“Imagine that you wish to dilate your pupils, increase your heart rate, decrease your heart rate or boost your immune system. Again, you cannot do this by a direct act of will, **but you can use conscious mechanisms to produce unconscious effects**. For instance, you can contract your pupils by staring at a light bulb or dilate them by walking into a darkened room. You can increase your heart rate through jogging or decrease it through the practice of yoga or meditation.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[counter-intuitive-thinking]] , [[second-order-consequences]], **Source** -- [[202407221554 - B - Alchemy]]