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"Aside from that, the power of belief can also be a reasonably powerful treatment with a positive response on the body/mind." No it can't. Your mind cannot hea
by driverdan 15y ago
"Aside from that, the power of belief can also be a reasonably powerful treatment with a positive response on the body/mind."
No it can't. Your mind cannot heal anything. You can change your perception of symptoms but not heal. This is how placebo works. It only changes perception.
I strongly recommend listing to episode 5 of Mark Crislip's QuackCast podcast:
http://www.pusware.com/quackcast/quackcast5.mp3 http://www.pusware.com/quackcast/quackcast5.mp3
It covers placebo very well including info about studies done on it.
- azulum 15y agoif by "your mind cannot heal anything" means "everything dies eventually" then i agree wholeheartedly. but that's probably not what you meant. considering that many of a maladies today stem from chemical imbalances controlled by the brain, or by the second brain http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-brain http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-... your argument seems over the top. in fact, since it's hard to know what you know and impossible to know what you do not, how can any thinking being ever say anything cannot do anything. have you surveyed the depths of every human mind, animal mind, extraterrestrial mind to achieve such certainty? if so, what am i thinking right now (you should probably be able to guess because i'm lobbing it right down the middle). the more one learns, the less one knows. of this, i am less certain every day.
- CamperBob 15y agoYour mind cannot heal anything. As some of the other posts have pointed out, the many real, observable actions of stress-response hormones complicate this statement considerably.