Eldon Taylor, Ph.D. (in his book, Wellness Just a State of Mind, 1992), states the following:  

"In the spring of 1991 [he] conducted a survey among physicians who had consented to their patients using a special experimental subliminal program for cancer remission.  The aim of the study was to look at life expectancy in comparison with the actual mortality rates of patients with cancer who used the subliminal program.  The questionnaire went to physicians whose patients had received the subliminal program two to four years earlier. The twelve questions were rated on a scale of 1 to 5:

     1. strongly disagree

     2. disagree

     3. neutral

     4. agree

     5. strongly agree

The twelve questions consisted of four general categories:

     1. the patient’s attitude toward their disease before they used the program,

     2. the patient’s attitude toward their disease after they used the program,

     3. the patient’s survival and quality of life, and

     4. how the physician felt about the patient believing health could be

         affected by the patient’s mind.

This survey revealed many interesting findings including significant remission rates, for 38% of the so-called terminal patients [were] in remission at the time of this writing.  One other interesting and overwhelmingly obvious result was found that may surprise you.  Of the four subcategories, which do you think would be the most consistent factor affecting the life expectancy or remission rate in the patient? 

Most people believe that it is the patient’s attitude, frame of mind or belief, even though those same people would say that a terminal disease such as cancer cannot be affected just by changing the patient’s attitude.  It wasn’t the patient’s attitude, however, but the physician’s attitude that was the most important factor in determining whether the patient lived or died.

If the physician did not believe that the patient’s involvement with the subliminal tape or the patient’s attitude could affect the cancer, the patient died, regardless of which treatment procedure was used—radiation, chemotherapy, and so on. The patient died regardless of the patient’s own attitude toward the disease or its ultimate outcome.  The one factor present in virtually every case was the physician’s attitude. 

Taking into account only those patients whose physicians agreed, to varying degrees, that the mind played a role in the patient’s health, then the survival/remission rate increases to 46%.  If we look at those physicians who strongly agreed that the mind or attitude of the patient is important to health and/or health care, the survival/remission rate increases to 60%.  Narrowing the field still further, where both the patient and the physician tended to believe strongly that the mind played a role in wellness, the rate of survival/remission increased to 100%.

Is it possible that we are being conditioned into ill health by the attitudes of those in authority around us?  Is it possible that a physician’s sentence of “terminal without hope” is the actual cause of death?  Do we rely so totally on the opinion of professionals that we prove them to be correct, even if that means suffering and death?  Does the data from our study suggest that the answer to health care is a positive cooperation between the patient and the physician?  What is this power of authority about?  How do we learn to imitate or act so that pleasing an authority is a priority more important than life?  Or do we?  After all, maybe this was just a fluke finding.   Maybe this is just an extension of the well-known placebo effect, only reversed.  Still, a placebo works because of our expectation.  Is our “inverted” belief the crux of wellness?  If emotion, learning, behavior, and personality are all tied up in wellness, then how we learn how and what to believe is crucial.

At LifeRegeneration we train and enable you to begin to choose health, choose peace, choose infinite possibilities, choose abundance, and above all choose life!