Despite the limited control we have over it, the mind can be a powerful factor of your personality and actions and it benefits us to look after it, the same as it benefits us to look after our body.
Just as the body benefits from detoxifying so does the mind. The best way to detoxify the mind is through meditation.
If the body and mind are healthy and strong, life becomes not only easy but pleasurable
The trouble is, most of us make choices semi consciously at best. We don't even attempt to control our attention, perhaps because we don't know how. Buddhists maintain that the capacity can be refined through a consistent practice of meditation: The mind is by nature unstable, inherently distractible, and meditation is a means of stabilizing it.
Often called the placebo-affect, there is a large body of research that has demonstrated the suggestive power of the mind is able to alleviate pain and cure various ailments. In 1955, scientist H.K. Beecher published a paper titled “The Powerful Placebo,” in which he demonstrated that in the 26 studies he conducted, an average of 32% of the trial patients responded to a placebo. Ten years later, it was shown that placebos could speed up the pulse rate, increase blood pressure, and improve reaction speeds of participants who were told their sugar pill was actually a stimulant. Likewise, the opposite physiological effect was observed when patients were told they were receiving a drug to induce sleep.
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