We’ve all heard of the placebo effect. That’s when your brain convinces your body that the fake treatment is the real deal, like a sugar pill for example. Many people have seemingly improved their health without medications, surgeries or therapy, so there must be some element of mind involved. When these people accepted, believed and surrendered without any analysis, they began to program their subconscious mind and body through its own pharmacy of chemicals — producing the same response as if they had taken the drug, or had the surgery, or had some form of therapy. This proves that we can change our health by thought alone.
The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo, 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.
