Thfeary

I'm a believer in the influence of psychological state and emotion upon physical health. When people cite the power of prayer, they're only wrong in the attritbution, not the effectiveness it can have for a sufferer to have faith. Maybe even the positive vibes of those praying might do something, just judging by a wealth of.. Well, not evidence, but highly suggestive information that may, or may not be purely the product of wishful, evangelist imaginations.

With this stated, I found myself pondering the 'mystery' of immuno-disorders.

Take asthma, for example; what if the reason everyone is suddenly being crippled by their own respiratory systems - in their efforts to save us from things of little to absolutely no harm - is that we fear the air we breathe?

Certainly, there will always be respiratory problems as a result of purely medical concerns, and there always has/always will be 'asthma' for a given value of a rather catch-all term, but what if the massive apparent upsurge is not solely down to air quality, but partially down to our own hypochondrian/conditioned paranoia about what we're breathing?

What if our bodies are being trained from childhood to resent and distrust the air we breathe?

As I see it, this is no more far fetched than reversing the Placebo Effect.

Think on it, and let me know your own conclusions.