The Invisible Forces Keeping You Addicted, Tired & Behind in Life | Dr. Joe Dispenza

1. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:00

   How quickly might someone, if they wake up and they don't reach for the phone and don't put the news on and they decide to engage in a meditation, maybe with a premeditation ritual like you do, how quickly might someone start to feel a difference? One day, two days? Or is it realistic that within seven days someone's gonna start to feel quite differently?

2. JDDr. Joe Dispenza0:24

   Okay. Let's talk about this because, uh, I don't wanna mislead anybody. Knowledge is the forerunner to experience. The more people understand what they're doing and why they're doing it, the how gets easier, and this is a time in history where it's not enough to know. This is a time in history to know how.

3. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:43

   Mm.

4. JDDr. Joe Dispenza0:43

   The practical application in understanding that philosophy, that theory, that intellectual knowledge, that information, once you start to apply it and personalize it and demonstrate it, the more you can understand that why you're doing and what you're doing it, you get greater value out of it. So we have people that are diagnosed with serious health conditions that are nurses, that are cancer researchers, that are physicians, that are engineers, or, or just a, a person who just really wants to understand the content. Now, this is... It's so much easier to forget this information than to remember.

5. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:18

   Yeah.

6. JDDr. Joe Dispenza1:18

   It's just... I, I, I always laugh at myself 'cause I have to go back and relearn it again, and I think I know it pretty well and yet I forget.

7. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:25

   Mm.

8. JDDr. Joe Dispenza1:25

   I don't know why, but it's just the way it is. So, so when our meditations get stale, it's 'cause we forget what we're doing, right? So the person who really, really takes the time to study instead of watching Netflix, instead of scrolling through TikTok, instead of getting on their phone and doing mindless texts or whatever, they're gonna set aside an hour a day and I'm gonna learn this information. When they sit down to do the work, they're present.

9. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:49

   Yeah.

10. JDDr. Joe Dispenza1:49

    They're, they're... They understand if they feel this emotion, that they're gonna signal a new gene in a new way. If they feel the other emotion, they're gonna down-regulate that gene and up-regulate the gene for their disease. So now it's a, it's, it's an understanding.

11. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:02

    Yeah.

12. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:03

    If I rehearse how I'm gonna be mentally, I'm gonna install the hardware in my brain. If I keep doing this, it's gonna become a software program. I'm gonna start acting that way. Okay. If I say, "I can't, it's too hard, I'm too tired, I don't feel good," those are the things that stop me.

13. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:16

    Mm.

14. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:16

    Okay. But what if I just start saying, "Anything is possible. I believe in synchronicities." What if I, with my intention and attention, just really get clear on that? Would that be the no- new voice in my head? So now the person who's truly present and not thinking about their shower or the emails they have to do or their cell phone or their texts or when they have to take their kids to ballet or whatever, you're gonna get to all of that. The person who's truly present, if they follow the instructions, we've seen them have very significant changes, first in their subjective experience of themselves.

15. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:49

    Mm.

16. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:49

    Like, "Huh. Wow, my back pain isn't there. That's kinda weird." Or, "God, I slept better last night." These small indicators are feedback to tell you that whatever you're doing inside of you is producing a result outside of you.

17. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:06

    Mm.

18. JDDr. Joe Dispenza3:06

    Keep that up over a period of time and you see instrumental changes taking place in the person. Now, another person who has had a series of traumas, been, uh, abused in some way from, from childhood, uh, is facing a lot of health conditions, a lot of emotional and psychological conditions, we don't want them to heal in one week. We [laughs] want them to work on overcoming those emotional states-

19. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:35

    Mm

20. JDDr. Joe Dispenza3:36

    ... and those are the victories. So sitting down in the meditation, and when their body starts getting agitated or starts getting anxious, instead of quitting and saying, "I can't meditate," 'cause that would be the extent-

21. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:48

    Mm

22. JDDr. Joe Dispenza3:48

    ... of that person, just be curious. What's on the other side of this? Can I, can I lower the volume to this emotion? My body's craving this emotion. Let me settle it down into the present moment. That would be a victory.

23. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:01

    So that person with a lot of trauma, there's a m- moment in the meditation where they feel uncomfortable. The easy thing would be, "Hey, I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna put on Instagram. I'm gonna get a coffee. I'm gonna do anything else to distract me."

24. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:14

    Right, right, right.

25. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:15

    You're saying that's the key moment. You wanna sit with that and hopefully break through that.

26. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:20

    What I'm saying is there's no such thing as a bad meditation. There's only you overcoming you. People think, "I'm doing my meditation wrong." No. [laughs] You're doing it right.

27. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:30

    Even if it's difficult.

28. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:31

    That is the moment that is going to define the person. So, so then the person goes, "Oh, God, I feel really uncomfortable. I, I'm not a good meditator. There's something wrong with me. It's my trauma, it's my past, it's my parents, it's whatever." The person who says, "No. No, I'm gonna sit in the presence of this anxiety, and I'm gonna keep working with my body, and I'm gonna keep lowering the volume to that emotion." Now, listen. You keep lowering the volume to that emotion-

29. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:55

    Yeah

30. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:55

    ... you're gonna take your attention off that past problem because you only put your attention on that past problem because of the emotion. I'll never tell anybody to go back and review their past. I'll say, "Overcome the emotion. Overcome the emotion."

Episode duration: 23:04