Eat, Drink and
Make Your Dreams Come True
You may be already familiar with the concept of "placebo". It is a Latin term, which literally means "I shall please" and is used in medicine to refer to a substance containing no medicinal value given to a patient to boost his expectation to get well. You may also encounter the name "sugar pill" as the main ingredient of placebo offered in a form of a pill is usually sugar.
Incidentally, a friend of mine recently went to a dentist where he received some medication and a pamphlet describing the possible side-effects of the medication. The pamphlet stated that the side-effects are the same as those of a "placebo" and then it began listing "possible headaches, nausea, etc." Neither my friend nor I were sure if the pharmaceutical industry, the advertising agency who created the pamphlet, the dentist and his assistant who were distributing it were ignorant regarding what the placebo is, or were just having a little bit of fun on account of consumers, or perhaps the medication didn't have any intrinsic medicinal value to begin with.
There are many stories about the effectiveness of "placebo". At times when there was nothing else that could help the person and doctors prescribed a placebo as a last resort, it has even saved people's lives. One such example is a story related to the drug "Krebiozen".
The effectiveness of any placebo is based upon its ability to stimulate the appropriate belief system and an expectation of success. It fully engages one's subconscious mind in the process of obtaining a desired outcome. The term "placebo" is not confined only to "sugar pills", but to any substance or object that helps the engage the individual's imagination (e.g. "magical objects") or sometimes it is used to refer to a simple verbal suggestions. On a side note, Dr. Chopra has invented the term "nocibo" to refer to discouraging statements doctors make that act just as powerfully on the minds of people, but instead of helping them to get better, take away their hope of recovery and program their minds with expectations of failure and dismal future. Let's get back to using your mind to create desired outcomes.
The techniques in this article go a step beyond the placebo effect and are designed to help you program your subconscious mind while doing what you normally do everyday - eat and drink.
Relatively recently a book came out "Hidden Messages in Water" which contains photographs taken of the crystals formed in the water as a result of different statements written and placed near the water - such as "love", "gratitude", "you fool", etc. Given the fact that our bodies are mainly composed out of water, the book attempted to demonstrate visually what effect thinking, saying or writing different statements has upon the cells of our bodies. Sticking words and images of your desired outcomes upon the bottles and containers with food may be one of the ways of "ingesting" your outcome, but I had something else in mind.
There are essentially two methods and you can experiment with them in as many creative ways as you can think of. Both of them require that you slip in a magical, trancelike, childlike state of mind where you are open to experience miracles and other wonders. Remember that the essence of hypnosis is using the power of your imagination, in such a vivid way, that what you are doing - the outcome that you are creating - feels REAL to you now. In other words, the better you can play the game of pretending, the better results you can get with hypnosis. The liquids and food you are to consume in the process serve as a focus for your self-hypnosis work, but if you look upon them as created out of energy and if you begin with the premise that your thoughts and emotions affect the energy, then what you're doing with your focus is imbuing particular drink or food with a specific attribute and by consuming it, you are ingesting it into yourself. In the process, you are claiming it as your own. It may seem like a little game, but it has a powerful effect upon your subconscious mind because it ties in the world you interpret as "real" (what is outside of you), with the desired outcome - bringing it to life and giving it a sense of reality in your subconscious mind.
While the practices I am about to describe have been practiced mainly by people who are esoterically inclined, they go back a very long time and I wanted to share with you a fun story that goes all the way back to Roman times and the origins of the expression "hocus pocus":
"Plenty of rumors were spread about the early Christians, who met in secret places. These secret meetings made the other Romans, who heard about the secret rites and ceremonies that the Christians practiced, highly suspicious. One rite in particular caused them a great deal of problems and confusion: holy communion. In this rite, still practiced in Christian churches today, bread and wine (or grape juice) represent the Christ's body and blood; the parishioners then partake of the substance in remembrance of Christ [or rather, representing an embodiment of Christ / Cosmic consciousness].
These distinctions were lost to Romans, who simply heard that the Christians ate flesh and drank blood, and while doing this would say, Hoc est corpus [meum], which means "This is [my] body." Not understanding the symbolism of the rite, the Romans thought the Christians were performing witchcraft.
Through the ages, Hoc est corpus gradually became shortened to "hocus-pocus" , and that's why we associate this phrase today with the phrase magicians say when they perform magic tricks."
Let's get to some practical stuff now. One simple way of using food and drink is to spend a few moments imagining that your outcome is embodied in what you are about to consume.
Many years ago I had some digestive problems that lasted several months. I tried different kinds of medications and changes of diet, but nothing seemed to work. One day I got fed up with suffering, so I put the plate of food in front of me and simply began to contemplate that on a subatomic level the food on the plate and my body were made out of the same substance and that therefore had to be in harmony. After this contemplation that lasted just a few minutes, I began to eat holding onto this state of mind and perception, and had no more digestive problems. I have merely shifted my state of consciousness to the spiritual truth which is sometimes described as "God eating God" - "God" being a term that describes One Infinite Reality, or in alchemy "one thing" out of which everything is created. What you use in your imagery will depend upon your own preferences.
Some people have successfully used similar process for weight loss, by placing food in front of them and imagining that no matter what they eat, with every bite of food, they are getting slimmer and slimmer and it worked for them.
The process is most often used either for healing or for developing particular qualities - attributes - within oneself, such as peace, love, gratitude, etc. If you cook food, you can also project the qualities you'd like to experience into the food, while you're cooking it. If you project love into the food, and cook "love" into your food, it will taste much better both to you and to anyone else who may partake of it. Practicing gratitude for the food you consume will make you more magnetic, even to the experience of ever increasing abundance.
Some other ideas you can project is into food and focus on ingesting together with the food are pure life-force, healing energy, rejuvenating energy, an energy of prosperity, happiness, understanding, solution to a problem you desire to resolve, personal magnetism, etc. The possibilities are limitless. Give your imagination free-reign.
Alternative method involves projecting the qualified energy through your hands. You'd go about this in the same way as when you are creating thoughtforms, except that you imagine and feel the energy flowing through your hands into the food you are about to eat, while at the same time visualizing the desired outcome. Here, by the way, is an inexpensive way of creating your own "aphrodisiac" - "love potion". You just imbue the food you are to serve to your beloved with appropriate sexually enticing vibrations. It can add spice to your evening together.
If you are working on spiritual outcomes, you can charge your food with love and light and while you are consuming it, imagine that you are consuming love and light - spiritual food instead of material food.
This then brings me to the point where the above practice goes in a way beyond the placebo effect. Placebo is generally accompanied by some form of verbal suggestion - written or oral - that creates a sense of expectation in yourself or another of a specific outcome. When you "charge" the food with a particular vibration, it will still have an effect upon another person even if you make no suggestions.
Some other experiments you can make involve the use of litmus paper. Litmus paper measure the pH (acid - alkaline) level of the substance. You can take a glass of water, charge it with different emotions and check out how its pH level has changed.
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