The Resilient Mind - A Powerful Way To Accelerate Your Result - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

Dr. Joe Dispenza is a renowned author, speaker, and educator in the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. He has spent over three decades studying the mind-body connection and the ways in which we can harness our thoughts and emotions to create positive change in our lives.Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/Download_Journal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to A Powerful Way to Accelerate Your Results with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. But I tell our advanced students, when you stop creating, just means you're more in love with your past than you are with your future. That's all. But you know, that intelligence that's giving you life, the observer,

you can develop a relationship with it. And when your will matches its will, and it has an amazing will, when your mind matches its mind, and it has an infinite mind, and when your love for life matches its love for life, it always answers the call. Because a habit is a redundant set

of automatic, unconscious, thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that are acquired through frequent repetition. So the habit is when your body goes on autopilot. So if you've been doing that for 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years, your body is already programmed into a predictable future based on what it did in the past. As a matter of fact, we could take your yesterday and lift it up and set it on tomorrow. And that's called karma. That's it. But there's no unseen hand doing it to you. You're making the same choices, the same behaviors and the same experiences to reaffirm that same emotion that you call you. Are you with me still? Am I getting too close? So then, come on, reason this with me.

If you're not in the process of being defined by a vision of the future, you are left with the old circuitry and the emotions of the past, then you will be predictable in your life. And by the way, if you're so structured in that routine, if the unknown landed in your lap, you would say, excuse me, can you come back tomorrow? This is going to really break up my day here. So then finding the sweet spot of the generous present moment, I can tell you what it looks like in the heart and in the brain. I've seen it enough times and we're able to predict it when it's going to happen. Because when you are truly present, you can't run a program. And if you are doing those same things every single day and you're in that routine, the soul is watching reruns of the

same television show. Wouldn't you get bored after a while? And it falls asleep on the couch. And the soul goes to sleep and the ego takes over. And you crave the familiar. and the unknown is the soul's agenda to journey back to source and tell stories of its adventure and you tell me if the soul is interested in the unknown and in the adventure if you're stuck on some emotion

that's keeping you anchored to the past the soul can't go to a new future means you have to overcome that emotion because the memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom. And that's the name of the game here, folks. And I don't care how wealthy you are or how beautiful you are, how successful you are,

or how many friends you have, or how many degrees you have. If you haven't overcome that emotion in one lifetime, you haven't evolved. Because that emotion is keeping you connected to the past. And it is that emotion that is signaling the same gene. in the same way. Your body is a protein-producing machine. And proteins are responsible for the structure and the function of your body. In every single cell in your body, except red blood cells, makes proteins.

Your immune system makes immune proteins called antibodies. Your stomach cells make stomach proteins called enzymes. Your skin cells make skin proteins called collagen and inelastin. Your muscle cells make muscle proteins called actin and myosin. And in order for your body to make a protein, a gene has to be regulated in the cell. Are you with me? Come on, is this too much? So they used to say, you know, you're hardwired to be a certain way and you're doomed by your genes.

That's a lie. We are marvels of adaptability and change. But if you're a scientist studying rats in an unchanging environment, you're not going to see many genetic changes or neurological changes. Would you agree? So then genes are like Christmas tree lights. They're turning on and off all the time. And when they turn on, they upregulate, they make a healthy protein.

And when they downregulator turn off, they make a cheaper protein. And, you know, the central dogma in science was that genes create disease. Less than 5%, more like 1% of every person that's born with a genetic condition comes from birth. Like TASX disease, sickle cell anemia, type 1 diabetes. The other 95% to 99% is from lifestyle and behaviors. And so scientists that were going to map the human genome, they said, okay, there's a hundred 100,000 proteins that make up the body. So there should be 100,000 genes.

There's 40,000 regulatory proteins that help make those proteins. So that's 40,000 more genes. So 100,000 plus 40,000 is 140,000 genes for every protein. When they map the human genome, 23,68 genes. You're 300 genes away from a chimpanzee, some more than others, but roughly then. Because in one gene, you could have over 3,000 variations on that gene. And genes don't create disease. It's the environmental signal that signals the gene to instruct it and select it to make new proteins.

But if you're thinking the same thoughts, making the same choices, demonstrating the same behaviors, creating the same experiences, to produce the same emotions, you have the same lights on and the other lights off and you're headed for a genetic destiny. Are you with me still? Take a group of stressed-out executives. You teach them how to find the present moment. You teach them how to breathe.

