belief

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How to harness the power of the placebo

The placebo effect was once dismissed as the ‘natural course of the condition’. It meant that if a person’s condition improved when they took a placebo, it was just coincidence. We now understand things much better.

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Why Hope Matters

Sometimes, hope is all you have. That’s what I found myself contemplating. It was all I had left.

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How you see things

Someone once remarked that I was deluding myself. He said I saw the world through…

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How your beliefs influence your life

More than 200 female students at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, were…

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