The speaker, Dr. Joe Dispenza, discusses the concept of the placebo effect and the nocebo effect in health and wellness. The placebo effect is when a patient's healing is attributed to the medication they took, even if the medication was ineffective. In contrast, the nocebo effect is when stressful thoughts can induce illness.
Dr. Dispenza explains that stress, whether physical, chemical, or emotional, can disrupt the balance of the brain and body, leading to disease. The body's response to stress, known as the fight-or-flight response, can lead to long-term effects on the brain and body.
However, Dr. Dispenza suggests that it is possible to shift from a state of survival, where the body is constantly mobilizing resources to deal with perceived threats, to a state of creation. In this state, the body is able to repair and regenerate, leading to health and wellness.
Dr. Dispenza shares a research study where participants' immune system function (measured by cortisol and IGA levels) improved after four days of training to trade survival emotions like anger and fear for elevated emotions like gratitude and love.
The speaker emphasizes that our thoughts can impact our health, with the long-term effects of stress hormones pushing the genetic buttons that create disease. Dr. Dispenza concludes by encouraging listeners to shift their focus towards creating a healthier reality by embracing elevated emotions and broadening their perspective.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The text is a transcript of an episode from the original Gaia series Rewired by Dr. Joe Dispenza.
2. The episode explains the difference between living in survival and living in creation, and how stress affects our brain, body and immune system.
3. The episode also shows how we can change our brain waves, emotions and attitudes to create coherence and heal ourselves.
4. The episode cites a research study where 117 people increased their immune system by 50 percent and lowered their stress hormone by 16.25 percent by feeling elevated emotions for 10 minutes a day.
5. The episode shares a case of a person who healed herself from a thyroid condition and double vision by overcoming the stress hormones and creating coherence in her brain and heart.
6. The episode defines stress as when the brain and body are knocked out of homeostasis, and the stress response as what the body does to return itself back to order.
7. The episode identifies three types of stress: physical, chemical and emotional, and three things that we focus on when we are under stress: our body, our environment and time.
8. The episode describes how the hormones of stress create incoherence in the brain and heart, narrow our focus, make us crave the known, and push the genetic buttons that create disease.
9. The episode describes how living in creation involves expanding our energy, feeling elevated emotions, being less selfish and more selfless, opening our focus, feeling connected to something greater, imagining and dreaming of a reality beyond our senses, and craving the unknown.
10. The episode invites us to explore the different brain wave states and what we can do to use our mind to consciously change them in the next episode.
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