Belief Systems and Health

Can one's mind-set affect one's immunity to disease? Lenard explores (in
popular style) the roles of mental attitude, visualization techniques, and
placebos in fighting and preventing cancer and other ailments. Placebos are
nothing new. Most doctors admit they sometimes work for some people. Why,
they don't know. Placebo action seems closely allied to a person's mental
attitude. Many doctors will also allow that a positive attitude helps a lot
in fighting illness and that depression aggravates it.

Visualization techniques, though, are hotly debated. Will cancer cells be
destroyed, or at least stop growing, if the patient visualized them as weak
things that are vulnerable to the body's killer cells? Proponents of
visualization recom-mend that a cancer patient visualize his killer cells as
protecting knights in armor that swoop down and skewer the enemy cancer
cells. In a visualization session, one focuses one's mind on such images
and, in essence, wills his body to fight back. There is some evidence that
visualization helps.

(Lenard, Lane; "Visions That Vanquish Cancer," Science Digest, 89:59)

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Dr. Laura De Giorgio
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