If You're Curious About These Questions...
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- Did you know that your brain has the power to manufacture its own internal pharmacy of painkillers and treatments based solely on what you expect to happen?
- Have you ever wondered why some people experience 'miraculous' recoveries or why your own memories can be surprisingly easy to manipulate?
- What if you could harness the science of suggestibility to trick your body into healing faster and managing pain more effectively?
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Key Takeaways from Suggestible You
- Discover how your brain prioritizes expectations over reality, using the power of suggestion to alter how you experience pain, form memories, and heal.
- Understand why inert placebos can yield miraculous healing results when paired with deeply resonant personal narratives that shift your mindset.
- Learn how suggestion triggers your brain's internal pharmacy to release natural, pain-killing chemicals like endorphins, dopamine, and serotonin.
- Find out why specific genetic traits make some individuals highly responsive to placebos, opening the door for personalized therapies and better drug trials.
- Harness the knowledge of your mind's suggestibility to combat conditions like chronic pain, anxiety, and depression using your body's built-in resources.
Suggestible You — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Placebos operate by tapping into the power of suggestion.
Chapter 3: Your body has its own chemical arsenal that can boost the placebo effects.
Chapter 4: Scientists are still striving to uncover the true secrets of why placebos aid some people but not others at all.
Chapter 5: That same suggestibility which lets us benefit from placebos also carries a dark side: the nocebo too.
Chapter 6: Hypnosis offers a potent example of human suggestibility.
Chapter 7: The phenomenon of false memories reveals just how vulnerable memory is to suggestion.
Chapter 8: Suggestibility shapes how we make our choices in everyday life.
Chapter 9: You can harness the power of expectation to better your life.
Suggestible You Summary & Overview
Suggestible You (2016) shows the amazing ways our expectations affect our body’s responses to illness, pain and memory. It explores how the power of human suggestibility changes the processes that happen in our bodies and minds. And it describes how humans can – and already do – harness this ability to improve lives, whether in medicine or in everyday life.
Who Should Listen to Suggestible You?
- Everyone interested in how the human mind works
- People who don’t believe in miraculous cures but are curious about the science behind them
- Anyone who’s ever wondered about the body’s ability to heal itself
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