Dr Joe Dispenza: You MUST Do This Before 10am!

1. 0:00 – 1:52

   Intro

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza0:00

      Our research shows that your thoughts can make you sick. And the question is, if your thoughts can make you sick, can your thoughts make you well? That's absolutely possible, and it's easy to learn. So when you wake up in the morning...

   2. NANarrator0:10

      Dr. Joe Dispenza.

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza0:12

      Researcher and best-selling author.

   4. NANarrator0:14

      One of the most sought-after speakers in the world.

   5. JDDr Joe Dispenza0:16

      All with the aim of helping people better understand and unlock the power of their mind. I'm concerned about human species. Why? 75 to 90% of every person that goes to a healthcare facility goes because of psychological or emotional stress, and it gets addictive to people. They need the bad relationship, the bad job in order to feel, and there's so much research to show that when they analyze their life within some disturbing emotion, we saw that they were actually making their brain worse. But 50% of that story isn't even the truth. People are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing. You can't wait for your wealth to feel success. You can't wait for your new relationship to feel love.

   6. SBSteven Bartlett0:55

      Uh, 95% of who we are by the age of 35 is programmed.

   7. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:00

      Yeah. But there is a way to change, and so the model of change is breaking the habit of the old self and reinventing a new self. And if you teach people how to do that, in seven days, you can see very significant changes. So try this out as an experiment. First thing you have to do is-

   8. SBSteven Bartlett1:15

      Dr. Joe, you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas about where humans are and the way the universe is. What are the beliefs in your head that you're too scared to share?

   9. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:23

      Oh, boy. I, I have a very strong belief that-

   10. SBSteven Bartlett1:28

       Before this episode starts, I have a small favor to ask from you. Two months ago, 74% of people that watched this channel didn't subscribe. We're now down to 69%. My goal is 50%. So if you've ever liked any of the videos we've posted, if you like this channel, can you do me a quick favor and hit the subscribe button? It helps this channel more than you know, and the bigger the channel gets, as you've seen, the bigger the guests get. Thank you and enjoy this

2. 1:52 – 7:03

   Is our life programmed?

   1. SBSteven Bartlett1:52

      episode. (instrumental music) Dr. Joe, 95% of who we are by the age of 35 is programmed. When I read that in your work, it kind of hit me like a ton of bricks, because I just turned 30, and if what you're saying there is true, without realizing it, there's a puppet master that sits above me that's calling the shots in a way that I don't think I've realized. Is that true?

   2. JDDr Joe Dispenza2:27

      I think ah, if we define a habit as a redundant set of automatic, unconscious thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that's acquired through repetition. A habit is when you've done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind. Then it's programmed subconsciously. So then when the body knows how to do it better than the conscious mind, then for the most part, the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of being ourselves, right? So there's a principle in neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together.

   3. SBSteven Bartlett3:01

      Mm-hmm.

   4. JDDr Joe Dispenza3:02

      If you keep thinking the same way, uh, if you keep making the same choices, if you keep doing the same things, if you keep reproducing the same experiences and feeling the same emotions, your biology begins to become hardwired in a sense. It be, uh, i- i- it becomes programmed. So in order to change, uh, something to arrive at a new vision of your future, if you were, wanted to arrive at a new goal or new vision of your future, you'd have to change something about yourself in order to get there. And you'd have to change the way you think, the way you act, and the way you feel. When you begin to become conscious of those unconscious thoughts, so conscious that you don't let them slip by your awareness unnoticed or unchecked by you, if you catch yourself speaking in a limited way or, um, you're, you become conscious that you're behaving in a certain way in a habit, and you can notice or pay attention to how you're feeling, then you're no longer the program. Now, your consciousness observing the program, you're only unconscious when you're in the program, and so to change then is to become so conscious that you don't, don't go unconscious again. And in a sense, that is consciousness that is really the puppet master that really decides who we want to be. I think the biggest problem, uh, is that people lose their free will, uh, to a set of programs, and so their body is basically, um, programmed into a predictable future based on what they've done in the past. So to change then, to change that habituation takes an enormous amount of energy, an enormous amount of awareness.

   5. SBSteven Bartlett4:45

      Why is this operating system, this program useful? 'Cause I look at everything that I, the way that I do and from doing this podcast and speaking to experts, I've stopped thinking that my body is against me and I've stopped realize, I've started to realize that there's a reason for these things. There's a reason for the habits and patterns and... So why is this useful? Because it seems to be working against me in so many ways.

   6. JDDr Joe Dispenza5:07

      (laughs) Well, um, first of all, um, when we, when we look closely at, uh, certain habits, whether you, um, can ride a bicycle, whether you can speak a language, whether you can snowboard, when you first learn any of those things, it takes an enormous amount of conscious awareness to get your body to do what your mind is intending. But if you keep doing it over and over again, then the body begins to economize it in some way. And so we have a lot of things that we can do automatically or unconsciously or subconsciously that allows us to multitask, to drive your car, to talk on the phone, to do, uh, several different things at the same time. So, uh, a habit isn't a bad thing. They can work, well, for you or they can work against you. The problem is, is if you're, as an example, complaining....and blaming, and making excuses, and feeling sorry for yourself, and judging other people, and you practice that, and you get really good at whatever you practice. You practice that enough times that you're unconscious to the fact that you're doing it. Um, the moment you become conscious that you want to change that, uh, you're going to be uncomfortable. Uh, it's going to feel unfamiliar. It's gonna feel some degree of uncertainty. You're leaving kind of familiar known territory, and you're stepping into the unknown. And so, uh, many people when they want to change a habit, um, they have to be willing to be uncomfortable to do it. But habits can work for us. So there's a lot of great habits that you and I both have that I would never want to change, uh, or would wanna- and evolve in some way, but then there's a lot of habits that don't serve us. And, and so, a person really wants to s- set a vision of the future, whatever that is, and they just have to agree that in order to arrive at that vision, they have to change in order to get there.

   7. SBSteven Bartlett7:02

      Someone said

3. 7:03 – 13:55

   Can we change our behaviour patterns and heal our bodies?

   1. SBSteven Bartlett7:03

      to me that there's a certain type of behavior pattern that we can't change. They said when we get trauma under the age of 10, things that happen at very eh- early age, some of those things cannot be changed. And then there's things that happen later in life that can be rewired and changed. Is that true? Are there some traumas, behavior patterns that just appear to be too stubborn and too resistant to change?

   2. JDDr Joe Dispenza7:27

      If you asked me that question just a few years ago, I probably would have a different answer than I do today, because if you look at a lot of the work, uh, that we're studying in terms of human change and human transformation, um, we've seen people with really difficult pasts, really brutal pasts that were abused and traumatized at a very early age, um, and then repeated traumas that took place in people's lives. And they had night terrors, and, uh, they, um, couldn't be in relationships. They had social anxiety. Uh, they had a lot of health conditions. We've seen them completely change, uh, completely change to be happy people again, to, to free themselves from the past. And so, I would never put a limitation on change because I just don't think, uh, you can really predict that. I think many people that are learning how to change, uh, and they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it, and the how gets easier, I think, uh, for the most part, people can change all kinds of things. And when they do change, uh, our research shows that their brain changes, their heart rate changes, their gene expression changes. There's thousands of metabolites that are being released into their bloodstream that weren't there prior. Uh, there's a host of different changes that take place biologically to kind of support the person's transformation.

   3. SBSteven Bartlett9:00

      Is there a specific transformation that sticks in your mind as being the most, as the clearest evidence that you should never write off, um, someone's ability to transform?

