“You can change your brain just by thinking differently”. Joe Dispenza’s focus on unlocking the power of the mind and how thoughts influence the present is uniquely fascinating. Thoughts have a huge impact on people’s state of being. People living in the same automatic unconscious thoughts and behaviors will soon adapt to this lifestyle, making it difficult for change. As well as, being able to turn on the stress response just by thought alone by thinking about problems and triggering a certain emotion from past experiences where the stronger the emotional quotient, the more the experience leaves a lasting impression. People can get sick just by thought alone, but can thoughts cure?
To begin, a habit is having a repetitive routine that is done so many times that the body now knows how to do it better than the brain. Habits are the unconscious thoughts and doings that people perform on a daily basis (waking up, checking phone, having breakfast, going to work, seeing the same people). In Joe Dispenza’s book “Becoming Supernatural” emotions are chemical consequences of past experiences. How people think and feel creates a state of being. As people repeat their regular habits, they push the same emotional behaviors. This routine later programs the body into becoming the unconscious mind and is constantly living and repeating the past. Once a person recalls a thought, the brain releases certain chemical signals (immaterial thoughts become matter). These chemical thoughts will make the body feel exactly the way it felt during that specific event. Therefore, more thoughts are generated and more chemicals from the brain are released in order to relive the same feeling. Dispenza states that: “If thoughts are the vocabulary of the brain and feelings are the vocabulary of the body, and the cycle how you think and feel becomes your state of being, then your entire state of being is in the past.”
In the case of stress, people live in survival. The heart and respiratory rates amplify, the immune system initially dials up and down as hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol flood the muscles providing energy to prevent and escape the stressor. Humans have less capacity to think creatively under stressful events and instead depend on their instincts where they try to control and predict everything that is happening in their lives. Which results in people narrowing their attention on external elements to associate the neurological networks making the brain think incoherently. People are capable of triggering their stress hormones by thinking about their problems, reliving previous events, and anticipating the worst-case situations in the quantum field based on past experiences just by thought alone. This means that emotions influence thoughts, creating the same emotions, leading a person to constantly be living in the past. The familiar past will sooner be the predictable future.
Thoughts are being hardwired in the brain as the same patterns and later on people get addicted to the rush of the same emotions. They use problems to reaffirm their limitations in order to sense a familiar feeling. The body does not know the difference between the experience that’s creating the emotion and the emotion that’s created by thought alone. When it comes down to change, the body goes through discomfort. The hardest part about change is not making the same decisions that were taken the day before. One of Dispenza’s messages is why wait for loss to make up the mind to change. Why not start now? Change is creating a future by thinking about what thoughts and behaviors the brain wants to fire and wire that day. The act of becoming more aware and conscious about re- experiencing the past is called Metacognition (becoming aware of how to think, act, and feel) To reach that goal, people have to separate their conscious mind from their unconscious mind by reaching the analytical mind.
Meditation helps with the slowing down of brainwaves making it easier to reach the operating system and making important changes. By that time, the body becomes very strong since it has been conditioned to the same thoughts and emotions for a long period of time. The body procrastinates the feeling of discomfort and change and would rather feel the suffering that has already been experienced. The servant (body) has become that master. Mentally rehearsing and practicing the action opens a clear map to the future by installing neurological hardware to make it look like the event already took place.
In conclusion, the way Joe Dispenza views emotions, habits and sense of self is unfamiliarly captivating. He grasps the idea of unlocking the brain to its full potential in a very motivational technique. As teenagers, comprehending the way the brain is wired provides a sense of comfort and understanding to have a clear perspective of the future. As we experience stressful events its necessary to maintain healthy habits and a clear mindset. This can be accomplished by manipulating our thoughts into changing our state of being.