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The perfect placebo: my own experience.

Filed Under (health) by admin on 03-10-2007


Yesterday, I posted about the perfect placebo. Today I would like to share some of the experiences I had with this effect myself.

When I was younger, I used to be ill very often. When I felt getting ill, I started concentrating on being well . And as far as I could tell, this seemed to work in certain cases. It made me feel better any way. So in a sense, I always used this technique.

But then, a while ago, I decided to try out subliminal audio tapes. The kind that can be customized with your own voice recordings.

I decided to put in a suggestion of increased health and to eat only healthy foods. This is technological way of using ‘the law of attraction’ by directly implanting the suggestions into the subconscious mind.

So, what happened?

In the first 2 months: nothing!

But then I suddenly and unconsciously (it is only in retrospect that the link with the audio tapes was made) I started to get interested in all concerning health, especially alternative health. I looked at all sorts of sites and blogs covering the subject. I learned a lot about health in general and food and exercising in particular.

I was literally burning with desire to get to know the subject and to implement it in my life.

I made many of the changes in my food pattern that were suggested and I started to exercise on a more regular base.

Unfortunately, I stopped listening to the tapes, and it seems that the effect seems to wear out. I exercise far less now than in the beginning, although I have the intention of starting that up again.

Am I more healthy?

I really think so, although I am still regularly ill, but I seem to overcome it much more easily these days. And what is more, since I concentrate on a healthy picture, I have no time to complain about my affliction, which renders the experience of being ill much less painful.

So what is the conclusion? I guess the law of attraction really works as it is described very often: what you put in your mind, consciously or unconsciously, you will get it back. So it it is up to us to decide what we think!

If you want to know how I did this exactly, you will have to come back as I plan to post more findings and procedure very soon …

Be well. Be rich. Be great.

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The perfect placebo.

Filed Under (health) by admin on 01-10-2007


I was reading ‘The science of getting well’ by Wallace Wattles. He tells us to avoid thoughts about illnesses and to keep a healthy picture of ourselves. Much in line with the law of attraction, like I described it in this post.

And then suddenly, it hit me. This was the placebo effect taken to the limit.

The placebo effect is something know to medical doctors for a long time. They have tried to eradicate this effect from their statistics. Now, all tests are carried out via ‘double blind’ procedures: when you get an experimental drug, you do not know what you get, but neither does the one that administers it to you.

But still, this mysterious placebo effect is there. It is a scientific reality, and in the current scientific paradigm, there is no good explanation as to why it exists at all. (Although some claim that it might not be a real effect, but only an imaginary one …)

Turning to self help literature, it is now called:’The law of attraction’. But I find that people have missed to make the connection between the two.

What would happen if the medical establishment would take the placebo effect to its limits? To cure people, without the adverse effect of many prescription drugs.
Like many people are trying to apply ‘The law of attraction’ in their very own lives?

I think it is at least worth a try … and we know it works for sure!

Be well. Be rich. Be great.

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