I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to add some information for people
who may be going back and reading old information, to correct some misunderstandings
and misinformation and disinformation, etc.
I don't remember Jim Humble saying, "emotions/beliefs don't really play a large part in health crises",
but, afaic, he is COMPLETELY and TOTALLY WRONG about that.
Emotions, Beliefs, Mental Attitudes, and other Psychology play a VERY large part
in healing AND becoming ill. It is fairly well known that a person can literally
"make themselves ill" in a variety of ways via the mind. "It's all in your mind" has
become a very negative and derogatory usage, and it can be in context, but
there is much to the concept in a non-negative and non-derogatory sense.
AND "mindfulness" can also help a person to become better in the same respect.
I am still working on my page about this for my website that will also be posted on this forum.
Here is merely one anecdote of THOUSANDS that you can find if you look:
There was a doctor in the Bay Area (Cali) some years ago (1990s) who did some
very interesting work along those lines. He took it some number of steps further, to the point
of what most people would call "Woo Woo" to put it nicely. I met him and some other
people who had moved up into the mountains of NorCal to create an "health community".
I don't remember his name and lost touch with them, so I don't know the current status.
There was a young man there helping around the place who had a VERY bad back strain
from doing something the day before. Working, or chopping firewood, or stacking it, I forget.
He was pretty stoved up and could barely move and walk or turn his head.
The doctor talked to him about it, discovered that the night before the guy had talked to
his father and gotten in an argument, and that they had a very strained relationship.
After talking to the guy for a short time, the doctor got him to realize that he hadn't
really strained his back, it was from his interaction and history with his father.
His back immediately felt 100% better and he was fine. That's what this doctor was able to do.
I had no reason to not believe this person's story having heard it first hand and seeing
and experiencing the shock, amazement, and sincerity in his voice and words.
Plus I knew something about the doctor's history. This was pre-Internet.
If you don't know about this kind of stuff, you can "do your own research"
('famous last words') about the Nocebo Effect and some other things most
people have probably at least heard of, like "The Power of Positive Thinking",
"You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought", "Laughter Is The Best Medicine",
'Mind Over Matter' and The Institute of Noetic Sciences (founded in 1973 by
NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and others) that describes Noetic Sciences as
"how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world", and other
similar information.
I think I've related one of my own stories on the forum here somewhere where over
about a couple of months I used "Mind Over Matter" to make several warts on both
of my hands that I had had for years completely disappear. That was amazing
to say the least.
Also, it is CARBS that people SHOULD be eating, NOT Animal Flesh and Products,
the former of which constitute the most healthy and health-promoting diet for an Human Animal,
and the latter of which are the fundamental causes for so many human diseases and illnesses.
See my website, link below, for more information about that.