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How is it possible that you
can give someone a sugar pill,

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a saline injection, or
perform some false surgery

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or treatment, and a certain
percentage of those people will

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accept, believe, and surrender
to the thought without

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analyzing it that they're
getting the real substance

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or treatment?

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And they begin to program
their autonomic nervous system

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to produce the exact
pharmacy of chemicals

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equal to the substance that
they think they're taking.

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Is it the inert substance
that's doing the healing,

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or is it the body's
innate capacity to heal?

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I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza,
and in the previous episode,

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we went into depth on the
understanding of epigenetics

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and how you have the ability
to change your gene expression.

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In this episode, we're
going to discover

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the power of suggestibility.

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This will help you understand
that your nervous system can be

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the greatest pharmacist of all.

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What is the placebo?

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The word placebo comes
from the word to please.

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And all throughout antiquity
in ancient folklore,

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there have been numerous
examples for thousands of years

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where people were reporting
significant changes

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in their health, whether
they were associating

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that change with some place,
some symbol, some apparition,

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or some ritual.

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But in some way, there was
an instantaneous change

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in the person's health.

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There was an American
physician during one

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of the wars who was doing
surgery on wounded soldiers,

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and the doctor ran
out of morphine.

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And he had to come up
with a way to continue

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doing the surgeries.

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Instead of using morphine, he
used a simple saline injection.

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And when he gave the
soldiers a saline injection,

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he noticed that he was able
to perform those surgeries

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with very little response
or pain from the subjects

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that he was doing surgery on.

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And this began the
study of placebos.

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Now, in most
scientific studies that

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are being done on
drugs to this day,

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no research experiment
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a double blind or triple
blind placebo study.

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In other words,
every single drug

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has to be measured
against the placebo,

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because in most
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there are changes
in a person's health

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that range between 10% of
the time to 100% of the time

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when they're given a placebo.

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And the subject
doesn't even know

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if they're getting
the real substance

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or they're getting the placebo.

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And in fact, in
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the doctors or the
researchers don't even

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know who's getting
the placebo and who's

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getting the real substance.

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So now most studies
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to be an important
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it affects the person's body.

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So how are placebos effective?

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Well, think about it.

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You have pain, you
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Someone gives you a pill,
and you swallow that pill,

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and within an hour, you start
noticing a change in your pain

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levels.

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So then the next day,
you have pain again.

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You're given that pill.

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You look at the pill.

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You swallow it again.

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You notice that your
pain levels diminish.

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You start noticing a change
in your internal state,

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and you begin to think
about what causes it,

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and you start to associate
the change in your inner state

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with something outside of you.

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Keep doing it again the
next day, doing it again

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the next day, do it
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and then the day
after, give someone

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a pill that looks just
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but there's no drug in it.

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It's just simple
starch or sugar.

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The person takes the
pill, and by association,

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by conditioning, they start
to notice the pain going away.

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So the first element of
the efficacy of placebos

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is based on conditioning.

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And in this current model
of the way we view health,

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so much of health has to do with
taking something outside of you

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to change your
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And in fact, we've
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into believing that's the case.

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So now, certain color pills
work better than other pills.

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If you name a drug that sounds
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or has a name you
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it will work better for
people, because they'll

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give their power to it.

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If you name a drug that
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it will work more effectively
because it'll subconsciously

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begin to cue certain
beliefs and conditions.

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If you charge more
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will work better, even if
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And by the same
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is enthusiastic about
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it will work even better.

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Now, the second element that
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is expectation.

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So the person gets that pill,
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this is a new drug.

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This drug is highly effective.

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Think of that pill as a
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And when they grab that pill and
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before they take it, they
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to begin to believe
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to think about that that could
possibly change their health.

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And all of a sudden, they
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They start looking
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They start believing
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be a change in their health.

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And when they're combining
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with the elevated emotion
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or excitement, or
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they're changing
their state of being.

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And so if conditioning,
then, is based on the past,

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expectation is
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And there's so
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on the power of expectation.

