Dr Maks's Key Ideas from You Are the Placebo
by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Most people live by memorized habits. Their body becomes the subconscious mind—predictable, emotional, and reactive. To break free, you must become conscious of your unconscious self.

“To change is to think greater than your environment.” 

→ Start observing your habits, emotional reactions, and triggers. Only then can you rewrite the script.

Your body reacts as if your thoughts are facts. If you think stressful thoughts, your body releases stress hormones—even if there's no real danger. This loop wires the body to expect more stress.  

“Your body doesn’t know the difference between an experience and the emotion you create by thought alone.” 

→ Meditation, breathwork, and emotional awareness help you interrupt this cycle.

Meditation helps you disconnect from your habitual identity and enter the subconscious. This is where real change happens—beyond the analytical mind.  

“When you change your energy, you change your life.”  

→ Practice tuning into a new version of yourself daily: calm, grateful, empowered.

When you vividly imagine a future, your brain begins wiring it as if it already happened. Athletes, performers, and healers use mental rehearsal to create real-life outcomes.

“Your brain doesn’t know the difference between the real and the vividly imagined.”

→ Spend time daily visualizing who you want to be, how you want to feel, and the life you wish to live.

The brain often lives in the past or future. True transformation happens only when you're fully present.  

“The present moment is the only time you can change your body, your mind, and your life.”  

→ Practice mindfulness. Detach from regrets or worries. All power lies in now.

Your personality—how you think, act, and feel—shapes your external life. To change your reality, shift your personality.

“If you want a new reality, you have to become someone else.”

→ Reflect: What traits no longer serve you? Replace them with empowering behaviors and beliefs.

We often replay emotional experiences, reinforcing past pain. But by doing this, we signal the body to stay in the past.

“You can signal new genes in new ways by embracing elevated emotions.”

→ Use joy, gratitude, love, and inspiration to reprogram your cells.

Gratitude isn’t just a reaction—it’s a creative force. When you feel thankful for a future not yet realized, you align with its possibility.

“Gratitude is the ultimate state of receivership.”

→ Visualize your goal as already achieved, then feel deep gratitude as if it’s already yours.

Countless cases show people healing from chronic illness after changing thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. The mind can be medicine.

→ You are not doomed by genetics or diagnosis. 

“Once you change your internal state, you’ll see evidence in your external life.”

Every thought emits a signal. Like a radio, you must tune in to a frequency that matches your desired outcome.

→ You attract what you broadcast.

“Energy flows where attention goes.”

When your heart and brain are in sync (coherence), your body becomes highly receptive to healing and transformation.

Most blocks are beliefs you never chose. Question every limiting thought.

→ Ask: “Is this belief true—or inherited, conditioned, or outdated?” 

“The placebo effect is the proof that belief is powerful.”

Don’t wait to become your ideal self. Embody that version today—in emotions, habits, and thoughts.

→ Act, think, feel as if the future is here. 

“Your new personality creates your new personal reality.”