
By Vidya Hattangadi
The brain is the most powerful tool we possess. It can do positive as well as negative wonders. The placebo effect is defined as a phenomenon that influences beneficially in illnesses, failures, despair, etc. It is attributable to the brain-mind responses to stimuli we receive from some people or some objects in our life. The placebo effect is more famous in the medical context; it is a substance with no known medical effects, such as sterile water, saline solution or a sugar pill, or alternative therapies such as reiki or pranic healing. People follow some gurus and some follow soothsayers because they get the placebo effect.
Placebo reduces negative emotions, which, in turn, decrease pain, anxiety and despair. I am talking here about placebo leadership. Leadership is not an easy task; it doesn’t happen just by…