Rob Dial argues the placebo effect proves belief can heal the body. If sugar pills work because patients think they're medicine, he says, then your thoughts alone can make you sick or well. The fix: stop blocking your body's natural healing by repeating affirmations like "I am healed, I am healing, I am healthy."
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You are making yourself sick. Your body is an incredible machine that has been designed to overcome sickness and heal itself, and your mind is making you sick. There's something called the placebo effect, which means that doctors give someone with a disease a sugar pill that does literally nothing, and they tell the people that that pill is a cure for their sickness. And because somebody thinks that it will cure them, it cures them. What does that show you? People healed themselves by simply thinking. Thinking that they were healed. This means that if you can think your way into healing, you can also think your way into sickness. And the first step towards allowing your body to heal is getting out of your own way so that your body can do what it does. It's getting your mind and your body on the same frequency, which is, I am healed, I am healing, and I am healthy.