How to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Mind | Dr. Joe Dispenza on Impact Theory (1)
It's a scientific fact that the hormones of stress downregulate genes and create disease. Long-term effects.
Human beings because of the size of the neocortex, we can turn on the stress response
just by thought alone as I think about our problems and turn on those chemicals
That means then our thoughts
Could make us sick
So if it's possible, that our thoughts could make us sick then it is possible then our thoughts could make us well, the answer is absolutely yes
Everybody welcome to Impact Theory our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you
Actually execute on your dreams
Alright today's guest is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the most sought-after speakers in the world
He's lectured and given advanced workshops in more than 30 countries
Across five continents all with the aim of helping people better understand and unlock the power of their mind
His expertise is the intersection of the fields of neuroscience
Epigenetics and quantum physics and he's partnered with other scientists across multiple disciplines to perform
extensive research on the effects of meditation
Using advanced technologies such as epigenetic testing brain mapping with EEG s and gas-discharge
visualization technology. Through his work
He is endeavouring to help advance both the scientific community and the public at large as understanding of mind derived health
optimization, a topic he covered extensively in his groundbreaking book, You are the placebo.
His teaching has had such a profound impact on the way that people perceive a wide range of brain related topics around
Mindfulness and well-being that he's a faculty member at the quantum University in Hawaii the Omega Institute for holistic studies in New York
And the Kerr Paulo Centre for yoga and health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts
He's also an invited chair of the research committee at life University in Atlanta
As well as a corporate consultant where he delivers his lectures and workshops for businesses
So, please help me in welcoming the man who has appeared in such films as Heal, People versus the state of illusion and Unleashing creativity
The author of the recent book Becoming supernatural. Dr. Joe Dispenza
Thanks for being here
So, diving into your world and how you perceive the sense of self and
the way that you marry science to - the way that we form memories the way that we live in a perpetual state of
Reliving our past and things like that
It's really, really incredible and I want to dive into the whole notion of you sort of being a habitual
Construct like what? What is that? What is the habit of you?
Well a habit is a redundant set of
Automatic unconscious thoughts, behaviors and emotions that's acquired through repetition
The habit is when you've done done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your mind
So if you think about it people wake up in the morning
they
Begin to think about their problems
Those problems are circuits, memories in the brain, each
One of those memories are connected to people and things at certain times and places and if the brain is a record of the past
The moment they start their day, they're already thinking in the past. Each one of those memories has an emotion
Emotions are the end product of past experiences
So the moment they recall those memories of their problems, they all of a sudden feel unhappy, they feel sad, they feel pain
Now how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. So the person's entire
State of being when they start their day is in the past. So what does that mean?
The familiar past will sooner or later be predictable future
so if you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny and
You can't think greater than how you feel
Or feelings have become the means of thinking by very definition of emotions you're thinking in the past
And for the most part you're going to keep creating the same life, so then people grab their cell phone
They check their WhatsApp. They check their texts. They check their emails. They check Facebook
They take a picture of their feet. They post it on Facebook. They tweet something, they do Instagram
they check the news and now they feel really connected to everything that's known in their life
And then they go through a series of routine behaviors
They get out of bed on the same side. They go to the toilet. They get a cup of coffee
They take a shower, they get dressed, they drive to work the same way. They do the same things
They see the same people that pushed the same emotional buttons and that becomes the routine and it becomes like a program
So now they've lost their free will
To a program and there's no unseen hand doing it to them. So when it comes time to change the
Redundancy of that cycle becomes a subconscious program. So now
95% of who we are by the time we're 35 years old is a
Memorized set of behaviors, emotional reactions, unconscious habits, hardwired attitudes, beliefs and perceptions that function like a computer program
So then person can say with their five percent of their conscious mind. I want to be healthy
I want to be happy. I want to be free but the body's on a whole different program
So then how do you begin to make those changes? Well?
you have to get beyond the analytical mind because what separates the conscious mind from the
Subconscious mind is the analytical mind and that's where meditation comes in because you can teach people
through practice how to change their brainwaves, slow them down and when they do that
Properly they do enter the operating system where they can begin to make some really important changes. So
Most people then wait for crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis, you know, they wait for loss
some tragedy to make up their mind to change and my message is why wait and and
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
I think right now the cool thing is that people are waking up
that's
really interesting and where I found the
the deepest hooks into how powerful this can be for somebody is when you talk about trauma and you've talked about how
People experience a traumatic event, but they then basically rehearse it and how that then has this knock-on effect. So, what is that?
