mind over matter: (esp. of the mind's curative effect on bodily illness) mental and psychical control over, or influence on, physical phenomena…

The supposed phenomenon or ability whereby a person moves or affects physical objects at a distance by mental effort or other non-physical means. Cf…

The supposed phenomenon whereby physical objects are moved or affected by mental or psychic effort alone; the ability to do this. Cf. telekinesis, n.

psychokinesis; (also) psychokinetic (see also quot. 1943).