   4. JDDr Joe Dispenza9:14

      Wow. Um, I'm so pleased to tell you that, uh, my beliefs have been challenged, not just in the last two years, in witnessing so many different changes in people's health that I, I never knew was even possible. Um, uh, you know, everything from stage four cancers that were in a very progressed state that metastasized to organs and tissues and bones in the body, a complete reversal in, uh, that, uh, in that health condition. Not once, not twice, not three times. Uh, we've seen it many times. Uh, we've seen people that were blind, uh, that, uh, have been deaf, that, that have ALS, that have lupus, that have MS, that have Parkinson's disease, that have spinal cord injuries, that have strokes, PTSD, myasthenia gravis, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy. Uh, we had a woman that had her thyroid removed, uh, surgically removed, and I know this is difficult even for me to accept, uh, a- and grew a new thyroid back. Uh, you know, we have the medical evidence for that. So, I don't know, uh, any longer what the limit is. Uh, I think there's something really cool happening in the world when, uh, people believe in themselves. And when you believe in yourself, you have to believe in possibility. When you believe in possibility, you have to believe in yourself. So, uh, when somebody, uh, has the opportunity, and I think a story is, uh, and there's no, there's... And everybody loves a story. There's nothing better than a story. And when someone stands on a stage in front of 2,000 people and talks about their, um, journey to heal themselves from a chronic health condition, and they... It's not, um, always pretty. They lose things. They lose family. They sometimes lose their careers or get sick before they get better. And when you see this person's persistence and you see that they were not doing the work, uh, their inward work to heal, they were doing the work to change. (laughs) And if they understood if they truly changed that their biology should change and they were, um, uncompromising every day in showing up for themselves and staying conscious of their unconscious self and, and then reprogramming themself in some way, and they tell that story, it's the four-minute mile. It's somebody breaking through a level of consciousness or unconsciousness and the collective that's observing the example of truth...They're actually relating with that person in a way that causes them to examine possibility differently. And when you become conscious of a new possibility, a change in consciousness, it's a change in awareness, right? So now it's in the collective. And lo and behold, it's not uncommon, we just had this happen in our week-long event in Denver just, uh, a little over a week ago, two weeks ago. Uh, we had six people stand up out of a wheelchair at- by the end of the event. Now, (laughs) I wasn't expecting that, but one, uh, m- person that had MS, in the middle of the week, had a very profound experience, very profound experience, and a professional athlete, NFL football player, and, um, s- stood up and he stood up for the audience and when he stood up, he said, (laughs) "I thought I was going to a yoga retreat. I thought my brother was taking me to a yoga retreat. I had no idea what we were doing here." And then he said, "I just, I just never loved myself." And it was his act of change that somehow changed his health condition. He some- somehow up-regulated genes in different ways, suppressed the genes for MS, and somehow, he was more mobile, he was walking, uh, by the end of the event, and he was the magic number one. And when everybody saw that and the crowd- the- the audience was excited, we started seeing other people have a similar experience. Now that possibility is becoming more of a reality for people. That's why I will always- I never limit what could actually happen, but I can tell you that what an amazing time, uh, right now, uh, to witness, um, people really, uh, doing the uncommon.

4. 13:55 – 22:40

   Sharing the science with people to transform themselves

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza13:55

   2. SBSteven Bartlett13:55

      When you recited that story, I could see the emotion in your face as you say it, and I can only imagine with the information that you have and the beliefs you have about healing, change, transformation, the sense of urgency you must carry and the sense of, like, r- responsibility almost, I guess, you must carry knowing-

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza14:13

      Um-

   4. SBSteven Bartlett14:13

      ... knowing what's possible.

   5. JDDr Joe Dispenza14:14

      Yeah, well, um, um, it- I- I do feel responsible for always keeping the information based in science and as pure as possible. I feel it's really important to do the research that we're doing. I mean, we've- we've studied so much, uh, from a scientific standpoint, the process of change and the process of transformation and what meditation actually can do for a person in terms of their biology and- and some of the changes that we're seeing just in seven days. Um, my responsibility really is to give people my greatest understanding of the truth and numerous opportunities to experience it, nothing more. You know, there is a way to inspire people into possibility, and so they- we combine different models of science, whether it's quantum physics or neuroscience or neuroendocrinology or psychoneuroimmunology, the mind-body connection, epigenetics, electromagnetism. All of these sciences allow people to understand themselves better. And if knowledge is power, if knowledge about yourself is self-empowerment, you can empower people to do something with it. So the more you understand what you're doing (laughs) in the process of change, the more you understand why you're doing it. As I said, the how gets easier. So we- we now know that if you give people sound scientific information, and that is the contemporary language of mysticism, and they can learn that information, they're basically making new circuits in their brain. That's what learning is. Learning is forging new synaptic connections. But if you don't review what you learn, if you don't repeat it, it's so much easier to forget it than to remember it. So you gotta repeat it over and over again. So we allow people in our workshops to then begin to turn, uh, and teach it back to somebody. They have to really explain it. If they can't explain it, it's not wired in their brain, and they're gonna- something's gonna be left to conjecture, to superstition, to dogma, to spirituality, and- and that's not- that's not the result we want. We want them to use science as that model and if they can explain that model and remind themselves what they've learned, reproduce the same level of mind, nerve cells that fire together wire together. So they begin to install the neurological hardware in their brain.

   6. SBSteven Bartlett16:30

      By teaching others.

   7. JDDr Joe Dispenza16:31

      Yeah, exactly, so that they are prepared for an experience. So then if that information is installed in their brain, that philosophy, that theory, uh, that knowledge and information, and now they can remember it and they have that model of understanding and they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it, if we can set up the conditions in the environment and give them the proper instruction, if they can get their behaviors to match their intentions, if they can get their actions equal to their thoughts, if they can get their mind and body working together, they're going to have a new experience. Now, experience enriches circuitry in the brain. That's what experiences does. The moment those neurons begin to string into place, though, another part of the brain makes a chemical, and that chemical is called a feeling or an emotion. And the moment you feel unlimited, the moment you feel grateful, the mom- moment you feel empowered, the moment you feel whole, now you're teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood. The information is just not in the brain now. The information now is literally in the body, and now you're embodying the truth of that knowledge, of that philosophy, of that theory. So then you're teaching your body and- and instructing your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood. Okay? So then that information that's coming as a new experience is changing your biology in some way, and we've actually shown this. So then if you've done it once, then it means you should be able to do it again. And the idea is to be able to repeat an experience.... and if you can repeat it over and over again, both neurologically and chemically. Neuro-chemically, you can condition your mind and body to begin to work as one. And when you can do it so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind, it's innate in you.

   8. SBSteven Bartlett18:22

      So I want to map out this process so that I make sure I understand it. Starts with the neurology, s- which I, I, I, I heard is, uh, a thought which you then ingrain in your mind by teaching it to someone else. Is that accurate?

   9. JDDr Joe Dispenza18:37

      Well, first thing you have to do is you gotta give people information.

   10. SBSteven Bartlett18:40

       Yeah, information.

   11. JDDr Joe Dispenza18:40

       And science is probably the closest to the truth in terms of information. And so when your brain is exposed to information, and you're present, and you're paying attention, that neurons begin to connect. That's what learning is. Learning is forging new synaptic connections. The Nobel Prize research, Kandel, in the year 2000, his re- the researcher said that if you learned one bit of information, and you paid attention to that information for about an hour, you would double the number of connections in your brain as a result of your interaction with that information. But if you don't review it, if you don't repeat it, if you don't have to think about it, the circuits prune apart, right? So if learning is making new synaptic connections and remembering is maintaining and sustaining them, so... It's so much easier to forget this information than to remember it. So you learn it. Once I got a person's head nodding, then they turn to the person next to them and say, "Let me try this out. Let me try this out and let me see if I can repeat it." And so between the two of them, they exchange that information and they start to build a model of understanding, "Ah, I understand. I got that, okay." Then we advance the information a bit more, and they, they're adding new stitches into the three-dimensional tapestry of their gray matter, and they have to remind themselves what they've learned, reproduce that same level of mind. Mind is the brain in action. As you install those neurological circuits in your brain then, now you're prepared. It's the forerunner to the experience, you're prepared for the experience. So give the proper instruction, get your body involved, get involved in the process. The experience then causes circuits to become more enriched. That's what experience does. And then it makes a chemical, and that chemical's called a feeling or an emotion. And the stronger the emotion you feel from the experience, the more you remember it.

   12. SBSteven Bartlett20:23

       And what is that experience? What can it look like?

   13. JDDr Joe Dispenza20:25

       Abundance, health, wholeness, a mystical experience, success, a new relationship, a new career, um, a new life, whatever the person's, whatever, whatever that vision that person wants to arrive at in the future, and to actually go from the thought of that vision to the actual experience of it. And the distance between that thought and that experience is called time. So if we can teach people to shorten the distance between the thought of what they want and the experience of having it, um, then they're, they start believing more that they're the creator of their life.

   14. SBSteven Bartlett21:03

       What would you say to somebody that doesn't think thoughts matter that much? I would say 95% of the world plus, or maybe more, 99% of the world plus, sees thoughts as something that we are... you know, it's my head talking, it's me talking in my head, and as long as I don't act on those thoughts, they're inconsequential.

   15. JDDr Joe Dispenza21:22

       I would s- I would say then that's their truth.

   16. SBSteven Bartlett21:25

       Is it the truth?

