The Resilient Mind - Rewriting Your Reality: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: March 26, 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_JournalSubscribe to Steven Bartlett for more inspiring videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to, rewriting your reality, change your mind, change your life with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Every time you catch yourself going unconscious, catch yourself going unconscious and become conscious, that's a victory.

And as tedious as it may be. in the beginning, the more you catch yourself going on conscious and becoming conscious, the more conscious you become in your life. And all of a sudden, you begin to pay attention to things that you weren't paying attention to before. So in the work that we do, we say that being in the present moment, truly in the present moment, is being comfortable in the unknown, right? The present moment is the unknown, because there is the familiar past that we feel that we feel

emotionally and we have the predictable future, which are both the knowns. Being the present moment is being in the unknown, and that goes against thousands of years of programming, because our biology is programmed that if we are truly in the unknown, we should be in survival. Because if you're in survival and you're in the fighter flight system, the unknown is a threat. It's a danger. So always try to predict the future based on the past, and you'll have better chances of survival. Predict the worst case scenario, be ready for that. Anything less that happens, you have better chance of surviving.

So then to rest in the unknown goes against a lot of our biology. And we discover that when a person keeps doing it over and over again, the body gets agitated, it gets frustrated, it gets impatient, instead of the person saying, I quit. Give them something to do, and they can lower the volume to the emotion and say, settle the animal down, like training an animal, settling the body back down into the present moment. We teach people how to do that, and that's the victory. Giving them something to do? Yeah, they have something to do when that comes up, okay?

Which is... I'll get to it in a second. And if they catch their mind going from a person to another person to another object, to their cell phone, to their computer, to a place they need to be and, you know, at a time, and they catch themselves with their brain firing in modulated, compartments. If they keep catching themselves doing that, if they keep doing that and they catch the circuit when it's firing and they settle it down, in time, sooner or later, they're going to stop firing those circuits in the brain. And their brainwaves begin to

change from an agitated, aroused state into a more coherent and slower brainwave state. So when they do this enough times, the brain begins to synchronize. The brain begins to fire in greater levels of wholeness or greater levels of order. So when that occurs then, the nervous system gets very regulated, gets very orderly. The autonomic nervous system moves into a state of regulation. Disregulation of the autonomic nervous system is called stress, right? So to answer your question, when people do this really well, in just a few days, they'll get really good at it. The side effect of that is they get very relaxed in their heart. It's relaxed in the heart, and it's awake in the brain.

And the more relaxed you get in your heart, we've discovered, really relaxing into your heart, the more the heart informs the brain to get creative. And so now the person has this kind of synchronization that's taking place between their heart and their brain as well. And they can rest in the present moment. So the way you do that, that is you define what it really means to change. And to change is to be greater than the conditions in your environment, to be able to think, act, and feel differently in your same environment. That's

what changes. To change is to be greater than your body. To be greater than its drives in a meditation, I'm speaking specifically, greater than its emotional responses, its memories, its emotional reactions, greater than its habits. The habit is when you've done something so many times the body knows how to do it better than the conscious mind. So if you're sitting in a meditation, your body wants to get up and wants to get going,

I've got people to see things to do. That's kind of like automatic, right? And people get up and they say, I can't meditate. But if you tell them that when you notice that, you bring your body back into the present moment, you settle it down and tell it it's no longer the mind

that you're the mind. You're training the animal sooner or later, the body literally responds to a new mind. And there's literally a liberation of energy. The body begins to liberate energy. And if the person's not thinking about time, if you're not thinking about where you need to be, where you need to go, where you were yesterday, where you're sitting, where you live, if you're not thinking about any place, you can go from somewhere to nowhere. And if you're not thinking about the predictable future or the familiar past, you can go from some time to no time. And we discovered when a person becomes nobody, no one, no thing,

nowhere, and no time. They literally become pure consciousness. And opening our awareness, I know this is kind of difficult to explain because we're materialists, opening our awareness to nothing. And sensing space tends to cause us to move more into the eternal present moment. and there's a change that takes place in the brain. So we teach that. You'll become so conscious of those unconscious habits that more than likely you won't want to do them again. And that's what, for the most part, change is about.

