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Er, are you familiar with the revealing work on placebo effect sizes (or lack of them) by Hróbjartsson and Gøtzsche? The existence of a significant placebo/nocebo effect can no longer be taken for granted, which is a serious problem for the mind-body connection advocates.

fall risk: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18420290?ordinalpos=8&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum”

high blood pressure http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/bradlyjacobsmdmph/yoga-and-high-blood-p-6785

#2: Effective mind-body therapies such as yoga, tai chi, meditation, relaxation response, etc. There are dozens of randomized clinical trials showing evidence of benefit for select conditions– while these trials don’t cure cancer they provide preliminary (or even more robust) evidence for benefit for a range of conditions.

You might also visit my blog from time to time where I catalogue the results of clinical trials in this domain.

PS– i disagree with some of your viewers comments that these therapies cannot be evaluated in the clinical trial setting. On one hand, finding an ‘adequate’ sham/placebo may be difficult- agreed but given this limitation, you can certainly focus on the outcomes and whether the therapy has positive results. The key is for research organizations to let go of the notion that all research must have reductionist logic– sometimes you need to allow the therapy to occur in it’s ‘natural environment’ and measure outcomes comparing this group with another group (usual care or perhaps another widely used therapy).

#1: Placebo response is a mind-body connection: let’s start with the placebo effect which by definition means that the person is effected in a positive way by the ‘belief’ that they are receiving a real treatment for a health issue. People undergoing knee surgery, fake bypass surgery, epidural steroid injections — each receiving a ‘sham’ procedure and each showing a healing response. The NIH is increasingly interested in this topic area and actively funding projects.

#2: Effective mind-body therapies such as yoga, tai chi, meditation, relaxation response, etc. There are dozens of randomized clinical trials showing evidence of benefit for select conditions– while these trials don’t cure cancer they provide preliminary (or even more robust) evidence for benefit for a range of conditions including depression, fall risk, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and more.

You might also visit my blog from time to time where I catalogue the results of clinical trials in this domain.

PS– i disagree with some of your viewers comments that these therapies cannot be evaluated in the clinical trial setting. On one hand, finding an ‘adequate’ sham/placebo may be difficult- agreed but given this limitation, you can certainly focus on the outcomes and whether the therapy has positive results. The key is for research organizations to let go of the notion that all research must have reductionist logic– sometimes you need to allow the therapy to occur in it’s ‘natural environment’ and measure outcomes comparing this group with another group (usual care or perhaps another widely used therapy).

Each Hebrew letter corresponds to a number.

People ask why? Simply because it all adds up as we will see:

1=?

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? =3

? =4

? =5

? =6

? =7

? =8

? =9

? =10

? =20

? =30

? =40

? =50

? =60

? =70

? =80

? =90

? =100

? =200

? =300

? =400

For example let us start with the word Torah or in Hebrew ???? = 611 this is the same numerical value as the phrase “specifically the mountain” ?? ??? alluding to Sinia. Torah itself is like a mountain being hard to climb but from its highest levels one can see as no other. The phrase “in Torah” is equal to 613 . All the sages say there are exactly 613 commandments in the Torah. The phrase “all the mitzvot of Yhv’h ” equal 612 we are allowed to add 1 for the phrase itself and then it equals 613 which are “all the mitzvot of Yhv’h ” ?? ????? ???”? . Isn’t that amazing. And if that is not enough Covenant or in Hebrew ???? also equals 612 and if we add 1 for the word itself it equals 613, the number of all the commandments in the Torah. The Phrase “Specifically the light” ???? ?? also equals exactly 613. Referring of course to Torah which is called light. 613 is also the numerical value of The phrase “moses our teacher” or in Hebrew ??? ?????

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Yet, my former profession involved working with cognitive training and also using mind/body techniques like brain gym (www.braingym.org), so I will be back to check out your interesting articles!

There is a spiritual element to mind/body technologies that “work” but science won’t probably be able to validate such things…

Ah well.

The problem as I see it with the ‘everybody’ is different line is that it is also true that ‘everybody is the same’ and ‘every body is the same’. Even the alternative therapies have standard procedures and protocols. From where to put the pins in acupuncture to greeting rituals or ways to tune in for channelers.