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Think thought doesn’t matter when it comes to health? Consider the following two articles that look at how thought affects our health – both of which address all of the following:
Negative suggestions can influence health adversely and spirituality can help lessen their impact. Hear how in this short video by Eric Bashor in the Christian Science Press Room as he presents the main ideas from a piece in the Houston Chronicle by Keith Wommack. If you can’t play the video below, you can view it by clicking here.
The curious case of one Mr. Wright, suffering from advanced lymphosarcoma, who gets better and then worse and then better and then dies, reveals how what we think matters for our health. Mr. Wright was a patient of psychologist Bruno Klopfer in 1957, had large tumors, and was expected to die from the disease. Mr. Wright
The nocebo effect causes a dilemma: ethically sharing possible side effects of drugs with patients may cause patients to experience them.
Here, below, are excerpts with links to some interesting articles in the news this month about placebos and nocebos – the last one offering an interesting solution to the nocebo effect.