The Resilient Mind - Change Your Brain, Change Your Life - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: September 13, 2024

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 Change Your Brain, Change Your Life with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Your senses plug you into three-dimensional reality, right? So if I took away your sight, if I took away your hearing, I took away your smell, your taste, and feeling with your body, you would have no experience of three-dimensional reality, but you would they'll be conscious, but you would be conscious of nothing material or physical.

You would just be conscious that you're conscious, and you would be conscious of nothing, in a sense. So when a person is immersed in three-dimensional reality, their neocortex, their thinking brain, is super busy, scanning the environment and associating knowns, and it's got to process a lot of information that's coming in through the senses, what it's seeing, what it's hearing, what it's smelling, what it's tasting, what's feeling, and that a lot of that information is coming in. The brain's job is to create meaning between your inner world and your outer world. And if you were to measure a person's brainwaves, they're pretty much in beta brainwave patterns. And that means you're conscious, you're awake, and you're aware that you're in a body local in space

and time. You're aware of your environment and you're aware of time. And that's how we navigate in three-dimensional reality. And there's neurotransmitters in the brain that support that. Okay. if I said to you, you got to do a speech and it's got to be done without any notes, you got about 45 minutes prepare, your brain would kind of perk up a little bit and it would be kind of a good stress. You'd have to perform. You're confident. You'd have to get ready.

You'd have to change your state. You'd have to think. All right, what do I want to talk about? I got to change my state. You would move into mid-range beta. Light bulb gets a little brighter and you're a little bit more ready in a sense. but when you react in your emotional and you're stressed and you're out of balance, you go into this very high beta brainwave pattern.

And that's three times as high as low-level beta. That's when the brain is in first gear on the freeway. It is consuming all of its energy and it's sweeping the environment and it's shifting attention from one person to another person to another problem to another thing to another place. It's trying to forecast. It's trying to predict. And the brain starts firing very, very disintegrate.

It starts firing incoherently out of order. And people, they need a drug or they need a drink or they need something to take away that kind of state. And their thoughts are literally driving the brain into higher and higher states of beta. Their addiction to those thoughts are driving the brain out of balance. Okay, so when you're in that state, you're very narrow focused. You're obsessing on things. That's what the brain does.

It overthinks. It over-analyzes. Now, so if you can change your brain waves from beta to alpha, now your inner world starts becoming more real than your outer world. And in a sense, you're become more creative. Your brain stops talking to you in your head. You stop analyzing. You start seeing images.

You start seeing in pictures. And alpha is an imaginary, a very creative state. You're still aware of your outer environment, but not so much. Okay, so here's the answer to your question. If you can get so relaxed that your body moves. into a light state and it's in a light rest and you're conscious and awake, now you're in theta. And that's a very hypnotic state. And when you're in a hypnotic state, you're in a state of trance and you're very suggestible

to information. And suggestibility is your ability to accept information, to believe in information, to surrender to it. And that's what can program a person to do about just about anything, right? So hypnotist uses, when he's making suggestions, the person who's in Theta, the door between their conscious mind and the subconscious mind is wide open to information. Okay. So that makes sense.

If you're getting information through your senses and you're in Theta, you're in a hypnotic state. But what if the person's eyes are closed? What if there's music filling the space? They're not eating. They're not tasting. They're not smelling. They're not experiencing. They're not feeling.

And they're in that realm of Theta. and I asked them, instead of the put, they're all of their attention on everything physical and everything material, to open their awareness, instead of narrow their focus, broaden their focus, and put their attention,

not on the material, but on the in material, not on the particle, but the wave. Not on matter, but on energy. And the atom is 99.99.99% information and energy, okay? So having the person focus on nothing, this is the funny part about it, and broadening their focus,

if they can dial down, they're thinking neocortex to theta. They'll have no experience of their body, no experience of their environment, and no experience of time, and they're in theta, they're still suggestible to information. But they're not aware of their outer environment,

but they're still suggestible. There's only one other place that information comes from, and that's frequency. All frequency, radio waves, Wi-Fi waves, X-rays, all carry information. So when the person opens their awareness

to the wave function, to energy, into information, they pay more attention to that, and less attention to themselves. They connect more to that and less to the three-dimensional reality. If there's coherence in the brain, all of a sudden the person has a moment of connection. And the brain goes into a gamma brainwave state.

