“Your subconscious mind is the engine, the real power, behind your ability to manifest prosperity, create success, attract abundance, and experience joy. Like a car sitting in your driveway, it’s capable of amazing things. But unless you set the destination, turn the key, and know how to drive, it won’t take you anywhere. Even self-driving […]
“Your personal vibration and frequency shape your reality. By aligning with higher frequencies of love, joy, and gratitude can amplify your ability to manifest your desires. The transformative power of gratitude can rewire your brain for lasting happiness and success. Practicing gratitude isn’t just a feel-good exercise; it’s a powerful tool for personal transformation. When […]
“You’ll recall in recent blogs we touched on letting go, gratitude and rewiring your experience so you’re no longer bound by the limitations of your past. Let’s take another step, because now it’s time to explore how powerful it is to keep things playful, even in transformation. The shift is simple: take it slowly and […]
“What you focus on, expands. If you place your attention on scarcity, lack, and fear, you attract more of the same. But when you begin noticing prosperity, even in small ways, you shift everything. The key is awareness. Start seeing the goodness in your life already. This isn’t spiritual philosophy. It’s knowing how to use […]
“Here’s a special and timely blog! Some people seem destined for success no matter what they do or don’t do. Some seem destined for anything but success based on what they do or don’t. The important thing to understand is neither are destined. It’s a matter of what they do with what they have. Some have plenty but don’t realize it. Some have nothing AND don’t let that stop them because they feel full. Some are team players.
Sadly, some are not. A team player IS there for the team. Some join teams but are only there for themselves and disrupt team efforts. Some are willing to learn and apply. Some learn and learn and learn but never do. Mindset matters. As do your actions. If you learn how to become successful, then do what you learned. Apply what you know. For goodness’ sake, begin wherever you are.
Recently, Billionaire Tom Bilyeu pointed out how important these principles are. First you must know your definite chief purposes as Napoleon Hill described. You must get clear about what you are passionate about and pursue it relentlessly. He says, you might not know how yet. Sadly, some are not. Hill said begin where you are. Plan. Your plan will change but make a plan anyway. Mr. Bilyeu says, make your best guess AND try it.
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Turn it into an action you can take. Then use a key indicator. How will you know you succeed? This is to determine whether you are making progress or not. This is crucial because some people learn and learn and learn but never do. I know because I’ve done that and I know many who still do the same. Evaluate your success. It’s likely you won’t succeed as you hoped to. SO NOW WHAT? LEARN from it. What else might you do?
Use the feedback to adjust and continue. This is exactly what the Wright brothers did. I’ve shared this so often. They were experimenting and continuing to experiment when they didn’t get the results they hoped for. It’s what Edison did. It’s what Tesla did. Mother Teresa did it. Steve Jobs’ team did too. FEEDBACK matters. BUT if you do nothing with feedback nothing changes. Don’t stop. Keep experimenting until you get there.
Tom calls it the Physics of Progress and I consider him a man after my own heart. He’s made billions using the principles of Napoleon Hill. If you want to learn more from Tom here’s a link today. He’s inside a 3-day challenge. Sharon Lechter also speaks as do other luminaries. It’s free to attend. Here’s the link and GO NOW!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
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“How do you level-up your connections to do business, navigate a career and live life the way you’d like? Connect with those who can help BY first offering to help them. Add value to them and their efforts. Don’t ask for help until they’ve known you to be helpful. Don’t give them your resume, invention, pitch deck or screenplay until they ask. Be friendly, respectful and polite. Engage in meaningful respectful peer to peer conversation.
If they’re a big wig and you’re not, don’t try to impress them. Most whales know who is any who isn’t. So, how can you interest them? Find a way to discuss things they are interested in, that you know about, to engage Don’t be a fawning fan. Don’t beg. Don’t grovel. Don’t adore. Be worth getting to know by becoming a person worth knowing. That doesn’t mean rich and successful. That means a good person who adds value.
Be a person who is likable, friendly, and honest. Caring and compassionate. Treat everyone well. Treat people who serve you well. Why? Because they are serving you. I mean, c’mon, do I really have to provide a reason. Consider going to a BIG whale’s swanky home staffed by butlers, chauffeurs, maids, cooks and more. Treat everyone who serves you as if they are the boss. Why, because first they are people serving others. That’s why.
