Encouraging Curiosity

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? The person that asks a thousand questions drives you crazy - right...before you loose your patience, know that they are practicing the gift of curiosity - the desire to find answers or learn. We are born curious. When we encourage curiosity we receive gifts of closeness, decreased anger, increased understanding, problem solving, humility, boredom relief, and elimination of the risk of selfishness. Give yourself and those around you permission to be creative.

Source: Murray Bowen, Patti Roscoe and Associates, Allina health

Heal Me

Looking for a solution to some health concerns? Lipton proposes that the placebo effect is actually a form of healing in itself. If indeed belief can create a change in the body chemistry, then the belief that a certain treatment will help a person recover from a malady actually creates the physiologic conditions that will lead to that person's recovery. Lipton believes that the placebo effect should be taught in medical school for its ability to bring about healing. Instead, it "is quickly glossed over ... so that students can get to the real tools of modern medicine like drugs and surgery ... because of their conviction that the body and its parts are essentially stupid and that we need outside intervention to maintain our health" (pp. 137-138). 

Resource: Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology of Belief