually come close to stopping there heart from pumping, but never seen any proof or an actually study into it (like hooking up a monk to a heart rate monitor).

The plecebo effect seems to work on alot of different situations. Where you think your goona get better, then you do. But its a hard thing to study and record acuratly. So many factors come into people getting better.

This isnt a my god question though, I dont see where god comes into it. Are you suggesting god controls you through your brain. Well ya, if god has to do that its not much of a god now is it.

[This message has been edited by boozehound420 (edited 03-25-2007).]

This post doesn't really seem to fit in this forum.

But as it was said above, the whole "you only use 10% of your brain" thing is not true. Your brain is quite busy regulating things in your body that you aren't even conscious of. It's very likely that you have no clue what your red and white blood cell counts are, but your brain probably has some clue.