The Resilient Mind - Think Differently: Rewiring Your Brain for Success - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: August 1, 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 Think Differently with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. Yeah, so let's start with a very simple understanding. Your personality is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel. So the present personality who's listening to this podcast has created the present personal reality called their life, not their mother, not their ex, you know, they're responsible for creating their life. And if they think the same way,

they act the same way and they feel the same way, they're the same personality. And of course, they'll have the same personal reality. And I think most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality. And it doesn't work. We literally have to become someone else. So then if the majority of our thoughts are the same thoughts based on memories we have of experiences in our life, the moment we start remembering our problems we're thinking in the past, right? So those memories have a feeling or an emotion associated with them. So the moment you think about your problems and you feel unhappy, not only is your brain in the past, now the body's in the past. So it's that thought and that feeling. It's the image or memory and the emotion. It's the

stimulus and response that's immediately conditioning the body to memorize that emotion. Now the body is literally living in the past because it's so objective. It doesn't know the difference between a real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone. So to the body, it's in the past experience 24 hours a day. Okay. So now the body physiologically is now in the past. So then the hormones of stress create the emotions of anger and aggression and frustration and impatience and competition, in hatefulness, and fear, anxiety, worry, insecurity, envy, jealousy, guilt, unworthiness, shame, suffering. Those are all derived from the hormones of stress. Turns out when that response

switches on, when we perceive a threat or a danger in our outer world, the response for from whatever condition in the outer world gives the body an arousal. And so then if you keep doing that, you keep giving the body a rush of energy, the body becomes dependent on its external world to feel something. So the arousal from your co-worker, from your ex, from traffic, from the news, something in your outer environment is producing that kind of addictive rush of energy. then people begin to use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion.

They need the bad job, they need the bad relationship, and they become addicted to the life that they don't even like. And so an addiction is something you think you can't stop, or an addiction is something you know that is not good for you, and you do it anyway. So people are unconscious to the fact that the arousal from the stress hormones, is knocking their brain and body out of homeostasis. It's knocking it out of balance the majority of the time.

So we can actually think about our problems and create the same physiological response as if we were being chased by a predator. So what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive. So you turn on that response, you can't turn it off. Now you're headed for disease, because stress is when the body's knocked out of balance, and there's no opportunity for the body

return back to balance in order. that imbalance becomes the new balance, and that's when we head for some type of disease or imbalance in our bodies. So then those emotions that we feel tend to drive our behaviors and we behave as if we're in the past. And if those emotions are just really chemical records from past experiences, then we probably more than likely remember the past instead of remember the future. So 95% of who we are becomes, you know, an automatic set of programs. in our personality. So if we really teach a person

how to think differently, how to act differently, and how to feel differently, give them new information, have them learn that information, have them teach that information back to somebody so it's wired in their brain,

have them understand exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it so the hell gets easier, remind themselves enough time to install the circuitry so that they have neurons and circuits in place

to make a different choice to do a different thing, create a different experience and feel a different emotion. And if you change your personality, would your biology change? The answer is 100% absolutely yes. And we can do it in seven days. Now, a person with dissociative disorder or multiple personality disorder had traumas in their life, most of them, from childhood.

And the way they coped with the constant abuse was that they would just dissociate from this world and go to another world. And they would live in that world and create a different character than the character that's being abused or molested or whatever. And so each one of those different personalities, just like creating a new personal reality, it takes seven days. They've been doing that for so long that the myriad of personalities of thinking differently, behaving differently, and feeling differently, produces immediate biological changes where the person is allergic to peanuts in one, in one personality and not in the other. So in a sense, that speaks to human potential, because that's exactly what we're doing. when we see people heal from chronic health conditions,

I ask them, where is the disease? Where did the disease go? And 100% of the time, they say, it's in the old person. It's in the old, I'm no longer that person. I'm somebody else. So of course the disease would exist in a different person. I have a different physiology. So teaching a person, after years of years of thinking, acting,

and feeling the same way running those programs. Teaching a person how to become so conscious of their unconscious thoughts, so aware of the defaulting habits and behaviors, and to notice when they start feeling different emotions, that you've got to catch yourself from going unconscious and returning back to that person, for them to unlearn and relearn to break the habit of being themselves and reinvent a new self.

Yeah, I think that most people get so used to feel, a certain way that they don't think on any other level they can feel a different way, unless there's crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis when there's betrayal, when there's loss, when there's something that happens that all of a sudden the feeling changes so much that nothing's making that feeling go away. And the moment you don't feel like yourself any longer, you can really see yourself really clearly through the eyes of someone else. And in our science, that's called metacognition, to be able to become,

unconscious of our unconscious self, so conscious that we don't go unconscious in our waking, hey, that's how people change, you know? So, the stronger the emotion we feel from some challenge or problem in our life, the more altered we are inside of us. Some event occurs, and our chemistry changes. The moment there's a dramatic change in our chemistry, that's the moment the brain freezes a frame and takes a picture, it takes a snapshot, and that's the memory that's embossed in the brain.

