slyc_willie said:
Hmmm... undoubtably though we don't often recognise it. Some exercise this 'strength' every morning, just to get out of bed, though not all of them are ill.
I've been spared any of the drugs that might be termed 'mind altering', I take enough of everything else, but that doesn't mean my mind wishes to be left in isolation controlling unconsciously the diverse range of skills required to allow me to walk across the room. Consciously harnessing this source of power to overcome life crippling illness is a different ball game with a huge numbers of detractors against the few who claim success, the few who've willed away terminal and other illness confronting conventional wisdom.
And because it's a few, their achievements are both derided and excused as 'statistical probability' - given a million sufferers, a singularity is always going to escape death's clutch, it is statistically provable, which doesn't help to explain 'why'.
My morbid fear of dentists permits me to overcome toothache, tooth pain last about a day before I can mentally remove the pain. Prove it... I can't, who could?
I've had my mind exert it's authority over my body in a variety of ways, most recently it decided to show me the individual stages required to enable me to walk. That it chose to do this in the middle of a crowded pedestrian precinct displays a certain irony. It had me staggering and stumbling like a drunk for a few minutes, quite what the purpose was I'm not sure... other than to remind me my mind shadowed my soul.
You can always PM me if you want a sympathetic ear.
