You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

by Joe Dispenza

the human body is its own best apothecary

the best way to predict the future is to create it—not from the known, but from the unknown.

your body acts as your unconscious mind,

So why not see your genes for what they really are? Providers of possibility, resources of unlimited potential, a code system of personal commands—in truth, they’re nothing short of tools for transformation, which literally means “changing form.”

Now you can understand that whether it’s joyful or stressful, with every thought you think, every emotion you feel, and every event you experience, you’re acting as an epigenetic engineer of your own cells.

When you’re truly focused on an intention for some future outcome, if you can make inner thought more real than the outer environment during the process, the brain won’t know the difference between the two. Then your body, as the unconscious mind, will begin to experience the new future event in the present moment. You’ll signal new genes, in new ways, to prepare for this imagined future event.

His mind and his body were then working together to signal new genes in new ways, and that, rather than the “powerful new drug” he took, was what shrank his tumors and restored his health.

When you change a belief, you have to start by first accepting that it’s possible, then change your level of energy with the heightened emotion you read about earlier, and finally allow your biology to reorganize itself.

When you and I arrive at the level of competence where we can change our internal states by thought alone, and this is repeatedly observed, measured, and documented, we’re on the verge of a new scientific law.

“What do you want to believe and perceive about yourself and your life, and how would that feel?”

Remember, it’s not your job to figure out when or where or how it’s going to happen. Your job is merely to move into a new state of being and then see the future you’re creating.

Maybe it’s not so important that we pray rigorously every day to have our prayers answered, but that we instead get up from our meditations as if our prayers have already been answered.

Your life is a mirror image of your mind, your consciousness, and who you really are.