Joe Dispenza: Healing and the Placebo effect
OMTimes: How did you become so fascinated with the subject of self-healing and the effect of the placebo?
Joe Dispenza: For me it all started when I got run over by a truck in a triathlon. I had broken 6 vertebrae in my spine and I had to weigh what I thought I knew at the time, against the new paradigm. I was willing to take a risk to see if I could actually change my body by thought alone and that started me on the journey.
I have seen people doing so many amazing things at this point in my life. I have seen people heal themselves of pretty serious cancers, I have seen them heal themselves of pretty serious immune-mediated conditions – from MS to lupus to organic thyroid conditions and so I’m at the point in my life where I’m not interested in trying to convince people that it’s possible. If I can inspire people who actually believe it’s possible for them, then they may accept, believe and surrender to the idea that they can be better by just using the resources within them.
I think in order for us to wake up we sometimes need a wake-up call and in 1986, that was my call. I never stopped thinking about it and I never stopped examining how we can present people, by using science as the contemporary language of mysticism, the necessary understanding about themselves to begin to apply this to their lives.
If a person comes to a lecture and they’re in a certain state of mind and they’re inspired by the time they leave and I have changed their state of being, they’re more prone to accept the thoughts equal to how they feel – their level of suggestibility goes up if their emotional state goes up and if they’re unhappy, unworthy and insecure, those thoughts usually bounce off those people because they accept the thoughts that are unequal to how they feel. I go to great measures to create a sense of inspiration for people because they will see a whole new landscape about their lives that they might not have seen before.
