You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

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From my experience with patients with life-threatening illnesses,I have learned the truth as shared in You Are the Placebo. The bodyexperiences what the mind believes. I have learned how to deceivepeople into health for their benefit. Doctors can kill or cure with‘wordswordswords’ when they become ‘swordswordswords.’ We allhave the potential for self-induced healing built into us. The keyis to know how to achieve your potential. Read and learn.” It will also, however, try to sell you some things that you shouldn't unconsciously buy into. I think Joe Dispenza is dangerously into the territory he accuses doctors of unknowingly misusing - the reader is suggestible due to their faith in the book's message, and he takes advantage of this.

This doesn't always happen to me as I'm falling asleep so I took this mini-hallucination as a sign that my mind was responding to and stimulated by my future-casting thought. I'll keep it up!Make an emotionally charged decision - Choose to let go of the past, make a decision to adopt a new positive replacement belief ( I'm smart, people love me, I'm in great health, I've overcome my chronic disease, etc) and feel strongly about it, let the emotion change your body. Yet, somehow taking a placebo is able to change all of this in a moment. The key, of course, is not the placebo but the three key components of conditioning, expectation, and meaning in addition to the emotional qualities of acceptance, belief, and surrender. 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: How would that person act? What habits would that person have? What would the do? What would they say?

Dispenza's book, "You Are The Placebo" is top on my list of recommendations and has contributed considerably to my understanding of the nature of reality.

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You want to spend some time daily (ideally, as you're going to sleep or as your waking up in bed) future casting a mental rehearsal of the future you want. The key is making your inner thoughts more real than the outer environment, because then the brain won’t know the difference between the two and will change to look as if the event has taken place. Fake heart surgery is similarly effective, 67 percent of the patients who had received the actual surgery felt less pain and needed less medication, while 83 percent of those who had received the sham surgery enjoyed the same level of improvement. The placebo surgery had actually worked better than the real surgery!

Much of the book, and especially the beginning, is about crazy stories of placebo effects, both positive and negative effects. Yet, stories can be misleading. I would have preferred some statistics on the effects of placebo on top of the stories.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. The book makes a bold claim, you can heal almost anything with the power of belief - unsurprisingly, the way to do this is with meditation. He presents ample anecdotal evidence that this 45-60 minute meditation process can profoundly change the body...