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The mind is the most powerful human equipment and it has the ability to manifest its own reality.
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The mind is the most crucial part of the Human system. It has tremendous power to manifest our own reality or even destroy it. But our beliefs have some other introspects. And âBelieve It And It Will Beâ doesnât always work because we have some limits to our belief.Â
Let me tell you a real story.Â
In 1959, there was a Surgeon named Leonardo Cobb. He did a special surgery to some serious heart attack patients, called the Ligation Procedure. Basically, what he did was - during a heart attack or chest pain to patients, he intentionally closed one of the main arteries near the heart so that the blood flow would push other arteries wide open. This saved many of the patients from chest pain but later they still died from heart attack. Cobb didnât find out the main reason behind it.
So, later in 1960, he did something drastic.
Cobb took roughly 40 patients complaining about chest pain or some serious issue for heart attacks. He gave half of them the ligation procedure and for the other half, he widened their chests and stitched it back, doing nothing, just pretending that he did surgery on them. He gave them what's known as today - âSham Surgeryâ.
Afterward, 73% of the people who received the ligation procedure reported feeling better. But of the âsham surgeryâ group, 80% also reported feeling better.Â
This story opened the eyes of the limiting belief that people had in surgery/operations. It opened peopleâs eyes about the potential power of the mindâthat simply telling people they had surgery could give people the same results of actually giving them surgery.Â
This was fu*king interesting.Â
Similarly, there was the placebo effect in medicines, that made outstanding beliefs in people- believing in the power of wrong medicines. Roughly 35% of patients will report feeling better when given fake medicine. In fact, the placebo effect was so well understood in medicine that in the 18th and 19th centuries, giving out fake medicine was pretty much all doctors did, because in most cases, no real medicine had been invented yet.
This so-called- âSham Surgeriesâ had some serious controversies in the late 18th and 19th centuries. Similarly, in the 18th century, people with meniscus tears have reported feeling no more pain after fake surgeries. People with herniated discs in their back have reported the same. A 2014 review found that fake surgeries are just as effective as real surgeries in roughly half of the procedures studied. Thatâs fu*king crazy.Â
And this is even crazier : the more complicated and invasive the procedures that they conduct on people, the more people believe that the surgery has worked perfectly for them.
The placebo effectâi.e., the mindâs ability to manifest its own realityâactually appears to be limited to a few domains, one of them being the perception of pain. Whether itâs a meniscus tear or a migraine, a doctor giving you something fake seems to work pretty well at convincing you that youâre not in pain anymore. But when it comes to more complicated conditions such as genetic disorders or a deep depression, the placebo effect appears to disappear almost entirely.
In other words: the mind is powerful, but not all powerful.Â
Now this belief is also somewhere around us. If people believe that they will do comprehensively better at tests, then they actually end up doing better at their tests. Or if people believe that they will survive cancer, they actually survive the cancer. But last time I checked, people who believed they could fly are still stuck on the ground.
Our beliefs are part of a number of systems within our lives. If we believe that people will hate us, then we are more likely to behave in ways that make people hate us, thus justifying the belief. If we believe we will do well on a test, we are more likely to feel motivated and engaged on that test, thus causing us to do well.
Our belief is actually a chain to connect the experiences of our lives, but not the experience itself.Â
Now I will end this article by referring to the term âlimiting beliefsâ: These are the beliefs that prevent you from achieving some goal or experience you desire. Well, there are also limits to beliefs: boundaries where our expectations bump up against reality. So, our belief when constrained to some practical importance is good, but when it jumps out from the reality circle, and if we start to believe in some sort of superstitious thing, then this belief is useless.Â
So, more or less, always have a practical belief. Believe in something for a proper growth mindset. Only then our lives will be fulfilled.Â
Thanks for reading. I hope that you have found some value and have learned something new from this.Â
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