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That SHOULD be enough reason. But here’s another one. They work and may live in that home. They may have the owner’s ear. They may be able to provide a kind word about you when necessary. Better than they could and never do than to grumble or complain about you. Treat the gatekeepers like gold. They are your access to those you want to connect with and can help you if they like you. DO NOT BE obsequious. Be genuine.
Who are gatekeepers? Those I just mentioned. The first line of defense. The obstacle getting to the whale. Receptionists, secretaries, some VP’s and administrators, script readers, agents, managers etc. They represent the boss. They can open doors for you. BE nice. When I was young in Hollywood, I didn’t realize this. I thought they were just staff. NO SUCH THING. I didn’t treat them poorly; I just didn’t treat them better.
They are important people in the climb to the top. Many PAs and assistants one day become the boss or the head of a company or studio. Rule of thumb is be nice to everyone on the way up because you’ll pass them on the way down. Be polite, courteous, respectful of who they are and their position. No one and no job should be beneath you or me. Demonstrate respect. Demonstrate care. If you bring a gift, make it a token, but not too impressive.
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Bring a flower, a tray of coffee or snacks and say something like, ‘I was taught to never show up empty handed. Perhaps, you’d like one of these, or this.’ Next time you see them, you might say, ‘I saw this flower on the way over and thought you might enjoy it.’ Just don’t give flowers that mean love. Or something else. When it is possible to converse, and sometimes it isn’t so don’t bother them while at work, remember what they say.
Write down what they say. If they tell you about family, business or their interests so you can talk about these at another time. Treat them as a person of worth, be genuinely interested, and you are more likely to win favor. Remember, people tend to say yes to people they like. When you have an appointment or call, follow up. Don’t let it drop. Don’t be a pest but follow up. Send a handwritten note thanking them, remembering their birthday.
If you learned it, or congratulate them on a promotion or accomplishment. BE human. Be interested without stalking. Be genuine. Be caring to all. They observe you as you observe them. Be likable. Authentically. It is not who you know but who knows you that matters. Do they know AND like you? Would they want you to join them on a camping trip? Are you positive and optimistic? No one likes a grumbler.
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PROVE your worth by working hard, going the extra mile, being early to work or appointments, staying late when you can to lend an extra hand. Be cheerful, positive, optimistic. Be a team player. Collaborate. Cooperate. Demonstrate your worth. Be the tide that rises the boat and everyone in it. Applying some or all these practices can increase your success ratio and the people who enjoy connecting with you. Help them when you can and they’re apt to help you, especially if they like you. Get it? Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“Hopefully, you can view this video off X. Demonstrates the Placebo Effect. You can be fooled into health and wellness. You can be fooled into prosperity and all good things. What you imagine is the case can be the case. Watch the video and notice what happens. Research into Placebo and expectations has an answer. Even though what happens isn’t what makes the difference… it is!
How might you use this in your life? It isn’t about tricking others. It’s why does it appear different? How is the latter Now acceptable when previously it wasn’t? Think about this. Study this. What we think occurs matters. What does this suggest about our version of reality? Maybe reality isn’t what we thought it was but what we think it is. Understand? When things are troublesome what we think about them matters. What we find may be based on what we think is going on. Get it? Amazing how marvelous we are. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“Rex distills and simplifies the wisdom of the ages in this easy to read book Life on Your Terms. It’s worth repeated and daily reading. I take it everywhere and have bought copies for friends. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is the axiom that when practiced with deep genuine feeling and consistency can change your life immediately and permanently. I give it the highest most practical recommendation!” – Paul G. Macfarlane, Brand Strategist
This book has so many layers to it, Rex pulls you through each chapter almost as if he were guiding you personally sitting next to you. It has so many wisdom nuggets! Make sure to have a journal and a highlighter! This book is for every season of your journey, as a new truth or revelation, to a confirmation! Must read! Must share with others!” – Sandy M. Archer Executive Producer, Host
“Life On Your Terms is SPOT-ON, Intentional and Direct! Life On Your Terms can become YOUR Roadmap to the Life YOU Want. Rex illustrates how to lead you to your full potential! This book is the must-have for you if you are ready to live your best life – on your terms! Thank you Rex Sikes, Thank you.” – Deborah Milotte, Health Advocate
“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author
It’s your good fortune. Get One For Yourself, And Some To Give Them Away!
