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Jay Shetty Podcast

Dr. Joe Dispenza: WATCH THIS To Rewire Your Brain & ATTRACT Anything You Want

Dr. Joe Dispenza reveals the shocking truth about why you're struggling to find love. Discover how your past experiences and beliefs might be sabotaging your love life without you even realizing it!

Dr. Joe DispenzaguestJay Shettyhost

Oct 7, 20241h 14mWatch on YouTube

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Why Survival Stress Blocks Love
Jay Shetty asks what blocks us from manifesting love. Dr. Joe Dispenza explains that most people live in a state of readiness and survival, which keeps the body conditioned to the past and closes the heart.
- •Most people idle in a state of readiness driven by stress hormones
- •Strong emotional events become long-term memories that condition the body into the past
- •Stress is not a time to create, learn or change
- •Slowing breathing and focusing on the heart moves the body out of survival
- •A coherent heart signals the amygdala to quiet and the brain to shift into alpha and creativity
Dating Stress and Feeling the Future Before It Happens
Jay describes how dating feels stressful and timeline-driven, and asks how to break that cycle. Dispenza says to get clear on what you want, become that person, and feel the emotion of the future before it arrives so you aren't searching from lack.
- •Stress alters us and keeps us from being authentic
- •Clarity about a partner should lead you to become that person
- •We cannot attract what we feel separate from
- •We are conditioned to wait for an event to remove the feeling of lack
- •Feeling the emotion of the future first is how you come to believe in it
Healing Heartbreak and Forgiveness
Jay asks what happens after someone has been catfished, betrayed or heartbroken. Dispenza explains that the emotional charge keeps the body living in the past, and that overcoming it turns memory into wisdom and frees energy to create with.
- •The brain freezes a frame of strong experiences and the body relives the chemistry
- •Beliefs are subconscious and make up about 95% of who we are by midlife
- •Memory without emotional charge is wisdom
- •Forgiveness is overcoming the emotion and freeing your attention
- •He describes work with veterans with PTSD, where a coherent heart resets the baseline
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The Anatomy of Belief
Jay asks what the process is for changing beliefs. Dispenza describes a belief as a repeatedly thought thought that becomes hardwired, and explains how becoming conscious of unconscious beliefs weakens them.
- •A belief is a thought repeated until it becomes an automatic program
- •People often discover they don't believe the change could work for them
- •The moment of choosing differently feels uncomfortable as the body resists
- •Nerve cells that no longer fire together no longer wire together
- •Becoming conscious of an unconscious belief makes you the programmer rather than the program
Installing a New Belief Through Rehearsal
Dispenza explains how to install a new belief by deciding what you want to believe, mentally rehearsing who you want to be, and keeping the elevated emotion up all day. He frames this as conditioning the body emotionally into the future, not positive thinking.
- •Repeatedly remembering what you want to believe installs new hardware that becomes software
- •The new voice in your head is your future self
- •Mental rehearsal makes the brain look as if you already did it
- •Holding an elevated emotion all day is treated as an experiment looking for synchronicities
- •He says people with serious conditions have gone into remission when they changed
Daily Check-Ins and Changing to Change Your Life
Jay asks for practical checkpoints through the day. Dispenza says reacting is normal and what matters is how long you stay there, recommends regular check-ins, and says that when you change, your life changes, so it should be a want-to rather than a have-to.
- •Everyone reacts; the question is how long you keep reacting
- •Setting an intention and checking in before lunch or on breaks
- •Dispenza breaks away about three times a day to reset
- •People meditate to change, and healing is the side effect
- •Creating a new reality requires becoming a different personality
Transformations Witnessed and the Seven-Day Retreat Model
Jay asks about the biggest changes Dispenza has seen. He describes people recovering from serious conditions and escaping debt, brain scans showing bliss-based arousal, and his formula of information, application and new experience at week-long retreats.
- •His own beliefs about what's possible have changed from witnessing transformation
- •Reports of remission from serious health conditions and moves from bankruptcy to abundance
- •Brain scans show arousal of ecstasy and bliss rather than fear
- •Understanding information, applying it and getting behaviors to match intentions creates experience
