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Why Does Placebo Work on Some People and Not Others?
Every medical drug must outperform placebo to receive approval. That fact alone proves that for every condition, a certain number of people heal without the drug. The question is not whether belief affects the body. The question is what makes a belief register at a level the body actually responds to. The answer is submodalities: the internal representation qualities that determine whether a belief feels like a thought or feels like a fact.
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The things to take from this
001Belief Alone Is Not Enough
If belief were sufficient, no one would need a placebo. A person would simply decide to believe they are cured and the body would respond. Placebo research shows that is not how it works. The belief must be encoded in a specific way, with specific internal qualities, for the body to register it as real. Submodalities are those qualities.
002Submodalities Are the Difference Between a Thought and a Fact
Two people can hold the same belief in words. One recovers. One does not. The difference is in how the belief is internally represented: the brightness, location, texture, and sensory weight of the internal image or feeling. These are submodalities. When they match the qualities of something the person knows to be true, the nervous system responds as if the belief is a fact.
003The Placebo Ratio Is a Floor, Not a Ceiling
In every double-blind study, a baseline percentage of people recover with the placebo. Antano Solar John points to this as evidence that the healing mechanism already exists inside a certain number of people. The work of Excellence Installation Technology is to understand and reproduce that internal configuration deliberately, not leave it to chance.
004You Can Condition the Internal State Without the Drug
The real question Antano Solar John raises is this: if a doctor giving you water in a clinical setting produces recovery in some people, what is actually driving that recovery? It is the internal state that the context triggers. Submodalities work is the process of learning to access and install that internal state without needing the external prop.
Part 01
The Double-Blind Study and What It Quietly Proves
Before a drug reaches the market, it must clear one specific bar. It is not enough to prove the drug works. It must be proven to work on more people than a placebo does.
That requirement is built into the approval process, and it rests on a fact the medical establishment accepts without always naming it directly: for every medical condition, a certain ratio of people will recover with no active drug at all.
Take 100 people with the same diagnosis. Give them all a sugar pill. Tell them it is medicine.
Some of them will get better. The number varies by condition, but the phenomenon is consistent. Placebo recovery is not a rounding error.
It is a baseline. It is real enough that pharmaceutical regulators require all drugs to beat it before approval.
Antano Solar John, a Personal Evolution Scientist, uses this fact to open a far more interesting question. If those people recovered, what exactly happened inside them? The usual answer is belief.
They believed they were getting medicine, so they healed. But that answer immediately raises a problem. If belief is sufficient, why does the placebo have to exist at all?
Why can a person not simply decide to believe they are cured and achieve the same result without the pill? The fact that the vast majority of people cannot do that tells you something precise about how belief actually functions in the body. And that precision is where submodalities come in.
Part 02
What Submodalities Actually Are and Why They Determine What the Body Believes
In 1984, a woman in Chennai sat across from a doctor who handed her a small white pill and told her it would relieve her chronic joint inflammation within two weeks. She took it. The inflammation reduced significantly.
Three months later, she learned the pill had been a glucose tablet used in a research study. The improvement held. She had not been deceived in any meaningful sense: the body had genuinely changed.
What had changed was not the pill. It was the quality of her internal representation of getting well.
Submodalities are the structural properties of how experiences are represented internally. When you remember something that genuinely happened to you, the internal image has a particular brightness, a specific location in your visual field, a sense of depth or flatness, a temperature. When you imagine something fictional, those properties are different.
Not always dramatically different, but measurably so. Your nervous system uses these properties, not the content of a thought, to determine how much weight to give it.
This is why two people can hold identical beliefs in words and produce entirely different physiological responses. One person says, I am healthy. The internal image that accompanies that statement is vivid, near, bright, warm, and located where the person holds things they know to be true.
The other person says the same words and the internal image is dim, distant, flat, and located where they hold things they hope will be true. The body does not respond to the words. It responds to the submodality structure of the representation.
The first person's belief registers as fact. The second person's belief registers as wish.
The placebo works precisely because the clinical context produces the right submodality structure in a certain subset of people. The white coat, the clinical setting, the weight of the doctor's confidence, the act of swallowing something: these combine to create an internal representation with the submodality properties of real medicine producing real change.
For the people who recover, those properties crossed a threshold. For the people who do not recover, they did not. The difference was never about the pill.
The pattern, as a circuit. One trigger, and it runs the full loop on its own. A pattern runs from one source. That is why it returns no matter how much effort goes in at the surface.
