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

by Joe Dispenza

Ask for Quantum Feedback When you do create purposefully, request a sign from the quantum consciousness that you have made contact with it.

Dare to ask for synchronicities related to your specific desired outcomes.

The quantum is a multidimensional reality that exists beyond your senses, in a realm where there is no body, no thing, no time. Thus, to move into that domain and create from that paradigm, you’ll need to forget about your body for a little while. You’ll also have to temporarily shift your awareness away from your external environment—all those things that you identify with in your life. Your spouse, your kids, your possessions, and your problems are all part of your identity; through them, you identify with the outer world. And finally, you will have to lose track of linear time. That is, in the moment when you are intentionally observing a potential future experience, you will have to be so present that your mind no longer vacillates between memories of the past and expectations of a “same as usual” future.

Your brain has the innate ability to harness this skill (stay tuned for more). When you understand that you are fully equipped biologically to do all this, leave this world behind, and enter a new reality beyond space and time, you will be naturally inspired to apply it in your life.

When you overcome your senses, when you understand that you are not bound by the chains of your past—when you live a life that is greater than your body, your environment, and time—all things are possible. The universal intelligence that animates the existence of all things will both surprise and delight you. It wants nothing more than to provide you with access to all you want. In short, when you change your mind, you change your life.

All the information we have been exposed to throughout our lives, in the form of knowledge and experiences, is stored in the brain’s synaptic connections.

Hence, all of our personal experiences with people and things at specific times and places are literally reflected within the networks of neurons (nerve cells) that make up our brains.

your internal thoughts and feelings exactly match your external life, because it is your outer reality—with all of its problems, conditions, and circumstances—that is influencing how you’re thinking and feeling in your inner reality.

Familiar Memories “Re-mind” Us to Reproduce the Same Experiences Every day, as you see the same people (your boss, for example, and your spouse and kids), do the same things (drive to work, perform your daily tasks, and do the same workout), go to the same places (your favorite coffee shop, the grocery store you frequent, and your place of employment), and look at the same objects (your car, your house, your toothbrush . . . even your own body), your familiar memories related to your

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you’re observing your reality with a mind that is equal to it, so you collapse the infinite waves of probabilities of the quantum field into events that reflect the mind you use to experience your life. You create more of the same.

According to quantum law (which, by the way, is still working for you), your past is now becoming your future. Reason this: When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences.

since your brain is equal to your environment, then each morning, your senses plug you into the same reality

and initiate the same stream of consciousness.

You open your eyes and you know the person lying next to you is your spouse because of your past experiences together. You hear barking outside your door, and you know it’s your dog wanting to go out. There’s a pain in your back, and you remember it’s the same pain you felt yesterday. You associate your outer, familiar world with who you think you are, by remembering yourself in this dimension, this particular time and space.

we remain plugged into this past self by following a highly routine, unconscious set of automatic behaviors.

There is a principle in neuroscience called Hebb’s law. It basically states that “nerve cells that fire together, wire together.”

Hebb’s credo demonstrates that if you repeatedly activate the same nerve cells, then each time they turn on, it will be easier for them to fire in unison again. Eventually those neurons will develop a long-term relationship.1

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means that clusters of neurons have fired so many times in the same ways that they have organized themselves into specific pat...

When your environment is influencing your mind to that extent, your habitat becomes your habit.

You’ll become neurochemically attached to the conditions in your life.

your brain will fire a finite set of circuits that then creates a very specific mental signature. This signature is called your personality.

if you can never stop thinking about your problems, then your mind and your life will merge together as one.

You could call this a rut, and we all fall into them, but it goes much deeper than that: not just your actions, but also your attitudes and your feelings become repetitive.

All you are doing is reacting to your external, known, unchanging world.

Worse, you aren’t the victim of some mysterious and unseen force that has placed you in this repetitive loop—you are the creator of the loop.

The good news is that since you created this loop, you can choose to end it.

to change our lives, we must fundamentally change the ways we think, act, and feel.

We must change our state of being.

to create a new personal reality, a new life, we must create a new personality; we must become someone else.

To change, then, is to “be” greater than our present circumstances, greater than our environment.

He believed in a future that he could not yet see or experience with his senses, but which was so alive in his mind that he could not live any other way.

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.

Their minds were ahead of their present environment, because their environment no longer controlled their thinking. Truly, they were ahead of their time.

they were clear in their minds about exactly what they wanted to happen. (Remember, we leave the how to a greater mind,

Joan of Arc was considered foolhardy, even insane. Her ideas challenged the beliefs of her time and made her a threat to the present political system. But once her vision was made manifest, she was considered profoundly virtuous.

Neuroscience has proven that we can change our brains—and therefore our behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs—just by thinking differently (in other words, without changing anything in our environment). Through mental rehearsal (repeatedly imagining performing an action), the circuits in the brain can reorganize themselves to reflect our objectives.

research subjects who mentally rehearsed one-handed piano exercises for two hours a day for five days (never actually touching any piano keys) demonstrated almost the same brain changes as people who physically performed the identical finger movements on a piano keyboard for the same length of time.2

Not only can we change our brains just by thinking differently, but when we are truly focused and single-minded, the brain does not know the difference between the internal world of the mind and what we experience in the external environment. Our thoughts can become our experience.

When you change your mind, your brain changes; and when you change your brain, your mind changes.

—Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that primarily send signals between nerve cells, allowing the brain and nervous system to communicate.

—Neuropeptides, the second type of ligand, make up the majority of these messengers.

Most are manufactured in a structure of the brain called the hypothalamus

As neuropeptides make their way through the bloodstream, they attach to the cells of various tissues (primarily glands) and then turn on the third type of ligand, hormones, which further influence us to feel certain ways. Neuropeptides and hormones are the chemicals responsible for our feelings.

A state of being means we have become familiar with a mental-emotional state, a way of thinking and a way of feeling, which has become an integral part of our self-identity.

Warning: when feelings become the means of thinking, or if we cannot think greater than how we feel, we can never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self. It is to be greater than the body.

The result of this cyclic communication between your brain and body is that you tend to react predictably to these kinds of situations.

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; they are firing and wiring their brains to the past by reinforcing those circuits into ever more hardwired networks.