You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
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| More Miracles When Joann arrived back home three days later, unbeknownst to her, the miraculous continued to unfold. While doing yoga, a practice she’d begun physically—not just mentally—after attending the second workshop, she noticed that she could lift one foot off the ground. She tried to lift the other—success! She then noticed that she could flex her feet for the first time in years. And she could wiggle her toes, which she hadn’t done in along time. She was stunned and in absolute awe as tears of joy flowed from her eyes. She knew in that instant that anything was possible, not because of some external medication or procedure, but because of the internal changes she’d made. Joann knew she could be her own placebo. Within a very short time, Joann taught herself how to walk again. Two years later, she is still walking unassisted and is more playful and full of life. Her body strength has improved, and she’s now able to do many things that she thought she’d never again be able to do. Most important, she feels alive and filled with boundless joy. Joann feels whole, and because she can now receive, she continues to receive healing. Joann recently told me, My life is magical, full of incredible synergies, abundance, and unexpected gifts of every sort. It bubbles, sparkles, and tingles with anew and lighter reflection of myself. It’s the new me— actually, the real me that I’d tried to keep under control and hidden for most of my life!” Joann now lives most of her day ingratitude. She still takes the time to be aware of her thoughts and feelings that is, she cultivates her state of being everyday, paying attention to what she tells herself and what she thinks about others, too. In her meditations, she observes herself and becomes familiar with how she acts. Very rarely does a thought get past her conscious mind that she doesn’t want to experience. Joann’s current neurologist supports her choices and has been astounded by what she has seen. Her physician has had to acknowledge the power of the mind, which Joann demonstrated right before her eyes with medical reports and blood tests that show no signs of MS. 219 Laurie, Candace, and Joann accomplished their dramatic remissions using no resources outside of themselves. They changed their health from the inside out—without the use of medication, surgery, therapy, or anything other than their own minds. They became their own placebos. Now, let’s take a scientific look into the brains of some other people from my workshops who were able to make similar dramatic changes so that we can see exactly what was going on in the process of these remarkable transformations. 220 Chapter Ten Information to Transformation Proof That You Are the Placebo This book is about making your mind matter. You now understand that the placebo works because a person accepts and believes in a known remedy—a fake pill, injection, or procedure substituted for its real counterpart—and then surrenders to the outcome without overanalyzing how it’s going to happen. We could say that a person associates her future experience of a particular known person (say, a doctor) or thing (a medication or procedure) at a specific time and place in her external environment with a change in her internal environment—and in doing so, she alters her state of being. After a few consistent experiences, the person will expect her future to be exactly like her past. Once that link is in place, the process becomes highly effective. It’s about a known stimulus automatically producing a known response. The bottom line is this In the classic placebo effect, our belief lies in something outside of us. We give our power away to the material world, where our senses define reality. But can the placebo work by creating from the immaterial world of thought and making that unknown possibility anew reality That would be a more prudent use of the quantum model. The three workshop participants you read about in the last chapter accomplished this feat. They all chose to believe in themselves more than they believed in anything else. They changed from the inside and moved into the same state of being as someone who’d taken a placebo—without any material thing causing the phenomenon. That’s what many students continue to do to get better. Once they know how the placebo really works, the pill, injection, or procedure can betaken away, and the same outcome unfolds. Because of the research in these workshops, as well as the constant testimonials I’ve received from people around the world, I now know that Download 5.46 Mb. Share with your friends:
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