You are the Placebo – book review

You know that a book has made an impact when you keep thinking about it days and days after reading that last line. You realize your thinking has been challenged, rearranged and enriched. This is how I feel about Joe Dispenza’s book, You are the Placebo. Just as the name implies, I can’t disregard the science behind the power of thought. I realize more and more that what I believe, expect, anticipate and imagine allows me to feel the emotion of an experience before it manifests into my present reality.

If you have a desire to read about the way science is catching up to understand the beautiful power within, you must read this book. I highly recommend it.

Here are a few quotes:

“Stress is one of the biggest causes of epigenetic change, because it knocks your body out of balance. It comes in three forms: physical stress (trauma), chemical stress (toxins), and emotional stress (fear, worry, being overwhelmed, and so on). Each type can set off more than 1,400 chemical reactions and produce more than 30 hormones and neurotransmitters. When that chemical cascade of stress hormones is triggered, your mind influences your body through the autonomic nervous system and you experience the ultimate”

“Just as thoughts are the language of the brain, feelings are the language of the body. And how you think and how you feel create a state of being. A state of being is when your mind and body are working together. So your present state of being is your genuine mind-body connection.”

“We can’t create a new future while we’re living in our past. It’s simply impossible.”

“You must feel a new energy . . . to become some thing greater than your body, your environment, and time . . . so that you have dominion over your body, your environment, and time. . . . Become a thought that affects matter. . . .”

“Your thoughts and feelings come from your past memories. If you think and feel a certain way, you begin to create an attitude. An attitude is a cycle of short-term thoughts and feelings experienced over and over again. Attitudes are shortened states of being. If you string a series of attitudes together, you create a belief. Beliefs are more elongated states of being and tend to become subconscious. When you add beliefs together, you create a perception. Your perceptions have everything to do with the choices you make, the behaviors you exhibit, the relationships you chose, and the realities you create.”