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

by Joe Dispenza

Catch Yourself Before “Going Unconscious”

as you consistently present yourself to the same motives of the old identity and notice how you automatically responded, you will become conscious enough in your life that you catch yourself from going unconscious.

It is important that you rationalize beyond the barometer of your feelings to understand that these survival emotions are affecting your cells in adverse ways by pushing the same genetic buttons and breaking down your body. It raises the question: “Is this feeling, behavior, or attitude loving to myself?”

After I say “Change,” I like to say, “This is not loving to me! The rewards of being healthy, happy, and free are so much more important than being stuck in the same self-destructive pattern.

WEEK THREE GUIDE TO MEDITATION

During your Week Three meditations, your aim is to now add Step 5: Observing and Reminding, then Step 6: Redirecting, to the previous steps, so that you are doing all six. Steps 5 and 6 will ultimately merge to become one step. Throughout your day, as limiting thoughts and feelings come up, observe yourself and automatically say “Change!” out loud; or hear this—instead of the old voice(s)—as the loudest voice in your head. When that happens, you will be ready for the creation process.

Step 1: As usual, begin by doing the induction. Steps 2–5: After you recognize, admit, declare, and surrender, it’s time to continue to address the specific thoughts and actions that naturally slip past your awareness. Observe the old you until you become completely familiar with those programs. Step 6: Then, as you are observing the old you whil...

CREATE A NEW MIND FOR YOUR NEW FUTURE (Week Four) STEP 7: CREATING AND REHEARSING Week Four will be a bit different from previous weeks. First, as you read and write for Step 7, you will receive knowledge about creating and instruction on the “how-to” process of using mental rehearsal.

Then you’ll read the Guided Mental-Rehearsal Meditation to follow, to familiarize you with this new process. Next, it’s time to do what you have learned. Every day this week, you will practice the Week Four meditation, which includes Steps 1 through 7. As you listen, you will apply the focused attention and repetition you have employed to create the new you and your new destiny.

want to point out that the preceding steps were all designed to help you break the habit of being yourself so that you could make room both consciously and energetically for reinventing a new self.

Creating the New You Now that you are beginning to “lose” your mind, it’s time to create a new one.

Your goal in this final step is to master a new mind in the brain as well as the body.

Questions to turn on your frontal lobe: What is the greatest ideal of myself? What would it be like to be ________? Who in history do I admire, and how did they act? Who in my life do I know who is/feels ________? What would it take to think like ________? Whom do I want to model? How would I be if I were ________? What would I say to myself if I were this person? How would I talk to others if I were changed? How or whom do I want to remind myself to be?

How Do I Want to Think? How would this new person (my ideal) think? What thoughts do I want to put my energy behind? What is my new attitude? What do I want to believe about me? How do I want to be perceived? What would I say to myself if I was this person? What states of mind do I want to fire and wire in my brain? How Do I Want to Act? How would this person act? What would he or she do? How do I see myself behaving? How would I speak as this new expression of self? How do I want to live today? How Do I Want to Feel? How would this new self be? What would I feel? What would my energy be like as this new ideal? Can I teach my body what it feels like to be this ideal? When you meditate to create the new you, your job is to reproduce the same level of mind every day,

Now that you’ve contemplated your answers, it’s time to rehearse them. Review how you will think, act, and feel as your new ideal.

Just think about the greatest expression of yourself and then remind yourself how you will act. What will you say, how will you walk, how will you breathe, and how will you feel if you become that person? What will you say to others and to yourself? Your goal is to move into a “state of being” and become this ideal.

That’s why it’s so important to rehearse—to bring up again—how you will act as your new self. This is how you biologically change the brain and body to no longer live in the past but rather to chart a map to the future. If the body and brain are changed, then there is physical evidence that you are changed.

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Becoming a New Personality Produces a New Reality

Your old personality, based on how you thought, felt, and acted, has created the reality that you presently are experiencing.

Remember, also, that your personal reality is made up of how you think, feel, and act. By doing each of those in a new way, you are creating both a new self and a new reality. Your new personality should produce a new reality. In other words, when you are being someone else, you naturally will have a different life.

