13th August
Key words derived from the phenomenon: Broader Concepts: idea of perception, action reaction, belief, human response to (Inert) stimuli, appearances, measured and controlled deception, illusion, positive effect
Attributes of a mirror = illusion, perception, action reaction, the idea of what you see is what you believe, response to stimulus, conditioning, controlled measured deception, separate ‘You’ from ‘you’, appearance,
15th August
Idea of action reaction – How does this fit into the framework of a placebo?
Case1-Parallel1: The idea that you are given a pill (action) and you expect the healing to happen (reaction) – placebo is the pill because you believe the pill will heal you. (Mind play because both the action and reaction is happening from the same mind)
In case 1, the pill is a medium (stimulus) for a placebo to happen whereas, in case 2, the mirror is a medium (stimulus) for a placebo to happen.
Case 2-Parallel2: The idea of action-reaction through a mirror
You look in the mirror.
You see yourself.
You do an action.
The mirror does the same thing (instant reaction). Mind is conditioned to get an instant reaction.
There is a delay of 10 sec in the reaction.
There is an immediate separation of you and him.
Now you perform an action.
The mirror performs it for you, but 10 sec later.
Your actions are in your control but yet you wait for a response. This action itself means that ‘he’ is separated from ‘you’.
The situation is such where ‘he’ is following your actions. The response follows your actions.
Through something, through color? Touch? Interaction with yourself, can “you” follow he instead…?
Why the separation of “me” and “him”?
Placebo effect is a psychological effect. The body is looking for an effect to take place. After the intake of the sugar pill, the body believes that that the sugar pill is healing it. So the healing happens, just that it is the body that heals itself, not the sugar pill.
The process of healing itself – to translate this process into a space, the illusion that ‘you’ are separate from ‘me’. It is a self-generated process, which means the action and the reaction, are both generated in the body itself. And the body is actually healing itself sub-consciously.
Now in order to think in terms of a space the first idea was to separate the subconscious and the conscious i.e ‘he’ and ‘me’ respectively. Start a dialogue between ‘he’ and ‘me’.
17th August
As Triveni said, “understanding the cause and effect equation”
Bringing about a receptive state of mind.
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