Think sync, I was just reading this:

http://marianlansky.typepad.com/outrageous_undoing/2014/07/permission-slips-placebos-and-conscious-imagining.html

Permission Slips, Placebos, and Conscious Imagining

I've been thinking and reading a bit these days about the placebo effect. Here's a great book, if this kind of thing interests you in depth and you'd like to see some documentation and research.

A Course in Miracles talks about the concept of "magic." For example, injecting ourselves with a bit of chemical elixir in order to prevent disease would be considered magic, as would taking a pill to alleviate a symptom, or believing that we need to eat certain foods or have a certain amount of money. They are magic because they are symbolic agreements we've made with each other, through which we create or release our agreed-upon limitations.

In truth, we can heal ourselves or create abundance by allowing in the belief that such a thing is actually possible. This, however, requires (for most of us) a huge leap, both in self-worth and in faith.

So we take a pill, or inject ourselves with a shot of something, or get a degree, and because we believe it will work to cure us or to alleviate our state of dis-ease or poverty, it does, temporarily. That's the placebo effect, and I'm beginning to believe that just about everything we do in the name of healing or prevention, in any area of life, depends upon this very thing.

The idea of permission slips, a term I first heard used by Bashar, that cranky extra-terrestrial channeled by Darryl Anka, is the same thing. We cannot easily step into our own WORTH, so we create rituals that give us permission to do so.

Perform the ritual, whether it is some sort of spiritual process, or running a 5K, or not eating gluten, and we will then allow ourselves to feel better. But it's not the ritual--there is nothing inherent within the activity that does anything except crank up our sense of worthiness enough to allow us to temporarily feel better.

We hand in our permission slip to the great big authority in the sky and then we allow ourselves to release a limitation.

When we begin to get an inkling that we are the authority--that our inner selves are the authority--we can begin to do away with permission slips and placebos. We can begin to do away with magic. But how?

One way we can do this is through consciously, deliberately imagining who we would have to be, and how we would have to feel about ourselves, in order to be healed, fulfilled, fully creative, and free.

We have invested eons of human mental effort to make manifest the idea that we are victims, that we cannot heal ourselves, that we cannot create our own abundance, that we are unworthy. We have created these limitations, which are not real, through our own focus and intent.

Now is the time to reverse this momentum, and there seems to be a lot of assistance available if we'll put in the effort to use our imaginations in a new way.

We can write our own permission slips.

You can ask yourself: What would it feel like to be completely free of fear--fear of lack, fear of loss, fear of pain. I'm not talking about some kind of bravado in which you force yourself to do things even though you are afraid. I'm talking about being free of it... as though it doesn't exist... as though you are completely safe. Like awakening from a nightmare and discovering that it was all a dream. What would that feel like?

What if it is true that I need no longer be afraid? What if it is true that I am completely safe. What if it is actually true that I am cherished and adored? What if it is actually true that my body will heal itself perfectly? What if it is actually true that I am worthy of being done with suffering? What if it is actually true that "it is what I say it is, 24/7."

It's easy to read those sentences, but we mentally bounce off of them. We have a hard time letting ourselves go into imagining such things. Yet I'm beginning to believe that the key to transformation is this very allowing of imagination.

The emotional arousal that accompanies this type of elated imagining is what helps reprogram our bodies, our mental habits and our physical reality. Just the simple act of allowing ourselves to do this imagining, and put some energy behind it, is the key. Everything exists in imagination first.