But there will be come within your control that you will be able to change. Mind and body are one system - the same self. What you think affects your body and what you do with your body affects your thoughts. This gives you control and influence. You can avoid those thoughts that harm your health and cultivate those that enhance it.
Symptoms are signals.
Find out what the signal means, rather than immediately trying to remove it. When you pay attention to what your body is telling you, you are pacing yourself, getting to know deeper levels of yourself. Doctors prescribe beliefs in the form of placebos. A placebo is often narrowly defined as 'an inert substance that has its effect by virtue of the patients' expectations, having no direct effect on the the condition for which is prescribed'. But as we shall see, it is hard to separate direct and indirect effects, and a placebo can be a substance, a procedure or a form of words.