Psychosomatics

The word psychosomatic describes a kind of influence or effect that the mind can have on the body, or the body can have on the mind. For example, psychosomatic medicine focuses on diseases or physical disorders that are thought to originate within our thoughts and emotions. An emotion that becomes habitual will manifest as a physiological reality within the body. Positive emotions can be defined as those emotions having a beneficial effect on our physiology, while negative motions are degenerative and lead to disorders and disease.