The Power Of Belief
by Edward Lamaide,
Guest Writer, In5d.com
One of the aspects of being a hypnotist that I enjoy most is seeing a client open up to the power we all hold within ourselves. It’s such a beautiful thing to be a part of and witness the moment when a client for the first time realizes what they are capable of achieving. The look in their eyes and expression on their face when it really clicks for the first time is priceless and something I will never take for granted. Though the sad reality is, the vast majority of our society will never come to learn just how powerful we are, and never take the time to really sit within them selves and discover this truth. The truth of how much we can change virtually anything in our lives. Even capable of changing things that we seemingly have no control over.
This is what I would like to talk a little bit about here. Much of this internal power comes from our beliefs. As we all know, what a person believes to be true can have a massive effect on their lives and how they conduct them selves. But how far does this go?What are we truly capable of accomplishing through the power of our beliefs?
I believe the answer to this can start to be understood by examining studies performed by researchers such as Dr. Bernie Siegel with his work with multiple personality patients and Dr. Henry Beecher’s discovery of the placebo effect.
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We will first start with Dr. Bernie Siegel’s observations while working with multiple personality patients. He witnessed that the power of their beliefs could change their nervous system as well as their biochemistry. Some of these changes he observed happening right in front of him in real time. Such as the patient’s eye colors changing as their personality changed. Physical marks appearing and disappearing, again as their personality changed. Even diseases such as diabetes or high blood pressure would come and go depending on which personality they were manifesting at the time.
Take a moment to think what this could mean for the future of health care. Imagine a world where we are not so dependant on drugs and surgery to treat illness and disease.
Dr. Henry Beecher’s discovery of the placebo effect is another groundbreaking discovery that I feel should be explored and studied far more than it has. Henry Beecher discovered the placebo effect as a medic in World War II. After running out of pain-killing morphine, he replaced it with a simple saline solution but continued telling the wounded soldiers it was morphine to calm them. To his surprise, almost half of the soldiers reported that the inert saline solution actually reduced or erased their pain.
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine and the United States Army.
During his time teaching at the Harvard Medical School Dr. Beecher also performed a study with 100 students. He gave half the students a red pill and half the students a blue pill. They were told that the red pill was a powerful stimulant and that the blue pill was a tranquilizer. Unbeknownst to the students the pills in actuality contained the opposite drug of what they were told.
After taking the pills, Dr. Beecher observed that the students reacted as they thought the pills were supposed to be, not as they actually were.