Wishful thinking, rethink this.
One of my pet peeves about the intellectualized medical establishment.
Placebo Effect.
They use this as a catch all when they can't think of a context of why something gave them "odd" results.
In my view of health as a framework of "stress".
The Placebo Effect is easily understood.
There is always a cause, there is always an effect.
There is no freakin' magic.
Lets say we have 100 people who can be construed as having robust health.
Oddly enough only 50 are healthy.
The other 50 live in constant emotionally charged situations that are highly detrimental to their health.
Toxic family, pressure cooker job, money woes.
Biser explains that some people "must" either change living locations, change names or remove oneself from one's family to be able to "get" healthy.
These people are suffering from severe emotional stress on a daily basis with little or no let up.
They have neither the tools to mitigate the stress or the understanding that it is the emotional stress that is making them unhealthy.
So if you do anything which reduces this stress loading, they will become healthier.
Smile at them, tell a joke, pat them on the back and tell them the meds will take care of the problem, my God, what a relief that would be!
.... a stress relief.
Get the picture?
Is there a higher power connection?
Of course there is.
So if you turn your "stress" over to what's "upstairs".
Will the result be any different?
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