Once you are in a new state of being, now is the time to create a new destiny.

From an elevated state of mind and body; in love, joy, self-empowerment, and gratitude; in a greater, more coherent energy, here is where you see those images in your mind of what you want to create in your new life as this new personality.

With clarity, you will hold the image of each manifestation in your mind for a few seconds, and then let it go into the quantum to be executed by a greater mind.

Your energy is now entangled with that future reality, and it belongs to you. Thus, you are entangled with it, and it is your destiny.

Finally, give up trying to figure out how or when or where or with whom. Leave those details to a mind that knows so much more than you do.

It’s time to reinvent a new you, by moving into a new state of being that reflects your new expression of self.

After you do so—by priming a new mind and body—then you rehearse that state of being again.

Become so attentive to your intention that your thoughts of a new ideal become the experience internally, and as you feel the emotion from that experience, you go from thinking to being. Remember who and what you really are in your new future.

Make This Meditative Process Your Own If you continue to do all the steps every day, what used to feel like seven steps will begin to feel simpler, with more of a flow from step to step.

Keep Peeling Away Those Layers Making periodic adjustments to your meditations is natural and to be expected, because you aren’t the same person you were when you began.

approximately every month, do some self-reflection. Look to your life for feedback on what you’re creating, and how you’re doing. You might revisit the questions in Part III and notice any that you would now answer differently.

If so, one approach might be to focus on that aspect of your personality and redo the entire process you just completed. Alternatively, you may want to keep working on one area while adding another.

It’s keeping your energy up, staying conscious in a new reality, independent of your body, independent of the environment, and independent of time. How are you going to be when you walk into your life? Remind yourself with your family, at your job, with your children, at lunch tomorrow. Can you maintain this modified state of being?

it is your job to consciously keep your body aligned to your new mind so that nothing in your environment emotionally hooks you back to the old reality.

Remember that when you get up from your meditation, if you did it properly, you will advance from thinking to being. Once you are in that state of being, you are more prone to do and think equal to who you are being.

demonstration is living as if your prayers have already been answered.

The feedback you experience in your life is the result of matching the state of being/energy of your creative process to the state of being/energy of your demonstrative process.

if you maintain that modified state of mind and body the entire day, something different should show up in your life.

Look forward to synchronicities, opportunities, coincidences, flow, effortless change, better health, insights, revelations, mystical experiences, and new relationships, to name a few.

This is the reason why we meditate. To become someone else in our lives.

Remind yourself that during the day, you will keep your energy up as the new you. Here you are to prompt yourself to stay conscious at different times in your waking hours.

I want to give thanks for different aspects of my life while I take my morning shower. I have to stay on track while I drive to work, so I’m going to be joyous during the whole trip. How will I be as this new ideal when I see my boss? Let me remind myself to take a moment at lunch and remember who I want to be. When I see my kids this evening, I will be elevated and have abundant energy, and we’ll truly connect. I want to take a minute while I get ready for bed and remind myself who I am being. End-of-the-Day Questions These questions are a simple way to review your display of the new self when the day is over: How did I do today? When did I fall from grace, and why? Who was it I reacted to, and where? When did I “go unconscious”? How can I do better the next time that happens?

Before you go to bed, it might be a nice idea to contemplate where it was during your day that you lost your new ideal. Once you can see the obvious place in your life that stimulated you to fall into oblivion, ask yourself these simple questions: “If this situation happened again, how would I do it differently?”

and “What piece of knowledge or philosophical understanding could I apply to this circum...

The telltale sign of becoming transparent is that you do not have many overly analytical or critical thoughts.

Wants and desires come from lacking something, someone, someplace, or some time. In being truly connected to this consciousness, I have had moments that it was hard to think about anything else because I felt so great. I felt so complete that any thought that would take me away from it would not be worth my moving from this place.

Feeling a sense of love and awe for life without needing anything from outside of us is freedom.

To live in the realm of the unpredictable is to be all potentials at once.

Your attention is where your energy is. Put all of your attention on the external, material world, and that becomes your investment in reality. On the contrary, command your mindfulness to unfold a deeper aspect of yourself, and your energy will expand that reality.