Be transformed by the renewing of your mind

“The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality” is a book about the mind. I found it as I meandered from book to book through other books about the mind. In fact, I have just finished my first draft of my book about books about the power of the mind. Let me know if you are interested.

Placebo effect

Many psychiatrists have noted that the expectation of recovery from depression the key factor in whether any recovery occurs at all.

In July 2002, researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine reported the effectiveness of placebo surgery: participants from the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center received mock arthritic knee operations — involving just a benign incision — and experienced substantially similar rates of relief, and vastly reduced recovery time, as patients who received standard invasive arthritic knee surgery.

In 2010, Harvard Medical School researchers conducted an unprecedented “honest placebo” study in which an openly sham pill brought lasting relief to sufferers of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Another Harvard Medical School study in 2014 reported that migraine sufferers experienced improved results from their prescriptions when they were supplied with positive information about a drug.