You might be familiar with the placebo effect, which is the opposite of the nocebo effect.

The nocebo effect is how negative expectations about how medical encounters can produce negative outcomes.

And, as we’ve talked about before, your brain is a prediction machine. That’s literally its job!

So what does this actually look like in everyday life, how can it impact vestibular disorders, and the role mindset plays in the impact of the nocebo effect.

In this episode, we’ll dig into:

When your brain is told something, it will believe it.

As humans, we’re designed to find the negatives. And we know that about ourselves, so we need to then intentionally decide that we’re going to shift the way we think about things.

Though it’s not always our first instinct, it’s absolutely doable!

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Learn about the Oak Method: https://thevertigodoctor.com/why-vestibular-group-fit

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