It's important to remember that though thoughts influence hormones (placebo effect) it's also true that hormones influence thoughts. In a sex guide from the 1920's that I'm reading, the doctor writes about a female patient that suddenly became very LD. She told her husband and the doctor that she felt like she had achieved a higher plane of being in which she was able to be more intellectual and transcend low physical desires. It turned out she was 4 monthes pregnant with an atypical pregnancy that didn't present the usual symptoms and obviously had an odd effect on her hormones which caused LD and her creative explanation/rationalization of it.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