What the person doesn't know that the arousal of those chemicals giving the body in a rush of energy to be more alert and be more aware, they keep reviewing the problem 50 to 100 times ruminating over the problem again

and they're producing the same chemistry over and over again to the body and the body in a sense is getting a rush by thought alone. So now it becomes addicted to its own thoughts, right? This gets really kind of because you're not aware that you're doing that, but you're giving your body energy. And so,

so the side effect of it then is the body is dependent on that thought. In fact, if you reasoned with me and you said, I really don't like to suffer, I don't really like to feel like a victim, I don't want to feel unworthy, I want to change that. And everybody goes with their conscious mind. Yay, let's change it. And so you say, okay, well, if I'm suffering and I'm, you know, in pain and I'm a victim, well, victims, what are their behaviors? Oh, well, they complain, they make excuses, they judge other people, they feel sorry for themselves, they need a lot of attention, I don't know, I'm making stuff up. But that could be a behavior that goes along with a person who suffers and feels unhappy most of the time. And then what are the thoughts that you think,

all right? So you could be really, really ambitious and say, I'm going to just stop today. and the first couple hours goes by really well, but as you see the same people and you go to the same places and do the exact same thing at the exact same time in your life, it's no longer that your personality is creating your personal reality. Your personal reality is reminding you of who you are as a personality. The environment is regulating and controlling the way you think. So every person, every object, everything, every place has a neurological network in your brain.

You have a neurological network for your mother. You have a neurological network for your enemy. You have a neurological network for your co-worker because you've experienced them. So in a sense, we're seeing reality through the lens of the past. We're seeing reality as a memory to a human being. So they think and act the same way around that person because they've done that around their spouse for the last 30 years. And they feel certain emotions that they respond to in certain ways.

And stronger the emotion we feel, the more we pay attention to the person, or problem and where we place our attention is where we place our energy. So everybody's attention is being divided on all these different elements in our life. Okay, so the person says, I'm not going to complain, I'm not going to blame, I'm not going to make excuses, I'm not going to feel sorry for myself, I'm not going to feel unhappy, I'm not going to feel unworthy, I'm not going to suffer, I'm going to catch myself thinking the first couple hours goes by really well, but the body's the mind. The servant is the master. The person thinks they're making all their choices with their conscious mind, but they're not. Their body mind is looking for the familiar feeling to keep them in

the known. Keep them in the past, right? The familiar past. So two hours goes by and the body says, I've modified my receptor sites for suffering. I got more, I'm looking for those chemicals. It's the chemical continuity is being broken between the thinking and feeling loop. And the body just says, okay, come on, you can start tomorrow. You're a failure. You're never, you're never good at this. You're too much like your father. You'll never change. This isn't right. You've got to do something differently. You know, all of those thoughts are being driven by the body and the person two hours ago had the intention that they weren't going to do any of these things. And now the war started. Because an addiction now, if you can't stop it, right? Now it's telling you that the body's dependent on the

familiar feelings of the past. The body wants to stay in the past. So it starts to tell and form the the brain. Think the same way so you can make the same choice. You can do the same thing. create the same experience, you can feel the same emotion, you go, oh, my unhappiness feels so good. It feels so, I'm so happy to be unhappy because the unknown is just a dangerous and scary place. That unknown is when the body's stepping outside of its comfort zone, of its predictability, right? It's, it's unfamiliar. There's discomfort. And so the discomfort of being in the unknown causes the person to return back to the same person.

crossing that river of change from the old self to the new self, there is a neurological, a neurochemical, a chemical, a biological, a hormonal, a genetic death of the old self. And we see it and there's dissonance that goes on in the brain. The person's not firing the same circuits. And they're inhibiting the thought that's going to produce the chemical. They're observing it and not responding to it, believing in it. It takes an enormous amount of energy, an enormous amount of awareness to stay conscious. And people think they're doing their meditations wrong when they go unconscious.

No, you're doing it right. The only way you become conscious is to catch yourself thousands of times for going unconscious, and you'll never go unconscious again. That's the overcoming process. And it turns out that it's the overcoming process that is the becoming process. So when the person says, God, I've been addicted to anger or frustration my whole life, well, get ready. The moments you say, I don't want to be addicted to this, the war is on.

The war is on because the body is going to find a reason for you to be angry. It's going to tell you, oh, this is a good reason. No, there's too much traffic you're going to be late. It's, you know, oh my God, I can't believe this person, whatever it is, right? So then the cravings that take place when you're willing to sit through that emotion in your meditation, this is why it's so valuable. Because if you're sitting in your meditation and your body's getting aroused, that's perfect. That's perfect.