   17. JDDr Joe Dispenza21:26

       I, I don't know. But for me, my thoughts do matter. I think every thought that you have makes a chemical, and you can have thoughts that make you feel good and thoughts that make you feel bad. And, and I think that if 90% of the thoughts that we think are the same thoughts as the day before, the same thoughts lead to the same choices, the same choices lead to the same behaviors, the same behaviors will create the same experiences, and the same experiences produce, uh, the very same emotions, and those same emotions influence a person's very same thoughts. And their biology, their neurocircuitry, their neural chemistry, their hormones, and even their gene expression stays the same because they're staying the same. There's nothing wrong with that. But I do think that if you think differently and you learn new information and you have new thoughts, if you can make new choices and demonstrate new behaviors and create new experiences and arrive at new goals and feel new emotions, I would say that's evolution. And I think that people really, really secretly believe in themselves on some level and, and I think being defined by a vision of the future or really always, always dreaming of, of another great experience, I think is a great reason to wake up

5. 22:40 – 30:36

   Why can't we apply that knowledge to ourselves?

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza22:40

      in the morning.

   2. SBSteven Bartlett22:41

      I've had lots of conversations with very smart people on this podcast from multiple disciplines, you know, psychiatrists, psychologists, athletes, health practitioners, and they've given me such great advice on, which is irrefutable scientific advice, on so many areas of my life. And for some reason, there's still areas of my life that I still can't act upon that advice. And I think probably for most of my listeners who've heard great advice on this podcast and they think, "Yes, that's who I want to be. I have an intention to stop eating sugar at 1:00 AM at night," or, "I have an intention to become organized or to be this kind of friend or partner," they have the information.

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza23:14

      Right.

   4. SBSteven Bartlett23:15

      What... There's something stood in the way of me doing something about that information on a regular basis.

   5. JDDr Joe Dispenza23:19

      Yeah. Well, I can give you a few answers for that. Unfortunately, it normally takes crisis-

   6. SBSteven Bartlett23:26

      Yeah.

   7. JDDr Joe Dispenza23:26

      ... trauma-

   8. SBSteven Bartlett23:27

      (sighs) Yeah.

   9. JDDr Joe Dispenza23:27

      ... disease, diagnosis, betrayal, loss. A person has to reach that lowest denominator where nothing's making that feeling go away.

   10. SBSteven Bartlett23:39

       Has to.

   11. JDDr Joe Dispenza23:40

       Well, not, they don't have to, but this is human, this is the human condition. This is the moment where they don't feel like returning the texts, they don't feel like going to dinner and seeing the same people, they don't feel like, um, watching the same television show any longer. The sports car, the wardrobe, the... none of that is making this feeling go away. This is a, a moment of reckoning for the soul. And this is really when you could actually see yourself...... through the eyes of someone else because you don't feel like yourself anymore. And that's the moment where people begin to change. They can see how they've been thinking. They can notice how they've been acting. They could pay attention or become aware of how they've been feeling for the last 20 years. And that, that idea in, in neuroscience is called metacognition. That's the moment you're no longer the program. Now, (clears throat) what we believe and what we've seen and what I think is much better approach is, um, being defined by a vision of the future. And if you understood that you could actually elevate your state without anyone or anything every single day and hold whatever that intention of your future is, and it takes a coherent brain to do that, and feel the emotion of your future before it happens. That is, you know, you can't wait for your wealth to feel success. You can't... Or abundance. You can't wait for your new relationship to feel love. You can't wait for the mystical experience to feel awe, or your healing to feel whole or grateful. That's kind of the old model of reality of cause and effect, waiting for something out there, uh, to change or take away this emptiness, this lack that I feel in here. If you teach people, then they could elevate their state, and we teach that model through meditation, and they can combine that clear intention with an elevated emotion and teach them how to make that heart of theirs more coherent. If they do that properly, then they'll live their life feeling like their future has already happened. Now, from that elevated state instead of that self-limited state, they can become as conscious of that unconscious self as they could if they were at that limited state and, and being defined by that vision of the future, getting up every day inspired by it, and not letting any person, any circumstance, anything in our life remove us from that vision. That would be a day well-lived. So then most people then, they have that vision of the future, but they give up on that vision because in order for them to arrive at that vision, they have to do something. They have to think differently. They have to act differently. They have to feel differently. And it's so much easier to make the same choice every single day, and the hardest part about change is not making the same choice as you did the day before. And the moment you decide to make a different choice, you're going (laughs) to feel uncomfortable because you're stepping from the known into the unknown. So some people would rather cling to their self-pity than take a chance in possibility. They'd rather tell the story of their past instead of telling the story (laughs) of their future. They'd rather believe in their past instead of believe in their future. Uh, it's so much more important though to romance your future instead of romance your past, and I think if people understood that they could actually arrive at it, I think many people have done this already in their life. I think everybody, at least once in their life, has done something great, and when they did something great, they just made up their mind. And they made a decision in that moment to do something or to change with such firm intention, but the amplitude of energy in making that choice caused their body to respond to their mind, that the choice that they were making to change became a moment in time that they would never forget. And the stronger the emotion they felt in order to change, the more they remembered the choice, and we could say then that they're giving their body a taste of the future emotionally, and they're literally aligning to that destiny. We discovered that if you keep doing that every day, somehow you'll arrive at that destiny, and your biology will literally begin to change to look like you're living in a different life.

   12. SBSteven Bartlett28:08

       What are some of the biggest myths relating to behavior change and I guess character and personality change, um, that hold people back?

   13. JDDr Joe Dispenza28:21

       Uh, probably belief. I think in so many ways that a belief is an unconscious process. A belief is a thought you keep thinking over and over again until it's hardwired in your brain, and most beliefs are based on past experiences, and so many people have a belief about something that has to change in order for them to arrive, uh, at a new p- place in their life. And what we discovered a lot of times with people in this work is that they, they... When they... Say, for example, they were healing themself of a health condition. Sometimes they would do their meditations three times in one day, and I asked them, "Why three times?" And they said, "Because I stopped believing, uh, and when I caught myself no longer believing in it, I had to sit down and change my belief again." In other words, they had to get up believing more in their future in- instead of believing less in it, and they have to change their state of being to do that. So I think that that's a limitation. I also think that unconsciously, we're always waiting for something out there in our life to change so that we can change or feel the relief of the lack, the, uh, what we don't have, and I do think that's kind of a limited model of reality. I think when you start changing inside of you and you start seeing the changes happening outside of you, you go from being a victim in your life to being a creator of your life. And, and I think that when that occurs, then all of a sudden it's no longer a have-to. It's something that you want to do. You don't... You actually don't want the magic to end in your life. So now you become a work in progress by investing in yourself, and when you invest in yourself, you invest in your future. So there is probably a chronic disbelief.... that many of us have that we're not creators of our life. Uh, and the only when we get the parking space or something good happens to us do we believe that we're the creator of our life, but imagine a world where everybody actually took responsibility in being the creator of their life and no longer the victim of their life. I think we would see a dramatic shift in consciousness.

6. 30:36 – 33:20

   Being the creator of our lives

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza30:36

   2. SBSteven Bartlett30:36

      That makes people feel uncomfortable, this idea of personal responsibility. It's quite a, it's almost become quite a controversial, controversial idea, the idea that we are the creator of our lives because then I have to take, accept responsibility for all the bad things that happened. Dave dumped me. I got fired from work. Uh, someone bumped into my car and I hurt my neck.

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza30:55

      Well, maybe, maybe that happened by default. Maybe that happened by not creating. Maybe you were just left to the randomness of reality that, that maybe you're not creating. And the fact that you're not creating, you're, you're left to the effects of your environment actually controlling you, tr- controlling your feelings and thoughts, and-

   4. SBSteven Bartlett31:20

      By creating, what do you mean by creating as in-

   5. JDDr Joe Dispenza31:23

      Well, well, if you-

   6. SBSteven Bartlett31:23

      ... being intentional?

   7. JDDr Joe Dispenza31:24

      If you woke up every morning and you truly made time to think like this, "Okay, if my personality creates my personal reality, and my personality is made of how I think, how I act, and how I feel, if I wanna create a new personal reality, a new life, I'm gonna have to change my personality." And most people try to create a new reality, a new personal reality, as the same personality and it doesn't work. We literally have to become someone else. So if you said, "Okay, let me not default and go unconscious to that 95% of who I am that's programmed, let me become so conscious of the way I think, let me become so aware of how I'm gonna act today, let me decide what emotions keep me connected to my past and bring me to a lower level, a lower level of energy, let me not go unconscious," and then if you said, "Okay, if a belief is just a thought I keep thinking over and over again, what thoughts do I wanna fire and wire in my brain?" And with attention and with intention, to begin to familiarize yourself with a new way of thinking. Meditation means to become familiar with. If you keep firing and wiring those circuits, you're gonna begin to install the hardware. Repeat it enough times and it becomes a software program. That could be the new voice in your head that says, "I can. It is possible." If you said, "Okay, when did I fall from grace yesterday? When did I, when did I lose it? Oh my gosh, it was with, at work, with my coworkers, with my ex, with my enemy, with the news, with traffic. (laughs) Acting this way is not gonna make me happy. If I had another opportunity, another opportunity, how would I do it?" If you could close your eyes and rehearse in your mind, mentally, how you're gonna behave in certain situations...