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In fact, the nocebo is when
you're given an inert substance

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and you begin to experience
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but you're not even
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So now, for the person
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and they're given
a placebo, and they

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begin to experience the side
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thinking they're
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and it's producing
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they start feeling bad, wow.

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It must mean then they're
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subconsciously.

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In one study that was done
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ready to go into
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told them that there
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they would get nauseous
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the chemotherapy.

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And 50% of those patients
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over to their first
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Expectation means you
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And when you begin
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your body begins to
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in anticipation of that effect.

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The third thing that
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is what we call
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based on learning information.

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So if the doctor
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this drug is going to enhance
serotonin and the receptor

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sites in your brain, and
they take out a chart

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and they show you
how serotonin is

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what begins to create
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and then, of course,
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they start to assign
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and it increases the efficacy
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So those are the
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begin to change a
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So then that pill represents
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a symbol of possibility.

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And when a person begins
to associate that pill

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with the thought
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they're selecting a new
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They're not even aware
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And if they begin to
combine that clear intention

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with an elevated
emotion, they're

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changing their state of being.

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And when they change
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they're changing the way they
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now, they're moving
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from the past
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the future present reality.

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In depression
studies where there

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is a placebo that's being
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the research shows that
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respond as well to
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do to the drug for depression.

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They've done brain
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before they're given the
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They meet with the doctors.

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They take the pill.

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Now the person doesn't
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getting the real substance or
they're getting the placebo.

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And after a period
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notices that they
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When you look at
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after the end of the study,
you see a significant change

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in the way their
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That means that they are
making their own pharmacy

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of anti-depressants
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The important point that
I want you to remember

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is that every single day
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it was a reminder of moving
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Every day they
took the pill, they

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remembered what the
pill could do for them.

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They start to get optimistic.

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They start to look
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They start to get inspired.

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They start to feel grateful,
combining that clear intention

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with an elevated emotion,
changing their state of being,

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and they do that for
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Now the question is, do
you need the sugar pill,

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the saline injection,
or some false surgery

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to move into a new
state of being?

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Do you need some
external substance

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to convince you to move
into a new state of being,

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or can you move into a new state
of being just by thought alone?

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The answer, of course, is
in the meditative process.

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We teach people how to change
their state of being when they

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get beyond their
analytical mind,

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where they can begin to program
their autonomic nervous system

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to make their own
pharmacy of chemicals.

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Now take a look.

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This is called the
quantitative EEG, or qEEG.

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And what it does is
it measures the amount

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of energy in your brain at
different brainwave states.

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If you see a lot of
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that means there's very
little energy in the brain.

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When you see a lot
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that means there's a lot
of energy in the brain.

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If you see green, green usually
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If you see shades
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you're moving more
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If you see a light blue
and a mid-range blue,

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you're moving closer to
a low amount of energy.

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And then this area right
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represents delta.

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This area right here between 4
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This is alpha here.

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This is low-range beta,
this is mid-range beta,

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and this is high-range beta.

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So we can determine
the amount of energy

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in the brain in different
brainwave states.

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Now, this is our
first case history.

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If you look at the bottom
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you'll see a lot of
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In mid-range beta,
that represents

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a person who has very little
energy in their brain.

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This person had a very
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of depression.

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Four days later, we
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Remember, green is normal.

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You see a significant
change in mid-range beta.

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This is high beta up here.

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See all that blue in the brain?

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Take a look at three days later.

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You see all that green?

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It represents they changed
their brain by thought alone.

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In other words, it's
not just in their mind.

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It's in their brain.

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Here's a second case study.

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Same exact pattern.

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A lot of blue in mid-range beta.

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That represents, again,
another person with depression.

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Take a look at the
post measurement

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on the right-hand side.

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You see all that green?

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That represents normal.

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Now, this is high beta.

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Look at all that
blue in the brain.

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Person has no energy
in their brain.

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Three days later, after
doing meditation twice a day,

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take a look at that change.

