There is certainly a strong link between the body’s responses and the mind’s decisions. For the philosophers who have been trying to articulate the mind and body problem for centuries, the nuances of argument can indeed break down in the face of other psychic breakthroughs. The introduction of biofeedback into contemporary medicine has done wonders for changing the way entire cultures look at the relationship between body and mind. Here, it becomes clear that the way people think can change their reality. Electronic impulses register the rate that the heart can be slowed as the subject goes into a meditative state. This is an exciting realm of possibilities.
Those who practice meditation understand the benefits, and those who have studied it can probably see the link with biofeedback rather easily. It’s also very true that biofeedback is really just confirming what practitioners of meditation have known for centuries. The universe is a thought, and the way people think about the universe can in fact change their reality in enormous ways. Beginning with the possibilities of controlling the body’s responses, one can start to look into how meditation can also control the mind’s responses to reality. There is a remarkable potential within, and the limits of this potential are endless.