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“The Disney Empire was started with a dream and a mouse. Walt knew what he wanted to accomplish and he spent a lifetime accomplishing it. He failed many times before succeeding. He drew Mickey Mouse and voiced the character. From his dreaming everything else became possible. He said, ‘If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.’
His passion was his purpose. As a result he accomplished his dreams. He created a motion picture and television studio, countless movies and merchandise and theme parks all generating billions of dollars. It’s reported that after he died, but before Disneyland was completed,. someone said it was too bad he didn’t live to see Disneyland. His brother Roy said, ‘oh, he saw it. He saw it before anyone else.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, ‘Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.’ Certainly Disney did. He created an empire that’s still ongoing today. If you want your inner reality, your dreams, to be your outer reality, the results you get, then go ahead and make them come true. It is completely up to you. Create the future you want to live. Don’t let anything stop you.
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Keep these thoughts in mind. ‘If you can dream it you can do it’ and ‘dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.’ Never dream small. Dream big and then make it all come true. Make your passion your purpose and fulfill it. Don’t let anything stop you from creating and living the life you want.” Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
I heartily recommend you get the book thousands are using to transform their lives! It’s filled with countless tips, suggestions, practices and principles PLUS MORE, to help you to live ‘LIFE ON YOUR TERMS: CREATE THE LIFE YOU WANT!’ Get your copy today.
“Rex distills and simplifies the wisdom of the ages in this easy to read book Life on Your Terms. It’s worth repeated and daily reading. I take it everywhere and have bought copies for friends. CELEBRATE EVERYTHING is the axiom that when practiced with deep genuine feeling and consistency can change your life immediately and permanently. I give it the highest most practical recommendation!” – Paul G. Macfarlane, Brand Strategist
This book has so many layers to it, Rex pulls you through each chapter almost as if he were guiding you personally sitting next to you. It has so many wisdom nuggets! Make sure to have a journal and a highlighter! This book is for every season of your journey, as a new truth or revelation, to a confirmation! Must read! Must share with others!” – Sandy M. Archer Executive Producer, Host
“Life On Your Terms is SPOT-ON, Intentional and Direct! Life On Your Terms can become YOUR Roadmap to the Life YOU Want. Rex illustrates how to lead you to your full potential! This book is the must-have for you if you are ready to live your best life – on your terms! Thank you Rex Sikes, Thank you.” – Deborah Milotte, Health Advocate
“Rex is absolutely brilliant and transparent. My go-to book for those I mentor who want to be happy and successful with their lives as they choose.” – Fred Van Lieu ‘The Water Doctor,’ Author
It’s your good fortune. Get One For Yourself, And Some To Give Them Away!
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“You cannot take the right actions without first having the right mindset. Think about it. If you act without knowing how to act correctly, what do you accomplish? Taking massive action without the proper mindset is not necessarily helpful. Attitude, thinking, mindset precedes actions the way all inventions first began in the mind of someone. Get this.
A slug or a beetle can take actions. Develop the right mindset and all right actions flow from it. I’ve said this for many, many years too. I’ll repeat myself because it’s important. You cannot take right or appropriate action unless and until you get your mindset right! It is not, and never was, about massive action. That’s a big lie. Understand this and relax.
It’s about the concentration of energy to perform right action from right thinking. You must learn to control your thoughts to control and manage and aim your energy! This is why I do what I do and teach what I teach. Remember, sometimes less is more. You don’t need massive action EXCEPT rarely. What you need is the right amount of energy and action.
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The brain and the universe work on the principles of conservation and least energy. It doesn’t always storm yet water evaporates from the earth and returns to it in mist and rain. The universe and your brain take the least steps necessary, takes the least actions necessary to stay alive and accomplish anything. THINK about it. It’s true. Less is more!
Any horse can run where it wants. A trained horse runs where you want it to. Train the horse to take the actions you want to get to where you want to go. Train your mind, so you have the right feelings, speaking and right actions to bring about the success you desire. Anything less is haphazard. Anything less is an untrained horse. You want a trained one.
