Dr. Joe Dispenza on Quantum Physics, Meditation, Mornings & How to Control Your Brain & Thoughts!

Does your environment control your thinking, or does your thinking control your environment? If your environment is controlling your thinking, then all you're doing is responding to all the things in your world, and your reaction to your world is activating circuits in your brain for you to think equal to your environment. And if you're thinking equal to your environment, what are you creating? More of the same. Same environment. Do you guys believe that your thoughts have anything to do with your destiny? Every time you have a thought, you make a chemical, and that if you have great thoughts or unlimited thoughts or joyous thoughts you make chemicals that in a matter of seconds make you feel great or unlimited or joyful. In other words, this immaterial thing called thought fires in the brain, and the moment it fires in the brain, it makes chemicals for us to begin to feel exactly the way we were just thinking. And if you have negative thoughts or judgmental thoughts or self-depreciating thoughts, in a matter of seconds you begin to feel negative, or you begin to feel judgmental, or you begin to feel unworthy. That the thought then signals the body for us to begin to feel the way we think.

Dr. Joe Dispenza is a leading expert in the world of neuroscience and epigenetics. His transformational journey began after a brutal cycling accident when doctors told him that he would never walk again. He has since gone on to write several New York Times bestselling books, become one of the highest paid speakers in the world, and inspire millions of people globally with his story. In this exclusive speech from the Celebrate Your Life stage, Joe Dispenza shares powerful strategies to Create the life you want, raise your environment, and stop being a victim. Special thanks to Liz Dawn for partnering with us to release this exclusive content on our YouTube channel. Enjoy.

So how many people here saw the movie What the Belief Do We Know? Did you like that movie? You know, most people like that movie. You know why? Because it's about you. And you know, no matter where I travel in the world, the most common thing that people say to me is they always say the same thing. They always say, you know, that movie You know, it was about everything that I secretly already knew, but I didn't know how to put into words. How many people had that experience? And the beauty about the movie is that, you know, you can take different realms of quantum physics and science and neurophysiology and neurobiology and neuroendocrinology and receptor sites and genetics, and, you know, you can piece that all together in an understanding. And that's really what it does is it gives us permission to change. It gives us permission to do the uncommon. It gives us permission to accept things about ourselves that we can't find in the media, that we can't find on— in television. We can't find it. So the movie was kind of an amalgamation of beliefs and scientific understanding to help us understand more about ourselves. And it transcended culture and gender, it transcended race, your social status, your education. It basically said this: if you're alive, you're alive and your heart is beating and you have a brain, you can have control over your destiny. That every single person, independent of their background, their genetics, their gender, we all are given the right to create our life exactly the way we want. So then my question is, why do we keep creating the same things in our life? The same jobs, the same relationships, the same circumstances. You know, the quantum law still works in those cases. Why is that? Now, neuroscience will tell you that the brain is organized to reflect the environment. That every person, everything, every experience, every event you ever had in your life, at every place, at every time, is all mapped and patterned and organized in a very, very specific way, and that's how come you remember things. You remember them because your brain has a familiar association with everything in the external world. You guys with me? So now, if we believe that our thoughts have anything to do with our destiny, or that our thoughts have anything to do with our future, if we allow the environment to cause us to think by reacting to the same people in the same circumstances in the same place with the same events, would you agree that the environment is causing us to think? And if the environment is causing us to think because we remember or recognize familiar things, We're never thinking greater than the environment. To change, to truly change, is to think and act greater than your environment, to think and act greater than the conditions in your world. And that's what we secretly love about our heroes, those people who had an idea, who had a vision, had a dream, and they lived that dream as if it was already happening. And they did it consistently. Even though they couldn't smell it or taste it or feel it or hear it or see it, to them it was alive in their mind. You know, that's the privilege of being a human being. The privilege of being a human being is we can make thought more real than anything else. And because of that, we can actually have the brain ahead of the environment. So my question is this: does your environment control your thinking? Or does your thinking control your environment? Which is it? If your environment is controlling your thinking, then all you're doing is responding to all the things in your world, and your reaction to your world is activating circuits in your brain for you to think equal to your environment. And if you're thinking equal to your environment, what are you creating? More of the same. Same environment. Quantum law still works in that case. So then how do we think ahead of the environment? How do we begin then to have the brain and the mind exist ahead of the environment? Do you guys believe that your thoughts have anything to do with your destiny? If we accept that then, if we accept that as a group then, then we have to begin to understand how then we can create the experiences without having the environment tricking us into believing what's happening out there is more real than what's happening in here. So my next question is: Can you believe in a future that you can't experience with your senses, but you've thought about it enough times in your mind that it's now patterned and mapped in your brain? Because if you can, then the brain is no longer a record of the past, but in fact a map to the future. Now quantum physics says this very simply: the environment, everything out there, is an extension of the mind. Now would you agree that if you changed your mind, there should be something different in your environment? Come on, you believe that? I live by that law. I wouldn't go about making personal changes without looking for some reflection in my world. And I want it to come in a way that surprises me. I want it to come in a way that's unusual, unfamiliar. I want it to come in a way that leaves no doubt that it came from a greater mind, so that my acceptance of having a relationship with the quantum field is as real as any relationship that I have. So if we accept then that the environment is an extension of our mind, how then do we have The environment reflects our mind. If it's continuously causing us to think in predictable and familiar ways, we have to learn knowledge. We have to learn information. The reason that the Bleep was so inspiring for so many people is it talked to possibility. It talked to potential. Everybody secretly believes in their own greatness. Do you know that? Everybody secretly believes in their own potential. Everybody thinks that they can secretly do a better job in life. And yet, why do we talk ourselves out of greatness every single day? Why do we do that? You know, one of the greatest moments in my life is when I realized that just because I have a thought doesn't necessarily mean it's true. The moment I had that understanding, I was able to develop this concept for myself that neuroscience calls metacognition. And metacognition means you can observe your thoughts and actions without actually being them. And that's the blessing of being a human being. The fact that we can observe our thoughts and observe our actions means then that we can modify our behavior, change our actions, change our thoughts so that we can do a better job in life. So here's the question: if you can observe your own thoughts and your own actions, who's doing the observing of your thoughts and actions? Who is that? That is that immaterial aspect of ourselves that inhabits a brain and body to produce mind, that we are conscious beings. So, but every time we learn knowledge, every time we learn any bit of information, we make a new connection in the brain. Learning is making new synaptic connections, making new circuits. Remembering is maintaining or sustaining those connections. So every time you learn something new, The brain upscales its hardware and makes a new circuit. And tomorrow I'll show pictures of what that looks like. So, do you think that if you learn something new that you would perceive reality differently? How many people think that you would perceive it differently if you learn new information? So if I put a picture of a Monet painting up on the screen there and I said, "Isn't that a beautiful picture? Water lilies." Everybody would say, "Oh yeah, ooh, that's really beautiful." But then if I took the slide down and I said, "Do you guys know anything about Monet? Do you know that he spent 40 years of his life trying to see things differently and that he was fascinated with color? He loved the color first thing in the morning at sunrise and that color at twilight hour at dusk, and he tried to capture those pastels." and those colors in his paintings for the simple reason that he thought people never appreciated nature. And if they saw it in his paintings, they would look for it in their lives. And he