What’s up, guys? Welcome back to The School of Greatness podcast, where each week, we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. And man, do we have an inspiring person today!
You guys, Dr. Joe Dispenza is joining me on this very special episode of the podcast. Dr. Joe Dispenza has done a lot of incredible research, and he’s one of the world’s foremost authorities on how the mind can heal the body.
You heard me right — the mind can heal the body.
It might sound crazy, but I promise this episode will blow your mind. Dr. Joe Dispenza and I dive deep. We talk through the four elements of healing your body with your mind. I’m telling you, these four points are huge and will help you change your life and achieve greatness. In the end, we’re going to give you a 7-day challenge to help you do exactly that.
Dr. Joe Dispenza believes that many of us are living in a state of constant anxiety. The fight-or-flight responses that evolution has hard-wired into our brains cause us to be constantly on alert — and that negative mode of thinking triggers genes that can cause all kinds of problems from panic attacks to cancer.
But if we learn how to change our thoughts, the mind can heal the body. It happens all the time — it’s called “spontaneous remission,” and even people with stage 4 cancer can be totally cured.
“So, for me, I chase the mystical. I want those profound moments where I cannot go back to being the same guy again. Because once you taste that wine or your drink from that well, all of a sudden, the way you perceive reality changes because you start to see things that always existed, but you didn’t have the circuitry in place to perceive them.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Are you ready to change your thinking and transform into a better, greater you? Let’s dive in!
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 Dispenza 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. Dr. Joe Dispenza’s podcast appearances have also been frequent and fascinating — we’re lucky he had time in his schedule to join us today!
But Dr. Joe Dispenza 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.
Dr. Joe thought to himself:
“Well, there’s an intelligence that’s giving us life. … It really knows how to heal way better than me. … Look, maybe I’ll just spend the rest of my time trying to connect to this intelligence and give it a plan, give it a design, and give it a template.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Dr. Joe 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.
After his healing experience, Dr. Joe started to study neuroscience. He traveled the world, interviewing experts, and learning everything he could about the mind’s power to heal the body. And today, he is passionate about helping other people have miraculous healing experiences like his own.
Dr. Joe hosts workshops both online and in-person worldwide (which you can learn more about here!). He teaches other people the principles of healing your body with your mind, and he has seen countless spontaneous remissions at his events.
Dr. Joe’s story is so inspiring to me. He overcame a bad injury in a truly innovative way, and now he wants to share his brilliant research with the world. I’m so glad he’s joined us today. Let’s dive into my interview with Dr. Joe Dispenza!
Connect with the Intelligence Inside You
When Dr. Joe Dispenza first embarked on his journey to research and study the mind’s power to heal the body, he started with a simple question: “Has anybody else done it?” That question led him to seventeen different countries and interviews with hundreds of people who had experienced sudden healing from health conditions.
After interviewing all those people and compiling his research, Dr. Joe began to notice some similarities. He saw that people of all different races, genders, and sexual preferences could experience spontaneous remission. But no matter their walk of life, people who experienced that kind of miraculous healing from the mind had four things in common:
- “The first one was that they all believed and accepted that there was an intelligence that lived within them that was giving them life.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
According to Dr. Joe, we all have an intelligence inside us. There is a divine force that gives us life, and we’re all connected to it.
But sometimes we can become disconnected — more on that in a minute. When we become disconnected from the intelligence that gives us life, we get sick. Our bodies get out of alignment, and we experience diseases and injuries.
When that happens, we have to reconnect with the intelligence. We have to develop a relationship with it.
- “The second thing was that they realized that it was the mismanagement of their emotions and the hormones of stress that really began to create their condition.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
People who have experienced spontaneous remission understand that their emotions and stress reactions are what cause disease in the first place.
A long time ago, humans were just trying to survive. If we weren’t alert and constantly anticipating threats like predators, we were going to get eaten! So, we got used to always looking out for danger and reacting to it as quickly as possible. That’s the root of our stress — that “fight-or-flight” response.
And that stress response is still hard-wired into our brains. But here’s the thing: today, we don’t need that “fight-or-flight” response anymore. (You’re not very likely to be eaten by a bear in your daily life!) And in fact, because we’re living longer, healthier lives today, we’re actually holding onto that stress for longer and living in an almost constant state of emergency.
Our bodies are just not meant to handle that.
That constant state of panic and stress is an imbalance that happens in our brains. It’s what causes our diseases.
So, it makes sense that to combat our diseases and heal, we’ve got to fight that response, right?
Change Your Thinking and Rewire Your Brain
We’ve got to change our thinking.
- “The third thing they said was, ‘Okay, so now that I know that … I can’t mismanage my thoughts and feelings … I’ve got to watch how I speak, I’ve got to become conscious of how unconscious I am.’” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
We have to develop an awareness of how we think.
Notice how you react to things in your environment. Think about your family, friends, and coworkers — how do you usually respond to them? Think about your stress — Where does it come from? How do you react when you’re stressed?
Now think about the people you admire most in history. Who are your role models? Consider the qualities you admire in the people you look up to and then start rehearsing how you can develop those qualities in yourself in your mind.
Think about your role models. How do they handle stress? If you can learn to manage your stress response and stop reacting negatively to your environment, you can prevent your mind from signaling genes that cause disease. You can stay well, and you can heal yourself from diseases you already have.
- “The fourth thing is that, when they were doing that rehearsal process, they had long moments where they lost track of time and space.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
People who do this — who rehearse emulating the qualities they admire in other people — get really into it. They go deep into their imaginations, and they stay there for a significant amount of time.
A great way to do this is meditation. When you meditate, you slow down. You pause all that crazy fight-or-flight stuff and just focus on the present moment. Being in that mental state allows you to really imagine yourself acting and reacting in a healthier way. And according to Dr. Joe, the act of imagining doing something is just as good as actually doing it for your brain.
