A Placebo Is Wrong

Do not think about it, just do it! This is a quote used by many people to encourage other people to perform a task that they are not ready to do. When humans are doing a task , the think about what they going do ,what are they going use, and how they are going to do it. But there is a state in which humans can enter that makes a person be one with the task. In order to enter this state the person 's mind and body have to be in complete synchronization. The mind is separate from the body , yet when they both want the same thing a person enters a state in which nothing else matters but the task at hand. There are very few people that can achieve this state, but those who do achieve this state stand out from the rest. Athletes use this state …show more content…
When a human is sick they feel the sickness physically they feel tried or pain in a certain area. Once the person knows that they are sick they proceed to take medication for their sickness. But some of the medicine may not even be real medicine. A placebo can be taken by the people who have the sickness. According to www.cancer.org "A placebo is a substance or other kind of treatment that looks just like a regular treatment or medicine, but is not. It’s actually an inactive “look-alike” treatment or substance. This means it’s not a medicine"(www.cancer.org).Some people take placebos but they are still able to heal. This is known as the placebo effect . Both the mind and body believe that the medicine that they are taking is going to heal them, yet there is real medical treatment. But they still manage to cured themselves because the mind and body want the same thing and that is to heal. Now the mind and body have no reason to believe that the treatment they receive is not going to help them to heal. They trust that the doctor gave them the right treatment for their sickness. Thus making the mind and body believe that they will get better. The way how the placebo effect works is that the mind and body both are in completely in sync about the treatment they are taking is going to heal them. Now when the mind and body enter the state of full concentration they can amplify the placebo effect to a greater scale. In the book Holographic Universe by M. Talbot , it gives an experiment that Dr. 0. Carl Simonton conducted . Dr. 0. Carl Simonton was a radiation oncologist and medical director of the Cancer Counseling and Research Center in Dallas, Texas. The experiment consist of Dr. Simonton teaching mental-imagery techniques to 159 patients with cancers considered medically incurable. The groups average survival time was 24.4 months ,but " four years