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"Use This FORMULA To Achieve ANYTHING YOU WANT!" | Dr Joe Dispenza & Lewis Howes

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Dr. Joe DispenzaguestLewis Howeshost
Aug 13, 20181h 17mWatch on YouTube

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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Dr. Joe Dispenza Explains Mental Rehearsal, Heart Coherence, and Becoming Greater Than Your Conditions

  1. Dispenza recounts breaking six vertebrae in a 1986 triathlon, refusing surgery, and visualizing his spine's reconstruction, which he says led him to walk in 10.5 weeks and spend his life studying the mind-body connection.
  2. He says the people he interviewed who had spontaneous remissions shared four things: belief in an inner intelligence, recognizing stress and emotion as a cause of illness, reinventing themselves through rehearsal, and losing track of time in focused states.
  3. He argues that people become addicted to stress chemistry and past emotions, and that shifting attention away from body, environment, and time into a coherent brain and heart state lets people change faster.
  4. He cites his team's brain and heart scans and reports of healings at his week-long events, and describes plans for challenge activities and a non-local healing practice he calls The Cage.
  5. He closes with a seven-day challenge covering a morning question about your ideal self, nightly gratitude, and opening awareness, plus his three truths and his definition of greatness as being greater than your environment, body, and time.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Mental rehearsal can change the brain and body

Dispenza cites piano and bicep-curl studies where people who only rehearsed mentally grew new brain circuits and gained muscle strength, and he says the brain doesn't distinguish rehearsal from real experience when you are truly present.

Emotions are a record of the past

He says living by repeated stress emotions keeps you thinking in the past, conditions the body to become the mind of that emotion, and signals the same genes again and again.

Feeling your future before it happens is central to his formula

He says that if you feel gratitude and joy ahead of the outcome, the body believes it has already happened, and you stop trying to force or rush results.

Moving beyond body, environment, and time opens the way to change

Dispenza says that withdrawing attention from your body, people, things, places, and time leaves pure awareness, where change happens without matter trying to change matter.

The heart is a key to self-regulation

He claims that coherent heart states produce a measurable field, release oxytocin, and reset the amygdala, which he says has helped people reset anxiety and depression.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

We don't see things how they are. We see things how we are.

— Dr. Joe Dispenza

Knowledge is for the mind, but experience is for the body, and they're embodying that information.

— Dr. Joe Dispenza

When you change your energy, you change your life.

— Dr. Joe Dispenza

My definition of greatness is to be greater than your environment, to be greater than your body, and to be greater than time. And if you do, you will be great.

— Dr. Joe Dispenza

Our purpose in life is to remove those blocks, those veils, those limitations that stand in the way between us and that divine intelligence.

— Dr. Joe Dispenza

Read the available transcript
Dispenza's spinal injury and recoveryFour commonalities in spontaneous remissionsMental rehearsal and neuroplasticityStress, emotional addiction, and genesHeart-brain coherence and elevated emotionsEvents, brain scans, and reported healingsSeven-day challenge and three truths

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  • Dr. Joe Dispenza

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    Researcher and speaker known for work on meditation, mind-body healing, and neuroplasticity.

  • Lewis Howes

    host

    Host of The School of Greatness podcast and author/entrepreneur.

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