How To Change Your Life | Top 10 Rules from Dr. Joe Dispenza TRUTH

Are you creating your future or just repeating your past? You've got more power than you think, but if you don't use it, you lose it. In these top 10 rules for success, Dr. Joe Dispenza shows how to stop living on autopilot and start living on purpose. You train belief by showing up. You win by staying present. You change your life by changing your thoughts. Every time you choose awareness over fear, you grow stronger. Feel your future now before it happens, and it starts becoming real. You don't go back after that. You rise. Need motivation? Watch a top 10 with Believe Nation. And if you make it all the way to the end of the video, put a hashtag #believe in the comments below so we can celebrate you in a future video. Believe. Okay, let's kick it off with rule number 1: Believe in yourself.

I think that, you know, we live in chronic disbelief. What if the truth was that you're greater than you think? More powerful than you know, more unlimited than you could ever dream. If that was the truth, that you are the creator of your life, you have to start— if you believe that to be the truth, then you have to believe in yourself. And your belief in yourself must be earned. It must be earned.

And the only way that we can believe in a future is when we feel the emotion associated with it.

Because if you feel the emotion associated with it, your body is your, your unconscious mind. It's so objective, it does not know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone. And so you're giving your body a taste emotionally of the future. And the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember that future, and you literally are embossing the circuitry for you to believe in it more.

Rule number 2 is practice being present.

What we know is that, that the, the more you practice being present, the better you get at it.

Okay.

And so how do you do that? If you sit in a meditation, right? And so there's a mode in the brain called default mode, and it's just always busy. It's consuming enormous amounts of energy in the brain, and it's always trying to predict the future based on what it knows in the past. It's a kind of an anticipation machine. It's always trying to fill in unknown in reality so we feel safe. So a default mode system in the brain, when you close your eyes in a meditation, is going to immediately go into overdrive. It's going to say, oh, my back hurts a little bit, I'm kind of thirsty, how long is this going to go, I really don't want to do this, I don't like the music, you know, this might be too long, oh, I'm starting to get a little frustrated, I want to lay down, you know, all of this stuff comes up. And then people have the belief and they say, I can't meditate. That's, that's their conclusion from the experience. That's their, I'm not a good meditator. That's their affirmation. That's their belief, right, from that experience. But if you say to a person, listen, that's normal. But every time you catch yourself going unconscious, catch yourself going unconscious and become conscious That's a victory. And as tedious as it may be in the beginning, the more you catch yourself going unconscious and becoming conscious, the more conscious you become in your life. And all of a sudden you begin to pay attention to things that you weren't paying attention to before. So in the work that we do, we say that being in the present moment, truly in the present moment, is being comfortable in the unknown, right? The present moment is the unknown because there is the familiar past that we feel emotionally, and we have the predictable future, which are both the knowns. Being in the present moment is being in the unknown, and that goes against thousands of years of programming because our biology is programmed that if we are truly in the unknown, we should be in survival. Because if you're in survival and you're in the fight or flight system, the unknown is a threat. It's a danger. So always try to predict the future based on the past and you'll have better chances of survival. Predict the worst case scenario, be ready for that. Anything less that happens, you have better chance of surviving. So then to rest in the unknown goes against a lot of our biology. And we discovered that when a person keeps doing it over and over again, the body gets agitated, it gets frustrated, it gets in pain. Patient instead of the person saying, I quit. Give them something to do and they can lower the volume to the emotion and settle the animal down, like training an animal, setting, settling the body back down into the present moment. We teach people how to do that, and that's the victory.

Rule number 3 is lead by example.

As a young person, I could rally and be a jock, and I could rally and be with the, the smart kids. I could rally with, with, you know, different people. Um, but really my two theories in my 20s, uh, my, my late teens and early 20s, was, uh, take the value and run. Whatever it is, whatever that value is, you take it and use it and run with it and make it up as you go along. Just make it up and just figure it out as you go along.

You'll figure it out.

