A simple pill of sugar can help get rid of pain, and aspirin can cure cancer. Not because these particular pills have magical healing powers but because the patients believed that they were being given some sort of new and powerful drug. The sugar and aspirin were able to cure them because the patient’s believed that they would cure them. Medically this is known as the ‘Placebo Effect’. Mind over matter. There is ample proof that our state of mind influences the world around us. By changing our beliefs and our thinking we can bring about a change in our reality. We rely on a number of external factors to get us what we want, but in this quest to attain our goals, we forget to wield our most powerful weapon, our mind.

Because you believe that your pain will be gone once you have taken a pill, it does not matter even if that pill is made up of sugar. The sugar in no way reduces pain. You made the pain disappear by believing that it would do so. This shows that you can affect the world around you, simply with your thoughts. There is no need to look in the external to bring into your life what you want. All you need to do is believe that you already have it. There are many ways of doing this, visualization, affirmation, meditation etc. all these different techniques have one thing in common. They all begin with you. They all begin with your thoughts. Mind over matter.