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Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's… by Erik Vance
I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I found this book informative and entertaining.
I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I found this book informative and entertaining.
Vance delves into placebos, sham surgeries, nocebos, which are each endlessly fascinating. Overall the book provides a new framework to think about any intervention in your life. It's good to believe a story because it might help you. Reminds me of the saying that you are the story that you tell yourself. The human mind is so powerful.
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Expectation is the way our brains process the world. (16)
To access that power - the ability to use your brain to affect your body - you need a key that unlocks expectation....the power of suggestion. These two complementary ideas - suggestion and expectation - are at the heart of unlocking your internal medicine cabinet. (17)
In essence, homeopathic treatments create suggestion through expert storytelling - a key that fits the magic lock in our brains' expectations. (28)… (more)
Expectation is the way our brains process the world. (16)
To access that power - the ability to use your brain to affect your body - you need a key that unlocks expectation....the power of suggestion. These two complementary ideas - suggestion and expectation - are at the heart of unlocking your internal medicine cabinet. (17)
In essence, homeopathic treatments create suggestion through expert storytelling - a key that fits the magic lock in our brains' expectations. (28)… (more)
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