7. 33:20 – 39:20

   Why are we addicted to things?

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza33:20

   2. SBSteven Bartlett33:20

      I'll give you a specific one.

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza33:21

      Any one.

   4. SBSteven Bartlett33:22

      So I'll give you the specific one where late, late at night, on occasion, I've eaten things that I really regret eating. Als- also, another one that I'm, I'm trying to work hard on is I can be very messy with, when I travel, so my, my hotel room can look like a mess, and I don't like that about myself. And I don't know why I do it, but I s- almost like you talk about being unconscious, I'm clearly not thinking about it, but that's part of the problem. And it's the same with the bloody sugar at midnight, eating, ordering things that are... and then feeling instant guilt 10 seconds after I put it in my mouth.

   5. JDDr Joe Dispenza33:55

      Well, that, well, it may be that on some level, well, you could actually be addicted to the guilt, not to the sugar. And so you, you return to the same emotional state that allows that action to reoccur, so if you said, "Let me decide how I am gonna act, what I'm not gonna do," and you rehearsed it, the research on mental rehearsal says your brain will look like you already did it, that you'll be so present, the brain won't know the difference between what you're imagining and what is real. The brain will begin to change to look like the experience has already happened. Now, you're priming your brain for that behavior. Keep rehearsing it-

   6. SBSteven Bartlett34:42

      Rehearsing it how, so I can...

   7. JDDr Joe Dispenza34:44

      Well-

   8. SBSteven Bartlett34:45

      So I play-

   9. JDDr Joe Dispenza34:45

      ... mentally, mentally rehearsing, mental rehearsal is one of these great ideas in neuroscience where you can actually install circuits in your brain, right? So everybody has done this. Uh, mu- musicians do it. They're playing a song in their mind all the time. Athletes do it. They're always going over their moves. Uh, dancers do it. Actors do it. Uh, so many people rehearse mentally what they're about to do, and when they do that, they actually prime their brain. They actually can change their brain and change their body just by thought alone.

   10. SBSteven Bartlett35:16

       Physiologically change it.

   11. JDDr Joe Dispenza35:17

       Physiologically change. You can take a group of people that never played the piano before and divide them into two different groups and do functional brain scans on both groups. One group, they'll come for two hours a day for five days, and they'll practice these one-handed scales and chords. Now, you learn something new, you make new connections in your brain. You get some instruction, you get your body involved. When you get your body involved, you're gonna have an experience. You pay attention to what you're doing, and you repeat it over and over again. Nerve cells that fire together wire together. You're gonna begin to install new circuits in the opposite side of your brain. That's, that's common. You do the scan at the end, you see those actual physical changes. You take those people, uh, the other group, and you ask them to close their eyes without lifting a finger, have them mentally rehearse those scales and chords, and at the end of five days, they grow the same amount of circuits in their brain as the people who actually physically demonstrated the act. In other words, they were so present with what they were doing-... the brain did not know the difference between real-life experience and what they were imagining. The brain was physically changing to look like they already experienced it, they already did it. So now, you take those people, never played the piano before, they've just been mentally rehearsing for two hours a day for five days. You sit 'em in front of a piano and they could actually play those scales and chords. Why? Because they primed their brain for that behavior. So then if you're going to prime your brain for a new behavior, whether you're the CEO of a company, whether you're a parent, uh, whether you're learning something, the more you rehearse it mentally, the more you prime your brain and body for the act. So, you could actually practice rehearsing how you're going to change in your life, and if you keep doing it enough times, your behaviors will match your intentions automatically because you have the mind installed to do it. If you don't have the mind installed to do it, you'll go back to the same past behavior.

   12. SBSteven Bartlett37:10

       So I play through that scenario of making the decision differently...

   13. JDDr Joe Dispenza37:15

       Exactly. And rehearse it in your mind until it feels right, till you feel like, "I could actually do that." And go from start to finish without losing your attention, and so that it gets easier each time you do it. It makes sense then you'll, you'll, you'll actually do it. And then if you said, "Okay, enough of this guilt." (laughs) "I've, I've felt enough of it. I don't like feeling that way. I could actually break the conditioning of that emotion in my body. Can I condition my body? Can I teach my body to feel something differently? What would be the feeling that I wanna feel if I was able to do it? Would it be worth? Would it be self-love? Would it be freedom? Would it be joy? Let me teach my body emotionally what a future could actually feel like before it happens." If you keep doing it over and over again, you're gonna start making more of those chemicals and this will become easier for you to do it. It's gonna become familiar to you, and that's exactly what meditation is, to become familiar with an old self, to know thyself, to become so conscious of that unconscious self that you don't go unconscious to that self. And how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering? That's the moment of change. "What thoughts do I wanna fire and wire in my brain? Let me become familiar with those. What behaviors do I wanna demonstrate? What would greatness do? What would love do?" And actually rehearse a greater, a greater way. Rehearse it enough times so that you could actually step into that footprint. Teach your body emotionally that there's another way to feel, and do it over and over again. It'll become familiar to you. And so the model of change is unlearning and relearning. It's breaking the habit of the old self and reinventing a new self. It's pruning synaptic connections and sprouting new connections. It's unfiring and unwiring, refiring and rewiring, deprogramming and reprogramming, losing your mind and creating a new one, un-memorizing emotions that have been stored in the body and then reconditioning the body to a new mind, to a new emotion. Turns out if you teach people how to do that, in seven days you can see very profound biological changes if they immerse themselves into the experience.

8. 39:20 – 42:41

   Biological changes

   1. JDDr Joe Dispenza39:20

   2. SBSteven Bartlett39:20

      And what do these biological changes look like?

   3. JDDr Joe Dispenza39:24

      Well, um, so we run week-long events, um, around the world, and I think it's so important to do events, uh, in person with community, uh, because it's a flock, it's a herd, it's a school, um, it's a collective. And so, uh, that exact process in seven days, uh, we, uh, take people through a very immersive experience, and we do functional brain scans or FMRIs or quantitative EEGs before they start the event, and then we, at the end of seven days, we look at their brains at the end of seven days, and there are dramatic (laughs) changes in the way their brain works, very significant changes. Some of them are really outstanding changes. We, uh, put, uh, teach people how to create more heart coherence. When you feel anger, when you feel frustration, when you feel impatience, when you feel resentment, your heart beats out of order. When you feel gratitude, when you have kindness and care and you feel love for life, your heart beats in a more orderly fashion. You can actually train somebody to get good at feeling that way, and we, we use that, and we see people at the end of seven days be able to regulate, uh, their heart much better. And it's a function of really how soon or how slow we age. We take blood and we measure 2,882 different metabolites in, in a person's blood, and at the end of seven days, we measure again. And I can tell you that if you're a novice meditator, really never meditated before, kind of your first event, uh, and you go through that seven-day process, at the end of seven days, there's so many biological changes that are taking place in the collective, in the community, not just one, not just two, the majority of people, and I mean a significant majority of people suggesting that their body literally is living in a new environment, in, in a new life, and there are chemicals in their bloodstream in terms of information that wasn't there prior to the event. In other words, some way without taking any drug, (laughs) without any, taking any exogenous substance, um, without changing their diet, without changing their lifestyle in any other way except going through this process, eating the same foods that they typically eat, that at the end of seven days, there's chemistry, there's biology that suggests that somehow their biology is changing significantly. Um, we measure gene expression. Uh, I can tell you that you can change your gene expression in seven days. Uh, we measure the microbiome and, um, once again, seven days there are dramatic changes in the microbiome, uh, and the mind somehow is making, uh, significant and, and effective changes in our, in our bodies. So, um, our research is pretty outstanding because, um, a seven-day intervention, uh-... that's producing these effects. Uh, there's, there's not a whole lot of drugs that, that are a- as effective. And we've discovered that the nervous system makes a pharmacy of chemicals right now that works better than any drug. That's what we've discovered, and it's all within you.

   4. SBSteven Bartlett42:40

      I am

9. 42:41 – 47:37

   How can we be better at helping our loved ones?

