On 14/12/13 08:41, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Maybe each of these activities (listening to high end audio gear, > drinking high end wine, having needles inserted into your chakras) is > really about ritualizing a sensory experience. By putting on headphones > you know are high quality, or drinking expensive wine, or entering the > chiropractor's office, you are telling yourself, "I am going to focus on > this moment. I am going to savor this." It's the act of savoring, rather > than the savoring tool, that results in both happiness and a longer life.
I'm an avid fan of the placebo effect. Just today, I had a splitting headache here at work, and the only painkiller I had available was a Lemsip drink for people with colds, which contained "1000mg paracetomol" (why can't they just say 1g?). The first sip of it - a tiny fraction of that gramme of paracetomol, and within half a second of it touching my lips, let alone the complex mechanisms of absorption into my bloodstream and circulating to my brain and actually engaging in chemical reactions with stuff - and I felt the headache abating. Thanks, placebo effect! You're a pal! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/
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