IQ-156: To Achieve Healing, Correcting ‘Miswired’ Mind Programming is Key

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, we have a really great question from a listener regarding the topic of miswired mind programming.

His email reads: “I recently saw you in an interview, and the scientific foundations of your healing approach deeply resonated with me. They’re incredibly logical. You also mentioned the issue of miswired mind programming, which piqued my curiosity. Could you provide more insights into this concept and how it might affect my health?”

Understanding Miswired Mind Programming

First and foremost, I just love this question—and this awareness—because so often, when people are working on mind-body healing, they think it’s all about believing they’re already healed, using affirmations, visualization, or positive thinking. And while all of those can be helpful, the truth is that there are typically things happening deeper in the subconscious mind that must be addressed for the body to truly heal.

Miswired mind programming is one of those crucial factors. In my work, I’ve found that for every person who heals from chronic illness, addressing this subconscious wiring is key.

What Is Miswired Mind Programming?

A simple explanation is this: it’s when some type of negative emotion, belief, or behavior becomes linked to a positive emotional experience. In other words, the mind wires things together in the wrong way.

One unfortunate example we sometimes see in our culture is when someone experiences trauma and then begins engaging in self-harm. They may feel relief, control, or even euphoria from hurting themselves. Logically, that doesn’t make sense—but emotionally, the brain has linked up a sense of safety or comfort to pain. That’s miswired programming.

Everyday Examples of Miswired Links

There are many, less obvious ways this happens. For example:

• Feeling proud of hardship—where someone feels pride only when they’re struggling.
• Associating love with sympathy—where love and attention are linked to being hurt or ill.

These patterns often start early in life. Let’s take the example of love and sympathy. As human beings, we all need love and connection. Even medical research confirms that loneliness affects health—from infants to adults. Infants deprived of love and touch have higher mortality rates even with proper nutrition. Adults who experience chronic loneliness face increased risks for heart disease, depression, and other illnesses.

So, if someone’s subconscious learns that “the way to receive love is through sympathy,” they may—without realizing it—create hardship, illness, or problems as a means of meeting that emotional need. Their brain has wired love and pain together.

How Miswired Programming Affects Health

When part of the mind believes it needs hardship or illness to receive love, safety, or validation, it can literally block healing. The subconscious may think, “If I get better, I’ll lose love,” or “If I let go of struggle, I’ll lose my identity.”

This can lead to ongoing stress, worry, fear, and sabotage patterns that take a toll on the body. The brain keeps re-creating hardship because it believes that’s necessary for safety or connection. Over time, this pattern can suppress healing and create illness.

Example: Holding on to Hurt

Let’s say someone has been hurt in a relationship. They link up that love equals pain, so they decide—often unconsciously—“It’s not safe to love.” They close off emotionally to protect themselves, but in doing so, they also disconnect from love.

They might have plenty of people around them, but they don’t feel deeply connected. Inside, they feel lonely, guarded, or numb. That loneliness—just like physical isolation—can directly impact health. The body needs love and connection to thrive.

This is why I always say that even if you’re surrounded by people, you can still feel alone. It’s not about proximity—it’s about emotional openness. When love feels unsafe, the body and energy system stay closed, creating internal stress that affects both happiness and health.

The Subconscious Need for Illness or Hardship

Sometimes, people don’t consciously want illness, but their subconscious believes it’s protecting them. For example, a person may feel their spouse or family members are angry with them—but if they’re sick, others “can’t” be mad. Illness, then, becomes a form of emotional safety. The brain miswires illness as a shield against rejection or abandonment.

In these cases, the mind is doing what it believes is right—it’s protecting—but it’s doing so in a way that harms the body. That’s why deep subconscious reprogramming is essential for healing. We must teach the mind that love and safety can exist in health.

Another Example: Guilt and Self-Punishment

I’ve seen people who subconsciously believe that punishing themselves makes them a good person. They feel virtuous when they feel guilty or deprived, so they keep attracting hardship. Again, the brain wires up “pain = good person,” which is the opposite of what we want for healing and happiness.

These are all examples of how miswired emotional associations—pain linked with love, struggle linked with pride, guilt linked with worthiness—can block both health and success.

Rewiring the Mind for Healing

If you notice any of these patterns in your life, know that they can be changed. Rewiring the subconscious mind is possible—and it’s one of the most powerful things you can do for your health.

Here’s a simple practice you can start right now:

• Remind yourself that patterns breed more of the same. Holding on to hurt attracts more hurt; holding on to fear attracts more fear.
• Decide to release old pain and open your heart to love again.
• Affirm that it’s safe to love and be loved.

Just as negative wiring repeats itself, positive wiring can too. When you begin to cultivate more love, appreciation, and openness, your brain rewires toward connection—and your body begins to respond accordingly. The heart and mind heal together.

Why Emotional Healing Matters for Physical Health

The U.S. Surgeon General has even released statements about the health risks of loneliness—linking it to increased rates of diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. Science is now catching up to what we’ve known energetically: love and connection are essential for healing.

So if you’ve been holding on to hurt, anger, guilt, or fear—see this as your opportunity to let it go and welcome in even more love and joy. Because love isn’t just a feeling—it’s medicine for your mind and body.

Closing Message

When you understand how deeply the mind can miswire emotions and how powerful it is to rewire them, healing begins to feel not only possible but natural. Your body wants to heal—it’s built to heal. And when the mind is aligned, the body follows.

So that’s today’s quick IQ episode. Please do take a moment to hit the share button on this episode—share it with someone you love, someone you care about, or even someone you don’t know. Because the more every single person in our world is happy, healthy, loved, and loving, the better this world becomes for all of us.

Please do make a point to have a most wonderful, loving, happy, healthy rest of your day. I look forward to connecting with you on the next episode. We’ll see you there.

Final Notes From Brandy

Thank you for listening to Heal Yourself, Change Your Life. People often reach out to share how much these episodes have given them hope, touched their hearts, or helped them stay positive in hard times. Some even say it awakened them to a whole new awareness of how amazing we truly are.

If today’s episode touched your heart or expanded your mind in any way, please share it with others—because the more empowered people become, the more our world transforms for the better. That is the purpose and the power of these demonstrations: to create a radical shift in world consciousness by showing what we’re all capable of.

And of course, each volunteer must follow through to reinforce their new programming. But the point is for you to see that you can create rapid results in your health and your life when you truly understand how to use your mind. You are incredible.

I do want to be clear—most people won’t get results this fast on their own. I make it look easy because of the discoveries I’ve made. Remember, there’s much more going on in our minds at a deeper level than we realize.

That said, if you want to send me questions or comments, visit my website at BrandyGilmore.com. And if you’re experiencing physical pain and would like to volunteer on the show, you can sign up there as well.

Lastly, if you have any health issues, please don’t avoid your doctors. Continue seeing them—and make it your goal to blow their minds with what you’re capable of with your mind.

Thank you.