So I think people wait for crisis, you know, they wait for disease, they wait for a betrayal, something to go wrong in their life. And that's when they go, okay, I'm ready to change. My message is, why wait, dude? Like, why wait for that? You know, we can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering. We can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration.

So then you get a collective group of people together that really may have all those bad habits. They may even have bad habits that they don't even know they have. And then all of a sudden they become aware that they've been blaming and complaining and making excuses and feeling sorry for themselves and procrastinating. And they start to reason if my personality creates my personal, reality. If I'm going to create a new personal reality, I've got to change my personality. Because this guy, that's this, isn't the guy that wants to be happy. This is the guy who's committed to being unhappy. Okay, let's break it down. Let's get down the fundamentals. And now we give

them a roadmap of their thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that they have lived by. Is that step two? Yeah, you could say that step two is becoming conscious of your unconscious self, and then becoming conscious of a new self, reinventing a new self. And so the person who's feeling really bad about themselves because they're not doing anything to change, it's just because when you're not changing, you're still choosing. But what you're choosing is something that makes you feel familiar and comfortable. Because the moment you decide to change, truly get serious about change. The moment you decide to make a different choice and do something differently, you are going to feel uncomfortable. It's going to be immediate. And that's the moment you go

from the known into the unknown. Now, if the body has been emotionally conditioned to be the mind like we talked about earlier, the servant is the master. And so the person who steps out into the unknown and it feels uncomfortable, what is the body going to say? Get back to suffering. Get back to suffering. Get back to feeling bad, get back to feeling guilty. At least that's familiar, that's known. So tell a person there's going to be a biological death of the old self, neurologically, chemically, hormonally, genetically, the old self's going to die. Just know that that's going to happen. But instead of white knuckling it across the river of change, we're going to give you something to do because that unknown place is the perfect place to create. And so let's get you into the unknown.

But let's get you there where you're relaxed and awake. You're not escaping. And if you do that really well, you'll be in a creative state. So you actually will be out of survival and you'll be able to create because you could only be in survival or creation. Can't be in both. So let's get your body physiologically back in the balance. Let's get it there. Now, who do you want to be? What do you want to believe?

Let's review that. What's a belief? A thought you keep thinking over and over in your brain. Keep remembering to think this way in your meditation. How am I going to be with my ex or my boss? Let me close my eyes and think about what you're going to be. and think about what greatness looks like, what forgiveness would do, what love would do. Let me just, let me close my eyes and mentally rehearse how I'm going to be in that circumstance.

I'm going to keep remembering to do these things so I don't forget. Keep doing it over and over again. You start installing the hardware. Repeated enough times, it gets like a software program. You start behaving that way automatically. And then, my goodness, is it possible to teach our body emotionally how we do want to feel before it happens? In other words, don't wait for your wealth to feel abundant or your success to feel empowered or your healing to feel wholeness.

That's waiting for something in your outer world to change, to take away the emptiness or lack that you're feeling in your inner world. Teach your body emotionally what it feels like ahead of the actual experience. And the moments you start feeling abundant, you're generating wealth. The moment you can embody empowerment, you're stepping towards your success. the moments you feel grateful and whole, the healing begins, right? So now you're starting to cause an effect in your life. So have the person keep remembering to feel that way and have them practice.

Sooner or later, they'll start feeling that way more. And the more they feel that way, the more they'll believe in their future. And some people get so good at doing it that they walk around feeling that emotion, they feel like their future has already happened. And when you feel like the future has already happened, you stop looking for it. And that's when the magic starts to take place in people's lives, the synchronicities, the coincidences, the opportunities, they start coming to them in their life. And that's the reflection of their own personal change.

A scientist asked me this, you know, we talk about this all the time. Sometimes being in such severe lack of, and desperation, desperation, you know, creates a state where you can't hear anything because no new information can enter the nervous system that is not equal to the emotion the person is experiencing. Just as a broad understanding, this is why we don't do questions in our events. Because you can give the person the answer to the question that they're asking you, and they will not hear you. They will not hear you.