You don’t want an untrained mind. You want a trained one to do your bidding. ‘You must learn to control your thoughts before you can control your deeds. Any power, mental or physical, is achieved through concentration of energy, which, in turn, is achieved only through self-discipline.” Napoleon Hill Get this and you get a lot. Thought precedes action. Right thought precedes right actions. Right actions lead to success. Develop the right attitude and watch what happens. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
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“Use it or lose it” is a popular, perhaps overheard phrase. However, it is the truth. If you stop eating, you die. If you stop exercising your muscles atrophy. If the plant is not growing it is withering. The concept of Neuroplasticity is that your brain continues to grow, make new neural connections, and benefit you provided you use it properly. You must take care of yourself to continue to benefit.
The more you do, the more you become capable of doing. The more you learn about a subject the more knowledge you acquire. The more you practice a skill the better you get. Doing more of a good thing requires no sacrifice. All you end up doing is eliminating your limitations. Give up your excuses, reasons, complaints, whining and blames. Eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive.
Here’s a great quote from Charles Hannel that helps you better understand this concept and why you must daily do what you can to make all your moments magical, memorable, miraculous and magnificent. Live passionately, enthusiastically, optimistically and positively. The more you properly use it, the more you become who you want to be and do what’s necessary to have your desires.
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“This power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it. Use is the condition upon which we hold this inheritance. We are each of us but the channel through which the Omnipotent power is being differentiated into form; unless we give, the channel is obstructed, and we can receive no more. This is true on every plane of existence and in every field of endeavor and all walks of life.
The more we give, the more we get. The athlete who wishes to get strong must make use of the strength he has, and the more he gives the more he will get. The financier who wishes to make money must make use of the money he has, for only by using it can he get more. The merchant who does not keep his goods going out will soon have none coming in; …
the corporation which fails to give efficient service will soon lack customers; the attorney who fails to get results will soon lack clients, and so it goes everywhere; power is contingent upon a proper use of the power already in our possession; what is true in every field of endeavor, every experience in life, is true of the power from which every other power known among men is begotten — spiritual power. Take away the spirit and what is left? Nothing.”Charles Haanel
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Practice. Rehearse. Utilize. Promote your skills, talents and abilities. The more you do the more you can do. Yes, use it or lose it. The more you use it the better you get. Perfect practice makes it permanent. Be consistent. Correct practice using spaced repetition, done consistently for long enough wires in the new thoughts, feelings, skills and behaviors. Want to improve? Take action to improve.
Want to wither? Do nothing. Get it. Use it. Do it. Get more. You become what you think about and focus on. Direct your attention and energy to creating the you, you want to be, to do what you want to do so you can have the things you desire. Use my book ‘Life On Your Terms’ as a guide. Use the Attitude Activator™ to get you going and keep you going. Make the most of your moments. Practice celebrating and celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
“Best results I’ve ever gotten on a hypnotic audio before! –Nicholas Montegna, Pennsauken, NJ
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Shocking studies demonstrate the power of your mind! Read the blog and the research:
“I’ve been arguing for the conscious application of the placebo effect for 40 years. I’ve been mocked in books and articles for suggesting you can use the power of your mind to make positive changes in your health, happiness, wealth and success. Attitude is everything. What you expect to happen opens the door for that very expectation to manifest. What you think about, you bring about. GET THIS!
It’s why I have written a daily blog for more than 10 years. It’s why I created the Attitude Activator™, Mind Design™ and other programs. You and I need to understand the incredible, usually untapped potential of our mindset which is our beliefs, our attitudes, our expectations. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are correct. You must develop a winner’s attitude to win. GET THIS!
Thinking makes it so. Believing makes it so. I’m not talking about fantasy thinking like wishing for an elephant to appear in your room. I’m talking about all those things within the laws of nature that you are capable of. People have done incredible things in moments of crisis because they tap into these inner reserves. People heal, become wealthy, attract love and live happier lives when they expect to.
I am sharing a few studies which demonstrate how powerful your mind, your attitude, your beliefs, your expectations, your thoughts are. Pay attention. I hope I convince you to do every positive thing you can to develop a positive, powerful, optimistic healthy attitude. Take charge of your thinking and you take charge of your life. Change your thinking and you can transform your life! GET THIS!