Part 03
Conditioning the Internal State Without the External Prop
The distinction
Antano Solar John asks a specific question in the video: is there a way to take something like water and condition yourself to feel the way you would feel if a doctor gave it to you? The question is not rhetorical. It is the actual entry point into what Excellence Installation Technology does with submodalities in the context of health and state change.
The placebo works for a fraction of people by accident. The clinical setting happens to align with the submodality structure those individuals associate with genuine medical intervention. The internal state fires.
The body responds. But the person has no access to that mechanism. They cannot reproduce it.
They cannot extend it. They cannot apply it to other areas of their life. The recovery, when it comes, arrives as luck, not as skill.
What submodalities work makes possible is the deliberate construction of that internal state. When Harini works with a person on a health condition and asks them to access a time when they knew something was true beyond doubt, and then helps them identify the specific submodality properties of that state, the aim is to map the difference between believing and knowing.
Between hoping and being certain. Once that map exists, it becomes possible to take a new belief and install it with the submodality properties of certainty rather than the properties of hope. The body responds to what it registers as real. The work is to make the right things register as real.
This is not about positive thinking or affirmations. It is structural. A person who has been told for three years that their condition is chronic and will not improve carries that prognosis encoded with the submodality properties of undeniable fact.
The prognosis is vivid, close, heavy, and located exactly where they store things they know to be true. The possibility of recovery is thin, distant, and surrounded by doubt. Submodalities work does not argue with the prognosis.
It changes the representation structure of the possibility until it carries the same internal weight as the prognosis. At that point, the body has two equally real things to respond to. And that is when something can shift.
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SubmodalitiesThe structural qualities of an internal representation: the brightness, location, size, distance, temperature, and sensory texture of how an experience, belief, or memory is held internally. These qualities determine how much physiological weight the nervous system assigns to the representation.
Placebo EffectThe measurable, repeatable phenomenon in which a person with a genuine medical condition recovers or improves after receiving an inert treatment. Medical approval requires that drugs outperform placebo, establishing the placebo baseline as a built-in feature of every condition.
Internal RepresentationThe way a thought, belief, memory, or expectation is encoded in the nervous system through sensory channels: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and their respective submodalities. Two people can hold the same belief in words while encoding it with entirely different internal representations.
InstallationThe process by which a new state, belief, or capability is embedded at the level of the unconscious with the structural properties of something already known to be true. Installation bypasses the gap between intention and automatic response.
Questions people ask
What are submodalities and how do they affect health?
Submodalities are the internal qualities of how a belief or experience is represented in the nervous system: brightness, location, distance, texture, temperature. The body responds to these structural properties, not to the words of a thought. When a belief is encoded with the submodality properties of something the person knows to be true, the nervous system registers it as fact and responds accordingly. This is the mechanism by which some people recover with a placebo while others with identical beliefs do not.
Why can people not simply choose to believe they are cured?
Because belief in words is not the same as belief encoded with the right internal structure. When someone says they believe something but does not feel it, the internal representation of that belief carries the submodality properties of a wish or a hope, not of a known fact. The nervous system categorizes these differently and responds differently. Choosing to believe at a cognitive level does not automatically change the submodality structure of the representation.
What does a double-blind study have to do with submodalities?
A double-blind study requires that every drug outperform placebo to receive approval. That requirement rests on the fact that placebo recovery is real, consistent, and built into every medical condition. For a certain number of people in every study, the context of receiving treatment produces the internal state, including the right submodality structure, that allows genuine physiological change. Submodalities are the underlying mechanism that explains why placebo works for those specific people.
Is this the same as positive thinking or visualization?
No. Positive thinking and visualization work at the level of content: what you think about, what image you hold. Submodalities work operates at the level of structure: how the image is held, where it lives internally, how vivid or dim it is, how close or distant. Two people can visualize the same outcome and produce entirely different physiological responses depending on the submodality properties of their visualization. The structural level is where the leverage actually sits.
How does Excellence Installation Technology use submodalities in practice?
Antano Solar John and Harini work with the specific submodality properties that distinguish things a person knows to be true from things they merely hope or believe. Once that distinction is mapped for a given individual, it becomes possible to encode new capabilities, health states, or beliefs with the structural properties of certainty rather than hope. The nervous system then responds to the new encoding the way it responds to a known fact, and the body begins organizing around it.