Just go, just keep going. And so I've always been an immersive personality. If I did martial arts, I did martial arts every day. Like, that's— if I did yoga, I did yoga every day. And I was—

if I was going to do it, I was going to do it for the intention of getting really good at it.

Otherwise, why would I do it?

All in.

So, so for me, I kind of did that, whatever, whatever it was that I, that I was interested in. What, what fascinated me more than anything else was that from how I was raised as a child in the, in the family and the culture and the religion that I was raised in. I was mystified that there were actually people that were— that believed in something that I secretly believed in from the time I was young, that was actually— that actually were masters of their bodies and they were doing miracles. And it wasn't in the traditional— what I was— how I was raised. And that became a fascination of mine. It became a fascination. Well, if they did it, how did they do it?

And so my interest in stepping out of whoever I could rally with was just because I wanted to learn more about that.

Then that just was all predictable to me. I left and I just started this kind of immersion process, and I wasn't afraid then to try it out because my parents used to say to me, if anybody else could do it, 'You could do it.' And so I would be like, 'Okay, well, how did they do this?' So in that way, when I was in college, I kind of broke from the parties after a period of time. I just didn't— I, I was very different in that way. I just, I was there to learn, and, and I wasn't like an introvert, or I wasn't unapproachable. I, I would go to class and be with everybody, but I, I made other choices, you know.

And that turned into this kind of exploration that led to some profound experiences.

And then once you have the experience, it's hard to talk you out of not doing it again. And so when I immerse myself, for example, in something like yoga, you know, I did a lot of yoga and I did it 3 hours a day and I never missed a day and I was up early in the morning But I was learning anatomy and physiology at the time, and I think I learned more about the body through the experience of doing yoga and understanding it kind of on this intuitive level as much as I learned about the textbook.

So the kind of the two different things—

learning all this information about anatomy and physiology, and at the same time, uh, conditioning my body in a certain way with the intention of really seeing if I could actually master something about myself.

I mean, both of those worlds were kind of merging for me. And so then when—

I think when you do that and you kind of leave the pack, you know, and you step out, I think if you're, if you're really— I realized after a certain point how much I changed. I realized in my 20s, my early 20s, how much I changed.

And, and, and I, and I think, you know, the investigation of hypnosis and everything else was just kind of the side effect of—

well, I saw people doing hypnosis and seeing them doing some pretty amazing things. Was it similar to what those masters were doing? What is the subconscious mind? And, you know, then it kind of led me in another direction. So, so all the time I was changing that when I kind of emerged and was ready to go out into the world, um, I, I felt like I just I put in my time and I knew exactly what I wanted and what I was doing.

Rule number 4: Have a vision of the future.

We create based on separation. You see the sports car, you see the wardrobe, you see the scene, you see the vacation, and you see that experience that you want. Your brain naturally goes, oh God, that would be so wonderful to be in that reality, to be in that future. You, based on the lack of not having it, in the plane of duality and separation that lack causes us to dream about having it. So the natural thing is to dream of a new possibility based on your understanding that you don't have that experience yet. You understand?

Yes.

So then now that vision of that future, the brain naturally creates. For the passionate person, that vision where they're seeing that future, they put themselves in that future. And when they do that, they feel the emotion of that future. And they're actually doing that by thought alone. So once they feel the feeling of that future, they can believe in that future because they felt it.

Interesting.

Right?

And they'll tell you there's nobody or no one or no circumstances.

I know that I could create that. And you've all done it.

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If you're living in survival and you're living in stress, you got to keep your eye on the ball.

And if you're addicted to stress, then you're—

it's going to be very difficult for you to go within because there's a predator out there, there's danger out there. So when we work with prisons, you know, there are prisoners that cannot in the beginning close their eyes.

They just— it's not their conscious mind, they want to do it. Their body's like, you are not closing your eyes, you are— you're not taking your eye off the ball. It's just there's too much trauma from the past, right? So So then teaching people, training people how to lay down their identity and, you know, to get beyond their body, to get beyond all the elements in their environment, get beyond time.