“It turns out that the act of mentally rehearsing something — when you’re truly present, your brain does not know the difference between what’s going on out there and what’s going on in here. … So now, the act of rehearsing who they’re going to be … and beginning to get into this creative state began to lay down the circuits of a new personality. And a new personality is connected to a new personal reality.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
So don’t be afraid to spend some serious time meditating! When you meditate and get into that good, calm headspace, you rewire your brain to overcome your natural stress response and develop healthier emotions. And of course, a healthier body stems from healthy emotions, so you can actually heal your body when you do this kind of meditation.
Isn’t that amazing?
The Challenge: You Can Change Your Thinking
I am so inspired by Dr. Joe Dispenza. His work is truly innovative, and he’s healing so many people. And here’s the cool thing: anyone can benefit from Dr. Joe’s ideas. They’re not just for people who seek healing from chronic pain or terminal disease. This kind of transformational thinking can lead to healthier emotional responses and greater happiness and abundance — and those are things we all need!
I wanted to talk about some ways you and I can use Dr. Joe’s principles in our daily lives. So, he and I came up with a challenge. Try following these three steps every day for the next seven days. I guarantee you’ll start to notice positive shifts in your mindset!
- Start your day with this question: “What is the greatest ideal of myself that I can be today?”
“… Most people … get up in the morning, and the first thing they do is think about the problems in their life. And those problems are memories from the past, so the moment they think about their problems, they’re thinking about the past. Every one of those problems has an emotion attached to them, so they start feeling unhappy or unworthy or whatever … so, from the familiar past, they’re going to live in the predictable future, right?” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
How many times have you woken up in the morning and immediately reached for your phone? We spend a lot of time focusing on everything we need to get done, everything we think we can’t do, and everything that’s wrong in the world.
But that’s a really negative way of thinking, and it’s causing us to get sick.
Every morning for the next seven mornings, I want you to start with a positive thought. How can you be the best version of yourself today? Decide to be the happiest, most positive version of yourself that you can be, and you’ll start your day in a much better emotional state. And as we’ve already talked about, our physical state is directly connected to our emotional state, so being in a positive emotional mindset is good for our bodies too!
- Practice gratitude at the end of each day.
According to Dr. Joe, there is no shortage of research on the positive effect of gratitude on our brains. He says that there are about twelve hundred different chemical reactions that help heal and restore your body that are triggered by gratitude!
Practicing gratitude for your life and the good things in it on a daily basis has incredible effects on your physical health. So each night of the next week, spend a few minutes before bed giving thanks. You can do this in your mind or in a journal — it doesn’t matter how you practice gratitude, you just have to do it!
- Develop awareness of the space around you.
“The act of opening your awareness begins to reduce the stress hormones and creates more coherent brainwave states. I’m doing it right now. It’s just a practice. … And the more you do it, the better you get at it.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
When you develop an awareness of your environment, you learn a lot about yourself. Your brain starts to understand its stress responses to different things in your environment. And remember that that understanding is the key to changing your negative thought patterns and transforming your life for greater success!
You can think of this step as meditation. Take a few moments each day for the next seven days to sit quietly and sense your space. Pay attention to your environment and become really aware of it. When you practice meditation like this every day, you create space for your brain to develop healthier stress reactions.
And that is the key to healing, success, and abundance.
Why You Should Listen to Dr. Joe Dispenza Podcast Episode Right Now
Are you ready to change your life? Are you ready to develop new patterns of thinking? Do you want to learn how to use your mind to heal your body and create more happiness and success?
Then this episode is for you.
Here’s Dr. Joe’s definition of greatness:
“My definition of greatness is to be greater than your environment, to be greater than your body, and to be greater than time. And if you do, you will be great. I mean, that’s it!” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Dr. Joe Dispenza definitely lives up to that definition. He’s the real deal — he uses the ideas he teaches in his own life, and he’s a happy and healthy person as a result.
Dr. Joe is genuinely passionate about healing and teaching other people how the mind can heal the body. His work has helped so many people experience spontaneous remission. And it can help you experience healing too. He and I talked about so many cool concepts that I don’t have time to get to here, but you’ll hear about it all in the episode. It’s worth checking out!
If you want to learn more from Dr. Joe Dispenza, remember to check his books! He’s the author of You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter and Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon. You can also check out his website here to learn more about his events and find some resources you can use to start building your awareness of your environment and change your thinking.
If you’re ready to transform your life and learn just how powerful your mind can be, join me on Episode 679 with Dr. Joe Dispenza!
To Greatness,
Some Questions I Ask:
- What was the theory about water from What the Bleep? (1:17)
- What are the four common things people do to heal with their minds? (8:44)
- How do we become greater than the body? (14:44)
- Do you rehearse where you want to be daily? (23:17)
- What does it take to change? (32:35)
- Your body will create balance for you. (38:27)
- What if we want good things to come faster? (46:22)
- When was the last time you felt overwhelmed about love? (50:44)
- What’s your definition of surrender? (58:07)
- What challenge would you give out listeners? (1:06:24)
In this episode, you will learn:
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- When Dr. Joe started believing in the philosophy that the mind can heal anything (2:27)
- Why do we stay stuck in bad relationships and bad jobs (11:07)
- How we can change our energy (31:34)
- How you can get to the point where you are in the present (35:33)
- How to get into the heart (42:12)
- When you experience the most love (47:56)
- If Dr. feels like he’s answered the questions for himself (57:48)
- What Dr. Joe’s mission is right now (59:28)
- Dr. Joe’s greatest teacher (1:11:24)
- What the Quantum Field is (20:33)
- How to change your life (31:04)
- Plus much more…
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Dr. Joe Dispenza
