How to Fool Yourself Into Health

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How to Fool Yourself Into Health

If you were told by your doctor that he was giving you Sugar Pills for

your (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome, would you expect any improvement

in your condition? Would you take them twice a day as he/she prescribed?

Wait – printed in large letters on the pill bottle was – Placebo.

In New York – folks would say, GetOUTTAhere.

Placebo Effect

Scientists know the power of placebos (Latin for - I will please you), for

patients, and are embarrassed by it. The U.S. Food And Drug Administration

knows that about 30% of folks tested with sham or simulated medicines show

a very positive result.

Drug companies must show their new product - tests better than the results

offered

by Placebos to get federal approved for public consumption.

Doctors and scientists always attribute the great (30-50%) results of placebos to

the

power of positive thinking. They means you are fooled into believing you are

taking

the real thing (drugs). It is all just a mind trick.

Harvard And Placebo Theory

Dr. Ted Kaptchuk professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School working

with

Beth Israel Medical Center tested the concept of Placebo, but without the

deception.

They worked with 80 patients suffering with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Half were the control group and given no pills at all, the other 50% got the

bottles of Sugar

Pills, and told to take them twice a day. The thing is the patients were directly

and un-

conditionally told the pills were inert, with no active ingredients. In case they

missed it,

the pill bottles were labeled – Placebos.

One last thing, the doctor told each patient that they did not have to believe in

the

placebo effect, just take the pills.

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What Happened

59% of the 40 placebo-taking patients, compared to the control group that took

no drugs,reported active symptom relief. One more bit of craziness, the placebo-takers

doubled

their rate of improvement, compared to the most powerful IBS drug.

Google: December 22, 2011, in the journal PLoS ONE.

“These finding suggest that rather than mere positive thinking, there may be

significant

benefit to the performance of medical ritual. Placebos may work even if patients

know

it is a Placebo,” said Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard.

Better Explanation

Homo Sapiens believe in authority. The uniform of the police, the white jacket

of

scientists are their gear of power and knowledge. This belief occurs at a

nonconscious level

and conscious awareness has nothing to do with it.

When a physician gives you a bottle of pills, and tells you to take them twice

daily,

you believe in the efficacy of the treatment, in spite of her/his disclaimer the pills

are

Sugar-Like, inert, and have no active ingredients.

Your conscious mind, (left prefrontal cortex) hears the disclaimers logically and

reasonably,

but it bows to the will of your right hemisphere (nonconsciousness). Symbols like

a stoplight,

initials after your name by professionals, and the power of celebrity, override

logic and reason.

Remember the authority figure defines who can control, command or determine.

He/she

is anointed by our culture as an expert, specialist and wizard. Mere mortals

cannot overcome

this power by our simple logic and reason.

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The power of authority is far more than the power of positive thinking. Thinking

is left-brained,

linear, organized, and based on reasoning. The right-brain (hemisphere) controls

our

limbic system (emotions and feelings), holistic beliefs and pattern recognition. It

makes the importantpower decisions in life. Sure, both halves of our cerebral cortex work together,

but who is in charge?

The right brain is in charge of our life motivations; it gets the point of metaphors,

and runs everything

past our powerful emotions before implementation.

Mark Twain

“The power, which a man’s imagination has over his body to heal it or make it

sick - is a force whichnone of us is born without. The first man had it, and the last one will possess it.”

1903.

Boustrophedon

The ancient Phoenicians, Romans, and Greeks wrote and read using

Boustrophedon. It is in the dictionary,

meaning as the Ox plows. Huh? The animal goes up one row, turns around, and

comes down the

other. Wait – left to right, and then right to left.

When you and I READ we do not use boustrophedon. We read left to right, come

to the last word on the right,

GO BLIND, and see nothing until we return to the first word of the next sentence

on the left side. We stop

reading when we get the last word of the sentence, and do not start reading again

until we reach home base,

the left side.

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Speed Reading

Your brain can read left to right as you and I do, but it can easily read from right

to left. No? How about the

1.5 billion Moslems and 7.5 million Israelis? Our brain converts meaning from

either top-down (Asia),

left to right, or a right to left system.

So What

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By reading using boustrophedon, you will increase your learning speed up to 40%.

There is additional improvement

in attention span and long-term memory. We have trained executives and students

in this system and it is

as easy as pie to learn, and produces instant results.

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