The latter saying in Latin, mens agitat molem, is the official motto of the University of Warwick and Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. One of the most talked-about examples of the nocebo phenomenon was an incident published in New Scientist. It may be said that, so far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life - sensation, instinct, the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering on reason, and lastly, the improvable reason of Man himself - presents us with a picture of the ever-increasing dominion of mind over matter.Īnother related saying was coined almost two millennia earlier (19 B.C.) 'the mind moves matter' by the poet Virgil in his work Aeneid, book 6, line 727. None of this is meant to say don’t use doctors when you have a health crisis. This is based on the idea that emotions are chemical in origin. The exact phrase 'mind over matter' first appeared in 1863 in The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) and refers to the increasing status and evolutionary growth of the minds of animals and man throughout Earth history. People that believe in matter over mind often get very passionate about their beliefs and thrust them upon you with tremendous passion.

Mind over matter origin