{"id":3965,"date":"2023-11-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2023-03-28T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T08:09:47","slug":"placebo-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/3965\/","title":{"rendered":"Placebo I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cI used to get terrible stage fright every time I had to speak in public,\u201d said the man. \u201cMy blood pressure shot up, I got palpitations and my breathing became rapid and shallow. But then my wife gave me these tablets to lower my blood pressure, and I\u2019ve not had any problems since then.\u201d \u201cCan I tell you a secret?\u201d replied the other man. \u201cEvery time you take a tablet, your body knows that it needs to reduce its blood pressure \u2013 it knows what it has to do in response to the tablet. It knows it so well that it will do what it needs to do by itself, even if you just carry the blood pressure tablet with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/spotlights-3363160_1920.jpg 1361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/de\/photos\/strahler-b%c3%bchnenlicht-hintergrund-3363160\/ (28.3.2023)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The case study \u201cPlacebo I\u201d illustrates how blood pressure can be regulated by imagining blood pressure tablets. <\/em>The story could also end; \u201cYour body knows it so well that it will do what it needs to do even if you simply draw a white circle on every page of your presentation to remind you of the blood pressure tablets.\u201d Further interventions on stage fright and exam nerves can be found in Hammel 2017, 103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(From: Stefan Hammel: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.stefanhammel.de\/startseite\/buecher-und-e-books\/fremdsprachige-buecher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook of Therapeutic Storytelling. Sories and Metaphors in Psychotherapy, Child and Family Therapy, Medical Treatment, Coaching and Supervision<\/a>, Routledge 2019)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI used to get terrible stage fright every time I had to speak in public,\u201d said the man. \u201cMy blood pressure shot up, I got palpitations and my breathing became rapid and shallow. But then my wife gave me these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/3965\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}