was known to say things like, "The wisteria and the bridge are one and the same." And his parents owned a textile mill, and he was fascinated. He would sit and watch the colored threads go back and forth and produce different patterns. And he wanted to paint like that, that seamless painting. And as he got older, he developed cataracts, thick protein coats over his eyes. And as he began to look into the light to paint, the cataracts diffused the light. And he started to paint in that pixelated fashion. And when the doctor said to him, "Hey Claude, you know, we can remove the protein coatings, you have cataracts," you know what he said, didn't you? He said, "Are you nuts?" It took me 44 years of my life to see this way. Now, if I put that picture back up on the screen, would you see it differently? Yes. Did that picture change? No. What changed? Our perception. Our mind changed. Because as soon as we made that new circuit, we forced the brain to begin to fire in new sequences, in new patterns, and in new combinations. And we make the brain work differently, we're literally making a new mind. Mind is the brain in action. Mind is the brain at work. Mind is what the brain does. So as we learn knowledge and we learn information, we're able to perceive what already always existed, but our brain wasn't even wired to see it. Now, do you think you may do that a little bit in your life? You know, fill in reality based on your memory? I do it. You know, because if you saw the bleep and you saw this woman and she looked what? She looked handicapped, right? And she had a hearing problem and she was deaf and she had a speech impediment and you felt sorry for her and you thought she was handicapped, right? But very quickly you learned something else. She was even more handicapped than that. Why? Because she had a very, very traumatic experience that she would consider traumatic, and that traumatic event caused her to perceive reality based on the emotional reaction that she had, and she filtered everything through that emotional experience. Would you agree? So she became addicted to her emotions, and she couldn't think greater than how she felt. She couldn't perceive reality any other way. You know, if you took a group of people that were depressed and you showed them equal slides of a wedding scene and a funeral scene, and after they saw the slides and you said to them, "Which slides were there more of?" You know what the depressed people say, right? "Oh, way more funeral scenes." If you take the person who's well-adjusted and happy and you show them equal slides of a wedding scene and a funeral scene, they always remember the wedding scene. So we perceive reality based on how we're chemically feeling. And so what happens is, is that we have traumatic events in our life. Now the end product of every experience or every event is called an emotion. Emotions mark experiences and they color the flavor of an experience. And the reason that we can remember experiences better is because we can remember how they felt. Remember where you were on 9/11? You can remember where you were because you can remember how you felt. Remember your first kiss? How about your first "Mm-hmm"? You remembered that, huh? You can remember that because it was a new feeling. And the new feeling created and was a result of a new experience and a new emotion. And so what happens when we have traumatic events, the events catch all of the brain's attention. And the brain then thinks about the event, and every time we rethink the event over, we produce the same chemistry. As the event. So we think the event, we think and then we feel, we think and then we feel, we think and then we feel, we think and then we feel, and then we say, "Forget the thinking, I'm just gonna feel." And then the feeling becomes the means of thinking. And so then we say we have this personality trait: "I'm sad," or "I'm angry," or "I hate men," or "I'm poor," or whatever it is that we decide about ourselves based on our feeling. And we do it all the time. That becomes what's called a personality trait. You see, you have an emotional reaction to something. That emotional reaction creates an enormous rush of chemicals. And that rush of chemicals then catches our attention so that we can become aware. We can then associate that external thing outside of us from this internal change. And when we can recognize that external stimulation with this internal chemical change, we notice what's causing this internal change, and that's called a memory. You guys with me? Hello? You with me? So then once you begin to feel that feeling and you have that emotional reaction, if you keep that emotional reaction going on for hours or days, you know what that's called? That's called a mood. You have a mood. You know, I'm moody. Well, that just means you had an emotional reaction and that refractory period of chemicals you thought were so real that you didn't think you had control over. So then if you keep that mood going for weeks or months, what's that called? That's called a temperament. Ooh, she or he's just temperamental. But same emotion that's still defining the same mood, which is related to same emotional reaction. And then if you can keep that temperament going for years, that's called a personality trait. Oh, he's just angry. Oh, she's just insecure. But you see, it all started from the emotional reaction. Now, there's nothing wrong with emotional reactions. That colors the flavor of life. But those emotional reactions then that we think that are so real— in the West, we think emotions are real. If we let that emotional reaction, that refractory period, continue on, and we mismanage our emotions, they produce moods and then temperaments, and ultimately personality traits. So you see this woman in "The Bleep" who is viewing reality based on her emotional state, and in fact, she's viewing reality based on how her brain is wired. You know, if you took a group of people and you gave them a set of lenses to wear, and if they looked to the left they saw blue, and if they looked to the right they saw yellow, and you had them wear these lenses in everything they did, all their routine activities—go to work, go to school, take your kids out, do all your chores, and then you took them off when you went to bed and you put them back on, that the studies have proven that those people, after 2 weeks, when you bring them into the laboratory and you say, "Look to the left, what color do you see?" You know what they all say? "We don't see a color. There's no color there." You say, "Well, no, no, you should see blue." They say, "We don't see a color." "Look to the right, what color do you see?" "We don't see yellow. We don't see anything." The scientists began to realize that in fact it's not the eyes that see, It's the brain, because if it was the eyes, it would just be an objective lens. And that in fact, those people were filling in reality based on their memory. They were overlaying the external reality based on what they were thinking about, and they were filling it in based on their past memories. And we do it all the time. So then, why is it, if the quantum field says that our thoughts have something to do with our destiny, that our observation of a reality, that if we keep observing the same reality, even though we can't experience it with our our senses, if we keep our mind intentional on an outcome, that quantum physics says that ultimately there's a possibility that potential universe will unfold. If we can think any thought to control our destiny, why is it so hard to think differently? Why is it so hard to begin to think in new ways? Now, you know that every time you have a thought, you make a chemical, and that if you have great thoughts or unlimited thoughts or joyous thoughts, you make chemicals that in a matter of seconds make you feel great or unlimited or joyful. In other words, this immaterial thing called thought fires in the brain, and the moment it fires in the brain, it makes chemicals for us to begin to feel exactly the way we were just thinking. And if you have negative thoughts or judgmental thoughts or self-depreciating thoughts, in a matter of seconds you begin to feel negative, or you begin to feel judgmental. Or you begin to feel unworthy, that the thought then signals the body for us to begin to feel the way we think. Now here's the bad news: the moment we begin to feel the way we think, because the brain is in constant communication with the body and it's regulating its internal state all the time, the moment we begin to feel unworthy, we begin to think the way we feel, which makes more chemicals for us to feel the way we think, and think the way we feel, and feel the way we think, until we create what's called a state of being. And if we continue to think and feel, feel and think, think and feel, feel and think, this cycle of thinking and feeling— if we can't think greater than how we feel, we'll never change. To change is to think greater than how we feel. And this cycle of thinking and feeling, and feeling and thinking, creates feelings as a means of thinking. When feelings become the means of thinking, We've stopped learning. So now let's just say, okay, a person says, "Okay, I want to change. I want to be a happy person." Why is it that when a person says, "I want to be happy, I want to be healthy, I want to be free," that an hour later they're sitting on the couch with the remote control eating bonbons? I mean, what happened? In a sense— but the truth is, is let's just suppose that you have thoughts of suffering. Let's just suppose that you've been unhappy for 20 years. Now, you've been thinking and feeling, feeling and thinking, thinking and feeling unhappy thoughts, and those chemicals begin to condition the body. And those chemicals, as they continuously condition the body, the repetition of those chemicals begin to teach the body to know what the mind knows. So 20 years of thinking and feeling and feeling and thinking has conditioned the body to be unhappy. The person then