Hallo, noble friends,
and welcome to
Science and Spirituality.
Today
we once again delve into
the secrets of the mind
with Dr. Joe Dispenza.
Dr. Dispenza is
an American expert
on the role and function
of the human brain.
He has authored the book
“Evolve your Brain”
and produced several
DVDs and CDs featuring
his past seminars.
He is well known for
having appeared in the
critically acclaimed 2004
American documentary
“What the Bleep
Do We Know!?”
Dr. Dispenza’s training
and education are
in the fields of
neurology, neuroscience,
cellular biology,
memory formation, aging
and longevity.
He also has a Doctor of
Chiropractic degree and
is an honorary member
of the National Board of
Chiropractic Examiners
in the United States.
Years ago, an accident
left him with several
broken bones in his back.
The grim prognosis
by doctors
was that he would never
be able to walk again.
Dr. Dispenza has
always been interested
in human potential.
He strongly believes
that the power that
creates our body can also
heal disease or injury.
Thus he decided not to
have the back surgery
his doctors recommended
and instead
surrendered himself
to this great power.
About 12 weeks later,
he returned to work,
fully recovered.
After this
life changing experience,
he traveled the world
studying
“spontaneous remission”
or the sudden reversal
of an illness without
a medical explanation.
He found that there were
four common
characteristics among
those people he met
who had undergone
this wonderful
transformation.
First, these persons all
believed that there was
some spiritual aspect
that lived within them.
Second, they all realized
that it was their own
negative thoughts
that had caused
their condition.
Third, they said they had
to transform themselves
by thinking
new things and
become different people.
And the fourth
characteristic was their
loss of time and space
for long periods of time.
Now we join Dr. Dispenza
as he discusses
the three parts of the brain,
or “three brains”
and their relationship
to our thinking, actions,
and the “state of being.”
Dr. Dispenza
defines the state of being
as the cycle of thinking
and feeling over time
that begins to condition
the body to memorize
an emotional state better
than the conscious mind.
When I studied
spontaneous remissions,
I learned a lot of things
about human nature
and unfortunately
most people wait for
crisis or trauma to
get serious about change.
Probably over 90 percent
of the people
on the planet
live in survival.
They live reacting
to their environment
or they create survival
just by thought alone.
They create the chemistry
of stress, just by
thinking about something
that’s going to happen
in the future, or something
that’s happened to them
in the past.
And so, they’re living by
those chemicals
and those emotions.
But we have three brains
in one brain.
And those three brains
allow us
to go from thinking,
to doing, to being.
So, the thinking brain
is the neocortex;
that’s that corrugated,
walnut-shaped,
fold and valley bumps
of grey matter.
That is
the home of the identity.
You’re listening to me
right now
with your neocortex.
And when we learn new
information, philosophy,
knowledge, data,
we forge new circuits
in the brain.
That’s what learning is,
making new connections,
and we store that circuitry,
that information.
It leaves a footprint
in the brain in terms of
a synaptic connection.
Any new experience
creates a memory.
One has to learn
how to reinforce
the positive experience
or practice
applying the experience
until it turns into a habit.
So, you read the book
by (Mahatma) Gandhi
about peace, and
you go to church, to your
spiritual organization,
and you shake hands
with everybody,
and you say,
“Peace be with you.”
Now, the next step is, how
are you going to apply it?
How are you going to
modify your behavior
in some way?
When you have
a new experience,
the end product is called
a feeling or an emotion.
And we can remember
experiences better
because we can remember
how they feel because
that new experience
and your environment
produced
a new internal chemistry.
It disrupted
your chemical continuity.
And because you started
to feel differently,
the brain woke up
for a moment,
and you paid attention to
whatever it was out there
that made you
feel this way internally.
It’s called a memory.
And so, when we have
a new experience,
when we apply peace now,
when you’re
pulling out of church
and instead of
cutting somebody off,
you let them
go ahead of you, you just
demonstrated peace.
And when
you demonstrate peace,
you have a new emotion,
you begin to feel it,
“Ah, I feel that!”
Or, you go to your boss
and instead of judging him
and getting angry,
you actually sit down
in a state of peace.
Now, we’re chemically
teaching the body,
we’re instructing the body
to what the mind has
intellectually understood.
A habit
becomes established
and is the state of being
when memorized
by the body.
So knowledge
is for the mind,
and experience
is for the body.
And that experience then
is measured in feeling.
So when you demonstrate
peace, you feel
the feeling of peace.
So the body gets the signal.
But it’s not enough to
have the experience once.
We have to be able to
replicate it at will and
do it over and over again,
and make it
look natural and easy.
