Dr Joe Dispenza: Do THIS For 7 Days & Watch Your Life Change (You Can Have ANYTHING!)

Speaker 0:00 When it's no longer about the game called abundance, it's about the game called change.

Lewis Howes 0:04 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 0:04 What do I need to change? The more I change, the more I'll be abundant.

Lewis Howes 0:08 Yes.

Speaker 0:08 Just sit and close your eyes, and watch the thoughts that come up. That's the exact reason why you're not abundant.

Lewis Howes 0:14 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 0:14 I just made a deal with myself that if I was ever able to walk again, I'd spend the rest of my life studying the mind-body connection and mind over matter.

Speaker 0:20 Dr Joe Dispenza, everybody. You're basically remembering your future, and it looks no different than remembering your past. Think neurologically within the circuits of that memory, and feel within the emotions of that new belief, and watch your life begin to change.

Lewis Howes 0:35 Is it possible to heal ourselves with our thoughts and with meditation alone?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 0:40 I think my belief, I think my belief, uh, in what's possible, uh, has changed dramatically in the last two years. I'm not the same person because of the things that I've witnessed. I mean-

Lewis Howes 0:54 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 0:54 ... I, I, I, I saw a person with muscular dystrophy that was in a wheelchair for 12 years. Uh, a young guy. Uh, if you study muscular dystrophy, um, there's no, there's no, there's no cure. It's just-

Lewis Howes 1:06 No coming back.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 1:07 There's no coming back. Okay. Um, there's a lot that has to happen for us to make this journey, right? You get diagnosed with a health condition, and it's a terminal health condition or a chronic health condition, and you're compromised in some way, and you're reliant on something to get you back into health and balance, and that's what the conventional model is. But if it isn't working, mm, you gotta start looking. Some people just, they just, they shrink in, into mediocrity, and they stay there.

Lewis Howes 1:33 Mm-hmm. Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 1:33 Other people are bothered by it, and they're gonna look for answers. Okay, so the person starts looking for answers. We had some lady that n- sh- Amazon accidentally mailed, [laughs] accidentally mailed my book, You Are the Placebo, to her house, and she didn't order it. And she just put it on the, on her coffee table. And, um, she had Parkinson's disease, and finally after like three months, she picked up the book and she saw the brain scans on Parkinson's disease. She started doing the meditations. She came to the week-long retreat. She completely healed of Parkinson's.

Lewis Howes 2:02 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 2:02 She was on the stage telling the story. I was just, "Crazy," right? So, so now the person heals herself, okay? As an example. Now, a person who heals themselves, I've seen Green Berets, I've seen, uh, Navy SEALs, uh, with w-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 2:15 a lot of physical and e- and m- and emotional health conditions really heal. The only thing they wanna do is they wanna give. They wanna, they wanna, they wanna bring it to their people, they wanna bring it to their tribe, they wanna bring it to-

Lewis Howes 2:26 Yes

Dr. Joe Dispenza 2:26 ... the people they love. And, and the n- the, the really in- the intention is, "I wanna heal somebody else," right? And so you, you're healed. You, the next thing is you wanna heal somebody else, right?

Lewis Howes 2:36 Spread the word, yeah.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 2:36 So now, but your model has to change.

Lewis Howes 2:38 Uh-huh.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 2:39 If I heal myself and I've actually changed my energy, can I, can I heal another person? And that's exactly what we do. We say, "Okay, now that you can change your health, can you change another's health? Let's build a model of understanding, and let's do that." And we did the model of understanding, and all of a sudden I see people stepping out of wheelchairs left and right, and people, blind people seeing, crazy things going on. A lot of remissions of diseases. I'm more surprised about that than anybody. COVID happens, and then we're like, "Hmm, can we actually, if we're in the quantum field and there's no separation there, can we just hit a target? Just give us a picture, a coordinate, and we have remote coherence healers-

Lewis Howes 3:15 Yeah, which is fascinating, isn't it?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:15 And these, these, these people do it.

Lewis Howes 3:18 It's crazy. [laughs]

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:19 Listen, they do it-

Lewis Howes 3:19 It's crazy

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:20 ... they do it every day.

Lewis Howes 3:22 They're machines.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:23 They do it. They never miss a day. They would never miss a day, and the reason they'd never miss a day is because they get so much out of it.

Lewis Howes 3:30 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:30 And they're not doing it to-

Lewis Howes 3:31 By trying to heal another, that they don't-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:33 They're not trying to heal another. They're actually doing it.

Lewis Howes 3:34 By healing another-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:35 Yeah

Lewis Howes 3:35 ... that is not even, that they don't even know.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:37 They don't even know, and they're not even in the same room. They're spread across the world-

Lewis Howes 3:40 It's crazy

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:40 ... and they're hitting a target. They're hitting a target.

Lewis Howes 3:43 They see an image, and they visualize-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:45 They just go-

Lewis Howes 3:45 ... that target

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:45 ... they go to the field-

Lewis Howes 3:46 Yes

Dr. Joe Dispenza 3:46 ... and they hold that person in their heart, and they just, and they change their energy. So, so then the model builds more now. Now can you heal at a remote location? The answer is absolutely yes. In fact, our studies, [laughs] with UC San Diego, is insane. I mean, I said to the scientists, "When in your life did you think you would be sitting, talking about the effects of remote coherence healings that are working as well as drugs?"

Lewis Howes 4:11 Mm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 4:12 Hmm? When, or better than drugs, actually. When have you ever thought you'd be talking about this? So our data suggests that it's real, right? We did a triple blind placebo study, and there's absolutely no doubt that these people are

Dr. Joe Dispenza 4:23 causing some profound effects. We just published another paper, paper about the mathematical synchronization of the heart-

Lewis Howes 4:30 Mm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 4:30 ... of groups of people that-

Lewis Howes 4:31 That's so cool

Dr. Joe Dispenza 4:31 ... collectively get together, how they synchronize. You know, there's, we published a paper. It's mathematical. It's real, right? It's a lot of science, but there's some effect that's happening in the people's hearts that are feeling the same amount of love. They're in training to a similar resonance, a similar frequency, okay? So now they're, they, they did an amazing, amazing study, preliminary study on autistic children, okay? Now I'm telling you this because I want you to know that this isn't conjecture. This is reality. Uh, uh, boys, young boys, um, between the ages, I think, of six and 12, and these are problematic kids. They've done the physical therapy, the occupational therapy, the speech therapy, the inhibition therapy, the talk therapy. They've tried the nutrients, the vitamins, they, they tried everything, and then they're not responding. They haven't changed much. They're, they're head bangers. Um, they're incontinent. They don't sleep. Uh, they're obsessive. Uh, they have outbursts. They have no sociability. They have no gross and fine motor skills. Their language is compromised. Now, we decided instead of doing, um, uh, uh, sc- scientific analysis, we decided to have the best scientists take a look at their kids, and that's the parents, right? So they-

Lewis Howes 5:41 Right

Dr. Joe Dispenza 5:41 ... we did, we did, they know, parents know every single thing about that kid 'cause they have all their attention. They know every habit, they know every behavior, they know every obsession. Six weeks, two times a week, these kids at the end of six weeks, speaking in complete sentences, sleeping through the night, taking naps, walking themselves to school, using the toilet, no longer defecating or urinating in their bed, um, hugging their parents when they come home, asking for what they want, jumping on the trampoline, s- being, uh, you know, in school plays. And, and the, and the- [laughs] It's insane. It's in- the parents are overjoyed

Lewis Howes 6:20 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 6:20 Their lives have changed dramatically because their kid is somehow changed. They're smiling, they're more engaging, right? They're not even in the room and they're producing these effects. So back to your question. This is an evolution. If you're, you, you never know what you'll think in differently until you have a new experience.

