You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Apr 2014 · Hay House, Inc

About this ebook

Is it possible to heal by thought alone—without drugs or surgery?

The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo.

Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse—or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs.

“In his paradigm-altering book, You Are the Placebo, Dr. Joe Dispenza catapults us beyond thinking of the placebo effect as an anomaly. Dispenza gives us rock-solid reasons to accept the game-changer of our lives: that the placebo effect is actually us, proving to ourselves the greatest possibilities of healing, miracles, and longevity! I love this book.”
— Gregg Braden, New York Times best-selling author of The Divine Matrix
 
Chapters Include:

Part I.
Is It Possible?
A Brief History of the Placebo
The Placebo Effect in the Brain
The Placebo Effect in the Body
How Thoughts Change the Brain and the Body
Suggestibility
Attitudes, Beliefs, and Perceptions
The Quantum Mind
Three Stories of Personal Transformation
Information to Transformation: Proof That You Are the Placebo

Part II: Transformation
Meditation Preparation
Changing Beliefs and Perceptions Meditation
Becoming Supernatural

Dr. Joe does more than simply explore the history and the physiology of the placebo effect. He asks the question: "Is it possible to teach the principles of the placebo, and without relying on any external substance, produce the same internal changes in a person’s health and ultimately in his or her life?"

Then he shares scientific evidence (including color brain scans) of amazing healings from his workshops, in which participants learn his consciousness shifting model of personal transformation, based on practical applications of the so-called placebo effect.

The book ends with a "how-to" calming meditation for changing limiting beliefs and mental perceptions that hold us back—the first step in healing. You Are the Placebo combines the latest research in neuroscience, biology, psychology, hypnosis, behavioral conditioning, and quantum physics to demystify the workings of the placebo effect . . . and show how the seemingly impossible can become possible.

“I discovered that if I could teach people the scientific model of transformation (bringing in a little quantum physics to help them understand the science of possibility); combine it with the latest information in neuroscience, neuroendocrinology, epigenetics, and psychoneuroimmunology; give them the right kind of instruction; and provide the opportunity to apply that information, then they would experience a transformation...

This book is about: empowering you to realize that you have all the biological and neurological machinery to do exactly that. My goal is to demystify these concepts with the new science of the way things really are so that it is within the reach of more people to change their internal states in order to create positive changes in their health and in their external world.”
— Dr. Joe Dispenza

Ratings and reviews

It comes down to one thing - faith, such faith that leaves no room for doubt, ideally. And your body will start creating miracles for you, because it knows how, all you need to do is to steer in the right direction. The remarkable thing is, even your body in very rare cases doesn't know how to do certain things, you can train it and it will learn. There are practically no limits, your one goal is to master this process, which may take either decades or days it all depends on YOU.

this book is great! I'm was hooked & invested on subjects in the book. tbh I recommend it! it's way better than stuff taught in uni.

The book is great but I'm very disappointed with the authors decision on night make the book Family Sharable. Cancer is a plague that involves the whole family and not allowing one buyer to share with wife and kids is a very bad marketing. Good only for profit. I'm so sorry the author decided on that path. Hope he can rethink it in the near future.

About the author

Joe Dispenza, D.C., author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, has a passion for teaching others how to use the latest discoveries from neuroscience and quantum physics to reprogram their brains, heal illness, and lead more fulfilled lives. One of the experts featured in the film What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, Dr. Joe teaches workshops and lectures all over the world. He’s also designed a corporate program that brings his model of transformation to businesses. Dr. Joe is a faculty member at the International Quantum University for Integrative Medicine in Honolulu and an invited chair of the research committee at Life University in Atlanta, where he earned his doctor of chiropractic degree. His postgraduate training covered neurology, neuroscience, brain function and chemistry, cellular biology, memory formation, and aging and longevity. He runs an integrated health and chiropractic clinic near Olympia, Washington.Website: www.drjoedispenza.com