Tell me — are you rooted in resentment, or are you grounded in gratitude?
I probably don’t have to tell you this, but living in resentment is no fun. When you wake up every day worried about your problems, regretting the past, and feeling frustrated with everyone around you, you’re not living your best life. You’re not welcoming abundance, and you’re not maximizing your potential.
But when you can get rooted in gratitude — when you truly experience joy and freedom and love for the good things and people in your life — your whole attitude turns around. You’re happier. You feel healthier — and you’re more motivated to take care of your health.
In fact, many times, people have actually been able to heal their bodies from things like cancer and traumatic injuries just by focusing on gratitude and experiencing a positive energetic shift. Gratitude makes you ready to attack each day with confidence and welcome in the abundance that is coming to you.
“I think that one of the things that people are realizing is that you don’t have to be a Buddhist monk to do this or a nun with 40 years of devotion. You’ve just got to understand the formula. And just like any skill or anything you learn, you’ve got to go from thinking to doing to being.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Dr. Joe Dispenza has spent almost two decades studying the scientific basis for this. He’s collected tons of data showing that when you get your heart and mind focused on anticipating the positive emotions you expect to feel in the future, your body responds as though good things have already happened. He’s teaching thousands of people how to heal their bodies and improve their mindsets, and today he’s back on The School of Greatness! (Dr. Joe’s previous appearance on the show was one of the most popular episodes ever, so I knew I had to bring him back on!)
Today, Dr. Joe is teaching us all how to have a stronger mindset to live happier and healthier lives. We’re talking about gratitude, and why it can help you start living the life you desire today. And we’re also talking about why meditation is essential and how you can practice it every day. This interview is powerful — I know you’re going to learn as much from it as I did! Let’s go!
Who Is Dr. Joe Dispenza?
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 so they can enjoy a more fulfilled and happy life as well as evolve their consciousness.
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 out 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 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 sounds woo-woo, but it’s legit, and Dr. Joe has actionable advice that will transform your life. Let’s get started!
Get into Gratitude
One of Dr. Joe’s favorite phrases is, “Where you place your attention is where you place your energy.” This means that when you are focused on one emotion, your energy will flow in that direction. And the thing is, this works in both positive and negative ways.
Too often, we focus on our past experiences and why they weren’t totally satisfactory. But if you’re living in constant anxiety, frustration, and resentment — as many people are — your energy will flow toward those emotions. When that happens, you will continue to manifest things and experiences in your life that cause those negative emotions. You’re living in a negative loop.
And it turns out that that negative loop can actually cause disease. Dr. Joe sees it in his patients all the time — a negative emotional state can cause health problems from cancer to strokes to even blindness.
“The end product of an experience of an environment is an emotion. So as long as you are living the same emotion every single day, you are signaling the same gene … and if that gene is regulated to a survival stress hormone, then you are down-regulating the gene, and you’re creating disease.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
But here’s the good news: this also works in reverse. Suppose you ground yourself in the positive feelings of gratitude and freedom you anticipate feeling in the future. In that case, you’ll begin to manifest a life that causes you to feel gratitude, joy, and freedom.
“Instead of living [by] cause and effect, now we’re beginning to cause an effect. So the moment you are feeling whole and grateful … the moment you start feeling worthy and abundant, your wealth is coming. … Let’s stop telling the story of your past and start telling the story of your future.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
This is what Dr. Joe does in his workshops. He teaches people to ground themselves in their future positive emotions instead of their past negative emotions. That’s how people end up healing from all kinds of terminal medical conditions that traditional medicine can’t treat.
So let me ask you — what is your emotional state like on a day-to-day basis? Are you focusing on negative reactions to your past? Do you find yourself fixating on resentment, fear, sadness, or anger? Or do you remain rooted in the gratitude, joy, and abundance you anticipate coming to you?
Choose to remain grounded in your positive emotions, and you will heal your body and mind and start living the life of your dreams.