Lewis Howes 6:41 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 6:41 The new experience causes you to think of possibilities you had never thought of before, and

Dr. Joe Dispenza 6:46 there is an infinity. There's infinities. Because you and I are making known unknown possibilities by having a new experience, and we start thinking of other ways, and that's consciousness, and it's a never-ending process of self-discovery. To answer the question, who am I, right?

Lewis Howes 6:59 Right. [laughs]

Dr. Joe Dispenza 7:00 So, so, so then, so then what we discovered is that in our, in our c- data collection, that people that are the most desperate tend to be the, the, the less likely to respond because they're waiting for their healing to feel gratitude. They haven't realized that when they feel gratitude, their healing begins.

Lewis Howes 7:23 Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 7:23 Right? So that's not a problem. We just have to, we have to work with them to get them out of that state, and that's what I do when, you know, everybody's getting ready. I work with the Healers. Um, we noticed that people who actually are in the river of change, they are actually working on changing something about themselves. They receive that energy better. We noticed that when people are gra- grateful, super grateful to be there, they, that energy just hits them.

Lewis Howes 7:51 Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 7:51 It hits them really big. You'll do anything to get what you want because that's what matter does when it's trying to change matter, and everybody's, everybody's playing that game, right? Everybody's trying to c- accumulate the most amount of things.

Lewis Howes 8:01 Mm-hmm. Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 8:01 Okay, so that's what abundance means to certain people. Get as many things as you can. Okay. You want that? Not a problem. But let's learn the formula of how to create, right?

Lewis Howes 8:11 Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 8:12 So then, so then you'd have to feel those emotions before the experience occurred, and if you understood that you could dissociate all of your attention from this three-dimensional reality and have no attention on anything known and understand it's the field that creates matter-

Lewis Howes 8:31 Mm-hmm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 8:31 ... not matter that emits the field, and if you could get to that place and change your energy with a clear intention and elevated emotion, your heart starts beating in this beautiful rhythm like a drum. We've measured it so many times, and when that occurs, the next thing that happens, the heart informs the brain it's safe to create now.

Lewis Howes 8:51 [exhales] Gosh.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 8:51 So the person relaxes into the present moment, and then we see this, like, if you took a big sheet, you know, and a blanket and you went like that, the energy of the heart actually informs the brain to move into these beautiful, elegant states of alpha brainwave patterns.

Lewis Howes 9:07 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 9:07 Coherent alpha, and that's saying, "What's the next dream?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 9:11 What is it, the ne- what's the next opportunity you want to experience?" That's a state of creation. So now you have a Wi-Fi signal. You got a coherent brain. That's a directive. That's a signal out, and you got this coherent heart. That's what draws it to us, right? You combine those two, and if there's a vibrational match between your energy and that potential in the quantum field and you're feeling abundant, and whatever your brain associates with being abundant, that's your call. That's what the creative process is. This is the creative center. The brain, frontal lobe actually says, "What would it be like to be creative or, or abundant?" I don't know what it'd be like to be abundant. Well, then go read a few books-

Lewis Howes 9:50 [laughs]

Dr. Joe Dispenza 9:51 ... on people who, who actually became abundant and realized it wasn't a glorious process.

Lewis Howes 9:56 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 9:56 They failed miserably. They, that, they got betrayed. They learned a lot of lessons, but they persevered.

Lewis Howes 10:01 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 10:01 And what are the qualities of that person that you could embody? That, that's the key, right? 'Cause it's, it's not about wealth. It's who you become.

Lewis Howes 10:11 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 10:12 Right? 'Cause people think it's about their wealth, but it's the becoming process. It's the overcoming-

Lewis Howes 10:16 That attracted that, right?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 10:17 Of course. So then, so then you gotta turn the battleship around because most people say, "I can't feel grateful for my wealth 'cause it hasn't happened yet." That's the hypnosis. Waiting for the experience to happen to feel grateful. Well, that's Newtonian. That's three-dimensional reality. That's cause and effect. In quantum, you gotta feel it in order for you to experience it, okay? So this heart becomes like an amplifier, and it sends that signal out, and that frequency can carry the thought of your abundance. Can't, suffering cannot carry the thought of your abundance. Lack cannot carry the thought of your abundance. It's, it's a different frequency, right? We feel different feelings like suffering. We think different thoughts, right? So, so people can say, "I'm abundant, I'm abundant, I'm abundant, I'm abundant," all they want, but that thought is never making it to the body because it's stopping at the brainstem because the body's saying, "I'm miserable. I'm unhappy."

Lewis Howes 11:08 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 11:08 "I'm in lack." Right? So, so the affirmation doesn't work, right? Okay, so let's go one step further.

Lewis Howes 11:14 Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 11:15 So if you practice this and you actually understood, you know, well, well, we teach this pretty well, but if you, you, if you learned it just like learning how to play handball

Dr. Joe Dispenza 11:23 or learning how to hit a golf ball, learning how to dance the salsa, if you just practice the formula, you got really good at it. If you were doing it properly, then what would be the outcome? The experiment of being abundant would be that you would have to feel that feeling. It's so good at doing it with your eyes closed.

Lewis Howes 11:41 Mm-hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 11:42 You gotta do it with your eyes open. Now, why? [laughs] Because if you're feeling the feelings of your emotions of your future, you're no longer looking for them. You're-

Lewis Howes 11:54 'Cause you're in the future now

Dr. Joe Dispenza 11:56 ... your f- your body is so objective that it's believing it's living in that reality-

Lewis Howes 12:00 Yes

Dr. Joe Dispenza 12:00 ... where you are abundant, and as long as you feel that emotion, you're not separate from it any longer. You're no longer in lack. You're no longer looking for it to occur- occur, say, "Why hasn't it happened yet?" If you're feeling abundant, why would you look? Right? You, you wouldn't.

Lewis Howes 12:13 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 12:14 You wouldn't. So, so, so then our job then is to be able to maintain that modified state of mind and body. So, okay, so does that mean, like, you should check your bank account tomorrow and see if there's a half a million dollars in it? No.

Speaker 12:25 You keep tuning into that potential, and then here come the synchronicities.

Lewis Howes 12:29 Yes.

Speaker 12:29 What's that? That's feedback in your environment. It's the universe saying, "Hey, Lewis, whatever you're doing, all of a sudden-

Lewis Howes 12:37 [laughs]

Speaker 12:38 ... you're starting to create," right?

Lewis Howes 12:40 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 12:40 And I think it's so important for people to remember that they're the creators of their lives instead of the victim of their lives, right?

Lewis Howes 12:47 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 12:47 So the victim is saying, "I'm feeling this way because that person or that circumstance, or I don't have any money, is causing me to feel this way." That's my relationship with money. What that really means is I'm using my lack to reaffirm my dependency, my addiction, my conditioning. That's my relationship with money, is that I put my attention on money because I don't have it.