In fact, they will argue against you. but if you get that person out of that emotional state, and the only person that's going to do that is them, by the way, get that person out of their emotional state, they can hear that information. So sometimes we're programmed into such lack. We're programmed, right? To wait for something out there to change

to take away this emptiness or lack. You know, when this happens, I'll feel this, you know. And so when things are good in our life, we feel good. And when things aren't so good in our life, we feel bad. so we're kind of victimized to the circumstances in our life. Our outer world is controlling our inner world of thoughts and feelings. So if a person has been programmed into saying, why haven't I healed?

Why hasn't this happened in my life? Because the person who's saying, why haven't I healed is the old self. The new self would never say that, right? the new self is too busy overcoming and becoming, right? So I think people meet information at their own level. But what I can tell you that is so compelling and so exciting is that when we get people on the stage, and it happens every event, it's really quite unbelievable. To see a person stand on the stage in front of 2300 people, you would walk right past her in the grocery restore. She doesn't look vegan. She doesn't look ketogenic. She doesn't look particularly fit or young or

dressed well, you know, whatever that is. She just looks like a normal person. And they stand on the stage and they tell their story of how they were diagnosed with cancer or whatever the condition is. And what they did in their life to change those health conditions and there's numerous health conditions. And I look out in the audience, and I look at people, there isn't a soul in the audience that isn't leaning in. Everybody is leaning in because there's the example of truth on the stage, and there's nothing like a good story, right? So the change that we're seeing in our community is that there's a greater acceptance, a greater belief, a greater understanding, a greater awareness, a greater awareness to the idea that you could actually heal because people witness it. And the person in the

audience who's seeing that person who healed themselves from whatever health condition it is relates to them. And they say, my God, if that person can do it, I can do it as well. And just like an infection spreads amongst a culture and creates disease, health and wellness can become as infectious as disease, right? And so we have, it's not uncommon. Like when that person stands on the stage and they're the four-minute mile. If the person has Renard's syndrome, we've had events where four other people with Renard's syndrome healed at the end of the event, like no longer have any symptoms at all. Or we've had five people in one event step out of a wheelchair. Now, if you ask me if I ever thought that was possible, I would say no. So I do think when a person sees that example,

of truth, their awareness of possibility begins to change. And the evidence then allows the person to increase their own belief in themselves and impossibility. You used to word earlier on the word identity. And I've been pondering over the last couple of weeks whether identity is useful because this is a really trivial example. But I've told myself for a long time I don't like running. And this Christmas, I decided that it's probably important for me to take on some of these limiting beliefs I have. So I just started running. And in doing so, in going through the pain of like, oh, my legs hurt, whatever,

I had this sort of realization that, like, what other areas of my life have I just created a story that is closing in on me and making my life more narrow and in terms of how I think or, like, my health or whatever? And so for the last couple of weeks, I've really been thinking about this concept of identity, like what it is, why we create one, and how harmful or positive it might be to all of us. Yeah. Well, look, I mean, I think we're all a work in progress, right?

I think it's an uncovering process. So I always tell people you can be anybody you want. You can be any character you want to be in three-dimensional reality in this kind of virtual reality experience. You get to put on any character. But when it comes time to create, when it comes time to connect, you've got to lay down that character. You've got to lay down the identity.

You've got to lay down that person, right? And some people have become so idealized to their identity that they can't be anything else. And so I don't think the identity is bad. I think as long as we're able to lay it down when we create, it's important. And by the same means, if there are aspects of your personality or your identity that is undermining your life in some way. And this happens to so many people we see even with, you know, when they're, when they're getting healings that their blood values get better and then they get back into their life and then blood values go back up and then they get more healings and their blood values go down and

they go back into their life. And sooner or later, this goes on four or five times. They say, is it me? Like, do I have something to do with this? And the answer is always yes. If you want to take the sign, you can't take one bite. You got to actually. the whole thing. So, so the, so then what aspect of your identity then is limiting you? And what is that story that you're saying to reaffirm it to be the truth? And is it really the truth? And if it's not the truth, then you've got to make a decision. And you got to make a decision with such firm intention to change that belief that the amplitude of that choice carries a level of energy that causes your body to respond to your mind, that the choice that you're making in that

moment becomes a moment in time that you'll never forget. In other words, you have to say, I knew exactly where I was, what I was doing, what time of day it was when I made up my mind to change, right? It becomes a long-term memory. And the stronger emotion, the stronger the emotion you feel when you make that choice, the more you remember the choice, right? And so you can't say, oh, well, I think I'm going to change this kind of part of my identity. Your body's going to say, he's lying. Like, he's not serious. He's going to still make the same choice.

