Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

by Joe Dispenza

overeating when we’re stressed,

worrying about ou...

judging our f...

complaining a...

l...

blaming our p...

signaled your body to produce the specific chemicals

make up the feeling of guilt.

your cells are swimming in a sea of gu...

your cell...

process this particular chemical...

of g...

myself and making excuses for other people’s bad behavior. I’m going to change.

any emotion

in the same way

get addicted t...

you only need a little of the ...

in order to f...

change your emotional pattern

Chemical values are going down.

got to make more!

hypothalamus signals the thinking brain to revert back to its...

“slow t...

The body wants you to return to your memorize...

influences you to think in familiar, routine ways. So it activates the corresponding networks of neurons that have fired and wired for years, whi...

shopping,

biting our nails,

the moment w...

habitual ...

chaos rages between the body a...

intimately identified with t...

to change your personality,

need to change your state of being,

The conscious mind wants one thing,

but the body wants another.

negat...

fee...

have created an automatic sta...

Your body has been conditioned to...

intimidating look

how he yelled

what he...

how he sm...

once again feel fearful ...

means of your thinking.

resist living in a new future.

compelled

com•pel vb /kəmˈpel / (com•pel•ling, com•pelled) (formal) 1 to force sb to do sth; to make sth necessary ~ sb to do sth The law can compel fathers to make regular payments for their children. I feel compelled to write and tell you how much I enjoyed your book. ~ sth Last year ill health compelled his retirement. 2 ~ sth (not used in the progressive tenses) to cause a particular reaction He spoke with an authority that compelled the attention of the whole crowd. see also compulsion

good old days”?

Nothing new is happening in my life to stimulate my feelings; therefore I’ll have to reaffirm myself from

hierarchy

hier•archy n /ˈhaɪərɑːki / (pl. hier•archies) 1 [C, U] a system, especially in a society or an organization, in which people are organized into different levels of importance from highest to lowest the social/political hierarchy She's quite high up in the management hierarchy. 2 [C+sing./pl. v.] the group of people in control of a large organization or institution 3 [C] (formal) a system that ideas or beliefs can be arranged into a hierarchy of needs