- •Over 50% of subjects measured reach these aroused states within seven days
Emergent Consciousness and Taming the Animal Self
Asked about traits that help people progress, Dispenza stresses being present and sitting through discomfort. He describes how groups from many countries converge in gene expression and biology by the end of seven days, and the formula of being relaxed in the heart and awake in the brain.
- •Paying attention is a skill, and he avoids online courses because they compete for attention
- •About 80% of a group express the same genes after seven days
- •Sitting with emptiness or sadness instead of quitting is part of the process
- •Thousands of metabolites and protective chemicals are released in a new environment
- •Relaxed in your heart, awake in your brain is the formula for creating
How Long Rewiring Takes and Earning Belief
Jay asks how long it takes scientifically to rewire a belief. Dispenza says it can't be measured because of the variables, that a belief is an unconscious habit of thinking, and that belief in yourself has to be earned through showing up daily and overcoming.
- •Too many variables make a timeline impossible to measure
- •Apparent instant changes often follow long grappling with a belief
- •People who healed meditated daily, some for a year, and remember the hard sessions most
- •Overcoming is what produces becoming
- •Jay notes we focus on the summit and ignore the journey, and Dispenza says we were told the wrong story
Meditation, Immunity and the SERPINA5 Protein
Jay asks about protein, meditation and immunity. Dispenza explains how stress downregulates genes and describes studies showing a 50% rise in immunoglobulin A and a protein, SERPINA5, in advanced meditators' plasma that blocked a pseudovirus from entering cells.
- •Thoughts that trigger stress can make you sick, so the question is whether thoughts can make you well
- •Immunoglobulin A rose by 50% when subjects felt elevated emotions
- •Plasma from advanced meditators stopped a pseudovirus from entering cells
- •The protein was identified as SERPINA5, and the study was replicated and published
- •His conclusion is that the body is greater than the environment
Human Potential: Seven-Day Results, Young–Elder Pairing and Microbiome
Jay asks how much untapped ability we have. Dispenza says their data suggests the autonomic nervous system makes a pharmacy of chemicals that outperforms drugs, with results in seven days, and describes pairing young people with elders and changes in microbiome and breast milk.
- •Drug studies at best show about 25% response over months, versus 75–100% showing the same outcome in seven days
- •Novices' brains and blood resemble advanced meditators' after seven days
- •Young and old pairs showed better brain changes than the control group, and the youth performed better with elders
- •Participants' microbiomes changed dramatically without diet changes
- •Breast milk showed information that could speed wound healing
Collective Consciousness and Changing the Field
Jay asks about divided collective consciousness and how friends can elevate each other. Dispenza explains how one changing person inspires others through mirror neurons, then describes random event generators and the Walk for the World study with HeartMath measuring the earth's field.
- •Reality is a memory, so a changed person shows up out of phase with what others remember
- •Mirror neurons help a community emulate someone who is changing
- •Coherent groups moved random event generators outside the norm, though one in a Faraday cage did not
- •Walk for the World involved roughly 350,000 people in 162 countries and showed a shift in the earth's field at 45 minutes
- •Collective change is bottom-up, like flocks of birds
Love, Stress and Stories of Transformation
Dispenza says the world needs people to show up as the change they want, and Jay reflects that the opposite of love is stress. Dispenza reframes fear, pain and anger as separation from love and shares prisoner and veteran stories and testimonies that spark belief in others.
- •Show forgiveness, courage and stillness when others are angry, fearful or rushing
- •Fear, pain and anger are described as separation from love, not its opposite
- •Freedom from stress-hormone addiction is called joy and a return to your true self
- •A veteran who was ready to take his life described getting his life back
- •Testimonies on stage help others believe and shorten their own change
Closing Thoughts: Make It an Experiment
Jay thanks Dispenza and reflects on rewiring thoughts and building community. Dispenza closes by urging people to treat change as an experiment and a want-to rather than a have-to.
- •Jay plans to relisten with his eyes closed
- •Building community supports a collective consciousness that helps everyone change
- •Treat change as an experiment, not a have-to
- •Change a belief, behavior or emotion and watch whether events in your life shift
- •Jay mentions the Source documentary is out

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