Listened to part of a radio program last night. Wish I would have caught the whole show, because it was really intersting. It was about the placebo affect. One example they gave, and I think it was from the experience of the doctor who came up with the placebo affect, was during war, WWII. Anzio beach, the medic was running out of morphine, so he started asking the wounded if they were in pain. 75% said they weren't and didn't need morphine. Why?
His theory was that pain was relevent to the circumstances. When a soldier was shot, after realizing he wasn't going to die, he started thinking about how he'd get to go home, how he'd be a hero, etc. A civilian, not in war time, is shot and thinks about how he'll pay the bills, what will happen to his family, etc. The soldier feels much less pain.
We've been shot (bombed!?). What's our story, our circumstances? If we look at it as positively as we can, our pain will be less. We've been shot. Now we have a chance to fix our lives. Now we can grow and become better people. Yes it hurts, but the outcome will be good. This kind of thinking is true, and it reduces the pain.
Part of the show was about curing with Hypnotism, and faith healing. The crux of the matter was believe or faith. The human mind is capable of amazing feats of healing. I think this can apply to us too. If we believe we will be strong, happy, better (and why shouldn't we believe it?) we will be.
What we can't do is affect or control how others think and feel. No matter how much we have faith that our marriage will work, that she will love us again, we can't make it happen, no matter how positive the thinking. The lesson is to concentrate on ourselves, what we can control and change. Then do it. Be positive, beleive it.
Interesting stuff to me. What do you all think?
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