A short lecture/monologue explaining that human intent can modify future probabilities, using the placebo effect as a primary example: telling someone they receive an effective medicine (even inert) can produce real health improvements. The speaker argues positive intent raises the probability of better health and lowers probability of poor health, and that this mind-based intent can influence many probable outcomes.
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Your intent modifies future probability. So what is likely to happen in the future, Your intent can make it more likely or less likely. You have that ability to modify future probability. One of the ways that this happens, all of us have heard of it, is called the placebo effect. If you tell somebody that they're taking a wonderful new medicine that will fix what's wrong with them just by doing that and nothing else. Just by telling them that and giving them a salt pill or a sugar pill or something that has no medicine in it whatsoever will make a difference in their health. Many, many studies have looked at this, and if there's a control group in which you just didn't tell them anything, you just gave them a pill and said, yeah, go swallow this and see what happens. If that is the control group, then the people who have a very positive attitude, their health will be better than the control group. It's called the placebo effect. It's a real effect. It not just that those people who had the positive outlook think they're healthier and really aren't. They really are healthier. It's a real thing. That's because that positive intent toward better health actually helps move the probability for better health a little higher and the probability for poor health a little lower. That's us modifying future probability. Now, you can use your mind with this intent to change health or most anything else that's probable.