It is a proven fact that placebos are effective in treating all manner of illnesses. From depression, to pain, to warts... Simply believing that the treatment you are receiving is effective is often enough to make it effective. Belief is very powerful.
Speaking of belief, do you believe in Santa Claus? Probably not many of you grown ups do. But how many of you believed in Santa Claus when you were little? Probably almost everybody (at least for a while).
When you did believe you probably wrote him letters, and tried to be good (maybe), and were genuinely excited about waiting for him to come on Christmas Eve. Your belief in Santa effected the way you acted and thought around the holiday season. This belief made things seem really special, magical even.
In our home Santa Claus doesn't deliver presents. At Christmas time at our house the Bat Man comes. He throws sleeping gas bombs through the windows, knocks us all out, breaks in through the window, leaves presents (not forgetting to take the shot of Gin we left on the mantle for him), and leaves, fixing the broken window on his way out.
Now, our children know that the Bat Man does not really come in through the windows at christmas time. After all, they helped invent this story! But they help us perpetuate the myth by make believing with us every year.
Make believing - belief.
You know what I would like to find? A placebo I can believe in! I want to find a way to harness the power of belief and change my own reality without needing to be tricked by a sneaky story. I don't know right now what that would look like, but I can't help but think it might be something like the Bat Man at Christmas. A story all my own.
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