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How To REPROGRAM Your Mind While You Sleep To Heal The BODY & MIND! | Bruce Lipton

Have you ever felt held back by a habit or pattern of thinking that you feel powerless to break? Or perhaps felt frustrated by a loved one’s failure to see mistakes they’re repeating?

Bruce LiptonguestDr. Rangan Chatterjeehost

Nov 2, 20221h 32mWatch on YouTube

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Living the Life You've Been Programmed: Subconscious Autopilot
Bruce Lipton explains that about 95% of our behavior comes from subconscious programs downloaded from other people, using the story of a friend who can't see he behaves like his father. Dr. Rangan Chatterjee notes we can see patterns in others far more clearly than in ourselves.
- •Most people live the life they've been programmed, not the one they want
- •The subconscious acts as autopilot whenever the conscious mind is busy thinking
- •The programs were downloaded by observing other people
- •Others can see our programmed behavior even when we can't
The First Seven Years: Theta, Hypnosis and Downloading
Lipton uses a computer analogy to explain that a child's brain runs mainly in theta, a hypnotic state, which lets children download the rules of family and community. He cites the Jesuit saying about giving them a child until seven. Rangan connects this to childhood adaptations that no longer serve us as adults.
- •The brain is like a computer that needs programs installed before use
- •Children up to age seven operate mostly in theta, linked to imagination and hypnosis
- •Programming begins even before birth, in the last trimester
- •The things we struggle hardest to achieve may be those our programs don't support
Why Knowledge Alone Doesn't Change Lifestyle
Rangan describes how patients who change their lifestyle often revert, suggesting the underlying program was never addressed. Lipton says the conscious mind is creative and learns easily, while the subconscious is the habit mind and learns differently.
- •Lifestyle changes often don't stick when the underlying program is unchanged
- •There are two minds with different functions and ways of learning
- •Educating the conscious mind doesn't create a habit
- •Talking to the subconscious is like talking to a hard drive
Stress, Epigenetics and Genes Aren't Destiny
Asked about stress, Lipton says less than 1% of disease is tied to genes and over 90% is stress-related. He explains epigenetics, using the BRCA gene and adopted children as examples, and he and Rangan discuss the empowerment this gives patients.
- •Genes are blueprints that don't turn themselves on and off; environmental signals control them
- •Having a cancer-linked gene doesn't mean the cancer will develop
- •Believing in genetic victimhood is disempowering
- •Rangan describes autoimmune disease as needing predisposition, a trigger and intestinal permeability
- •Knowledge gives power, and patients should leave with more power
Stem Cell Experiments: The Environment Controls Cell Fate
Lipton recounts his stem cell cloning research from 1967, where genetically identical cells grown in different culture media became muscle, bone or fat. He extends this to the body as a skin-covered Petri dish where blood chemistry controls gene activity.
- •Epigenetics was described then as transformation, before the term existed
- •Identical stem cells took different fates in different culture media
- •Blood is the body's culture medium, and the brain acts as the chemist
- •Thoughts and mental pictures translate into chemistry that influences genetic activity
Method One: Reprogramming Through Theta and Self-Hypnosis
Asked how to change programs, Lipton says the conscious mind learns by reading while the subconscious learns through hypnosis. He explains that the period before sleep is theta, so playing a chosen program through earphones as you fall asleep can download it.
- •About 60% of unconscious programs are disempowering limiting beliefs
- •Theta occurs just after closing your eyes at night
- •Self-help programs played while falling asleep reach the subconscious
- •Coming awake is similar but harder to judge
Method Two: Habituation, Practice and the Golf Analogy
Lipton describes habituation as the second way to install programs after age seven, through repetition like learning a car or instrument. Rangan raises golfer choking, and Lipton says to focus on the destination and not micromanage the means.
- •Practice and repetition turn conscious actions into automatic habits
- •Overthinking details interferes with a well-practiced skill
- •The subconscious is described as a vastly more powerful computer than the conscious mind
- •Focus on what you want without dictating how it will happen
Acting the Part, Parental Programming and Self-Love
Using actors as examples, Lipton explains how we become the characters we embody and how parental criticism before age seven becomes a program of not being good enough. They discuss acting as the person you want to become, resonance, and why 80-90% of audiences don't test positive for loving themselves.
- •Parents acting as coaches can install beliefs of not being good enough
- •Repeating a statement like 'I am happy' works through habituation
- •What you put out resonates and returns to you
- •Not loving yourself leads to pushing away love and self-sabotage
- •Lipton says changing this transformed his life and relationships
Rangan's Mirror Practice and Lipton's Moment of Choice
Rangan shares his practice of using frustration as a mirror and speaks about self-talk. Lipton recalls the moment alone in his lab when an inner voice told him to do something else, which he says ended his depressive thought loops and taught him that we always have a choice.
- •Rangan treats triggers as a mirror and responds with compassion
- •Harsh self-talk is a sign of an unconscious pattern
- •Lipton's lab story: choosing to go to a movie ended the self-abuse
- •Asking 'Do you wanna do this?' creates a moment of choice
- •Negative thoughts can be perpetuated like a record that keeps playing
Protecting Your Energy: News, Arguments and the Energy Checkbook
Rangan asks about fear-based news and outside information shaping who we are. Lipton responds with an energy checkbook analogy, urging people to spend life energy only on things that change something or benefit their community.
- •Rangan doesn't watch the news and questions whether outside input shapes our thinking
- •Life is energy, and arguments waste it
- •The energy checkbook asks what you get back from spending your energy
- •Lipton puts his energy into things that enhance his life or his community
Relationships, The Honeymoon Effect and Unconscious Patterns
Lipton explains how his parents' dysfunctional relationship became his program, and how he rewrote it before meeting his partner Margaret at 50. He describes the honeymoon effect: falling in love keeps the conscious mind present, and when thinking returns, hidden programs surface.
- •Relationship programs come from watching parents
- •The honeymoon fades when people begin thinking and playing their programs again
- •Lipton says virtually all relationship disagreements are unconscious patterns
- •Rangan notes people hop between relationships carrying the same patterns
Method Three: Energy Psychology and Trauma Work
Lipton introduces energy psychology as a new, fast way to reprogram, contrasting it with cognitive therapy that replays problems. He says it uses super learning to change programs in 15-20 minutes and points to his website. Rangan shares IFS, which Lipton would classify as energy psychology.
- •Human behavior must change quickly, which motivates faster methods
- •Energy psychology doesn't require revisiting the origin of a program
- •Super learning allows reprogramming in about 15-20 minutes
- •Repeatedly replaying trauma can strengthen it as a habit
- •Rangan describes IFS as rewriting a childhood scene
Advice for Parents of Young Children
Lipton advises parents to give children positive statements, since they download whatever they are told, even as infants. Asked about children over seven, he says habituation still works but takes longer.
- •Children download what parents say, so positive messages become positive programs
- •Criticism installs limiting programs
- •Past seven, habituation can still install new behavior
- •Change takes a little longer after age seven
Living Programmed Love and Closing Reflections on Creation
Lipton says he wakes up in love and no longer needs practice because his programs run automatically, and that he and Margaret discuss programs without arguing. He closes by saying we are creators, that happiness isn't about money, and that heaven on earth is available now.
- •Practice means the program isn't installed yet; once set, it runs automatically
- •Knowing about programming turns arguments into discussions
- •Wishes and desires can be installed as programs
- •We came here to create but often play programs instead
- •Lipton shares the story of his stepfather saying he'd had no fun