Tag: Suggestion
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The Power of Suggestion
Suggestions have a big influence over our lives. Tell anyone something convincingly enough and they’ll accept what you say. Tell them over and over again and sooner or later they’ll start to believe you. Unfortunately it’s often the suggestions of others that we allow to control us. For instance: Advertisers use them to persuade us…
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Encouraging News on Placebos
In one of the most encouraging articles I’ve read for a long time[1], 97% of a sample of 783 UK family doctors reported in a study carried out by the Universities of Oxford and Southampton that they had given a placebo to at least one of their patients. Some said they do so on a…
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Healing power is in the mind of the patient – the work of Dr P.P. Quimby
I’ve been to many healers in my time, and it seems to me that the techniques they employ say a great deal about the practitioner’s beliefs about what constitutes a human being. This – explicitly or implicitly – is what guides their healing methods. If you think a human body is simply a physical, mechanical…
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Is religion just a form of placebo?
Our beliefs rule our lives and help to create our experience of life. They influence us whether we are paying attention to them or not and it doesn’t matter if they are true – the effect is the same. An untrue belief has just as powerful an effect as a true belief. The world we…
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Creating a wonderful life with Creative Imagery
We all have a goal-seeking mechanism housed in the unconscious which takes us where the unconscious believes we want to go. It is best influenced by: 1. Repetition – continually and consciously focussing on positive thoughts and images – effective if you persist going long enough; and 2. Creative imagery – relaxing into Alpha State…
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Consciousness and Healing (2)
In a previous blog, I observed that the discovery long ago that we could heal ourselves was a great step forward in human evolution, and the healing methods used at each stage of our advancement are a direct result of the consciousness which prevailed at the time. Healing consciousness is about how we experience healing;…