0:00 our research shows that your thoughts can make you sick and the question is if your thoughts could make you sick can your thoughts make you well that's absolutely possible and it's easy to learn so when you wake up in the morning Dr Joe dispen researcher and best-selling author one of the most sought-after speakers in the world all with the aim of helping people better understand and unlock the power of their mind I'm concerned about human species why 75 to 90% of every person that goes to a health care facility goes because of psychological or emotional stress and it gets addictive to people they need the bad relationship a bad job in order to feel and there's so much research to show that when they analyze their life within some disturbing emotion we saw that they were actually making the brain worse but 50% of that story isn't even the truth people are reliving a
0:45 miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing you can't wait for your wealth to feel success you can't wait for your new relationship to feel love but 95% of Who We Are by the age of 35 is programmed yeah but there is a way to change and so the model of change is breaking the habit of the old self and Reinventing a new self if you teach people how to do that in 7 days you can see very significant changes so try this out as an experiment first thing you have to do is Dr Joe you're someone that's constantly doing research and developing new ideas about way humans are and the way the universe is what are the beliefs in your head that you're too scared to share oh boy I I have a very strong belief that before this episode starts I have a small favor to ask from you 2 months ago
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2:19 puppet master that sits above me that's calling the shots in a way that I don't think I've realized is that true I think if we Define a habit is is a redundant set of automatic unconscious thoughts behaviors and emotions that's acquired through repetition The Habit is when you've done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind then it's program subconsciously so then when the body knows how to do it better than the conscious mind then for the most part the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of being ourselves right so there's a principle Neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together wire together if you keep thinking the same way uh if you keep making the same
3:06 choices if you keep doing the same things if you keep reproducing the same experiences and feeling the same emotions your biology begins to become hardwired in a sense it be it becomes programmed so in order to change uh something to arrive at a new vision of your future if you were wanted to arrive at a new goal or new vision of your future you'd have to change something about yourself in order to get there and you'd have to change the way you think the way you act and the way you feel when you begin to become conscious of those unconscious thoughts so conscious that you don't let them slip by your awareness unnoticed or unchecked by you if you catch yourself speaking in a limited way or um you're
3:54 you become conscious that you're behaving in a certain way in habit and can notice or pay attention to how you're feeling then you're no longer the program now your Consciousness observing the program you're only unconscious when you're in the program and so to change then is to become so conscious that you don't don't go unconscious again and in a sense that is consciousness that is really the puppet master that really decides who we want to be I think the biggest problem uh is that people lose their free will uh to a set of programs and so their body is basically um programmed into a predictable future based on what they've done in the past so to change then to change that habituation takes an
4:40 enormous amount of energy an enormous amount of awareness why is this operating system this program useful because I look at everything that I the way that I do and from doing this podcast and speaking to experts I've stopped thinking that my body is against me and I've stopped realiz I've started to realize that there's a reason for these things there's a reason for the habits and patterns and so why is this useful because it seems to be working against me in so many ways well um first of all um when we when we look closely at uh certain habits whether you um can ride a bicycle whether you can speak a language whether you can snowboard when you first learn any of those things it takes an
5:27 enormous amount of conscious awareness is to get your body to do what your mind is intending but if you keep doing it over and over again then the body begins to economize it in some way and so we have a lot of things that we can do automatically or unconsciously or subconsciously that allows us to multitask to drive your car to talk on the phone to do several different things at the same time so a habit isn't a bad thing they can work for you or they can work against you the problem is is if you're as an example complaining and blaming and making excuses and feeling sorry for yourself and judging other people and you practice that and you get really good at whatever you practice you practice that
6:12 enough times that you're unconscious to the fact that you're doing it um the moment you become conscious that you want to change that uh you're going to be uncomfortable uh it's going to feel unfamiliar it's going to feel some degree of uncertainty you're Le kind of familiar known territory and you're stepping into the unknown and so uh many people when they want to change a habit um they have to be willing to be uncomfortable to do it but habits can work for us uh there's a lot of great habits that you and I both have that I would never want to change or would want to evolve in some way but then there's a lot of habits that don't serve us and and so a person really wants to set a vision of the future whatever that is and they just have to agree that in
