{"id":2569,"date":"2015-10-22T15:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2015-10-22T15:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:58:40","slug":"rethinking-the-placebo-effect-how-our-minds-actually-affect-our-bodies-brain-pickings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/22\/rethinking-the-placebo-effect-how-our-minds-actually-affect-our-bodies-brain-pickings\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies | Brain Pickings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article by Maria Popova (who mentions she is a student of Tara Brach, which changed her life). Wide ranging in content she discusses placebo: you don&#8217;t have to be &#8220;tricked&#8221; (blinded trials) for placebos to work to make you well, loneliness is measurably different from solitude in it&#8217;s effect on your body and mind, faith and a sense of life purpose also have a positive effect of health outcomes and meditation is a kind of positive solitude that can change your brain structure for the good in just 11 hours of practice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/06\/23\/nothing-jo-marchant-heal-thyself\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lionandbird_dubuc3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though solitude might be essential for great writing, being alone a special form of art, and single living the defining modality of our time, loneliness is a different thing altogether \u2014 a thing Cacioppo found to be toxic:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/06\/23\/nothing-jo-marchant-heal-thyself\/\">Rethinking the Placebo Effect: How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies | Brain Pickings<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great article by Maria Popova (who mentions she is a student of Tara Brach, which changed her life). Wide ranging in content&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[191,290,296,313,383,452,473],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}