The Resilient Mind - Your Thoughts Create Your Reality - Dr. Joe Dispenza

Episode Date: March 15, 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 Your Thoughts Create Your Reality with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. If feelings and emotions are the end product of past experiences and you are feeling the same way every single day, doesn't that mean nothing new is happening in your life? As long as you're thinking equal to your environment, you keep creating the same life.

You think 60 to 70,000 thoughts in one day. Out of those 60 to 70,000 thoughts that you think in one day, 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before. So if you believe that your thoughts somehow are connected to your life, then the same thoughts always lead to the same choices. The same choices always lead to the same behaviors. The same behaviors create the same experiences, and the same experiences produce the same emotions.

And those very same emotions drive the very same thoughts. And your biology, your neurocircuitary, your neurochemistry, your neuroharmones, and even your genetic expression is equal to how you think, how you act, and how you feel. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it.

So then if you wanted to create a new personal reality, a new life, then you would have to start thinking about what you've been thinking about and change it. You would have to become aware of your unconscious thoughts and observe them. You would have to pay attention to your automatic habits and behaviors and modify them. And you would have to look at the emotions you live by every single day that are connected to your past and decide if those emotions belong in your future. You see, most people try to create a new personal reality as the same personality, and it doesn't work. You literally have to become someone else.

So your brain is organized to reflect everything you know in your life. Your brain is a record of the past. It's an artifact of all the things you've learned and experienced to this moment. So if you wake up every morning and get out of bed on the same side, shut the alarm clock off with the same finger, shuffle into the bathroom and use the toilet like you always do, go and get a cup of coffee and drink coffee out of your favorite mug, Then get in the shower and wash yourself off in the same routine way.

Drive to work, get to work, see the same people that push the same emotional buttons, do the same things that you've memorized and do so well. Then hurry up and go home and hurry up and check your emails, and hurry up and check your Facebook, and then watch your favorite television show, then hurry up and go to bed. here's my question. Did your brain change at all that day? We could say that you were thinking the same thoughts,

performing the same unconscious actions, living by the same emotions, but secretly expecting your life to change. And by the time you're 35 years old, this is science now, we become a set of memorized behaviors, unconscious habits, automatic emotional reactions, beliefs and perceptions, and even attitudes that function just like a computer program.

And so 95% of most people's behaviors, attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, emotional reactions, are subconscious programs. So if your brain is a record of the past, and you don't have a brain. have a vision of the future, then you are living in the past. And you will never arrive at that new future. If feelings and emotions are the end product of past experiences, and you are feeling the same way every single day, doesn't that mean nothing new is happening in your life? and you feel sadness or guilt or shame or unworthiness or insecurity, all of those emotions are created from past experiences. And when you feel those emotions and those emotions drive certain thoughts

and then those thoughts make certain chemicals for you to feel the same emotion and then those emotions drive certain thoughts, the repetition of that cycle then, conditions the body to memorize that emotional state better than the mind. And now your body literally is in the past. Because if you can't think greater than how you feel, then you are thinking in the past. And so most people then spend the majority of their life

talking about why they never arrive at their vision of the future because of some past experience. so then your brain and body are typically in the past because thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body and how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. So if you think insecure thoughts, in a matter of seconds, you are going to feel insecure.

The moment you feel insecure, your brain is monitoring how you're feeling and you think more insecure thoughts, which then makes you feel more insecure. And the repetition of that cycle conditions the body to become the mind of insecurity. And then the person says, I am insecure. And whenever you say, I am anything, you are commanding your mind and body into a destiny. So then how do people change?

They wait for crisis, trauma, disease, diagnosis, loss. Something has to go wrong in their life, where they feel so uncomfortable that they finally make up their mind to change. And why is that? Because after the trauma or the crisis, they don't feel like of themselves. and the moment they don't feel like themselves, they could actually observe themselves because they are looking at themselves

through the eyes of someone else. But my message is, why wait? You can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration. So then, if your brain is a record of the past and you are living by the same emotions that have defined you for the last 10 years and you keep thinking the same thoughts that make the same chemicals and those same chemicals drive the same thoughts,

then your body as the unconscious mind does not know the difference between an actual experience in your life that creates an emotion and an emotion that you're creating by thought alone and so your body is believing it's in the same past experience 24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year and your body is programmed into the past and you can't create a new future holding on to the emotions of the past when you react to someone or something in your life you have a choice that when an event changes how you feel

there's a chemical change that's taking place in your body and most people don't think they can control their emotional reactions and so then when you react to some co-worker or some relative or somebody in traffic the moment you react emotionally you are altered chemically and if you don't know how to control your emotional reaction after that event, and you allow those emotions to linger for hours or days, you know what that's called?

