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Jay Shetty Podcast

TRY THIS For 7 Days To Completely CHANGE YOUR LIFE In 2022! | Dr. Joe Dispenza & Jay Shetty

Dr. Joe Dispenza joins Jay Shetty to talk about how our thoughts and emotions can affect our physical body, the unconscious process of making your feelings become the means of thinking, and reaching an awareness of the possibilities you…

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Jun 7, 20211h 21mWatch on YouTube

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Refusing to Be a Victim: Pandemic Challenges and Discerning Information
Jay Shetty welcomes Dr. Joe Dispenza back and asks about his biggest challenge of the past year. Dispenza describes refusing to be a victim of circumstances, using the time to self-reflect and work on himself, and names the discernment of information as the real challenge.
- •Victim consciousness means letting something outside control how you think and feel
- •Where you place attention is where you place energy
- •Dispenza used the pandemic as a cocoon for personal work
- •In an age of information, discerning what supports you is the challenge
How Thoughts, Emotions and Habits Keep Us in the Familiar Past
Responding to Jay's question about thoughts that make us sick, Dispenza explains how thoughts produce chemistry, how problems tied to memory condition the body into the past, and how habits create a predictable future. He says this is why change is so hard and people become addicted to emotions.
- •Every thought makes a chemical; thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings the language of the body
- •Thinking about problems conditions the body emotionally into the past
- •Habits put people on autopilot, dragging them into a predictable future
- •People become addicted to the emotions of a life they don't like
Overcoming the Body's Programs and Creating a New Personality
Dispenza describes how the body pulls you back to the known, and why staying conscious and sitting through the discomfort of meditation is the first step to change. He explains how overcoming emotions liberates energy for healing and how rehearsing the future and feeling its emotions in advance reverses the process.
- •The body resists change and urges the old judgments and complaints
- •Noticing the program makes you the consciousness outside of it
- •Discomfort in meditation means you're in the unknown and doing it right
- •Mental rehearsal and elevated emotion turn the brain into a map of the future
- •Waiting is not creating
Getting Comfortable in the Unknown and Showing Up for Healing
Jay reflects on the unknown as the place of growth and on distraction in meditation. Dispenza says people can't claim they're too sick, old or busy for this work, citing recoveries he has witnessed, and the two discuss avoiding the trap of recreating the last meditation.
- •Awareness of distraction is meditation; the harmful part is the thought that follows it
- •Stretching people beyond the known leaves them present and with energy to heal
- •Dispenza lists conditions he has seen people recover from, and says people overcame fear, doubt and lack of time
- •Jay says it took him years to stop trying to recreate his last meditation
- •Repetition and predictability are impossible in the quantum
Processing Problems Productively: Trial, Error and Becoming Who You Want to Be
Jay asks how to process problems productively through thoughts. Dispenza reframes problems as challenges to meet from a greater level of consciousness, and describes learning from others, rehearsing a better response, and the role of trial and error until wisdom replaces emotional charge.
- •Problems are opportunities disguised, and life is your initiation
- •Study how others faced similar challenges and rehearse a different response
- •Wisdom is memory of an experience without the emotional charge
- •Stop obsessing about being healed; learn the formula and healing is a side effect
- •Overcoming beliefs matters more than the outcome
Facing Fear, Self-Regulation and Immunity
Jay notes that people want definitive answers, and Dispenza says he would never tell anyone what to do but provides tools. He explains that fear must be addressed for healing, describes practicing being without a body in the unknown, and cites research on immunity, including a virus that doesn't enter the cells of advanced meditators.
- •Dispenza believes in free will and offers tools instead of telling people what to do
- •Fear is hardwired in the limbic brain and must be addressed
- •Trading fear for gratitude is linked to stronger immunity and changes in brain and heart
- •A scientist reported a virus did not enter cells of advanced meditators
- •People notice something different about those who change; they lead by example
Why Pain Memories Beat Joy: Survival, Brainwaves and Ecstasy
Jay asks why memory for pain is stronger than for success or joy. Dispenza explains the survival response and arousal, then describes how brainwaves move from beta to alpha, theta and gamma, and how a transcendent experience can rewrite the body's biology, including a veteran who ran down a beach without crutches.
