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Joe Dispenza
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December 31, 2022 - December 7, 2023
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.
Descartes was a proponent of the mechanistic model of the universe—a view that the universe is controlled by predictable laws. When it came to human thought, Descartes faced a real challenge—the human mind possessed too many variables to neatly fit into any laws. Since he couldn’t unify his understanding of the physical world with that of the mind, but he had to account for the presence of both, Descartes played a nifty mind game (pun intended). He said that the mind was not subject to laws of the objective, physical world, so it was completely outside the bounds of scientific inquiry.
Energy is the very fabric of all things material, and is responsive to mind.
About 200 years after Newton, Albert Einstein produced his famous equation E = mc2, demonstrating that energy and matter are so fundamentally related that they are one and the same. Essentially, his work showed that matter and energy are completely interchangeable.
This directly contradicted Newton and Descartes, and ushered in a new understanding of how the universe functions.
His theories set off an exploration of the puzzling behavior of light. Scientists then observed that light sometimes behaves like a wave (when it bends around a corner, for example), and at other times, it behaves like a particle. How could light be both a wave and a particle? According to the outlook of Descartes and Newton, it couldn’t—a phenomenon had to be either one or the other. Quickly, it became clear that the dualistic Cartesian/Newtonian model was flawed at the most basic level of all: the subatomic. (Subatomic refers to the parts—electrons, protons, neutrons, and so on—that make up
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Atoms seemed to be made of solid stuff, right?
Figure 1A. The “old-school” classical Newtonian version of an atom. The focus is primarily on the material.
Atoms are mostly empty space; atoms are energy.
All matter is more “no thing” (energy) than “some thing” (particles).
Figure 1C. This is the most realistic model of any atom. It is “no thing” materially, but all things potentially.
When physicists began observing and measuring the tiny world of the atom, they noticed that at the subatomic level the fundamental elements of the atom didn’t obey the laws of classical physics the way that larger objects did.
In truth, matter on a subatomic level exists as a momentary phenomenon.
It’s so elusive that it constantly appears and disappears, appearing into three dimensions—in time and space—and disappearing into nothing—into the quantum field, in no space, no time—transforming from particle (matter) to wave (energy), and vice versa.
Figure 1D. The electron exists as a wave of probability in one moment, and then in the next moment appears as a solid particle, then disappears into nothing, and then reappears at another location.
The Creation of Reality: Energy Responds to Mindful Attention
What quantum physicists discovered was that the person observing (or measuring) the tiny particles that make up atoms affects the behavior of energy and matter.
electrons exist simultaneously in an infinite array of possibilities or probabilities in an invisible field of energy.
a particle cannot manifest in reality—that is, ordinary space-time as we know it—until we observe it.1
Quantum physics calls this phenomenon “collapse of the wave function” or the “observer effect.”
With this discovery, mind and matter can no longer be considered separate;
you will see that with willful attention, sincere application of new knowledge, and repeated daily efforts, you can use your mind, as the observer, to collapse quantum particles and organize a vast number of subatomic waves of probability into a desired physical event called an experience in your life.
the energy of infinite possibilities is shaped by consciousness: your mind.
Your consciousness (mind) has effects on energy (matter) because your consciousness is energy and energy has consciousness.
Just as the wave of possibility of the electron manifests as a particle within a specific momentary event, we as observers cause a particle or groups of particles to manifest physical experiences in the form of events in our lives.
if you were to pray (or focus on an intention) for a better life for yourself, could it affect your past, present, and future? The quantum law says that all potentials exist simultaneously. Our thinking and our feelings affect all aspects of life, beyond both space and time.
We communicate with the quantum field primarily through our thoughts and feelings.
Since our thoughts are themselves energy—as you know, the electrical impulses the brain generates can easily be measured by devices such as an EEG—they are one of the primary means by which we send out signals into the field.
Cellular biologist Glen Rein, Ph.D., conceived of a series of experiments to test healers’ ability to affect biological systems. Since DNA is more stable than substances such as cells or bacterial cultures, he decided to have healers hold test tubes containing DNA.3
When we have negative emotions (such as anger and fear), our heart rhythms become erratic and disorganized.
In contrast, positive emotions (love and joy, for instance) produce highly ordered, coherent patterns that HeartMath researchers refer to as heart coherence.
Only when subjects held both heightened emotions and clear objectives in alignment were they able to produce the intended effect.
An intentional thought needs an energizer, a catalyst—and that energy is an elevated emotion.
What the HeartMath experiment demonstrates is that the quantum field doesn’t respond simply to our wishes—our emotional requests. It doesn’t just respond to our aims—our thoughts. It only responds when those two are aligned or coherent—that is, when they are broadcasting the same signal.
When we combine an elevated emotion with an open heart and a conscious intention with clear thought, we signal the field to respond in amazing ways.
The quantum field responds not to what we want; it responds t...
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I find it a useful model to think of thoughts as the electrical charge in the quantum field and feelings as the magnetic charge in the field.4
The thoughts we think send an electrical signal out into the field. The feelings we generate magnetically draw events back to us. Together, how we think and how we feel produces a state of being, which generates an electromagnetic signature that influences every atom in our world. This should prompt us to ask, What am I broadcasting (consciously or unconsciously) on a daily basis?
When you change your electromagnetic signature (by changing how you think and feel) to match one that already exists in the field, your body will be drawn to that event, you will move into a new line of time, or the event will find you in your new reality.
From a quantum standpoint, we have to create a different state of being as an observer and generate a new electromagnetic signature.
If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself, and reinvent a new self.
Change Requires Coherence: Align Your Thoughts and Feelings
When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.
If your intentions and desires haven’t produced consistent results, you’ve probably been sending an incoherent, mixed message into the field.
Hold a clear intention of what you want, but leave the “how” details to the unpredictable quantum field. Let it orchestrate an event in your life in a way that is just right for you. If you’re going to expect anything, expect the unexpected. Surrender, trust, and let go of how a desired event will unfold.
Under what circumstances are you typically grateful? You may answer, I’m grateful for my family, the nice home I have, my friends, and my job. What those things have in common is that they’re already in your life.
The new model of reality challenges us, as quantum creators, to change something within us—in mind and body, in our thoughts and feelings—before we can experience the physical evidence with our senses.
Can you give thanks and feel the elevated emotions associated with a desired event before it occurs?
When you are in a state of gratitude, you transmit a signal into the field that an event has already occurred. Gratitude is more than an intellectual thought process. You have to feel as though whatever you want is in your reality at this very moment. Thus, your body (which only understands feelings) must be convinced that it has the emotional quotient of the future experience, happening to you now.
