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pain
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Hypnosis is fascinating. There aremany
records of people who have undergonemajor
surgery while hypnotised, withoutmedical
anaesthesia.
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How can this be? The alarm bells
in the tissueswould still ring as the scalpel slices
through skin andmuscle, yet there is no pain.
A little trivia – people around the world
consumemore than 100 billion aspirin tablets
(40,000 tonnes) per year. If you put them all
in line, the line would be onemillion
kilometres long (that’s to themoon and
back).
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Wemay not need to eat somany
tablets whenwe understand pain better.
It’s a known fact that the shape of the tablet
plays a part in the effectiveness of the drug.
Transparent capsules with coloured beads work
better than capsules withwhite beads, which
work better than coloured tablets, whichwork
better than square tablets with the corners
missing, whichwork better than round tablets.
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The point is that pain depends onmany
different factors and it is the brainwhich
decides whether something hurts or not,
100% of the time, withNO exceptions.