6:59 order to arrive at that Vision they have to change in order to get there someone said to me that there's a certain type of behavior pattern that we can't change they said when we get trauma under the age of 10 things that happen at a very early age some of those things cannot be changed and then there's things that happen later in life that can be rewire and changed is that true are there some traumas Behavior patterns that just appear to be too stubborn and too resistant to change if you ask me that question just a few years ago I probably would have a different answer than I do today because if you look at a lot of the work uh that we're studying in terms of human change and human transformation um we've seen people with
7:44 really difficult pasts really brutal pasts that were abused and traumatized at a very early age um and then repeated traumas that took place in people's lives and they had night terrors and and uh they uh couldn't be in relationships they had social anxiety uh they had a lot of health conditions we've seen them completely change uh completely change to be happy people again to to free themselves from the past and so I would never put a limitation on change because I just don't think uh you can really predict that I think many people that are learning how to change uh and they
8:30 understand what they're doing and why they're doing it and the how gets easier I think for the most part people can change all kinds of things and when they do change uh our research shows that their brain changes their heart rate changes their gene expression changes there's thousands of metabolites that are being released into their bloodstream that weren't their prior U there's a host of different changes that take place biologically that kind of support the person's transformation is there a specific transformation that sticks in your mind as being the most is the clearest evidence that you should never write off um someone's ability to transform wow
9:16 um I'm so pleased to tell you that uh my beliefs have been challenged uh just in the last two years in witnessing so many different changes in people's Health that I I never knew was even possible uh you know everything from stage four cancers that were in a very progress state that metastasized to organs and tissues and bones in the body a complete reversal in uh that uh in that health condition not once not twice not three times uh we've seen it many times uh we've seen people that were blind uh that have been dead F that that have ALS that have Lupus that have MS
10:05 that have Parkinson's disease that have spinal cord injuries that have strokes PTSD myasthenia gravis cystic fibrosis muscular distrophy uh we had a woman that had her thyroid removed surgically removed and I know this is difficult even for me to accept uh and grew a new thyroid back you know we have the medical evidence for that so I don't know uh any longer what the limit is I think there's something really cool happening in the world when uh people believe in themselves and when you believe in yourself you have to believe in possibility when you believe in possibility you have to believe in yourself so uh when
10:51 somebody uh has the opportunity and I think a story is uh there's no there everybody loves a story there's nothing better than a story and when someone stands on a stage in front of 2,000 people and talks about their um journey to heal themselves from a chronic health condition and they it's not um always pretty they lose things they lose family they sometimes lose their careers they get sick before they get better and you see this person's persistence and you see that they were not doing the work uh their inward work to heal they were doing the work to change and if they understood if they
11:37 truly changed that their biology should change and they were um uncompromising every day in showing up for themselves and staying conscious of their unconscious self and and then reprogramming themsel in some way and they tell that story it's the four-minute mile it's somebody breaking through a level of Consciousness or unconsciousness and the collective that's observing the example of truth they're actually relating with that person in a way that causes them to examine possibility differently and when you become conscious of a new possibility a change in Consciousness is a change in Awareness right so now it's in the collective and lo and behold it's
12:24 not uncommon we just had this happen in our weeklong event in Denver just uh a little over a week ago two weeks ago and we had six people stand up out of a wheelchair at by the end of the event now I wasn't expecting that but one uh person that had Ms in the middle of the week had a very profound experience very profound experience and a professional athlete NFL football player and um stood up and he stood up for the audience and when he stood up he said I thought I was going to a Yoga Retreat I thought my brother was taking me to a yoga retreat I had no idea what we were doing here and then he said I just I just never loved myself and it was his act of change that
13:13 somehow changed his health condition he somehow upregulated genes in different ways suppressed the genes for Ms and somehow he was more mobile he was walking uh by the end of the event and he was the magic number one and when everybody saw that and they C the audience was excited we started seeing other people have a similar experience now that possibility is becoming more of a reality for people so I would always I never limit what could actually happen but I can tell you that what an amazing time right now uh to witness uh people really uh doing The Uncommon when you recited that story I could see the emotion in your face as you say it and I can only imagine with