Lewis Howes 13:11 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 13:11 So the relationship with money is, of course, built on lack. And so when they don't have it, they feel bad. And what they're really saying is, "My outer environment, my reality, is actually controlling the way I feel-

Lewis Howes 13:23 Mm-hmm

Speaker 13:23 ... and the way I think. So Lewis, why are you in a good mood today? Things are going good. Why in a bad mood? Things are going bad today. So this unconscious program of victimization is saying that, that, that we're, we're allowing our environment to influence the way we feel and the way we think. Isn't that, isn't that what victimization is? And, and the stronger

Speaker 13:41 the emotion we have to our lack, the more we put our attention on the fact that we don't have it, right?

Lewis Howes 13:46 Yes.

Speaker 13:47 So then the person has forgotten that they're creating reality, because what they're creating is lack, and they're creating more of it. And then they try harder, and they force harder, and they control more.

Lewis Howes 13:56 And they're more exhausted, and their body's tired, and their mind's-

Speaker 13:57 And they're breaking down. And, right. So, so the experiment then is let's try it another way. Let's create from the field instead of from matter. Get a coherent heart, get a coherent brain. Relax in the heart, and energy moves right into the brain. We've measured this a thousand times. And all of a sudden, the person moves into these beautiful, elegant brainwave states where they're super creative, right?

Lewis Howes 14:17 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 14:17 So the, the longer you're conscious of that energy, the more you draw that future to you. So then what does the synchronicity mean? It means whatever you're doing inside of you is producing that effect outside of you. Pay attention to what you did.

Lewis Howes 14:31 Keep doing more of it.

Speaker 14:31 And do it again.

Lewis Howes 14:32 Yeah. [laughs]

Speaker 14:32 So generate a little bit more abundance.

Lewis Howes 14:34 Just-

Speaker 14:34 Just do it for an experiment. Now, when the synchronicity happens, do you think you feel suffering, or do you think you feel a little excitement? You feel inspired, right?

Lewis Howes 14:40 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 14:40 So then that synchronicity is saying, "Use this energy. Use this feeling. It should be easier for you to feel this now, and go back and do it again."

Lewis Howes 14:48 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 14:49 Keep the experiment going. And here comes the promotion, here comes the, here comes the email.

Lewis Howes 14:54 Mm.

Speaker 14:54 Here comes the person you meet at the right time, right?

Lewis Howes 14:56 Yes.

Speaker 14:57 Whoa, we have something happening here. And then that, that becomes the momentum, right? So then we generate abundance. That's, that's how we do it. And the relationship-

Lewis Howes 15:07 It doesn't just happen by accident. We generate it

Speaker 15:10 ... we generate abundance, right? So then if you have an hour meditation where you're tuning into your abundant future, but then you're spending the other 15 hours a day in lack, don't expect anything to change. You defaulted.

Lewis Howes 15:24 Mm.

Speaker 15:25 You're back to the old energy. And if you say it's that person or that circumstance or that bank account, I'm gonna say you're back to the unconscious program of being a victim, right?

Lewis Howes 15:32 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 15:33 So then, so then, so then let's go a step further. If your personality creates your personal reality, and it does, and your personality is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel, then the present personality who's listening to this podcast has created the present personal reality called their life. Nothing big there.

Speaker 15:54 Which means if you wanna change your personal reality, you're gonna have to change your personality.

Lewis Howes 15:58 Right.

Speaker 15:59 Nothing changes in your life until you change, right?

Lewis Howes 16:03 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 16:03 So then 95% of who we are is, is on autopilot, right? It's, it's, uh, programmed thoughts, hardwired thoughts, beliefs, perceptions, unconscious habits and behaviors, and really, really emotional responses that tend to be really knee-jerk and automatic, right? So if 95% of who we are is a set of unconscious programs, then the first step to change is becoming conscious of those unconscious thoughts. Now, people think when they sit down to do the work and make their change, that they're, they're doing something wrong. No, those thoughts have to come up. I can't, I'm not worthy, it's never gonna work. But a person who's truly persevering towards their abundance realizes just because they have that thought doesn't mean it's true. They're curious on what's on the other side of that thought. Ah, well, that's just the thought, right?

Lewis Howes 16:55 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 16:55 And nerve cells that no longer fire together no longer wire together. So you keep moving past that thought, it gets, it has less and less power over you, right? Uh, now, your, you have power over it. Or, or better, better yet, you're using your brain in the proper way instead of you're being a victim to your brain, right?

Lewis Howes 17:12 Sure.

Speaker 17:13 If you complain about money, if you judge people who have it, if you rush when you're in lack, if you cheat when you don't have what you need, an abundant person doesn't do that. You gotta look at that and say, "I gotta break these habits."

Lewis Howes 17:28 Yes.

Speaker 17:29 Oh, my God, if I truly wanna be abundant, I can't act this way. Now, here's the big one.

Lewis Howes 17:33 [laughs]

Speaker 17:36 If, if I truly wanna be a new personality that's in a new personal reality, I can't take lack with me. I can't take unworthiness. I can't take the story that goes along with it with my parents or my grandparents-

Lewis Howes 17:48 Mm

Speaker 17:49 ... or with my ex or whatever. That story has to end, right? I mean, if not now, when, right?

Lewis Howes 17:55 How do people end those stories?

Speaker 17:56 Well, of course. Well, how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering?

Lewis Howes 18:02 Right.

Speaker 18:02 That's the game, right?

Lewis Howes 18:03 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 18:03 That's the game called change. How many times we have to go unconscious and default to that old personality? When we catch ourselves and stop doing that and get conscious, that's the moment of change.

Lewis Howes 18:12 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 18:13 So the problem is, is that most people wake up in the morning and they think, "Uh, let me think of my problems," right? Their, the, the brain is a record of the past, right? So they

Speaker 18:23 think about their problems. They don't have enough money, and those, those problems are usually connected to certain people at certain places-

Lewis Howes 18:29 Mm

Speaker 18:29 ... with certain objects and certain things at certain times.

Lewis Howes 18:30 What didn't work out, or who screwed me over, or like, yeah.

Speaker 18:32 Right. So, so the moment they wake up- The moment they remember those problems, they're thinking in the past.

Lewis Howes 18:37 Mm.

Speaker 18:38 So now they're firing and wiring the memory. They're keeping the memory of past alive in their mind. The problem is every one of those memories has an emotion associated with it, 'cause we've experienced it. So when they feel the lack, when they feel the unhappiness, when they feel the anxiety, now the body's in the past. Thoughts being the language of the brain, feelings being the language of the body, how we think and how we feel creates our state of being. But the conditioning process starts, 'cause conditioning only needs a thought and a feeling, a memory or an image and an emotion, and a stimulus and response, and you're conditioning your body-

Lewis Howes 19:15 Mm

Speaker 19:15 ... to become the mind of that emotion. And now the, the memory's not in the brain. Now the memory's buried subconsciously in the body.

