How to Unlock the Full Potential of Your Mind | Dr. Joe Dispenza on Impact Theory (3)
When that program jumps ins because the person doesn't want to be in the present moment and engage it consciously
So when you teach people how to do that with a meditative process
Turns out that when they're in their life
They're less likely to emotionally react
they're less likely to be so rigid and believe the thoughts they were thinking they're more aware of when they go unconscious back into a
habit
and that is what starts the process of change and
So we have to unlearn
Before we relearn we have to break the habit of the old self before we reinvent a new self
We have to pre synaptic connections and sprout new connections. We have to unfired unwire and refire and rewire. We have to unmemorable
Body to a new mind into a new emotion like the program and reprogram that's the act and it's a two-step process
Yeah, I like the way that you call that out as an action
There was another thing that you said that I thought was really powerful about how insights themselves are essentially inert. They don't do anything
What what then do we do with an insight?
How do we take a breakthrough moment and make sure that it's not just a breakthrough moment
Like I guarantee people watching right now are having like a hundred aha moments for sure
That was definitely the case for me as I was researching you and when you said that I was like and that's the danger that
You have the AHA and then nothing. Yeah
Yeah
and that's it's a it is a danger because then people will will shrink back into mediocracy and they'll use the insight to
Excuse them from taking a leap. They'll say yeah, you know, I have a chemical imbalance in my brain. Yeah, my father was
Really overbearing he was a perfectionist. That's why I am the way
I am you know people they come up with stuff to to excuse themselves. The insight is
Actually giving them permission to stay limited and it's an amazing idea because they'll say to you
And they really want to get over their anxiety. But let's ok. Let's take your ex-husband. Let's put him in a straitjacket
Let's duct tape them and shoot them to the moon know what I mean. What are you gonna do now?
You still have to make those changes. And so then the person's enemy dies or they're
something shifts in their life
And that person's gone. They'll find another person to hate. This is just how we function as human beings. We just slide another
Reason to feel those emotions. So I think I think when people start to understand this, you know,
I think knowledge is power but knowledge about yourself is self empowerment. So how much of this is really learning to?
just bifurcate the world into there's negative emotions that have negative neuro chemistry associated with
and you said that in those states if you're living in a perpetual state of
stress hormones and things like that illness is like a step away and
Then just the other side of that is understanding but there's this whole other side of positive energy which happiness joy
Empowerment whatever that you know neurochemical cocktail is but that when you're on that side
Your immune system is more likely to function. Well, like is that
Just sort of bringing it down to like a really basal. Yeah, that's sort of one of the biggies
Well, let's talk about it in terms of survival or creation
As I said 70% of the time people live in stress and living in stress is living in survival now
All organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress, you know a deer gets chased
by a pack of coyotes when it out runs the Coyotes it goes back to grazing and the event is over and
The definition of stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance out of homeostasis
The stress response is what the body and Nate Lee does to return itself back to order. So you're driving down the road
Someone cuts you off you jam on the brakes
You may give them the finger and then you settle back down and the event is over and boom now. Everything's back back to normal
But what if it's not a predator that's waiting for you outside the cave, but what if it's your coworker?
Sitting right next to you and all day long you're turning on those chemicals because they're pushing all your emotional buttons
When you turn on the stress response, and you can't turn it off
Now you're headed for a disease because no organism in nature can live an emergency mode for that extended period of time
It's a scientific fact that the hormones of stress down regulate genes and create disease long term affects
Human beings because of the size of the neocortex we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone
Which 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. Is it possible that our thoughts could make us? Well, the answer is absolutely
Yes
So then what are the emotions that are connected to survival? Let's name them
anger aggression hostility
hatred
competition fear
Anxiety worry pain suffering guilt shame unworthiness the envy jealousy. Those are all
Created by the hormones of stressin and psychology calls them normal human states of consciousness
I call those altered states of consciousness
So then we tend to remember those traumatic events more because in survival, you better be ready if it happens again
that's an and in one's survival gene is switched on you could have ten really great things that happen to you in your day and
you just have one bad thing that happens and you cannot take your attention off that bad that that unhappy thing because
The survival gene is switched on it's really interesting
How does epigenetics come into play and all this like what's actually happening? You've talked pretty profoundly about?