says, "I declare that I want to be happy." But how's the body been trained for the last 20 years? It's been trained so well by the mind that the body has become the mind. And a habit is when the body becomes the mind. So then the person says, "I wanna be happy, I wanna be healthy, I wanna live in joy." But, you know, the body being trained and conditioned over that time only knows to be the servant to the mind. It only knows what the mind has taught it. And as a matter of fact, if you train it really well, guess what happens? We get to go to sleep. The master leaves the servant in control. And so now the master wakes up and says, "I want to be happy," and the servant says, "Are you joking? I've been running the show here for the last 20 years." And as we continuously do that, the body gets so conditioned that it knows it better than the mind and the brain. And there are brain systems in place that we'll talk about at the end here to show you what I mean. How many people here, you know, you can't remember a phone number, you know, you can't remember it and you pick up the phone and you do this and you dial the number? I mean, what's up with that? You couldn't consciously remember it, right? But you've practiced it so many times now that the body knows better than the brain. Well, that is the state of our personality. Neuroscience and psychology says that our personality is closed off or finite by the time we're 35 years old, which means that we have a bag of repetitive programs that we get to use in any circumstance, which means we're not going to change how we're going to act or behave or think. In any circumstance, we're going to behave in predictable ways. Those unconscious programs are that the fact that we've conditioned the body to know as well as the mind, that the mind doesn't even have to be present for the body to do what it does. And if you look at a functional brain scan of someone who's mastered a skill or behavior, it takes very little thinking for them to do that. Their conscious awareness is gone. So how awake are we? So now the person says, "I want to be happy. I want to be healthy. I want to live in joy." But the body's been conditioned to do something else, so they then say, "That's it." I'm gonna do it. No more blaming. No more complaining. No longer making any excuses. If you're Italian, no more self-pity. If you're Jewish, no more guilt. No more guilt. If you're— I'm not gonna do that. Not with Liz and Jamie and Ariel here. No more guilt. So you're gonna all of a sudden no longer think and act the same way. Would you agree? That's what change is, to think and act differently in the same circumstances. So all of a sudden you're stopping the same thoughts which initiate the same actions. And the body, which has been the mind for 20 years, all of a sudden the body goes like this: "Now what is she doing up there?" We've been so used to the same chemical bath of thinking and feeling. Suffering has become such a way that all of a sudden you're going to stop 'You're going to just stop that? We've even modified our receptor sites for you.' So the cells of the body say this. They say, 'We can't have this. Let's huddle up. Let's get together.' So they all huddle up and they say, 'Let's send a message back to the brain to tell it who's boss.' So very quickly there goes a message right up the central nervous system, right back to the brain, causes the brain to fire. I call that the fast track, right up the spinal cord, back to the brain, letting the brain know that the body's in chemical disorder. The chemical continuity between thinking and feeling has been broken, and it's letting the brain know that the body is in discomfort. It's uncomfortable. Then the chemistry in the bloodstream is starting to change, and the part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which is like the thermostat, notices that the chemistry starts to change, and it wants to signal the brain to bring the chemistry back to normal. I call that the slow track. So it starts signaling the brain for you to begin to think in familiar ways. And the next thing you know, you know what happens, don't you? You start to hear that little subvocalization in your head, that little chatter that says, "You can start tomorrow." "This isn't a good idea. Today is not a good idea. Tomorrow is a better day." Or any other time but this time. See, this is a good reason to suffer. Of course, my favorite is, you know what, this just doesn't feel right. And the moment you respond to that thought, consciousness immerses itself back in the neural architecture, and you then begin to think and feel, and everything returns back to status quo. So to change then is to pull the mind out of the body and put it back in the brain. It's to recondition the body. See, when we have the mind and the body working together, the heart is open. But so many times when people want to change, they've taught their body to be one thing and their mind wants something else. And so to change then is to think greater than how we feel. How many people here today woke up in the morning and had an intentional thought before they started their day about how they wanted their day to go or their life to be? Reviewed their goals? You know why most people don't do that? Because they don't think it's possible. If you knew it was true, would you ever miss a day? And you know the other reason, of course? You just don't feel like it. So when we begin to use feelings as a barometer for change, as long as we use feeling as a barometer for change, we'll always always talk ourselves out of greatness. And those voices that happen every single day, we believe that they're in fact true. But what they really are are just memories from the past that keep reminding us how we've conditioned the body to be the mind. Now, how many people here know someone in their world that insists on suffering? Or listen, I've been this person, and you say to them, "Hey, did you read that book that I gave you? Wasn't it a great book?" "No." "Did you listen to the tape of the lecture?" "No." "Well, listen, we're gonna go have some drinks, and we're gonna go to dinner, we're gonna go watch some stand-up comedy, and then we're gonna go meet up with some other friends and do— you wanna come?" No. Now what that person's saying is, "My internal chemical state is greater than my external world." And the mastery is, when you master something, your internal order is greater than your external environment, and nothing can move you from that internal order. So would you agree that that person is a master of suffering? Nothing could break them from that state. They're insisting on that chemical state so well that they're thinking greater than their environment. No person, no place, no thing, no circumstance can move them from that state. Would you agree? So they're greater than their environment. They've mastered suffering, and nothing's going to move them from that. Do you think it's possible then to begin to learn new information, apply it, have a new experience, repeat some experiences, focus on joy, create a state of joy, and the same brain systems are in place so that you can insist on joy and nothing from your environment can move you from that? You think that's possible? We have the same brain systems in place to do that. You see, we have 3 brains in 1. 3 brains in 1. And those 3 brains all have a specific assignment. One brain is for thinking, one brain is for doing, and one brain is for being. Thinking, doing, being. Now, when we learn something new, we're thinking. We're learning new information. You're listening to me right now with your thinking brain, and as you're forcing your brain to work in new ways, you're making new circuits and you're literally making a new mind. But it's not enough to just think about it. You actually have to apply what you learn. You have to personalize it. You have to demonstrate it. You have to teach the body what the mind has learned. When you get up and you apply it and you personalize it, you have to modify your behavior so that you can have a new experience. And that new experience then will have a new emotion. And now we have two brain systems working together. We have the emotional brain now teaching the body what it intellectually learned. But it's not enough to have the experience once. You can't read a book on compassion and Mother Teresa and then forgive your mother-in-law and then expect to be canonized as a saint. It doesn't work that way. You have to be able to repeat the experience over and over again. And when you can repeat the experience over and over again, you're teaching the body to know better than the brain. And now you have all 3 brain systems working together in that state of being that the mystics talked about that was so elusive, saying "being it." What they were talking about was having the mind and the body working together. See, knowledge is for the mind, experience is for the body. If we have knowledge and we don't apply it or personalize it, that's philosophy. Knowledge without experience is philosophy. Experience without knowledge is ignorance. So we have to then prepare the body and the brain ahead of the experience. And if we can prepare the brain and the body ahead of the experience, then the experience finds us. Do you think that's possible? Okay, I'm gonna give you an example. They took this— they did this experiment. They took a group of people that never played the piano, right? And they divided them into 4 different categories, and they were gonna teach these people one-handed finger exercises, scales and chords. And they were gonna come and practice for 2 hours a day for 5 days. So they're gonna play for 2 hours a day for 5 days. They're gonna learn these one-handed scales and chords. They're gonna do a scan of their brain before. And do a scan of the brain after. Now check it out. The first group of people, they say, "Here's the scales and chords. Come and practice these scales and chords every single day." And at the end of 5 days, they rescan