Everyone’s heard of placebo, right? There have been plenty of studies that demonstrate the placebo is a powerful effect, and that the act of simply expecting improvement often leads to improvement itself. Turns out, there’s an equally powerful opposite, called the nocebo response, which is examined in the study below.
The mind is incredibly powerful, and can effect the system that is your body in very real and unexpected ways, so don’t dwell on your problems, and don’t expect sickness or injury, lest you ‘will’ yourself into a real problem.
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