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Lewis Howes"Use This FORMULA To Achieve ANYTHING YOU WANT!" | Dr Joe Dispenza & Lewis Howes
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What the Bleep and the Water Experiments
Lewis Howes recalls first learning about Dr. Joe Dispenza through the film What the Bleep. Dispenza explains how water responds to thought and how coherent versus limited emotions affect its structure, tying this to the body being mostly water.
- •Dispenza says water responds to thought, with constructive or coherent thoughts crystallizing it into snowflake-like patterns
- •He says emotions like anger, frustration and resentment disturb water's molecular structure
- •He notes the body is 78% water, so managing thoughts and feelings matters
- •Water is described as a great way to store information
Dispenza's Accident and Healing Without Surgery
Howes shares his Christian Science upbringing and asks when Dispenza began applying these ideas. Dispenza recounts being run over in a triathlon in 1986, refusing surgery despite four surgeons' advice, and spending weeks learning to hold a healing vision.
- •Dispenza broke six vertebrae and was told he might not walk again
- •He declined the recommended Harrington rod surgery against four surgeons' advice
- •He reasoned that the intelligence giving life could heal him if he gave it a clear design
- •After six weeks of struggling with his mind, something clicked and he was back on his feet in 10.5 weeks
Studying Spontaneous Remissions: The Four Common Things
After recovering, Dispenza sold his practice, studied quantum physics, neuroscience and epigenetics, and interviewed hundreds of people who had spontaneous remissions in 17 countries. He begins describing the four things they shared, starting with belief in an inner intelligence.
- •He sold his practice and home to study the mind-body connection
- •He interviewed people with cancer, MS, lupus and Parkinson's who got better spontaneously
- •The first common trait was belief in an invisible intelligence within them and building a relationship with it
- •The cause appeared to be the mind, not diet or celibacy
Stress, Addiction to Emotions, and Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
Dispenza describes the second and third commonalities: recognizing that mismanaged emotions and stress hormones created their conditions, and that they had to change how they think, act and feel. He explains emotional addiction, genes signaled by the environment, and why change feels uncomfortable.
- •Stress turned on by thought alone can become maladaptive, and people become addicted to the chemical rush
- •Emotions are a record of the past, so thinking from them recreates the past
- •He says genes don't create disease; the environment signals the gene
- •Change feels uncomfortable because it means leaving the known for the unknown
- •95% of who we are by age 35 is a set of memorized behaviors, and observing them separates you from the program
Mental Rehearsal and the Quantum Field
Dispenza explains how mentally rehearsing a new self rewires the brain, citing piano and muscle-strength experiments. He describes the fourth commonality, losing track of time and space, and connecting to the quantum field. Howes relates this to his own mental rehearsal in sports.
- •Mentally rehearsing makes the brain a map of the future rather than a record of the past
- •Piano and finger-curl studies showed mental rehearsal builds circuits and even muscle strength
- •Living an elevated emotion before the outcome signals genes ahead of the environment
- •Losing track of time signals leaving 3D reality for the quantum field, where energy dictates matter
- •Howes describes rehearsing games and watching world-record film before bed
Who This Work Is For and Healings at Events
Asked about his own daily practice, Dispenza says this work isn't for everybody and discusses how access to information has changed how people approach health. He describes dramatic reversals at his events and explains his focus on empowerment and non-local healing.
- •He says it's like pregnancy: either you are in or you're not
- •People are more informed and taking their power back from authorities
- •He reports stage four cancer reversals and a woman leaving without crutches at a recent event
- •A woman with a rare bone disorder became, in his view, someone else and no longer had the disease
- •He says he isn't interested in success but in empowering people, and that you draw things to you by doing inner work
The Formula: Going from Someone to No One
Asked how to change energy, Dispenza explains his research of 8,500 brain scans and the formula of taking attention off body, environment and time. He explains how the stress response narrows focus and why opening focus and slowing brainwaves lets the body's intelligence take over.
