In this episode we talk about how to use the placebo effect to change the parts of ourselves that we don't like or that don't serve us. Topics include:

• An overview of the placebo effect and how it manifests belief into reality.
• We discuss how you can, indeed, use the placebo effect to change yourself.
• We talk about the default mode network (DMN) of you brain and how it creates your personality and your reality. And then we talk about just how it is possible to change this. And I reference 2 books to illustrate this and they are: You Are The Placebo, by Dr. Joe Dispenza and How To Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan. Both books are excellent and I highly recommend them. *Just a quick note: I incorrectly called this book A Whole New Mind in the episode. My apologies.
• Then I introduce the concepts of neurorigidity and neuroplasticity, which are critical in understanding how to use the placebo effect to change your life. 
• We talk about our self-talk and how to change our story that we tell ourselves about who we are. And then we talk about mental rehearsal and visualization. 
• That leads us into our final two tactics to effect lasting change and they are gratitude and binaural beats.
• We attach gratitude with our new story because gratitude is a powerful emotion and it can convince your sub-conscious that what you want has already been achieved.
• And then we use binaural beats to put us into a theta brainwave state, which can bypass the analytical part of our brain and send the new story right into the sub-conscious.
• And in this week's Call-to-Action we follow all these steps to change something about ourselves that we don't like or that doesn't serve us. 
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