heal . If you believe that you are going to get sick, chances are you will. If you believe you are healthy and won't get sick, chances are you won't. Unfortunately the pharmaceutical medical system thrives on people being sick in order to make it's money, so it pays to keep us paranoid. In ancient China, doctors were only paid when their patients were healthy - now that makes sense! The reason we test new medicines against the placebo effect is because it is a powerful cure in and of itself. The disdain against it is ridiculous. Since I've started thinking about my health in this way a year ago, I haven't been sick once, even when I shared drinks with my sick housemate. My sister who usually catches a cold every few weeks told me the other day she hasn't been sick once since we had a conversation about this six months ago. On a bigger scale, I had RSI in my wrists for eight years and at one point had what a doctor said was probably a slipped disc in my back. I decided to read a book by Dr Sarno that I'd been told about, and managed to get rid of both pains within a few weeks. That was a year ago and I now only get wrist or back pain very occassionally when I'm feeling emotional, and to nowhere near the same level of pain. Dr Sarno believes that it's not just back pain and RSI