We have NO IDEA what the body actually is. Since the the time of Descartes we've believed that everything we perceive in the world, including the body, is just DEAD matter. His idea was that the brain alone generates consciousness, and nothing else is affected by it. Today we think of this in terms of the duality between mind and body, and body and the world... Consciousness is separate from our body, and we are separate from the world. The problem with this, however, is that scientists have not been able to figure out how matter can generate consciousness...because it cant The latest discoveries in quantum physics call this ridiculous theory into question and prove what the Hindus have known forever...ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS... I believe this has incredibly important implications for health. Your body isn't just some inert lump of matter separate from your consciousness, your thoughts, your emotions... What if your body is simply a reflection of your underlying consciousness? What if it's what your consciousness looks like to another person? For instance, your body produces tears when you are sad...tears are what sadness looks like. Your face turns red when youre angry...that is what anger looks like. What if your whole body is just what all of your conscious and subconscious activities LOOK LIKE? Instead of thinking of diseases as something in your body attacking you, we'd start realizing they are just reflections of patterns in our consciousness. This isn't to discredit food, diet, lifestyle etc...because if all is consciousness, those things are too. But they may be the most downstream way to change our consciousness, when the most effective way is really turning within. I think that this is the next frontier of health...and it would help to explain how the placebo effect and visualization are so effective