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All that green represents they
changed their brain by thought

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alone--

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by moving into a
new state of being.

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They didn't need an
external substance to do it.

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They did it by thought alone.

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Now, there's been
numerous pain studies that

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also have caught my attention--
dental studies where people

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were given a placebo
and were told

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that they were given a very
strong narcotic for pain.

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And almost 50% of the people
that were given the placebo

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had absolutely no pain
during the procedure.

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Now, what they did was
they found a substance that

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would block morphine receptors.

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they injected this substance,

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all of the person's
pain came back,

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which means, then, that person
was making their own pharmacy

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of morphine-- their own
pharmacy of anti-pain chemicals

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by thought alone.

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There's a Parkinson's study
that I found very fascinating.

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Parkinson's disease
is a deficiency

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in dopamine in the brain.

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And when there's not enough
dopamine in the brain,

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the upper motor neurons
can't communicate well

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with each other, and it
causes involuntary tremors

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or spastic paralysis
in the body.

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So in the placebo study,
they told the subjects

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that the placebo was a
very strong drug that

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would heal Parkinson's
disease and their symptoms.

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When they got the substance
administered to them,

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more than 50% of the people
with the Parkinson's disease--

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all of their symptoms went away.

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And one researcher said,
well, if they no longer

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have any tremors, is
it possible, then,

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that their body's making their
own pharmacy of dopamine?

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So now they did
this little study

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where they injected
a radioactive dye

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into their bloodstream that
competes for the receptor

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sites for dopamine.

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Now think about receptor
sites in your brain

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like parking spaces.

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So if the person that
was given the placebo

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was making their own
dopamine, dopamine

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would get into the
parking spaces first,

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and when they injected
this radioactive dye,

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there would be no parking
spaces for the dye.

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So when they imaged
the brain, they

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wouldn't see any radioactive
elements in any of the areas

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where dopamine is absorbed.

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And if they didn't
make their own dopamine

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when they injected
the radioactive dye,

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then dopamine would not
be in the parking spaces

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and the radioactive dye would
get into the parking spaces,

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and we would know then
that they were not

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making their own dopamine.

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What they found was
that these people

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were making 200 times the amount
of dopamine by thought alone.

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Now, there's a
caveat to this story,

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because when those people
returned back into their lives

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and they sat in the same
chair, they played chess

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with their friends, they
saw the same people,

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they went to the same places,
they did the same things,

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all of their
conditions returned.

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And in other words, when they
returned back to their life,

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it was their
external environment

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that was controlling the
way they were feeling

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and the way they were thinking.

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In a sense, they went
back to the old self.

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Now, if the environment
is that strong

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that it influences a person's
feelings and thoughts,

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their state of being to
return back to the old self,

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would it be a good
idea every single day

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to do a meditation to
change your state of being

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to be greater than
your environment?

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And if in the
depression studies,

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it took eight weeks
for many people

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to change their state of
being by thought alone that

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ultimately healed
their depression,

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do you think it would be a good
idea for you, every single day,

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to change your state of being
for eight weeks before you

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start seeing changes?

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And it's important
to understand this,

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because some people do
it once or do it twice,

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and they expect the
change to take place

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in just one or two attempts.

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And why does that not work?

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Because either the
person's getting up

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after their meditation
feeling the same way

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they did as they started--

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and if you get up from
your meditation feeling

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the same way, then in a
sense nothing happened

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neurologically, nothing happened
neurochemically, nothing

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happened hormonally, nothing
happened genetically,

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nothing happened energetically.

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You're still the same person.

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The second thing is
is that some people

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move into a new state of being.

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They feel great, and then
they open their eyes,

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and they get back
into their life,

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and they return back to
their old self again.

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That's like eating a great
breakfast-- organic meal--

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and then spending the rest
of your day eating junk food.

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So the importance behind
placebo is that it

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may take a few attempts.

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It may take some time--

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every single day changing
your state of being

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to be greater than
your environment.

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It may take you a little
time to change your biology.