Lewis Howes 19:23 It-

Speaker 19:23 And the body becomes the mind of that emotion. So the body is living in lack, and it's believing. It's living-

Lewis Howes 19:30 The body is. Is that through the nervous system, or is that through-

Speaker 19:32 So neurochemical-

Lewis Howes 19:33 The cells, everything

Speaker 19:34 ... everything. So the, so, so the body's so objective that it does not know the difference between the real-life experience that's creating the lack and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone, called lack.

Lewis Howes 19:47 Mm.

Speaker 19:47 The body's believing it's living the same past experience every day. It's, i- i- why? Because the end product of an experience is an emotion.

Lewis Howes 19:54 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 19:55 Now, well, if you, i- your life is changing, but you're still feeling lack, don't expect anything to ch- you, you won't even see it. You'll walk right past it. You're viewing your life through the lens of the past, okay? So okay, so then the person realizes that all their friends are making money, and they're doing stuff, and they're like, "Wow, I'm really feeling lack now." So then when it no longer becomes about your abundance, and it becomes about your change, that's a valuable moment.

Lewis Howes 20:22 Mm.

Speaker 20:22 When it's no longer about your healing, but it's about your change. I paid attention to a lot of people in, in the last couple years tell their story. The people who heal in this work from cancers and all kinds of chronic health conditions, and Parkinson's, and strokes,

Speaker 20:39 and paralysis, and all kinds of things, rare genetic disorders. It, it never was about, when they've really got in the game, it was never about their healing. It was about, what do I need to change in order to heal? When the game-

Lewis Howes 20:54 Interesting

Speaker 20:54 ... goes like that, so then the person who's feeling lack, on some level or another, it's not just in the mind, it's in the body, right?

Lewis Howes 21:03 Lewis, uh, let me hear you say that again. When someone's looking for abundance, it's never about the abundance. It's about the change they need to make-

Speaker 21:11 No-

Lewis Howes 21:11 ... for healing?

Speaker 21:12 No. The ch- well, I'm using healing as an example.

Lewis Howes 21:15 Yes.

Speaker 21:15 But let's use abundance as an example.

Lewis Howes 21:18 Yes.

Speaker 21:18 When, when you understand that you cannot get abundant, when it's no longer about the game called abundance, it's about the game called change.

Lewis Howes 21:26 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21:27 What do I need to change? The more I change, the more I'll be abundant.

Lewis Howes 21:30 Yes.

Speaker 21:31 So then it's no longer a why haven't, how come it hasn't happened? That's the old personality.

Lewis Howes 21:35 Mm.

Speaker 21:35 Separate from the experience, still in lack asking that question.

Lewis Howes 21:38 Which is creating your current reality.

Speaker 21:40 Which is, which is reaffirming it, because that's the lens you're perceiving it through. Okay.

Lewis Howes 21:44 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 21:45 So-

Lewis Howes 21:45 So, uh, we should be focusing more on what we need to change every moment, as opposed to the abundance or the healing.

Speaker 21:50 Well, the word meditation means to become familiar with. Sit with yourself long enough and not turn on your cell phone-

Lewis Howes 21:56 Yeah

Speaker 21:56 ... not scroll through your social media, and do no TikTok, no emails, no, none of that stuff. Don't... Just sit and close your eyes and, and watch the thoughts that come up. Those, that's the exact reason why you're not abundant. Watch what you wanna do when you're feeling lack, to take away the lack, and there's always something you would do to, to take it away. But, but sit with the lack, and be curious on what's on the other side of it, right?

Lewis Howes 22:19 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 22:20 Because the body's programmed into lack now subconsciously, right? So the emotion of lack drives our thoughts and drives our behaviors. So it makes sense then that if an emotion is a record of the past, then we're doing things habitually from the past.

Lewis Howes 22:38 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 22:38 We're thinking in the past, right? So, so lower the volume to the emotion every time you notice lack comes up. And just like breaking any addiction, there's gonna be cravings, right? So-

Lewis Howes 22:49 [laughs] Yeah

Speaker 22:50 ... the body's going, "Hey, Lewis, it's been about two hours since you thought-"

Lewis Howes 22:53 You're so used to doing this thing.

Speaker 22:53 Yeah, you've been thinking lacking thoughts about 150,000 times a day, and you're just gonna stop now. [laughs] The body's

Speaker 23:00 gonna, the body's gonna start influencing the mind and saying-

Lewis Howes 23:02 Yes

Speaker 23:02 ... "It's not gonna work. You're a loser. It didn't work before. It's too hard. Everybody else..."

Lewis Howes 23:07 That's why it's so hard for people to, like, lose weight or get in shape-

Speaker 23:09 Same, it's this-

Lewis Howes 23:10 ... because you might try it for a few days, and then the cravings, or I'm tired, and I wanna go default back into the old personality.

Speaker 23:15 Right. Because why? 'Cause the body which has been conditioned, the mind, the body is the unconscious mind. So the body's got used to the familiar feeling, even-

Lewis Howes 23:23 Mm-hmm

Speaker 23:23 ... they don't even know it's lack. It's just how they feel.

Lewis Howes 23:26 So how-

Speaker 23:26 It's like guilt. So okay, so let me finish.

Lewis Howes 23:28 How does s- yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 23:28 Okay, so the hardest part about all of this is making a different choice. And the moment you decide to make a different choice, get ready, it's gonna feel uncomfortable.

Lewis Howes 23:37 Right.

Speaker 23:37 It's gonna feel unfamiliar. Your, your body's all of a sudden saying, "Hey, Lewis, uh, why don't you start thinking those same exact thoughts-

Lewis Howes 23:44 Mm-hmm

Speaker 23:44 ... do the same things, make the same choices, demonstrate the same behaviors, have the same experiences," so you could feel that feeling of lack. Complain again to somebody, call somebody up and say how, how miserable your life is, right?

Lewis Howes 23:55 Right. [laughs]

Speaker 23:56 And that's, that's the known, right? So the body's always influencing the mind to return back to the familiar territory.

Lewis Howes 24:02 The default, yeah.

Speaker 24:03 The default, okay. All right, so now the person says, "Okay, what thoughts do I not want?" What, what, what would an abundant person think this way? The people in our work that have created-

Lewis Howes 24:14 Mm.

Speaker 24:14 I had a guy come to our event. I, I love this guy. He healed himself of... He t- he tried to take his life three times. When he, he told me that when he came to our work, he didn't have $2 to rub together. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars now.

Lewis Howes 24:31 Wow.

Speaker 24:31 And he just keeps giving it away.

Lewis Howes 24:35 Wow.

