Welcome to Heal Yourself, Change Your Life. My name is Brandy Gillmore. And after recovering from my own life-changing injury, it’s become my mission to share with others the same discoveries I made that changed my health and my entire life. Our minds are truly incredible. The placebo is proof of this.
Each week, I will take this simple awareness to a whole new level. I will even coach live callers to free themselves of physical pain using only their mind. And then I’ll provide you with a combination of practical and spiritual insights that you can use to master your mind, your emotions, and your energy to help you heal your health, yourself, and your life.
Let’s begin.
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Quick IQ Episode where we talk about insights and questions. And today, I want to share with you two particular insights—and really, they’re ultimately questions also—things that are blowing people’s minds, or questions that I’m getting, or topics that just keep coming up.
There’s a buzz of conversation and specific topics around me currently, so I wanted to bring two of those up today. One has to do with research and understanding the science behind mind-body healing and just how mind-expanding it can be. That will be our first topic.
The second topic has to do with mind programming—and this is a question I get all of the time. It’s something that comes up constantly, so you may have even heard me speak on it before. The question is this:
When Gratitude Helps—and When It Backfires
People often ask about starting with gratitude for healing. Sometimes that can be wonderful, but other times—it can actually backfire.
What I always tell people is this: if you’re going to bring in gratitude, make sure to also bring in feelings of confidence at the same time. And that’s actually what I did in my TEDx Talk. If you’ve seen it, at the end, I have people bring in gratitude but also confidence and a feeling of being good about themselves.
Why did I do that? Because a lot of times, what can happen is this: A person may start to focus on feeling grateful—because they’re “supposed” to—and yet, deep down, they’re struggling. That was me during my injury. I was trying to bring in gratitude… but let’s be honest, my life was a mess, and I wasn’t great at it. Many times, I even felt guilty for not feeling grateful enough.
There I was, in fear and pain, trying to force gratitude. And when you’re in that much fear, it’s not easy to do.
How Gratitude Can Trigger Guilt or Undeserving Feelings
Another thing that can happen is that a person may work on bringing in feelings of gratitude and yet, deep down, feel guilty or undeserving—even for something that happened 20 years ago. So what happens? The feeling of gratitude feels good for a moment but can also trigger feelings of guilt or undeserving.
I’ve also seen people feel guilty for having more than others. So when they focus on gratitude, they start comparing themselves to people who have less—and that comparison can actually make them feel worse. They feel guilty for being grateful.
So my point is this: if you do bring in gratitude—which is wonderful in theory—make sure it’s not a superficial layer or a “band-aid” emotion. Gratitude only truly works when it’s part of a radical emotional change.
Yes, we want to be grateful. Absolutely. But we also need to feel deserving. We also need to let go of guilt. That’s how we create true transformation—because radical healing requires radical emotional change.
Demonstrating Mind-Body Healing with Medical Evidence
This creates a perfect segue to the second topic I want to share with you. People are often shocked at how fast I can show results under medical equipment—specifically, medical thermography.
The reason I love demonstrating this is so people can actually see the results of the mind-body connection in real time. For instance, if I took a thermal imaging scan of someone in pain today and then another scan a month later showing their pain is gone, someone might still say, “Well, maybe it was the new pillow, or the workout, or something else.”
But when we see results change instantly—as someone uses their mind to release pain—it becomes undeniable. It shows that it’s not just belief or coincidence; it’s their emotions driving the change.
What Is Medical Thermography?
If you’re not familiar with medical thermography, it’s a type of imaging that detects heat coming from the body—heat caused by pain or illness. Think of it like this: when you have a sprained ankle or infection, that area often feels hot. Thermography detects that heat and displays it as color.
For example, if someone has neck pain, you might see a large red area over the neck on the scan. Then, I’ll guide them to use their mind to release the pain—and as they do, you can literally see the scan change color from red to green. The pain disappears, and the scan confirms it.
And if I guide them back into the negative emotional state, the pain—and the red area—returns. This shows, in real time, that the emotions themselves are driving the physiological change.
This is why I love thermography. It proves that healing isn’t “just belief” or placebo—it’s emotional energy creating measurable, physical results.
The Research That Changed Everything: Multiple Personality Disorder
People often ask me, “How did you figure all this out? How did you discover this connection?” And I would say that one of the biggest influences on my work came from my research into Multiple Personality Disorder—also now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
During my years of studying medical journals, I kept running into marketing hype around the mind—different meditation techniques, supplements, diets, and mindset programs. I’d try them, invest time and money into them, and yet… they didn’t work. I realized I needed to go deeper. I needed to truly understand the mind—what was missing, what we were overlooking.