And in survival, all your attention is on your body, your environment, and time.

But to change is to be greater than your body, to be greater than your environment, to be greater than time. It means when you're living in stress and you're living in survival, it's really hard to change. Right? It's really hard to change.

So the process of teaching people how to do it—

I worked for years. We looked at enough brain scans and HRV measurements and all kinds of things. We worked for years to be able to demystify that process and teaching people how to take all of their attention off of everything physical and material, to disinvest all their attention and energy out of this three-dimensional reality, out of everything that's known get beyond their senses and put their attention on energy and frequency. You can't walk through the eye of the needle with your body or your problems or your past. You got to go as a nobody, a no one, nothing, nowhere, no time. That moment of pure consciousness is the moment that it's being reflected. There's a change in a person's brain. There's a dramatic change. The compartments that have been divided, they start to unify.

The whole—

everything starts to synchronize. Everything starts working in more holism. Get a person in that state, somehow the information on that frequency that they're interacting with is changing their biology, it's changing their chemistry, and they're not doing it by changing their diet, they're not doing it by taking a vitamin, they're not doing it by taking a pharmaceutical. This is what we discovered in our research. It's their interaction with that invisible field of energy that exists beyond our senses. Pay more attention to it and less attention to you. Experience it, feel it, relax into it. Somehow it changes a person's biology. At the end of 7 days, it looks like they're literally living in a whole new life.

Rule number 6 is stay conscious of your unconscious self.

We have to become so conscious of those unconscious beliefs. And what's a belief? Thought you just keep thinking over and over again, or how you've been programmed, right?

It's a belief.

We have to become so aware of our automatic habits and behaviors. And we have to pay attention to our emotional states if we're going to change. And staying conscious of our unconscious self is really the work that it takes to really overcome so you can become another person. That's 95% of a person by the middle of their life. Their hardwired attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions, automatic habits and behaviors and unconscious emotional responses. 95% of us is programmed. So as a child, your brainwaves are very slow. The door between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind is wide open. Your brain waves are in alpha and theta, and so you're very suggestible to the information. And so your exposure to that caused you to learn that, that, you know, your observation causes you to get programmed to— that's the way life is, by mirror neurons looking at behaviors that are being programmed in you. So, so, but that's not who you are, right? So The fact that you became conscious, like, oh my God, I do this. Oh my God, I see where I got it from. Okay, that doesn't mean that I'm going to excuse myself and say I can't be in relationships. You could. Some people do that. Might be a different belief, but they do that. But you said, I really want to have a meaningful relationship. I really want to overcome this. This is part of me that I want to change, right? So you recognize that. That's called metacognition, right? The fact that you can objectify your subjective self and observe yourself. That's consciousness, right? And when you're conscious, then that's when you're not unconscious. And being unconscious is being in the program. So how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering?

That's the moment of change.

So you said, okay, that's uncomfortable, that must mean something, and you actually went on a personal exploration.

Yeah.

Do something with the insight, with the provocation, with the interest of actually wanting to change yourself in some way so that you create a greater experience of life, that there is love in life and that you can have a committed relationship and it can be different from your parents. And now you know what you're not going to be, right? So I think all of that is valuable. I think every experience that we have in our life that programs us to be a certain way, sooner or later, if we're interested in arriving at the goals and dreams that we want, we have to leave that behind. Sooner or later, a part of us must die.

Rule number 7 is make up your mind to change.