I’ll show you more and share more in upcoming blogs. If you’d like to learn more in the meantime get Life On Your Terms: Create The Life You Want.There are so many important studies, findings and applications for you to discover and use to create the health, wellbeing, wealth and success you want. As I’ve pointed out for more than 40 years we’ve great power to learn to use purposefully.
When I began this work more than 40 years ago there were handful of studies. Doctors routinely dismissed the Placebo Effect. Today, there’s more than 45,000 studies on the Placebo/Nocebo effect, the power of attitude and beliefs, visualization and creating wellness in your mind. Studies regarding weight lifting, piano playing and more. I discuss in my book. We’ve come a long way.
I can’t emphasize enough how important your attitude towards yourself, others and life is. What you think about you bring about. What you focus on expands. There are many examples of Nocebo Effects, or unwanted, undesirable effects occurring from negative attitudes, expectations and thoughts. There are many examples of positive effects by maintaining a positive, optimistic attitude. Understand this.
There’s no substitute for developing a healthy, positive attitude because the alternative sucks! I hope this speaks to your heart and mind and you make a deliberate choice to take charge of your life, health, wealth, love, happiness and success by developing an unstoppable, unwavering, positive belief in yourself and the goodness from within and all around you. Celebrate everything and everything changes. GET THIS. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
1. Case Reports
2007 May-Jun;29(3):275-7.
Nocebo effects with antidepressant clinical drug trial placebos
Roy R Reeves1, Mark E Ladner, Roy H Hart, Randy S Burke
ABSTRACT:
We describe an individual who experienced unusual negative effects while taking a placebo during a clinical drug trial. A 26-year-old male took 29 inert capsules, believing he was overdosing on an antidepressant. Subsequently, he experienced hypotension requiring intravenous fluids to maintain an adequate blood pressure until the true nature of the capsules was revealed. The adverse symptoms then rapidly abated. The nocebo effect (undesirable symptoms following administration of an inert substance that the patient believes to be an active drug) may have significant negative impacts on certain patients. Further research is warranted to better understand this phenomenon.
2. Eur J Neurol
2012 May;19(5):672-80.
Epub 2011 Oct 4.
Nocebo in fibromyalgia: meta-analysis of placebo-controlled clinical trials and implications for practice
D D Mitsikostas1, N G Chalarakis, L I Mantonakis, E-M Delicha, P P Sfikakis
Background: Nocebo refers to adverse effects (AEs) generated by negative expectations that medical treatment will likely harm instead of heal and can be assessed in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials (RCTs). We examined AEs following placebo administration in RCTs for fibromyalgia (FM), a condition characterized by patients’ poor medication adherence, which may affect outcome and/or increase healthcare costs.
Methods: Following a systematic Medline search for RCTs for FM pharmacologic treatment published between 2001 and 2010, we assessed percentages of placebo-treated patients reporting at least one AE or discontinuing because of placebo intolerance and searched for factors influencing nocebo’s extent. Percentages were compared with those revealed by similar meta-analyses of RCTs for multiple sclerosis and primary headaches.
Results: Data were extracted from 16 RCTs fulfilling search criteria. Of 2026 placebo-treated patients, 67.2% (95%CI: 51.0-81.5%) reported at least one AE, and 9.5% (95%CI: 8.3-10.9%) discontinued placebo treatment because of intolerance. AEs in placebo arms corresponded quantitatively and qualitatively to those in active drug arms (ρ > 0.88, P < 0.0001). Younger age and larger placebo arm size were associated with increased dropout rates. Patients with depression were more likely to withdraw from trials. Nocebo dropouts in FM trials were fourfold and twofold higher than in RCTs for multiple sclerosis treatment and migraine preventive treatment, respectively.
Conclusions: Nocebo is remarkably prevalent in FM patients participating in RCTs. Because nocebo contributes to drug intolerance and treatment failure in clinical practice, identification of predisposing factors and efforts to prevent nocebo by educating these patients appropriately may be important for FM outcome.
The placebo effect suggests your mind can be as powerful in some cases as the treatment itself.
It might be easy to shrug your shoulders whenever you hear someone say “it’s all about mind over matter,” but sometimes, especially with medical research, that’s literally the case. The mind can be a powerful thing that helps your body heal through times of stress and duress, and in some cases, it can be powerful enough to cause what’s known as the placebo effect….
6. SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY EXCEPTED FROM WORK OF CARL SIMONTON
‘The effects of positive expectancy in a study of 152 cancer patients at Travis Air Force Base, the major Air Force medical facility on the West Coast. Five staff members rated the patients on their attitude toward treatment and evaluated their responses to treatment over the next eighteen months. The results were clear: those patients with positive attitudes had better responses to treatment; those with negative attitudes had poorer responses. In fact, of the 152 patients only two who had shown a negative attitude had a good response to treatment. The most significant finding of the study was that a positive attitude toward treatment was a better predictor of response to treatment than was the severity of the disease. That is, patients who had very serious prognoses but positive attitudes did better than patients who had relatively less serious prognoses but negative attitudes. In addition, patients who began to view their treatments positively often reported reduced side effects.’ …
Simonton Md, O. Carl; Creighton Phd, James; Simonton, Stephanie Matthews. Getting Well Again (pp. 82-83). Random House Publishing Group.
The Attitude Activator™ is the only hypnotic process you will ever need! USE IT NOW TO DEVELOP THE POSITIVE MINDSET AND BELIEFS TO ATTRACT AND LIVE THE GOOD LIFE YOU DESIRE MOST! — Get the Attitude Activator™ TODAY and transform your life!
If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always got AND doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result IS the definition of insanity. Stop the insanity!
“Powerful program! It has positively transformed my mind. I am powerful & resourceful & abundant! Click the link & Do it Now!” Sandra J. Horton, Entrepreneur, Author, Podcast Host
Use this powerful process to reprogram your mind & subconscious with a one-of-a-kind self-guided hypnotic process to create unshakable confidence & resolve, get unstuck, & create more abundance in your life!
“The most powerful mindset and attitude tool I’ve ever experienced. Words can’t describe how unique and how life-changing this program is. It rewires your brain to focus on the attitude that can best serve you. In the first year of owning it, I think I listened to it over 100 times. I’m recommending it to anyone who wants an unstoppable attitude of success.” –Joe Soto,Marketing Consultant, Entrepreneur, Waterford, VA
If you want your life to change you must change things in your life. The first and most important update is changing your attitude! Your attitude is comprised of your beliefs and expectations. It’s those thoughts you repeatedly think that keep you the same OR that move you forward to greater and more wonderful results.
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ATTITUDE IS THE NUMBER ONE PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN ALL AREAS OF YOUR LIFE!
“Before we get to the second thing, here is an important reminder. This is the difference that makes all the difference in the world. This reminder determines whether we get what we want or what we don’t want. Whether we are intentional and live our lives successfully and happily or by default accepting whatever comes our way. The upside is positive creation. The downside is drifting and chaos.
We become what we think about most frequently. What we think about we bring about. What we think determines our feelings and our feelings then contribute to what we continue to think. Thoughts and feelings work synergistically in a loop. Positive thoughts give rise to positive feelings which in turn feed more positive thoughts. Negative thoughts create more negative feelings and thoughts.
It’s our feelings that drive the show. The thoughts are like the ignition in your auto. It starts the process, but the feelings take you from point A to B. The combination of thought and feelings are what make your life what it is presently. You create your reality and future from what you are currently thinking and feeling. The results you get are of your own doing whether you’re aware of it or not.
WHEN our thoughts and feelings are positive, and devoted to what we want and can make happen, most of the time each day, we get and become what we think about. Where do you spend most of your time? How you spend your time thinking and feeling is crucial. You want the preponderance of your time spent thinking and feeling good. The better you feel, the better you create and attract.
Are you thinking about your goal as already completed? Are you visualizing and speaking positively to yourself in your self-talk? Are you celebrating and feeling wonderful? Are your thoughts mostly about how incredible everything is and how thankful you are? If not, they need to be. How you spend most of your time determines the results you get. Sadly, many entertain fear, worry, doubt, anger and sadness.
Are you mostly positive or negative? What do you spend most of your time dwelling on? Is it the good you experience or the not-so-good? If you are focused on events, people and circumstances that you don’t want you create and attract more of the same. What are you filling your mind with? Are you spending time focused on making your dreams come true? You oversee what you do.
