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What Works Doesn’t Pay
Imagine you had a cure for cancer. How much revenue would lost to researchers? If there was a cure for diabetes, how much money would pharmaceuticals miss out on? Maybe these are hard, physical things that have no spiritual or psychological remedies. Or, maybe placeboes are real and sometimes people have inexplicable remission of illness. What if I told you hypnosis works, greater than chance, better than drug therapies, better than counseling, even in triple blind studies where placebo effect was accounted for? If this is true, it isn’t because science is afraid of ‘woo woo.’ If ‘woo woo’ works, society will make this the lowest, hardest path because if a Doctor cures you, they’re out of a business.
When you search hypnosis, you will find a lot of “is it real?” articles. Hypnosis is not fake. People go in and out of trance states all the time. All states of consciousness are useful. Not all states of consciousness are useful for all activities. You don’t want to be driving while sleeping. Sleeping is a state of consciousness. It’s not no activity, you’re consciousness and body are both doing things- just not things conducive to driving a car.
Let’s go with a small thing
All of us know, healthy people are reasonably active. They spend time preparing healthy food, spending time with friends and family, we have some work, but we have joyful activities- all of which is evidence by our reports of feeling well. Work…
