The scientific and medical understanding of the mind-body connection has evolved from a counterculture concept to an accepted area of research, with studies now published on interactions between bodily organs, the gut-brain axis, and heart rate variability.

“nowadays there's an entire Institute at the National Institutes of Health for complimentary health and Medicine essentially exploring things like yoganidra respiration practices even supplements and things of that sort and there's this understanding that oh my goodness the nervous system extends into the body and the body sends neural signals back into the brain and so this whole notion of Mind Body has fortunately migrated away from kind of California counterculture esselin Institute only uh you know hippie New Age Magic Carpet stuff by the way that's not what I believe that's but that's often how it was looked at in the past and now people at every level of science and medicine and every major university and in every scientific journal are starting to publish papers about the interactions between bodily organs like the breathing apparati the diaphragm lungs the heart heart rate variability we hear about the liver the gut brain axis in particular”