Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

by Joe Dispenza

The future has no feelings because we haven’t yet experienced it. Remember that all our episodic memories are stored ultimately as emotions. The past has that emotional component, but the future does not. The future has only the sense of adventure we initially started with, but that easily gets lost in the feelings of our body and the memories of the past. The neuro-synaptic self gets homesick, and when this happens, it wants what it can predict and depend on in the next moment. Dreams of a different future usually get smothered by the feelings connected to the feedback loop of the body. When our identity (which is made of past memories) and the feedback loop of the body reign, we can easily rationalize returning to the familiar. We think that we’re making the right choice because it “feels” like the right choice to make in the moment. This is how we resist change and constantly rechoose the familiar. All the associations that are connected to change have now insulted the chemical continuity of how our personal identity feels, and the “somebody” who is connected to past memories is absolutely challenged. The old identity that has defined “the self” just wants to return to familiar, routine circumstances, the normal feelings that define it. If we give in to these urges, we are making choices only with our body, never with our mind, and we will never change. Our life will always be a mirror of how we feel and how we are wired neurologically. In order to have any new experien...

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