And gamma now is an arousal. It's super consciousness. But it's not coming from fear. It's not coming from aggression or anger. It's not coming from pain. The arousal is ecstasy. The person is making a connection. And when we measure the amount of gamma that's taking place in the person's brain,

3% to 3% of the population, in anything that we're measuring, really good is three standard deviations outside of normal. These people are 200, 300, 300, 500, 500 standard deviations outside of normal. And three is really great. And we see the same pattern. the limbic brain, the seed of the autonomic nervous system is functioning in a very, very coherent, highly organized, very, very fast frequency of gamma. Now remember, stress is autonomic dysregulation, right? Disregulation in the autonomic nervous system moving out of balance. These high states of gamma

is autonomic regulation. Now, the autonomic nervous system controls and coordinates every system in the body. and if it's processing an energy and a frequency that fast, every single cell in the body is getting the information, and the body's literally raised in energy and raised in frequency, and that's when you see the instantaneous upgrade that goes on biologically in a person's body. And we actually now can predict it. When we see a person move into a certain level of theta, we can say, oh, boy, this is going to be really good, like really good. And that person is having a very, very powerful internal experience.

So we have a scientist that studies the language of transformation from the University of Central Oklahoma, a super great guy. And he's been studying the language of transformation and all the testimonials of all the many of the people who have had these moments. And the subjective experience is twofold. it's very somatic when i mean somatic i mean like they say uh like every single cell in my body was vibrating at a faster frequency i felt incredible my heart felt like it was going to blow open um i felt like i was filled with light they'll give you like something very somatic like oh my god it was i felt this in my body and then it's also very emotional that's the other part but it's not like emotional like i've never felt like

love. I thought I understood love. I thought I have felt love. I've never felt love like this. I felt so connected. I felt so whole. I felt so pure. I felt it was the most familiar, unfamiliar feeling I've ever had. Oh my God, I forgot. I forgot that I was, that it was within me, whatever. And then, and then the other element is after that, they have a language where they only can use metaphor to describe the unknown experience. They'll say, yeah, my heart turned on like an engine. The top of my head blew off. There was lightning coming out of my fingertips. They're trying to explain, but they'll say, well, it wasn't lightning really. It just felt like this, but it was more like this. So the language specialist that has been studying this had his own moment at an event we did in Marco Island last

September where he connected. And I sat down with him and talked to him and he could not find the language. The language guy could not find the language to explain what the heck happened to him, but he was totally switched on. So there's an arousal that takes place. There's high gamma brainwave patterns. It's autonomic. It's automatic. It's very emotional. And people describe it kind of like a connection. Well, I think fear has been very adaptive for us as human beings. I mean, I think, you know, if you have a lot of common sense and you're navigating in your life, there's certain things that you avoid that I think is healthy. And I think there's things where you can't predict something or you can't control something. And you kind of get ready. That's what the early stages of

fear is that you kind of rev up and you get ready. You're ready to perform. Anticipation. You're ready to act. You're ready for something, right? And I think that's healthy when it's within a limit. And then when it gets to that point where you absolutely have a perception that it's going to get worse instead of get better, that's when the brain goes into these high states of arousal. And the arousal is really pay a lot of attention to your body, pay a lot of attention to everything in your environment. Do not take your attention. To a degree of vigilance.

Yeah, it is vigilance. And try to predict the worst thing right now that could possibly happen. Predict the worst because if you can get ready for the worst and you're ready for it, anything less that happens, you're going to survive. So the brain actually predicts the worst case scenario. When it picks that worst case scenario, the body goes into a heightened state of fear, right? and now in fear, though, the condition response that takes place from feeling that emotion is storing that emotion in the body. Fear creates an arousal that switches on the fight or flight nervous system, right?

