Unlock the Full Potential of Your Mind

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

While the redundancy of that cycle conditions the body to become the minds. So now when it comes time to change