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Lewis HowesDr Joe Dispenza REWIRE Your THOUGHTS and Brain To HEAL Today!
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Why people stay sick: the three types of stress
Lewis Howes opens with Dr. Joe's quote on thoughts, feelings and state of being, and asks why so many people struggle to heal. Dispenza explains physical, chemical and emotional stress and how they knock the autonomic nervous system out of homeostasis.
- •Physical, chemical and emotional stress each push the body out of balance
- •The autonomic nervous system automatically works to restore homeostasis
- •Repeated imbalance becomes the new balance and leads toward disease
- •Physical trauma, chemical imbalance and diet can be addressed with rest, nutrients or dietary changes
- •Dispenza says 75 to 90% of people entering healthcare facilities come in because of emotional stress
Thoughts make you sick: memory, emotion and addiction to the past
Dispenza and Howes discuss how a thought or memory can trigger stress chemistry, and how the body cannot tell a real event from an imagined one. This conditions the body to become the mind of an emotion and leads to addiction to one's own thoughts.
- •A thought or image paired with emotion conditions the body into imbalance
- •The body does not know the difference between a real experience and one fabricated by thought
- •People become addicted to emotional rushes tied to their identity
- •Changing involves cravings like breaking any addiction
- •A belief is a thought repeated until it becomes subconscious
Balancing the body, and why emotional balance matters most
Dispenza describes practical ways to bring the body into physical and chemical balance, with intention and meaning behind them. Howes points out you can do all that and still feel sick, and Dispenza replies that controlling, fearful behavior will undermine the effort and uses case histories of people who healed and relapsed.
- •Physical balance involves strength, flexibility and endurance, with a stretch beyond comfort
- •Chemical balance can include blood tests, nutrients and eliminating certain things, done with understanding
- •Rigid, fearful dieting still sends fear signals to the cells
- •Case histories of people who healed ALS, lupus, cancer and Parkinson's
- •One woman's symptoms returned within an hour when she went back to the same emotion
Why affirmations fail and how to change emotional states
Dispenza explains that we only accept thoughts equal to our emotional state, so affirmations clash with a programmed body. He describes how memories are frozen by strong emotion and how to trade emotions through breath, giving and practicing gratitude, citing an increase in immunoglobulin A.
- •We only accept, believe and surrender to thoughts equal to our emotional state
- •The 95% programmed self works against the 5% conscious mind
- •Strong emotional events become memories that keep the body in the past
- •Practicing gratitude raised immunoglobulin A about 50% in four days in his data
- •The emotional signature of gratitude is receiving something
Brain-heart coherence and the Inner Health Coalition
Howes asks about the lowest and highest emotional states, and Dispenza first finishes the thread on self-regulation, mentioning the Inner Health Coalition. He describes the moment when nothing numbs a feeling and a person decides to change, then the work of mental rehearsal and doing meditation with eyes open.
- •The Inner Health Coalition aims to bring this model into clinics
- •Chronic conditions are created from lifestyle
- •Distractions fail when the feeling keeps returning, which becomes a key moment for change
- •Meditation is done to change, not just to heal, including mental rehearsal of new behavior
- •Practicing with eyes open, including in walking meditations, is the real test
Seven-day study results and states of ecstasy and wholeness
Dispenza describes the University of California San Diego research on seven-day events, where novice meditators' biology changed collectively. He then describes the heart-brain coherence process, resonance, and the sense of wholeness people report.
- •New information, choices and emotions changed biology in seven days
- •Participants with different genomes signaled the same genes
- •Heart energy leads the brain into a creative alpha state and then resonance
- •Arousal in this state is ecstasy rather than fear
- •People report wholeness and no sense of wanting, and realize it came from within
Meditation as practice: catching yourself and not defaulting
Dispenza explains that catching a wandering mind is a victory, and that the point is to condition the body to a new mind and keep this state with eyes open. Howes notes most people are awake but unconscious, and Dispenza talks about the automatic default and the moment of change.
- •He meditates in the morning so the rest of the day is easier
- •Catching a stray thought and returning to the present is a victory, not a failure
- •Going a little further past the point of quitting changes the brain most
- •Energy moves up into the heart and then the brain
- •Blaming someone or something is returning to a victim program
Brutal pasts, daily commitment and 'no one is too special to be excluded'
Howes voices the objection of someone with a painful past who feels undeserving. Dispenza responds with examples of people with abuse, trauma and illness who meditated daily to believe, whose hearts opened and who moved out of the past, and says age, health or history is no excuse.
- •Dispenza asks how long someone wants to keep telling their story
- •People with brutal pasts and conditions did the work because nothing else worked
- •Opening the heart reset trauma baselines in the brain and nervous system
- •They meditated daily, even with doubt and fear, to strengthen belief
- •Evidence from testimonials works like the four-minute mile
Coherence healings and the field
Howes recalls his experience of the coherence healings and Dispenza shares stories of rapid changes, such as trigeminal neuralgia pain disappearing and people regaining sight, hearing and speech. He explains his view that the field creates matter and that participants are asked to be the healer they would want to be healed by.
- •Seven people stepped out of wheelchairs at the last Denver event, per Dispenza
- •A woman with severe facial pain said it vanished during a coherence healing
- •Vision, hearing and speech returned for some participants
- •Dispenza says information in the field shapes matter, and a tumor is a hologram
- •Participants are asked to show up as the healer they would want to be healed by
Remote healing, research and expanding belief in what's possible
Howes asks whether we can heal ourselves and others through thoughts and heart coherence alone. Dispenza says his beliefs about what is possible have changed, shares stories such as a muscular dystrophy recovery, a regrown thyroid and a woman who healed Parkinson's, and describes remote coherence healers and the studies with UC San Diego, including autistic children.
- •Dispenza's beliefs about what's possible changed over the last two years
- •People who heal themselves want to heal others, which requires a new model
- •Remote coherence healers target people in distant locations
- •Studies include a triple blind placebo study and a paper on heart synchronization
- •A preliminary study on autistic children reported dramatic changes by parents' accounts
Receiving the energy and the daily practice
Dispenza explains that desperate people respond less because they wait for healing to feel gratitude, while people working on change receive the energy better. Howes shares his daily meditation habit and then Dispenza outlines a simple morning practice and the experiment of changing how you think, act and feel.
- •Desperate people wait for healing before feeling gratitude, but healing begins with gratitude
- •The story of a man who lost his voice for two years and got 80% back after the coherence healing
- •Howes meditates morning or night and notices more pain when he's inconsistent
- •A morning inventory of thoughts, behaviors and default emotions, and not getting up until you feel the new state
- •Changing your personality is required to change your personal reality
Walk For The World and closing thoughts
Howes asks about the Walk For The World and Dispenza describes the September 23rd event, with participants from 152 countries, as a way to practice being the change one wants to see. They close with advice on starting with short meditations and gaining knowledge so the how gets easier.
- •Walk For The World is scheduled for September 23rd with thousands registered across many groups
- •Participants are asked to walk as the change they want to see
- •Dispenza describes collective consciousness as emergent with no leader
- •Short morning and evening meditations are a practical start
- •Knowledge is the precursor to experience and removes doubt and superstition
