Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect–the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking. Larry Dossey
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This quote is a great way to explain the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a beneficial result of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking. The positive results include any improvements in health or well-being that people experience when they believe they are being treated by a specific substance for a specific condition. If you have been given an injection just because it was prescribed for you, but have no idea it contains a placebo, don’t feel badly.

You still experienced the positive effects of a placebo treatment. This happens all the time in real-world medicine. Doctors prescribe medicine for their patients without the knowledge that the medication is only part of a placebo treatment.

This means that if your doctor is knowledgeable about the power of suggestion and expects that he or she will see some good results from taking a pill, then those expectations can cause those benefits.

Source: Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mindbody To A New Era Of Healing

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