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“What we focus on, what we believe, has a direct effect on the unfolding of actual events—small ones, yes, but large ones as well. Indeed, our sustained focus is the primary driver in bringing what are initially purely imagined scenarios (some on an expanded scale) to life.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“To a large extent, the brain doesn’t distinguish real from imaginary, and this underpins some aspects of the placebo effect. When you imagine that something is happening, it really is happening as far as your brain is concerned, and it releases the chemical substances necessary to confirm that what you’re imagining is indeed real.”

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Book:Why Woo-Woo Works: The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals, and Other Alternative Practices
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“When we focus on positive thoughts, we attract positive experiences into our field of awareness. Conversely, when we dwell on negativity, we invite more negativity into our experience. This isn’t to say we should ignore challenges or pretend everything’s hunky-dory when it obviously isn’t. Don’t be an ostrich and bury your head in the sand when shit’s hitting the fan. Rather, the idea is to choose to approach life—even its trying moments—with an upbeat and proactive mindset, believing in our ability to overcome obstacles and create a better future … at least for ourselves.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced reality. These filters influence our interpretation of events, our interactions with others, and even our physical health.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“Whether we like it or not, we’re walking placebo and nocebo generators, able to create health miracles or disasters (usually without even realizing we’re the ones doing so) practically in the blink of an eye.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“Epigenetics reveals that your body isn’t a genetically predetermined flesh robot, but is regulated by a set of gene switches that can be turned on or off—by you—mindfully. Ergo, our genes aren’t our destiny. We have far more control over their expression than most ever imagined.”

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Book:Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
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“Placebo effect is where the drug causes greater effect and thereby faith accentuates, prolongs and promulgates the strength of the drug. Faith in an object that is known creates a strength in the object's reaction in a more powerful manner, provided the object was intended to create positive in the first place. Yet if this faith is turned inward in a negative manner, it can hinder the effectiveness of the drug or creative power of the thing being used for the positive, this is called the nocebo effect.”

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Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
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“Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What's more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect.”

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Author:Clair Davies
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“If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.”

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Author:Bruce H. Lipton
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“Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.”

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Book:Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing
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