You teach them how to make a few different choices and to do a few different things. and you teach them how to express some suppressed emotions. At the end of eight weeks, they regulate 1,561 new genes. Over 800 genes for growth and repair, and just about 700 genes to downregulate inflammation and disease, turning on new lights, turning off old lights. And so then, we did an experiment in February of this year

in our advanced workshop. I randomly selected 120 people. And I wanted to measure their cortisol levels, which is the stress hormone level. And I wanted to measure another chemical called IGA, immunoglobulin A, or salivary immunoglobulin A. The primary defense against bacteria and viruses in your body better than any flu shot. And what happens is that when your stress hormones go up, your immune system goes down. Because as you begin to mobilize all this energy for some threat in your external environment, real or imagine, you rob the energy in your internal environment for growth and repair.

So if you keep turning on the fight or flight response, you keep turning on the sympathetic nervous system, and you're mobilizing all this energy. You're drawing from this invisible field of vital energy around your body, and you're turning it into chemistry. And if you keep doing that, the field around your body shrinks. And now you are more matter and less energy, more particle, and less wave. And now in your life, you are matter trying to change matter, and it's going to take time to get what you want.

But as you keep diminishing your vitality and you keep robbing from this field, the immune system begins to shut down. Because all the troops are fighting some war abroad and there's no homeland security. and IGA levels go down. So we randomly selected 120 people, and we measure their cortisol levels, and we measure their IGA levels. Now, when you're under stress, the emotions that you feel under stress

is anger, hostility, frustration, impatience, fear, anxiety, worry, guilt, shame, envy, jealousy, competition, those are all created by the hormones of stress. And psychology says those are normal human states of consciousness. Those are altered states of consciousness. Because living in stress is living in survival.

And stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance. Stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of homeostasis. Are you with me? So I reasoned, well, what if the reverse was actually true? true? What if people were taught how to open their heart? And when you're frustrated and when you're impatient and you're angry, your heart beats out of rhythm. And we've measured that over and over again. The heart gets highly incoherent, and the heart has its own little brain. But when you feel gratitude and thankfulness and care and inspiration, all of a sudden, if you do it properly, your heart

will start to get very orderly, very coherent, very synchronized. And so I wanted our students to sustain an elevated emotion for at least 10 minutes, two to three times a day. That's it. But what happens when you experience an elevated emotion, and we know this because we've measured it also, if you can begin to sustain an elevated emotion, And this is the creative center right here.

It's like dropping a pebble in water. And if you were able to sustain that emotional state, you were dropping pebble after pebble, after pebble, in a perfect rhythm. And what happens is the field around the body tends to grow. Now you are more energy and less matter. more wave and less particle. And now you begin to feel connected to something greater.

And if you can feel more deeply, more richly, and more completely, you're dropping a big stone and it's creating a bigger wave. And that energy is a frequency. And all frequency carries information, just like a radio wave. And your thought is the intention on the way. that wave. And so I had them sustain these elevated states for 10 minutes a day, twice a day or three times a day, for four days. At the end of four days, their cortisol levels dropped three standard deviations, clinically significant. But their IGA levels went from about 53 and a half

to 87. That is scientific history right there. They epigenetically signaled new genes in new ways, and their immune system got much, much stronger. And there were a few people whose values were over 100. Ten minutes of gratitude a day could heal you. It's better than any flu shot. So then living in stress is living in survival, and all organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress.

But human beings, we become addicted to very chemicals of stress, very hormones of stress. And we use the people and conditions and the problems in our life to reaffirm that addiction to the emotion. And we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. Out of the infinite potentials in the quantum field that await you, when you're under stress, you will select the worst case scenario. And you will begin to emotionally embrace that outcome in preparation for it happening. Do you know why? Because when the survival gene is activated, you prepare for the worst.