14:01 the information that you have and the beliefs you have about healing change transformation the sense of urgency you must carry and the sense of like responsibility almost I guess you must carry knowing knowing what's possible yeah well um um it I I do feel responsible for always keeping the information based in science and as pure as possible I feel it's really important to do the research that we're doing I mean we've we've studied so much uh from a scientific standpoint the process of change and the process of transformation and what meditation actually can do for a person in terms of their biology and and some of the changes that we're seeing just in seven days um my responsibility really is to
14:46 give people my greatest understanding of the truth and numerous opportunities to experience it nothing more you know there is a way to inspire people into possibility and so they we combine different models of science whether it's quantum physics or Neuroscience or neuroendocrinology or psychon neuroimmunology the Mind Body Connection epigenetics electromagnetism all of these Sciences allow people to understand themselves better and if knowledge is powered knowledge about yourself is self-empowerment you can Empower people to do something with it so the more you understand what you're doing in the process of Chang the more you understand why you're doing it as I said the how
15:31 gets easier so we now know that if you give people sound scientific information and that is the Contemporary language of mysticism and they can learn that information they're basically making new circuits in their brain that's what learning is learning is forging new synaptic connections but if you don't review what you learn if you don't repeat it it's so much easier to forget it than to remember it so you got to repeat it over and over again so we allow people in our workshops to then begin to turn uh and teach it back to somebody they have to really explain it if they can't explain it it's not wired in their brain and they're going to something's going to be left the conjecture to Superstition to Dogma to spirituality and and that's not that's not the result we want we want them to use science as that model and if they
16:17 can explain that model and remind themselves what they've learned reproduce the same level of Mind nerve cells that fire together wire together so they begin to install the neurological Hardware in their brain by teaching others yeah exactly so that they are prepared for an experience so then if that information is installed in their brain that philosophy that theory uh that knowledge and information and now they can remember it and they have that model of understanding and they understand what they're doing and why they're doing it if we can set up the conditions in the environment and give them the proper instruction if they can get their behaviors to match their intentions if they can get their actions equal to their thoughts if they can get their mind and body working together they're
17:04 going to have a new experience now experience enriches circuitry in the brain that's what experiences does the moment those neurons begin to string into place though another part of the brain makes a chemical and that chemical is called a feeling or an emotion and the moment you feel unlimited the moment you feel grateful the moment you feel empowered the moment you feel whole now you're teaching your body chemically to understand what your mind has intellectually understood the information is just not in the brain now the information now is literally in the body and now you're embodying the truth of that knowledge of that philosophy of that theory so then you're teaching your body and and instructing your body chemically to understand what your mind is intellectually understood okay so then
17:50 that information that's coming as a new experience is changing your biology in some way and we've actually shown this so then if you you've done it once then it means you should be able to do it again and the idea is to be able to repeat an experience and if you can repeat it over and over again both neurologically and chemically neurochemically you can condition your mind and body to begin to work as one and when you can do it so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind it's inate in you so I want to map out this process so that I make sure I understand it starts with the neurology which I I I I heard is a a thought which you then ingrain in your mind by teaching it to someone else is that accurate well first
18:37 thing you have to do is you got to give people information yeah and science is probably the closest to the truth in terms of information and so when your brain is exposed to information and you're present and you're paying attention that neurons begin to connect that's what learning is learning is forging new synaptic connections the noble prize research kandell in the year 2000 his re the researcher said that if you learned one bit of information and you paid attention that information for about an hour you would double the number of Connections in your brain as a result of your interaction with that information but if you don't review it if you don't repeat it if you don't to think about it the circuit's prune apart right so if learning is making new synaptic
19:24 connections and remembering is maintaining and sustaining them so it's so much easier to forget get this information then to remember it so you learn it once I got a person's head nodding then they turn the person next to and say let me try this out let me try this out and me see if I can repeat it and so between the two of them they exchange that information and they start to build a model of understanding ah I understand I got that okay then we advance the information a little bit more and they they're adding new Stitches into the three-dimensional tapestry of their gray matter and they have to remind themselves what they've learned reproduce that same level of Mind mind is the brain in action as you install those neurological circuits in your brain then now you're prepared it's the Forerunner to the experience you're prepared for the experience so give the proper instruction get your body involved get