their brain, and guess what happens? They grow a whole new set of circuits on the opposite side of their brain. Does that make sense? You learn something new— learning's making new connections— you can demonstrate it, you reinforce those connections, you can repeat it— repetition seals them together— and if you pay attention, Your awareness then helps to make it happen faster. So they learned something, they applied it, they had an experience, they repeated the experience, and they paid attention, they grew new circuits. Second group of people, they said, "Come for 2 hours a day for 5 days. Listen, we're not gonna teach you any scales and chords. Play whatever you want." At the end of 5 days, guess what happened to them? Not a lot. You know why? They didn't learn anything, so they didn't make any new connections. They didn't get any instruction. They couldn't repeat it 'cause they couldn't remember what they did the day before, and they weren't paying attention as well because they had no map to follow. So they grew very little brain circuits here. Third group of people, you know what they said? Don't even show up. In other words, don't learn anything new and don't do anything differently. And guess what happened to their brain? Stayed exactly the same. Last group of people, they said, come for 2 hours a day for 5 days. We'll scan your brain before, we'll scan your brain after. But listen, instead of actually physically playing the scales and chords, we want you to close your eyes and mentally rehearse playing them. Close your eyes and play them in your mind. And we'll have a metronome going, and we'll poke you with a broomstick, but stay awake. And at the end of 5 days, when they scan their brain, guess what happened? They grew the same amount of circuits as the people who actually physically performed the scales and chords, which means that they changed their brain just by thinking about it. And so what it really meant, when I read the article, I thought, when we're truly focused and we're truly paying attention, The brain does not know the difference between what's happening out there and what's happening in here. That the thought becomes the experience in and of itself. And as they were mentally rehearsing, check this out, they began to rewire their brain in new ways, and their brain and their mind was ahead of the experience. As they mentally rehearsed the scales and chords, their brain and mind was already mapping the experience before they had the experience. The brain and the mind thought they were having the experience. Now the brain and the mind is ahead of the environment. So you may say, "Well, that's really good, but how is that going to affect the body and how is that ultimately going to affect your environment?" So they did another experiment where they took a group of people and they said— these were college sophomores, by the way— "Come for an hour a day and pull this spring for an hour a day for 4 weeks." And of course these kids came for an hour a day and they pulled the spring, and at the end of 4 weeks they tested the muscle. To see what they were doing, to see if it improved. And of course, there was a resistance on the muscle, and the muscle became stronger because every time they did the activity, the muscle fibers broke down, the muscle fibers grew back bigger, and because there were bigger proteins, it could handle a bigger load. That's normal physiology, right? 30% increase in muscle strength from doing that. So they took another group of people and they said, come for, you know, an hour a day for 4 weeks and mentally rehearse pulling the spring. Don't actually do it, never touch it. But just pull it in your mind. At the end of 4 weeks, these people had a 22% increase in muscle strength and they never touched the spring. Now, how do you explain that to your mother? Would you agree then that they did it enough times that now the body was ahead of the experience also? Now the brain, the mind, and the body were all ahead of the experience. Now, if the brain, the mind, and the body are ahead of the experience, and mind and body are working together, it would make sense that when they actually have the experience, they have the opportunity to finally pull the spring, wouldn't you agree that it would reflect what their mind had been thinking about? They had an increase in strength, and it wasn't because the muscle was stronger. It was because their mind was stronger. Now listen, I read these boring scientific articles, you know, terrible, and I have to stand up and walk around and read them because, you know, I'll pass out on the couch if I don't. But I have this little Italian mother that I love to talk to, and I always think if I can explain all this stuff to my little Italian mother, then anybody should be able to understand it. So sometimes when I'm driving with her in the car, I go over for dinner, I always say, "Ma, Ma, I want to talk to you about something." She says, "No, no, I don't want to hear it." She says, "Not today, I don't want to know." I don't want to know any of that stuff. But the law in neuroscience is this: nerve cells that fire together wire together. It's called Hebbian learning. And if you repeat a thought, an action, a behavior, a skill over and over again with awareness, with attention, neurons tend to gang up. And as you keep doing it over and over again, over and over again, over and over again, over and over again, those nerves begin to release a Miracle-Gro, a chemical, a fertilizer, to cause neurons to become more enriched and to sprout new connections. And now as they flourish, you have a more enriched set of circuits which then send a stronger signal down the spinal cord, and that stronger mind— it was their mind that moved the spring because there was neurology in place to support the action. So here's my question: What do you mentally rehearse all day long? And what do you physically demonstrate all day long? In other words, mental rehearsal is thinking. What do you think about all day long? Physical rehearsal is action. How do you behave and how do you act? Because how we mentally rehearse all day and how we physically demonstrate our actions is who we are on a neurological level. That is who we are as an identity, as a personality. So then you would agree then, by thinking the same thoughts and repeating the same actions, the brain wouldn't change? Would you agree? And when someone says, "Think outside the box," well, there's no box in your brain. But in fact, if you keep firing the same thoughts and performing the same actions, over and over again, and nerve cells that fire together wire together, would you agree that those circuits will become more finite and more enriched, and it will begin to cause the brain to work in a very finite pattern? So then to think outside the box is to force the brain to fire in new sequences, in new patterns, in new combinations. And the way we do that is we learn information, because information is the raw material for us to begin to mix the brain up. To begin to work in new possibilities, new ideas, new potentials. And then as we begin to think outside the box, the brain has this unique way, because of this part of our brain called the frontal lobe, which is 40% of our entire brain. It's the latest piece of neurology that we own. It's the latest on the scene. And the frontal lobe is the architect, it's the executive, it's the boss, it's the symphony leader. It has connections to all other parts of the brain. And we begin to think about possibilities. As we begin to think about potentials, as we start to speculate, "How can I do better? How can I modify my behavior to do a better job? What do I have to change about myself to be different? How can I do it differently to get a different result and that new experience to create a new emotion? How do I do that?" The moment you begin to ask those questions, that part of the brain finally wakes up. And what it does is it uses all the existing circuits in there of everything you learned and everything you experienced, and it begins to seamlessly piece it together for you to come up with a new design, a new idea, a new vision. That in the brain, the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. And because we can make the brain work in so many patterns and sequences and combinations, we can make so many levels of mind. So then, is it possible to reinvent yourself? Is it possible? If you asked yourself in the morning— and this is a question I ask myself in the morning— what is the greatest ideal of myself that I can be today? That's the question I ask myself. And if you asked yourself that question and you began to mentally rehearse, think about, just like the piano players, would you be making a new mind? But, you know, then you have to get up and live it, right? You gotta teach the body what the mind has learned. And at the end of your day, if you said, "How did I do?" and then you began to see how you can modify your behavior to do a better job, and you began to think about how you could do it differently, would you be mentally rehearsing again? And would you be preparing the brain ahead of the experience? And if you did it enough times, would you be preparing the body ahead of the experience so that the body wouldn't react in reflexive, automatic ways, but in fact you would have the hardware in place to begin to modify your behavior right in the midst of the experience, because the brain already had the experience. Would you agree? So, you know, by the way, that 75 to 90% of every person that winds up in a healthcare facility in the United States winds up because of a stress-related disorder, winds up there because of a stress-related disorder. You know that, right? And stress is your reaction to the environment, right? Stress is when something happens in your environment, something happens in your world, and that, that event knocks the body out of normal homeostasis. It knocks it out of balance. The stress response is when we bring it back to normal balance again.

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But if we keep knocking the body out of homeostatic balance, it recalibrates to a new balance, which is an imbalance. And that's called disease. Now, we as human beings have this beautiful ability to remember just about everything, right? We remember a lot of stuff. And because we can remember events that happened in the past, you know what we can do? We can prepare for the event that's going to happen ahead of time. And as we begin to think about the event before it happens, we begin to prepare the body for the experience before it happens. Chemically. In other words, we turn on the stress response just by thought alone. And if we keep turning on the stress response just by thought alone, it creates what's called chronic stress. And when we turn on that stress response by thought alone and we can't turn it off, now we're headed for disease. And if I had the time, I could show you that every single adult onset disease is created from the imbalance from stress. Now, do you think that if you could create disease just by those chemicals of survival that push the genetic buttons that activate the same conditions as your parents, do you think then that if you can make yourself sick by your thoughts, you can make yourself well by your thoughts? They did this experiment where they took these people that were Type 2 diabetics. You know what Type 2 diabetes is? Diabetes is when your pancreas stops making insulin. Insulin, right? And so when you have diabetes, there's a problem with the communication between the pancreas and the liver in type 2 diabetes. So the blood sugar tends to go up after you eat a meal. And when your blood sugar goes up after a meal, insulin usually is squirted into the bloodstream, and insulin takes all that sugar, liquid energy, and deposits it into the cells so the cells have energy to do all their functions. So with diabetics, they don't have the insulin to bring the sugar out of the blood, so their glucose levels stay kind of high. and it makes them toxic, and it makes them sick. So the normal ranges for a healthy person that's non-diabetic, their blood values are between about 70 mg/dL and about 120 mg/dL. So between 70 and 120. Now to regulate that, people who have diabetes, they have to take insulin either orally or they have to take an injection after a meal to bring it back down to normal, to help get that sugar into the cells. And if they don't, they get really sick. So they did this experiment with type 2 diabetics. They took a group of people and they said, "Okay, listen. We're going to take a fasting blood sugar level. What's your blood sugar fasting? Then we're going to have you watch a humorous lecture for 1 hour, and the other group's going to watch a comedy show. Then we're going to feed you a big meal, and then we're going to take your postprandial, your after-meal blood sugar, to see where your blood sugar is after a meal." Diabetics, you know, they're going to get up above 180 and way up to— could be up to 600 and they're in big trouble, right? So the people who watched the humorous lecture, after their meal they got their blood sugar levels tested. It was 122 mg/dL. That's what? A few degrees above normal, right? The people who watched the comedy show? 77 mg/dL. So genes, by the way, you know, your body is a protein-producing machine. That's what it does. It produces proteins. Muscle cells make muscle proteins. It's called actin and myosin. Skin cells make skin protein. It's called collagen and elastin. Stomach cells make stomach proteins. They're called enzymes. So the body is a protein-producing machine. And the way our genes are turned on is our genes turn on. When genes are turned on, they're making proteins. But, you know, they used to think that genes were like, you know, static things, that your genes cause disease. And then, you know, 25 years ago someone said, "Well, that's really not true. It's really the environment for the majority of us that activates the genes that causes disease." Now there's a few geneticists that are saying, you know, in fact it's the reaction to the environment and our internal environment that then pushes the genetic buttons that cause disease. Disease. So they're saying disease are like, they're like on/off switches, like light switches. And these people who had diabetes and their blood sugar was within normal levels, they turned on some 24 genes just by joy. Why is it when a person gets stressed out or a stressful event happens, how come their hair can turn gray overnight? That's genes at work. And that's how fast they can work. So they turned on some 24 genes just by producing a state of joy. And their body regulated back to normal. So here's a little chart I just want to go over with you. This is— nobody panic, there's some big words up here. Now this is for the men. No, I'm kidding. So we have two types of memory systems in the brain. One is called declarative memories. Now declarative memories are memories that you can declare. I know that I'm a man. I know that I like garlic mashed potatoes. I know that I was born on the East Coast. I know a few things about neuroscience. I pay taxes on April 15th. I wear a size 9 shoe. I know these things because I've learned them or I experienced them. And I can declare them. So the first type of memory is called declarative memories and are just simply memories that you can declare. And they're made up of two things: facts and events, knowledge and experience. So when you learn something new, every time you learn it, you wire it in your thinking brain. That's what learning is. So you learn new things— philosophy, information— you're making connections in your thinking brain. Not enough to just think about it. We actually have to apply it now. We have to personalize it. We have to demonstrate it. And we can apply it, personalize it, or demonstrate it. Now we're gonna have a new experience or a new event. And that new event then is going to create a new emotion because we said emotions and feelings are the end product of experience. We're going to teach the body what the mind has learned. So now we're going to get the body involved, and when we do that, now we unify two brains: the thinking brain and the feeling brain, or the neocortex and the limbic brain, or the min-brain. Now you have two brains working together, finally. Now, to get people to go from thinking Thinking to doing is like herding cats. Most people love to stay in that intellectual realm without actually having to apply it, right? Now, if you can repeat the experience once, or you can make it happen once, it's not enough. You have to be able to do it at will. You have to be able to replicate it. You have to be able to repeat it. You have to be able to do it over and over again. And when we can do any experience over and over again, now we develop a second type of memory system called a non-declarative memory system, or what we call implicit memory or procedural memory. It's unconscious. How many people know here that— know someone here that's done something really well in their life and you say to them, "How in God's name did you do that?" What do they say? "I don't know. I've done it so many times I don't even think about it anymore." Right? Well, when we can do it enough times and repeat it, it becomes subconscious or it becomes unconscious. Now, in fact, those are the things that are like skills and habits. They're behaviors, things called priming or emotional reactions. All our conditionings, all our associative memories now take place in the unconscious realm here. Now, these habits and skills, by the time we're 35, this is who we are as a person. We're in the habit of being ourselves. To change is to break the habit of being yourself, and that takes an act of will. That takes an act of paying attention, becoming conscious. Now, and if we can repeat it over and over again, now we have all three brains working together. We have the cerebellum, the midbrain, and the neocortex all working together. And now when we move into this state of being, now it's automatic. It's second nature. It's easy. It's familiar. It's common. It takes no effort. So you can understand then why someone would declare, who's been unhappy, experienced the same emotions for 20 years, and has conditioned the body to suffer, they can declare that they want to be happy. "Yay! I want to be happy. I'm going to start being happy today." But how's the body been trained? The body is the servant to the mind, and if we keep the same thoughts and actions going repeatedly, the body becomes the mind. And when the body becomes the mind, now it's the master, and the master goes to sleep, and the servant does business the way it wants to. So then when we begin to change, then wouldn't it be a good idea— would you agree that if you were going to change, if you began to mentally rehearse, as you began to think about what you wanted to do, who you wanted to become, what would it be like to be happy, what would I have to change about myself, who in history do I admire that I want to be like, what's the greatest ideal of myself, how could I live in joy, where do I fall from grace? And as you began to think and plan your actions, do you think you would be doing the same thing as the piano players? In fact, you would begin to prepare the brain and the body for the experience. That's meditation. The word meditation You know what the word meditation means in Tibetan? You know the word, what it means in Tibetan? The word meditation literally means to become familiar with. To become familiar with. So if you became familiar with all of your shortcomings and you sat around and thought about what you had to unlearn, your emotional reactions, your emotional addictions, your behaviors, and you were able to observe your thoughts and actions and make what was unconscious conscious, would you be meditating? Come on, you guys. So you would be coming familiar with your unconscious states, bringing it to conscious awareness. And if you began to then mentally rehearse a new way of being, a new way of thinking, a new way of acting, and you began to plan how you want to think and act in those same circumstances, to think greater than your environment, and you repeated it enough times till it became familiar, would you be meditating? Did we just demystify meditation? Because meditation literally means to become familiar with. The Buddhists, when they talk about meditation, they talk about observing your limited states, becoming familiar with them so you don't go unconscious during the day and fall into those habitual states. And repeat them so many times, think about it so many times, that it becomes conscious again. Now you have control over it. And then as you begin to get the antidote— the Buddhists talk about the antidote— and the antidote is the new state of mind: loving-kindness, compassion, forgiveness. And you begin to learn the knowledge of what that is, and you begin to close your eyes and contemplate and meditate and think about compassion. And you did it enough times and repeated enough times, just like the piano players, would you begin to become familiar with that state of mind called compassion? And if you repeated it enough times, wouldn't it be the platform in which you warmed your brain up at the beginning of the day so you would work from those circuits instead of the old self? So to change then really is to unlearn certain things about ourselves and make conscious what is unconscious and then relearn a new state of mind so that in fact we can become a new person, to be reborn again. The word meditation in Sanskrit literally means to cultivate, to cultivate self. So how else are— how else is a holy man going to come down from the Himalayas and be in the fields with the farmers and use a word that they could understand? To cultivate up the old self, to dig it up, and then to cultivate a new self, to plant a new self. And so we have 3 brain systems in place that allow us to go from thinking to doing to being. MIND, BODY, SOUL. Mental rehearsal, physical rehearsal, identity self. Neocortex, midbrain, cerebellum. And the biggest problem with people when it comes to change, they're thinking one thing but their body's conditioned to do something else. And what we do in the midst of change is we begin to rehearse a new person or a new way of being. Most people don't prepare the brain and the body ahead of time. So they get back into their environment, it takes one thought, one reaction, and the next thing you know they're back to the unconscious self. Head in the refrigerator looking for the Häagen-Dazs. And they have no idea how they got there. How did that happen? So if we began to say at the beginning of every day, "What is the greatest ideal of myself that I can be today? Can I be patient with everybody?" Can I be present? Can I lead by example? Can I surrender to a greater mind? Can I trust in an outcome that I can't experience with my senses, but I— it lives in my mind? Can I stay with everybody and see them as equals? And you began to go down that list like memorizing scales and chords. We're beginning to make a new mind. And the more we do that, the easier it gets, because remember, nerve cells that fire together wire together. And then if we were able to stay conscious and demonstrate that, that greatest ideal, wouldn't we be teaching the body what we intellectually already knew? And the more we reviewed it, wouldn't you agree that just like the people pulling the spring, the more the body would begin to become conditioned by the mind? And would you agree now that the mind and body may start working together? So that now as the mind and body begin to work together, the mind and the body have an internal state that is greater than any external stimulation. That nothing from the environment can take us from this internal state. And that state of being that the mystics talked about that I love so much really means that they've thought about it enough in their mind, they've meditated on it, they've rehearsed that now they have the mind to instruct the body. And when we have mind and body working together, that heart is open. We are now present. We are in love with life. And we're free. Now I have a 17-year-old daughter who is a rocker. She is a cool kid. And my kids, they all have to work on something in their life. They have to be working on something, and the deal goes like this: they have to create an experience and they have to do it on their own, and I'm not going to give them any help. And they have to work on something, and then when it happens, they move to the next thing. So now, of course, they're applying quantum principles. They have to have an experience that they've created. So my daughter had just finished one of her last experiences, and it was the summertime, and she said, "Hey, Dad, you know, I don't know what to work on. I got a couple ideas. What do you think I should work on?" I said, "Anything you want." She said, "Okay, I want an unlimited shopping spree." So I said, "Okay, here's the deal." Now listen to this. I say to her, "Here's the deal. You can work on the Unlimited Shopping Spree, but you have to do it 3 times a day. You have to mentally rehearse it 3 times a day. Morning, noon, and evening. And here's the deal. When you start your day and you rehearse that, when you get up from your rehearsal, you can't be the same person that started." You have to stand up as a different person. Now, why am I telling her that? Because I want her mind and body working together. I want her to begin to feel as if she just shopped so that she can signal the body and condition the body to begin to have the experience ahead of the experience, right? If the environment is an extension of mind and she's reviewed it enough times in her mind and she has mind and body working together, wouldn't you agree that the experience is about to happen? So I say three times a day. You can't get up as the same person that sat down. You got to get up as a new person. Now, my daughter's like, you know, she does the theater and she, you know, she's kind of on that side of the brain. She's kind of dramatic and artistic, and so it was easy for her. So I hear the alarm go off in the morning. Then I'd hear the shut it off. I'd hear it move around and sit. I'd hear it in there for a while, be really quiet. And then she'd come out of her bedroom and she'd be like this. I'd say, "Did you have a great day?" "Had a great day." I'd say to her, "Did you shop your brains out?" "I shopped my brains out," she'd say. Then 12 o'clock would come around and she'd be hanging out with her friends and I'd kind of lean in the room and I'd go, "So she did this?" She'd go, "Okay, okay, okay." You know, and then she'd go back and she'd do it again. Now, if you begin to say— you start creating and you get up as the same person that sat down, You haven't conditioned your body to have the experience. Would you agree? How many times we do— we sit there and we get up as the same cat? You got to get up as an enriched being, alive, full of joy, inspired. The state of creation is inspiration. It is moving from survival to creation. And when we're in survival, our attention is on the body and the environment and time, and those chemicals of stress wake the brain up so that all of its attention is on by things in the environment and what the body's doing and how much time we have. But in a state of creation, you know when you're in truly a state of creation? There is no body. There is no time. There is no thing. You're so involved with what you're doing you forget about yourself, and the side effect of creation is called joy. I know when I'm creating when I forget about myself. So you gotta get up as an elevated person. Does that make sense? Now mind and body are working together. She'd do it at noon again, and then in the evening she'd have her friends over and they'd be, you know, listening to music or doing whatever, and I'd kind of be like— she'd go, "Okay, okay, okay," you know. So then she would do it again. This went on for months. And I was in Washington, D.C., and I called her up and I said, "Hey, how you doing?" 'Cause she was visiting a friend in Los Angeles. "How's it going? It's Dad, just checking in." Long pause. And she is drunk with enthusiasm. She says, "Dad, you know, you know that unlimited shopping spree? It happened today." So I go, "All right, all right, all right. Tell me everything. Don't leave anything out. I want to know exactly what happened." So she said, "Okay, so I'm in Santa Monica visiting my friend. We're at the promenade. We're shopping. We go to our favorite shop, and we go to our rack, and we're just rifling through the rack looking for clothes and stuff. And this guy walks out and says to my friend, 'Hey, are you so-and-so's daughter?'" And she said, "Yeah, that's my father." He says, "Okay, you two come with me." So he takes the two girls behind the counter, takes them in the back room, and he says to the one girl, he said, "Listen, your dad did me a huge favor 6 months ago." He reaches in his pocket, you know, pulls out the company credit card, and he says, "Ladies, have a good afternoon." So now, I love to test my kids. It's my favorite. So she's telling me this story, she's all excited, and then I don't say anything. There's this long pause on the phone, and she's like, "Dad?" I'm like, "Yeah?" She goes, "Are you there?" I go, "Yeah." Now she knows what I'm going to ask her, right? "How much did you spend?" I said, "How much did you spend?" She said, "Dad, I spent $9,000 today." I said, "Are you guilty about that?" She said, "Nope." Nope. Now, I talked to my daughter 2 days later from the airport in Washington, D.C. And after she settled down after the experience— new experience, would you agree? New emotion? What was the emotion she had? Joy. The natural state of being. The natural state of being. And I said to her, when it wore off, I said, "How you doing?" You know what she said? I thought it was so cool. She said, "Dad, you know, I love the experience. It was really cool and all that stuff. But when I got— after it wore off and I got to thinking about it, you know why I'm so excited? Because I created it. It came from my mind. I did it from my mind. And I love myself for that." Same brain as you and I, right? So I take my kids— well, my wife and I take my kids to Mexico every year and we hang out and we ask them the really tough questions. You know, questions that nobody else wants to ask. Parents wants to ask kids, you know. And so we, I call them frontal lobe questions. So we're there asking the questions, you know, and I say to my daughter, "So all those times I made you rehearse all that stuff and you didn't want to do it and you did it in spite of it and you didn't feel like doing it and you did it anyway, was it worth it?" And she just said, "Welcome to my dream." It just caught me by surprise. I thought, what a great answer. So when I say to my daughter now, "Don't get up as the same person that sat down. You gotta get up as if it already happened in your head." She doesn't have much of a problem doing that. You know what I mean? Because she's had enough experience to understand that in fact it's the way it is. So in that case, the mind and the body begin to work together. And when we do that, we have the power of the universe behind us. To change is to get the mind and body on the same page. Now, do your thoughts control your feelings, or do your feelings control your thoughts? If your thoughts control your feelings, then you have control over your destiny. If your feelings control your thoughts— if feelings and emotions are the end product of experience, and you're living by familiar feelings every day, what does that tell you? You're not having any new experiences now, are you? Has the brain changed? Not much. To begin then, to apply knowledge to have a new experience, to have a new emotion, if our feelings are controlling our thinking and we're feeling, and feelings are the end product of past experiences, feelings are literally thinking from memory, thinking from the past. And what do we create more of? The same past. Now, how many experiences exist in the quantum field? Hmm? Would you agree unlimited experiences? And with a new experience, would you say there could be a few new emotions? Hmm? And would you agree then that if you had new experiences and you upscaled the hardware of your brain, that you would begin to move out of those states of survival into those those elusive states that the mystics and the poets of old talked about. The joy and the awe and the inspiration for life and wonder. That's the natural state of being. So we have two states that we live in. We either live in survival or we live in creation. Survival is believing that everything out there is real and our reactions determine our thinking. But to live in creation is to know that our thinking ultimately controls our feelings. We have so much work ahead of us in the future. If you think about what's happening to our children and their reliance on video games and technology, overstimulating their pleasure centers so that they have to keep upping the bar to turn on their brain, and when they don't have that stimulus, they're unconscious. They're absent. And the world, and the state of affairs, it's not enough to just focus on world peace. You know why? Because when you stop focusing on world peace, the crime rate returns back to normal in your community. If you get a group of people focusing on peace in the community, crime rates drop. But when they all go their separate ways, what happens? Turns right back to the same value. It's not enough to think it. You gotta demonstrate it. You can't shake hands with people and say, "Peace be with you," and then get in your car from church and cut everybody off because you're in a rush. What is that? We have to demonstrate it. We have to teach the body what the mind has learned. Listen, there isn't anything that I want material. There's only one material thing I want, and it's the electric car. It's the Tesla Motors car. Do you know why? You know why I want that car? Because I have a problem with global warming, and I have a problem with oil, and I have a problem with the powers that be. And I'm not gonna get up there and stand up for my rights or what I believe in if I'm still reliant on oil, and I'm still reliant and dependent on something outside of me. People who begin to make choices and then begin to demonstrate what they're learning. If you're driving a solar car, wouldn't you agree that— and I can plug it into my solar panels at my house— do I need anybody? This car doesn't look like a modified golf cart. I've driven it. It looks like a cool little sports car and it goes from 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds. And it goes 250 miles on one charge. And you can— it comes out to a cent and a half a mile. You know why I love that? Because now I can stand up and say, "I don't like that," and I'm beyond reproach. No one's gonna buy me, no one's gonna try to comp— I'm not gonna compromise my ideals because I'm actually doing exactly what I'm thinking. Does that make sense? And if you get enough people doing the same things and thinking the same way, and we create new beings Now we can change the world because now we have enough people that are demonstrating truth and demonstrating greatness. And those are the leaders in history, whether it was Martin Luther King or William Wallace or Gandhi or Queen Elizabeth, doesn't matter. They all knew that it wasn't enough to think it. They had to be beyond reproach. They had to make choices that support their thoughts, and they had to live as if it was the way it was. Even though they couldn't experience it with their senses, it was alive in their mind. And we lead that way. So imagine 500,000 people no longer reliant because of consumerism or convenience, but because they're thinking and doing in a new way. They're beyond control now. And now we have those 3 brain systems in place. And now we can change the world because we are the example of it. We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon. I had a fabulous conversation with a humble man before I got here who's doing amazing things with people in comas. And he's an engineer. But you know what? He got outside of that. And he has the mind to understand that if he can think it, it's possible. And he's changing people's lives. We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon. If we do, we turn it into another religion. We have to go out and do the uncommon. We have to be able to repeat it over and over again. And when we can repeat it over and over again, now science has to come and study us and upgrade their laws and say, what in God's name are you doing? Now remember, anything that is repeatable in science is a law. And if you can make it happen over and over again, Now we're bridging that concept of Descartes, of dualism, of mind and matter, and subjective mind and the objective world. As we begin to apply this stuff and have the experience, who gets to be the recipient of it? We do. And when you overcome your emotional, afflictive emotional states, and we retire anger, we retire frustration, retire hatred, retire any of those primitive emotions, we break through and we're no longer addicted to them any longer. You know, the side effect of that is joy. It's an appreciation for life, an appreciation for the simple things. And when you break through, you don't want to change a hair on a person's head or anything about your life because you saw the divine purpose of it all. And when you're in that state of mind, you know what you want to do? You want to give. That's all you want to do. And when you give, what you're saying is, is, "I'm feeling this way, and it's so overwhelming. Here, I want you to feel the same way that I feel." And the person who's giving, their serotonin levels rise in their brain. And the person who's receiving, their serotonin levels are rising. And the person who's observing the giving and receiving, their serotonin levels are rising in their brain. And we go from a barren field. One seed produces a whole field of grain. Our job in life is to modify our behavior, to do a better job, to shoot for the greatest ideal. The brain wants that. We're born with genetics and circuits in place, but that isn't the end of who we are. Learning and experiencing upgrades the hardware and evolves the brain. But we gotta demonstrate it. We have to personalize it. And if we can repeat it, then we move from philosopher to saint. And then as we begin to do that, we teach people by demonstration. The greatest way to teach anybody is to be able to live it, to be able to demonstrate it. I know I'm not supposed to take questions, but I'll take just a few.

Hi, Dr. Joe. I'm very happy to be here. I saw you in Chicago and you told me to read your book, which is great. Read chapter 2, I did. And you talked about instant remission for illness. And I need your help with diabetes type 1. I did a lot of the things you did, you said, but I'm still up and down. So what can you verbalize a little bit more in that regard?

Okay, if you remember my conversation with you in Chicago, I remember you. Yeah. And all the people that I studied with spontaneous remissions, there was nobody with type 1 diabetes that cured it. It was all type 2. Right. So diabetes, type 1 diabetes, is an onset of the gene from the start, right? So the gene is expressing itself improperly. And that, to be able to turn the right gene on and turn the other gene off, means that you have to move to a new state of being, and that new state of being has to be consistent. Now, here's— and I can talk to you about this privately, but here's what I'm gonna say to you. I have worked on things in my life in terms of personal change for 2 or 3 years with no results, but I didn't stop. You know, just because I didn't have the experience, I thought it was possible, so I kept going. Now, during that process I kept asking myself the same question: What is it that's standing in the way between me and the experience? What emotion that's bringing me back to the past? Because emotions are a memory of the past. What emotion keeps bringing me back to thinking in the past? And so I would begin, you know, go through all these emotions, and I would begin to rehearse a new way of being. And it took me a long time because a lot of it was genetic, believe it or not. And when the experience finally happened, 3 years later, I could care less about the experience because I became such a changed person. Do you understand? So when you're taking on something like diabetes type 1, this is not something that is gonna happen overnight. This is— you are a work in progress, I'm a work in progress, and as you begin to ask what afflictive emotional state stands in the way, as you begin to ask that question and you begin to clean the closet and you begin to peel the layers back, you should begin to have changes. Now I'm writing a second book and it's called "Thinking, Doing, Being: A Manual for Change" and it's a handbook. It's based on the workshops that I do now around the country that are one-day workshops about rewiring the brain and how we do that. That's more of the practical aspect of the how-to. I'll give you an example though. I was in Pagosa Springs just a couple weeks, about a month ago and There was a lady there, she's suffering from Lyme's disease and all these conditions and da-da-da, and I sat down with her and I talked to her for a while. And this lady, I wanted to give her one of these at one point, but I worked with her and I talked to her and she— I said, "I want you to do these steps and you begin to unlearn the old self and relearn the new self. And you keep doing it." Well, she sends me a letter the other day. She went back, she got tested for all her diseases. Zero disease in her body. Zero. And of course she's thrilled now. And I say to her, "Well, now what do you want to do? What are you going to do now?" So now she's got this big project, you know, this big thing that she wants to do. But in that process of torment, in that process of looking, in the process of self-examination and eliminating those same chemical states, as you begin to unlearn those chemical states, you're beginning to change. But you ever notice that when you're angry, you're frustrated? When you're frustrated, you're impatient? When you're impatient, you're envious? When you're envious, you're jealous? When you're jealous, you're judgmental? When you're judgmental, you're insecure? When you're insecure, you're competitive? You know that? Well, those are all kind of connected, but as you begin to change, all of those will change accordingly. And so there is some emotional state that's keeping that gene turned on, and if you can continue to do the self-work, you'll begin to have changes. How will that happen? The genes already know which one is healthy and which, you know, the intelligence of the body already knows how to do that. So you gotta just keep going. You gotta keep working at it.

3 times a day, right?

3, well, I don't know about 3 times a day, but at least twice.

At least twice. Yeah, no, I do it.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention a couple things. I'm going to be doing these video forums in January on my website. And the video forums are a great way for me to sit down in front of a camera and people can type in their questions the beginning of the, or the week before, and then you get online and then we can do this and answer a lot of questions and get into the how-tos and a little bit more in-depth stuff. So look on the website. There's sheets in the back somewhere where people, sheets in the front somewhere where people can sign up for it. You can just go to my website. It's drjoespenza.com and you can register or at least Please get on the mailing list and they'll tell you when it's happening. So a lot of people have such great questions and I want to be able to answer them without having to always travel to a city and have to do it. Okay, just one or two more questions. I'm a positive thinker, but I nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning and they've said now my endocrine system and my organs have been compromised. Can I, with all the thinking and doing and being, Well, you know, I don't, I don't have a limitation to health. I mean, when I studied people with spontaneous remissions, I mean, I studied some sick people. These people were pretty sick. You know, joy is a natural state of being. You know, positive thinking has its— I don't like to use the word positive thinking because it— there's too much polarity involved in it, you know, that people who are trying to think positively are fighting their negative. You know, it's more like intentional thinking. But you know, I had an injury in my life where I was facing some difficult moments, and I understood that if I could intentionally create a new self or create an outcome, I had to surrender it to a greater mind. And most people don't understand that there's a, you know, a mind that's keeping your heart beating and digesting your food and filtering your blood and organizing your DNA. That people don't think that it's a mind. Well, it's a big mind, and it's got a will that's greater than greater than our will, and it has a mind greater than our mind, and it has a love for life much greater than our love for life. And when our will matches its will, and when our love matches its love, and when our mind matches its mind, that's when it answers the call. But I certainly, you know, surrendering those conditions on a daily basis to that greater mind, it doesn't act unless it's given permission. It doesn't act unless you begin to initiate it, and you have to initiate it to a greater You have to move to a greater state of mind in order for it to begin to respond. So is it impossible? I don't think it's impossible. Do I think you'll do it in one shot? Probably not. Am I open to the fact that you could? Yeah. But, you know, your immune system, which is the rudimentary nervous system, your immune system is, you know, the system that takes care of internal order and it's the internal protection system. And most people who have been subjected to carbon monoxide have, you know, big holes punched in their immune system. And then of course, when your immune system is out of balance, your nervous system is out of balance. And, you know, your nervous system and your, you know, it just starts cascading all the way down. But you can just, you can look at the tests just with gratitude. People who live in a state of gratitude and practice gratitude every day strengthens their immune system. People who live in joy and practice moving into a state of being of joy, their immune system gets stronger. So, you know, it happens. But the details of how it happens— here's what I want to answer— the details of how it happens shouldn't be left up to you. It should be left up to the greater mind and let it do it for you. My daughter, when she created her shopping experience, she didn't say, "Oh well, maybe, you know, my dad will pay for this," or "My Uncle John will do it," you know. 'If I'm nice to him.' She wasn't trying to figure out how it was going to happen. She just knew that if she, she could get mind and body working together, it was going to happen, and she left it up to the greater mind to take care of it. That's the thing that we have to do when it comes to health. Because we're so tied in with our body, we're always running back to see how it's doing. The truth is, is that when you give all that up and you just move, you begin to surrender and you begin to trust, it begins to respond, and the greater mind begins to start filling in the gaps in ways that we couldn't even imagine. So one more question. Hi, you touched on East versus West very briefly, and then in the medical thing, what about soft tissue damage? Cartilage? Yeah, you know, they're on the same as immune system modulated. Well, soft tissue damage, I saw some great healings with soft tissue damage. East versus West, of course the West of course has a different idea of of God than the East does. And the East understands very clearly that emotions are transient and they're not real. And the West thinks that emotion— and when I talk in Italy, oh my God, you know, people are— they want to choke me because I'm saying emotions, you know, we need emotions. And I always say, yeah, nothing wrong with having— no problem with having emotions, but if you keep having the same emotions every day, you don't have any new experiences, you know, come on. So it's that balance, you know, it's the balance between— and but the West has individualism down and going for dreams and going for goals. And of course the East is very selfless, you know, and so I think there's a balance between the two and we can learn from each other. Thanks for listening. Thank you.

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Continue to believe. I'll see you there. So the brain then, in the midst of an experience, literally molds and shapes itself and upscales the hardware. Now, if we're living by the same feelings and same emotions every single day, and feelings then are the markers from the past,