Mind over Matter? What's the difference? Mind is matter. No wait...*chants to self that he will not take a Zen approach.*
But honestly, the brain regulates all the functions you describe in your examples. They are the domain of the mind and nervous system, autonomic or not. Now, bending spoons with your mind would be more "mind over matter" for my tastes. But either way and my personal beliefs aside, any claims of that kind are stubborn to prove, if not impossible.
If you're talking about placebo effect and etc... Faith takes a large hand at healing. People who don't want to get better or who don't believe they will have been 'observed' to heal more slowly. I remember one quote that said "Medicine was the act of entertaining the patient while he heals himself."
Make of that what you will.
-Sin
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