   1. SBSteven Bartlett42:41

      a fixer in my friendship groups, and what I mean by that is I'm someone who probably over-involves th- themselves in trying to help friends change stuff, which i- a gift and a curse, oftentimes a curse. But, um, I often get... Because I love someone and they're close to me and I want the best for them, when, when I see that they are experiencing a recurring pattern of behavior or habit, um, that is causing them unhappiness, loneliness, to miss the goals they have in their life of becoming a, you know, a husband or a wife or a partner, whatever it might be, I have a growing sense of, um, frustration. 'Cause, and I... and I that sometimes exerts it- its... uh, that sometimes manifests itself as trying to, you know, fix and help and give advice and change them. You must experience that in a different way. You're much smarter than me. You must experience that in a different way when you meet people that you can see are having these recurring patterns of behavior, and when you see that in them, has there any, has there any ever been frustration on your part? Have you ever been frustrated that change hasn't happened in someone that you loved?

   2. JDDr Joe Dispenza43:47

      God, I, you know, I think it's, I think it's such a noble act to change, and I, and I understand how hard it is to change. Uh, I understand that process. So, I think the greatest thing that I could ever do for someone is to show them what change looks like. It's so much more profound than anything that I could ever say. Um, and I would never offer my opinion to them. I would love them unconditionally because I would maybe see a part of myself, uh, that I've changed, and I understand how hard it is to change, or, or I understand that they'll... they're gonna have their moment, uh, when they're ready, uh, to change. And so I think it's, I think it's really interesting, because what I've learned over the years is that no new information can enter the nervous system that's not equal to the person's emotional state. (laughs) You can give them the answer, the right answer to their problem, and they won't hear it, 'cause it's not relevant equal to the emotion that they're experiencing. What we've learned is that if you take people in s- just, say, seven days, just cross the river of change, go from the old self to the new self, immerse yourself fully into it, break free from the chains of those emotions that keep you anchored to the past, overcome those habits and behaviors that keep you programmed into a predictable future, um, overcome, um, all those aspects of your beliefs that keep you stuck in a certain state, in terms of how you're thinking and those hardwired perceptions, seven days, break free, and, and normally the person has the answer, uh, to their own question. I think that's when it becomes really relevant, when you have your own insight, your own epiphany, when it's your own truth, 'cause you've, you've worked to get beyond it. People, when they analyze themselves or analyze their life within some disturbing emotion, when we looked at the real-time brain scans, uh, we saw that they were actually making their brain worse. They were driving their brain further out of balance, uh, overthinking, over-analyzing. Uh, and so when you analyze something within an emotion, an emotion is a, is a record of the past. So you're thinking in the past; the solution could never be there. Free the person from that emotion, and of course, they, they see, they s- they see it from a greater level of consciousness.

   3. SBSteven Bartlett46:12

      For all those people listening right now that are like me, that try and fix... Because through, I mean, f- through what they think of as love. I may maybe be I'm r- doing it for other reasons. But what, what could they do to be a better ally or friend or partner to that individual? Be- based on everything you've said that maybe they need their own moment or, you know, their emotional system isn't in regulation with their information.

   4. JDDr Joe Dispenza46:36

      God, anytime we, we wanna do anybody a great service is to help them out of their emotional state. I mean, it's not a lecture that's gonna help them. "Come on, let's go do something. Come on, let's go." Just get them doing something, just breaking themselves out of that state. It's not like the answer. It's they... you... They have to change their state to get the answer. So, if I were to do anything, I would want to help them shorten their emotional reaction, to get them to get beyond the emotion, whatever that is, and that wouldn't be a lecture. It would be something fun that we did or something unusual that we did or just trying something. Just, "Let's just do something." And I think, I think showing people what, what, what love looks like, show them what joy looks like, show them what happiness looks like, I think, I think people notice that. I think, I think they pay attention to that. It gives them permission, uh, to do the same. So, um, maybe just show up as, um, the person you would wanna be around if you were feeling that way.

   5. SBSteven Bartlett47:36

      Hmm.

10. 47:37 – 51:02

    Is the world getting better or worse?

    1. SBSteven Bartlett47:37

       When you look at the state of the world at the moment and the direction of travel, the trajectory of, you know, technology and the way we're living our lives and the decisions we're making at a collective level, what are the things that most concern you?

    2. JDDr Joe Dispenza47:51

       Well, I always ask myself, "Is it getting better, or is it getting worse?" You know? And I, I think, um, in my lifetime, I don't think I've ever experienced the world as it is today, just with so many variations of so many things. Uh, and I question the information, uh, that I'm receiving. Uh, and I think that we need some type of intervention, uh, as a species. We need... s- we, w- we need a change. Uh, uh, we need an intervention in some way.

    3. SBSteven Bartlett48:24

       You question the information you're receiving from where, and what kind of infamen- int- intervention are you suggesting?

    4. JDDr Joe Dispenza48:29

       I just don't know that the information that I, that I am exposed to or information that people are exposed to is the truth. Uh, I just question that these days. And, and the, because you can, you can get so many, you can get so many degrees of it, and so many, uh, uh... And I, and I don't know if it's, uh, based in altruism, you know, for the, for the goodness of human beings or, or for self-interests. And I, and I think that's a... I think people are waking up more to the understanding that something has to change, you know, for us to really survive as a species.

    5. SBSteven Bartlett49:04

       And what are the symptoms of the cultural disease-

    6. JDDr Joe Dispenza49:08

       Um-

    7. SBSteven Bartlett49:08

       ... that you're talking about? What are they?

    8. JDDr Joe Dispenza49:11

       A lack of connection. Uh, you know, you know, we're in 3D reality, you know, connecting, communing, cooperating, uh, uh, uh, creating. I think those are things that, um... I think if you keep people in survival, and you keep them in fear, and you keep them at war, and you keep them angry, and you keep them in pain, and you keep them confused, and you can control their attention, um, by controlling their emotions, um, I think, I think, um, we're gonna, you know... we may not make it, you know, as, as a species. But I think that when people truly come together in, in, in an elevated state, I think it's collective networks of observers that determine reality. And I don't think it's the number of people, I think it's the most coherent, uh, in heart and brain that begin to produce effects. So, the coming of a new consciousness, um, has to be a collective. It's not one person, it's a collective, uh, group of people. And, and I believe that you get enough people collectively coming together that we can, hopefully, uh, uh, steer it in a different direction.

    9. SBSteven Bartlett50:26

       Hopefully.

    10. JDDr Joe Dispenza50:26

        Yeah. How about you?

    11. SBSteven Bartlett50:29

        Are you optimistic?

    12. JDDr Joe Dispenza50:31

        I am. I'm optimistic because I think people by nature (clears throat) are good. I think there's goodness in human beings and I have the privilege of traveling around the world, and I see that, and it transcends countries and cultures and races and gender. It transcends diet, it transcends all that stuff. Uh, it's just when people are happy with themselves and in love with life, um, I think, I think their natural tendency is to give, and I think we're wired to do that when we're not in survival.

11. 51:02 – 57:37

    Stress: if your thoughts can make you sick, can they make you well?

    1. SBSteven Bartlett51:02

       When we're not in survival. When you use this word "survival", are you talking about the, the fight or flight state that we, um, many of us live in?

    2. JDDr Joe Dispenza51:11

       Yeah.

    3. SBSteven Bartlett51:11

       And the anxiety?

    4. JDDr Joe Dispenza51:11

       I would say, I would say that living in stress is living in survival, and stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of homeostasis. Stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance. The stress response is what the body innately does to return itself back to balance. The problem is, is that if you keep turning on that fight or flight system, you keep turning on that emergency system, um, you'll actually cause people to stay out of balance and that imbalance becomes the new balance, and they're headed for some type of disease, some type of breakdown. No organism can tolerate emergency mode for an extended period of time. And when you're in survival and that primitive system is switched on, it's really about the self. Uh, when you're in survival, you have to take care of yourself. So, um, the emotions of anger and hostility and aggression and competition and frustration and resentment and envy and jealousy and insecurity and fear and anxiety and hopelessness and powerlessness and depression and pain and suffering, guilt and shame are all derived from the hormones of stress, and psychology calls them "normal human states of consciousness". Those are altered states of consciousness, and when we're in that state, when we're living in survival, we, we experience separation. We, we divide in, uh, in, in a lot of ways. And so there's biology that goes along with that, and, um, the, the hormones of stress heighten the senses and cause us to become materialists, and, and now when we're in lack or separation, we force outcomes, we control outcomes, we fight for outcomes, we compete for outcomes, we manipulate outcomes. Uh, in a lot of ways, we, we turn into more of a primitive self. So, hard, um, to change that, especially when you don't have enough money, or you just lost your job, or you just ended a relationship, or your best friend passed, uh, it's really hard, um, to move beyond those emotional states. Um, and so I think that, that teaching people, um, how to change those emotional states and move out of those are, are really important and, and, um, 75 to 90% of every person that goes to a healthcare facility in the Western world goes in because of psychological or emotional stress. That's eight or nine out of 10, and emotional stress and psychological stress are the ones that tend to be the most harmful. Because if it's not T-Rex that's chasing you but it's your coworker in the next cubicle, what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive, and, and the rush of those adrenal hormones become kind of addictive to people, and they use the problems, they use the conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion. They need their enemy to feel hatred, and, and if their enemy died, they'd, they'd still feel hatred, or they'd find another one. Uh, they need the bad relationship, they need the b- bad job in order to feel, and that's why it's hard to change, and people become addicted to the life they don't even like. And so if you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, by thinking about your problems, then that's the truth, you can become addicted to your own thoughts. And if the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease, your thoughts could make you sick.... then the question is, if your thoughts can make you sick, can your thoughts make you well? And we're actually discovering that that's absolutely possible. So then teaching people then, a little bit about how to manage their emotional state and to self-regulate, I think is a great gift for people. Because when they begin to break an addiction to any emotion or the conditioning of any emotion, there's going to be cravings (laughs) that go on just like, uh, just like any addict there, you know. And, and you've... Many people overdose and many people have bad trips. And, and so when they s- start changing and the body's craving, uh, those familiar emotions, the body starts signaling the brain, you know, of memories, or to think certain ways and to make certain choices, do certain things, crave certain experiences just to feel that same emotion. And people say, "Well, this feels right." You know, "That feels familiar. That really feels familiar." And, and many people will tell the story of why they feel that way based on some past experience. And it's usually not in the recent past. It's usually many years ago.