Speaker 24:36 His, his lesson, his lesson was, no, it wasn't the wealth, it was who he became. So it's the overcoming process that is the becoming process, right? Who did he become in that journey? Exactly. He had to get beyond all of those thoughts of his past, all the mistakes he made, all the things he did wrong, all the money he owed there, all of that. That was like, he just had to no longer be that person any longer. Mm-hmm, hmm. But he did say, "How would a wealthy person live?" And, and, and when he created his wealth, what do you think the first thing he did? Started giving? Giving it away. Why? 'Cause an abundant person doesn't have any lack. Mm-hmm. And he knows

Speaker 25:18 how to create more of it, and that's, he's in the experiment. "Well, what would happen if I keep giving it away?" He keeps getting more. That's a good experiment to have, 'cause he is actually living in that abundant state. He also had tremendous healings taking place because when you heal your heart, you heal your mind. I mean, it's just the way it is. We saw it so many times, right? So he healed his heart. He got an upgrade. Wow. He got an upgrade, right? Yeah. So then, the, the next fundamental question is: How would an abundant person think? Write it down, dude, and fire and wire those thoughts in your brain, and install the hardware. Keep doing it with attention and intention, it becomes the new voice in your head. It becomes a software program. Then say, "Okay, how am I gonna be in my life today? What would an abundant person, how would they behave?" And before you reach for your cellphone and start scrolling through your social media, close your eyes and rehearse in your mind how that person would walk, how they would breathe, how they would smile, how they would- Wow ... greet people, how they would be on Zoom calls, how would they be in traffic, how would they be at dinner. And, and the act of closing your eyes and mentally rehearsing the act- Mm-hmm ... if you're truly present, the brain does not know the difference between the real-life experience and what you're imagining. In fact, just a little bit of time, you start to install the neurological hardware to look like you already did it. Mm-hmm. Now, the brain is no longer a record of the past. It's primed for the future. Keep doing it. Keep rehearsing. No different than playing an instrument, no different than learning how to dance, no different than learning how to act, uh, or play a sport. Mm-hmm. Everybody's always rehearsing, right? The rehearsal process changes the brain to look like you've already done it, you've already experienced it. Now, what's the essential part of that? The hardware is in place. Now, all you gotta do is step into the footprint. Mm-hmm. Keep doing it, it becomes a software program. You start acting like an abundant person. Everything changes. Your energy changes, your mood changes, the way you walk, the way you breathe, your posture changes. You're out of the known, right? Yes. You gotta condition the body now emotionally into the future. Can't open your eyes in the morning until you are feeling- [laughs] ... worthy to receive, and if you can't feel worthy to receive, then if not now, when? Mm-hmm. If it takes

Speaker 27:36 you two hours to get there, ask me if it's worth 30 years of running, trying to get what you need matter the matter, okay? So then the person who wrestles with their lack, they're out of the bleachers, and they're on the playing field. Yeah. Here's what we learned. Here's what we learned. Let's go back to beliefs now. So remember, a belief is just a thought you keep thinking over and over again. A belief is something that you keep thinking enough times that you hardwire it in your brain, and it becomes an automatic program. And we have beliefs about all kinds of things: money, relationships, God, whatever it is. It's all based on what we've been told or our past experiences, right? The boundaries of those beliefs are our emotions, right? So let's just say you got betrayed, or somebody abused you, or- Mm-hmm ... your father told you that money was bad and there's never enough of it or whatever. Th- that's a story, okay? But, but somehow it left an impression on you. You remember that event very clearly, and that's kind of rooted in who you are, right? Okay, so that emotion, then, is the boundary of our belief, okay? So how you think and how you feel creates your state of being. If you take a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, a thought and a feeling, that's called an attitude. [laughs] A series of good thoughts with a series of good feelings, you say, "I have a good attitude today." You have a series of negative thoughts that are connected to a series of negative feelings, you say, "I have a bad attitude today." So attitudes are just shortened states of being. Good attitude in the morning, bad attitude in the afternoon. If you take an attitude, an attitude, an attitude, and you keep those up, and you string attitudes together, you create what's called a belief. Mm-hmm. And a belief is just an extended state of being. So if you keep thinking the same thought, you keep hardwiring it in the brain, you keep feeling the same feeling, you keep conditioning in your body, the redundancy of that cycle over and over again conditions the body to subconsciously become the mind of that belief. And all beliefs are subconscious states of being. Mm. Okay. Take a belief, a belief, a belief, and you string them together, you form what's called a perception, and perceptions are just such extended states of being that, that we're unconscious. And so then we, we edit out reality. In fact, most people don't see things the way they are.

Speaker 29:51 They see things the way they are. Yes. Right? And people are always filling in reality unconsciously based on their memory. They could be married to a person for 40 years, and they don't see the person. They see the memory of the person. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Right? And there's research to prove this, okay? So how do we change a belief or perception about ourself or our lives, okay? We've studied this. Okay, let's just say that lack is ingrained in there. You got the story. You lived on the streets. You lost everything. You got betrayed. Your business partner took everything, took your wife, took e- You've got the story and a half. Yes. Okay? Okay, you gotta start telling a new story of the future, right? You gotta believe in that future more than you have to believe in the past, so how do you do that? Mm-hmm. You only believe in the past when you feel the emotions of the past. The only time you're gonna believe in the future is when you feel the emotions of the future, right? Okay. So in order for us to change a belief or perception about ourself and our lives, we have to make a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carries a level of energy that's greater than the hardwired programs-

Lewis Howes 30:58 Uh-huh

Speaker 30:58 ... in your brain and the emotional conditioning in your body, and your body literally has to respond to your mind, that the choice that you're making to change-

Lewis Howes 31:08 [laughs]

Speaker 31:08 ... in that moment becomes a moment in time that you never forget, and here's the key.

Lewis Howes 31:12 Physically.

Speaker 31:13 Physically. The stronger the emotion you feel when you make that choice, the more you'll remember the decision.

Lewis Howes 31:19 Mm.

Speaker 31:20 Okay? So then how do we down regulate that old belief? If the trauma created emotional quotient of six or seven, then your decision to change your belief's gotta be a nine.

Lewis Howes 31:32 Right.

Speaker 31:32 And you gotta come out of your resting state, and that moment has to define you. You could say, "I know exactly where I was, the time of day it was, who I was with, when I made my mind up to change."

Lewis Howes 31:44 Mm.

Speaker 31:44 Right? 'Cause you created a long-term memory. Long-term memories are created from strong emotion.

Lewis Howes 31:48 From emotion, yes.

Speaker 31:49 Right. But if the amplitude of that emotion is greater than the betrayal, boom, the body starts responding to mind, and you're actually giving your body a taste of the future emotionally. So you brand your-

Lewis Howes 32:01 What's possible.

Speaker 32:02 No, your body's actually getting the taste of that future event.

Lewis Howes 32:06 It's experiencing the future now.

Speaker 32:08 Now, exactly.

Lewis Howes 32:08 A taste of it, yeah.

Speaker 32:09 Big explosion in the quantum field.

Lewis Howes 32:10 Ah.

Speaker 32:10 Big

Speaker 32:11 explosion. So the side effect of that is if you combine that clear intention with that elevated emotion, you're basically remembering your future, and it looks no different than remembering your past. Think neurologically within the circuits of that memory, and feel within the emotions of that new belief, and watch your life begin to change, because nothing changes in our life that we change in. When we change our energy, we change our life. So now the experiment all of a sudden is no longer based on it being hard or trying or wishing or wanting-

Lewis Howes 32:43 Mm-hmm

Speaker 32:43 ... or hoping. That's what we do when we're lacki- or in lack or separation. It's about change. So then when we finally realize in order for us to become abundant, we have to overcome the old personality, and that's 95% of who we are, right?

Lewis Howes 33:00 Yes.

Speaker 33:00 So then the side effect of the beginning of this process is a lot of discomfort.