When you say this is it, I don't care how long it takes time. I don't care how I feel, body. I don't care what people think of me or what's going on in my life environment. I'm going to change. And you come out of your resting state and you make that choice. You're giving your body a taste of the future, emotionally. That's what you're doing. And so people who make up their mind that change, they have to come out of their resting state and they have to say, I'm doing this. And that is a

strong signal in the field. So does that mean that if I do want to change and I need that kind of escape velocity from my old self, the why, the reason must be abundantly clear and incredibly strong? So if I'm making a New Year's resolution, I'm not going to just say, listen, I want this New Year's resolution because I think people will think better of me if I have it. It's got to be so deep in my core and I've got to be so clear and be able to articulate the reason why this matters to me for it to stand a chance. Yeah. We call that assigning meaning.

So it's so important to assign meaning to the task or the act that we're engaging. And one of the best way to do that is to hold that vision or the dream of why you're doing it. I want to be healthier. I want to be more fit. I want to be more wealthy. I want to be more free. I want to be more in love, whatever it is. The only thing that's stopping you from being any of those things is just a part of your identity

that has to change so that you get there. And nothing's mystical about this. If you said, I want to be wealthy, this is your goal, this is your vision. And here you are in lack. The only way you're going to get wealthy is this person's going to have to change a lot to find that wealth, right? So there's nothing mystical about this. We've all done it at some.

point in our life where we just made up our mind. And what did we do when we did it? We got very clear, like, okay, let me remind myself what that vision is. I just got to remember, why am I doing this? Okay, so I'm going to have to make a different choice. I mean, write down those choices I have to make. I'm going to start doing different things. Okay, and what am I going to do? Let me remind myself what I need to do. Okay, why am I doing it? I'm doing for this experience. Yeah, I know it might hurt my legs in the beginning or whatever it is. I know it may be a little uncomfortable, but I'm going for this goal. This is my goal. And the more we fascinate about that experience, the more we start feeling the emotion of that future, that's when your body, what we've discovered, is beginning to biologically change because

it's starting to feel the emotion of the future ahead of time, right? So that keeps a person on the journey. Then we do something really great. We say, what thoughts do I want to stay away from? I can't say, there's no way I'm going to say I can't feel like it. I mean, if you're truly committed to being healthy and you're going to exercise, you can never say, I'm too tired. You can never say, I don't feel like it. That's going to cause you to not make the choice, right? So it's kind of this process where we're kind of doing that exact thing.

We're actually looking at the old identity and we're reminding ourselves of who we want to become, right, until you become it. And we discovered it's the overcoming process that is the becoming process. When the person overcomes some belief, some behavior, some emotion, when they truly overcome it, they naturally become somebody else. It's just a side effect. Their work in doing that makes them love themselves more. You also have a lot of case studies of, I was reading a lot of them from Army veterans

and people that have been through pretty horrific experiences in the army. I was reading a story of Joshua, who was an army veteran who, I believe, came to one of your events and took part in your meditation and described it in his own words as his heart cracked wide open. Yeah. What happened with Joshua? Because that's a good example of personal transformation.

Well, we have a program right now in the veterans, the Navy SEALs, Special Ops. simply because there's lots of stories like Joshua, where he was pretty much ready to give up on his life. And many of these veterans, you know, they cope to the best of their ability, but in the back of their mind, they have an exit plan. They have the drugs ready. They're thinking about taking their life.

Many of them think this way. and they've done so many different types of things to help themselves. And even a lot of them have done plant medicine and mushrooms and ketamine and all kinds of things to help them. But on some level, their PTSD wouldn't, doesn't go away. And Joshua was a great example because he was at the very bottom of a point in his life where he was ready to give up. And, you know, the thing that I like to do with veterans is to reason with them. If you have a, if you have a Navy SEAL, right? And these are elite individuals.

