Word: beliefs
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...find it ironic that anyone in medicine would question whether faith and belief can heal when a good part of medicine's effectiveness can actually be traced to the power of belief: the placebo effect [Feb. 23]. Scientifically, we can see that creating a positive belief in the possibility of being healed can actually facilitate healing. Alfred A. Barrios, CULVER CITY, CALIF...
Religion is a kind of word game. It's whatever it means to those individuals who are following that belief system. If you say something has got spirit or "I feel the spirit," to me, that would be more appropriate--spirit in the Aristotelian sense, that the mind and body and spirit are one thing. Which is different from religion...
...stock market rallies in the weeks ahead, is there any reason to believe in it? Well, I don't know why there wouldn't be. But I'm interested in the way you phrased your question because it is exactly where the consensus is today. There is absolutely every belief that we could go lower; and while we could rally, the belief is that it won't stick. It just says volumes about where we are right now. It's not just you. Even bulls like myself have that same feeling in their depths...
...resetting. Other economists called for a larger stimulus package, and another might be needed in a couple of years. By highlighting the goal of halving the deficit, Obama limits his ability to react to future crises. Obama’s economic policy, especially the stimulus package passed, shows a belief in the principles of Keynesian economics. Maynard Keynes himself once suggested that, to battle the Great Depression, we bury money underground and hire workers to dig it out. Hopefully, Obama’s policies to rejuvenate the economy are more useful than this, but his message should be closer...
...fact, highly treatable. Moreover, in many cases there are multiple ways to address a given problem—meaning that treatment is also highly flexible and efficient. Much of the stigma and shame that students feel when they struggle with emotional distress comes from the widely held belief that their experience is uncommon. In reality, emotional distress is very common among college students, including those who go to Harvard. In a recent survey of student well-being, 45 percent of Harvard students reported that, at some point during the last year, they had felt so depressed that they found...