Beginning in the 1950s, a number of medical researchers began to formulate what they called behavioural medicine. These scientists and clinicians proposed that the mind and body were not separate, but united in an intimate way. Their research began to show that problems traditionally thought of as mental - anxiety, anger, and depression - produce bodily changes and vice versa.

Experience molds the nervous system and the whole body so that their responses to future events or thoughts are altered.

We are affected by the bodies of others.

As I’ve said, communication in language between two people is communication between two biological beings who literally live in different cognitive universes.

... the profound relationship between language and the body’s physiology - a placebo changes expectation.