If you don’t think you are, that is the very first thing you need to change. Are you distracted and scattered, thinking about day-to-day problems and issues? Are you filled with the media’s daily disturbing news and gossip or are you filling your mind with inspiring, positive motivational thoughts, ideas and materials? Are you whining and complaining about lack and circumstances?
Is your focus mostly on what you don’t have or haven’t gotten yet OR on making your dreams come true? What are you reading and listening to? What you pay attention and entertain makes all the difference in the world! Successful people are devoted to their success. You must be MOSTLY concentrating on success and happiness to get what you want.
Whether it;s money, career, fame, family, love, health, relationships or things, what you focus on and how is important. You can’t spend 95% of your time worried, anxious and fearful, sad or feeling defeated and expect to be happy, healthy and whole. You must devote yourself to spending more and more of your time thinking positive and feeling wonderful.
You need the preponderance of your time to be productively focused. Some people think they are focused on what they want but they feel bad when they think about it. We’ll discuss more of what you can do to change the balance from less-than-glorious to glorious coming up in next blogs. For now, notice what you are doing. Pay attention. Are you predominantly positive? If not, you can be. We’ll discuss more next time and we’ll soon get to that 2nd thing. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
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“I thought I’d share something from Elsie Lincoln Benedict today, especially since we’ve created quite a fever around her work in the Secrets of Success book study. I’ve been quite a fan for quite some time. Her work, as the work of some other significant authors predates so many, we are today familiar with. Elsie had it down for sure. She became a millionaire by age 30. That’s 30 mil today and so much more.
She was a pioneer for getting women the vote and she became a world class speaker. Truly amazing and so few know about it. Anyway, let’s get into the quote I want to share because it’s important. Understand, I keep pointing out that what you think, see, say, feel and do is what you get. If you believe anything, that anything is true for you. As Ford said, ‘if you think you can or you can’t…’
So, get this important quote from ‘How To Get Anything You Want’ and perhaps you will begin to understand why I say CELEBRATE EVERYTHING! Sadly, some people will read a book like hers, or Hill’s or Wattles and get the message that what you say is what you get and then say something stupid such as you must eliminate all negative beliefs, or there is toxic positivity, or you sabotage yourself. Get this.
If what you believe, think, see, say, feel and do is what you get WHAT did they just think, believe and speak. They said you must do something or something is the case without realizing that thought or belief is the very thing they first could change for transformation. If you are unaware of what you are presenting and representing to yourself, you live in a cycle of folly.
If words are important, they’re important. If they aren’t then they aren’t. You decide. Is Ford correct or not? Whatever conclusion you come to you will be correct FOR YOU. You will see or not see possibilities, opportunities or resources based on your beliefs or point of view. We live from our conditioning, but we can change it. We aren’t victims unless we think and act as victims. Get this?
If you think something is hard it will be hard. If you think food is bad for you it is. Learn from what we understand about the Placebo Effect. I’ve gone to it here, in my book and elsewhere so I won’t now, but understand your expectations determine how far you can see, what you find and what you get. YOU determine whether something is easy or not. Good or not? Valuable or not? YOU YOU YOU YOU!!!
Now the quote: “Another wonderful fact is that whereas we build harmful attitudes but slowly, we can build harmonious ones WITH INCREDIBLE RAPIDITY. This is due to the fact that when we build downward, we are opposing all the constructive forces of nature, whereas we ally ourselves with all our God-given powers the moment we start building upward.” Elsie Lincoln Benedict This is important!
There are those who tell you success is slow and hard to come by. You must sacrifice and work hard and sweat, sweat, sweat. If you don’t want it bad enough you won’t get it. Take massive action. It takes time to build wealth. Okay, do you get it? ‘Whereas we build harmful attitudes but slowly, we can build harmonious ones with INCREDIBLE RAPIDITY…. due to the fact…’ Get it. Your attitude matters!
