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Joe Dispenza
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February 27 - May 14, 2024
We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was “outside the box,” and do it repeatedly.
Repetition reinforces the circuits in your brain and forms more neural connections so that in your weakest hour, you don’t talk yourself out of greatness.
You will learn that the true purpose of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind and enter into the subconscious mind so you can make real and permanent changes.
Fast-forward to our current understanding—that we are part of a vast, invisible field of energy, which contains all possible realities and responds to our thoughts and our feelings.
Your past shortfalls can be traced, at their root, to one major oversight: you haven’t committed yourself to living by the truth that your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.
Until you break from the way you see your present reality, any change in your life will always be haphazard and transitory.
Energy is the very fabric of all things material, and is responsive to mind.
This is what makes the subatomic world unique. It possesses not just physical qualities, but also energetic qualities.
How would your life change if you learned to direct the observer effect and to collapse infinite waves of probability into the reality that you choose?
Like clay, the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind.
When we have negative emotions (such as anger and fear), our heart rhythms become erratic and disorganized.
Only when subjects held both heightened emotions and clear objectives in alignment were they able to produce the intended effect.
The thoughts we think send an electrical signal out into the field. The feelings we generate magnetically draw events back to us.
Quite simply, our routine, known thoughts and feelings perpetuate the same state of being, which creates the same behaviors, and creates the same reality.
To change your life is to change your energy—to make an elemental change in your mind and emotions.
If you’re going to expect anything, expect the unexpected. Surrender, trust, and let go of how a desired event will unfold.
Why don’t we send out a signal that will produce a positive outcome for us?
She would take care of the “what”; a greater consciousness would handle the “how.”
Hebb’s law. It basically states that “nerve cells that fire together, wire together.”
To change, then, is to think and act greater than our present circumstances, greater than our environment.
When our behaviors match our intentions, when our actions are equal to our thoughts, when our minds and our bodies are working together, when our words and our deeds are aligned … there is an immense power behind any individual.
What most people don’t know is that when they think about a highly charged emotional experience, they make the brain fire in the exact sequences and patterns as before;
The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves.
In effect, you have to unlearn, or unwire, your old thinking and feeling patterns and then relearn, or rewire, your brain with new patterns of thinking and feeling, based on who you want to be instead.
We are so used to the same chemical order that your new state of being feels uncomfortable, unfamiliar. We want the familiar, the predictable, and what feels natural.
When the mind and body are in opposition, change will never happen.
There are experience-dependent genes that are activated when there is growth, healing, or learning; and there are behavioral-state-dependent genes that are influenced during stress, emotional arousal, or dreaming.
Can you pick a potential from the quantum field (every potential already exists, by the way) and emotionally embrace a future event before the actual experience?
It begins to make sense that although we “think” or “believe” we are living in the present, there is a good possibility that our bodies are in the past.
So to change our personalities, we have to change the emotions that we memorize. We have to move out of the past.
Why is it so hard to live in these creative moments? If we focus on an unwanted past or a dreaded future, that means that we live mostly in stress—in survival mode.
Who we are is a consciousness connected to a quantum field of intelligence.
The more we use our senses to define our reality, the more we allow our senses to determine our reality.
Emotions such as anger, hatred, suffering, shame, guilt, judgment, and lust make us feel more physical, because they carry a frequency that is slower and more like that of physical objects. However, the more elevated emotions such as love, joy, and gratitude are higher in frequency.
Creation: Living as a Nobody
You could say that when you are in a creative state, you forget about the habit of being you. You lay down your selfish ego and become self-less.
in order to change your body (to foster better health), something in your external circumstances (a new job or relationship, perhaps), or your timeline (toward a possible future reality), you have to become no body, no thing, no time.
Metacognition: Becoming Self-Aware to Inhibit Unwanted States of Mind and Body
Given that your personality comprises how you think, act, and feel, you must pay attention to your unconscious thoughts, reflexive behaviors, and automatic emotional reactions—put them under observation to determine if they are true and whether you want to continue to endorse them with your energy.
Metacognition is your first task in moving from your past to creating a new future.
Because the frontal lobe has connections to all other parts of the brain, it is able to scan across all the neural circuits to seamlessly piece together stored bits of information in the form of networks of knowledge and experience. Then it picks and chooses among those neural circuits, combining them in a variety of ways to create a new mind.
By beginning to mentally rehearse new ways of being, you start rewiring yourself neurologically to a new mind—and the more you can “re-mind” yourself, the more you’ll change your brain and your life.
When we’re in a creative state, the frontal lobe becomes highly activated and lowers the volume on the circuits in the rest of the brain so that little else is being processed but a single-minded thought.
To you it has already occurred in no space, no time, no place, from which all things material spring forth. You are in a state of knowingness; you can relax into the present and no longer live in survival.
Hebbian learning, which states: “Nerve cells that fire together, wire together.”
Just think of the limbic brain as the “chemical brain” or the “emotional brain.”
Novel events surprise us to the point that we become more aware in the present moment.
Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance. There’s a progression that has to take place. You have to take knowledge and live it—embrace it emotionally.
You could say that because your brain isn’t firing in the same way, you’re no longer creating the same mind.
No person, no thing, and no experience at any time or place should disrupt your internal chemical coherence. You can think, act, and feel differently whenever you choose.