    5. SBSteven Bartlett55:40

       Like a toxic relationship or something.

    6. JDDr Joe Dispenza55:41

       Whatever that is. And so they're basically saying, "I had an event in my life and since that event, I'm still living by the same emotion, and I haven't been able to change." And they'll tell the story of that past and in psychology, the latest research on memory shows that 50% of that story isn't even the truth. They're, they're, they're making it up because they don't have the same brain as they had then. And so then people, people are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing. And they embellish the story so that it sounds really hard to change. So what is it... What is that point then for a person when they say, "The only person that this emotion of hatred, or anger, or frustration, or resentment, the only person that this is hurting is me." (laughs) Because, uh, th- those, those chemicals are down-regulating genes and creating disease. And a person finally really realizes that, and they really decide to change. When they overcome the emotion, the memory without the emotion is called wisdom. And that's the name of the game in three-dimensional reality. Now they're ready for a new experience. It's not, it's not reliving the past. You don't need to. You don't need to talk about it. All you need to do is overcome the emotion. When you overcome the emotion, you're free from the past. You can see it from a greater level of consciousness. And that's when a person, so many times in, when they truly change, they'll say this. We've seen it over and over again. They reach that point where they finally break through and they... and some of them have had some really difficult pasts. They'll say, "I would not want to change one thing in my past because it brought me to this moment." That's the moment the past no longer exists. And they can look at their betrayers and see what all had to happen for that moment. And now they're, they're free. They, they no longer belong to the past. They belong to the future.

12. 57:37 – 59:20

    Why are we addicted to negative emotions?

    1. JDDr Joe Dispenza57:37

    2. SBSteven Bartlett57:37

       I've never heard the concept or idea of being addicted to a negative emotion. People talk to me about being addicted to dopamine and pleasure, and sh- you know, and all those things. And you know, like masturbation and s- sugar and... But the thought of being addicted to a negative emotion, it's what you said to me earlier about the guilt when you-

    3. JDDr Joe Dispenza57:53

       Well, well, think about this. (laughs) What do people do when they, when they feel an emotion? What do they do? They rely on something outside of them to make that emotion go away. So whether it's the masturbation, or the pornography, or the gambling, or the shopping, or the sugar, or the whatever, it's all because they're trying to make that feeling go away, and they're using s- something outside of them. So then there is some emotion (laughs) that the person is regulating.

    4. SBSteven Bartlett58:25

       Mm-hmm.

    5. JDDr Joe Dispenza58:25

       That's why they're doing that. They're doing that, right? So, so change the emotional state and it makes sense then, the need to do it diminishes.

    6. SBSteven Bartlett58:35

       Which is not... doesn't seem to be very easy to do, change my emotional state.

    7. JDDr Joe Dispenza58:40

       Well, again, I think, um, if you, if you understood what you were doing and why you were doing it, just like learning anything, if you, if you understood a formula, I think it wouldn't be as hard as you think it is. I mean, because there is a way to change.

    8. SBSteven Bartlett58:59

       And step one in that process of change is new information.

    9. JDDr Joe Dispenza59:02

       Always. It's the forerunner to any experience. Without the information, we doubt that it's possible. And th- again, the, the information and the science removes the doubt.

13. 59:20 – 1:05:45

    Does manifesting work?

    1. JDDr Joe Dispenza59:20

    2. SBSteven Bartlett59:20

       I've- I was r- doing some research recently about, um, why people change their beliefs and why they don't change their beliefs. And some beliefs, they're more susceptible to take on some information. They're more s- they're s- susceptible to take on. One of the things I read about was when they believe the source. Another thing I read about was when they... when it's good news. So if... in studies where they say to someone, "You're more attractive according to the public than you believed," they're likely to shift, r- rather than finding out they're less attractive. And also things like health, "You're more healthy than you thought you were genetically," they're more likely to shift a belief. The nature of our beliefs and the nature of belief change, um, I, I was writing in, in, in my book about how, um, looking in the mirror and telling yourself something, like some of the sort of modern day manifestation community believe, doesn't seem to work. Just looking in the mirror and telling myself that, "I'm beautiful and rich and successful and powerful," doesn't seem to be an effective way to cause actual belief change. Do you agree or disagree with this idea that you can look in the mirror and say something to yourself?

    3. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:00:22

       When, when we study belief and the change in belief, uh, I wa- I'll answer it on two levels, Steven. The first level is that (clears throat) in order for a person to change a belief or perception about themselves and their life-... the majority of those people made a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carried a level of energy that was greater than the hardwired programs in their brain and the emotional conditioning in their body. And as I said earlier, their body literally responded to their mind. The choice that they were making became a moment in time they would never forget. They'll tell you where they were, what time of day it was, who they were with when they made up their mind to change. It became a long-term memory. And the stronger the emotion we feel, the more altered we are inside of us, the more we remember that choice.

    4. SBSteven Bartlett1:01:10

       That's why we need pain sometimes.

    5. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:01:12

       That's when you said, when you painted yourself into a corner and you said, "This is it. I don't care how I feel. Body. I don't care how long it takes. Time. I don't care what people think, I don't care what's going on in my life. Environment. I'm gonna do this." And you made up your mind. The moment you felt that emotion, you were aligning to a new future, and to change is to be greater than your body, to be greater than your environment, and to be greater than time. And so when a person comes out of their resting state, because your body is trillions of cells, 70 trillion cells and they're all spying on your brain, and if you were sitting there and, and you said, "Nine out of 10 times, I'm gonna fake standing up. One time, I'm actually going to stand up," before you ever made that conscious decision, your body is so precognitive, it already knows when you're gonna stand up because it's gotta release a certain amount of adrenaline so the same volume of your, uh, blood goes to your brain. So if you're sitting on the couch with a remote control and you got your cell phone here and your iPad here and your computer here and your dog here and your beer here and the big TV there and you're eating your popcorn and, and you say, "You know, I, I think, um, I'm gonna change tomorrow-"

    6. SBSteven Bartlett1:02:29

       (laughs)

    7. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:02:29

       ... yeah, what do you think your precognitive body's gonna say? "Relax."

    8. SBSteven Bartlett1:02:32

       (laughs)

    9. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:02:32

       "He's lying (laughs) again." He's not, he's not willing to, he's not willing to signal the body, "It's time to ride." You know? It's not, there's no signal to the body. And so making that choice to change your state of being with a clear intention and an elevated emotion actually changes your state to believe in that future more than you believe in your past. Keep it up, keep doing it, that's a big explosion in the field, that's important, that's a change in energy. And nobody changes until they change their energy, and when they change their energy, they change their life. So then you make up your mind to do that and all of a sudden, you have that synchronicity, you have that serendipity, you have that coincidence, and all of a sudden you're saying, "Hey, that worked. Something I did inside of me produced an effect outside of me. I'm gonna pay attention to what I did. I'm gonna do it again. Let's try it again. Let the experiment continue." You do it again and then you say, "Well, when did I stop disbelieving? Oh my God, I stopped disbelieving when I ran into that person and we had that conversation, and oh my God, I've, I returned back to my old belief again. Okay. Next time that happens, then I'm gonna s- this is what I'll do." You rehearse it in, so your evolution in your belief in self, uh, changes as well. So then so many people, second point, will actually say this, "You know, I read the philosophy, I understand the knowledge, I understand what it means to change, I understand the power of meditation. I saw the testimonials, I saw people heal. I believe it's the truth. I just didn't believe it could work for me."

