Do you daydream about what your capabilities genuinely are? Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could master your mind with no restrictions?
Today’s guest knows a thing or two about testing his capabilities. After being hit by a truck, he broke six vertebrae in his spine, and his doctors told him he would never walk again.
Refusing surgery, he began to imagine himself totally healed. In just ten and a half weeks, he was back on his feet, and in twelve weeks, he was training again. He fully healed himself with just his mind.
Dr. Joe Dispenza is an internationally-renowned science researcher and New York Times best-selling author. He’s made it his life’s work to understand the brain-body connection and learn to heal yourself with your mind.
In this episode, we discuss a simple guide to expanding your consciousness, how to escape the shackles of stress, what you can do to create coherence between your heart and mind, the real relationship between thoughts and emotions, and so much more.
Let’s jump straight in!
Who Is Dr. Joe Dizpenza?
Dr. Joe Dispenza is an international speaker, researcher, author, and educator who is passionate about the findings from the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics to explore the science behind spontaneous remissions. He uses that knowledge to help people heal themselves of illness, chronic conditions, and even terminal diseases to enjoy a more fulfilled and happy life and evolve their consciousnesses.
Dr. Joe is the New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter, which explores our ability to heal without drugs or surgery but rather by thought alone. His most recent book, Becoming Supernatural, talks about how we can intentionally change our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly mystical, transcendental experiences and develop a more healthy body, mind, and spiritual life.
Dr. Joe didn’t always work in the field of neuroscience. He started as a chiropractor, earning his doctor of chiropractic degree from Life University in Atlanta, GA. He had a successful chiropractic practice, but one day he had a dangerous accident. In 1986, while cycling in a triathlon, Dr. Joe was hit by a truck. He broke six vertebrae in his spine, and his doctors told him he would never walk again.
Dr. Joe asked four different surgeons what he should do, and all four of them prescribed a complicated surgery. The surgery would relieve some of his pain but nearly guarantee he would never walk again. But that wasn’t good enough. He refused to have the surgery and instead began to imagine himself totally healed. He visualized each vertebrae’s healing and reconstructed his spine in his mind. In just ten and a half weeks, Dr. Joe was back on his feet, and in twelve weeks, he was training again and back at work at his chiropractic clinic. He fully healed himself with just his mind.
I know this might sound beyond the realm of possibility, but Dr. Joe is living proof, so let’s jump in and hear his wisdom!
The Truth About Change
Dr. Joe Dispenza assembled a team of scientists and completed 8,500 brain scans. After such extensive research, they are confident in their abilities to predict three things:
- They can tell you when a person’s ready to change.
- They can tell you why people don’t change.
- And lastly, they can tell you what it takes to change.
“Our research shows that the moment you take your attention off your body, you take your attention off the people in your life and go from who you identify with — from someone — to no one. Take your attention off your cell phone, computer, and car, and go from something to nothing. Take your attention off where you’re sitting [or] where you need to be, and go from somewhere to nowhere and take your attention off time. [Think] about the predictable future or the familiar past and fall into the generous present moment and go from some time to no time. Then, all you’re left with is consciousness.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
By becoming hyper-focused on the present, you’re no longer playing by the same rules of matter. Matter is defined as any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume — it’s everything in the physical world around us. Dr. Dispenza is even demonstrating his research to a group of researchers in Santa Cruz. He appreciated that the person getting a scan was about to have a transformational moment.
“They said, ‘How do you know?’ I’ve seen enough of these, and the next moment, the whole brain just lights up. That person is switched on. They’ll never be the same person again [because] they have a transcendental moment we could predict and teach. It’s a formula, and you change the formula, and you add to it. When you no longer are identifying with your body, your environment, and time, that’s the moment you are pure consciousness. Now you’re an awareness that has nothing to do with local space and time.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
If you can go beyond, you shorten the time for a change. When the brain tries to change the brain, it takes a long time. The same thing with the personality trying to change the personality or for the ego to change the ego. Consciousness is beginning to activate or manipulate circuits in the brain. People think the brain creates consciousness, but that’s not accurate.
“Consciousness is [running] the brain, the brain-mind is the brain in action. [When the brain changes] it’s consciousness that changes it. When people begin to disengage and get beyond themselves, [that’s when] you are at your absolute best.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Using the formula helps you reach that generous present moment where you feel connected. Imagine living your life from a place filled with less judgment, less frustration, and less impatience?
Sounds terrific, right? Let’s hear what the formula entails.
