KittenKoder
Senior Member
If you are conditioned to believe that, yes 100% of the time it WILL kill you!no,, I am discussing it. I am trying to make you see that if you smoke and introduce carcinogens into your tissues and cells, you will in fact risk lung cancer,, and "believing it away" will not change that fact. I also do believe in the placebo effect..
If you are conditioned to believe not only that it won't, but it doesn't matter even if it does because we're all going to die anyway, it might not!wrong again, some people smoke all their lives and don't get lung cancer,,call it luck or genetics,, it has naught to do with "believing"
The placebo effect isn't 100%. Neither is the Pygmalion effect. But they are BOTH equally applicable and proven.Nope,, not true, as I've said if that logic held true then those who did not "believe" in disease would live forever.
Yet? Most people deny the second one, because they are conditioned to do so. We are taught to fear mortality, to fear substances, to fear fear fear. This is why the health care system is so clogged up with people and their various ailments.all i'm saying is it's true, you should not live your life in fear, fear causes stress and stress causes disease, but when you actively participate in a carcinogen introducing active such as smoking you are very much increasing your risk of lung cancer "believe" it or not.
If the power of the MIND was nurtured at an early age, you might very well see 30% less folks having problems. But that would hurt the pharm companies, and the health scare system in general.
I know there is no way to make this impression on older folks. They are too far gone into the conditioning, the negative seeds, the fear. This thread is to provoke thought. Not make folks change their views.
The old people don't need to change their minds.. they are the successful ones!
Other than mental, and even a few of those, every single health issue I have is because of going to the doctor ... explain that one.