What if your beliefs could impact your healing just as much as medicine? 🤯 In this episode, we dive deep into the Placebo Effect (healing through belief) and the Nocebo Effect (getting worse due to negative expectations).

🔬 Key Topics Covered:

✅ The fascinating science behind the Placebo Effect—where sugar pills, fake surgeries, and even sham treatments create real healing results! 🏥💊

✅ How the Nocebo Effect can sabotage your health by accepting limiting beliefs and fear-based narratives 🚫😨

✅ Why it's crucial to be discerning about the information we accept as truth and how other people’s stories may be shaping our own healing journey 📖💭

✅ Mind-blowing studies on placebo surgeries and medications that had the same results as actual medical interventions 🤯🔍

✅ How to harness the power of your Unconscious Mind to rewire your health story and take control of your healing journey 🔄💡

🎙 Takeaways:

✨ Your beliefs shape your biology—be mindful of the stories you accept 🧠💖

✨ Fear-based diagnoses can create self-fulfilling health issues if we aren’t careful ⚠️🚷

✨ The mind is a powerful tool for self-healing and transformation 🌿💪

✨ Choose empowering thoughts and create your own health narrative instead of inheriting limiting ones ✍️💭

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Episode Summary:

Purpose

To discuss the placebo and nocebo effects, their impact on health, and how to take control of one's healing journey.

Key Takeaways

• Placebo effect demonstrates mind's power to heal; nocebo effect shows negative beliefs can manifest physically
• 75% of improvements in antidepressant trials attributed to placebo effect (Harvard study)
• Only 5-10% of disease is genetic; 90-95% influenced by environmental factors (epigenetics)
• Creating a positive, empowering healing narrative is crucial for recovery and overall health

Topics

The Placebo Effect and Mind's Healing Power

• Placebo effect: belief in treatment efficacy can lead to real improvements
• Harvard study: 75% of antidepressant improvements attributed to placebo
• Placebo surgeries showed similar improvements to actual surgeries (2002 knee osteoarthritis study)
• Brain releases endorphins, dopamine, and healing chemicals in response to placebos

The Nocebo Effect and Inherited Health Stories

• Negative beliefs about health can manifest physically (e.g., six months to live diagnosis)
• Patients told about potential side effects often develop symptoms, even with sugar pills
• Genetic predisposition myths (e.g., breast cancer) can create harmful nocebo effects
• Only 5-10% of diseases are genetic; 90-95% influenced by environmental factors

Creating Your Own Healing Story

• Be discerning about health information and diagnoses
• Use empowering language (e.g., "I'm healing" instead of "I'm sick")
• Visualize desired health outcomes (athlete visualization technique)
• Seek practitioners who encourage optimism and empowerment
• Share positive healing stories to inspire others

The Power of Mindset in Healing

• Unconscious mind doesn't distinguish between imagination and reality
• Visualization can create biochemical reactions in the body
• Maintaining focus and commitment to healing is crucial
• Hope supports taking action towards health goals

Next Steps

• Practice using empowering language and visualization techniques for healing
• Seek out positive influences and supportive networks in health journey
• Consider exploring timeline therapy to release limiting decisions and fears
• Share personal healing stories to inspire and empower others
• Subscribe to the "Don't Wait for Your Wake Up Call" podcast for more health insights

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own. 

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more!  She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

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