write a debate on topic the power of mind can help to cure diseases in 200 words in favour as well as against
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Explanation:
The idea that the mind can exert healing powers over the body is one that is most often associated with pseudoscience — and, usually, justifiably so. Cancer patients can’t think their way to healthy; depression doesn’t work like that, either.
But, on the other hand, consider the placebo effect and the subjective improvement in symptoms people report after taking bogus drugs. Clearly, the mind and body work in tandem when it comes to our experience of some physical ailments — but which ones, and to what extent?
I think maybe it is the fact that it walks so close to pseudoscience that made me really interested. Because, on the one hand, it’s common sense that the mind and the body interact with each other. We’re all familiar with that in so many ways: If you’re narrowly hit by a car, for example, you can feel your heart pumping. All the time we are experiencing how our mental states affect our physiology — that’s very clear.
But when it comes to health, suddenly there are all these controversial questions. You get all these claims from alternative therapists that the mind can heal us and can cure cancer or can supposedly heal someone’s paralysis after they’ve broken their neck — you know, these ridiculous claims. And yet on the other hand, you have skeptics who have dismissed the idea that the mind plays any role in health, who call the whole thing quackery.
So I was interested in why we find it so hard to have reasonable debates about this question. And I was interested in where that comes from, so I wanted to look at the evidence myself, in a sort of critical but open-minded way to see what the evidence really says.