Lewis Howes 33:07 [laughs]

Speaker 33:08 It is a lot of discomfort, because you're stepping outside the known into the unknown, and now you can't predict. It's-

Lewis Howes 33:14 It's scary. It's your comfort zone

Speaker 33:15 ... no, no, you'd ra- you'd rather hold onto your lack.

Lewis Howes 33:17 The pain, the suffering.

Speaker 33:18 And rather tell the story of that. At least it makes you feel something that's familiar.

Lewis Howes 33:22 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 33:22 When you step outside and you're saying, "I'm not gonna complain about money any longer. I'm not gonna complain about that I don't have any. I'm not gonna judge other people who do. I'm not gonna say I can't, I'm not worthy, it's never gonna work," all those things gotta go. I'm not gonna feel lack. I'm not gonna feel unworthy. I'm not gonna feel separation. I'm not gonna feel resentment. These are the things that are keeping my reality the same. Now it's no longer about abundance. It's about who you become.

Lewis Howes 33:44 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 33:45 So the o- overcoming process becomes the becoming process. And so many people come through this work, they want abundance. They want healing. They want a new relationship. They want a new career. They want the mystical. But really, they want wholeness. And, and-

Lewis Howes 34:00 They want healing. They want peace. They want-

Speaker 34:02 They want wholeness

Lewis Howes 34:03 ... 'cause they feel unwhole.

Speaker 34:04 Well, well, when you're in lack or you're in separation, you're not whole.

Lewis Howes 34:08 Mm.

Speaker 34:08 Imagine feeling so much wholeness that it's impossible to want. That's what our, that's what we're working on with people. Then you can really enjoy a sunset. Then you can really enjoy a meal.

Lewis Howes 34:19 Mm.

Speaker 34:19 Then you can really enjoy your friends. Then you can... I, I, I, I talk to people that are very abundant, I mean, in the billions abundant, and,

Speaker 34:29 you know, so many of them say, "We're in misery."

Lewis Howes 34:33 'Cause they're not whole.

Speaker 34:34 "We're in agony," because they can't enjoy life anymore. That's what they want. I mean, people want abundance to be able to enjoy life. They wanna be able to do whatever they want with whoever they want as many times as they want wherever they want. That's freedom, right? Or people want abundance to sponsoring thought is really they want freedom, right? Or w- whatever their sponsoring thought would be, right? So, so then creating from the field instead of from matter to shorten the distance between cause and effect requires that clear intention with that elevated emotion, coherent brain and coherent heart. Tune into that energy and feel it with your brain and your heart, and we have plenty of ways to do that. Examine your personality and examine your personal reality. Change your personality. Change your personal reality. Don't make it be about abundance. Make, make it about becoming abundant by overcoming the person who's not abundant. The person who heals themself from a health condition, who's no longer thinking the same way, no longer acting the same way, no longer feeling the same way, you ask them where that disease is when they stand on the stage in front of 1,500 people or 3,000 people and s- that's a four-minute mile. Everybody's leaning in. That's truth right on the stage. They say, "Where is that, where is the disease? Oh, it lives in the old person."

Lewis Howes 35:48 Wow.

Speaker 35:49 "I, I'm somebody else."

Lewis Howes 35:50 Yeah.

Speaker 35:50 That, that's like, that's the... I don't even, that's not even a story. That's not even who I am any longer. So lo and behold, when we do our research, and people do this, in seven days of going all in, at the end of seven days, their body looks like genetically, with all the metabolites, that they're literally in a different environment. Now, here's the weird part.

Lewis Howes 36:15 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 36:15 They're in a ballroom.

Lewis Howes 36:17 Right. [laughs]

Speaker 36:17 There's not a lot happening in a ballroom.

Lewis Howes 36:19 Right, right.

Speaker 36:19 What's happening in a ball- I've been to thousands of ballrooms.

Lewis Howes 36:22 Yeah.

Speaker 36:22 But the environment somehow looks like they're living in a very prosperous, very healthy, very loving, nurturing, very whole environment. Why? 'Cause they were signaling genes ahead of the environment.

Lewis Howes 36:33 Right. Mm, mm.

Speaker 36:34 And [laughs] if the environment signals the gene, okay, that's epigenetics

Dr. Joe Dispenza 36:38 The end product of the experience in the environment is an emotion. If you feel the emotion before the experience, you're signaling the gene ahead of the environment. And genes make proteins, and proteins are responsible

Dr. Joe Dispenza 36:49 for the structure and the function of your body. And the expr-

Lewis Howes 36:51 Looking jacked by the, looking jacked by the way. I like that. [laughs] Look at that muscle over here.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 36:54 The expression of proteins is the expression of life. I couldn't get my mind to do what I wanted it to do, and then after six weeks, I just went through the whole thing and I felt like I hit a golf ball right in the sweet spot. Something clicked. And from that point forward, what took me two and a half or three hours to do I was able to do in 45 minutes. I was firing and wiring, you know, these new circuits, and I was practicing paying attention. And then all of a sudden I started noticing dramatic changes in my health like this. [snaps fingers] And the moment I started noticing changes in my body, what was going on outside of me, and I started correlating it, what I was doing inside of me, now I was just hooked, and I just started doing it with more passion and more sincerity. Anyway, back on my feet in 10 and a half weeks, back training in 12 weeks, back in my clinic, and, um-

Lewis Howes 37:37 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 37:37 ... and I just made a deal with myself that if I was ever able to walk again, I'd spend the rest of my life studying the mind-body connection and mind over matter. And then that led me to just stop everything in my life. I just wasn't the same guy. I'd just been initiated into something, and sold my practice, sold my home.

Lewis Howes 37:52 You sold it all.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 37:53 Sold it all, moved to the Northwest, and, uh, just started asking bigger questions like, "Who am I? What is... Why, why am I here? Or what, what are we doing? Or what happens when we die? And how did, how did all this happen for me? And what, what, what was the process?" I started studying the, the science behind it, and I couldn't find it in any conventional textbooks because this was unconventional, right? And miraculous is kind of unconventional. So I started studying quantum physics and neuroscience and, uh, epigenetics and it started making sense. I started building this model of understanding. Then I asked the fundamental question: Has anybody else done it? So then I traveled to 17 different countries and interviewed-

Lewis Howes 38:30 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 38:30 ... hundreds and hundreds of people with, uh, serious health conditions that were treating either conventionally or unconventionally, and they were staying the same or getting worse, and all of a sudden they got better. So what was the cause that produced the effect, you know? And the stories and what I learned was so amazing, I went back to school and studied neuroscience because mind

Dr. Joe Dispenza 38:50 was such a strong element. It wasn't diet, it wasn't celibacy, it wasn't d- any of those things.

Lewis Howes 38:55 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 38:55 It was just really this element. And so then I was able to figure out that there were four common things. And then I wrote a book about it, and then I thought, "God, if this works really on people that were sick and are better, and they come from all walks of life, all colors, all races, all genders, uh, pr- sexual preferences," but all of a sudden I wanted to see if I was able to reproduce it. So then I started seeing, okay, let's see if we can teach this.

