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Lewis HowesDo This To CONTROL Your MIND TODAY (BrainWash Yourself For SUCCESS) | Dr Joe Dispenza & Lewis Howes
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Evidence for Transformation in a Week-Long Event
Lewis Howes welcomes Dr. Joe Dispenza back and notes that his work is now backed by evidence. Dispenza explains that his team studies ordinary people over a seven-day event and measures biological changes, including people whose diseases disappear.
- •Dispenza says evidence is the loudest voice at this time in history
- •His team studies common people over an intense seven-day event rather than long-term meditators
- •Changes in thinking, acting and feeling are said to change biology and personality
- •Cases of tumors disappearing work like the four-minute mile, showing others it is possible
How Trauma Gets Wired into Brain and Body
Lewis asks how quickly long-held trauma can be healed. Dispenza describes how emergency states freeze a memory image, how emotion selects genes through epigenetics, and how the body relives the past many times a day.
- •Alarm states narrow focus and brand a snapshot into long-term memory
- •Thinking and feeling within that memory becomes a person's state of being
- •Emotion from an experience selects genes, per Dispenza's account of epigenetics
- •The body can believe it is living the past experience 50 to 100 times a day
Healing in Four Days and Gene Expression
Dispenza answers whether people can heal quickly by replacing the past image with a vision of the future carrying elevated emotion. He explains gene expression as upregulating or downregulating the same genes and cites research on four-day changes.
- •Creating an inner event of gratitude or joy conditions the body toward the future
- •Genes are a library of potentials that can be regulated differently
- •Research is cited showing four days of change in cancer-related genes, stem cells and inflammation
- •Downregulation under alarm produces cheaper proteins
Emergency Mode and the Immune System
Dispenza explains how chronic fear keeps the body in sympathetic fight-or-flight, drawing energy away from growth, repair and immune defense. He says living this way makes a person a victim of their environment.
- •The sympathetic system is the gas pedal and the parasympathetic is the brake
- •Energy leaves the brain and heart in emergency mode, whether the threat is real or imagined
- •The immune system loses energy to fight viruses and bacteria
- •Thinking that the outer world controls your feelings makes you a victim of it
Opening the Heart, the Thymus, and Immunoglobulin A
Dispenza describes the research on attention in the heart center and the thymus gland. He says four days of practice raised immunoglobulin A by 50% and describes the effect on the body's field, wholeness and synchronicities.
- •Elevated heart-centered emotions activate the thymus, which makes growth hormone and immune chemicals
- •Switching to the parasympathetic state brings blood flow, oxytocin and nitric oxide
- •Thymosin leads to T cells and antibodies that block virus receptors
- •Immunoglobulin A rose 50% in four days, which he calls the body's natural flu shot
- •Feeling whole reduces the sense of lack and is tied to synchronicities
Retiring the Story of the Past
Lewis notes that most people tell a negative story of their past. Dispenza says memory is creative and people embellish the story to excuse their lack of change. He describes how the week-long event helps people reach their edge, let go, then build a future self.
- •Latest memory research is said to show people embellish about 50% of the story
- •The story reaffirms an identity of limitation
- •Participants are brought up against fear and doubt until they let go
- •The first day or two retires the past and the next five build a new future
- •The state must be sustained back in daily life
Daily Support for Your Inner Environment
Asked what to do before attending events, Dispenza names knowledge and information first. He describes an invincibility meditation for the immune system and stories of people who broke through at their emotional edge and found compassion for the past.
- •Knowledge about yourself should empower you
- •The invincibility meditation signals the inner army with an emotion of uncompromising will
- •He says all healings happen in the heart
- •Participants who reached the edge report compassion for those who hurt them
- •Lewis suggests breakthrough requires reaching the edge every time
Becoming Aware and Unplugging from Unconscious Programs
Lewis asks how to brainwash ourselves differently. Dispenza says 95% of who we are is unconscious programs, so the first step is awareness, which he links to the meaning of meditation as becoming familiar with. He says repetition leads to wholeness and a pull toward the future.
- •Becoming someone else starts with becoming aware of thoughts, speech and emotions
- •Meditation means to become familiar with
- •Familiar thoughts stop being believed when they arise
- •Staying connected to future emotions stops the search for when it will happen
- •People come for many reasons but really seek wholeness
Knowledge, Repetition, and Embodying New Information
Lewis asks what someone in survival mode and without access to a workshop can do. Dispenza says to learn, apply and embody philosophy through trial and error and repetition. He says the body learns to run the new program subconsciously and become immune to outside negativity.
- •Learn with the head, apply with the hands, know by heart
- •Trial and error and repetition condition mind and body to work as one
- •The body memorizes an internal order greater than the outer world
- •Constant news and products appeal to lack and shape subconscious reactions
- •Trying to make your own chemicals is framed as getting out of the bleachers and onto the field
Testimonies and Believing in Yourself
Dispenza shares testimonies, including a man in Dubai in a wheelchair with a spinal tumor who reduced it by 30% and later walked. He says testimonies and knowledge build belief, which depends on going all in and overcoming yourself in meditation.
- •Seeing ordinary people succeed makes it believable for others
- •The Dubai man had read Becoming Supernatural and then attended the week-long event
- •Study, videos and over 450 testimonies are offered as sources of knowledge
- •Impatient, entitled meditators who don't overcome themselves believe less in the work
- •Those who reach the end and go all in believe in themselves and possibility
Coronavirus Fear, Intermission, and Consuming News
Lewis asks for advice for people anxious about the coronavirus. Dispenza urges using the pause to retreat, reflect and become the person you want to be. He says fear suppresses the immune system and that he still practices ordinary precautions.
- •Fear makes a person susceptible, according to Dispenza
- •Use the time at home to ask who you want to be when doors reopen
- •You accept information equal to your emotional state
- •Dispenza says doing the right precautions still matters
- •He suggests practicing heart activation daily for a month
Dispenza's 60-Second Morning Practice
Lewis asks for a brief daily process for visualizing a greater future self. Dispenza describes asking who he wants to be, becoming conscious of who he doesn't want to be, rehearsing the new self and memorizing the feeling. He says that morning he wanted to embody knowledge and information.
- •Ask what the greatest expression of yourself is today
- •Become conscious of who you no longer want to be so you don't go unconscious to it
- •Rehearse the new self until it feels real and memorize the feeling
- •Maintain the inner state independent of outer conditions
- •Synchronicities reinforce being the creator rather than the victim
Healing the Heart, Community, and Oxytocin
Lewis shares his Christian Science testimony meetings and asks how people can learn to heal the heart. Dispenza says ignorance is a choice in an age of information. He describes retreat, community and breakthrough, with energy moving from the heart to the brain, and a participant's release of abuse memory with oxytocin up 200%.
- •Lewis grew up attending testimony meetings that showed healing by example
- •Dispenza says he has taken hits for 20 years for claiming thoughts affect the body
- •Retreating from stimulation, learning, community and overcoming yourself support breakthrough
- •Scans showed a flood of energy from heart to brain and alpha
- •Oxytocin rose 200%, which he says makes holding a grudge impossible
Books, Events, and Final Thoughts
Dispenza recommends where to begin with his books and mentions his website, week-long events and teleclasses. He closes with the idea that great opportunities are disguised as impossible situations and require a greater level of consciousness.
- •Start with Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, then You Are the Placebo and Becoming Supernatural
- •The books are available as audiobooks
- •Week-long events run about once a month, and the website offers free courses and teleclasses
- •Adversity must be seen from a greater consciousness than the one that created it
