You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

by Joe Dispenza

have to go through a biological, neurological, chemical, and genetic death of the old self before the new self emerged.

I was just intent on giving my body as many new and different signals as possible, and since moving to a big house in the Hamptons wasn’t realistic, these tiny things would have to do.”

She remembered my saying that the moment she began to analyze how or when her healing would happen, it would mean she was just returning back to the old self, because the new self would never think in that unsure way.

A state of being is a magnetic force that draws events equal to that state of being, so when Candace fell in love with herself, she drew a loving relationship to herself. Because she felt worthy and felt respect for herself and all of life, conditions began to show up for her in which she had opportunities to contribute, to be respected, and to make a difference in the world. And of course, when she moved into a new personality, the old personality became like another lifetime. That new physiology began to drive her to greater levels of joy and inspiration—and the disease then belonged to the old personality. She was someone else.

My students demonstrate that instead of investing their belief in the known, they can place their belief in the unknown and make the unknown known.

if you mentally rehearse that unknown future with a clear intention and an elevated emotion, and do it repeatedly, then based on what you’ve learned, you should have real neuroplastic changes in your brain and epigenetic changes in your body.

get beyond themselves—and their identities—in their meditations to become no body, no one, no thing, and to be in no place and in no time—so that they become pure consciousness.

moving beyond the analytical mind of beta brain waves and entering into a more suggestible state is a skill that you can improve if you keep practicing it. Second, students are able to use the methods my colleagues and I are teaching to get beyond their thinking brains and enter into the operating system of the subconscious mind relatively easily.

when students are in this heightened state of gratitude during mental rehearsal, this data suggests that their inner experience is so real that they believe that the events are happening to them in real time—or that the events have already happened. They’re thankful, because that’s the emotion we feel when what we want happens.

her tremors now represent when she’s out of balance in her life. When she regulates her internal states, she produces changes in her external reality.

doing the same sequence of events—making the same choices that lead to the same behaviors that create the same experiences that produce the same emotional payoff—then you aren’t open to any of those other possibilities and you aren’t going anywhere new.

you’re priming your brain and conditioning your body into the same future as you mentally rehearse the same predictable daily scenario in your mind from yesterday.

That’s true because wherever you place your attention is where you’re placing your energy. So if you’re paying even the smallest bit of attention to things, people, places, or events in your external environment, then you’re reaffirming that reality.

In order for this to work, the new experience has to be greater than the past experience. In other words, the internal experience you have when you meditate has to have a greater amplitude—greater energy—than the external past experience that created the belief and perception that you want to change. The body must respond to a new mind. So you have to put your heart into that elevated emotion; you really have to get goose bumps. You have to feel lifted, inspired, invincible, and empowered.

Meditation: Part One Now . . . can you rest your awareness . . . in the space . . . between your eyes . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the energy of space . . . between your eyes . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space . . . between your temples . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the volume of space . . . between your temples . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space . . . that your nostrils . . . occupy in space? And can you sense . . . the volume of space . . . that the inside of your nose occupies . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space . . . between your tongue and the back of your throat . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the volume of space . . . that the back of your throat occupies . . . in space? And now . . . can you sense . . . the energy of space . . . around your ears . . . in space? And can you feel . . . the energy of space . . . beyond your ears . . . in space? And can you become aware . . . of the space . . . below your chin . . . in space? And can you feel . . . the volume of space . . . around your neck . . . in space? And now . . . can you sense . . . the space . . . beyond your chest . . . in space? And can you feel . . . the energy of space . . . around your chest . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the volume of space . . . beyond your shoulders . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the energy of space . . . around your s...

And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space . . . behind your back . . . in space? And can you feel . . . the energy of space . . . beyond your spine . . . in space? And now . . . can you rest . . . your awareness . . . in the space . . . between your thighs . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the energy of space . . . connecting your knees . . . in space? And now . . . can you sense . . . the volume of space . . . around your feet . . . in space? And can you feel . . . the energy of space . . . beyond your feet . . . in space? And can you become aware . . . of the space . . . around your entire body . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the energy of space . . . beyond your body . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space between your body and the walls of the room . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the volume of space . . . that the entire room occupies . . . in space? And now . . . can you become aware . . . of the space . . . that all of space occupies . . . in space? And can you sense . . . the space . . . that all of space takes up . . . in space?

Meditation: Part Two And now . . . it’s time . . . to become no body . . . no one . . . no thing . . . no where . . . in no time . . . to become . . . pure consciousness . . . to become an awareness in the infinite field of potentials . . . and to invest your energy into the unknown. . . . And the longer you linger in the unknown . . . the more you draw a new life to you. . . . Simply become a thought in the blackness of infinity . . . and unfold your attention—into no thing . . . into no body . . . into no time. . . . And if you . . . as the quantum observer . . . find your mind returning to the known . . .to the familiar . . . to people . . . to things . . . or places in your known familiar reality . . . to your body . . . to your identity, to your emotions . . . to time . . . to the past . . . or the predictable future . . . simply become aware that you are observing the known . . . and surrender your consciousness back into the void of possibilities . . . and become no one . . . no body . . . no thing . . . no where . . . in no time. . . . Unfold into the immaterial realm of quantum potentials. . . The more you become awareness in possibility . . . the more you create possibility and opportunity in your life. . . . Stay present.

Meditation: Part Three Now . . . what was that first belief . . . or perception . . . that you wanted to change about yourself and your life? Do you want to continue to believe and perceive in this way? If not . . . I want you to make a decision . . . with such firm intention . . . that the amplitude of that decision . . . carries a level of energy that’s greater than the hardwired programs in your brain . . . and the emotional addictions in your body . . . and allow your body to respond to a new mind. . . . And allow the choice to become an experience that you’ll never forget . . . and let the experience . . . produce an emotion with such energy . . . that it rewrites the programs . . . and changes your biology. . . . Come out of your resting state and change your energy . . . so that your biology is altered by your own energy. . . . Now it’s time to surrender the past back into possibility . . . and allow the infinite field of possibilities to resolve it in a way that’s right for you. . . . Give it up. Now . . . what do you want to believe and perceive about yourself and your life . . . and how would that feel? Come on . . . it’s time to move into a new state of being . . . and allow your body to respond to a new mind . . . change your energy by combining a clear intention with an elevated emotion so that matter is lifted to a new mind. . . . And let the choice . . . carry an amplitude of energy . . . that’s greater than any experience of the past . . . and let your body...