If I tell them exactly what will happen if they practice opening their heart, if I say to them, it's going to reset the baseline for trauma in the brain, they don't say, how do I do it? They say, yes, sir, like, I'm going to do it until it happens. And that's what happens to all of these guys. they get their, there's so much trauma in their brain and body, there's so much incoherence in their nervous system, there's so many physical problems that they're having, that they, they, they, they're just really out of balance. So if we, if we work with these people and give them all the information and give them numerous opportunities to apply it,

so many of them break through. And that's the moment their brain and body literally are no longer connected to the memory or the emotion that keeps them in the past. And they get recalibrated. Yeah, traumatic. Again, you know, we interview a lot of these veterans. You know, we interviewed this. He didn't know anything about meditation. This guy never meditated in his life.

You know, he didn't know anything about me. He didn't know any. He didn't even know where he was going. This is how blind the study was. And he got there and he was just like, there's no way. Like, I'm going to hang out with all these people. he was really, you know, and, you know, always on guard. And they asked him in front of the camera, like, my goodness, like, what happened? And he, like, he got, this is a guy that looks like a Navy SEAL.

And he paused for like a minute. And he got so emotional and said, I got my life back. I got my life back. I got every, my marriage is great again. I'm in love with my kids. I can feel again. I'm happy. Like, I'm not faking it. I really. feel a change, you know. So that's how the vet program kind of grew because the veteran program was just a few vets coming that were, again, injured in some way physically or emotionally, and completely different at the end of the event. They're going to go tell their tribe, like right away, like, you've got to do this. This really helped me. So we have a strong veteran community and, you know, we have one of our nonprofits, the Give to Give Foundation, that works with

veterans and we create all kinds of programs for them to heal and we're super proud of the results we're getting. I think it's really one of the fundamental things that keep us alive. I mean, forgiveness to me is just overcoming the emotion. That's it. And like if you overcome the emotion, the side effect of that is that your heart will open. That's exactly what happens. And when energy moves into the heart, we start releasing different chemicals than when we feel angry or we feel victimized or when we feel sexual. It's just a different chemical elixir. And oxytocin is released. And oxytocin signals nitric oxide. And nitric oxide signals another chemical that causes the arteries in your heart to literally dilate. The heart gets filled with energy. It's engorged with blood. And when that occurs, the oxytocin levels

that you're feeling, the love that you're feeling, the studies show that when oxytocin levels are just elevated a little bit, it's really hard to hold a grudge. You just can't, right? So if you're willing to forgive and you overcome the emotion, you'll take your attention off the person or the problem, right? Because the stronger the emotion we have, the more we pay attention to our problems or the person, right?

Overcome the emotion, you no longer have your attention on that person. And in a sense, you're taking energy and you're calling it back to you, right? you're building your own field. And so love is the elixir that allows us to forgive. In other words, you can't say, I'm going to forgive you. It's January 31st or February 1st. Remember this day, we got a thing, I forgave you. That's not like forgiveness. When people really have that feeling of pure love where they've actually gotten over the emotion, they've already forgiven. They're like, I'm totally cool. I'm great. You're great. I'm great. So it's a side effect of a change because if the stronger the emotion we feel, the more we pay attention to that person, where we place our

attention is where we place our energy. Okay. Overcome the emotion. You no longer have your attention on that person. You're calling energy back to you and you're building your own field. And there's energy now to heal. There's energy now to create. There's energy now for the mystical experience. And so you can't do that if you're feeling frustrated or if you're feeling anger, if you're feeling resentment, you'll always hold the grudge. You have to convert. You have to teach a person how to get into that elevated state. And the side effect of that is forgiveness. It's not something that you have to do.

It's just something that automatically happens. The only way you're going to free yourself from that person or from that past experience is for you to literally overcome the emotion. So, God, we've all had people do really horrible things, and we've probably done some horrible things to people as well. But I don't think you can free yourself or free them unless you decide that love is going to be the thing that heals it. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.

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