ENTRY #2 - A small introduction to the power of Belief and Expectation
Expectation crafts reality.
The power of belief and expectation is a big deal in medicine. Medical outcomes are not the product of physiological reactions that take place in a body, but such mechanisms influenced by the thoughts of a human mind. Think of it as this equation:
Medical outcome = (PHYSIOLOGY) × (THOUGHTS)
(I don’t think this is that dumb but I didn’t spend that long thinking about it so if it is then one of you, my six subscribers, may correct me.)
In this equation, however, don’t go thinking that our thoughts make up some minor part of the final product. They’re a big deal. They have the potentiality to heal or to kill. Positive thoughts, attitudes, expectations and beliefs engender positive outcomes. Negative ones the opposite. Whether a person knows it or not, their thoughts are going to influence what happens to them when they get sick or take any sort of medical intervention.
Anyway, the lesson here is that we need to max out the THOUGHTS part of my equation to produce a positive outcome.
TWO CASE STUDIES WHICH SHOW THAT THIS IS A THING.
#1 - The gullible Japanese children.
In 1962, some researchers in Japan got hold of 13 boys who were allergic to the leaves of Japanese wax trees.
The researchers took their poor test subjects and touched their arms with the offending leaves, which duly brought out rashes.
Except the researchers had told a fib. The boys hadn’t been exposed to the allergen but rather a different leaf altogether. What had produced the allergic response was the children’s belief that what they were being exposed to was poisonous.
The researchers then flipped the script - and exposed the boys to the leaves that they claimed to be harmless, but was in fact the allergen. Eleven of the boys experienced no reaction to their allergen, and in the two that did, the rashes were less severe than those produced by the imposter leaves.
#2 - The curious case of Mr Wright
In 1956, a man - referred to by his doctors as Mr Wright - was beset by an advanced cancer. Bedbound, on oxygen, and with tumours “the size of oranges” spread around his body, he was in a grave, near-death state.
The hospital Mr Wright was being treated at was participating in the trial of a novel cancer drug named ‘Krebiozen’. When Mr Wright when heard of this, his hopes for recovery, according to his doctor, “knew no bounds”. Though he was considered ineligible for being so ill, his doctors relented to his pleas to include him in the trial. Of the twelve patients in his experiment group, Mr Wright alone saw improvement. Within ten days, his tumours had “melted like snowballs on a hot stove” and he was discharged from his deathbed. Mr Wright spent two months in full health. This lasted until he read the reports of the trial which had found Krebiozen ineffective. Mr Wright’s faith in the drug that had saved him collapsed and he relapsed to his original, near-terminal state.
But in an effort to both save his patient and put to the test the extraordinary phenomenon he had witnessed, Mr Wright’s doctor decided to run an experiment. He made excuses for the reports of Krebiozen’s ineffectiveness, and said, since he had shown such improvement the first time round, he had been chosen to trial a new, double-strength solution. Mr Wright quickly became his former optimistic self. Rather than administering the same drug, the doctor injected his patient with water. Lo’ and behold, Mr Wright made another miraculous recovery. Two months later, however, final reports of Krebiozen’s ineffectiveness were released. When these reached Mr Wright, he lost his faith for the final time and died.
Do you get it? Belief is a big deal. In both examples, outcome was dictated by the subjects’ expectation of what would happen.
The case of the Japanese children shows that what we think should happen physiologically, can be rewritten by a negative or positive expectation. Mr Wright’s case shows the same, but also points to capacity for healing that rests latent within us. How this capacity may be unlocked I’m not yet certain of, but I hope I’ve shown that it exists. I need to explore this topic further since it will reap profit!
In the meantime, we must know that in any vaccine detox effort, a positive attitude toward the interventions made will enhance their potency. And also know that, by reading this Substack and believing, as I do, that the vaccines can be detoxed and thus aren’t something we need worry about, their power is already weakened.
References
Japanese children:
http://rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2015/05/2015-05-19-cont-brown.pdf
Mr White:
https://www2.rivier.edu/faculty/pcunningham/Research/The_Biology_of_Belief_(2005)_PDF.pdf
Hi, one of the six here! This is not a dumb concept or idea in the least. Our thoughts carry tremendous influence in our lives, including how our bodies heal. I enjoyed reading this and look forward to reading more.