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	<title>Comments on: The nocebo effect, burn laws, and explosives detectors</title>
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		<title>By: Sandy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sandy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That Vickie Ashwill will be among us soon.   I bet she does a 180 so quick it will make her head spin!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That Vickie Ashwill will be among us soon.   I bet she does a 180 so quick it will make her head spin!</p>
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		<title>By: linda</title>
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		<dc:creator>linda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>canary 2: Allowing traditional doctors who either know nothing about environmental health or have been trained to think there is no connection between toxic chemicals and health outcomes off the hook is not what this is about. 

I will try to explain what it is about, forgive me if it is clumsy.

Here it means that as long as we have our minds in a space where we are wishing for a different reality, we lose the one we are living, and are unable to make the best of this life, instead of a life that never is. 

Living THIS life means accepting this reality and doing our best everyday, allowing the best of others, while at the same time understanding that not everything is fixable, not everything changes in a day, and that sometimes we do have to get on with our day and our life while living with the circumstances we have, no matter how bad they are compared to what others have. 

In fact, if we stop comparing our lives to other people&#039;s lives, and find things we can still do, it is a lot easier to be happy. 

Maybe, on a good day, we can still educate others about our reality, maybe we can use that energy looking for doctors and others who do understand the root causes of what is going on, maybe we can write letters to people who need to understand these things, maybe we can take a photo of something that brings us joy, or learn a new recipe, or feed some birds.

All this means is that we have to accept reality before we can fully live and make the best of our own real life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>canary 2: Allowing traditional doctors who either know nothing about environmental health or have been trained to think there is no connection between toxic chemicals and health outcomes off the hook is not what this is about. </p>
<p>I will try to explain what it is about, forgive me if it is clumsy.</p>
<p>Here it means that as long as we have our minds in a space where we are wishing for a different reality, we lose the one we are living, and are unable to make the best of this life, instead of a life that never is. </p>
<p>Living THIS life means accepting this reality and doing our best everyday, allowing the best of others, while at the same time understanding that not everything is fixable, not everything changes in a day, and that sometimes we do have to get on with our day and our life while living with the circumstances we have, no matter how bad they are compared to what others have. </p>
<p>In fact, if we stop comparing our lives to other people&#8217;s lives, and find things we can still do, it is a lot easier to be happy. </p>
<p>Maybe, on a good day, we can still educate others about our reality, maybe we can use that energy looking for doctors and others who do understand the root causes of what is going on, maybe we can write letters to people who need to understand these things, maybe we can take a photo of something that brings us joy, or learn a new recipe, or feed some birds.</p>
<p>All this means is that we have to accept reality before we can fully live and make the best of our own real life.</p>
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		<title>By: canary2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;chronically ill people may be happier if they give up hope. Study shows that colostomy patients who felt their condition was irreversible reported better quality of life than those with faith that they would be cured&quot;

This attitude sickens me! Sometimes I have felt that the above was an agenda by traditional doctors covered under my conventional health plan...if they would continue to deny looking into the serious symptoms I reported, or give me layer upon layer of pharmaceuticals, maybe I would get discouraged and realize they were not going to get a the root cause and I would eventually give up seeking effective treatment. If we all give up, guess what? No insurance company will have to pay out. So why wouldn&#039;t this attitude be popularized in the media and in the conventional medical realm?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;chronically ill people may be happier if they give up hope. Study shows that colostomy patients who felt their condition was irreversible reported better quality of life than those with faith that they would be cured&#8221;</p>
<p>This attitude sickens me! Sometimes I have felt that the above was an agenda by traditional doctors covered under my conventional health plan&#8230;if they would continue to deny looking into the serious symptoms I reported, or give me layer upon layer of pharmaceuticals, maybe I would get discouraged and realize they were not going to get a the root cause and I would eventually give up seeking effective treatment. If we all give up, guess what? No insurance company will have to pay out. So why wouldn&#8217;t this attitude be popularized in the media and in the conventional medical realm?</p>
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		<title>By: Susie Collins</title>
		<link>http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2009/11/07/the-nocebo-effect-burn-laws-and-explosives-detectors/comment-page-1/#comment-14511</link>
		<dc:creator>Susie Collins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aloha Linda, you do such an amazing job with the Canary&#039;s Cry column! Thank you for all your media research and all you bring to The Canary Report. I really appreciate you! Aloha, Susie xoxo</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aloha Linda, you do such an amazing job with the Canary&#8217;s Cry column! Thank you for all your media research and all you bring to The Canary Report. I really appreciate you! Aloha, Susie xoxo</p>
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