The Placebo Effect - Use It Towards Your Advantage

Ever heard of the placebo effect? The placebo effect is a phenomenon where people report real improvement after taking a fake or nonexistent treatment, called a placebo. Because the placebo can't actually cure any condition, any beneficial effects reported are due to a person's belief or expectation that their condition is being treated. Statistics say anywhere from 5% - sometimes 40% of the people who are told this is the cure actually regress their symptoms. Many religions lay hands on people and interpret God is healing that person with the exact same stats. The body actually has all of the tools inside it to heal from any sickness or disease. The problem is we don’t know how to release it or control the body with our mind. 

We are told we only use a portion of our brain, but statistically, we use 100% of it. It actually is working overtime dealing with our toxic environment of heavy metals, plastic food, pesticides and preservatives. Not only that, we are now bombarded with petroleum medicine and electromagnetic frequencies that are not natural for our bodies. Amazingly, the body adapts over time and continues to defy the odds that are thrown at it. I believe we have amnesia or worse, purposeful memory loss to keep us from knowing who we truly are. It’s not about unlocking a part of our brain to achieve this enlightenment. The program is there, but it’s a separate hard drive or bios that never loads because we were never told we had it. Religion asks for surrender. Desperation helps activate it. Many experience an act of god. Where a supernatural event or visitation exposes the moment where the person uses faith to activate the body. 

I personally have had that supernatural event happen to me. It helped to fight the problem and overcome it. Although I didn’t deserve to be healed, it happened regardless, and overnight for that matter. After such an extreme event, it leads one to search for meaning. Why am I worth such an extreme occurrence? Alcoholics and drug addicts, after recovery, go through this same struggle. They feel they are not worth the investment and will trade their old life with a new addiction that focuses on helping others. Not because they want to, they feel they have to since something outside of our understanding intervened in their destiny. Without proper guidance, most burnout and go back to addiction because society doesn’t accept what they have went through.

Mind over matter is heard quite often when a person is put into a precarious situation that forces the brain to manifest a positive outcome from the situation. All religions have text that explains this phenomenon. They steer the person into relinquishing their control and let their higher power do the heavy lifting. There are a number of versus in the Bible that teach this exact thing. Proverbs 18:21 says your tongue speaks it into existence. The Koran says gratitude towards their creator brings out healing. Buddhism says a compassionate person is the greatest healer. The common denominator in all of this information is the heart. 

Psychologists believe mastering your heart leads to healing. Emotions control the outcome and it’s up to you to choose life over death. Proverbs 7:22 says a cheerful heart is good medicine but a crushed spirit dries up the bone. Our surroundings non-stop offer substance to crush the spirit. It’s so true that business plans are built around profiting off of misery. We all slow down to see a car accident. Not because we care about the people, but want to see trauma. Perhaps we are programmed this way because it makes money. And here we finally come to the cause before the symptom. We buy this entertainment and support the negative for pleasure. We put serial killers on a pedestal and are more interested in why than the victims themselves. We are spiritually sick. Religions point to the heart and society ignores empathy. Jesus tried to tell us loving our neighbor solves these issues. If we truly loved our neighbor, we wouldn’t t slow down to see blood, we would actually stop and help. 

I believe we should stop entertaining our brains with trauma for their profit. The sadists bet on the fact that we will continue this path of destruction for pleasure while the peacemakers are killed for speaking up. It doesn’t take a leader to convince the population to just say stop. It doesn’t even need a supernatural intervention to eradicate the sociopaths whom stage events for profit. It takes one person to say to another that they are no longer interested in hearing or seeing violence. This means when we hear gossip, or stories that include trauma, we turn away from it and ask for a happy story instead. Phrases like, “I am not interested in thermodynamics where everything decays, but rather interested in everlasting life where everything is in harmony.” Or to those that want a simpler approach, “Dark things aren’t interesting to me anymore. It doesn’t feel good. I would rather hear and see positive things that makes me feel good.”

That also means you have to walk this path and not veer off. Make an agreement with yourself to turn away from violence and trauma. Recognize that this isn’t healthy for you and doesn’t fill you up with wisdom and knowledge. When in practice, the evil world around you will dim. It no longer will have its claws on your heart and mind. Whatever happens to the world isn’t your concern, either. You have to understand that you are no longer weak and succumb to temptation. And it’s not your responsibility as an adult to change other’s hearts and minds this is why Jesus preached outside of cities and In parables. Society wanted free bread and he was offering wisdom. Let them that have eyes to see and ears to hear understand the truth. The truth is evil feeds off them now. If they want what you have, let them come to you. If they hear you, they may choose this path. But it’s not your job to save this planet and the masses. Everything decays and that is thermodynamics. That’s the fallen world. You don’t belong here and are just a traveler on way to your destination. When your mind and heart come to this conclusion, you then will have peace beyond understanding.