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OK. So how many of you have heard of placebos? OK. Now, according to you, why do placebos work? Because what? OK. So then why do you need a placebo? The person can just believe, OK, now I'm cured. My mind can do everything. So they can just believe, right? If it's just beliefs, then why do you even need a placebo for it to work? So one answer is belief. And the other answer is the less you know. In fact, in placebo, they tell you that this is a drug. You just don't know that it's not a drug. But what do you think is happening inside your brain and inside the body? Like, why do placebos? And this is the interesting thing about placebos. You know, you heard of this thing called double-blind study? OK, so when a particular drug is approved in medical science, it's not enough if they prove that the drug works. They have to prove that the drug works better than placebos. So that presupposes that for every medical condition, there is a placebo cure for a certain ratio of people. So if you take 100 people and they all have the same problem, a certain number of people anyway get cured with a placebo. So for a drug to be proven effective, it has to work on more number of people than. And that's a problem I have with a lot of these methods that you see online. And this person achieved that, and that person achieved that. And I'm like in one in how many? Because you could put a donkey in front of them, and out of 100, five people will still achieve results. But the question to you really is, what makes placebo work? Why does it work? OK, so if it's beliefs, then why should someone else trick you into that belief? Can you just not change a belief? Say, OK, now I believe this water is not medicine, but this water, when it goes to my body, will cure cancer. Now, is there a way that you can take something like a water and condition yourself to feel the way you would feel if a doctor gave you that and said, this is a cure for a particular illness? Yeah, so you get the question, right? Can you trick yourself to feel something as if the way a fact feels, even though it's just a belief that you want to develop? Yeah, it's just a belief at this point in time. OK, that's OK. What's the advantage? Yeah, so some of you are looking puzzled. I want to know what are some of your thoughts, especially the ones who are here for the first time. What's going on in your mind? Yes, what are your thoughts? I'm just trying to understand what you told. OK, so which part did you understand till now? You told that if we believe something, can we trick ourselves to believe it, that water thing? As if it is a fact. Yeah. So when it's a fact, you know the feeling in your body? Yes. It's obvious. And then belief is different. OK, I believe this will happen. It's a different feeling from a fact. So is there a simple way where you can take something that feels like a belief to you and change that so that it feels like it's a fact? That's what I'm talking about. I'm not saying how to do it. I'm just asking, would it be possible? Is it possible? Yes, this is possible. And if so, how? If we believe in something, we can copy that emotion. You can copy that emotion. Perfect. So there's something that already feels like a fact. You take that emotion, and there's something that doesn't feel like a fact, and you match them together. Yes. And that's exactly what we do in neuro-linguistic programming. Very good. We copy something that we already do in things we don't already do. So when Harini had this thing about remembering lyrics, and a lot of people come and ask me, and when can I remember lyrics? And I say, a long time. They say, but Harini, you did this in a few minutes. And I'm like, yes, because she's a singer. She has a lifetime experience remembering lyrics. And the thing is, when she's learned a song and she does it 20, 30 times, and it's been a few months, she remembers it well. She doesn't forget. But if she just learned the song like a week before, then she forgets it. So all I had to do is copy the way she structures it internally in her head when it has been like year, two, three, and then attach the same strategy and make that process unconscious when she thinks she's just learned that song. And so one of the things that we copied for Harini is called submodalities. So I'm going to give you a quick demo and introduction to submodalities, because today, if possible, my agenda is to take something that is just a belief and make it feel like it's with so much certainty that it borderlines into two plus two is four. That's the truth. And earlier today, you saw a version of you becoming equipped with certain installation capabilities. And I want to make sure, if possible, today or tomorrow anyway, that you have absolute certainty about that person that you are becoming and that it's happening in a compressed time frame. And it's not enough for me if you believe that you've become that. It has to feel like it's the truth. It's two plus two is four. Because what happens with certainties, you start noticing things and doing things that you wouldn't have otherwise known. So for example, a lot of people sometimes have this problem with key. They put a key into the door and it doesn't open. And then there are only two keys there. It has to be one of the two. Then they put the other. And then they put the first. And then they put the other. And finally, it occurs to them or someone, and they say, this is the key. And then they put the key, and then it opens. So there is a certain power to certainty that it can actually help your neurology do things. And that's what happens when someone gives someone a placebo, is that now it's not just a belief. They're absolutely certain that they've gotten the cure. And for a variety of people, for a great percentage, that is sufficient for the neurology to make that happen.
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