is this really possible?

Uma Therman woke herself up from a coma and made her feet move. If it is movies, then it happens in real life too.

simply put, no

there is a limit to what you can do only with your mind. i can spend the rest of my life thinking i can manipulate fire, doesnt mean i will. same there is no way you can develop muscle trough willpower alone it wont work that way. you can convince yourself of things like i dont like i dont like tomatoes or simple things like that but there is no way to change your body at will. if we could everyone would be perfect.

when it comes to your mind it might be possible to convince yourself that you love or hate someone but there is no way that by thinking i want to be a woman your sex will change. your genes wont change because you want it.

simply put, no

there is a limit to what you can do only with your mind. i can spend the rest of my life thinking i can manipulate fire, doesnt mean i will. same there is no way you can develop muscle trough willpower alone it wont work that way. you can convince yourself of things like i dont like i dont like tomatoes or simple things like that but there is no way to change your body at will. if we could everyone would be perfect.

when it comes to your mind it might be possible to convince yourself that you love or hate someone but there is no way that by thinking i want to be a woman your sex will change. your genes wont change because you want it.

But you won't actually believe you can manipulate fire. That's the thing.

There's a fine line between thinking and believing. Unless you were some crazy nut job, you will never BELIEVE that you can manipulate fire. You can think it, but you won't believe, because you KNOW it's impossible.

There have been studies done on this subject, and it may be possible, but there isn't enough proof to support it. Deep down you know whether or not something is possible.

if someone were to think that they were strong, and without actually working out, would they over a long period of time end up being somewhat stronger than if they had not thought that of themselves?

I find it hard to believe that muscle would magicly grow because the brain thought it was growing, but if someone thought they were stronger than they were, aka over confidence, they might have a higher 'tolerance' for exerting energy into a taste than someone who thinks they're weak, and thus be able to push more, lift more, or hit harder than someone of the same muscle-mass.

'Course, this goes off of measuring strength by muscle mass and condition, not by "how hard can you hit this?" test.

Food for thought. :3

It's amazing what the human mind is capable of.

I read a story of a woman in Wisconsin who got in a car crash while teaching her son to drive. The car fell over on the drivers side. The mom was able to jump out the top, but the son was trapped in the vehicle under the steering wheel column and couldn't move his feet out. The mom leaped out of the car, pushed the car over, ripped the car door off, and saved her son.

Adrenaline - it's a powerful thing. People that believe they can do something are far more likely to actually accomplish it than those who don't. That's why athletes try to beat each other psychologically first.

It's amazing what the human mind is capable of.

I read a story of a woman in Wisconsin who got in a car crash while teaching her son to drive. The car fell over on the drivers side. The mom was able to jump out the top, but the son was trapped in the vehicle under the steering wheel column and couldn't move his feet out. The mom leaped out of the car, pushed the car over, ripped the car door off, and saved her son.

Adrenaline - it's a powerful thing. People that believe they can do something are far more likely to actually accomplish it than those who don't. That's why athletes try to beat each other psychologically first.

Considering the body purposely limits itself as a safety mechanism, it wouldn't be surprising. The human bone is actually several times tougher than concrete, pound for pound. It's just that if we exhibit that limit we'd risk breaking our own bones. The human body is truly capable of marvelous acts if we can exert it at our true limits.

Human Body: Pushing the Limits from Discovery is great pomegranate. I only wish I owned the whole collection because I missed some of the episodes such as our limits to pain tolerance and how responsive our brains can be. Did you know our nerve signals actually border the speed of light?

discovery channel, or magazine? im sure either way its online somewhere.

discovery channel, or magazine? im sure either way its online somewhere.

Discovery Channel

[color="#cc8899"]Something like hormone balances can be affected by the way a person thinks, as demonstrated by false pregnancies, even in males. So yes, believing (and the key here is ACTUALLY believing, hypnosis may help) that you are GETTING skinnier will help you to become skinnier. Believing that you ARE skinny is less likely to work, because it's harder to convince yourself of.

Same principle drives the effects of placebos.[/COLOR]

It's not possible for all cases. One of the big proofs of that is sadly one that takes lives: Anorexia.

It's not possible for all cases. One of the big proofs of that is sadly one that takes lives: Anorexia.

True, but believing in a positive change happening definitely doesn't hurt. The confidence it gives also encourages more action on the behalf of the person.

I don't work out, but I'm confident that i'm strong, so i beat everyone else who doesn't work out in arm wrestle if that counts.
I also realized there's a relationship between my math mark, and how smart I think of myself at that time, though I don't know if my math mark depended on how smart I think of myself or how smart I think of myself depended on my math mark.

[COLOR="Red"]I remember hearing somewhere that if you believe whatever you're doing will build muscle, your mind will start tearing down the muscle as if you're working hard, even if it's something as simple as typing or carring small boxes. If you can force your body to believe something, then it can do things it normally wouldn't.

Note: Keyword here, like in other posts is "believe".[/COLOR]

Well you gus should watch some Ghanaian movies because they teach you alot of things. Like in this one movie my cousin was watching, it was about a crippled girl who couldn't walk but because she Believed she could walk, she did. =)
Also, my cousin says Ghanaians make movies based on true stories that have happened. They don't make movies if the story isn't true.

Considering your mind controls all your bodily functions, I think it's definitely possible. Whether it actually does happen is another thing.

If we had full conscious control over everything we do, including all internal functions like metabolism and growth, we'd probably wind up killing ourselves somehow or other. It's the same reason we feel pain.

But what we believe about ourselves might just influence them a little bit.

Its not possible for someone to strongly affect their metabolism by thought. Metabolism is primarrly controlled by hormones (primarily thyroid hormone), and the only real way that your brain can regulate this is through the hypothalamus, which is not under conscious control. Unless there are journal articles demonstrating that the hypothalamus can be regulated by the conscious mind I dont think its possible.

Wasnt there a show called the secret?

if you put your mind to it, you might get it. there was a scene about this child who wanted this bike that was sold in a shop soo much he even printed pictures and slept with it (IIRC). then one day the bike arrived outside his house `-`





I don't believe it (I tried thinking about a Wii for a month straight, didnt get it at all) but i don't know.

i think humans can archive anything they set out to do, they have to be 100% in it though.

sorta on topic, but didnt some scientist say something about us only using like %15 of our brains? :/

To push your limits mentally is one thing, to recreate organs, muscle mass, and broken bones is another.