BORN TO DANCE

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Dr. Peter Lovatt: "Humans are born to dance" - RTE

According to Dr. Peter Lovatt: Humans are born to dance. 

When we see tiny babies responding to music and wiggling to a beat before they can stand, we are looking at proof that human beings are born to dance. 

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Lovatt's research sprang out of his personal story: dancing changed the course of his life in dramatic ways. 

After struggling for years with learning to read and write, Peter left school and became a dancer in musical theatre ... 

'When people with Parkinson’s Disease dance, it leads to an improvement in their medical symptoms, which is really rather extraordinary ...' 

Dr. Peter Lovatt: "Humans are born to dance" - RTE

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Peter says dancing can improve intimacy in relationships and lead to better problem solving, better disease outcomes and even reduce physical pain: 'When you dance, it can release opioids in the brain and that can do all kinds of amazing things ...' 

As well as individual benefits, he says, dancing is good for society as a whole: 

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'There's a brilliant study which found that when people move together in time, that afterwards, even complete strangers they report liking each other more, they trust each other more, they feel more psychologically similar. 

'And they show more helpful behaviour towards each other, even little tiny children and adults. So dancing bonds societies together ...' ... 

'There's no such thing as you can't dance. Humans are born to dance. It's like saying you can't be a human. You are a human. If you're a human, you can dance.'

Dr. Peter Lovatt: "Humans are born to dance" - RTE

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THE MIND CREATES THE REALITY - MIRACLE HEALING

'Joann, a mother of five and a successful businesswoman, collapsed quite suddenly and was diagnosed with an advanced form of multiple sclerosis.

'Joann’s condition went downhill quickly, and she was eventually unable to move her legs.

'When she first came to my workshops, she made only small changes, until one day, the woman who hadn’t moved her legs in years walked around the room, completely unassisted, after just one hour-long meditation!'

Book Synopsis | You Are The Placebo

'A builder stepped on a 15-centimetre long nail. The nail punctured his boot; even the smallest movement was agony. 

'After he was dosed up with some pretty serious narcotics, the team at the hospital was able to extract the nail and lo, “When his boot was removed, a miraculous cure seemed to have taken place,” the British Medical Journal report crowed: the nail had slid between his toes and the foot was entirely uninjured...

How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it
We do this by constructing and running our own internal model, or simulation, of our lived reality. 

'Predictive processing can be responsible for the experience of some pain, but it can also play a big role in relieving it. 

'Perhaps the best evidence for this is in the too-often overlooked therapeutic agent mentioned above, placebo. 

'Placebo – experiencing pain relief or therapeutic benefit based on expectation rather than the ‘real’ treatment intervention – can be powerful.

'Studies show, for example, that patients expecting morphine increase circulation of their own endogenous opioids in advance of delivery of the real thing. 

'Increasingly, other kinds of therapies based on ‘gaming’ this predictive processing system are showing promise.'

How your brain creates pain – and what we can do about it
We do this by constructing and running our own internal model, or simulation, of our lived reality. 

'A woman plagued by depression for decades improved dramatically during an antidepressant drug trial, despite the fact that she was in the group receiving a placebo; 

'And a handful of veterans hobbled by osteoarthritis were miraculously cured by fake knee surgery.'

Book Synopsis | You Are The Placebo

'Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients were able to dramatically improve their symptoms by taking placebos.'

'Laurie, at age 19, was diagnosed with a rare degenerative bone disease that her doctors told her was incurable.

'Although the bones in Laurie’s left leg and hip suffered 12 major fractures over several decades, leaving her dependent on crutches for getting around, today she walks perfectly normally, without even needing a cane.

'Her x-rays show no evidence of any fractures in her bones.'

Book Synopsis | You Are The Placebo

'Michelle healed herself of Parkinson’s disease, and John, a quadriplegic stood up from his wheelchair after a meditation.'

Book Synopsis | You Are The Placebo

“If you can experience a healing over and over again in the inner world of thoughts and feelings, then in time, that healing should finally manifest as an outer experience. 

"And if you make a thought as real as the experience in the external environment, shouldn’t there be evidence in your body and brain sooner or later? 

