The belief is strong in this one.
Today I watched two hours of YouTube videos mostly on the subject of can the mind cure the body. The scientific evidence appears to be gathering momentum.
My doctor and all the nurses I’ve met have all said the medicine works better if you believe it works.
I used to talk about something called the placebo effect in my Calming your anxious mind workshops there is scientific evidence through clinical trials that this works. The brain is a bit thick and basically believes what ever you tell it on a conscious level.
An example was of an elderly lady who took a tumble and fractured her spine, she was taken to a clinic some time after being in hospital and offered a new experimental cement that helps to fill the bone in and strengthen it , she agreed to take the procedure.
Little did she know , that she, along with over 100 other people was a part of a clinical placebo experiment. The medical procedure never took place in these 100 people, the doctors just pretended, compared to another large group where the procedure actually did take place . The results were stunning there was no difference in the people that had the surgery compared to the ones who they pretended to give the surgery too. In fact in many cases the sham surgery worked better and gave better outcomes
There are numerous examples of placebo experiments if you search the internet. My life is now one big placebo experiment. I first used placebos a number of years ago on myself, it was when I was going through a bad time in my life and I had just started my own research into finding out what makes us what we are. I learnt so much in the years that followed and that’s what eventually led me to teach people ways of calming their anxiety and self beliefs.
I used to get these horrible headaches every day and took pain killers all the time. One day I stopped and just pretended to put the tablets in to a glass of water, it worked the headaches stopped and I followed this routine for years after. I never got a headache again.
I’m tempted to do this with the current medication I’m on but there’s just too much at stake. The body and mind do have a connection and I will continue to try new things.
I’m going to start taking the anti cancer busting pill every morning along with my other pills. I’m going to hold a strong belief that it will work. 🙏
The next thing I’ve been looking into is diets that will help to beat cancer, again there seems to be a lot of information out there on this. Fresh veg seems to be a good start and then there’s beans and nuts, pulses and all kinds of stuff I didn’t know you can eat.
I made a good start yesterday I made carrot soup for the girls (I do include my wife when I say girls) when they all come home from school, it went down well , a nice spicy carrot soup.
I have to be careful I don’t get cancer crazy in my bid to beat it, there is so much information on stuff to do with it that it could be easy to become obsessed by it.
I had a new jacket delivered yesterday, it’s a bright blue colour, I’ve decided to keep myself bright, my wife doesn’t approve , thinks I’m turning into a teenager, I like the bright colours it symbolises my life now. It’s a very warm jacket and I tested it out last night on the walk for the Samaritans I’m at day 11 so far and I’m going to see this out to the end and hopefully raise some more money.
I’ve had a good night’s sleep it’s now 5.30am which means I’ve slept about 8 hours, unfortunately my feet and ankles swelled up yesterday evening so I had to sleep with my feet resting on 3 pillows which isn’t easy and took a while to drop off in the end. It’s all the small things like this, which on the face of it are no big deal on their own, but there are lots of different side effects to the tablets I’m taking and this is what’s could get me down, I find the best way is to laught them off. It’s no laughing matter when sometimes I have spent over an hour on the toilet , I won’t go into details, but constipation is no walk in the park 😢
Today it’s back to the laptop to research some more, I’ve got my placebo anti cancer busting pill to take first thing, cancer does not stand a chance with that type of medicine.🙏
I’m going to have a positive day, when the girls are gone I’m going to put on my bright blue jacket and take a nice stroll down to the garage and get myself a Costa coffee, it does say that you should stop drinking coffee in all the dietary advice I’ve read, but some things are just not worth giving up , you’ve still got to live a little , havnt you!
Have a great day whatever you are doing 🙏
And just remember don’t sweat the small stuff ♥️
