This Is Why You're Still Suffering (No Matter What You Do) | Dr. Joe Dispenza

1. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:00

   You know, one of the core ideas I get from your work is that we all have a choice. We can choose and practice the way that we wanna feel so that we actually start feeling it every day. You mentioned victim mindset a little bit already, and I wanna talk a little bit about that shortly because I think many people will say, "I'm the way I am because of this." And w- we'll get to that in just a second. Bef- before we move to that, for someone who is watching this or listening and is intrigued and they go, "Okay, I'll... I, I, I understand. I've got a choice. I can practice feeling an elevated emotion." They also hear you saying that this can take time. If you've spent 10 years in stress, it ain't gonna happen overnight.

2. JDDr. Joe Dispenza0:50

   And sometimes it does, though.

3. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee0:51

   But sometimes it can do. 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?

4. JDDr. Joe Dispenza1:17

   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.

5. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee1:36

   Mm.

6. JDDr. Joe Dispenza1:36

   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 it.

7. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:11

   Yeah.

8. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:11

   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.

9. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:18

   Mm.

10. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:18

    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.

11. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:42

    Yeah.

12. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:42

    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 downregulate that gene and upregulate the gene for their disease. So now it's a, it's, it's an understanding.

13. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee2:55

    Yeah.

14. JDDr. Joe Dispenza2:56

    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.

15. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:09

    Mm.

16. JDDr. Joe Dispenza3:09

    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.

17. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:42

    Mm.

18. JDDr. Joe Dispenza3:43

    Like, "Huh, wow, my back pain isn't fair. 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.

19. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee3:59

    Mm.

20. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:00

    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 want them to work on overcoming those emotional states-

21. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:29

    Mm

22. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:29

    ... 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-

23. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:41

    Mm

24. JDDr. Joe Dispenza4:41

    ... 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.

25. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee4:54

    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..." Are you tired of waking up exhausted even when you've technically had enough sleep? Do you feel like you're constantly doing everything right, yet you still feel stuck? You're not broken. You're just running the wrong habits. I've taken everything I've learnt from helping thousands of patients and boiled it down into five tiny daily habits that can transform your life in just 30 days. No overwhelm, no pressure, just small shifts that reset your energy, mood, and mind. If you're ready to stop surviving and start feeling like yourself again, download my free guide now. Just click on the first link in the description box below or scan the QR code on screen. You've got absolutely nothing to lose except the version of you that's been running on empty for far too long.put on Instagram, I'm gonna get a coffee, I'm gonna do anything else to distract me.

26. JDDr. Joe Dispenza6:05

    Right, right, right.

27. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee6:05

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

28. JDDr. Joe Dispenza6:11

    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.

29. RCDr. Rangan Chatterjee6:21

    Even if it's difficult?

30. JDDr. Joe Dispenza6:22

    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, "N- 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-

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