And when we’re able to
repeat it at will, we
activate that third brain
called the cerebellum,
and the cerebellum
is the microprocessor
in the brain
and that’s where
we’ve practiced something
so many times that
the body has the memory
as well as
the conscious mind.
And that’s what a habit is,
a habit is when the body
has become the mind.
So when we’re
in a state of being,
we would say
that the mind and body
are working together
and the body’s
been conditioned
both neurologically
and chemically,
through experience that
it now knows compassion
better than
the conscious mind.
And now
we’re in a state of being.
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for some brief messages.
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We now resume
our interview
with Dr. Joe Dispenza,
an American expert
on the role and function
of the brain.
In his books and lectures
he discusses
how he believes
we can shift our lives in
a constructive direction
by better understanding
the interaction
of body and mind.
According to Dr. Dispenza,
the power of our thinking
is inestimable
as thoughts directly affect
how we experience life.
You see, the thought,
how you think
is the electrical charge
in the quantum field.
And how you feel
is the magnetic charge
you emanate.
So how you think and feel
creates an
electromagnetic field that
affects every single atom
in your life.
When people develop
constructive habits
that are the result
of positive thinking,
it is truly
a powerful phenomenon.
When we have
a group of people that can
think compassion,
think peace,
think goodwill
and generosity, charity
and demonstrate it and
be able to maintain that
in state of being where
they’ve memorized it
internally, nothing
in their external world
can move them from it.
When they’re
in a state of being,
they’re more prone
to do things
and think things equal to
that state of being.
How does meditation
create fundamental changes
within us?
Meditation is the process
of knowing yourself,
understanding
who you are.
And because we have
such a large frontal lobe,
we can observe
our own thoughts,
our own actions
and our own behaviors
and that concept
in neuroscience is called
“meta-cognition.”
And because
we can do that,
that allows us to modify
and change our behavior
so that we can do
a better job in life.
If you are doing meditation,
in the beginning
it takes a lot of practice
and it takes a lot of effort
and it takes
a lot of awareness
to be able to connect.
But if you’re doing
meditation properly,
you want to meditate
because it feels so great.
You’re elevated,
you’re lifted,
you’re coherent.
You want that feeling.
In Tibetan,
the exact translation
of the word meditation
means,
“To become familiar with;
to make known.”
Once you begin
to have the thought
become the experience,
the end product
of an experience
is called an emotion.
And if your experience is
happening in your mind,
you are beginning
to feel elevated.
Now we are
reconditioning the body
to a new mind.
And now we have
changed the circuitry.
We reminded ourselves
every day
of who we wanted to be.
And we’ve
conditioned the body
to a new mind.
And when
that person gets up and
they can become familiar
with that new self,
we could say now
that they are
in a state of meditation
because now they’re
memorizing a new aspect
of themselves as well.
Dr. Dispenza
further explains
how practicing meditation
transforms the brain.
So the process
of meditation requires
unlearning and relearning.
Or what neuroscience
calls “pruning
synaptic connections”
and “sprouting
new connections.”
If you’re thinking and
feeling has been negative
for the last twenty years,
your mind may be
thinking positively, but
your body is remembering
being negative.
Ninety percent of
who we are by the time
we’re 35 years old is sitting
in a subconscious set
of programs.
Automatic programs
that operate without
our conscious mind.
So here’s the 10 percent
of your conscious mind
wanting to change
against 90 percent
of who we’ve become
as a personality.
So we have to learn
how to get into
the operating system.
It takes going past
the analytical mind
to be able to do that.
And that takes practice.
The more you practice it,
the better you get at it.
Meditation really means
to begin to think
or begin to manage
your internal world
without the influence
of the external world.
To close,
Dr. Dispenza reiterates
that bringing out the best
within ourselves
need not be initiated
by suffering.
My message
is really simple;
why wait for disease,
(or) crisis in your life?
We could either learn and
change in a state of joy,
and true inspiration, or
we can learn and change
in a state of suffering,
in chaos and urgency.
And let’s choose the former.
We are the best when
we are spontaneous.
We are the best when we
are not concerned about
how we look
or if we’re succeeding or
failing or who is watching.
We are the best
when we are just loose
and we’re free.
And so the Universe
works in unusual ways
to lighten us up and
to bring us experiences
that make us
move into a state of joy.
We sincerely thank
Dr. Joe Dispenza for
sharing his perspectives
on the mind-body
connection,
the power of thoughts,
and the nature of habits
as well as for his wisdom
regarding how meditation
can transform our lives.
Our appreciation,
intelligent viewers for
being with us today for
Science and Spirituality.
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