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It's Tony here from the Aikido & Health Centre with your Harmony Ezine packed with unique tips and insights on aikido, health and well-being.

In this issue we discuss The Placebo Effect - details below. Next month we turn the spotlight on how to increase oxygen in your cells... stay tuned!

The Placebo Effect

The placebo effect is a measurable improvement in symptoms following a treatment that is driven by psychological factors like expectation, belief, and classical conditioning rather than the treatment's healing properties.

Common interventions include sugar pills, saline injections & treatments, which trigger real neurobiological changes - like the release of endorphins and dopamine to modulate pain, fatigue, and depression.

While a placebo does not necessarily cure disease, they significantly impact subjective symptoms and conditions modulated by the brain, such as chronic pain and insomnia. The effect is influenced by the therapist/patient relationship, the perceived potency of the treatment, belief and optimism.

Alternatively, the nocebo effect describes negative responses to inert treatments, where patients experience adverse side effects due to negative expectations or anxiety.

In clinical research, placebos serve as critical control groups to distinguish the specific efficacy of new drugs from these contextual and psychological influences, ensuring that observed benefits are not patient expectation.

So, it appears that your mindset and belief system offers you a powerful contributing factor in creating your own health and well-being. You can use this in everything you think, feel and do to increase potential benefits.

How can you multiply the benefits of belief?

1 - Repetition of positive thoughts and affirmations. Write them down, and read them out loud several times a day.

2 - Let go of negative feelings and emotions. Use EFT Tapping to clear your subconscious mind of past trauma that may be holding you back.

3 - Use vivid visualisation and imagination of an ideal scenario before sleep. To amplify this you can use a hypnosis mp3 through headphones.

If you are clogged up with old beliefs that no longer serve you, you CAN change that fast. For full details... Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

That's it, next month, how to increase oxygen in your cells... stay tuned!