Dispenza repeats “neurons that fire together wire together”, which is a well-known neuro-phenomenon, but his interpretation of quantum mechanics to self-healing seemed much less scientific to me. Many people would snub it as a voovoo hippie book, I don't think it is anything like that. Do give it a read it's bound to surprise you in many ways, if only you keep an open mind. Further more I really missed the other side of the coin... what about all the people who don't gain the health benefits from placebos (be it through placebos in the form of a pill or placebo through your own thoughts). What about all the people with the best hopes and intentions who still stay ill or die? The writer ignores this group and merely writes them off as not believing in the right things. I could go on longer, but I think this review gives you a good idea of my opinion of the book. You do this my waking up every morning and reminding yourself of who you want to be and who you no longer want to be to create an entirely new YOU! I would give it 5 stars for the positive change it can make in people’s lives. But I can’t give it more than three because big claims require big proofs and I haven’t seen many of those.

Where you place your attention is where you place your energy. Once you fix your attention or your awareness or your mind on possibility, you place your energy there as well. As a result, you’re affecting matter with your attention or observation. The placebo effect is not fantasy, then; it’s quantum reality. Energy”Joe Dispenza says that if you can envision a future with full conviction, you can change the expression of your genes, reorganize your cells and change and heal yourself. He is one of the very few people that has actually lived through what he is teaching. You will NOT undestand This book if you do not approach it with a totally open mind And a real want to change your life and your overall consciousness. I do want to mention though that there does exist scientific literature for the effect of positive thinking and presenting with a higher quality of life or more healthily. This is an important concept and is the reason that I think a lot of people have benefited from reading this book. Much of the book, and especially the beginning, is about crazy stories of placebo effects, both positive and negative effects.

if you can experience a healing over and over again in the inner world of thoughts and feelings, then in time, that healing should finally manifest as an outer experience. And if you make a thought as real as the experience in the external environment, shouldn’t there be evidence in your body and brain sooner or later? In other words, if you mentally rehearse that unknown future with a clear intention and an elevated emotion, and do it repeatedly, then based on what you’ve learned, you should have real neuroplastic changes in your brain and epigenetic changes in your body.” Similar to his first book I read, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dispenza is vulnerable in telling his own story, sharing his doubts and struggles along the way. Dispenza gives accounts of others, too, who healed themselves with positive mental attitude shifts. Is his approach mere pie in the sky optimism? Not a chance, says Dispenza. “None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may presently have,” he writes. “Instead of being about rejecting reality, You Are the Placebo is about projecting what’s possible when you step into a new reality.” Reading Dizpenza’s stories opened my eyes to the power of the mind in healing the body. Stories are great and they were all impressive. However, stories are also misleading -read “ How to Lie With Statistics“-. This is what creates change within our bodies. Our beliefs about what is possible, and truly believing it and thinking about it enough, that your brain literal looks like it even thou it has not already occurred. It is incredibly important to bring emotion to our thoughts. The most powerful emotion in the human body is gratitude. Having gratitude for your perceived future now and be grateful for what you want to happen NOW creates powerful changes in the brain and body.

Vjerujem da je način pripovijedanja prilagođen da bi ga svi razumjeli, no i dalje bih rekla da su dijelovi knjige "teški" pošto je znanstveni dio vrlo prisutan. Podatci koji su izneseni kao dokaz mogli su biti puno jednostavniji, jer sigurna sam da oni koji uzmu ovu knjigu, vjeruju doktoru na riječ. Dr. Joe Despenza talks about the new science of epigenetics. Meaning, we can change our DNA based on our thoughts and environment. Every thought we think is signaling our genes to express in a certain way. Toxic thinking leads to toxic expression and problems in the body- Positive thinking leads to positive gene expression and health. It actually made me angry that the author didn’t record it and/or offer any proof for it: if he is onto something so life-changing it’s his duty to show proof of it so that more people can get that kind of help.