Lewis Howes 39:23 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:23 Be able to reproduce the outcome, 'cause that's science, right? So we went through about-

Lewis Howes 39:28 What were the four common things?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:29 Uh, the first one was that they're, they all believed and accepted that there was an intelligence that lived within them-

Lewis Howes 39:35 Mm-hmm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:35 ... that was giving them life. And then-

Lewis Howes 39:36 These, these people you interviewed who had had injuries that overcame them?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:39 No, no, no, these were people with, with cancer, MS, lupus-

Lewis Howes 39:42 Gotcha

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:42 ... Parkinson's disease.

Lewis Howes 39:43 Who got better.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:44 Yeah. Just spontaneously. You know, it's called a spontaneous remission.

Lewis Howes 39:48 Got it.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:48 So I was-

Lewis Howes 39:48 Because they believed there was an intelligence.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:49 There was some invisible life force that was, they were connected to.

Lewis Howes 39:53 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 39:53 That they felt like they had lost their connection to. They became separate and disconnected from. And that when they got the diagnosis, they woke up and said, "Man, I gotta connect again and I gotta connect to my essence." Uh, and so they-

Lewis Howes 40:06 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 40:06 ... developed a relationship with it, just like you develop a relationship with anybody. It takes time. You gotta be present, you gotta connect, you gotta experience, uh, you gotta be present. All of these things are important elements.

Lewis Howes 40:17 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 40:19 So, so that was the first thing. Um, the second thing was that they realized that it was the mismanagement of their emotions and the hormones of stress that really began to create their condition. Now, now stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance. Uh, stress, uh, is when your body's knocked out of homeostasis. We have an innate mechanism in our body that returns us back to order. So then if you're, someone cuts you off on the LA freeway, you have a, a emotional reaction, but 15 minutes later you're back to driving and you're over it, right? That's, uh, all organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress, emergency.

Lewis Howes 40:53 But when it's all day long, all week, all year.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 40:56 Yeah. So if you're reacting to, like if Tyrannosaurus rex is chasing you, uh, you have to make a decision. Am I gonna use 20% of my energy? Am I gonna use 100%? So-

Lewis Howes 41:04 Yeah

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:04 ... it turns

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:05 out when you're reacting to traffic-

Lewis Howes 41:06 More like 200%. [laughs]

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:07 Right. Or if you're reacting to your coworker sitting in the cubicle next to you.

Lewis Howes 41:11 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:11 You're, you're turning on that response, and what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive. 'Cause when you turn on the stress response and you can't turn it off, now you're headed for disease.

Lewis Howes 41:20 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:20 'Cause nobody can live in emergency mode for that extended period of time. Well, human beings, we can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. You can think about your problems and you're producing the same biological effects. So those chemicals give the brain and body a rush of energy, and people become addicted to that rush of energy. So now they use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion. They need the bad job.

Lewis Howes 41:46 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:46 They need the poor relationship. So that means they become addicted to the life that they don't even like, right?

Lewis Howes 41:51 Why do we, why do we need the bad job or bad relationship and stay stuck in those?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 41:55 Be- because it's a conditioned response. So listen, if you get angry at a coworker and all of a sudden you, you get an arousal in your brain and body, right? You get a rush of energy. When you start noticing that your body starts dropping, your brain starts noticing your energy starts dropping, you're automatically going to have the image of the coworker in order to what? Give your body the, the next-

Lewis Howes 42:18 The jolt. Yeah

Dr. Joe Dispenza 42:19 ... the jolt, right? So all of a sudden people become addicted to their own thoughts, right? So these people realize that, "Oh my God, um, I, I, I've been mismanaging my attention and energy, and I gotta, I gotta get beyond my past. I gotta get beyond these emotions. I gotta make some big changes. I gotta break the habit of being myself, you know?

Lewis Howes 42:39 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 42:39 I gotta stop being this person." Now, that sounds really good theoretically and philosophically, but change is such a hard thing.

Lewis Howes 42:46 Really hard.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 42:47 All right? Because the moment you come back to your senses and you step back into your life and you see that person, or you go to that place, or you're with that, uh, experience, so many people Are unconsciously reacting in their thoughts and feelings to everything in their environment. So now their environment is controlling how they think and feel. So they realize that in order to change-

Lewis Howes 43:09 They gotta change the environment

Dr. Joe Dispenza 43:10 ... they gotta be greater than their environment.

Lewis Howes 43:11 Mm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 43:12 Greater than the conditions in the world, greater than the circumstances in life.

Lewis Howes 43:14 And be mindful of that every time it comes up-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 43:16 Stay conscious. Yes

Lewis Howes 43:16 ... to

Lewis Howes 43:17 be like, "Okay, I'm gonna think differently. I'm not gonna react this way."

Dr. Joe Dispenza 43:19 Yeah, right. I'm not gonna go back. I'm not gonna go back. Because the moment you start reacting emo- emotionally, emotions are a record of the past, and if those emotions are driving your thoughts, you're thinking in the past. And if you can't think greater than how you feel, and you believe your thoughts have something to do with your destiny, [scoffs] you're creating more of your past, right? So it turns out that the repetition of thinking and feeling, and feeling and thinking, these loops that people get caught in, condition their body to subconsciously become the mind of that emotion. Which means now their body is their unconscious mind, is believing they're living in the same past experience 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. What's the relevance behind that? Well, the latest research on genes says genes don't create disease. It's the environment that signals the gene that creates disease.

Lewis Howes 44:08 The emotional environment or the physical environment?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:09 Your environment, any environmental reaction. But if you're reacting emotionally to your environment the same way, you're signaling the same gene in the same way, and now you're-

Lewis Howes 44:19 Right

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:19 ... headed for a genetic destiny. So-

Lewis Howes 44:21 Huh

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:22 ... the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease. If you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone, your thoughts can make you sick. And if your thoughts can make you sick, is it possible that your thoughts can make you well? So-

Lewis Howes 44:34 Mm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:34 ... they began to realize that, oh, my God, the repetition of thinking and feeling, and feeling and thinking, caused me to feel guilt, and I don't even know it's guilt. It just feels like me. It's just I'm used to the same chemical continuity. Now, the moment they decided to change, any time you decide to change and change anything about yourself, get ready, 'cause it's going to feel uncomfortable.

Lewis Howes 44:54 It's gonna hurt.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:54 You're, you're gonna leave the known.

Lewis Howes 44:56 Yeah.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 44:56 You're gonna leave the familiar, and you're gonna step into the unknown.

Lewis Howes 44:58 Even if the familiar is uncomfortable and painful-

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:00 Right. You-

Lewis Howes 45:01 It's still gonna be painful leaving the pain.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:03 Right. 'Cause some people are super happy being unhappy.

Lewis Howes 45:06 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:06 So then they would rather cling to their suffering than take a chance on possibility. So these people said, "I really have nothing to lose," right? So then they said, "I'm willing to be uncomfortable and be in the unknown," and it turns

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:20 out that's the perfect place to create from.

Lewis Howes 45:22 Mm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:22 So when the body is conditioned to become the mind, then to change is to be greater than the body, right? Because-

Lewis Howes 45:29 How do we become greater than the body?

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:30 Well, that's a whole nother conversation.

Lewis Howes 45:32 [laughs]

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:33 But let me finish this.

Lewis Howes 45:33 Yes.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:33 Okay? So the third thing they said was, "Okay, so now that I know that I gotta break the habit of being myself, and I can't mismanage my thoughts and feelings, I gotta change how I act, I gotta watch how I speak, I gotta become conscious of how unconscious I am," because 95% of who we are by the time we're 35 years old is a set of memorized behaviors.