If we default and become the victim of our life, and we say that some person or some circumstance or some condition is causing me to feel this way, and to think this way. The moment we become angry or frustrated or guilty or unworthy or afraid or anxious, we can't believe in that future any longer. Those emotions are associated with past memories, and those emotions cause us to behave as if we were in our past, make choices that are equal to our past, and believe in our past. And more people believe in their past than they believe in their future. And it's so much easier to forget your vision of the future than to remember it. And so if that's the truth, then if you understood that this emotion that you're feeling is really a creative emotion, living in fear and living in anger and living in hostility and hatred and judgment and resentment, that has nothing to do with your future. It has everything to do with the past. And so the problem is, is that we get addicted to those emotions that keep us connected to the past. And there's a story that goes with that past. And so many people believe in that story. And why not believe in a different story? And it usually takes crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis or loss for people to finally make up their mind to change. But that default that takes place so seamlessly when we feel the emotions of our past causes us to think the same way, to act the same way, and to feel the same way. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality.

That's it.

That's it.

So the present personality who's sitting here today called you has created the present personal reality called your life. That's the truth. So if you wanted to create a new personal reality, a new life, you would have to change your personality.

Rule number 8 is don't process the past.

The stronger the emotion we feel, from some event in our life, a trauma, a betrayal, a loss, a shock, a diagnosis, that the event produces an emotional response. And the high quotient of the emotional response changes our internal state. And the moment we feel altered inside of us, the brain takes a snapshot freezes a frame or series of frames and takes snapshots, and that's called the long-term memory. So then, from a biological perspective, every time the person remembers the problem, they're producing the exact same chemistry in their brain and body as if the event was happening. Okay, cortisol, the adrenaline, whatever the emotion is. When they feel that emotion, we could say then that the body is reliving the event emotionally 50 to 100 times in a day. So the trauma is no longer in the brain at that point. Now the trauma is also in the body, because thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body. And it's that thought and that feeling, it's that image and that emotion, it's that stimulus and response that's conditioning the body subconsciously to become the mind of that emotion. And now that person emotionally is branded into the past. And you can say to them, why are you this way? Why are you so angry? Why are you so bitter? Why are you so mistrusting? Why are you so afraid? And they'll say to you, I am this way because of these events or that event that happened to me in my life 20 or 30 years ago. Now, this is kind of an interesting thing because in a sense, their identity is completely connected to their past. And they, as long as they feel that emotion, they'll always remember the past. So now the body is so objective when it feels that emotion, it does not know the difference between the real-life experience that's creating the emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone. So now The body's believing it's living in the past event 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. But what the person is really saying is, after that event, I haven't been able to change. That's what they're saying. And so that becomes the person's identity. And there's nothing wrong with this, but you'll never hear me say in any of the work that we do, go back and process the past. We've discovered that when a person analyzes their problems within the emotions of the past, they make their brain worse. They actually drive it further out of balance. They're over-arousing it. We discovered is that if the person can get beyond the emotion, truly get beyond the emotion, they'll free themselves from the past. And what we discovered is that if you teach a person to give up the fear, the bitterness, the resentment, the frustration, the impatience, the judgment, you say, stop feeling that emotion. I know there's a reason why. I'm sure everybody's got a story, right? So, but there's nothing that's going to change that story until you change, right? And so we discovered that if you trade those emotions for an elevated emotion. If you start feeling gratitude and appreciation and love and kindness and care, and you practice feeling that emotion, we give you some tools to use to change your breathing, to put your attention in a different place, and to work with your body. What we discovered is when the person can truly begin to open their heart, and we have brain scans on this, When the heart begins to open and it begins to become coherent— in other words, when you're feeling frustration or impatience or judgment, your heart is beating very incoherently. When you're feeling love and gratitude, kindness and care, there's a rhythm, there's a cadence that the heart has that's very coherent. When the heart gets coherent, we measure this, it immediately informs the brain that the trauma is over. The heart tells the brain the past is over, the event is over, and it resets the baseline.

Rule number 9 is follow your passion.

If you're not investing in yourself, if you're not making different choices, you're not changing. And you got to— that's the challenging part, is moving in the direction of whatever you're passionate about, whatever that is, whatever you're passionate about that maybe can contribute in some way to make things easier for people or change the world in some way, or do something really that fascinates you, or whatever it is that you can do. You got to throw yourself in, like fully immerse yourself into it and put a lot of time into whatever you're doing so you emerge as an expert.

And number 10, the last one before a very special bonus clip, is improve your personality.

And your personality is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel. So the present personality who's listening to this podcast has created the present personal reality called their life. Which means then if you want to change your life, you want to create a new personal reality, you're going to have to change your personality. You're going to have to change because nothing changes in your life until you change. So what is the understanding of change? So we've spent over 10 years studying a way to explain what change is, because if you think 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts or however many thoughts in one day, and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the the day before, you're in trouble. Because the same thoughts will lead to the same choices, the same choices will lead to the same behaviors, the same behaviors create the same experiences, and the same experiences produce those very same emotions. And those same emotions influence our same thoughts and our biology, our neurocircuitry, our neurochemistry, our hormones, our gene expression, our immune— everything stays the same because we're the same. So it has traditionally taken crisis or trauma or loss for someone to make up their mind to change. So the moment we decide to change, okay, I want to create a new personal reality, a new life, I got to change my personality. Well, this concept called metacognition, the forebrain function, you know, the seat of our conscience, our frontal lobe, allows us to think about what we're thinking about, to notice how we're behaving, and, and to become aware of how we're feeling. And The repetition of thinking, acting, and feeling in the same way causes our brain to become hardwired into very specific neural patterns, right? So that firing and wiring over time causes us to be— happens so automatically that we're unconscious of our conscious self. So the moment we become conscious of those thoughts, the moment we become aware of those behaviors, the moment we notice those feelings, we're no longer the program. In fact, we're the consciousness observing the program, and that's the first step to change.

If we teach a person then how to trade that frustration or that hatred for an elevated emotion, and they'll say, yeah, but you know, it was my ex's fault, or I got betrayed by my partner in business.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that.

Okay, so let's take your partner in business or take your ex, let's duct tape them, put them in a cannon, and shoot them to the moon. Now what are you going to do? Sooner or later you got to reckon with yourself and change, right? So then teach a person then how to trade that emotion for an elevated emotion.

Now trade the emotion for an elevated emotion, right?

So you're going to give that up and you're going to practice feeling gratitude, as an example.

Yes.

The person says, well, I can't feel gratitude. And I say, absolutely you can, because you don't practice feeling it. You practice spending most of your time feeling hatred and frustration. So now it's going to take a little time to cause that heart of you bloom, or part of yours to bloom. Once they're able to feel even the smallest measure of gratitude, where they start feeling appreciation, thankfulness— gratitude, its emotional signature, when you get something, when you're receiving something, when something has happened to you, or when something is happening to you, you say thank you because you're receiving something. So the emotional signature of gratitude means the event has already happened, or it's happening to you. So the moment you open your heart and you feel gratitude, well, that emotion then is telling the body that the experience has already occurred, and the thought then can make it into the body because it's consistent with the thought. So now you're beginning to program the autonomic nervous system into a very specific destiny. You got to maintain that modified state of mind and body your entire day, independent of the conditions in your outer environment, independent of your body's cravings of those emotions and habituations, and independent from time. And if you can, get ready, because something weird or unusual, some synchronicity, some coincidence, some opportunity is going to land in your lap, and you didn't have to go and get it. Yes, it came to you. Now you're vortex of creation. So if you say to me, well, I was feeling gratitude, but then there was traffic, or my co-worker sent me a nasty email, then I would say, oh my God, you mean you're allowing your environment, your outer environment, to control how you feel and think? You're back to the unconscious program that you're the victim to your life.

You got it.

But when you start producing those outcomes in your life, you're going to pay attention to what you did inside of you, and you're going to believe more that you're the creator of your life and less of the victim of your life.

To learn to replace the negative programs running in your mind, check the video right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there.

When you catch yourself thinking about the place you need to go or the things you need to do, catching yourself defaulting and doing that and bringing your attention back to the present moment, the act of catching yourself