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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The placebo effect is when a patient who has been given a placebo in a drugs trial gets better, which is because the patients believe the placebo is the real drug or treatment. It’s their belief that does the work.
#2 Placebo effects can be opposite depending on what the patient believes the pill will do. If they believe it will reduce pain, it will reduce pain. But if they believe it will cause pain, it will cause pain instead.
#3 Placebos can have a powerful effect on us, and this is especially true for Americans, who typically speak of getting a shot rather than taking a pill.
#4 The way a placebo is packaged also makes a difference to its power. In a study at Keele University in the UK, 835 women were given one of four different pills for headache. 9 The branded aspirin worked better than the unbranded one, and the main difference was in the appearance of the packaging.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	16 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822510746
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on David R. Hamilton's Why Woo-Woo Works
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#1

The placebo effect is when a patient who has been given a placebo in a drugs trial gets better, which is because the patients believe the placebo is the real drug or treatment. It’s their belief that does the work.

#2

Placebo effects can be opposite depending on what the patient believes the pill will do. If they believe it will reduce pain, it will reduce pain. But if they believe it will cause pain, it will cause pain instead.

#3

Placebos can have a powerful effect on us, and this is especially true for Americans, who typically speak of getting a shot rather than taking a pill.

#4

The way a placebo is packaged also makes a difference to its power. In a study at Keele University in the UK, 835 women were given one of four different pills for headache. 9 The branded aspirin worked better than the unbranded one, and the main difference was in the appearance of the packaging.

#5

The placebo effect is the result of a person’s expectation of a drug or treatment. It can enhance the effects of a drug, depending on what the patient believes it’s supposed to do, or on their perception of the doctor who prescribed it.

#6

When doctors give hope to patients, helping them to expect to get better, they do get better faster. When patients are given positive expectations of life after surgery, they have much greater quality of life and subjective working ability than those in the other two groups.

#7

The placebo effect is when patients experience relief of symptoms due to a placebo, even if they know it isn’t real medication. This effect can be used to reduce the dose of a drug and replace it with a placebo.

#8

Placebos can have side effects, and these can be the nocebo effect. This is where the expectation of a negative effect produces one.

#9

Placebo effects are the perception that a placebo is actually a real drug, which produces natural painkillers in the brain. As a culture, we’ve agreed on the story that if something is more expensive than something else, it must be better.

#10

The brain doesn’t distinguish between real and imaginary, and this underlies some aspects of the placebo effect. When you imagine something happening, it really happens as far as your brain is concerned, and it releases the chemical substances necessary to confirm that what you’re imagining is indeed real.

#11

The brain was visualized changing after athletes practiced visualization, which enhanced their performance. The prevailing belief among sports coaches was that visualization worked by enhancing an athlete’s focus and motivation to train and practice.

#12

I shared with a few colleagues that I was experimenting with visualization practice. They were supportive, but some found it amusing that, as a scientist, I was working with techniques widely regarded as pseudoscience.

#13

The best way to enhance performance is to combine physical practice with visualization. In order of best first, research shows that physical practice plus visualization is more effective than physical practice alone, which is better than visualization practice alone.

#14

The practice of visualization has helped hundreds of people recover from a stroke faster. In a University of Cincinnati study, chronic stroke patients listened to a tape that guided them through visualizations of moving the hand, arm, and shoulder of their impaired side. When tested after six weeks, their arm function was significantly better than that of patients in a control group who did relaxation after physiotherapy.

#15

The real versus imaginary phenomenon is much more widespread than just stress hormones. The brain produces stress hormones regardless of whether we’re in a stressful situation or imagining a stressful situation. It’s the feelings of stress that trigger the release of stress hormones.

#16

Oxytocin is the main kindness hormone. It is produced by feelings of kindness, and it protects the cardiovascular system, lowers blood pressure, and has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

#17

The brain and the immune system also respond to the imagination. When volunteers were able to increase their immune system antibodies by visualizing their increase, researchers at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust found that the women had much higher levels of key immune cells than those who didn’t visualize.

#18

The key to making visualization work is repetition, which impacts brain networks and shapes them in the direction of producing what you’re imagining. When you state something that affirms your values, it makes you think and feel more positive.

#19

The effects of self-affirmations are positive both physically and mentally. They can be very helpful for those times in our lives when challenges and threats seem like mountains to climb, as they essentially wire in the feeling of being positive.

#20

Affirmations are a way of thinking that helps us expand and broaden our sense of self, while making a challenge or threat seem smaller. They were popularized by the self-help movement in the 1980s, and many of them can be found in Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life.

#21

The word mantra is derived from two Sanskrit words: manas (mind) and tra (tools or instruments). In the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, a mantra is a sound, a word, or a short phase that’s intoned repeatedly during meditation, contemplation, or prayer.

#22

A key difference between an affirmation and a mantra is that while the former is a positive statement, the latter is a mystical utterance that’s considered sacred and has deep spiritual significance. Mantras are words or phrases associated with love or compassion, or are statements of spiritual insight.

#23

The use of mantra-based meditation has been shown to reduce negative mental chatter, calm the mind, and promote better mental and physical health. It has also been shown to help some people attain mystical states of consciousness.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Many popular meditation techniques do not use mantras, but instead simply invite us to bring our attention to our breath. We all breathe, but if we do so while noticing that we’re breathing – giving our attention for a moment or two to what it sounds like to breathe, what it feels like to breathe – we’re meditating.

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