Because if anything less happens, you have better chance of surviving. And people live their lives that way. And when you get it right, you say, hey, you know how smart I am? You need to hang out with me. But what happens when you don't get it right? It's called anxiety, panic attacks, and som. OCD. And so then you can begin to forecast some worst-case scenario in your mind. And you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. You could revisit some past bitter memory,

and to the exclusion of everything else, make it real. And your body is the unconscious mind is believing it's living in that past experience. When you turn on the stress response and you can't turn it off, now you're headed for disease. Because no, organism in nature can live in emergency mode for extended periods of time. And it is a scientific fact that the hormones of stress downregulate genes and create disease. It's a fact. And if you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, and those chemicals pull the trigger of the gene to create disease, that means that your thoughts can literally

make you sick. So if your thoughts could make you sick, is it possible that your thoughts could make you well? and if those chemicals are highly addictive and you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, you can get addicted to your own thoughts. And if you use the people and conditions in your life to reaffirm some emotional addiction, you become addicted to the life you don't even like. And then the unknown becomes a scary place because in survival, better chances of running from the unknown and facing it.

So then when you draw from this vital field of energy and you turn it into chemistry and the field around your body shrinks and you are more matter and less energy, more particle, less wave, you become a materialist and you define your reality with your senses because when that stress response is turned on, your attention is on the outer environment because that's where the danger is. and our brain narrows its focus on one thing. And how many people here have been stressed and you obsess about the same thought over and over again? And that's because those chemicals are forcing you to narrow your focus on the most eminent and important thing in your life. And when you do that,

and you start thinking about the problems you have and the people you need to take care of and the things you have to do and the places you have to go, each one of those people or things or places has a neurological network assigned to it. And as you shift your attention from one to the next, the brain starts to fire incoherently.

And if you were to measure those brain waves, they're very disorderly. They're disintegrated. They're incoherent. And when your brain's incoherent, you're incoherent. And when your brain isn't working right, you're not working right. The amazing thing then is when you draw from that field

and you are matter trying to change matter, you will always try to force the outcomes in your life. You try to control the outcomes in your life. You try to predict them because you are matter, trying to affect matter. And because we live in this realm of three dimensions, we live in a realm where there's infinite space. And you experience time by moving through space. And so it takes time to get your goals achieved

because you've got to drag your body from one end of the universe to the other to get what you want. The new house, the new car, takes time. That's three-dimensional creation. And so people spend 70% of their time living in survival. And that's what begins

to downregulate genes to create disease. And when you are in survival, you will focus on three things only. Your body, got to take care of your body. Things in your environment, people in your environment, places you have to go in your environment,

and time, the body, the environment, and time. And we begin to believe that we're bodies living in an environment, living in time. And we forget that we're spiritual beings having a human experience. But in survival, it's very difficult to create because all the blood flow goes to the hindbrain with those emotions and away from the forebrain. And you're prone to react. And when those chemicals turn on, there'll always be a gap between the way things appear and the way things really are. It alter your perception. And if you react during that chemical change, you'll always say the same thing. I should have never said that. She'd never done that. Should never thought that. She'd never sent that email. Because now you're acting like an amped up animal with a big memory bank.

When you teach people how to no longer live in the future or live in the past, trying to predict their future, return to the familiar past, and you teach them what it means to be in the present moment, and they labor for that present moment. When they finally hit that sweet spot, something amazing happens. You get creative. Because my definition of creation is when you forget about yourself. You are so present in the moment, you're no longer a face. You're no longer a skin color, you're no longer a gender, you're no longer a sexual preference, you're no longer a diet, you're no longer a profession, you're no longer a wardrobe, you're no longer a sports car, you're no longer a name. You are nobody. No one, no thing, no where, in no time.

And that is the moment you are pure consciousness. And that elegant moment where you are pure consciousness, that is the moment you walk through the door to the quantum field. And after looking at 4,500 brain scans, if you can teach a person instead of narrowing their focus to open their focus and focus on nothing, space, focus on energy, all of a sudden those different compartments of the brain that were once subdivided, they begin to unify, they begin to synchronize. The front of the brain starts talking to the back of the brain. The right side of the brain starts talking to the left side of the brain. And all of a sudden, the brain is going into psychic union because what sinks in the brain links in the brain. And all of a

sudden, the person feels more like themselves than it had in a long time. So we've seen this in real time in our meditations, watching it, watching people do it. And now we're able to predict it when it's going to happen. And when that person is no longer thinking and feeling in the same cycle, they're gone. They're elsewhere. They are a thought and possibility. That's the moment their consciousness merges with a greater consciousness. That's the moment the subjective consciousness merges with the objective consciousness,