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So how can you then move
into a new state of being

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and change your body
by thought alone?

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Well, think about this.

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How is it that the preacher in
the deep south of the United

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States can move into a
state of religious ecstasy

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and drink strychnine or poison
and have no biological effects?

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Or the snake charmer moving
into an altered state of mind,

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gets bit by a poisonous
snake, and never has

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any blood coagulation.

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Or the tribes of
the South Pacific

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move into a state of trance and
walk across a bed of hot coals

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and never burn their feet.

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In each one of these
cases, every individual

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made a decision with
such firm intention

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that the amplitude
of that energy

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caused their body to
respond to a new mind--

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that the choice that
they made in that moment

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changed their biology
in that second.

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And in that instant, they
were immune to the conditions

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in their environment.

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And in a sense,
then, it was energy

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that began to
affect their biology

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and changed their
state of being.

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Now in order for you to
change some health condition

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or condition in
your life, you're

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going to have to make a decision
with such firm intention

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that the energy
from that decision

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is greater than the hardwired
programs in your brain

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and the emotional
conditioning in your body,

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and your body literally has
to respond to a new mind--

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that the choice that
you make in that moment

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becomes a memory
or an experience

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that you never forget.

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And the stronger the
emotion that you feel,

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the more you will pay
attention to the decision.

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And in a sense, then, you
are moving your body out

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of the past into the future.

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Well, how do most people
make a decision to change?

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They're sitting on the couch.

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They have their
computer over here.

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They have their smart
phone over here.

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They have the big
screen TV over here.

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And they say, let me see.

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I think I'll change tomorrow.

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Now, the body's
realizing it's not

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getting any new information.

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So in a sense, it knows
you're not serious.

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It knows that you haven't
changed your state of being.

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And in a sense, nothing's
going to change.

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But think about a
time in your life

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where you painted
yourself into a corner

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and you had no other
choice but to change.

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And you said, this is it.

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I don't care how I feel, body.

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I don't care what's going on in
my life or what people think,

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environment.

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And I don't care how long
it's going to take time.

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I'm going to do this.

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And when you make
that kind of decision,

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and the hair on the back
of your neck stands up,

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that's a new signal that's
making it to the body.

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And in a sense, the
body's literally

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getting new information
and now the body

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is responding to a new mind.

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It's that kind of
energetic signal

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that the body gets that
begins to select and instruct

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new genes.

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And remember, genes
make proteins,

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and proteins are responsible
for the structure

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and the function of your body.

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And the expression
of proteins, then,

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is the expression of life.

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So then in order for you to
literally move your body out

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of the past into
the present, you're

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going to have to
change your energy.

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And I can tell you from
doing this for so many years,

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I now know that nobody changes
until they change their energy.

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And when they change their
energy, they change their life.

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So then how, then,
do we get thought

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to begin to influence our body?

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Really simple.

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You will only accept,
believe, and surrender

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to the thoughts equal
to your emotional state,

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and you will not
accept, believe,

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and surrender to any
thoughts that are not

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equal to your emotional state.

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Here's an example.

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A person gets a diagnosis.

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The diagnosis is cancer.

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The diagnosis is
rheumatoid arthritis.

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The diagnosis is
multiple sclerosis.

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The moment that person
gets the diagnosis--

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the moment they get the news
and how the doctor delivers it--

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you can agree with me they have
some type of internal change.

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They are feeling an
emotion like fear.

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They're feeling
emotion like pain.

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They're feeling an
emotion like suffering.

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And they feel that change
in their internal state.

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They remember that moment
the doctor told them.

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The brain takes a
snapshot, and that

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becomes a long-term memory.

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And now, the person
can say all they want--

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I'm going to beat
this condition--

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but if they're still
living by that emotion,

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and they're saying, I'm
getting stronger every day,

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I'm getting stronger every day,
and the body's feeling fear,

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the body's feeling sadness
or pain, the body's feeling

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discouraged, that thought will
never make it to the body--

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never past the brain stem.

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And they can say that
affirmation over and over

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again.

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So then it makes sense,
then, that if you

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begin to change your
emotional state,

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and instead of
surrendering to fear,

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start surrendering to
love or gratitude--

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and think about the emotional
signature of gratitude.

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Something is happening to you
or you are receiving something.

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So this signature, emotionally,
is the perfect state

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of receiving.

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So if a person is feeling fear,
they cannot accept, believe,

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and surrender to any thought
that's not consistent with

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the feeling of fear.

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It never makes it to their body.

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Change their state
from fear to gratitude

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and have that person
open their heart,

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and in spite of the news, begin
to change their internal state.

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If they're in a
state of gratitude

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and they're in a
state of receiving,

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they will accept,
believe, and surrender

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to the thoughts equal
to that emotional state,

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and they'll begin to program
the autonomic nervous system

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into a whole new destiny.

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Here's an example.

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We had a woman come to one of
our follow-ups for the weekend.

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And she was scheduled
for surgery.

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And she had a car accident.

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And she could never get away
from the debilitating pain.

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00:24:27,340 --> 00:24:34,060
And pain created the emotions of
frustration, of anger, sadness.

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Felt really, really limited and
victimized by her condition.

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And so she scheduled the
surgery for the Thursday

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after the event.

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Now, in this event,
she had to understand

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that she had to trade those
emotions for gratitude.

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And by opening her
heart and really

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feeling gratitude in spite of
her past, in spite of her pain,

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in spite of what would
be potentially happening

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in her future, she literally
got in the present moment

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and opened her heart.

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The moment she started
doing that, she started

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to notice a big
change in the way she

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was processing information.

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In that moment, she felt
a significant change

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00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,010
in the heat running
down her spine.

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And by the time that
meditation was over,

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she had absolutely
no pain in her body.

533
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,040
Now, the way she
came to that event

534
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was she couldn't even
sit up in the chair,

535
00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:32,800
she was having such
extreme spasms.

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00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,710
But by the time she
changed her emotional state

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and moved into a
new state of being,

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00:25:37,970 --> 00:25:40,960
it was the right
formula that began

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00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,020
to program her autonomic
nervous system to begin

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to do the healing for her.

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If you ask her who did the
healing, she'll tell you,

542
00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:50,672
it wasn't me that did it.

543
00:25:50,672 --> 00:25:52,630
It was some intelligence
that's greater than me

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00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:54,220
that did the healing for me.

545
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,210
I just got out of the way.

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00:25:56,210 --> 00:25:58,450
And she moved from
one state of being

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into another state of being.

548
00:26:00,190 --> 00:26:03,860
And just like those placebo
studies, all of a sudden,

549
00:26:03,860 --> 00:26:06,700
the symptoms began to
change and her body

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00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:10,850
began to respond to a new mind.

551
00:26:10,850 --> 00:26:12,820
Now that I've shown
you the placebo effect

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00:26:12,820 --> 00:26:15,850
and how it works, how will
you use this knowledge

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00:26:15,850 --> 00:26:17,470
to change your body?

554
00:26:17,470 --> 00:26:19,180
Is it possible
that your mind can

555
00:26:19,180 --> 00:26:22,510
begin to produce similar
effects in your life

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00:26:22,510 --> 00:26:24,310
as well as your body?

557
00:26:24,310 --> 00:26:26,690
In order for us to
answer that question,

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00:26:26,690 --> 00:26:29,560
we're going to have to learn
about how the mind and how

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00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,200
matter are intimately related.

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In the next episode, we're
going to explore the wacky world

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of quantum physics.

562
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,510
Once you understand that
every thought produces

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00:26:40,510 --> 00:26:44,350
a frequency and that
energy begins the condition

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00:26:44,350 --> 00:26:46,690
in objectifed space.

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Is it possible that you can
create the life of your dreams?

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I'm your host, Dr. Joe
Dispenza for Rewired,

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00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,910
and I hope to see you in
the next episode, where

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we go beyond the ordinary
into the extraordinary.

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