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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  You can't cheat IM by pretending to believe it works while you underlying skepticism says it cannot possibly work. Your intentions won't be congruent. |
Steve, pretending can work if you are able to suspend your skepticism.
By analogy, you can watch a horror movie and feel thoroughly frightened, even though intellectually you know that those are actors and they have silly monster masks on, and what you're watching is flashing images on a movie screen. What's happening is that you have temporarily suspended your disbelief.
As a bizarre example of how powerful IM can be, there have been split-personality psychiatric cases, where for instance a 15-year-old girl may completely believe that she is a diabetic 65-year-old woman. When she is in that mode, her body actually becomes diabetic and her sugar levels shoot up and she needs insulin or she will die. When she reverts to her 15-year-old self, it takes about half an hour for all traces of diabetic symptoms to vanish from her body.