- •The survival gene focuses attention on one bad thing to prevent its recurrence
- •Arousal from fear, anger and pain makes the brain incoherent
- •Slowing brainwaves toward alpha, theta and gamma creates coherence and energy
- •He says disease is autonomic dysregulation, and cites the veteran at an event in Cancun
- •The ecstasy comes from within, not from outer things
Experience Rewires the Brain: The Blessing of Awakening
Dispenza says a transcendental experience lays down new circuitry that is electric rather than chemical. He describes how this broadens the spectrum of reality and upgrades perception, producing more beauty, holism and connection.
- •Experience produces a feeling that is electric and orderly, not chemical
- •Old beliefs about a judging God are removed
- •You start seeing what the brain edits out for survival
- •Awakening is like a virtual-reality upgrade
What Disconnects Us from Awakening: Trying, Familiar Emotions and Beliefs
Jay asks what disconnects us from the divine once we've felt connected. Dispenza names trying to reproduce the experience, falling back into familiar emotions, and unconscious beliefs, and says changing a belief requires going all in on a decision.
- •Trying and controlling put us in separation; surrender is a practice
- •Emotional shifts return people to the energy of the past, and they should simply show up again
- •A belief is a thought repeated until it's hardwired, rooted in past experience
- •Changing a belief means making a decision with firm intention
- •The point is to engage fully in life, not abstain from it
Reading the Energy of the People Around You
Jay asks how to discern the energy of people we meet. Dispenza says shared experience means shared emotions and energy, that people can bond over suffering, and that constructive energy elevates you. He says the ultimate mastery is raising a room's energy and describes group coherence at his events.
- •Shared emotions create resonance, including resonance around complaining
- •Constructive energy lifts you, while dissonance feels draining
- •Mastery is walking into a room and raising everyone's energy
- •A coherent smaller group can send a bigger signal than a large incoherent one
- •Jay adds that feeling lifted can come from a void rather than real elevation
The Heart as the Middle Path and Creating from the Field
Dispenza calls the heart the union of polarity and describes the heart-brain study showing coherent heart rhythms drive alpha states. He explains gratitude as the state of receiving, contrasts creating from matter with creating from the field, and describes synchronicities and remote group healing.
- •The heart is the union of opposites and a carrier wave for intention
- •A heart-brain study showed coherent heart beating produced alpha in the brain
- •Gratitude is the ultimate state of receiving and was linked to a 50% immune boost in a study
- •Creating from the field instead of matter draws synchronicities
- •Students practiced healing remotely, and universities are studying it
People as Examples of Truth: Evidence and the Four-Minute Mile
Dispenza says people who healed are the example of truth and describes how their stories change what an audience believes. He compares it to the four-minute mile and cites brain, heart, immune and cell evidence from ordinary people.
- •People who healed show scans and blood tests and speak their own truth
- •Audiences change their beliefs when they see someone break through
- •The four-minute mile analogy shows that after one breakthrough others follow
- •Dispenza says the participants are ordinary people, not monks or scholars
- •Evidence becomes the loudest voice in a world of sensationalism
The Purpose of Life: Figuring Out the Purpose
Jay asks what Dispenza believes is the purpose of life. He answers that it is to figure out the purpose, then offers his theory of descending from oneness into separation, asking whether there is more, and awakening over many lifetimes.
- •Infinite experiences exist and you'll never know the end
- •Eternity means being okay with yourself for a very long time
- •His theory is that we came from oneness and descended into separation
- •Asking 'is there more?' begins the awakening
- •Jay praises the blend of science, spirituality and experience
Final Five and Closing: The Formula
Dispenza answers Jay's rapid-fire questions, including a changed belief that creating reality takes a long time. He closes by describing his community, new website and upcoming program The Formula.
- •Best advice: how to show up for yourself
- •Worst advice: believe what people tell you
- •He no longer believes creation must be hard
- •He doesn't value other people's opinions
- •His one law would be to take care of one another
- •The Formula program is expected in late April or early May

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