That is the animal that's impatient, that's frustrated, that wants to get up and do something, and you're telling the animal to stay. You're telling it to sit. And it usually gets its way, so it starts assaulting the brain. Turns out if you're willing to sit in that emotion, and keep lowering the volume to that emotion, keep taking your attention off that person or problem, keep watching the body get aroused and settle it back down, stop siphoning energy into that. the emotions of the familiar path. Keep doing that sooner or later like training an animal,

the body's no longer going to be the mind. And when it realizes it's no longer the mind, there's going to be a tremendous liberation of energy. And now the person's relaxed in the present moment and the unknown. And that turns out to be a really great place for people to create in. I mean, we have bodies, we have vehicles. We have senses. And we're here, you know, so separate from anybody or anyone, anything, anywhere, anytime we have a free will to create reality we're souls on the journey, right? So you need a body to experience three-dimensional reality, and there's so many wonderful things to experience in this three-dimensional

that we should. I mean, I love great wine. I love great food. I love nature. I love, I love being human in my animal self, you know, to be part of this species of humans. I think we're incarnated for that, right? The problem is, is that we reach a point in our life in the, plane of demonstration, the plane of doing, where we realize that we have to do a lot of things

to get what we want. In other words, you have a thought that you want a new career or a new relationship or a new, you know, you want to be abundant or you want to be healthy or in shape or whatever it is. And you become aware that you're Andre, local in space and time, and then you think about your dream or your vision and our mind automatically calculates and predicts how long it's going to take for that to happen. And so here's one. point of consciousness, then the future is the other point of consciousness, and the separation between two points of consciousness in three-dimensional reality creates time. So in order for me to get that thing, I may have to work harder, I may have to sacrifice and save money, I may have to cheat,

I may have to compete, I may have to steal, I may have to take on a second job, you know, whatever it is, borrow money, to have that experience, right? So it takes time and energy to finally arrive at that event. Now, when the event occurs, the emotion from that event takes away the lack or separation from not having it. That's the prize in three-dimensional reality. But some people spend their whole life dreaming in lack and never actually realizing their goals, right? So they're waiting for their wealth to occur to feel abundant.

They're waiting for their new relationship to feel love. They're waiting for their healing to feel gratitude and wholeness. They're waiting for the mystical moment to feel awe. They're waiting for their success, to feel empowered. They're waiting for something to change in their outer environment to take away the lack or separation from not having it in their environment. So for the most part, they're living by cause and effect. So what do you do when you're madder trying to change matter?

You work harder. You try harder. Your force. You control. You manipulate. That's what matter does when it's trying to change matter. And so we're rushing constantly in separation for the experience that produces the emotion know the feeling that takes it away, okay?

And you can get really good at doing this. I can get really good. You could get trained, you could take courses, you can get coached, you can learn from your mistakes, you could have great parents, whatever it is, you could develop really good habits, and sooner or later you get better at doing it in a shorter amount of time. Well, that's great, that's really cool. My interest is to teach people, well, gosh, can I actually actually, you know, go to a place where I am a creator, can I really think about with a clear intention,

what that future looks like? Could I train and teach my body emotionally what that future feels like before it happens? Now, that goes against a lot of hypnosis. That goes against a lot of programming because the programming says you need this thing in your outer world to take away the feeling of even drugs, to take away the pain or whatever it is, right? So we've become become very dependent on the outer world to change our inner world. And all I'm saying is it's possible then if you can teach people how to be creators in their life and change the way they think and change the way they feel and feel the emotions of their future before it happens.

The cool part of that is that when you're feeling the emotion of your future before it happens, you're not looking for it any longer. Why would you look for it if it feels like you already happen? So then when the synchronicities, when the coincidences, when the serendipities, when the opportunities start showing up in a person's life because they're changing the way they think, the way they act and the way they feel, they get more involved in the creative process. They're saying, I actually am creating this. Get really good at it and learn how to be a creator in the present moment in the unknown. Create from the field instead of from matter, instead of three-dimensional reality. if it's not matter that's creating the field,

but the field that's creating matter, if I could change the information in the field, can I change the hologram or the slowing down of frequency into matter? And could I shorten the distance between the thought of what I want and the experience of having it if I create from the field instead of matter? Now, that's a whole new experiment, right? Because it goes, we've got to get retrained,

we've got reconditioned, we've got to change a lot of beliefs about that, We've got to explain what that field is. We've got to teach people how to get beyond themselves and take all of their attention off their body off of all the elements in their environment and not think about the predictable future or the familiar past to disinvest all of their attention, all their awareness, all of their energy off the particle,

off of matter, off of the physical three-dimensional world. And if it's particle and wave, put all your attention on that wave function. And that wave function, there's nothing physical or material there, so it's nothing. I don't know how else to explain it, it's energy and frequency. If you have a person pay more attention to that, nothing,

and teach them that it's rich in frequency and energy. To feel it, to experience it, to relax into it, to become more of it and less of them. Somehow there is this dramatic change in the information in a person's biology. So then when you create from wholeness instead of lack and separation, and you teach people how to do that, I think you see not only affects in their biology, but ultimately affects in their life.

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