Why do people find it so hard to get past trauma? Well?
the the stronger the emotional reaction
You have to some experience in your life the higher the emotional quotient
The more you pay attention to the cause and the moment the brain puts all of its attention on the cause
It takes a snapshot and that's called a memory. So long-term memories are created from very highly
Emotional experiences. So what happens then is that people think neurologically within the circuitry of that experience and
they feel chemically within the boundaries of those emotions and
So when you have an emotional reaction to someone or something most people think that they can't control their emotional reaction
Well, it turns out if you allow that emotional reaction, it's called a refractory period to last for hours or days
That's called the mood. I say to someone. Hey, what's up think so I'm gonna move well, why are you in a mood?
well
I had this thing happen to me five days ago and I'm having one long emotional reaction if you keep that same
emotional reaction going on for weeks or months
That's called temperament. Why is he so bitter? I don't know. Let's ask him. Why is he so bitter? Why are you bitter?
Well, I had this thing happened to me nine months ago
And if you keep that same emotional reaction going on for years on end that's called a personality trait
And so learning how to shorten your refractory period of emotional reactions is really where that work starts
So then people when they have an event
what they do is they keep recalling the event because the
Emotions of stress hormones the survival emotions are saying pay attention to what happened
Because you want to be prepared if it happens again
Turns out most people spend 70% of their life living in survival and living in stress. So they're they're always
Anticipating the worst-case scenario based on a past experience and they're literally out of the infinite
potentials in the quantum field they're selecting the worst possible outcome and they're beginning to emotionally embrace it with fear and their
Conditioning their body into a state of fear do that enough times
Body has a panic attack without you you you can't even predict it because it's programmed subconsciously
So then you say to the person why are you this way?
And they'll say I am this way because of this event that happened to me
15 or 20 years ago and what that means from biological standpoint is that they haven't been able to change since that event
So then the emotions from the experience tend to give the body and the brain a rush of energy
So people become addicted
To the rush of those emotions and they use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their limitation
So at least they can feel something. So now when it comes time to change you say the person why are you this way?
Well, every time they recall the event they're producing the same chemistry in their brain and body as if the event is occurring
firing and wiring the same circuits and
Settings the same emotional signature to the body. Well, what's the revelant behind that? Well your body is the unconscious mind
It doesn't know the difference between the experience that's creating the emotion and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone
So the body's believing it's living in the same past experience
24 hours a day seven days a week 365 days a year
and so then when those emotions influence certain thoughts and they do and
Then those thoughts create the same emotions and those same emotions influence the same thoughts
Now the entire person's state of being is in the past. So then
the hardest part about change is not making the same choice as you did the day before a period and
The moment you decide to make a different choice get ready because it's going to feel uncomfortable
It's going to feel unfamiliar. It's there's gonna be something so why does it feel so uncomfortable? Is it because of the the
neurons that fire together wire together
so I've there's like an
Easiness to that loop just because literally and you've talked very eloquently
about this the way that the neurons connect in the brain how rapidly I've seen you show footage of how
Rapidly those connections happen, which is pretty incredible
Is is that what makes it so?
discomforting for people I think that I think that the bigger thing is that we we keep
Firing and wiring those circuits they become more hardwired. So there you have a thought and then the program runs
but it's the emotion that
follows the thought if you have a if you have a
Fearful thought you're gonna feel anxiety the moment you feel anxiety your brains checking in with your body and saying yeah, you're pretty anxious
so then you start thinking more corresponding thoughts equaled how you