So keep having the thought, keep having the response, and you're taking thought and in the form of chemistry, in a form of emotion, and you're literally activating that third center. and now that third center is storing an enormous amount of energy in it. And when there's enormous amount of energy in that solar plexus, that center is driving more information to the brain for you to be more ready for the next possible thing that can go wrong. And so you could have 10 really great things that go on in your day and one thing that goes wrong, and you're going to focus on that one wrong thing because you've got to be prepared for it if it happens again. So I think fear was adaptive at one point, and it's become very maladaptive because, again, people are always trying to forecast the worst case scenario.

What we discovered is that most people don't think that they have control over that. I mean, it's so primitive. It's so in our biology, it's hard to think that you have control over a fear response. Now, there's nothing wrong with having the fewer response. It's nothing wrong with getting aroused. The question is, how long? Like, how long is this going to go on for? So you have a reaction five days ago from something that's happened,

and you're still aroused by that event. You've got to agree that you're addicted, you're addicted to that emotion. Keep it going and it'll become more automatic. you'll you'll constantly be thinking certain ways and doing certain things to reaffirm that addiction to fear so so for the short term you know have the fear response if you can't shorten the refractory period of that emotional response more than likely it's good you're going to be in a program for the remainder of your day so what we teach people is how to master the fear so

So take anxiety as an example, right? Many people come to the work and they have a high amount of anxiety. CEOs, engineers, doctors, nurses, dentists, people can't cross a bridge. And they've tried everything to try to change their anxiety. But what they haven't done is they haven't caught themselves feeling the feeling of fear and practicing with their eyes close first. Not in their life when they're feeling fear, but let's practice when you're sitting in the meditation and your body starts getting a little anxious,

starts getting a little worried, starts getting a little aroused. What are you going to do in that moment? Can you become aware that the body's feeling, that emotion, and could you, like taming an animal, settling the body back down from that aroused state back into the present moment, okay? It goes, great, I'm going to do this for two seconds, and like a spoiled child, it goes, it starts getting aroused again. Now, most people think I'm never going to be able to overcome this. But the act of sitting with that and keep lowering the volume and not letting the body be the mind, but you actually executing being the mind.

Do that enough times and you'll condition the body to a new mind. And what happens is the brain stops firing those same circuits. Okay? Then the person says, but what if this happens? And what if that happens? And then what if this happens? and they catch themselves going to the worst case scenario or going to the memory of the past, and they keep bringing their attention back to the present moment.

What we discovered is if you keep doing that, you get better at it. And when the body, as I said, finally surrenders into the present moment, it cannot be in fear any longer. So the person then that returns back into their life and has lowered the volume to the fear because they've been practicing it will respond less emotionally in their life because they've overcome it, right? If they haven't overcome it, then the response is going to be the same. So, first thing, eyes closed. You've got to practice with your eyes closed, but get so good at doing it with your eyes closed that you can do it with your eyes open. And when it's the hardest,

it matters the most. And so justified, valid or not, those chemicals are not good for you. They're not going to be, whether you're right, whether you're justified. The only person that's hurting is you, right? So then the person who says, okay, well, is this loving to me? Okay. So the fear is real. Okay. So what emotion could you change from fear into? Okay. So we teach people, okay, can you practice breathing and slowing your brainwaves down, working with the animal, working with the body, slow your breath down, slow your brain waves down? Yeah, but I don't want to. okay, do it anyway. Practice slowing your breath down, breathing a little bit slower,

your brainwaves start to change, put your attention on your heart. We have great data to show where you place your attention is where you place your energy. You see a very low frequency of the heart starting to build in the person. So now the heart is getting energy and then parasympathetic nervous system starts coming up. The body starts moving into that state. Okay, that's really great. Keep doing it over and over again. Keep relaxing into your heart, energy moving into the heart.

It hard informs the brain. the trauma is over, betrayal's over, the event is over, what you're afraid of is over. And it resets the baseline in the amygdala for trauma. And the side effect of that is the person now, when energy moves into their heart like that, they start getting very creative. The heart is a very creative center. Okay, what do I want to do now? What do I want to create now? So it's something that you can only talk around. But when you're in the work and you're practicing it, it's first so important to face off with it with your eyes closed. And it's David against Goliath in the beginning

because the program is so ingrained in our biology. And yet, people who keep practicing, lowing the vine, lowering the vaughan, you see the brain scans. CEOs, as I said, all kinds of different athletes. You see the dramatic change in the brain. There's the anxiety. And now it's gone.

And there's just a significant changes in a person's subjective view of the world as well. Just it isn't enough to inhibit. bit, the thought and the feeling, I think it's practicing feeling something else. And then we use technology to actually tell you when you're doing it and when you're not. That's so important. So take a Navy SEAL, for example, who has done all the talk therapy, tried all the pharmaceuticals, tried all the antidepressants, tried all the pain relievers, tried the ayahuasca,

try the plant medicine, and they still can't function in their life, right? And so why can't they function in their life? Because they haven't gotten beyond the emotion that's keeping them connected to the path. We have seen people come right up to the edge of their emotional belief, you know, where the pain, where the emotion is at its height, you know, and the hardest part of it. every war is the last battle. And they go one more time. They just say, I'm going to go again.

And when they go again, many times that's when they have their breakthrough. And the breakthrough isn't, as I said, just like a little breakthrough. It's an immediate relief for the person. And so that's the moment then when they look back at their past, they see it through a whole different lens. Yeah, I think childhood trauma is, I think, probably the biggest trauma for many people to overcome because children, their brain waves are very slow. I mean, in alpha, in theta, and information goes in very quickly right into their subconscious. And I think that we figure out adaptive ways to not have to feel those emotions or not have to look at that past, but we're

always aware of it. It's always there, right? But we don't really have a moment where we fully allow ourselves to experience it. And I think he had a moment where by association, he let himself be vulnerable, which I think is great. Yeah, you got to sit with yourself. You're going to take your device and set it in the other room. You're going to shut it off and feel without that thing. And you've got a thing for yourself. And I think that kind of art of contemplation has been lost because I think that process of self-reflection kind of is a building process neurologically in our brains.

And so we joke all the time with people who go through a week-long event, I say to them, when's the last time you sat with you this long until you finally like you? You have you sit with yourself long enough. Those feelings are going to come up. They will come up because you have nothing to do. You have nothing to do your inner world and how you're thinking and how you're feeling is going to become very obvious to you. And so I think people ask all the time, well, why is my health condition like this?

what are the thoughts, what are the feelings that I need to change? It's really simple. Sit with yourself and you'll know exactly what it is that you need to change. So I think you've got to create the time to invest in yourself. One of the things that I've discovered with many people that tell us stories of transformation is that they kind of have this kind of belief like, I believe this stuff works. I just never believe it could work for me. I mean, that's a really, really fundamentally key moment in a person's evolution because that means they actually have to change their belief.

And that's sometimes, that means I got to come out of the resting state and they got to choose themselves every day. So that person then who's arguing for some limitation just doesn't believe that they can change their life. They don't believe that their thoughts have something to do with their destiny. they don't believe, they don't believe in possibility because they don't believe in themselves. You cannot believe in possibility without believing in yourself. And if you believe in yourself, that means you got to believe in possibility.

And that means then, that means you got to do something. You got to get off the couch. You know, you got to get up and you got to get engaged in your world. And you got to be a creator in your life and instead of a victim in your life. Now, that's an easy thing to say. But it means that means you have to carve out some time for you. I mean, if you invest in yourself, invest in yourself and invest in your future. Do it and get uncomfortable and know that that's normal.

That's natural. That's the unknown. Okay. If I keep making the same choices, I'm going to keep having the same health condition. If I keep doing the same things, I'm going to still have the same level of abundance. Okay. So I got to start making changes. It's not that hard to do it if you really want to do it.

I mean, if you really want to do it, then you'll invest in your sense. yourself. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.