- •Taking attention off body, people and things, places and time leaves only consciousness
- •He says a transformational moment can be predicted from brain scans and taught
- •Stress makes the brain incoherent and traps people in matter trying to change matter
- •Opening focus slows brainwaves and lets the autonomic intelligence create order
- •Brain hemispheres synchronize and the person feels whole
Heart Coherence, Oxytocin and Resetting Anxiety
Dispenza explains how stress makes the heart beat out of rhythm, while heart coherence produces a measurable magnetic field. He describes the chemistry of an activated heart, how it can reset the amygdala, and how anxiety arises from living in survival.
- •Heart scans show a coherent heart producing a measurable field up to three meters wide
- •Meditation means becoming familiar with a state, so practicing elevated emotions makes them accessible
- •Activating the heart releases oxytocin and a cascade that leaves the heart feeling full
- •He says the heart resets the amygdala baseline, and students have resolved anxiety and depression
- •In survival, people choose the worst-case scenario, and he describes a woman's spontaneous 'love attack'
Creating from Wholeness and the Experience of Love
Dispenza describes how living in elevated states means feeling your future as already happened, so it arrives unexpectedly. Howes asks when he experiences the most love, and Dispenza describes his recent mystical experience and what oneness feels like.
- •Trying to make things happen faster is the old self; the new self trusts it will come
- •Becoming a creator rather than a victim means taking responsibility for your environment
- •He describes the quantum field's signature as oneness and the feeling as intelligent love
- •He describes a recent experience of a mandala-like geometric pattern moving through his body, with joy lasting days
Measured Results and Giving from Wholeness
Dispenza summarizes the measured genetic, hormonal and immune changes in students and rejects excuses about age, illness or past. He describes blind and deaf attendees improving and explains that when people feel whole, they stop wanting and start giving.
- •They have measured gene expression changes, including genes for tumor reduction, neuron growth and stem cells
- •Age, sickness, past turbulence or meditation experience are not barriers, in his view
- •He reports a blind woman seeing and deaf people hearing at events
- •He compares this to the four-minute mile being broken
- •When people feel whole they no longer create from lack and want to give
Surrender, Intention and Dispenza's Current Mission
Dispenza discusses his evolving definition of surrender as greater letting go and trusting, balanced against intention. He then describes his mission: challenge activities with heart-brain coherence, and non-local healing in 'The Cage' with plans for rigorous statistics.
- •Surrender is greater degrees of letting go and trusting; over-surrender is lazy and over-intending is forcing
- •He holds weeklong events about once a month with around 1,000 people
- •Challenge activities train participants to create coherence in stressful real-world situations
- •In The Cage, eight people give energetic healing to a person lying down, and he cites a 30% remission figure from recent events
- •A man healing his knees came out hearing better and said he felt more love than ever
Seven-Day Challenge: Three Daily Practices
Howes asks for a challenge for the next seven days. Dispenza offers three practices: begin the day asking for your ideal self and rehearsing it, spend time at night in gratitude, and open your awareness to the space around you.
- •Start the day by asking what the greatest ideal of yourself is rather than replaying past problems
- •Write down thoughts, speech and behaviors to change, and rehearse the new self and feel the future emotion
- •At night spend about 10 minutes feeling gratitude, which he says triggers about 1,200 chemical reactions that restore the body
- •Sit and open awareness to the space around you to reduce stress hormones and build coherent brainwaves
Life as Teacher, Resources, and the Three Truths
Dispenza names life as his greatest teacher, shares his belief that he creates his own health, and gives details on his website, courses and upcoming events. He closes with his three truths and his definition of greatness.
- •Life is our initiation and the side effect of meeting its challenges is wisdom
- •He points to drjoedispenza.com, a roughly 23-hour home study course and weeklong events
- •Truth one: the divine lives in every human and we must connect daily
- •Truth two: we are creators rather than victims, and should forgive ourselves and others
- •Greatness means being greater than your environment, your body and time
