Category: The Power of Belief
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The Nature of Personal Reality
This post is a review of the most empowering book I’ve ever read: The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know, by Jane Roberts (and Seth). I finished reading it last week and just today finished transcribing the passages I doggy eared while using the best…
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The Power of Belief: Food Labels Affect Our Bodies
The following is the conclusion of a study performed in 2011: “The effect of food consumption on ghrelin may be psychologically mediated, and mindset meaningfully affects physiological responses to food.” Ghrelin is a peptide and hormone that stimulates hunger (among several other functions). When ghrelin levels rise, we feel hungry, and when they fall, we feel satiated. The study…
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The Power of Belief: Dissociative Identity Disorder
Artwork by Viktoryia Kryvanos Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) shows us the true power of belief. People with DID have at least two distinct personalities. That means completely different people can occupy the very same physical body. When one “takes over” from another, often the difference in personality is discernible to…
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The Placebo Effect: Curing Ourselves with Thoughts and Beliefs
I hear it all the time: “Yeah but it was just the placebo effect,” dismissing the net result, no matter how profound. A test group is given a cancer medication, a control group is given a placebo. 80% of the cancer in the test subjects was cured, but 80% was also cured in the control…