Lewis Howes 45:55 Mm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 45:55 Uh, like a computer program, emotional reactions, unconscious beliefs and perceptions. So the first step to change is to become conscious of how you think, to notice how you act, to pay attention to how you feel, and the act of observing those states of mind and body separates you from that program. Now you're, you're, you're the consciousness observing that program. It turns out the more conscious you become of how unconscious you are, you know, lighting a match in a dark place, that first step creates enormous amounts of chaos in the brain and body. And it's disturbing, so people-

Lewis Howes 46:28 Mm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 46:28 ... just go back to the same addiction, the same emotion, the same problem. [exhales] This feels better. No, that feels familiar. So they said-

Lewis Howes 46:34 Mm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 46:34 ... "Okay, now I gotta change. I gotta reinvent myself." Now, this is really important, because they started sitting down and thinking, "Okay, who in history do I admire? Where are great people, role models, that I can follow? What are the qualities and characteristics that they have? How am I gonna change?" You know, they, these are what we call frontal lobe questions. The creative center of the brain switches on, and the emotional center settles down. So then they started thinking, "How would I have to be in a new life if I was really going to heal? What would I have to change about myself?" Now, there's this interesting phenomenon that if you close your eyes and you begin to think about doing something, you're an athlete, you understand this, if your, uh, uh, uh, background in football and you are running a pattern or you are doing something, you would rehearse it in your mind.

Lewis Howes 47:20 Yeah.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 47:20 Turns out that the act of mentally rehearsing something when you're truly present, your brain does not know the difference-

Lewis Howes 47:28 Mm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 47:28 ... between what's going on out there and what's going on in here. In fact, your brain will begin to look like

Dr. Joe Dispenza 47:34 you've been doing it for the last five days, and you've never run the course.

Lewis Howes 47:37 Mm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 47:37 So now your brain is no longer a record of the past, because typically it is. Now it's a map to the future.

Lewis Howes 47:43 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 47:43 So now you're priming your brain. So that became the very platform. You know, experiments with piano players, you know, you take a group of people that never played the piano before. You divide them into two different categories. They have one group of people. You teach them one-handed scales and chords. You do a brain scan on them. They come and practice for two hours a day for five days. At the end of five days, if you re-scan the brain, they grow new c- circuits on the opposite side of the brain. Nothing magical there. You learn something new. Learning's making new connections. Get some instruction. You get instruction, you get your body involved. Get your body involved, you're gonna have an experience. Experience enriches the brain. Pay attention to what you're doing. You gotta pay attention and repeat it. Firing and wiring, you're gonna assemble new circuits. You can take the other group of people, have them come for two hours a day for five days, do a brain scan before, the brain scan after, have them close their eyes and mentally rehearse playing those scales and chords. At the end of five days, [scoffs] they'll grow the same amount of circuits in their brain-

Lewis Howes 48:38 Wow

Dr. Joe Dispenza 48:38 ... as the people who actually physically demonstrated the action. What does that mean? That means not only did they change their brain by thinking differently, but their brain looks like they've been playing the piano for five days. Now, set them in front of a piano. Never played the piano before. They'll play those scales and chords because their brain is wired to play it.

Lewis Howes 48:55 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 48:56 So now the act of rehearsing who they're gonna be- What are the qualities? And beginning to get in this creative state began to lay down the circuits of a new personality, and a new personality is connected to a new personal reality. So the next question is-

Lewis Howes 49:10 Hmm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 49:10 ... does that change the body? Take a group of men, have them do one-handed, um, curls in their mind, and bring an emotional component like stronger, harder, more intense, one hour a day for two weeks. At the end of two weeks, 13.5 increase in muscle strength.

Lewis Howes 49:28 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 49:29 Never lifted a weight. Now their body is changing by thought alone.

Lewis Howes 49:33 Huh.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 49:34 So these people began to reprogram their brain and body, and all of a sudden they began to act differently. Why? Because they installed the circuits. They began to think differently, of course.

Lewis Howes 49:46 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 49:46 They began to feel differently. They, they were no longer feeling pain. They're actually liking themselves, right? So then if they're living by a different emotion and they're, they're feeling an elevated emotion before their healing, before they were healed, they're not waiting for their healing to feel joy and gratitude. They're feeling-

Lewis Howes 50:04 Right

Dr. Joe Dispenza 50:04 ... gratitude and joy. Now their body's believing that it's healed because the body's feeling the emotion ahead of the experience, and if the environment signals the gene and the end product of an experience in the environment is emotion, you're signaling the gene ahead of the environment. And what do genes do? Genes make proteins. And what are proteins responsible?

Lewis Howes 50:20 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 50:20 The structure and function of the body. Now you're literally becoming somebody else, and now you're turning down the genes for disease and you're turning up these other genes.

Lewis Howes 50:28 Wow.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 50:29 So I started to realize that this reinvention process is exactly what we've always done. It's just that we get complacent in certain areas of our life, and we stop. Now, the last thing they have in common, the fourth thing, is that when they were doing that rehearsal process, they had long moments where they lost track of time and space. In other words, they were so involved in their inner world-

Lewis Howes 50:50 Mm-hmm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 50:51 ... of imaging that when they turned the light on in the room or they lift their blindfold up or whatever they were doing, they thought it was 20 minutes later, and it was an hour and 20 minutes later. And when you're truly focused and you're truly paying attention and you're in the present moment, all of a sudden you will leave this three-dimensional reality.

Lewis Howes 51:10 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 51:11 And when you leave this three-dimensional reality, there's only one other place you go, and that is the realm of thought, and that's called the quantum field, and that quantum field is where all possibilities exist, right? So they were connecting to a field of information that had everything to do with the first principle, which is that invisible intelligence that's both within us and all around us, personal and universal. It is, it is the unifying field that governs everything material in this world, and-

Lewis Howes 51:36 Hmm

Dr. Joe Dispenza 51:36 ... if you're gonna ch- change something material, that means you gotta get beyond your body to heal your body.

Lewis Howes 51:41 Right.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 51:42 Because if you're your body trying to heal your body, there's one thing that we can guarantee. It's gonna take time. It's gonna just take a long time, 'cause you're playing by the rules of Newtonian physics. You play

Dr. Joe Dispenza 51:51 by the rules of quantum physics, energy dictates matter.

Lewis Howes 51:54 Hmm.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 51:54 So when you're truly in the field and you're making changes there, then the downward cascade neurologically, biologically, chemically, hormonally, genetically is the side effect of what's doing, what's happening in the field.

Lewis Howes 52:05 It accelerates.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 52:06 It accelerates it, exactly.

Lewis Howes 52:07 Yeah.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 52:07 So you, you do it in less time because you're more connected to a realm that doesn't play by time.

52:12 To deliberately manifest, you have to want it, but then you can't have any thoughts of, "Well, it's not here yet." Because the moment you say it's not here, what does law of attraction do? It's not here yet.

Lewis Howes 52:23 Hmm. And it's constantly not here yet.

Dr. Joe Dispenza 52:26 Yeah.

Lewis Howes 52:27 So say this again. How do we really manifest?