Owen Gregorian

It says positive thinkings may help you get more out of your vaccines.

So apparently, if you have positive thinking when you get vaccines, you have more of an immune response to it.

Um, they did a study with, you know, people split into groups and they had one of them using positive thinking and they ended up having a better immune response.

Um, I, I know a lot of you have a different views about vaccines, so maybe you want to use your negative thinking depending on what you're going for, if you're getting a vaccine, but, um,

It does seem like the lessons Scott taught us about your body is your brain and your brain is your body is very applicable here.

But the way you think about things makes a difference.

I know that's come up a number of times in Scott's talks about how there's the placebo effect and there's the opposite, which is the nocebo effect, where if you believe something works, it'll probably have some effect on you, even if it's just a sugar pill and nothing at all.

And if you have the opposite, that you think something's not going to work, it's more likely not going to work, or it might even be more likely to have side effects and things.

So how you think about something has...

a big impact.

So just keep that in mind as you're going through these medical treatments or not going through these medical treatments and trying things out and maybe even take advantage of the placebo effect if you think it might help you.

The interesting thing I remember about some of these stories about the placebo effect is even if you know that it's a placebo effect, even if you know that, it still works.

Um, which is pretty amazing, but I think it is kind of like this hypnosis sort of idea that Scott has used that doesn't matter.

Like if you, even if you don't believe it, like if you just think, you know what, maybe this is going to work.

Um,

And even if you know it's a sugar pill, it'll still potentially work to help you.

And so my thought is just why not use it?

Try and do whatever you can to train your brain and see what it can do for you.

And it sounds like in the case of vaccines, if you are going to get one for whatever reason, if you have positive, it sounds like you're actually going to get a better result.

Mm hmm.