Just like understanding how to use a computer: if you really know how it works, you can use it effectively. If you only half understand it, it’s frustrating. So, I began researching medical journals—looking for anomalies, patterns, and unexplained phenomena. And that’s when I came across the studies on Multiple Personality Disorder.
Medical Findings that Defied Logic
One particular medical case study was about a woman who had around 14 or 15 different personalities. What fascinated me was that some of these personalities had completely different physical ailments—documented, measurable differences.
For example, one personality experienced severe headaches, another had chronic back pain, and yet another suffered from asthma. Meanwhile, other personalities had no symptoms at all. They were happy, playful, healthy. The same physical body—but completely different health conditions—depending on which personality was in control.
This was groundbreaking to me. We’ve all heard for years that stress affects the physical body—it’s even written in the Bible: “A merry heart is a medicine to the body, ill thoughts will dry the bones.” It’s also the foundation of psychoneuroimmunology—the study of how thoughts and emotions affect the immune system.
But this went beyond stress. It showed that specific emotional patterns—the unique combination of subconscious emotions—could create or release physical symptoms.
The Power of Subconscious Emotional Patterns
This understanding became pivotal to my work. If you’ve heard me speak before, you’ve probably heard me say it again and again: the specific combination of emotions is key. That’s what we must identify and shift.
You can even see this in everyday life. People with chronic conditions often have “good days” and “bad days.” Why? If an illness were purely physical, it would be consistent. Yet, symptoms often fluctuate. The variable is emotional state.
Sometimes, without realizing it, our own actions can also trigger emotions. For instance, in Episode 230 of the podcast, I worked with a volunteer named Victoria. She mentioned that her pain had been down and that she’d been doing more—taking on more in life. Now, for someone who feels guilt or undeserving, doing more isn’t just physical. It can subconsciously trigger guilt or fear—feelings like, “I don’t deserve this,” or “It’s not safe to live fully.”
These emotional triggers can cause symptoms to return—even when the person is physically improving. That’s how powerful our emotions are.
Real-Life Example: Ups and Downs During My Healing
I experienced this myself during my injury. I had times when I felt I was improving, and other times when I could barely get out of bed. There were days when even breathing hurt. Then, there were days when I made progress—like when I was learning to walk again with my physical therapist, Livnot.
She was such a blessing. She believed in me when I had lost hope. She would come to my house—even on her days off—to tape my body with kinesio tape from neck to feet, just trying to help ease the pain. She was the one person who truly didn’t give up on me.
One day, she told me that if I wanted to walk correctly again, I needed to wear shoes with backs. I had been wearing slip-on shoes because I couldn’t reach my feet. So, during one session, she literally traded shoes with me—she put my slip-ons on, and I wore her shoes with backs. It was such a sweet moment of support.
But here’s the funny part: I went home and realized… I couldn’t take them off! I couldn’t reach my feet, and no one was home to help. So yes, I slept in her shoes that night! At the time, I wasn’t laughing, but later—we both laughed so hard about it. It’s one of those memories that reminds me: healing isn’t linear. There are ups and downs, setbacks and victories.
Understanding Emotional Triggers and Healing Fluctuations
These ups and downs reveal something important: our minds are constantly influencing our bodies, even when we don’t realize it. If illness were purely physical, symptoms would remain the same day to day. But we know they don’t—they fluctuate with stress, emotions, and beliefs.
That means true mind-body healing requires going beyond basic stress management. It’s not enough to simply “manage emotions.” We must learn to eradicate the emotional patterns that create illness at the subconscious level.
That’s what I do in my work with volunteers on these episodes. It may look easy when I help someone release their pain live—but what I’m actually doing is guiding them to make a radical subconscious shift. And after that, they must continue integrating it into daily life to sustain their results.
Because real healing doesn’t happen through a moment of hope—it happens through a total reprogramming of emotions, perceptions, and beliefs.
The Depth of the Subconscious Mind
There’s a depth to this work that many people overlook. Even something as simple as perception can completely shape emotional patterns. For example, one person may see the world as friendly and kind, while another may see it as unsafe and threatening. Both live in the same world—but their experiences, and even their physical health, can differ dramatically because of their emotional programming.
I recently spoke with someone who said that in one country, they felt completely safe—like they could walk down the street with a million dollars in their pocket. But in another country, they wouldn’t even feel safe walking with fifty dollars. Now, that was their perception. I didn’t share that same fear, but that’s exactly my point: our perceptions create our emotions, and our emotions shape our health.
Often, people don’t even realize their perceptions are learned emotional programs. They’ll say things like, “But everyone thinks this way.” But no—everyone doesn’t. These beliefs are personal, subconscious patterns that can either support or block healing.
