You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

by Joe Dispenza

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believes in his or her greatness.

believe in possibility.

once they align their minds and bodies, they’ll gain wisdom from a novel experience by embracing the associated new emotion.

Now they’ll start to embody the information, because they are chemically instructing their bodies to emotionally understand what their minds intellectually understand. At this point, they’ll begin to believe and know that it’s the

They practice moving into new states of being. By no longer reaffirming aspects of their old-personality self that don’t belong to their future and by pretending to be someone else—or by reinventing a new-personality self—they become the new self they envision, so they should produce epigenetic changes,

She had to become detached and move beyond her body in order to change her body, move beyond the ego in order to change the ego, move beyond the program in order to change the program, and move beyond the conscious mind in order to change the subconscious mind. She had to become the unknown in order to create the unknown. She had to become an immaterial new thought in nothing materially in order to create a new experience materially. She had to move beyond space and time in order to change space and time.

The student had to become pure consciousness. She had to get beyond her associations with an identity that was associated with her known environment (her home, her job, her spouse, her kids, her problems), beyond her body (her face, her gender, her age, her weight, and her looks), and beyond time (the predictable

habit of living in the past or the future, always missing the present moment). She had to get beyond her current self to create a new self. She had to get out of her own...

It’s our consciousness (our intentional thought) and our energy (our elevated emotion) that influences matter.

it’s consciousness that gives form to all things and that uses the brain and body to produce different levels of mind,

I wanted students’ subjective consciousness to merge with the objective consciousness of the field for long periods of time.

They had to find the sweet spot of the present moment and invest their energy and awareness in a void that is not really empty space but is actually filled with an infinite number of possibilities, until they were comfortable in the

“The moment you know what’s happening, John, it’s all over. The unknown is beyond our comprehension. Welcome it.

As the quantum model of reality says, all possibilities exist in the present moment.

But if you’re waking up every morning and 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.

So let’s say you’ve gone through pretty much that same sequence every day for ten years. Your body is then already programmed by habit to be in the future, based on your past, because as you emotionally begin to anticipate each of those events on your timeline, your body (as the unconscious mind) believes it’s in that same predictable reality. And the same emotion signals the same genes in the same way, and now you’re in that predictable future line of time. In fact, you could take that timeline from your past and just lift it up and set it into your future, because in this scenario, your past is your future.

We can never find the present moment, because our brains and bodies are already living in a known future reality based on the past.

To accomplish what you’re after here, healing and making lasting changes, you have to be fully in the present moment,

That’s true because wherever

you place your attention is where you’re plac...

So if you’re paying even the smallest bit of attention to things, people, places, or events in your external environment, th...

And if you’re in the habit of obsessing about time—thinking about either the past (the known) or the future, which is based on your past (and so is also the known)—then you’re missing...

When you focus on the known, you, as the quantum observer, can only get more of exactly that. You’ll be collapsing all those possibilities in the quantum field into the ...

In order to access the unlimited potential that’s waiting for you in the quantum field, you have to forget about the known (your body, your face, you...

even your concept of what you have to do today) so that you can remain for a while in the unknown—where you are no body, no one, no thing, and in no place and in no time. You have to become pure consciousness (nothing but a thought or an awareness that you’...

And when the body wants to distract you, but you keep mastering it and settling it back into the present moment over and over again until it acquiesces, the way you read about earlier, then that line that goes into the future no longer exists because the body is no longer living in that predi...

Similarly, if your body is conditioned and addicted to emotions y...

keep you connected to the past, but you manage to bring your body back and settle it down every time you feel angry or frustrated until your body finally surrenders into the present moment, then that line that goes into that past no longer exists either. You’ve unplugged from that line, too. And when both your past ...

In this moment, there’s no longer any past to drive the future, and there’s no longer any predicta...

You’re solely in the present, where you have access to all those potenti...

And the longer you’re invested in the unknown by unplugging from those timelines and lingering in those possibilities, the more energy you liberate from your body a...

Remember that beliefs and perceptions are subconscious states of being. They start with thoughts and feelings that you think and feel over and over, until they ultimately become habituated or automatic—at which point they form an attitude. Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions.

in order for you to affect matter, you have to become more energy and less matter, more wave and less particle. That requires you to combine a clear intention and an elevated

this process involves making a decision with a high-enough level of energy that your thought about the new belief becomes an experience that carries a strong emotional signature, which alters you on some level in that moment.

That’s how you change your biology, become your own placebo, and m...

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...

inspired, invincible, and...

what is faith but when we believe in thought more than anything else? Isn’t it when we accept a thought—independent of the conditions in our environment—and then surrender to the outcome to such a degree that we live as if our prayers were already answered?

The placebo response is about being healed by thought alone. Thought by itself, however, is unmanifested emotion. Once we embrace that thought emotionally, it begins to become real—that is, it becomes reality. A thought without an emotional signature is void of

experience, and thus it is latent, waiting to be made known from the unknown. As we initiate a thought into an experience and then into wisdom, we are evolving as human beings.