    10. SBSteven Bartlett1:04:00

        (laughs)

    11. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:04:01

        This is a big moment. This is a moment where you step outta the bleachers and you gotta get on the playing field. That's the person who says, "If this works, and I believe that it works, I gotta prove it to myself. I gotta actually, I gotta actually prove it to myself that I believe that it could work for me." And some of them show up every day for a year and never miss their work, never miss their meditation, a whole year in changing from the old self to the new self. They were doing their meditations to change, not to heal. They were doing their meditations to change, and when they changed, they healed. They did their meditations sometimes three times a day because they stopped believing. They stopped disbelieving, and they were like, "I defaulted. Why? 'Cause I'm feeling the emotion of my past. Some stray thought, some response to someone or something caused me to feel and I forgot. I'm back to the emotion that's familiar and I can't believe in that future. I'm believing in my past. Let me sit down and change my state of being again and get up believing in my future again." And sometimes they had to do it three times in one day. And when they understood that it's the environment that signals the gene, that's epigenetics, and the end product of an experience in the environment is an emotion, and it is, you could actually signal genes ahead of the environment by changing your emotional state. They were doing it with that intention. And when you assign meaning to the act, you get a greater outcome and you turn on the prefrontal cortex, and now your biology literally begins to change. And we have data that suggests by just having the intention to make certain genes, to make certain proteins, or, uh, signal certain genes and make certain proteins, just having the intention literally begins to cause the body to make those chemicals.

14. 1:05:45 – 1:11:48

    What causes a relapse and how to revert it?

    1. SBSteven Bartlett1:05:45

       And what causes relapse in those moments? 'Cause I've had multiple moments where I thought behavior change had been established and I managed to conduct a new habit, cycle, and new behavior, favorable and in, uh, intended behavior for a period, and then something happens in my life, almost subconsciously-

    2. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:06:04

       Seamlessly.

    3. SBSteven Bartlett1:06:05

       ... seamlessly, and I'm back-

    4. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:06:06

       Yeah.

    5. SBSteven Bartlett1:06:07

       ... to all, the old circuitry.

    6. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:06:08

       Yeah. You went unconscious. You went unconscious. And normally, it's, uh, unconscious to some thought or some response in your environment. You see someone or you do something or you have some interaction in your outer world, and the moment you have that interaction, you cau- it causes you to feel a certain way and you return back to a s- to the past, basically. You, um, the emotion is the past. We, and that, the body's actually living in the past. It's so objective, it doesn't know the difference.... doesn't know the difference between the real-life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person's living by every day. It's believing it's in the same past experience again, and it will behave in the past, and it will think in the past.

    7. SBSteven Bartlett1:06:51

       Subconsciously?

    8. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:06:53

       Subconsciously. Seamlessly.

    9. SBSteven Bartlett1:06:54

       So I could for- for example, if going to, I don't know, let's say France. I had a traumatic experience in France when I was 10 years old, let's just say, and then I go to France when I'm 30 years old, and I get back t- I just start eating junk food, for example. And I don't know why. I've like fallen out of my gym habit and I'm eating junk food. That- that... theoretically, that could be my subconscious that's, um, falling back into a... ex- experiencing that survival without me knowing, knowing it.

    10. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:07:22

        Yes. So, so if to change is to be greater than your environment, to be greater than your body, and to be greater than time, then your neocortex, your thinking brain, is a reflection of everything you know in your life. It's an artifact of the past. It's a record, repository of everything you've learned and experienced to this date. And you have a neurological network for everything known in your environment: your parents, your friends, your car, your computer, every object, every person, everything. You have a neurological network for your identity as your body, from your past, for your ambitions and your future. Your brain is a reflection of everything that's known. And because you've experienced all these elements in your environment, there's an emotion associated with it. So you have an emotion associated with certain people, s- different emotions associated with other people, different emotions associated with other objects and things, it's... and other places in time. So then there's so much research to show that when you put a person in the same environment and they see the same people and they go to the same places and they do the same things at their exact same time, it's no longer their personalities creating their personal reality. Their personal reality is creating their personality. Their environment is controlling, unconsciously or subconsciously, the way they're thinking and the way they're feeling. So when they see their coworker, when they see their friend, when they see their parents, they're seeing their parents, their friends, their coworkers in the neurological n- network as a memory of the past. And because every one of those people has an emotion associated with it, they start feeling the emotion that's connected to them, and now their state of being then is returning back to the past. So then to change then is to be greater than your environment, to think, act, and feel differently in the same conditions in your life. That's called change.

    11. SBSteven Bartlett1:09:13

        And how does... how would I do that wake- from, you know... I walk in. I see my parents, mom, dad, dog, house where I grew up in. Is there something that I do in that moment before that moment when I woke up that morning to make sure that I didn't slip off into the unconscious, um, memory and then for- uh, therefore get the sort of unconscious feelings about that experience?

    12. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:09:35

        Well, whatever it is that you want. If it's, if it's overeating... I don't know, I'm making stuff up. If it's s- some emotional button that you have with your family and- and you don't want to feel that way, yeah, I would rehearse that if I- if I didn't want to have that. If-

    13. SBSteven Bartlett1:09:49

        Mm-hmm.

    14. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:09:49

        ... if you have a great... if you're m- I mean, I go t- when I would go to my parents' home when I- when- when I got older, it was all- most of the associations were so fond for me. Just being at home and being with my parents and remembering where I grew up, it was always fun for me. And- and coming back and seeing how much I'd changed in coming back and seeing the- the life that I lived at one point, you know, one point in- in, uh, my timeline. So if it's something that you truly want to change, you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to think. You're gonna re- you're gonna remind yourself how you're not going to act. You're going to remind yourself how you're not going to feel, and you got to remind yourself enough times so you don't forget. 'Cause the moment you forget, you go unconscious. Then you're going to remind yourself how you are going to think. You're going to remind yourself what you're going to do and rehearse it in your mind, and you're going to remind yourself what feeling you want to stay in the entire time so you don't default back to the old self. If you practice that, I guarantee you you'll make some progress. If you lose it, nothing wrong. Tomorrow's another day. It's another-

    15. SBSteven Bartlett1:10:50

        Practice.

    16. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:10:50

        ... you got another chance. And we just get really good at whatever we practice. So then when you return back into your life and you say, "Okay, no person, no place, no thing, no object, no circumstance, no pain, no craving is going to cause me to move from this state today," I guarantee you, if you're able to maintain that modified state of mind and body your entire day, something unusual will happen and will come in a way that you least expect, that surprises you and leaves no doubt that what you're doing inside of you is producing some effect outside of you. And the moment you see the feedback in your environment as a result of your internal change, you're going to pay attention and do it again, and you're going to start believing, "God, did I really create that? Did that really happen because of how I changed?" That's when the game really begins to become exciting.

    17. SBSteven Bartlett1:11:44

        Practice.

    18. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:11:45

        Practice. Been at it a long time.

15. 1:11:48 – 1:20:17

    How do we put all of this into practice?

    1. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:11:49

       (laughs)

    2. SBSteven Bartlett1:11:49

       (laughs) I can tell. (laughs) Practice.

    3. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:11:51

       Yeah.

    4. SBSteven Bartlett1:11:52

       Um, people hear that, they go, "Ugh, Joe, how long? How much practice?" You know, are you talking about, uh, "I've gotta- I've gotta do this for three, four, five years?" Or, you know... and- and- and that practice, what does that look like practically for someone like me who hears everything you've just said and wants to make changes and cures of my life?

