Be Careful How you Feel; Your Feeling Shapes your Life

The all-powerful principle that your subconscious mind accepts reality and imagination equally is responsible for the “placebo” and “nocebo” effects. The Latin word placebo means “I shall please”. A placebo effect is when a patient is given a false drug like a sugar pill or a water injection; and if a patient believes with a strong feeling that it’s a real treatment, the patient responds well to it even if the treatment is completely false. What makes the placebo treatment work is a patient’s own strong feeling which a patient’s subconscious mind accepts and transforms into reality.

In 2002, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that a placebo or fake surgery was as good as the real surgery. The study had 180 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee divided into two groups. The first group received a skin cutting and an equipment was inserted inside the knee while the second or placebo group only received a skin cutting without any equipment insertion inside the knee. For two years, the patients didn’t know whether they had received a real surgery or a placebo one. At the end of the study, the findings showed that patients in the placebo or fake surgery group were just as likely to report pain relief as those who received the real surgery. The subconscious mind of the patients in both groups responded only to the patients’ feeling of expecting to get relief from the surgery.

A placebo effect is capable of changing your attitude from any depth of misery to any height of joy almost immediately by just changing from being highly negative to being highly positive. For example, Mr. Wright was almost dying from cancer. He developed orange-sized tumors in his neck, chest, abdomen and groin. His doctors expected him to live for only a few days. But Mr. Wright believed with a strong and positive feeling that a newly available drug called Krebiozen would be able to cure him. His doctors didn’t think so, but they gave him as a placebo treatment just in case it worked.

After 10 days, Mr. Wright was completely well and left the hospital for home. It was only his own feeling that cured him because Krebiozen completely lacked any medicinal property to cure any cancer. After 2 months, Mr. Wright heard some doubts about Krebiozen that made him lose faith in the drug. Soon, he went back into the hospital with even much bigger tumors than before. The doctors told him that they had a more powerful dose of Krebiozen, but instead, they gave him a placebo injection of only distilled water. Mr. Wright improved even much and more quickly than before and again left the hospital for his home. After another 2 months, he heard again that Krebiozen was a false drug. Within days, Mr. Wright died. Always remember that even when outside circumstances show the opposite of what you really want; strongly hold on to your positive and strong feeling of what you really want to happen. It may just happen because your subconscious mind responds to only your feelings instead of your thoughts or outside conditions. The Law of Belief is what governs all the operations of your mind and life.

Besides “placebo effect”, there is also “nocebo effect”. The Latin word “nocebo” means “I shall harm”. A “nocebo effect” is an expectation and conviction of people to feel sickly when they think they have been exposed to something of high risk or dangerous. In 2012, researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany published one of the most extensive reviews of “nocebo effect” studies that concluded: ‘Although perplexing, the “nocebo effect” is surprisingly common and ought to be taken into consideration by medical professionals on an everyday basis.’ In 2012, Michael Witthoft and James Rubin conducted an experiment on the negative health effects of Wi-Fi electromagnetic fields. Participants were asked to watch the BBC World Service Television Panorama Report of 2007 about the suspected negative health effects of Wi-Fi electromagnetic fields. After watching the film, participants were then exposed to a false Wi-Fi signal. The result was that all the participants developed symptoms of negative health effects of Wi-Fi electromagnetic field. Although these symptoms were real, they were not caused by the Wi-Fi electromagnetic field. The research participants’ expectation combined with their negative feeling that they were being exposed to Wi-Fi harmful electromagnetic field was what caused the symptoms in their bodies instead of the exposure itself. Your subconscious mind responds to only your feelings.

The “nocebo effect” is so powerful that it can even kill people. In one study, a group of 10 death-row prisoners was told that the government working in collaboration with top scientists had invented a humane way of killing prisoners who were condemned to die. This new method was better than the old practice of being hanged with a rope around a neck. It only involved dropping a special chemical liquid on top of the prisoner’s head and once the liquid touched the skin, the prisoner just went down and died peacefully. The death-row prisoners liked this new method.

When the execution time came, the prisoners were all blind-folded, the special liquid was applied and they all did what they were told to do, to go down quickly upon feeling the special chemical liquid touching their bodies. Amazingly, when the medical doctor came and examined their bodies, she certified all of them completely dead. Both government and prison officials wanted to know what lethal chemicals were exactly contained in this special liquid. It was a jaw-dropping surprise when the scientists finally revealed this special chemical liquid’s true scientific name: “H2O”. Yes! This special chemical liquid was just pure water from the tap at the same prison facility. What then killed the prisoners? It was only their strong negative feeling raised to its highest level which their own subconscious mind accepted and transformed into its equivalent reality. The special chemical liquid only provided the trigger that made the prisoners expect death with their strongest negative feelings. These studies prove the principle that your subconscious mind accepts and acts on reality and imagination equally. If you want to take advantage of this principle, you should give your subconscious mind only your positive feeling of your goal despite how challenging the situation and negative the surrounding circumstances, conditions and people may be to you.

Feel always positive to attract positive conditions and people into your life.