You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

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About one-third of the population responds to placebos in whatever form they manifest, from sugar pills, to voodoo, to sham surgeries, or injections of saline solutions. Joe Dispenza asked the obvious question. If placebos are inert substances or practices having no causal effect, what is curing these people of disease? The answer had to be that these curative effects were coming from the patient's own thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs. If this is in fact the case, the next question is how can we change our thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs to live a healthy life? Our task, Dispenza says, is to make our inner thoughts more real than our outer environment. If we are able to do this repetitively, it is possible to change our body by activating new genes to produce epigenetic changes. Dispenza states: Dr. Joe Dispenza weaves scientific studies together to come upwith a true revolutionary approach to using our minds toheal our bodies. I was spellbound. Bravo!” If you’re not experienced Dispenza recommends you do the first part for a week, then one and two for a second week, and then all together in the third week. The good news, as the book's title states, is that you are the placebo, you can heal yourself with thought alone, using a specific mindfulness-meditation protocol. That's not even the real problem. The real problem is that he is bound to rub a lot of atheists the wrong way as he goes on to talk about how all of us are connected by the quantum field and waves of energy (true) and that this energy is God (his assumption).

I would give it 5 stars for the positive change it can make in people’s lives. But I can’t give it more than three because big claims require big proofs and I haven’t seen many of those. the trials provided stunning proof that thinking that you can get better from depression can actually heal depression just as well as taking a drug.(p. 37) However, I didn’t find You Are The Placebo to be a good source for a good, dispassionate discussion on either topic. THE KEY TO KNOW: True healing and change in the body begin to happen when emotions align with your positive thoughts. This is where coherence comes in. Complaining about the simplest things like the narrator and there not being FREE meditations and not finding the PDF files.The author also mentions quantum physics and, since matter and mind are not separate, it’s scientific that you can change matter with your thoughts. You Are The Placebo Meditation Emotion plays a crucial role in the placebo effect. It’s not enough to intellectually know that we can improve our health; we must also feel it on an emotional level. By cultivating positive emotions like gratitude, love, and joy, we can enhance the placebo effect and promote healing. For example, research has shown that people who regularly practice gratitude have lower levels of stress and depression and better physical health. StoryShot #6: Breaking Free from the Past The word epigenetics literally means “above the gene.” It refers to the control of genes not from within the DNA itself but from messages coming from outside the cell—in other words, from the environment.(p. 92) You Are the Placebois the instruction manualfor how to produce miracles in your body, with your health,and in your life. It’s simply magnificent. This maybe the only prescription you’ll ever require.”

For reference, multiple sclerosis does have periods of worsening and improving symptoms (literally called relapse-remitting MS) so it's not uncommon for people to be immobile one day and walking the next. People with Parkinson's disease can experience remission in some symptoms, and crush fractures of the thoracic region with associated neurological symptoms have the potential to improve with conservative treatment. Of course, it should be noted that this is relatively difficult to predict in many people, which is what makes the world of science and medicine so amazing. Joe abuses these anecdotes constantly throughout the book without providing a full evaluation of medical scenarios.If you need to do something later, set an alarm 10 minutes before you need to get going so you don’t end abruptly. Scientists began to become amazed when the placebo drug (that had no healing effects) would suddenly produce spontaneous healing in their patients. Dr. Joe Dispenza is a master teacher who has the abilityto explain science at a very simple levelso that everyone understands.” The nocebo effect is the dark side of the placebo effect. It occurs when negative expectations lead to worsening health. For instance, if a patient is told that a medication has certain side effects, they may begin to experience those side effects, even if they are only taking a placebo. This was demonstrated in a study where participants were told that a harmless electric current could cause a headache. Even though no current was applied, 70% of the participants reported experiencing a headache. StoryShot #3: The Role of Perception in Health The placebo effect is a powerful demonstration of the mind-body connection. It occurs when patients experience real improvements in their health simply because they believe they are receiving treatment, even if they are only given a sugar pill or a saline injection. For example, in one study, patients with Parkinson’s disease were given a placebo and told it was a powerful drug. Their brains responded by producing dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is deficient in people with Parkinson’s, leading to a significant improvement in their symptoms. StoryShot #2: The Nocebo Effect

This book will teach you much on harvesting the power within your mind. Whether it helps you heal your body or not, it can show you the way to inner bliss. Stories are great and they were all impressive. However, stories are also misleading -read “ How to Lie With Statistics“-.Visualizing with emotion + intensity + frequency changes your brain and begins to bring your future reality into your present reality. Induction for 10 to 15 mins (relax and get into an alpha state, focus on “space” instead of things, don’t visualize but try to sense, for example where your nose is) What an amazing book!!! If someone told you that you could heal yourself simply by using your mind--even cancer--would you believe or would you laugh? While I've always been a big believer in the power of human mind to do both bad (destroy our body via stress, for instance) and good (to at least reverse that), I would've been suspicious to say the least. But a very close friend of mine recommended this book and bought it for me because stress had been ravaging my body and i've been getting all kinds of things. She has been battling progressive multiple sclerosis for years. She read three of Joe's books and used his meditation techniques for nine months. Her latest MRI results showed no lesions on her spine which she'd had for a very long time. Yes, she managed to change her body! He is one of the very few people that has actually lived through what he is teaching. You will NOT undestand This book if you do not approach it with a totally open mind And a real want to change your life and your overall consciousness.