Monthly Archives: April 2015

Placebo Paradox

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Joel

Who is Doing the Healing and Sabotaging? Since studies have shown the brain can heal the body and it is our brain and our body, why don’t we just heal ourselves? Just as in Wright’s case, even when a treatment … Continue reading →

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Placebo Effect

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Joel

It’s about a drug called Krebiozen, an anticancer drug discovered by Steven Duvoric, M.D., then professor at the University of Belgrade back in the 1930s. The drug was endorsed by Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, M.D., one of the top U.S. … Continue reading →

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Open-Focus Brain Training

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Joel

Exercise One: Open-Focus Brain Training The perception of space is the foundation of open-focus brain training exercises. Once you grasp the concept of focusing on space, you are able to shift between narrow to diffused and immersed focus, between foreground … Continue reading →

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Open Focus

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Joel

Narrow Focus Most of our formal education encourages a narrow focus of attention. “Pay attention” is a phrase most of us have heard through grade school. Pay attention means to focus narrowly on what I am saying or on what … Continue reading →

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First Post

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Joel

I’ve researched methods of healing both mind and body since I was about 17.  I was a complete wreck back then, both mind and body. That was a lifetime ago. I blindly stumbled upon a truth when I ran track … Continue reading →

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