That's called a mood. And people wear their emotions on their sleeve, and that's who they think they are, and they will talk about the past to validate why they're not creating the life that they want. so then if you wake up in the morning and you are not being defined by a vision that's bigger than you and it doesn't get you out of bed and inspire you into possibility and you get up living from the old hardware of the past

and the old emotions stored in your body do you know what's going to happen to you you're going to wake up and you're going to open your eyes and you're going to see the same people and go to the same places and do the exact same thing at the exact same time. And the moment you open your eyes, all of a sudden now, it's your external environment that's controlling how you think and feel.

Because you have a neurological network in your brain for every person you know, every place that you go, everything that you own, everything that you do. And the moment you open your eyes and you see the same people and go to the same places and do the exact same thing at the exact same time, it's your external environment that's turning on different circuits in your brain, causing you to think equal to everything that you know.

And you told me you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny. And as long as your thinking equal to your environment, you keep creating the same life to change. To truly change is to think greater than your environment, to think greater than the circumstances in your life, to think greater than the conditions in your world, and every great person in history knew this, whether it was Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King,

the Wright brothers, Joan of Arc. They all had a vision. Couldn't see it, couldn't smell it, couldn't taste it, couldn't feel it, but it was alive in their mind. It was so alive in their mind that they began to live as if that future reality

was happening in the present moment. So here's my question. Can you believe in a future that you can't see or experience with your senses yet? But you've thought about enough times in your mind that your brain is literally changed to look like the event has already a concern.

heard, latest research in neuroscience, says you can change your brain from living in the past to living in the future. And can you fall in love with that vision to such a degree that you come out of your resting state and change guilt or suffering into inspiration and joy and gratitude? to such a degree that your body as the unconscious mind does not know the difference between that external event and what you're creating internally, so that your body believes it's living in that future in the present moment, and you begin to signal new genes in new ways to change your body

to look like the event has already occurred. The latest research in epigenetics says you can change your body by thought alone. Now reason this with me. If there's physical evidence in your brain and body to look like the event has already occurred, your brain and body are no longer living in the past. They're living in the future. And you will walk right into your vision. you woke up one day or you had a wild thought out of nowhere.

And that thought was a possibility in the future. Something new you wanted to experience. And the moment you started thinking about this experience, the moment you started contemplating this potential reality, you turned on a part of your brain called the frontal lobe, the crowning achievement of the human being. It's 40% of your entire brain. It is the creative center.

And it has connections to all other parts of the brain. And the moment you said, what would it be like to be a leader? What would it be like to be successful? What would it be like to have this vision come true? The moment you asked that open-ended question, you turned on this part of the brain. because the rest of the brain is just a bunch of automatic programs. And now the frontal lobe, the creative center, wakes up.

And it has connections to the entire brain. It's the CEO. It's the boss. It's the symphony leader of the brain. And the moment you get creative, the frontal lobe begins to select different networks of neurons that are stored in your brain from things you've learned or experienced. And as you begin to think a what-if question,

it begins to select these different networks and begins to seamlessly piece them together and making your brain fire in new sequences and in new patterns and new combinations. And whenever you make your brain work differently, you're changing your mind. Because mind is the brain in action. Mind is the brain at work.

And the moment those neurons fire in tandem you get a picture in your mind, a hologram, a vision, an abstraction. And for those people who are passionate, that thought that they're thinking begins to create an elevated emotion. They become inspired. They feel enthusiastic in Theos filled with God. They become passionate. They started to open their hearts.

And all of a sudden, they're combining a clear intention with an elevated emotion. And it's the combination of a clear intention and an elevated emotion in our research over and over again that proves then the person now is changing fundamentally, changing biologically, changing internally. And their brain and body are moving from living in the past into living in the future. When you do that, when you had that moment, you came out of your resting state, and then you started to write down all the things you were going to do to get to that vision, all the choices you were going to make, all of the experiences or goals you wanted to achieve,

and all of the emotions and the joy you would feel. And when you were doing that, you were setting your sights towards that, destiny and then you did something really brilliant. You wrote down the choices you weren't going to make. You became aware of the behaviors you weren't going to demonstrate. You began to review certain experiences you wanted to stay away from. And then you looked at the emotions that would bring you to a lower level and you began to separate the old self from the new self. And when you begin to do do that, and you're observing the old self, it means you're no longer the program. Now you're the consciousness observing the program. And that's when you begin to objectify your subjective self.

Going from the old self to the new self, stepping into that void, stepping into that uncertainty, is the biological, the neurological, the chemical, the hormonal genetic death of the old self. The best way to predict your future is to create it. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.