    5. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:12:11

       Okay, so there's two times when the door to the subconscious mind opens up. When you wake up in the morning, 'cause your brainwaves are going from delta to theta to alpha to beta. And when you go to bed at night, you go from beta to alpha, theta to delta, and you slip through that scale pretty quickly in the morning and the evening. But your brainwaves start to change during those times, and- and one of the features, one of the important elements of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind. And what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind. So 5%, as we said, is our conscious mind, 95% is programmed subconsciously. And if you're gonna try to change yourself with your conscious mind, you're outside the operating system.So then, you gotta learn how to change your brainwaves, slow them down, get beyond the analytical mind, and enter the operating system where you can rewrite a program, where you can make those changes. And so, (clears throat) learn how to do that. Practice. Learn how to do that. And again, it's not a big deal, it's easy to learn. And then once you can slow your brainwaves down and you're more suggestible to what you're thinking, now you can reprogram. You can't do it with your conscious mind. You can say, "I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I'm wealthy, I'm unlimited, I'm unlimited, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm whole, I'm whole," and your body's saying, "No you're not, dude. You're miserable. You're unhappy." That thought never makes it past the brainstem to reach the body, right? So, it's important for us to, in the morning or the evening, instead of reaching for our cellphone as the first thing, as a habit that we do, and checking our texts and our WhatsApp and our Telegram and our social media and our Instagram and our Twitter and, and Facebook or whatever else people do, their emails, they get connected to everything known in their life. Before you start that, try this out as an experiment. Before you start your day, instead of falling into that redundant habit, you know, go on autopilot, just say, "Okay, if the change is to be greater than my body, to be greater than my environment, to be greater than time, and, and the environment's so seductive, and my body's craving certain emotions and it's programmed to get up and do things, I'm gonna sit my body down. I'm gonna tame the animal here. And when I'm ready to get up, we're gonna get up. Not when it's tired or when it wants to go." If you could literally go inward and forget about your outer world, no longer think about anything out there, if you could lose track of the familiar past or the predictable future and fall into the present moment, and if you were sitting there in silence aware of nothing but you, and you said, "Okay, what is the greatest expression of myself I can be today?" And do that exact process, "Let me write down two thoughts that are not gonna slip by my awareness unnoticed by me today, two memories, whatever it is. What are two behaviors I wanna change today? Let me stay conscious of them and not go unconscious to them today. H- even if it means how I speak. What are two emotions that I live by every day that I can literally change? I wanna become conscious of what they feel like in my body. I wanna catch them the moment I start feeling them. Let me review them over and over again enough times so I don't go unconscious... Okay, now I'm conscious of my unconscious, that 95%. How do I wanna think? How would greatness think today? Let me review it, let me repeat all this. Let me remember how I am gonna think, let me remember how I am gonna think, let me remember how I'm gonna behave here when I'm- how am I gonna act here? Let me rehearse a change I wanna make in this certain circumstance. Let me think about how I do wanna feel today, let me open my heart to life again, let me feel kindness and care and love and gratitude and appreciation. Let me, let me just bring up that feeling, let me feel it with my heart. Let me keep bringing it up so I can bring it up enough times... I want to get so good at bringing up this feeling with my eyes closed I can do it with my eyes open." You practice that, and you not- make a decision to not get up until you feel that emotion. And ask yourself, "Can I stay in this state my entire day?" And if you can't, and you go unconscious, ask yourself at the end of the day, "How'd I do? Where'd I go unconscious? Okay, tomorrow morning, new day, new lifetime, let me go again, let me try again." And it's the practice, it's the repetition that causes the change. Now, here's the beauty behind this, because all of a sudden when those synchronicities start to happen, when the coincidences start to happen, it's no longer a have to. It's no longer, "Oh, geez, I gotta go create my life," it's not like that. It's like the magic is happening, and you don't want it to end, like you, you, you realize that you are actually creating outcomes in your life, and now you're not... You- you're, you're, you're, you're wanting to do the work, because you want the magic to continue in your life. And that's kind of what I'm super proud of with- with our community. We're doers, you know? We- they do the work, not because they have to, because they love all the changes that happen in their life as a result of it, whether it's a mystical experience, a transcendental moment, uh, you know, a great opportunity in their life. They're like, "Wow, I, I, I somehow had a hand in creating this." And so the, so the excitement of life, the adventure of life, uh, the unknown becomes the, becomes the quest.

    6. SBSteven Bartlett1:17:29

       I'm so, so... I gotta admit, I'm one of those people that wakes up in the morning and then just gets dragged, dragged off, out of the bed by my phone and notifications and off into my day totally unconscious. And there's been so many things that I reflect on in my life and go, "Man, I just really wanna..." I'll get home at the end of the day, and I'll look at c- certain instances where I responded in certain ways and go, "Man, I hate that about myself, and I really wanna change that." And it happens again the next day, and I g- come home and I think, "Man, I hate that about myself, and I really wanna change that." (laughs) And it happens the next day, and it's been happening for two years.

    7. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:07

       (laughs)

    8. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:09

       (laughs)

    9. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:09

       When do you wanna change that? (laughs) When you're ready to change that, you will. When you're- when it's- becomes boring and it becomes predictable, you can-

    10. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:17

        I don't wanna have to wait for a crisis or, you know, 'cause... (sighs) pe-

    11. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:20

        Well, now that you know, you can't not know.

    12. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:23

        Yeah, I know, yeah.

    13. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:24

        Now that you know, you can't not know. And on some level, you may have a belief that you think this is hard.

    14. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:32

        Yeah, I do.

    15. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:32

        Yeah, yeah.

    16. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:33

        'Cause I've struggled with it.

    17. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:33

        Yeah, yeah. And it's just, like, uh, like, you going and learning snowboarding and never taking a lesson, right?

    18. SBSteven Bartlett1:18:40

        (laughs)

    19. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:18:41

        It's gonna be, like, it's gonna be tenuous. It's gonna be challenging. It's gonna be difficult. Put your time and learn how to do it, and it gets easier as you do it. It's just, like, you just, you just have to learn the formula. There is a formula that we've discovered that it- it's, it's actually enjoyable when you do it right, uh, and you actually like it, and people wanna do more of it because it feels so good. And, I mean, we see- you look at the...... the HRV measurements with our community, look at our brain scans. These are people that, they're not faking ecstasy. They're not faking it. Their brain is at such a l- a level of arousal, and the arousal is not pain, the arousal is not, um, fear, the arousal is not aggression or anger. The arousal is ecstasy. The brain is going in this heightened state. They're making a connection to something really big and that feels really good. And when they realize that they've hit something really big and it's not coming from anyone or anything outside of them, they stop looking for it out there and they realize it's been within them the whole time. I think, I think so many people want so many things in their life but what we really want is wholeness, because when you have wholeness, you can't want. How could you want when you're whole? You only want when you're in lack. When there's brain and heart coherence, um, there's a level of wholeness that takes place where a person is no longer interested in separation or lack. They feel like they have everything they want. That's a great place to be in, and we've discovered that the more relaxed you are in your heart, the more awake you are in your brain. It's relaxed in the heart and awake in the brain, and we teach that. People actually can get good at doing that.

16. 1:20:17 – 1:22:05

    What's your morning routine?

    1. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:17

    2. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:17

       I really want to talk to you about this brain coherence and this heart coherence. Um, I have to close off on that morning routine thing by asking you exactly what did you do this morning?

    3. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:27

       Oh.

    4. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:29

       This morning.

    5. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:31

       Uh, I was up probably around, uh, 4:30. Yeah.

    6. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:37

       Why? (laughs)

    7. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:38

       Because there's nobody that can bother me at that time. There's no emails. There's no texts. There's, there's no... There's m- It's my time.

    8. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:48

       What time were you in bed?

    9. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:50

       Um, probably between, uh, 10:00 and 11:00.

    10. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:54

        Okay.

    11. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:20:55

        Is that not enough sleep for you, huh?

    12. SBSteven Bartlett1:20:58

        Well, no, that is. I think I, I actually measure my sleep. So I, and I look at it every day. That's part of the reason I'm dragging out of bed, but-

    13. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:21:05

        Yeah. For me, 4:00 in the morning, 5:00 in the morning is a really great time. I just, I, I've just conditioned my body that way. Um, that's the time. And, and I, I spend a little time, uh, remembering what I'm doing. What am I doing? What are you doing in this meditation? Why are you doing this meditation? What are you about to do? I like to just get myself, uh, in my think box, organizing, "What am I not gonna think about? What am I gonna stay away from? What am I not gonna do, uh, in my meditation?" Let me review that. What am, what am I gonna do? When I get that all worked out, then I get in my play box. In my play box, there's no thinking. I've got all the thinking done in my think box. In my play box, it's really about me changing my state. And so, um, I allow for two hours every morning. It doesn't mean I always take it, uh, or need it. Let me say that, but I allow for two hours. Sometimes I like to just get my mind straight, and then, uh, I do the work. I do the work and, and, uh, I like to get to that point where when I'm done, I feel like something changed.

    14. SBSteven Bartlett1:22:04

        Do

17. 1:22:05 – 1:25:50

    Meditation

    1. SBSteven Bartlett1:22:05

       the work?

    2. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:22:05

       Yeah.

    3. SBSteven Bartlett1:22:07

       What does the work look like?

    4. JDDr Joe Dispenza1:22:09

       It's meditation. Yeah. It's finding the present moment. It's getting into the unknown. It's getting beyond myself, disconnecting from my body. Getting beyond any thought of anyone or anything. Getting beyond time. Moving beyond space and time. Turns out when you focus on nothing, there are so many amazing things that happen to your brain. I've seen the scans over and over again.

    5. SBSteven Bartlett1:22:33

       What have you seen in the scans?

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