A lot of us hide behind our words. It's easier that way. Usually, anyway.

But then the voices inside our heads that can only be expressed with our fingers on our blogs or in our journals or in our essays remind us that we can't always keep the secrets at bay.

In the movie "Oh, God!” the title character, played by George Burns, explains to co-star John Denver that the last miracle he performed was the 1969 Mets – the implication being that God is a kind of celestial superhero whose random interventions result in some amazing things happening here on earth. This is likely how most folks view miracles, and pretty much how they’re defined on Dictionary.com:

Have you ever endured a business lunch? Oh the joy of sandwiches in the conference room again, or worse, rubber chicken at a local hotel.

But have you ever endured a business lunch when you are in the midst of revamping your diet to lose weight or control an illness?  Egads. That is why one of the most common questions I get is "how do I eat for my health during work meetings?”

In this post that proves with scientific data that you can heal yourself, at least a percentage of the time, I made the case that perhaps we should be embracing, rather than dismissing, the placebo effect.

But it begs the question - do all health conditions respond equally to placebo?