You Are The Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter

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We can modify our genetic destiny by turning on the genes we want and turning off the ones we don’t want through working with the various factors in the environment that program our genes.

That's not even the real problem. The real problem is that he is bound to rub a lot of atheists the wrong way as he goes on to talk about how all of us are connected by the quantum field and waves of energy (true) and that this energy is God (his assumption). Additional comment since the review: the more I think of this book, the angrier I get. I now feel the author is a fraud, even if he believes what he is saying. Kind of like a Billy Graham. Can't believe he was invited to give a TED Talk. Has diminished the Talks in my eyes. The gap between the old self and the new self is the biological death of your old personality. If the old self must die, then you have to create a new self with new thoughts, new choices, new behaviors, and new emotions.Your thoughts about something in your life.( are you negative, insecure, anxious, fearful, angry) Living in these hormones of stress will not allow the body to heal or stay healthy. By keeping your focus on this future event and not letting any other thoughts distract you, in a matter of moments, you turn down the volume on the neural circuits connected to the old self, which begins to turn off the old genes, and you fire and wire new neural circuits, which initiates the right signals to activate new genes in new ways. From my experience with patients with life-threatening illnesses,I have learned the truth as shared in You Are the Placebo. The bodyexperiences what the mind believes. I have learned how to deceivepeople into health for their benefit. Doctors can kill or cure with‘wordswordswords’ when they become ‘swordswordswords.’ We allhave the potential for self-induced healing built into us. The keyis to know how to achieve your potential. Read and learn.”

Also: I don't agree with him that "I have to work hard to succeed" is a bad belief. It's a true belief. He himself works hard with his workshops to help people. I think what he's trying to say is "life is hard" is a bad belief. We need to emotionally embrace an outcome and think about it enough times to where it beings to signal new genes in new ways BEFORE we have evidence of it ever happening. When we do this, our bodies are no longer a memory of the past but rather a MAP to our future that makes that even occur. If you bring up the emotion of gratitude before the actual event, your body (as the unconscious mind) will begin to believe that the future event has indeed already happened—or is happening to you in the present moment. Gratitude, therefore, is the ultimate state of receivership.”

Now, when a new day dawns for us after the long night of darkness and the phoenix rises regenerated from its ashes, we have invented a new self. And the physical, biological expression of the new self is literally becoming someone else. That’s true metamorphosis.” In one trial, researchers told patients they were injecting them with a powerful Parkinson’s drug called apomorphine, but instead injected them with saline. Brain scans showed that the saline injections had effects that were indistinguishable from the real drug. Theta State: Where meditation begins. This is the point where the verbal/thinking mind transitions to the meditative/visual mind. We begin to move from the planning mind to a deeper state of awareness (often felt as drowsy), with stronger intuition, more capacity for wholeness and complicated problem solving. The Theta state is associated with visualization. If you’re not experienced Dispenza recommends you do the first part for a week, then one and two for a second week, and then all together in the third week. There are some good things in here, but the book just violated too many of my red flags. It is based on lots of anecdotes, many of which didn't seem all that 'amazing' to me. The 'explain science in lay terms' chapters often started off OK, but then made huge leaps between the actual science and the author's idea for what the science meant. His descriptions of quantum physics, epigenetics and atomic structure seem just way off.