Joe Dispenza ON: Why Stress and Overthinking Negatively Impacts Your Brain and Heart & How to Change Your Habits on Autopilot
May 29, 2023
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Join Dr. Joe Dispenza, an expert in neuroscience and epigenetics, as he explores the powerful connection between thoughts and emotions. He outlines how stress and overthinking can trap us in negative patterns, impacting our brain and heart health. Joe emphasizes the importance of breathwork and mindfulness for stress relief and personal transformation. He shares inspiring stories of healing through mindset changes and highlights the crucial role of community in fostering emotional well-being. Discover how altering your thoughts can lead to profound changes in life!
Meditation allows reprogramming of thoughts and behaviors for personal transformation.
Elevated emotions like love and gratitude impact the body and brain, leading to well-being and new possibilities.
Consistency in meditation and regulating emotions is crucial for sustaining long-term change.
Deep dives
The Power of Meditation and Changing Thought Patterns
Meditation allows individuals to slow down their brainwaves and access the operating system of their subconscious mind, making it possible to reprogram their thoughts and behaviors. By consciously choosing to think differently and rehearsing new thought patterns, individuals can create new beliefs and install new neural circuits in their brain. This process requires discomfort and stepping out of familiar territory, but it allows for personal transformation and the ability to change emotional states.
The Importance of Elevating Emotions
Elevated emotions, such as love, gratitude, and compassion, have a profound impact on the body and brain. By practicing meditation and accessing elevated emotional states, individuals can transmute limited emotions derived from stress and survival into selfless emotions. In these elevated emotional states, the body's nervous system becomes more coherent and the brain receives an influx of energy, leading to a sense of connection, well-being, and new possibilities.
The Process of Healing and Transformation
Healing and transformation is an ongoing process that varies from person to person. Some individuals experience profound and immediate changes, while others may require longer periods of practice and repetition. Consistency and commitment to the practice of meditation and regulating emotions are crucial for sustaining long-term change. The transformation occurs when individuals embrace the discomfort of change and continually work on rewiring their thoughts, actions, and emotions.
The Impact of Breathwork and Heart Rate Variability
The practice of breathwork, even for just one minute, can have a significant impact on heart rate variability (HRV) and overall well-being. Slowing down the breath and focusing attention on the heart can regulate brainwaves, induce coherence in the brain and heart, and influence the body's stress response. By practicing breathwork and cultivating coherence in the brain and heart, individuals can shift from a state of stress to a state of relaxation and clarity, thus enabling them to navigate challenges with greater ease and balance.
The Importance of Balancing Emergency Mode and Growth Mode
Living in emergency mode for extended periods depletes energy needed for growth and repair. While the emergency response is necessary in certain situations, staying in that state becomes addictive and hinders long-term progress. Analyzing problems in a disturbing emotional state keeps us stuck in the past. By getting beyond the emotion and focusing on possibilities, we can break free from the programmed survival mode and create positive change.
The Power of Conscious Choice and Self-Transformation
We have the ability to consciously choose our responses and change the way we think and feel. By practicing presence and choosing how we want to feel, we can break free from conditioned patterns and rewire our thoughts. It's possible to re-script our reactions and replace unhealthy emotions with healthier ones. This process requires discipline, self-awareness, and consistent effort, but it leads to profound transformation and empowers us to become the creators of our own lives.
Today, I am sitting down with Dr. Joe Dispenza to talk about the connection between our thoughts and our emotions. Joe explains the importance of paying attention to the things that will help us grow emotionally and mentally, the power of the brain and how it can trap us in the past if we allow it to, and how knowing proper breathwork can significantly help us relieve stress and overcome anxious thoughts.
Joe Dispenza is an author, speaker, and researcher known for his work in the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics. He is particularly recognized for his teachings on the mind-body connection and the potential for individuals to transform their lives through the power of their thoughts and emotions. Joe regularly conducts workshops and seminars worldwide, where he combines scientific knowledge, meditation practices, and practical exercises to help individuals tap into their potential and create a more fulfilling life. His teachings emphasize the idea that by changing our thoughts and emotions, we can create new neural pathways in the brain and ultimately transform our reality.
You can order my new book 8 RULES OF LOVE at 8rulesoflove.com or at a retail store near you. You can also get the chance to see me live on my first ever world tour. This is a 90 minute interactive show where I will take you on a journey of finding, keeping and even letting go of love. Head to jayshettytour.comand find out if I'll be in a city near you. Thank you so much for all your support - I hope to see you soon.
What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
03:01 Why are repeating thoughts the most dangerous, and the most beneficial thoughts?
07:05 Change your thought patterns by becoming conscious of unconscious thoughts
15:27 “Where you place your attention is where you place your energy.”
18:35 Why our emotions are a record of the past
20:41 Why are we in a habits crisis? How do we change our habits?
26:49 The 3 important elements in your life that you should focus on when you’re stressed
35:50 What is meditation and can you start practicing it?
40:25 How our emotions can convince our body to change significantly
45:34 How does breathwork impact our heart rate variability?
52:21 What happens when you get emotionally stuck in the past?
01:01:45 “What is it about me that I still have to change in order to heal?”
01:08:21 The difference between meditation with and without breathwork
01:11:32 The basic practices to help build a community for our survival
