Acupuncture

I don't know what to make of all those things you seem to have to believe in before they work. Imagine if the surgeon came to my hospital bedside for my operation on my torn Achilles tendon...

"Lieven, do you believe in this operation? It only works if you believe in it, man. Otherwise, to be honest, we better not start it. Do you believe in it or not?" #wtf

Reminds me of psychiatrists and psychologists, which are often a bit the same. I would say, if it doesn't work, MY MONEY BACK. Seriously, why would I go to someone if I didn't believe in them... And why shouldn't something work if you don't believe in it? Nurofen always works for me when I have a headache, whether I believe in it or not. Or maybe the headache is in my head, that is of course also possible, then a placebo would also work. Maybe pharmacists should just give placebos for everything from now on. Let's see if that would work... Maybe it's all in our heads. Everything may stand or fall with faith. Or maybe that's not the case. Anyway, I have now had three sessions, acupuncture that is, and at the start of the second session and third session the question was always:

"Did you feel anything?"

Asking me such a question reminds me of the following... you are tortured for 3 days in Guantanamo Bay, water boarding, electro shocks, the whole menu and shit. Then you will have an acupuncture session in a cozy room with a relaxing atmosphere and dolphin music. Then 3 days later you will be asked whether you felt anything. Yeah, uh, those three days of torture or the acupuncture session? I wouldn't know. I felt a lot, my whole body is a wreck, so yes, I felt something, but where it came from... Maybe it's a bad comparison, but I can explain it this way. It could well help, acupuncture, it has been around for thousands of years. But how do you measure something like that... I sometimes wonder if you let 30 children grow up in a world where folding spoons is completely normal. The whole thing is set up, like in a movie, with people folding spoons the way we now brush our teeth every day. Spoons are simply folded for whole days, hundreds of them at the same time, as if it were something from nothing. Would those children eventually also be able to fold spoons? Ok, it sounds stupid, but only for people who think Nurofen really helps, I think, in my head. Needles.