What you find and become capable of depends on what you think about it all. What you feel about it and how you speak about it. Most people think change is hard so guess what they find? Change your thoughts and you transform your life. What one person finds difficult another finds easy or pleasant or rewarding. It’s all in your head. So, change what you think about, and you change what and how soon you bring it about. Thanks Elsie. SOMEONE has to say it. So many gurus got it wrong!! They even get Elsie wrong BUT you don’t have to miss out because they misinform and mislead. Screw your own head on right. Ok? Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
“This may be the wisest, more realistic, and most helpful book I’ve come across. I’ve been a self-help book addict for at least five decades, and I’ve read many of the greats. This is up there with the greats and maybe beyond. Besides extraordinary insights, the style is accessible and compelling. I loved LIFE ON YOUR TERMS. Buy it!” Mitzi Perdue – Author, Entrepreneur (Perdue Chicken)
“Rex equips you with everything you need to live a more empowered life inside of this book. Reading the book is like having Rex as your personal coach, guiding you on a life-changing journey, chapter by chapter. He has the uncanny ability to challenge your limiting thinking without you realizing that’s what he’s doing, and he guides you to the new pathways out of your own limitations with some really cool exercises, checklists and actions you can take to “try on” his ideas so you can actually work on changing yourself for the better – not just read about it.
He was the first person to really challenge me with the idea that to change my life, I had to change myself first. His concept of 100% Self-responsibility has served me so much in my life, it’s now the cornerstone of all my training and coaching as well. In the book (Chapter 20) he states, “When you accept full responsibility for everything going on, you begin to access your inner strengths and power. When you accept responsibility your mind begins to look for solutions because you are responsible.”
Bottom line: I’m a better coach, trainer, entrepreneur, husband, and parent because of Rex, his work, and the actionable insight he’s poured into this book.
It’s rare I buy a book that I read all the way through because it’s so good. It’s even rarer that I read and then reread a book over and over because it’s so great. Life On Your Terms is one of those books. Get the book, because your future self will thank you for it.” Joe Soto
“Can you imagine, do you imagine, a day when war becomes obsolete? If we can’t imagine this, it is not likely to happen. Consider this: IN school, someone bullies and beats up a kid. What happens? Typically, the kid has friends or family that go after the bully. The bully gets beat up. What happens? His friends and family come for revenge. This goes on and on and on and on.
The only way to stop it is to not engage in it. Do not succumb to violence or returning violence. It only escalates. Bullies think it won’t. They think they will prevail, and they may for a while but typically all bullies meet worse bullies or those counteracting the original hurt and harm. HOW about imagining new ways to get along instead of old ways to do harm?
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ said Einstein and he is not the only one. How about we do as John Lennon asked and ‘give peace a chance’ do you think we can. If not, what are you advocating instead? We can only go where our mind takes us. Whether an individual mind or a group mind. If it is to be it is up to me, is the saying OR if it is to come true, it is up to you.
Let’s find ways to create harmony and friendship to create a better world instead of pulling it apart. Hurting each other doesn’t help, it only hurts all. Yes, it may require forgiveness and sometime but if we don’t attempt it we are doomed to repeat. Let’s break the cycle by doing something productive, positive and new. If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.
Don’t you think it’s time for a change? ‘Be the change you want to see in the world,’ said Gandhi. He led a peaceful movement and brought the British empire to its knees with passive resistance. Others have attempted the same. It seems most have met with violence. That doesn’t mean they always will, but it is possible. Good and bad exist the same as day and night. They both are part of life and cycles.
For us to evolve we need to grow up. We need to evolve our consciousness to the point violence is not the solution. It means changing our rhetoric, our metaphors, analogies and allegories. Maybe we don’t need to declare war on things we don’t like. Maybe if we become less violent others will too? It is possible, but not unless you believe it is possible. What you consider impossible keeps it the same.
You can light a million candles off one candle if yours is lit first. People model each other and learn from role models. We tend to copy each other. How about we hold out for love, peace, compassion, kindness, understanding, acceptance, harmony and helping each other instead of the alternatives. Hold out for good and positivity by becoming the examples others may follow. Eventually, the movement will grow and take hold. If we don’t attempt it, surely it won’t happen. Are you in? I hope so. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes
“This may be the wisest, more realistic, and most helpful book I’ve come across. I’ve been a self-help book addict for at least five decades, and I’ve read many of the greats. This is up there with the greats and maybe beyond. Besides extraordinary insights, the style is accessible and compelling. I loved LIFE ON YOUR TERMS. Buy it!” Mitzi Perdue – Author, Entrepreneur (Perdue Chicken)