the field. And they begin to merge together. And when they come back, they take a piece of it with it. they become more loving they become more giving they become more willful they become more conscious they become more mindful its nature becomes their nature

its mind becomes their mind and when we see this happen we can look at the dimensional picture of the brain and all of a sudden you start to see it synchronizing the two halves are coming together the unity of polarities the unity of duality is wholeness is love. And the exact time that brain starts going into psychic union, that energy from

these centers moves right into the heart. And boom, the field around the body can go up to nine meters wide. Now they feel connected to something greater, no longer separate from possibility. They're no longer focusing on matter and objects and things. They've taken their attention off the electron in quantum physics, and they put it on the wave of possibility. That's what creation And once that energy hits the heart, the heart starts getting very organized. They're in love with the experience, and they want the moment to last. And when you see those two hemispheres come together, and that psychic union, you can walk from the computer around and look at that person.

And there are tears of joy rolling down their face. They feel connected to something greater. They are so whole that is impossible for. them to want. How could you want when you're whole? And I call that the natural state of being. That's who we really are. And we no longer feel separate. And the moment you step out of the way, that autonomic nervous system that's giving you life says, she's gone. That's clean house. Because the autonomic nervous system is self-organizing. And it steps in and creates order where there's disorder. We've had people stand up that have had pain their entire life, have no pain at all.

And of course, their first words are, I can't believe it. It wasn't me that did this. It's the power within me that did it. And so then finding the sweet spot of the generous present moment every single day of your life, the word meditation, the actual literal translation of the word means to become familiar with. That's what it means. So if you're becoming familiar with your unconscious thoughts, and now you are so conscious of them,

so familiar with them that you would never go unconscious again, you are in meditation to know thyself. If you can become aware of your automatic habits and behaviors and become so aware of what comes out of your mouth or how you act, that you are so conscious and so familiar with those, states you would never go unconscious again. And if you can observe those emotions in your meditation

or you're frustrated and impatient, and you keep settling your body back down into the present moment, and you're not letting your body be your mind any longer, sooner or later, the body, the servant, the animal, is going to surrender to a new mind. And when it does, there's a liberation of energy. and the body is no longer enslaved to the familiar past or trying to predict the future.

And the absence of that emotional addiction is called joy. And there is a liberation of energy that takes place in the body and we've measured it. And when that occurs then, now you're ready to create from a state of wholeness. And then as you begin to decide what thoughts you do want to put your attention on and you repeat them and get clear on them,

and you fire and wire those circuits in your brain, it's going to begin to become familiar to you. And as you begin to rehearse who you're going to be when you open your eyes, and you play it over and over, you begin to install the hardware in your brain, and if you keep doing it, the hardware becomes a software program.

And if you can cultivate an elevated emotion before the actual experience, you are teaching your body what that future is going to feel like in the present moment and you're signaling new genes and new ways that make new proteins preparing your body for the event. And if you keep practicing,

cultivating those elevated emotions, it will begin to become familiar to you. So the process of change is unlearning and relearning. It's breaking the habit of the old self and reinventing a new self. It's pruning synaptic connections in neuroscience and sprouting new connections. It's unfiring and unwiring and refiring and rewiring.

It's losing your mind and creating a new one. It's taking those emotions, body as the mind, and reconditioning the body to a new mind. It's pulling your energy out of the past and investing your energy into the future. And wouldn't you agree then if your life, is controlling how you think and feel if your environment or your personal reality is reminding you of who you are as a personality. And the environment is that strong. And your body, which has been conditioned to be the mind emotionally, is running its programs

and its habits. And you're so programmed into the predictable future because of the familiar past, because you've done it over and over again for years on end. wouldn't it be a good idea to close your eyes and eliminate the external environment? Play soft music in the background or put earplugs in so there's less sensory data coming into your brain so you can focus on your inner world. Sit your body down and don't let it get up and do things and eat and drink and feel. You say to the body, stay, stay right there, you stay. and instead of thinking about the appointments and emails and texts and phone calls you have to make

or what happened yesterday the day before 10 years ago, you're conscious when you leave the present moment and you slip into that elegant moment, the generous present moment. That's what meditation is about to get beyond the analytical mind, change your brain waves and fall into the operating system where those subconscious programs exist. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes. Download the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes.