Joe Dispenza on The Diary of a CEO: Rewiring the Brain Before 10am

our research shows that your thoughts can make you sick and the question is if your thoughts could make you sick can your thoughts make you well that's absolutely possible and it's easy to learn so when you wake up in the morning Dr Joe dispen researcher and best-selling author one of the most sought-after speakers in the world all with the aim of helping people better understand and unlock the power of their mind I'm concerned about human species why 75 to 90% of every person that goes to a health care facility goes because of psychological or emotional stress and it gets addictive to people they need the bad relationship a bad job in order to feel and there's so much research to show that when they analyze their life within some disturbing emotion we saw that they were actually making the brain worse but 50% of that story isn't even the truth people are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing you can't wait for your wealth to feel success you can't wait for your new relationship to feel love but 95% of Who We Are by the age of 35 is programmed yeah but there is a way to change and so the model of change is breaking the habit of the old self and Reinventing a new self if you teach people how to do that in 7 days you can see very significant changes so try this out as an experiment first thing you have to do is Dr Joe you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas about way humans are and the way the universe is what are the beliefs in your head that you're too scared to share oh boy I I have a very strong belief that before this episode starts I have a small favor to ask from you 2 months ago 74% of people that watched this channel didn't subscribe we're now down to 69% my goal is 50% so if you've ever liked any of the videos we've posted if you like this channel can you do me a quick favor and hit the Subscribe button it helps this channel more than you know and the bigger the channel gets as you've seen the bigger the guests get thank you and enjoy this [Music] episode Dr Joe 95% of Who We Are by the age of 35 is programmed when I read that in your work kind of hit me like a ton of bricks because I just turned 30 and if what you're saying there is true without realizing it there's a puppet master that sits above me that's calling the shots in a way that I don't think I've realized is that true I think if we Define a habit is is a redundant set of automatic unconscious thoughts behaviors and emotions that's acquired through repetition The Habit is when you've done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind then it's program subconsciously so then when the body knows how to do it better than the conscious mind then for the most part the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of being ourselves right so there's a principle Neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together if you keep thinking the same way uh if you keep making the same choices if you keep doing the same things if you keep reproducing the same experiences and feeling the same emotions your biology begins to become hardwired in a sense it be it becomes programmed so in order to change uh something to arrive at a new vision of your future if you were wanted to arrive at a new goal or new vision of your future you'd have to change something about yourself in order to get there and you'd have to change the way you think the way you act and the way you feel when you begin to become conscious of those unconscious thoughts so conscious that you don't let them slip by your awareness unnoticed or unchecked by you if you catch yourself speaking in a limited way or um you're you become conscious that you're behaving in a certain way in habit and can notice or pay attention to how you're feeling then you're no longer the program now your Consciousness observing the program you're only unconscious when you're in the program and so to change then is to become so conscious that you don't don't go unconscious again and in a sense that is consciousness that is really the puppet master that really decides who we want to be I think the biggest problem uh is that people lose their free will uh to a set of programs and so their body is basically um programmed into a predictable future based on what they've done in the past so to change then to change that habituation takes an enormous amount of energy an enormous amount of awareness why is this operating system this program useful because I look at everything that I the way that I do and from doing this podcast and speaking to experts I've stopped thinking that my body is against me and I've stopped realiz I've started to realize that there's a reason for these things there's a reason for the habits and patterns and so why is this useful because it seems to be working against me in so many ways well um first of all um when we when we look closely at uh certain habits whether you um can ride a bicycle whether you can speak a language whether you can snowboard when you first learn any of those things it takes an enormous amount of conscious awareness is to get your body to do what your mind is intending but if you keep doing it over and over again then the body begins to economize it in some way and so we have a lot of things that we can do automatically or unconsciously or subconsciously that allows us to multitask to drive your car to talk on the phone to do several different things at the same time so a habit isn't a bad thing they can work for you or they can work against you the problem is is if you're as an example complaining and blaming and making excuses and feeling sorry for yourself and judging other people and you practice that and you get really good at whatever you practice you practice that enough times that you're unconscious to the fact that you're doing it um the moment you become conscious that you want to change that uh you're going to be uncomfortable uh it's going to feel unfamiliar it's going to feel some degree of uncertainty you're Le kind of familiar known territory and you're stepping into the unknown and so uh many people when they want to change a habit um they have to be willing to be uncomfortable to do it but habits can work for us uh there's a lot of great habits that you and I both have that I would never want to change or would want to evolve in some way but then there's a lot of habits that don't serve us and and so a person really wants to set a vision of the future whatever that is and they just have to agree that in order to arrive at that Vision they have to change in order to get there someone said to me that there's a certain type of behavior pattern that we can't change they said when we get trauma under the age of 10 things that happen at a very early age some of those things cannot be changed and then there's things that happen later in life that can be rewire and changed is that true are there some traumas Behavior patterns that just appear to be too stubborn and too resistant to change if you ask me that question just a few years ago I probably would have a different answer than I do today because if you look at a lot of the work uh that we're studying in terms of human change and human transformation um we've seen people with really difficult pasts really brutal pasts that were abused and traumatized at a very early age um and then repeated traumas that took place in people's lives and they had night terrors and and uh they uh couldn't be in relationships they had social anxiety uh they had a lot of health conditions we've seen them completely change uh completely change to be happy people again to to free themselves from the past and so I would never put a limitation on change because I just don't think uh you can really predict that I think many people that are learning how to change uh and they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it and the how gets easier I think for the most part people can change all kinds of things and when they do change uh our research shows that their brain changes their heart rate changes their gene expression changes there's thousands of metabolites that are being released into their bloodstream that weren't their prior U there's a host of different changes that take place biologically that kind of support the person's transformation is there a specific transformation that sticks in your mind as being the most is the clearest evidence that you should never write off um someone's ability to transform wow um I'm so pleased to tell you that uh my beliefs have been challenged uh just in the last two years in witnessing so many different changes in people's Health that I I never knew was even possible uh you know everything from stage four cancers that were in a very progress state that metastasized to organs and tissues and bones in the body a complete reversal in uh that uh in that health condition not once not twice not three times uh we've seen it many times uh we've seen people that were blind uh that have been dead F that that have ALS that have Lupus that have MS that have Parkinson's disease that have spinal cord injuries that have strokes PTSD myasthenia gravis cystic fibrosis muscular distrophy uh we had a woman that had her thyroid removed surgically removed and I know this is difficult even for me to accept uh and grew a new thyroid back you know we have the medical evidence for that so I don't know uh any longer what the limit is I think there's something really cool happening in the world when uh people believe in themselves and when you believe in yourself you have to believe in possibility when you believe in possibility you have to believe in yourself so uh when somebody uh has the opportunity and I think a story is uh there's no there everybody loves a story there's nothing better than a story and when someone stands on a stage in front of 2,000 people and talks about their um journey to heal themselves from a chronic health condition and they it's not um always pretty they lose things they lose family they sometimes lose their careers they get sick before they get better and you see this person's persistence and you see that they were not doing the work uh their inward work to heal they were doing the work to change and if they understood if they truly changed that their biology should change and they were um uncompromising every day in showing up for themselves and staying conscious of their unconscious self and and then reprogramming themsel in some way and they tell that story it's the four-minute mile it's somebody breaking through a level of Consciousness or unconsciousness and the collective that's observing the example of truth they're actually relating with that person in a way that causes them to examine possibility differently and when you become conscious of a new possibility a change in Consciousness is a change in Awareness right so now it's in the collective and lo and behold it's not uncommon we just had this happen in our weeklong event in Denver just uh a little over a week ago two weeks ago and we had six people stand up out of a wheelchair at by the end of the event now I wasn't expecting that but one uh person that had Ms in the middle of the week had a very profound experience very profound experience and a professional athlete NFL football player and um stood up and he stood up for the audience and when he stood up he said I thought I was going to a Yoga Retreat I thought my brother was taking me to a yoga retreat I had no idea what we were doing here and then he said I just I just never loved myself and it was his act of change that somehow changed his health condition he somehow upregulated genes in different ways suppressed the genes for Ms and somehow he was more mobile he was walking uh by the end of the event and he was the magic number one and when everybody saw that and they C the audience was excited we started seeing other people have a similar experience now that possibility is becoming more of a reality for people so I would always I never limit what could actually happen but I can tell you that what an amazing time right now uh to witness uh people really uh doing The Uncommon when you recited that story I could see the emotion in your face as you say it and I can only imagine with the information that you have and the beliefs you have about healing change transformation the sense of urgency you must carry and the sense of like responsibility almost I guess you must carry knowing knowing what's possible yeah well um um it I I do feel responsible for always keeping the information based in science and as pure as possible I feel it's really important to do the research that we're doing I mean we've we've studied so much uh from a scientific standpoint the process of change and the process of transformation and what meditation actually can do for a person in terms of their biology and and some of the changes that we're seeing just in seven days um my responsibility really is to give people my greatest understanding of the truth and numerous opportunities to experience it nothing more you know there is a way to inspire people into possibility and so they we combine different models of science whether it's quantum physics or Neuroscience or neuroendocrinology or psychon neuroimmunology the Mind Body Connection epigenetics electromagnetism all of these Sciences allow people to understand themselves better and if knowledge is powered knowledge about yourself is self-empowerment you can Empower people to do something with it so the more you understand what you're doing in the process of Chang the more you understand why you're doing it as I said the how gets easier so we now know that if you give people sound scientific information and that is the Contemporary language of mysticism and they can learn that information they're basically making new circuits in their brain that's what learning is learning is forging new synaptic connections but if you don't review what you learn if you don't repeat it it's so much easier to forg --- orld where everybody actually took responsibility in being the creator of their life and no longer the victim of their life I think we would see a dramatic shift in Consciousness that makes people feel uncomfortable this idea of personal responsibility it's quite a it's almost become quite a controversial controversial idea the idea that we are the creator of Our Lives because then I have to accept responsibility for all the bad things that happened Dave dumped me I got fired from work uh someone bumped into my car and it hurt my neck well maybe maybe that happened by default maybe that happened by not creating maybe you were just left to the randomness of reality that that maybe you're not creating and the fact that you're not creating you're you're left to the effects of your environment actually controlling you controlling your feelings and thoughts and by creating what you mean by creating is in well well if you intentional if you woke up every morning and you truly made time to to think like this okay if my personality creates my personal reality and my personality is made up of how I think how I act and how I feel if I want to create a new personal reality a new life I'm going to have to change my personality and most people try to create a new reality a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work we literally have to become someone else so if you said okay let me not default and go unconscious to that 95% of who I am that's programmed let me become so conscious of the way I think let me become so aware of how I'm going to act today let me decide what emotions keep me connected to my past and bring me to a lower level lower level of energy let me not go unconscious and then if you said okay A belief is just the thought I keep thinking over and over again what thoughts do I want to fire and wire in my brain and with with attention and with intention to begin to familiarize yourself with a new way of thinking meditation means to become familiar with if you keep firing and wiring those circuits you're going to begin to install the hardware repeat it enough times and it becomes a software program that could be the new voice in your head that says I can it is possible if you said okay when did I fall from grace yesterday when did I when did I lose it oh my gosh it was with at work work with my co-workers with my ex with my enemy with the news with traffic acting this way is not going to make me happy if I had another opportunity another opportunity how would I do it if you could close your eyes and rehearse in your mind mentally how you're going to behave in certain situations I'll give you a specific one anyone so I'll give you the specific one where late late at night on occasion I've eaten things things that I really regret eating Al also another one that I'm I'm trying to work hard on is I can be very messy with when I travel so my my hotel room can look like a mess and I don't like that about myself and I don't know why I do it but it's almost like you talk about being unconscious I'm clearly not thinking about it but that's part of the problem and it's the same with the bloody sugar midnight eating ordering things that are and then feeling instant guilt 10 seconds after I've put it in my mouth well well it may be that on some level well you could actually be addicted to the guilt not to the sugar and so you you return to the same emotional state that allows that action to reoccur so if you said let me decide how I am going to act what I'm not going to do and you rehearsed it the research on mental rehearsal says your brain will look like you already did it that you'll be so present the brain won't know the difference between what you're imagining and what is real the brain will begin to change to look like the experience has already happened now you're priming your brain for that behavior keep rehearsing it rehearsing it how so give me well so I mentally mentally rehearsing mental rehearsal is one of these great ideas in Neuroscience where you can actually install circuits in your brain right so everybody has done this musicians do it they're playing a song in their mind all the time athletes do it they're always going over their moves uh dancers do it actors do it uh so many people rehearse mentally what they're about to do and when they do that they actually Prime their brain they actually can change their brain and change their body just by thought alone physiologically change it physiologically change you can take a group of people that never played the piano before and divide them into two different groups and do functional brain scans on both groups one group they'll come for two hours a day for 5 days and they'll practice these one-handed scales and chords now you learn something new you make new Connections in your brain you get some instruction you get your body involved when you get your body involved you're going to have an experience you pay attention to what you're doing and you repeat it over and over again nerve cells that fire together wire together you're going to begin to install new circuits in the opposite side of your brain that's that's common you do the scan at the end you see those actual physical changes it's you take those people uh the other group and you ask them to close their eyes without lifting a finger have them mental rehearse those scales and chords and at the end of five days they grow the same amount of circuits in their brain as the people who actually physically demonstrated the act in other words they were so present with what they were doing the brain did not know the difference between the real life experience and what they were Imagining the brain was physically changing to look like they already experienced it they already did it so now you take those people people never played the piano before they just been mentally rehearsing for two hours a day for 5 days you set up in front of a piano and they could actually play those scals and cords why because they Prime their brain for that behavior so then if you're going to prime your brain for a new Behavior whether you're the CEO of a company whether you're a parent uh whether you're learning something the more you rehearse it mentally the more you prime your brain and body for the act so you could actually practice rehearsing how you're going to change in your life and if you keep doing it enough times your behaviors will match your intentions automatically because you have the Mind installed to do it if you don't have the Mind installed to do it you'll go back to the same past Behavior so I play through that scenario of making the decision differently exactly and rehearse it in your mind until it feels right till you feel like I could actually do that and go from start to finish without losing your attention and so that it gets easier each time you do it it makes sense then you're you'll you'll actually do it and then if you said okay enough of this guilt i' I've felt enough of it I don't like feeling that way I could actually break the conditioning of that emotion in my body can I condition my body can I teach my body to feel something differently what would be the feeling that I want to feel if I was able to do it would it be worth would it be self-love would it be Freedom would it be Joy let me teach my body emotionally what a future could actually feel like before it happens if you keep doing it over and over again you're going to start making more of those chemicals and it's become easier for you to do it it's going to become familiar to you and that's exactly what meditation is to become familiar with an old self to know thyself become so conscious of that unconscious self that you don't go unconscious to that self and how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering that's the moment of change what thoughts do I want to find fire and wire in my brain let me become familiar with those what behaviors do I want to demonstrate what would greatness do what would love do and actually rehearse a greater a greater way rehearse it enough times so that you could actually step into that footprint teach your body emotionally that there's another way to feel and do it over and over again it'll become familiar to you and so the model of change is unlearning and relearning it's breaking the habit of the old self and Reinventing a new self it's pruning synaptic connections and sprouting new connection C it's uniring and unwiring reiring and rewiring deprogramming and reprogramming losing your mind and creating a new one unmoral changes if they immerse themselves into the experience and what do those biological changes look like well um so we run week-long events um around the world and I think it's so important to do events uh in person with Community uh because it's a flock it's a herd it's a school um it's a collective and so uh that exact process in seven days uh we uh take people through a very immersive experience and we do functional brain scans or fmis or quantitative eegs before they start the event and then we at the end of seven days we look at their brains at the end of seven days and there are dramatic changes in the way their brain works very significant changes some of them are really outstanding changes we uh put uh teach people how to create more heart coherence when you feel anger when you feel frustration when you feel impatience when you feel resentment your heart beats out of order when you feel gratitude when you have kindness and Care You Feel Love For Life your heart beats in a more orderly fashion you can actually train somebody to get good at feeling that way and we we use that and we see people at the end of seven days be able to regulate uh their heart much better and it's a function of really how soon or how slow we age we take blood and we measure 2,882 different metabolites in in a person's blood and at the end of s days we measure again and I can tell you that if you're a novice meditator really never meditated before kind of your first event uh and you go through that 7-Day process at the end of seven days there are so many biological changes that are taking place in the collective in the community not just one not just two the majority of people and I mean a significant majority of people suggesting that their body literally is living in a new environment in in a new life and there are chemicals in their bloodstream in terms of information that wasn't there prior to the event in other words some way without taking any drug without any taking any exogenous substance um without changing their diet without changing their lifestyle in any other way except going through this process eating the same foods that they typically eat that at the end of seven days there's chemistry there's biology that suggests that somehow their biology is changing significantly um we measure gene expression uh I can tell you that you can change your Gene expression in 7 Days uh we measure the microbiome and um once again 7 days there are dramatic changes in the microbiome uh and the mind somehow is making uh significant and effective changes in our in our body so um our research is pretty outstanding because um an 7-Day uh intervention uh that's producing these effects uh there's there's not a whole lot of drugs that that are as effective and we've discovered that the nervous system makes a pharmacy of chemicals right now that works better than any drug that's what we've discovered and it's all within you I am a fixer in my friendship groups and what I mean by that is I'm someone who probably over involves them themselves in trying to help friends change stuff which gift and a curse often times a curse but um I often get because I love someone and they're close to me and I want the best for them when when I see that they are experiencing a recurring pattern of behavior or habit um that is causing them unhappiness loneliness to miss the goals they have in their life of becoming a you know a husband or a wife or a partner whatever it might be I have a growing sense of um frustration because and I and that sometimes exerts it it's that sometimes manifests itself as trying to you know fix and help and give advice and change them you must experience that in a different way you're much smarter than me you must experience that in a different way when you meet people that you can see having these recurring patterns of behavior and when you see that in them has there any has there any ever been frustration on your part have you ever been frustrated that change hasn't happened in someone that you loved God I you know I think it's I think it's such a noble act to change and I and I understand how hard it is to change uh I understand that process so I think the greatest thing that I could ever do for someone is to show them what change looks like it's so much more profound than anything that I could ever say um and I would never offer my opinion to them I would love them unconditionally because I maybe see a part of myself uh that I've changed and I understand how hard it is to change or or I understand that they'll they're going to have their moment uh when they're ready to change and so I think it's I think it's really interesting because what I've learned over the years is that no new information can enter the nervous system that's not equal to the person's emotional state you can give them the answer the right answer to the problem and they won't hear it because it's not relevant equal to the emotion that they're experiencing what we've learned is a you take people in just just say seven days just cross the river of change go from the old self to the new self immerse yourself fully into it break free from the chains of those emotions that keep you anchored to the Past overcome those habits and behaviors that keep you programmed into a predictable future um overcome um all those aspects of your beliefs that keep you stuck in a certain state in terms of how you're thinking in those hardwired perceptions 7even days break free and and normally the person has th --- er for a person to change a belief or perception about themselves and their life the majority of those people made a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carried a level of energy that was greater than the hardwired programs in their brain and the emotional conditioning their body as I said earlier their body literally responded to their mind the choice that they were making became a moment in time they would never forget they'll tell you where they were what time of day it was who they were with when they made up their mind to change it became a long-term memory and the stronger the emotion we feel the more altered we are inside of us the more we remember that choice that's why we need pain sometimes that's when you said when you painted yourself into a corner and you said this is it I don't care how I feel body I don't care how long it takes time I don't care what people think I don't care what's going on on my life environment I'm going to do this and you made up your mind the moment you felt that emotion you were aligning to a new future and to change is to be greater than your body to be greater than your environment and to be greater than time and so when a person comes out of the resting state because your body is trillions of cells 70 trillion cells and they're all spying on your brain and if you were sitting there and and you said nine out of 10 times I'm going to fake standing up one time I'm actually going to stand up before you ever made that conscious decision your body is so precognitive it already knows when you're going to stand up because it's got to release a certain amount of adrenaline so the same volume of your blood goes to your brain so if you're sitting on the couch with a remote control and you got your cell phone here and your iPad here and your computer here and your dog here and your beer here and the big TV there and you're eating your popcorn and and you say you know I I think um I'm going to change tomorrow you what do you think your precognitive body is going to say relax he's lying again he's not he's not willing to he's not willing to Signal the body it's time to ride you know it's not there's no signal to the body and so making that choice to change your state of being with a clear intention and elevated emotion actually changes your state to believe in that future more than you believe in your past keep it up keep keep doing it that's a big explosion in the field that's important that's a change in energy and nobody changes until they change their energy and when they change their energy they change their life so then you make up your mind to do that and all of a sudden you have that synchronicity you have that Serendipity you have that coincidence and all of a sudden you're saying hey that worked something I did inside of me produced an effect outside of me I'm going to pay attention to what I did I'm going to do it again let's try it again let's the experiment continue you do it again and then you say Well when did I stop disbelieving oh my God stopped disbelieving when I ran into that person we had that conversation and oh my God I I returned back to my old belief again okay next time that happens I'm going to this is what I'll do you rehearse it in so your evolution in your belief and self changes as well so then so many people second point will actually say this you know I read the philosophy I understand the knowledge I understand what it means to change I understand the power of meditation I saw the testimonial I saw people heal I believe it's the truth I just didn't believe it could work for me this is a big moment this is a moment where you step out of the bleachers and you got to get on the playing field that's the person who says if this works and I believe it works I got to prove it to myself I got to actually I got to actually prove it to myself that I believe that it could work for me and some of them show up every day for a year and never miss their work never miss their meditation a whole year and changing from the old self to the new self they were doing their meditations to change not to heal they were doing their meditations to change and when they changed they healed they did their meditation sometimes three times a day because they stopped believing they stopped disbelieving and they were like I defaulted why because I'm feeling the emotion of my past some stray thought some response to someone or something caused me to feel that I forgot I'm back to the emotion that's familiar and I can't believe in that future I'm believing in my past let me sit down and change my state of being again and get up believing in my future again and sometimes they had to do it three times in one day and when they understood that's the environment that signals the gene that's epigenetics and the end product of an experience in the environment is an emotion and it is you could actually signal genes ahead of the environment by changing your emotional state they were doing it with that intention and when you assign meaning to the ACT you get a greater outcome and you turn on the prefrontal cortex and now your biology literally begins to change and we have data that suggests by just having the intention to make certain genes to make certain proteins or signal certain genes and make certain proteins just having the intention literally begins to cause the body to make those chemicals and what causes relapse in those moments because I've had multiple moments of where I thought Behavior change had been established and I managed to conduct a new habit cycle in new Behavior favorable in you know intended behavior for a period and then something happens in my life almost subconsciously seamlessly seamlessly and I'm back yeah to old the old circuitry you went unconscious you went unconscious and normally it's some unconscious to some thought or some response in your environment you see someone or you do something or you have some interaction in your outer world and the moment you have that interaction you C it causes you to feel a certain way and you return back to a to the Past basically the emotion is the past and that the body is actually living in the past it's so objective it doesn't know the difference it doesn't know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is living by every day it's believing it's in the same past experience again and it will behave in the past and it will think in the past subconsciously subconsciously seamlessly so I could for for for example if going to I don't know let's say France I had a traumatic experience in France when I was 10 years old let's just say and then I go to France when I'm 30 years old and I get back I just start eating junk food for example and I don't know why I've like fallen out of my gym habit and I'm eating junk food that that theoretically that could be my subconscious that um falling back into a experiencing that survival without me knowing knowing it yes so so if to change is to be greater than your environment to be greater than your body and to be greater than time then your neocortex your thinking brain is a reflection of everything you know in your life it's an artifact of the past it's a record repository of everything you've learned and experienced to this date and you have a neurological Network for everything known in your environment your parents your friends your car your computer every object every person everything you have a neurological Network for your identity as your body from your past your Ambitions in your future your brain is a reflection of everything that's known and because you've experienced all these elements in your environment there's an emotion associated with it so you have an emotion associated with certain people different emotions associated with other people different emotions associated with other objects and things and other places in time so then there's so much research to show that when you put a person in the same environment and they see the same people and they go to the same places and they do the same things at their exact same time it's no longer their personalities creating their personal reality their personal reality is creating their personality their environment is controlling unconsciously or subconsciously the way they're thinking and the way they're feeling so when they see their co-worker when they see their friend when they see their parents they're seeing their parents their friends their co-workers in the neurological Network as a memory of the past and because every one of those people has an emotion associated with it they start feeling the emotion that's connected to them and now their state of being then is returning back to the past so then to change then is to be greater than your environment to think act and feel differently in the same conditions in your life that's called change and how does how would I do that wake from you know I walk in I see my parents Mom Dad dog house where I grew up in is there something that I do in that moment before that moment moment when I woke up that morning to make sure that I didn't slip off into the unconscious um memory and then for therefore get the sort of unconscious feelings about that experience well whatever it is that you want if it's if it's overeating I don't know I'm making stuff up if it's some emotional button that you have with your family and and you don't want to feel that way yeah I would rehearse that if I if I didn't want to have that if if you have a great if you're I mean I go when I go to my parents home when I when I got older it was all most of the associations were so fond for me just being at home and being with my parents and remembering where I grew up it was always fun for me and and coming back and see how much I changed in coming back and seeing the the life that I lived at one point you know one point in in my timeline so if it's something that you truly want to change you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to think you're going to you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to act you're going to remind yourself how you're not going to feel and you got to remind yourself enough time so you don't forget because the moment you forget you go unconscious then you're going to remind yourself how you are going to think you're going to remind yourself what you're going to do and rehearse it in your mind and you're going to remind yourself what feeling you want to stay in the entire time so you don't default back to the old self if you practice that I guarantee you'll make some progress if you lose it nothing wrong tomorrow's another day you got another chance and we just get really good at whatever we practice so then when you return back into your life and you say okay no person no place no thing No Object no circumstance no pain no craving is going to cause me to move from this state today I guarantee you if you're able to maintain that modified State of Mind and Body your entire day something unusual happen and will come in a way that you least expect that surprises you and leaves no doubt that what you're doing inside of you is producing some effect outside of you and the moment you see the feedback in your environment as a result of your internal change you're going to pay attention and do it again and you're going to start believing got it did I really create that did that really happen because of how I changed that's when the game really begins to become exciting practice practice I've been at it a long time I can tell practice yeah um people hear that they go Joe how long how much practice you know are you talking about uh I've got to I've got to do this for three four five years or you know and and that practice what does that look like practically for someone like me who hears everything you've just said and wants to make changes and kers of my life okay so there's two times when the door to the subconscious mind opens up when you wake up in the morning because your brain waves are going from Delta to Theta to Alpha to Beta when you go to bed at night you go from beta to Alpha Theta to Delta and you slip through that scale pretty quickly in the morning in the evening but your brain waves start to change during those times and and one of the features one of the important elements of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind and what separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind so 5% as we said is our conscious mind 95% is programmed subconsciously and if you're going to try to change yourself with your conscious mind you're outside the operating system so then you got to learn how to change your brain waves slow them down get beyond the analytical mind and enter the operating system where you can rewrite a program where you can make those changes and so learn how to do that practice learn how to do that and again it's not a big deal it's easy to learn and then once you can slow your brain waves down and you're more suggestible to what you're thinking now you can reprogram you can't do it with your conscious mind you can say I'm healthy I'm healthy I'm wealthy I'm wealthy I'm Unlimited I'm unlimited I'm happy I'm happy I'm whole unho and your body saying no you're not dude you're miserable you're unhappy that thought never makes it past the brain stem to reach the body right so it's important for us to in the morning or the evening instead of reaching for our cell 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will take place on Saturday September the 23rd 20 um 23 this year um all the details are at walk for the dot world so www.walk for theworld and I was reading about why you're doing this the words Community came up the words illusion of Separation came up yeah I think you know if you study the peace Gathering projects that have been done peer-reviewed articles of Peace Gathering projects when people come into a community they meditate on peace City the prime crime rates go down violence goes down car crashes car accidents go down economic growth goes up somehow there's a change in the in the collective but when the meditation ends in the peace Gathering proc ends the crime rate returns back to the same the you know the the car accidents and the violence return back to the same sealing value as it was before it's not enough to just uh pray it's time to be the prayer right so walking meditation we do in our community and we do a lot of them because you got to be able to walk as it you got to be able to do it with your eyes open doing it with your eyes closed is a practice so you can do it with your eyes open so you can demonstrate it demonstrate peace demonstrate love demonstrate um change for the world and so uh the walking meditations there's four types of meditations there's seated meditation we do a lot of that and that's traditional there's a standing and walking meditation and there's a lying down meditation we teach all of those but the standing and walking meditation is a great way to stand up for the world and decide if I change and have enough of us change we could actually change the world so meditation starts with our eyes closed standing up with our eyes closed and getting into an altered music changes we open our eyes and we walk as that change we embody that change we live that change we think about what we're going to leave behind for a new world what what what if I change what would be could I am I part of the whole could I affect the whole and so a person walks for a period of time they stop again they close their eyes they recalibrate they get back in that feeling they open their eyes and they walk again and so walking meditation is a great way for uh thousands and thousands of people from around the world to walk for change in the world and and and we have such compelling data about Collective networks of observers with brain and heart coherence that somehow when you have a random event generator in our in our ballrooms and people change their state and they have an intention that random events become less random and more intentional in other words a machine that's programmed to toss a coin a thousand times a second second multiple times a second the more you toss a coin the more you're going to get 50/50 right so if you if you have a machine in the room and and nobody's in the room you see just kind of this line stay right around the 50/50 mark But when you fill that room with people and they change their state and they have an intention all of a sudden you see that line break way out of normal and a program machine that's normally flipping zeros and ones starts behaving very differently it tells us that Collective networks begin to determine reality and it's not the number of people it's not the amount of energy you got have entropic energy it's the mo most coherent group of people so if we come together on one day and this will be one of many walks you leave everything behind bring your family bring your friends bring your co-workers bring your neighbors you never have to have done a meditation before we'll will'll guide people through it uh we'll give them the MP3 file and um we have just over 800 or 900 cities now from around the world uh that are from people from around the world that are participating and the numbers are growing so we don't know where it'll go but it's our first uh attempt to just say if we just could move the needle one degree and off that trajectory off that timeline just in another timeline then it served its purpose so so um yeah we're excited about it it's the first one and hopefully we'll do uh some more I'll put all the details below wherever you're listening to this so you can check it out is it I was wondering as you were speaking Joe I was was asking myself you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas and hypotheses about the world and the way humans are and the way the universe is do there exist beliefs in your head that you're too scared to share you mean beliefs that I have that that are from experience or beliefs that I have that I'm that are conjectures either both yeah I have a very strong belief that that um the probability of us seeing the truth and reality is zero I think that we perceive less than 1% of reality the the brain is missing out on a lot of data and I think that we should never exclude ourselves from the unknown you know I think there's a whole part of the unknown self that that we're unaware of that that I'm that I think exists Beyond linear uh time and space and I and I do believe that that it's real and and you don't know what that is oh I do yeah yeah I think it's a realm beyond space and time that that I think uh you know your eye right now is perceiving a very small spectrum of frequency visible light it's a very tiny slice in the electromagnetic uh spectrum and that visible light red orange yellow blue green indigo violet is is actually uh bouncing off of the slowest and most stable form of energy called matter and that gives us this perception of Separation right well that small spectrum is less than 1% of what we actually can perceive so I think that our senses plug us into reality into three-dimensional reality but I think there are realities that exist beyond space and time that we're unaware of that we can tap into yeah yeah I do and I think there are latent systems in the brain that once activated allows the brain to transduce that energy that frequency into profound uh information the psychedelics drug drugs work in in that in that way I think psychedelics uh give a person a perception of reality that's beyond three-dimensional reality we're discovering that the nervous system makes its own Pharmacy of psychedelics in fact we have really recent data that shows that um many people that have a mystical experience in our work that have fmis uh look like they're on psilocybin yeah and yet your nervous system is making that that that uh natural chemical endogenously and how were those mystical experiences triggered I'll give you the short version um there's a tiny little gland in the back of your brain called the pineal gland and the pineal gland has tiny little crystals inside of it that are stacked up on top of each other rhombohedron in shape and that little tiny gland acts like a radio receiver for electromagnetic frequencies and when those crystals be can can become activated uh like a radio receiver they can pick up frequencies that are beyond your senses the quantum and they can transduce it's called a transducer it can transduce that frequency like a TV antenna into profound imagery a very full-on sensory experience without your senses interesting explains a lot explains a lot my girlfriend always talks to me about the penal gland and DMT and you know and the power of everything you've just described I just want to remain open-minded because being closed-minded at any point in my life is not conducive with progress and growth so my my um desire in doing this podcast generally is just to learn from people that have New Perspectives on the nature of the world and to remain humble in the fact that I know very little so what you said at the end there about us knowing almost knowing zero about the nature of true reality or whatever that might mean I do believe I do believe that I know very little about the true nature of reality and my senses have deceived me whether it's in psychedelic States or other states so I'm very aware how the fragility of this experience or you know whether the truth is what I think it is yeah well um I think it only takes one mystical Moment One transcendental moment for us to realize that um we're missing out on a little bit of reality we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest leaves a question for the next guest without knowing who they're leaving a question for if you were made president oh boy of this country and you had to implement laws that would make Our Lives better wow what would you do and why Wow where do we [Laughter] start oh boy um well um I would consider education uh to be a much bigger priority for uh both people that teach uh that they're reward wed in a in a better way and the educational system to be uh more Socratic and more stimulating for uh people to question and and and to have healthy debates I think that's great um I would consider looking at the medical Model A little bit more and really look to see if healthc care is really uh helping people in this country uh I would find ways to uh unify uh uh different uh uh sects or or different uh uh organizations or bring them together bring them to the middle in some way I I I think uh standing up for principles in instead of politics is is a really healthy thing to do uh I'd probably try to figure out a way to reduce the debt to end War uh to find ways that we could coexist with countries um I'd certainly think a lot about artificial intelligence and decide if it was uh really really healthy for human beings uh I I would uh encourage in many ways uh different religions to come together and and find ways to to um to get along um I would spend a lot of time with regenerative agriculture in bringing life back to the soil and back to the Earth uh and figur out ways to help the the oceans and species that are passing and and to address uh healthy food food that is good for people that that is medicine for people Joe thank you for your work and thank you on behalf of all the people the millions of people all around the world that you're clearly helping without really even knowing it um I've never seen such profound testimonials in any you know in anything I've ever seen and also the reason why I actually have this on the table isn't because you asked to promote me I think your team actually said I didn't need to put on the table but it's because one of our members of our team um their elderly relative has been going through a lot of a lot of pain and struggle in their lives um and they read your book and it really really helped them this week oh that's great so they asked if they could you could get if I could get it signed on behalf of them absolutely which I think is a testament to to the impact you're having on people so thank you so much Joe it's an honor no thank you Stephen for all the work you do also I appreciate it it's funny every year around this time of year for whatever reason I go on a little bit of a psychological shift and that 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