Those who aren't actually looking, don't hear about it Jon J.
Moreover, it's not easy to hear anything, with your determinedly desperate fingers plugged deep in your ears singing, La, la, la, la, la, etc/etc!
And given Kay is right and you are wrong, a huge reason to exclude the negative imperative, and water hazard thinking/limitations.
I mean, focus on want you do want rather than your fears or what you don't want, and see where that takes you?
If nothing happens, how can you be worse off? Well?
And if you receive a positive benefit, or even just an improvement in you golf game, football conversions average etc?
You've gained something of value, but none more so than being able to confront a future with hope in your heart, even when all about you are saying, give up, it won't work, you'll never do it!
And if you go to your death, with nothing changed, which death is the better/preferred one, the one approached with undying hope and a cheerful attitude/disposition, or a completely despairing tormented one?
Your time here is never wasted when you're trying, but a complete waste of time, when you have stopped trying, or indeed, stopped believing in yourself!
Thankfully, people like the never quit Wright brothers/Edward Hillary etc/etc, weren't made from that lessor mold.
Look, there is great power in visualization, coupled to the power of belief!
I mean, if a pointing witch doctors bone can kill a completely healthy strong tribesperson, in just days, what would then happen if the same belief (in a higher force,) were applied to medicine?
Yes sure, it could be just the placebo effect.
But how much better would it work, if we invested just as much as a grain of mustard seed of belief behind it?
And what's to lose, particularly, if all other things have been tried.
And or how much better would conventional medicine be, if coupled to belief in a cure or cures!?
Hypnosis, Acupuncture? Ha, ha! You can't be serious! That'll never work Jon J!
Rhrosty.

To me it feels like the general population is often ahead of the media, and with due respect some medical professionals, when it comes to talking about the connection between consciousness and health. Perhaps they think about it, but are so tied up with meeting financial demands, for one, that the thought stops there. You refer to Kuhn and to the 19th Century mind-body-spirit pioneer, Mary Baker Eddy. Your reference to “Kuhn’s hypothesis”, reminds me of a paragraph by Eddy in her book, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures’: “Agassiz, the celebrated naturalist and author, has wisely said: "Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it." Great stuff for real thinkers! thanks.

Jardine K. Jardine that young ladies ideas on contraception would most certainly have frightened me away, I'm not too sure it would have had the same effect on my sperm.

Yuyutsu, I am quite sure that "doctors, whose mechanical and atheistic approach to life" you decry, worked quite well for my spirit.

My religious beliefs tell me that if they had not stuck that artificial stent in the artery in my heart, my spirit would have been buried along with the rest of me, quite a few years ago.

Why not also check out the work of Bruce Lipton too. Lipton's work confirms Kay's general hypothesis.

I'm not qualified to comment on scientific issues but 30 plus years of nursing taught me that not everything can be explained away by science. "Miracle cures" happen from time to time, confounding both medical staff and patients.
Sometimes it wasn't even a matter of being cured but the reality of terminally ill people surviving years, even decades beyond their expected time of death.
The fact that many of these people had incredibly positive attitudes, or the child was a "fighter" may well have been coincidence but over the years I have sometimes wondered whether in fact the mind did have some influence over physical diseases.

Actually Big Nana, I am a scientist and I think that what you are saying is of course absolutely true. I acknowledge that the mind has influence over peoples health outcomes.

The thing is, so does science. They have for a long time. It's called the "placebo effect". Most people think that it is dismissed as a "background" effect, when the reality is that it is the biggest effect there is when administering any treatment. The placebo effect is the most effective medical treatment there is. Understanding what exactly that means is the trick...

It also means that silly treatments like homeopathy will always be with us, because they work for some people, just like sugar pills.