Until recently, scientists claimed that the body is just a "transmission device" for the brain, which delivers information to the brain in order to receive it and perform a task.

Recently, scientists have been providing more and more evidence that the body has much more important functions, as it is involved in cognitive processes. The body and mind form a common whole and are dependent on each other. The body is the window to the world for our management centre, which is the brain. After all, it is through our material shell that we perceive our surroundings. We get to know the world through our senses, i.e. through the stimuli received by the body.

According to one of the many hypotheses, one could say that 'the mind is anchored in the actions of the body and its environment'. The body and the reality around us has a significant impact on our behaviour, thinking, social relations, cognitive processes and emotions. It is the signals coming from the body that give our brain 'instructions' on how to behave in a given situation. Evidence of the body's influence on the mind continues to mount.

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Holding a warm mug makes us friendlier to people, sitting on a hard chair during a negotiation or job interview makes us more fierce, confident and tenacious, while heavy luggage makes us negatively assess the length of the route we have to take (it seems longer, the hill seems steeper, the time it takes to walk is longer than it really is).