11 Tricks that Give You Power Over Your Body

Your immediate environment holds disproportionate power over your experience of reality. What happens immediately around you has a much bigger impact on you than what happens a little further away. This suggests you can trick your brain into believing in a slightly false reality just by manipulating your immediate environment. If you concentrate on increasing your sense of control within a thin layer of your immediate environment, your brain will think this represents what is happening in your life's bigger picture -- even if the bigger picture is somewhat different.