Proteins and like really at a deep level how we're signalling to our genetics to create these kinds of changes
What does that actually look like? Well
epigenetics epi means above the gene and
Many years ago after the DNA helix was discovered by Watson and Crick
They said the blueprints of life, you know, all diseases are created from genes
it turns out less than 5% more like 1% of people on the planet are born with a genetic condition like type 1 diabetes or
Tay-sachs disease or sickle cell anemia the other 95 to 99 percent
Are created by lifestyle and by choices you can take to identical twins
Exact same genome one dies at 51. The other one dies at 85
same gene different environment, so
All of a sudden they said we lied
That was wrong. It's not genes that create disease. It's the environment that signals the gene that creates disease. Well, ok, but
That's not the whole truth too because you could have two people working side by side in the same factory
One gets cancer after being exposed to a carcinogenic for 25 years both working for 25 years
The other one has no cancer at all. So there must be some
internal order
That would cause one person to not get it while another one does
So is it possible then if?
The environment signals the gene and it does and the end product of an experience in the environment is called an emotion
Can you signal the gene ahead of the environment by embracing an elevated emotion?
We've done the research on this where we measured
7,500 different gene expressions in a group of people
it came to an advanced event for four days and we
Had them doing a seated meditation a walking meditation a laying down meditation a standing meditation and at the end of four days
Just four days
The common eight genes that were upregulated
two genes to suppress cancer cells and tumor growth
Two genes for neurogenesis the growth of new neurons in response to novel experiences and learning the gene that signals stem cells
To go to damaged areas and repair them the gene for oxidative stress was upregulated
We started seeing all these genes that are very very healthy to cause the body to flourish
Imagine if people were doing that for three months. We also measured telomeres the little
Shoestrings on the end of DNA that tell us our biological age. We asked people to
Do the work meditation five out of seven days for 60 days
Measure their telomeres that determine their biological age sixty days later
seventy four percent of the people lengthen their telomeres 40 percent
significant change twenty percent a very remarkable change
That means that they got a little bit of their life back if it lengthened by ten percent
They got 10% of their life back. That's incredible
Before I ask my last question tell these guys where they can find you online
Sure. My website is just dr. Joe Dispenza dot-com. You can follow us on Facebook Twitter Instagram
We're all over and then my final question. What's the impact that you want to have on the world? I?
think that
the end game for me is to empower people to
Such a degree that they realize that they need less things outside of them to make them happy
less things outside of them to regulate their moods and their behaviors and that they begin to use the kind of the power that we
All have access to and into really and to change the world to make a difference so that there's more peace
There's more homeless. There's more connection that we support and love each other and we serve better
and and I think that we have to start for the most part if everybody's working on themselves and
and
Trying doing their best to present the greatest ideal of themselves to the world. I think the world would be a better place. And so
That's my passion and I'm witnessing it happening now
The more than I ever thought I would was incredible Joe. Thank you so much for being here and amazing having you
Guys
Go watch this man's videos
They are some of the best explanations of what's going on inside the mind that I've ever come across
There were of several that I literally have people in my life that I'm going to force to sit down and watch these things
It's just incredible explanations of how you create yourself out of the things you do
Habitually the way that you think creates a feeling the way that you feel creates thinking that matches that and then you get in this
cycle and that coming down to that personality ultimately being a finite set of
patterns in your brain I think is really really
illuminating in terms of how we actually experience the world and
I think when people understand that that it's within your control that you don't have to believe every thought that you think that you can
step outside of that that you can leverage metacognition to think about your thinking and
Deconstruct and decide what you want to think about and start focusing on that and create an entirely different version of yourself that has new
Elevated feelings that's over on the side of the positivity empowering yourself
I think it's really incredible and he gets deep into the mechanistic stuff
Which I love you guys will not regret diving deep into this man's world. I think you will get some incredible revelations
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