It's easy enough to test your theory, Molly. I can inject you with the chemicals which WILL alter your mood, and you can attempt to combat them by willing your mood to change the chemicals.
How can the mood exist outside of the chemicals? The mood IS the chemicals. Neurochemistry is not some dark and unexplored science. There is much research available. Here's a good start http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=bnchm.TOC&depth=10 On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > While chemical balance is one part of our "health," claiming that it > the entire picture is a very narrow focus. You seem to be presenting > the premise that our chemical balance produces our mood. I suggest > that our mood effects our chemical balance. Quackery and juju works > both ways, and simply can't get away with it anymore may also apply to > an outdated medical model. The paradigm of science itself is > changing, although mainstream is slow to catch up. > > Orn, you did mean posters and not posers, I take it. Very funny. > > On Aug 4, 4:32 pm, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > The body can heal itself; this is not a revelation, it does this > > continuously, every day, with the production of new cells. The operating > > factor and scope for variability, and there is only one, is the chemical > > balance of the body in question. Mood is part of this. > > > > Why try to dress this up with quackery and juju? You simply can't get > away > > with it any more. > > > > Ian > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
