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The magic of the placebo effect

You may have benefited from a placebo prescribed by your doctor …and not know it. More than half of doctors (surveyed) offer fake prescriptions to make patients feel better — and that’s OK, most doctors say. No need to feel deceived though. If the treatment worked, the doctor has done her job …right?

The placebo effect is not deception, fluke, experimenter bias or statistical anomaly. It is, instead, a product of expectation. The human brain anticipates outcomes, and anticipation produces those outcomes. The placebo effect is self-fulfilling prophecy, and it follows the patterns you’d predict if the brain were, indeed, producing its own desired outcomes.”

The placebo effect offers real proof that we can and do influence our health and wellbeing through our thoughts and beliefs. If we could learn to do a better job of focusing on our desired health, we would enjoy a much better level of health …right?

Dr. Joe Dispenza is a leading expert in the area of self health management. His ground breaking book, “You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter” was first published in 2015.

Major takeaways from the book:
* A placebo often works better than drugs – and we can be our own placebo.
* We can’t change our DNA code but we can change the expression of the code with our thoughts.
* When we vividly imagine what we want to happen, with emotions, we are rewiring our brain and reshaping our genes.
* Practice gratitude for what we have and what we want in our life and that will most likely be what we’ll experience.

Don’t have time to read the book? Here is a book synopsis that will definitely give you a very good “feel” for the contents.

The book ends with a “how-to” meditation for changing beliefs and perceptions that hold us back from being our best, healthiest selves. It’s about 45 minutes long. Dr. Joe emphasizes meditation as the most powerful change tool we have.

I agree, but I just don’t have the time or patience for a 45 minute meditation. So I’m sharing with you a 15 minute guided meditation Victoria and I use every day to appreciate and create the kind of day we want.

Hope that you’ll take advantage of the placebo effect to make your life exactly the way you want it to be. And please, please let me hear from you.  So looking forward to your comments. 😍


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