You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

by Joe Dispenza

The more organized and coherent your energy, the more you entrain matter at an organized frequency, and the faster that frequency, the better and the more profound the electromagnetic signal the cell receives.

You’re in the unknown. And from the unknown, all things are created. You’re in the quantum field. And you and I already have all the biological machinery we need to accomplish this feat of becoming pure consciousness.

the emotionally charged events she experienced growing up with her father had been branded into her implicit memory system beyond her conscious mind, programming her biology. Her reaction to her father’s anger—feeling weak, powerless, vulnerable, stressed, and fearful every single day—then became part of her autonomic nervous system so that her body chemically memorized these emotions and the environment signaled the genes associated with her disorder to turn on. Because that response was autonomic, she wouldn’t be able to change it as long as she stayed trapped in her emotional body. She could only analyze her state of being equal to the emotions of her past, even though the answers she needed existed beyond those emotions.

Laurie started to really believe that her mind was healing her body by thought alone.

she was literally becoming someone else.

She was no longer firing and wiring the circuits in her brain that were connected to the old personality, because she was no longer ...

She stopped conditioning her body to the same mind by reliving her past with the same emotions. She was “unmemorizing” being her old self and remembering being a new self—that is, firing and wiring new thoughts and actions in her brain by changing her mind an...

Laurie was signaling new genes in new ways during her daily meditation by simply cha...

Those genes were making new proteins that were healing the proteins responsible for the fracture...

I was simply grateful in the present moment ahead of the actual experience.

I wasn’t waiting for the results to make me happy or thankful; I was in a state of authentic gratitude and in love with life as if it had already happened.

the mind that creates illness is the same mind that creates wellness.

She assigned a different meaning to her future and so had a different intention. She awoke every day at 4:30 A.M. to do her meditation and began to emotionally condition her body to a new mind. She worked on finding the present moment, which she realized had been lost to her before.

Candace wanted to be happy and healthy, so she fought hard to regain her life. Even so, she struggled in the beginning and got very frustrated when she couldn’t sit for any extended period of time. Her body had been trained to be the mind of frustration, anger, impatience, and victimization, and it understandably rebelled. As though she were training an undisciplined animal, Candace had to keep settling her body down to the present moment. Every time she went through that process, she was reconditioning her body to a new mind and freeing herself a bit more from the chains of her emotional addiction. Every day in her meditations, Candace worked on overcoming her body, her environment, and time. She refused to get up as the same person who’d sat down to do the meditation, because the old Candace was the one who became angry and frustrated and was so chemically addicted to her external circumstances. She didn’t want to be that person anymore. She listened to her meditations, emulated a new state of being, and wouldn’t stop until she was in love with life—in a true state of gratitude

for no particular...

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.

In her old state of being, she’d had the firm belief that she was a victim of her relationship and of her external circumstances and that life was always happening to her. Becoming aware of this work and taking full responsibility for herself and her life—and realizing that what had happened never had anything to do with what was outside of her—was not only a huge empowerment, but also one of the

greatest gifts Candace could’ve ever asked for.

the brain doesn’t know the difference between what she

could make real internally by thought alone and the real external experience,

and she knew that mental practice could change her br...

she could make her body look as if the experience of healing had already started to happen—by literally changing her mind.

she couldn’t acknowledge herself without feeling guilty.

She recognized that she was always trying to control what seemed to be a spiraling chaos around her,

to become conscious of all of those subconscious thoughts, actions, and emotions that were defining her

asked the participants to set a firm intention in their minds and combine it with an elevated emotion in their bodies.

The goal was to recondition the body to a new mind, instead of continuing to condition it with survival

I wanted participants to open their hearts and teach their bodies emotionally what the...

This was the missing ingredient to Joann’s daily mental practice. Embracing thoughts of walking across a 20- to 25-foot floor with only her can...

She was now adding the second element of the placebo effect to the equation: e...

It was this combination—convincing her body emotionally that the future event of healing was happening to her in the present moment—th...

Her body, as the unconscious mind, had to believe it for it to be so. If she were to embrace the joy of being well and give thanks before the healing occurred, then her body would be gett...

Now she could apply meaning and intention to what she was doing.

the placebo works because a person accepts and believes in a known remedy—a fake pill, injection, or procedure substituted for its real counterpart—and then surrenders to the outcome without overanalyzing how it’s going to happen.

We could say that a person associates her future experience of a particular known person (say, a doctor) or thing (a medication or procedure) at a specific time and place in her external environment with

change in her internal environment—and in doing so, she alters...

It’s about a known stimulus automatically producing a known response.

In the classic placebo effect, our belief lies in something outside of us. We give our power away to the material world, where our senses define reality. But can the placebo work by creating from the immaterial world of thought and making that unknown possibility a new reality? That would be a more prudent use of the quantum model.

They all chose to believe in themselves more

than they believed in anything else.

They changed from the inside and moved into the same state of being as someone who’d taken a placebo—without any mate...

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

The idea of verifiable healing exists as an unknown potential reality in the quantum field, until it is observed and realized, and has materialized. It lives as a possibility in an infinite field of information defined as nothing physically but all material possibilities combined. So the potential future of experiencing a spontaneous remission from a disease exists as an unknown located beyond space and time, until it’s personally experienced and made known in this space and time.

Once the unknown beyond the senses becomes a known experience with your senses, you’re...

So if you can experience a healing over and over again in the inner world of thoughts and feelings, then in time, that healing should fi...

In other words, 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.

And if you keep moving into a new state of being each day by reminding your brain and conditioning your body to that same mind, then you should see the same structural and functional changes within you as if you took the placebo.

So instead of aligning your faith (which I define as believing in a thought more than anything else) and your belief in something known, can you place your attention on an unknown possibility and then, by the principles discussed in this book, make that unknown reality known?

By emotionally embracing the experience in your mind enough times, can you move from the immaterial to the material—from thought to reality?

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