The benefits of the placebo effect

A strategy to improve the treatment of chronic illnesses.

 

Every year around the world, there are millions of people diagnosed with a chronic illness, what means a set of conditions weakening the health in the long-term that, if not having immediate attention, can get worse as the time goes by. Some people asume the news as a death sentence despite the strategies and the treatments have advanced so significantly in the last three decades.

 

In fact, many of them are now designed to attack the existent ill more precise, reducing the disgusting secondary effects they used to cause years ago. But the conventional medicine won’t be useful if the patient doesn’t adopt an attitude going beyond the active principles and the prescribed doses.

 

The self-convincement of a future improvement to experience plays in a big part for dealing and even surviving the chronic illnesses. The holism insists that the mind plays much in the recuperation processes of the person, even provided to be adequately harmonized.

 

This flow suggests the human body prones to get ill or to attract the illness if the deharmonization vulnerates it. The problem aggravates if we believe there are people or stuff that can propitiate such illnesses. That’s called nocebo effect. An example is the charm or the witchcraft.

 

There is a division among who practice the holism about if it must or must not add to conventional medicine. However, independent specialists advise to add for improving the effects and guaranteeing the success of treatments. But, if the holistic theory of every illness breaks out by the accumulation of wrong decisions or guilt between the conception and the 12-year-old is taken, is it possible to reverse the frame?

 

The opposite of nocebo effect is the placebo effect, that doesn’t refer only to the wellness sensation based upon somebody or something, but how it is conducted until getting an eventual cure. A first step is the manner how the treatment or healing plan is provided. The attitude of the healing person (a medical doctor, a therapist) based on just giving the prescription helps but it doesn’t necessarily contribute to the cure.

 

Many times, what catalyses the success of treatment is releasing the whole negative mental energy of the folk. Knowing to listen, and based upon that, knowing to advise or to guide results favoring the healing of the people. That’s why patients with chronic illnesses that have a good attention quality react better and, if they don’t heal at all, approach to a state that makes the ill to be easily manageable.

 

But, what happens when the patients comes back home?There are ways to complement the achievement of the treatment in the clinic space, what doesn’t mean turning the home into another hospital but to follow up a very advantageous strategy, and that, with the adequate attitude, will help widely the person to recuperate.

 

If we start from that the mind contributes much in the healing processes, the basis of everything is the self-valuation and releasing the guilty feeling. If many illnesses can be acquired by the uncare, for good, it must do a break-up and get aware that as much as we propitiate the cause, we can propitiate the cure. That attitude depends on the individual.

 

It’s the same if we didn’t put our lives in risk but we were exposed to by other people. In this sense, knowing to manage the resentment can be healthier than only following up the treatment exactly as prescribed. Forgiving yourself and forgiving someone else is the other ingredient. Upon those two basis, here we introduce a plan that will favor any healing process, but that, we recommend, must be agreed with specialists to assure its effectiveness.

 

1. Healthy feeding: They say that the ill person who eats, doesn’t die, and that’s pretty true. But, ever have to choose that healthy and natural food, if possible. Specialists in nutrition can help us much, although reliable websites can also help us in the effort. The hydration and the medical treatment itself are here too. Everything is complementary.
2.  Leave me breathness: The people forget completely that the air we breathe influences in our body processes, so while it’s purest, they will be better, especially the fluid stream and the own breathing process. Then, it must guarantee the air quality.
3.  Educate your senses: The soul also feeds and it does through the senses. If we don’t care what we see, feel, and hear –also what we eat and breathe—, we will generate a disorder that won’t favor the body. The noise, the graphic violence, and the physical mistreatment, just mentioning some examples, raise our stress levels and contribute to open the door to the health deterioration. Then, we should look for the opposite.
4.  Manage your emotions: We, the people, ever must fight to generate tranquility and harmony environments. The addition of the three first points favor such state. There will be a time for everything, for sure, but the idea is the negative emotions don’t become constant, if not, they will disturb any effort to balance mind, body, and space.

 

As a necessary complement, the physical activity is important. We must agree with the specialists who examine us wwhich one would be the most adequate for our healing process, but never –unless they order the opposite— it must prescind on it. Let’s remember that, like the other alive beings, the human body was designed for the action.

 

The model featured on this entry is Christiam Tineo.