"In other words, if you mentally rehearse that unknown future with a clear intention and an elevated emotion, and do it repeatedly, then based on what you’ve learned, you should have real neuroplastic changes in your brain and epigenetic changes in your body.”

― Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

Book Synopsis | You Are The Placebo

“The quantum model, which states that all possibilities exist in this present moment, is your key to using the placebo effect for healing, because it gives you permission to choose a new future for yourself and actually observe it into reality.”

― Joe Dispenza, You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

'In 1987, Jean-Pierre Bely traveled to Lourdes.

'Years previously, Jean-Pierre had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the body’s central nervous system. He was now confined to a wheelchair.

'But during a service in Lourdes, Jean-Pierre felt something strange.

'“As the priest was giving me unction on the forehead and hands, I had the impression that everything was turning around me,” he said.

'“In a fraction of a second I lost all sense of time and space. God was coming to cure my heart. I was invaded by a powerful feeling of liberation and peace that I had never experienced before.”

'After that experience, Jean-Pierre began to feel a tingling in his legs. A few days later, he took his first unaided steps in years.'

3 Unexplained, Present-Day Miracles | Guideposts

CURE - MIND OVER MATTER

A fake and harmless pill, a placebo pill, can actually cause healing endorphins and dopamine to be released in the body.

Fake surgery can heal some patients.

A good doctor or shaman can heal some patients simply with comforting words.

"kissing it better" seems to work.

Jo Marchant 

Doctor Jo Marchant has written CURE, a Journey into the Science of Mind over Body.

According to the research quoted by Jo Marchant:

In Parkinson's patients, a placebo can help the patient, because 'motor neurons then fire more slowly'.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be successfully treated with the use of placebos.

With altitude sickness, if somebody takes fake oxygen, there is a physical change in the body and the symptoms of the sickness are reduced.

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Jo Marchant 

According to the research quoted by Jo Marchant:

Patients can be healed by hypnosis, behavioral therapy (changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour) and the use of 'virtual reality'.

Jo Marchant took part in a virtual reality experiment.

She put her foot in a box of unbearably hot water. 

She felt her foot burning and removed her foot.

Then she put on noise-canceling headphones and began to play a snow-and-ice-themed video game. 

When she returned her foot to the hot water, she barely noticed the heat.

Jo Marchant explains the ways we can rewire our brains and improve our health.

According to Jo marchant: "believing in an angry or judgmental God seems to make people more stressed".

Inflamations can be removed by removing stress.

Jo Marchant refers to the health benefits of friendship, social connections and meditation.

The ft points out that in one part of the UK it was discovered that just 4% of local people were between them consuming up to 50% of the health and social care budget.

One of the 4% is Jennie Woolmington who suffers from lupus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, osteoporosis and diabetes.

To help keep Jennie Woolmington and others like her out of hospital, the local health authority has created 'health coaches'. 



Research shows that in a typical town just a small handful of families cause most of the serious problems for the police, for the schools and for the health system.

Town where boy of 11 is 'behind a fifth of all crime' - Telegraph.

These families would benefit from receiving intensive care from 'coaches'.

The Guardian refers to Mr Hutchens.

Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body.

Mr Hutchens has been depressed for many years.

He lost his job because of his apparent chronic back pain, the result of an apparently minor road accident. 

Immobility has caused him to put on weight, and then develop type-two diabetes.

His heavy doses of prescribed narcotics and sedatives, and his lack of exercise, may be the problem.

Recent research has shown that our brain structure is very flexible, and continually changing.

Practicing certain habits or behaviours brings real physical changes to the part of the brain associated with that activity.

For example, if you decide to learn to play the piano, you will develop more neural connections (and perhaps even more brain cells) in the parts of the brain associated with motor activity and musical ability.

If you meditate regularly for years, you will develop more ‘gray matter’ in the areas associated with attention, concentration and compassion.

So in that sense, rather than being completely controlled by our brains, we have control over them.



Research shows that the genetic structures we inherit from our parents don't remain fixed throughout our lives.

Our genetic structures are altered by the life experiences we undergo, so that the genes we pass on to our children will be different to those we inherited.

Studies of twins show that, when twins are exposed to very different environments and life experiences, in their later life they show striking differences in their DNA.

It could be said that we have the capacity to control our genes, rather than them just controlling us.