{"id":861,"date":"2016-01-29T00:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/?p=861"},"modified":"2021-02-26T04:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:52:43","slug":"how-meditation-placebos-and-virtual-reality-help-power-mind-over-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/how-meditation-placebos-and-virtual-reality-help-power-mind-over-body\/","title":{"rendered":"How Meditation, Placebos and Virtual Reality Help Power 'Mind Over Body'"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Fresh-Air-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.southlakeuniontherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Fresh-Air-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-862\" title=\"Virtual Reality, Meditation and Placebos South Lake Union Therapy\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From a recent episode of <em>Fresh Air<\/em>: \"While researching the book&nbsp;<em>Cure,<\/em>&nbsp;science writer Jo Marchant wanted to understand how distraction could be used to nullify pain, so she participated in a virtual reality experiment.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>During the first part of the experiment, Marchant sat, without distraction, with her foot in a box of unbearably hot water. \"It felt like a very intense burning pain on my foot when I just experienced it on its own,\" Marchant tells&nbsp;<em>Fresh Air<\/em>'s Terry Gross. &nbsp;Listen to the entire episode here. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2016\/01\/26\/464372009\/how-meditation-placebos-and-virtual-reality-help-power-mind-over-body\">How Meditation, Placebos and Virtual Reality Help Power 'Mind Over Body'<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent episode of Fresh Air: \"While researching the book&nbsp;Cure,&nbsp;science writer Jo Marchant wanted to understand how distraction could be used to nullify pain, so she participated in a virtual reality experiment.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,263,1],"tags":[298,299,300,301,302,303,304,305,306,196,307,198,308,309,310,311],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Meditation, Placebos and Virtual Reality Help Power &#039;Mind Over Body&#039; 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