You don’t know the answer? I don’t know either, but the placebo definitely seems to work. The Placebo Effect is a phenomenon that is many decades old. Sadly, it has also been frequently abused by many people, from charlatans to health care professionals. I like to look at this from an alternative medicine perspective: as
“The Eagle who thought he was a chicken” “A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. “Years
For many years I have been thinking of the connection between stress and the headlines in the media. As a person who wants to be stress free, anxiety free and positive, I have written this article for people who feel the same way. I have done some research and here’s what I learned: The media
Meditation and Anxiety Stress And Anxiety by: Steve Gillman Stress and anxiety put people in the hospital every day. It may not be common to go to the doctor to say “I think I have stress,” but the National Institutes of Health say that 80% of illnesses are caused by stress, directly or indirectly.
Many are distressed by the pervasiveness of stress, and for good reason. For it is not lack of exercise, poor eating habits, or artery-clogging cholesterol that is the major cause of heart attacks and strokes. No, the major culprit is stress. In fact, according to The American Institute of Stress (http://www.stress.org/), 75 ~ 90% of
Do you feel good about yourself? As Laurence J. Peter (1919 ~ 1990) put it, “Would the boy (or girl) you were be proud of the man (or woman) you are?” That should be our goal, to be proud of ourselves. Of course, I’m not talking about negative pride. I’m not encouraging you to become
