You Are the Placebo

clear intention (a coherent brain) and an elevated emotion (a coherent heart) to begin to change a person’s biology from living in the past to living in the future.

You know how easy it is to think a fearful or anxious thought about a future event that hasn’t happened—and in your mind emotionally embrace this fictional outcome over and over? And you know how the more energy you feed the thought, the more you ruminate over other possible outcomes, and eventually those thoughts deliver you to a worst-case scenar

The latest research supports the notion that we have a natural ability to change the brain and body by thought alone, so that it looks biologically like some future event has already happened. Because you can make thought more real than anything else, you can change who you are from brain cell to gene, given the right understanding.

But remember, you can’t muscle this. You can’t just will it or force it to happen. You can’t do it by trying, you can’t do it by hoping, and you can’t do it by wishing, because you can’t do it with your conscious mind. You have to get into your subconscious mind, because that’s where the operating system is—the autonomic nervous system that functio