Oracle of Consciousness
#113 - The Placebo Effect
A placebo is any ineffective, medical treatment, using a so-called medicine, vaccine, or a procedure that has no therapeutic value whatsoever.
In testing a new drug, doctors will take a group of let's say, 20 people.
10 each will be split into Group A and Group B.
None of the participants are told or aware of which of the medicines
or placebo is being given to them.
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
Test Group B
Test Group B's ten people will take a placebo tablet made of an inactive substance, such as starch or sugar.
The medical profession conducts these tests and makes their observations on a regular basis.
And lo and behold, some people in the second group, Group B, start to show signs of improvement, signs of relief, and some people get completely healed!
The question is:
What's going on here?
If one group has been testing a new drug or new medicine and the other ones have been taking sugar pills, how on earth could it be possible that somebody could get better?
This is called the Placebo Effect.
This is a mental construct that a person who is unknowingly taking a placebo pill is convinced this will heal me, this will fix me, this will give me some relief, then that idea and conviction can result in some relief, and many can be completely healed.
This demonstrates that healing is done by the individual, the infinite being that is animating these bodies.
How else could it be?
The driver is the mental concept or idea, that we believe that this is doing me good and will heal me.
"Thoughts become things"
Bob Proctor
The opposite of course is equally true.
If we believe this is not good for me, and this is not going to work, I am not going to heal, then of course, the mental driver behind that will be equally effective.
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words;
watch your words, they become your actions;
watch your actions, they become your habits;
watch your habits, they become your character;
watch your character, it becomes your destiny."
Lao Tzu
Disclaimer.
None of what is being expressed here should be construed as medical advice.