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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> James, when you start talking Deepak Chpopra and Ayurvedic thinking you 
> venture into areas beyond by beliefs, not to say mine are correct; I just 
> don't believe in such things .  I guess maybe results are proof, who 
> knows.  Lots of people think Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Baker cured them ; 
> maybe they were cured, and Baker and Swaggart were incidental to the 
> process; I don't know.
The 'placebo effect' has been well proven, and I think that is a small 
example of the mind-body connection. You believe it (medicine, or Jimmy 
Swaggart) is  working, so it does. I absolutely believe the mind-body 
connection exists, but so few people (me included) know how to tap into it. 
It doesn't lend itself to Western thinking since it can't be 
measured...there could be other, equally plausable reasons why a person gets 
better. Sometimes you just have to believe that there are things at work 
that we can't explain and maybe aren't even aware of, but nevertheless 
exist.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA