The Resilient Mind - Emotions as Energy: Harnessing Feelings to Fuel Your Dream Life - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: December 20, 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.Download Mindset App for free and listen to 5000+ of the World's Greatest Motivational Speakers and Thought Leaders: https://bit.ly/mindsetxTheResilientMind Take action and strengthen your mind with The Resilient Mind Journal. Get your free digital copy today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/Download_JournalSpecial thanks to Lewis Howes, subscribe to his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/lewishowesWatch the full interview on Lewis's page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgOE-5k0rvs&t=35s Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to Emotions as Energy, harnessing feelings to fuel your dream life with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. What happens if we try to create from survival emotions? It just takes a long time. You'll just force it.

Little steps at a time. You'll force it. You'll fight for it. You'll compete for it. You'll manipulate, you'll cheat, you'll lie. You'll do anything to get what you want because that's what matter does when it's trying to change matter. And everybody's playing that game, right?

Everybody's trying to accumulate the most amount of things. Right. Okay, so that's what abundance means to certain people, get as many things as you can. Okay. Do you want that? Not a problem, but let's learn the formula of how to create, right? So then you'd have to feel those emotions

before the experience occurred. And if you understood that you could dissociate all of your attention from this three-dimensional reality and have no attention on anything known and understand it's the field that creates matter, that matter that emits the field, and if you could get to that place and change your energy with a clear intention and elevated emotion, your heart starts beating in this beautiful rhythm like a drum. We've measured it so many times. And when that occurs, the next thing that happens, the heart informs the body. brain, it's safe to create now. So the person relaxes into the present moment. And then we see this,

like if you took a big sheet, you know, in a blanket and you went like a bat, the energy of the heart actually informs the brain to move into these beautiful elegant states of alpha brainwave patterns, coherent alpha. And that's saying, what's the next dream? What is it the next, what's the next opportunity you want to experience? That's a state of creation. So now you have a Wi-Fi signal. You got a coherent brain, that's a directive, that's a signal out, and you got this coherent heart. That's what draws it to us, right? You combine those two, and if there's a vibrational match between your energy and that potential in the quantum field, and you're feeling abundant, and whatever your brain associates with being abundant, that's your call. That's what the creative

process is. This is the creative center. The brain, frontal lobe actually says, what would it be like to be creative or abundant. I don't know what it would be like to be abundant. Well, then go read a few books on people who actually became abundant and realized it wasn't a glorious process. They failed miserably. They got betrayed. They learned a lot of lessons, but they persevered. And what are the qualities of that person that you could embody? That's the key, right? Because it's not about wealth. It's who you become. Right? Because people think it's about their wealth, but it's the becoming process. It's the overcoming.

You've attracted that, right? Of course. So then you've got to turn the battleship around because most people say, I can't feel grateful for my wealth because it hasn't happened yet. That's the hypnosis, waiting for the experience that happened to feel grateful. Well, that's Newtonian, that's three-dimensional reality, that's cause and effect.

The quantum, you've got to feel it in order for you to experience it. Okay, so this heart becomes like an amplifier, and it sends that signal out. that frequency can carry the thought of your abundance. Suffering cannot carry the thought of your abundance. Lack cannot carry the thought of your abundance. It's a different frequency, right? We feel different feelings like suffering.

We think different thoughts, all right? So people can say, I'm abundant, I'm abundant, I'm abundant, all they want. But that thought is never making it to the body because it's stopping at the brainstem because the body's saying, I'm miserable, I'm unhappy, I'm in lack. Right? So the affirmation doesn't work, right? okay, so let's go one step further.

Yes. So if you practice this and you actually understood, you know, well, we teach this pretty well, but if you learned it just like learning how to play handball or learning how to hit a golf ball, learning how to dance a salt, so you just practice the form and you got really good at it, if you were doing it properly then, what would be the outcome? The experiment of being abundant would be that you would have to feel that feeling. It's so good at doing it with your eyes closed.

You got to do it with your eyes open. Now, why? Because if you're feeling the feelings of your emotions, of your future, you're no longer looking for them. Because you're in the future now. Your body is so objective that it's believing it's living in that reality where you are abundant. And as long as you feel that emotion,

you're not separate from it any longer. You're no longer in lack. You're no longer looking for it to occur, say, why hasn't it happened yet? If you're feeling abundant, why would you look? Right? So then our job then is to be able to maintain that modified state of mind and body. So, okay, so does that mean like you should check your bank account tomorrow and see if there's half a million dollars in it?

No. You keep tuning into that potential, and then here come the synchronicities. What's that? That's feedback in your environment. The universe saying, hey, Lewis, whatever you're doing, all of a sudden, you're starting to create. And I think it's so important for people to remember that they're the creators of their lives instead of the victim of their lives, right? So the victim is saying, I'm feeling this way because that person or that circumstance or I don't have any money is causing me to feel this way. That's my relationship with money.

What that really means is I'm using my lack to reaffirm my dependency, my addiction, my conditioning. That's my relationship with money is that I put my attention on money. because I don't have it. So their relationship with money is, of course, built on lack. And so when they don't have it, they feel bad. And what they're really saying is my outer environment, my reality is actually controlling the way I feel and the way I think. So, Lewis, why are you in a good mood today?

Things are going good. Why in a bad mood? Things are going bad today. So this unconscious program of victimization is saying that we're allowing our environment to influence the way we feel and the way we think. Isn't that? Isn't that what victimization isn't? and the stronger the emotion we have to our lack,

the more we put our attention on the fact that we don't have it, right? So then the person has forgotten that they're creating reality because what they're creating is lack. And they're creating more of it. And then they try harder and they force harder and they control more. And they're more exhausted and their body's tired. And they're breaking down. Right.

So the experiment then is let's try it another way. Let's create from the field instead of from matter. Get a coherent heart, get a coherent brain. Relax in the heart and energy moves right in the brain. We've measured this a thousand times, and all of a sudden the person moves into these beautiful, elegant brainwave states where they're super creative, right? So the longer you're conscious of that energy, the more you draw that future to you. So then what does the synchronicity mean? It means whatever you're doing inside of you is producing that effect outside of you.

Pay attention to what you did. And do it again. So generate a little bit more abundance. Just do it for an experiment? Now, when the synchronicity happens, do you think you feel suffering or do you think you feel a little excitement? You feel inspired, right? So then that synchronicity is saying, use this energy, use this feeling. It should be easier for you to feel this now and go back and do it again.

Keep the experiment going. Then here comes the promotion. Here comes the email. Here comes the person you meet at the right time. Well, we have something happening here. And then that becomes the momentum, right? So then we generate abundance. That's how we do it.

And the relationship... It doesn't just happen. By accident, we generate it. We generate abundance, right? So then if you have an hour meditation where you're tuning into your abundant future, but then you're spending the other 15 hours a day in lack, don't expect anything to change. You defaulted. You're back to the old energy.

And if you say it's that person or that circumstance or that bank account, I'm going to say you're back to the unconscious program of being a victim, right? So then, so then let's go a step further. If your personality creates your personal reality, and it does, and your personality is made of how you think, how you act, and how you feel, then the present personality who's listening to this podcast has created the present personal reality called her life. Nothing big there, which means if you want to change your personal reality, you're going to have to change your personality.

Nothing changes in your life until you change, right? So then 95% of who we are is on autopilot. It's programmed thoughts, hardwired thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, unconscious habits and behaviors, and really, really emotional responses that tend to be really knee-jerk and automatic, right? So if 95% of who we are as a set of unconscious programs, then the first step to change is becoming conscious of those unconscious thoughts. Now people think when they sit down to do the work and make their change, that they're doing something wrong. No, those thoughts have to come up. I can. I'm not worthy. It's never going to work. But the person who's truly persevering towards their abundance realizes just because they have that thought doesn't mean it's

true. They're curious on what's on the other side of that thought. Ah, well, that's just the thought, right? And nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together. So you keep moving past that thought, it has less and less power over you, right? Now, you have power over it. or better yet, you're using your brain in the proper way instead of being a victim to your brain. If you complain about money, if you judge people who have it, if you rush when you're in lack, if you cheat when you don't have what you need, an abundant person doesn't do that. You've got to look at that and say, I've got to break these habits. Oh my God, if I truly want to be abundant, I can't act this way.

Now here's the big one. If I truly want to be a new personality that's in a new personal reality, I can't take lack with me. I can't take unworthiness. I can't take the story that goes along with it with my parents or my grandparents or my ex or whatever. That story has to end, right? I mean, if not now, when, right? How do people end those stories?

Well, of course. Well, how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering? That's the game, right? That's the game called change. How many times we have to go on? conscious and default to that old personality when we catch ourselves and stop doing that and get conscious. That's the moment of change. So the problem is, is that most people wake up in the morning and they think, let me think of my problems, right? The brain is a record of the

past, right? So they think about their problems. They don't have enough money and those problems are usually connected to certain people at certain places with certain objects and certain things. What didn't work out or who screwed me over? So the moment they wake up, the moment they remember those problems are thinking in the past. So now they're firing and wiring the memory. They're keeping the memory of past alive in their mind. The problem is every one of those memories has an emotion associated with it because we've experienced it.

So when they feel the lack, when they feel the unhappiness, when they feel the anxiety, now the body's in the past. Thoughts being the language of the brain feelings, being the language of the body, how we think and how we feel creates our state of being. but the conditioning process starts because conditioning only needs a thought and feeling a memory or an image and an emotion and a stimulus and response

and you're conditioning your body to become the mind of that emotion and now the memory is not in the brain now the memory's buried subconsciously in the body and the body becomes the mind of that emotion so the body is living and lack and it's believing the body is that through the nervous system

or is that through... The cell is everything. Everything. So the body's so objective that it does not know the difference between the real-life experience that's creating the lack and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone called lack. The body's believing it's living the same past experience every day. Why? Because the end product of an experience is an emotion.

Well, your life is changing, but you're still feeling lack. Don't expect anything that you won't even see it. You'll walk right past it. viewing your life through the lens of the past. Okay. So, okay, so then a person realizes that all their friends are making money and they're doing stuff and they're like, wow, I'm really feeling lack now. So then when it no longer becomes about your abundance, and it becomes about your change, that's a valuable moment. When it's no longer about your healing, but it's about your change, I paid attention to a lot of people in the last couple of years tell their story. The people

who heal in this work from cancers and all kinds of chronic health conditions and Parkinson's and strokes and paralysis and all kinds of things. It's rare genetic disorders. It never was about, when they've really got in the game, it was never about their healing. It was about what do I need to change in order to heal? When the game goes like that. So then the person who's feeling lack on some level or another, it's not just in the mind. It's in the mind. It's in the body, right? Let me hear you say that again. When someone's looking for abundance, it's never about the abundance. It's about the change they need to make for healing. No, I'm using healing as an example. Yes. But let's use abundance as an example. When you understand

that you cannot get abundant, when it's no longer about the game called abundance, it's about the game called change. What do I need to change? The more I change, the more I'll be abundant. Yes. So then it's no longer about why haven't how come it has inhabited. That's the old personality separate from the experience still in lack asking that question. Which is creating your current reality. Which is which is reaffirming it because that's the lens you're perceiving it through. Okay. So we should be focusing more on what we need to change every moment as opposed to the abundance or the healing.

Well, the word meditation means to become familiar with. Sit with yourself long enough and not turn on your cell phone, not scroll through your social media and do no TikTok, no emails. No, none of that stuff. Don't just sit and close your eyes and watch the thoughts that come up. That's the exact reason why you're not abundant. Watch what you want to do when you're feeling lack to take away the lack. And there's always something you would do to take it away. But sit with the lack and be curious on what's on the other side of it, right?

Because the body's programmed into lack now subconsciously, right? So the emotion of lack drives our thoughts. and drives our behaviors. So it makes sense then that if an emotion is a record of the past, then we're doing things habitually from the past.

We're thinking in the past, right? So lower the volume to the emotion every time you notice lack comes up and just like breaking any addiction, there's going to be cravings, right? So the bodies go, hey, Lewis, it's been about two hours

since you're so used to doing this thing. Yeah, you've been thinking lacking thoughts about 150,000 times a day and you're just going to stop now. The body is going to start influencing the mind and saying it's not going to work. You're a loser. It didn't work before. It's too hard.

That's why it's so hard for people to lose weight or get in shape because you might try it for a few days and then the cravings or I'm tired and I want to go default back into the old version. Right. Because why? Because the body which has been conditioned the mind. The body is the unconscious mind. So the body's got used to the familiar feeling. They don't even know it's lack. It's just how they feel.

It's like guilt. So, okay, so let me finish. Okay, so the hardest part about all of this is making a different choice. And the moment you decide to make a different choice, get ready, it's going to feel uncomfortable. Right. It's going to feel unfamiliar. Your body's all of a sudden saying, hey, Lewis, why don't you start thinking those same exact thoughts, do the same things, make the same choices, demonstrate the same behaviors, have the same experiences.

So you could feel that feeling of that complaint again to call somebody up and say how miserable your life is, right? And that's the known, right? So the body is always influencing the mind to return back to the familiar territory. It's default. You're the default. Okay. All right. So now the person says, okay, what thoughts do I not want?

What an abundant person think this way? The people in our work that have created, I had a guy come to our event. I love this guy. He healed himself. He tried to take his life three times. He told me that when he came to our work, he didn't have two dollars to rub together. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Wow.

And just keeps giving it away. Wow. His lesson, his lesson was, and that wasn't the wealth, was who he became. So it's the overcoming process that is the becoming process. Who did he become in that journey? Exactly. He had to get beyond all of those thoughts of this past, all the mistakes he made, all the things he did wrong, all the money he owed there.

all of that, that was like, he just had to no longer be that person any longer. But he did say, how would a wealthy person live? And when he created his wealth, what do you think the first thing he did? Started giving? Giving it away. Why? Because an abundant person doesn't have any lack. And he knows how to create more of it.

And he's in the experiment. Well, what would happen if I keep giving it away? He keeps getting more. That's a good experiment to have. Because he is actually living in that abundant state. He also had tremendous healings taking place because when you heal your heart, heal your mind. I mean, it's just the way it is.

We saw it so many times, right? So he healed his heart. He got an upgrade. He got an upgrade, right? So then the next fundamental question is, how would an abundant person think? Write it down, dude. And fire and wire those thoughts in your brain and install the hardware.

Keep doing it with attention and intention. it becomes the new voice in your head, it becomes a software program, then say, okay, how am I going to be in my life today? What would an abundant person? How would they behave? And before you reach for your cell phone, start scrolling through your social media, close your eyes and rehearse in your mind how that person would walk, how they would breathe, how they would breathe people, how they would be on Zoom calls, how would they be in traffic, how would they be at dinner? And the act of closing, your eyes and mentally rehearsing the act. If you're truly present, the brain does not know the difference between the real life experience and what you're imagining. In fact, just a little

bit of time, you start to install the neurological hardware to look like you already did it. Now the brain is no longer a record of the past. It's primed for the future. Keep doing it, keep rehearsing. No different than playing an instrument, no different than learning how to dance, no different on learning how to act or play a sport. Everybody's always rehearsing, right? The rehearsal process changes the brain to look like you've already done it, you've already experienced it. Now, what's the essential part of that?

The hardware is in place. Now, all you've got to do is step into the footprint. Keep doing it. It becomes a software program. You start acting like an abundant person. Everything changes. Your energy changes. Your mood changes the way you walk,

where you breathe, your posture changes. You're out of the notion. You got to condition the body now emotionally into the future. Can't open your eyes in the morning until you are feeling worthy to receive. And if you can't feel worthy to receive, then if not now when. If it takes you two hours to get there, ask me if it's worth 30 years of running trying to get what you need matter to matter. Okay, so then the person who wrestles with their lack, they're out of the bleachers. and they're on the playing field.

Here's what we learned. Here's what we learned. Let's go back to beliefs now. So remember, belief is just the thought and you keep thinking over and over again. A belief is something that you keep thinking enough times that you hardwired in your brain and it becomes an automatic program.

And we have beliefs about all kinds of things. Money, relationships, God, whatever it is. It's all based on what we've been told or our past experiences, right? The boundaries of those beliefs are our emotions, right? So let's just say you got betrayed or somebody abused you or your father told you that money was bad and there's never enough of it or whatever.

That's a story, okay. But somehow it left an impression on you. Remember that event very clearly, and that's kind of rooted in who you are, right? Okay, so that emotion then is the boundary of our belief. Okay, so how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. If you take a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, that's called an attitude. A series of good thoughts with a series of good feelings.

You say, I have a good attitude today. You have a series of negative thoughts that are connected to a series of negative feelings. You say have a bad attitude today. So attitudes are just short in states of being. Good attitude in the morning, bad attitude in the afternoon. If you take an attitude and attitude and attitude, you keep those up. And you string attitudes together. You create what's called a belief.

And belief is just an extended state of being. So if you keep thinking the same thought, you keep hard wiring it in the brain, you keep feeling the same feeling, you keep conditioning in your body. The redundancy of that cycle over and over again conditions the body to subconsciously become the mind of that belief. And all beliefs are subconscious states of being. Okay. Take a belief, a belief, a belief, and you string them together.

You form what's called a perception. And perceptions are just such extended states of being that we're unconscious. And so then we edit out reality. In fact, most people don't see things the way they are. They see things the way they are. Right? And people are always filling in reality unconsciously based on their memory.

They could be married to a person for 40 years and they don't see the person. They see the memory of the person. Right? And there's research to prove this. Okay. So how do we change a belief of perception about herself for our lives? Okay. We've studied this.

Okay, let's just say that lack is ingrained in their, you got the story, you lived on the streets, you lost everything, you got betrayed, your business partner, took everything, took your wife, took, you got the story in the half, okay? Okay, you got to start telling the new story of the future, right? You got to believe in that future more than you have to believe in the past, so how do you do that? You only believe in the past when you feel the emotions of the past. The only time you're going to believe in the future is when you feel the emotions, the future, right? Okay. So, in order for us to change a belief for perception about our self and our lives.

We have to make a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carries a level of energy that's greater than the hardwired programs in your brain and the emotional conditioning in your body. And your body literally has to respond to your mind that the choice that you're making to change in that moment becomes a moment in time that you never forget. Now here's the key.

Physically. Physically. The stronger the emotion you feel when you make that choice, the more you'll remember the decision. Okay, so then how do we downregulate that old belief? If the trauma created an emotional quotient of six or seven, then your decision to change your beliefs got to be a nine. Right. And you've got to come out of your resting state, and that moment has to define you. You could say, I know exactly where I was, the time and day it was, who I was with when I made my mind up to,

change, right? Because you created a long-term memory. Long-term memories are created from strong emotion. Right. But at the amplitude of that emotion is greater than the betrayal, boom, the body starts responding to the mind. You're actually giving your body a taste of the future emotionally.

So you brand... What's possible? No, your body's actually getting the taste of that future event. It's experiencing the future now. Exactly. Big explosion in the quantum field. Big explosion. So the side effect of that is if you combine that clear intention with that elevated emotion, you're basically remembering

your future and it looks no different than remembering your past. Think neurologically within the circuits of that memory and feel within the emotions of that new belief and watch your life begin to change because nothing changes in our life that we change in. When we change our energy, we change our life. So now the experiment all of a sudden is no longer based on it being hard or trying or wishing or wanting or hoping. That's what we do in or lack of separation. It's about change. So then when we finally realize in order for us to become abundant, we have to overcome the old personality. And that's 95% of who we are, right? Yes. So then the side effect of the beginning of this process is a lot of discomfort. It is a lot of discomfort because you're stepping

outside the known into the unknown and now you can't predict. It's scary. No, no, you'd rather hold on to your lack. The pain, suffering. You'd rather tell the story of that. At least it makes you feel something that's familiar. When you step outside and you're saying, I'm not going to complain about money any longer.

I'm not going to complain about I don't have any. I'm not going to judge other people who do. I'm not going to say I can. I'm not worthy. It's never going to work. All those things have got to go. I'm not going to feel lack. I'm not going to feel unworthy.

I'm not going to feel separation. I'm not going to feel resentment. These are the things that are keeping my reality the same. Now it's no longer about abundance, about who you become. So the overcoming process becomes the becoming process. And so many people come through this work. They want abundance. They want healing.

They want a new relationship. They want a new career. They want the mystical. But really, they want wholeness. They want healing. They want peace. They want wholeness. Because they feel on whole.

Well, when you're in lack or you're in separation, you're not whole. Imagine feeling so much wholeness that's impossible to want. That's what we're working on with people. Then you can really enjoy a sunset. Then you can really enjoy a meal. Then you can really enjoy your friends. I talk to people that are very abundant. I mean, in the billions abundant.

And, you know, so many of them say, we are in misery. It's in our whole. We're in agony because they can't enjoy life anymore. That's what they want. I mean, people want abundance to be. be able to enjoy life. They want to be able to do whatever they want with whoever they want, as many times as they want wherever they want. That's freedom, right? Or people want abundance. The sponsoring thought is really they want freedom, right? Or whatever their sponsoring thought would be,

right? So, so then creating from the field instead of from matter to shorten the distance between cause and effect requires that clear intention with that elevated emotion, coherent brain and coherent heart, tune into that energy and feel it with your brain and your heart. And you have plenty of ways to do that. Examine your personality and examine your personal reality. Change your personality. Change your personal reality. Don't make it be about abundance.

Becoming becoming abundant by overcoming the person who's not abundant. The person who heals themselves from a health condition who's no longer thinking the same way, no longer acting the same way, no longer feeling the same way. You ask them where that disease is when they stand on the stage in front of 1,500 people or 3,000 people and that's a four minute mile. Everybody's leaning in. That's truth right on the stage. They say, where is that, where is the disease?

Oh, it lives in the old person. Wow. I'm somebody else. That's like, that's, I don't even, that's not even a story. It's not even who I am any longer. So, lo and behold, when we do our research, and people do this, in seven days of going all in, at the end of seven days, their body looks like, genetically, With all the metabolites, that they're literally in a different environment.

Here's the weird part. They're in a ballroom. There's not a lot happening in a ballroom. What's happening in a ballroom? I've been to thousands of ballroom. But the environment somehow looks like they're living in a very prosperous, very healthy, very loving, nurturing, a whole environment. Why?

Because they were signaling genes ahead of the environment. And if the environment signals the gene, okay, that's epigenetics, the end product of the experience in the environment is an emotion. If you feel the emotion before the experience, you're signaling the gene ahead of the environment. And genes make proteins. And proteins are responsible for the structure and the function of your body. Looking jack, by the way.

I like that. Look at the muscle over here. The expression of proteins is the expression of life. So you actually become abundant. You actually become that person. And people who are truly abundant have no problem with losing things. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.