By Your Faith You Are Healed

The Placebo Effect Proves Faith Heals

Most everyone has heard of the placebo effect where a simple belief can heal you. It happens when people have faith that what treatment they are given will cure what ails them. Of course, drugs aren’t supposed to be approved if they can’t show a benefit above the placebo benefits, which means placebos are not as strong as those drugs. So our beliefs about those treatments can’t mean everything.

But what about the doctor’s beliefs? Well, that’s why there are double-blind studies where the one giving the treatment doesn’t know what they’re giving (placebo or drug).

Can A Creator Influence Results Through Faith?

I have a hypothesis that the emotions and beliefs of a person can go into the product they are making. For instance, if someone is cooking a meal in a bad mood, you may end up getting a sour meal (or one that just doesn’t taste right). And if they are in a fantastic mood, you may end up getting a delicious meal, even if they used the exact same ingredients and followed the recipe exactly in each case. It’s easy to imagine kneading bread would be done differently if you were angry versus happy. There may be differing strengths applied to the dough or a different force in the stirring of a stew. It’s easy to see that there could be slight details that would change based on emotions.

I’m not sure we’re aware of all the ways our thoughts and feelings about something can impact our end result with that thing. Someone who really believes in a pill or tonic may make it in some way that it works more because they believe in it than if they are worried it might have side effects. The fact that we mass produce pills by machines may even (as in smooth) those biased effects out. But I’m just not sure.

We know that a person receiving treatment can heal based on their belief, but other people’s beliefs also affect that healing, or else we wouldn’t do double-blind studies in the first place. I am curious as to how many other people’s beliefs would impact that healing result. But I don’t believe that’s being studied well or haven’t seen studies personally.

Would You Want A Placebo Healing?

If you knew or believed that your healing resulted from a placebo or simply your faith, would you still want that healing? I am sure that atheists recognize a peace that religious believers can have simply because of their faith. But that is not enough for them to believe in something they don’t believe in.

With my studying Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and switching beliefs due to switching perspectives, I can believe in contrasting ideas and I see the benefits of that.

Multiple Perspectives Can Sound Contradictory

You would think people would want to be healed enough that it wouldn’t matter if the healing came from a belief rather than some pharmaceutical pill. Honestly, you would think people would want that more because you won’t have the side effects of pharmaceuticals to go along with the healing.

Faith Is Viewed As Stupid By Some

But, I think there are many people out there who feel “stupid” to be healed by faith alone. There are groups of atheists who view anyone with faith in spirituality and spiritual healing as an idiot. If someone like that needed healing, their demonization of people of faith means they are more likely to say they’d rather be correct than healed based on a false belief.

Because if they were healed through faith, then they’d become like the people whom they mocked. This is the same thing that keeps poor people from becoming rich when they consider anyone with money to be greedy or evil. You don’t want to become what you mock or hate and subconsciously will never allow yourself to do so.

Reiki

I took a class in Reiki and was certified. Reiki is basically, from my perspective, the practice of sending healing energy out to others or back to yourself. I think our intentions and thoughts matter immensely. Our limiting beliefs cause blindspots because we can’t perceive what we don’t believe. And as I’ve mentioned our thoughts can heal.

How Does Reiki Work?

A Reiki practitioner will envision or draw out symbols on the subject using specific words while they do so. Then they will often place their hands on or above a specific location. Although I was taught that the energy knows where to go so you don’t actually have to place your hands at a specific location. The energy should know and go where it is most needed regardless of where you place your hands. Some Reiki practitioners also do this over long distances by mentally envisioning the subject receiving the treatment.

Thought-Fields?

So, how does Reiki “scientifically” work? First, there is this theory that I haven’t looked into too much yet concerning thought fields. In the same way that magnets can repel or attract things, it has been proposed that thoughts can repel or attract through thought fields (compared to electro-magnetic fields).