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For the more extreme cases, it's often [[Hand Wave]]d by [[90% of Your Brain]] and other cases of [[Art Major Biology]]. [[I Thought It Meant|The title is decidedly ''not'' a]] [[Seinfeld]] reference.

 

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has Heero Yuy, who could control his brainwave activity.

* The [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' mastered this to a deeply exaggerated level; he can control every single cell of his body and regenerate from any level of damage short of total annihilation.

** Comically averted with Kumadori whenever he tries to [[Seppuku|commit ritual suicide]], as on such occasions he involuntarily uses Iron Body.

** Chopper has gained this to an extent as post [[Time Skip]] he no longer needs the Rumble Ball for six out of his seven forms, when previously he needed it for any transforming beyond the three-form Zoan standard.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The Dunyain from the ''[[Prince of Nothing]]'' books by R. Scott Bakker are essentially unisex Bene Gesserit with a few Mentat skills for good measure.

* The Envoys from Richard K. Morgan's ''[[Altered Carbon]]'' (and sequels) are all capable of manipulating their bodily functions. In ''Broken Angels'', Takeshi Kovacs {{spoiler|has a neural inhibitor remote attached to his skull programmed to kill or sedate him if he so much as got angry. Willing himself completely calm, he rips it out of his head without triggering its responses.}}

* Almost every book by [[Poul Anderson]] features biofeedback. ''The Boat of a Million Years'' has Hanno the immortal who learned to accelerate his own already enhanced healing (he ''was'' an immortal after all).

* The Monastics from ''[[The Acts of Caine]]'' books have their Control Disciplines.

* Used in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]. From putting yourself into a trance that allows you to seem dead, to Vergere's 'Art of the Small' which she used to alter her own bodily chemistry until [[Swiss Army Tears|her tears could inflict or cure diseases if she wished]], it's all over the place.

* [[Anne McCaffrey]]'s Dinosaur Planet books feature "Discipline": a full-featured body-control/pain-control/emotion-control/adrenal-control technique that many of the characters practice.

* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[The Left Hand of Darkness]]'' has the ''dothé'' discipline which enables practitioners to deliberately unleash [http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/bodily-feats/adrenaline-strength.htm hysterical strength]

* Justin Gilead from obscure 80s spies-chess-and-[[Shangri La]] novel ''Grandmaster'' by Warren Murphy and Molly Cochran had this in addition to a larger suite of [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]s.

* This appears in many of Vonda N McIntyre's books, including both ''Dreamsnake'' and the ''Starfarers'' quartet. In each of them, some biofeedback ability, including the ability to render oneself temporarily sterile by altering the temperature of one's genitalia, is standard for most adults.

* The protagonist of the ''[[Iron Druid Chronicles]]'' is able to draw energy from the earth to heal injuries, purge toxins and negate pain.

* Remo Williams of ''[[The Destroyer]]'' uses the principles of Sinanju and its total body awareness to do everything from regulate his body temperature to expel poisons from his body.

* The protagonist of Ayize Jama-Barrett's ''The Liminal People'' can do nearly anything to the cells of his own body or others.

 

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," the newly psychic Gary Mitchell can control his heart rate.

* In one episode of ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' (1970s TV show), the main guest character was a cop who was also involved in martial arts, who could turn his pulse off during meditation. He and his sensei tried to help David to use meditation to suppress the change.

* Stanton Parrish from ''[[Alphas]]'' has this to the point that he hasn't aged since the American Civil War.

 

* Metabolism Control in ''[[GURPS]]'' allows the character to control all autonomic biological functions.

** There's also the older skill Breath Control, which is classed as Mental/Very Hard and is "not normally taught outside Oriental cultures." It triples the time you can spend underwater, among other benefits.

* Pops up a few times in ''[[New World of Darkness]]'' as a low-level power in physical-based power sets, such as the Life Arcanum in ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' or the Corporeum Transmutation in ''[[Promethean: The Created]]''.

* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' d20 RPG allows trained Jedi to enter a hibernation trance that drastically reduces their need for air, water and food.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

** It also has a Daredevil-inspired vigilante called Warden whose power is essentially "mind-over-everyone's-body"—including his own.

 

* "Biofeedback" is a method of body function control through the use of biometric equipment for, well, feedback i.e. compensating for limited self-awareness with electronics and learning to handle whatever it measures on your own.

* Thích Quảng Đức, a Buddhist monk in Vietnam, set himself on fire as a means of protest against the policies of the Diem regime. He then sat down on the road and quietly burned to death without screaming in pain or otherwise reacting in any way to the fact that he had just set himself on fucking fire!