20:09 involved in the process the experience then causes circuits to become more enriched that's what experience does and then it makes a chemical and that chemical is called a feeling or an emotion and the stronger the emotion you feel from the experience the more you remember it and what is that experience what abundance Health wholeness IAL experience success a new relationship a new career um a new life whatever the person's whatever whatever that Vision that person wants to arrive at in the future and to actually go from the thought of that Vision to the actual experience of it and the distance between that thought and that experience is called time so if we can teach people to shorten the distance between the
20:55 thought of what they want and the experience of having it um then they they start believing more that they're the creator of their life what would you say to somebody that doesn't think thoughts matter that much I would say 95% of the World Plus or maybe more 99% of the World Plus sees thoughts as something that we are you know it's my head talking it's me talking in my head and as long as I don't act on those thoughts they're inconsequential I would I would say then that's their truth is it their truth I don't know but for for me my thoughts do matter I think every thought that you have makes a chemical and you can have thoughts that make you feel good and thoughts that make you feel bad and and I think that if
21:40 90% of the thoughts that we think are the same thoughts as the day before the same thoughts lead to the same choices the same choices lead to the same behaviors the same behaviors will create the same experiences and the same experiences produce the very same emotions and those same emotions influence a person's very same thoughts and their biology their neuros circuitry their neurochemistry their hormones and even their gene expression stays the same because they're staying the same there's nothing wrong with that but I do think that if you think differently and you learn new information and you have new thoughts if you can make new choices and demonstrate new behaviors and create new experiences and arrive at new goals and feel new emotions I would say that's Evolution and I think that people really
22:27 really secretly believe in themselves elves on some level and and I think being defined by a vision of the future or really always always dreaming of another great experience I think is a great reason to wake up in the morning I've had lots of conversations with very smart people on this podcast from multiple disciplines you know psychiatrists psychologists athletes Health practitioners and they've given me such great advice on which is irrefutable scientific advice on so many areas of my life and for some reason there's still areas of my life that I still can't act upon that advice and I think probably for most of my listeners who've heard great advice on this podcast and they think yes that's who I want to be I have an intention to stop eating sugar at 1 1:00 a.m. at night or I have an intention to become organized or to be this kind of friend or partner
23:12 they have the information right what there's something stood in the way of me doing something about that information on a regular basis yeah well I can give you a few answers for that unfortunately it normally takes crisis trauma disease diagnosis betrayal loss the person has to reach that lowest denominator where nothing's making that feeling go away has to well not they don't have to but this is human this is The Human Condition this is the moment where they don't feel like returning the texts they don't feel like going to dinner and seeing the same people they don't feel like um watching the same television show any longer the sports car the Wardrobe the
23:58 none of that is making this feeling go away this is a a moment of Reckoning for the soul and this is really when you could actually see yourself Through The Eyes of someone else because you don't feel like yourself anymore and that's the moment where people begin to change they can see how they've been thinking they can notice how they've been acting they could pay attention or become aware of how they've been feeling for the last 20 years and that that idea in in Neuroscience is called metacognition that's the moment you're no longer the program now what we believe and what we've seen and what I think is much better approach is um being defined by a vision of the future and if you understood that you could actually
24:45 elevate your state without anyone or anything every single day and hold whatever that intention of your future is and it takes a coherent brain to do that and feel the motion of your future before it happens that is you know you can't wait for your wealth to feel success you can't or abundance you can't wait for your new relationship to feel love you can't wait for the mystical experience to feel awe or your healing to feel whole or grateful that's kind of the old model of reality of cause and effect waiting for something out there uh to change to take away this emptiness this lack that I feel in here you teach people then they could elevate their state and we teach that model through
25:30 meditation and they can combine that clear intention with an elevated emotion and teach them how to make that heart of theirs more coherent if they do that properly then they'll live their life feeling like their future has already happened now from that elevated State instead of that self-limited state they can become as conscious of that unconscious self as they could if they were at that limited and and being defined by that vision of the future getting up every day inspired by it and not letting any person any circumstance anything in our life remove us from that Vision that would be a day well- lived so then most people then they have that vision of the future but
26:17 they give up on that Vision because in order for them to arrive at that Vision they have to do something they have to think differently they have to act differently they have to feel differently and it's so much easier to make the same Choice every single day and the hardest part about change is not making the same Choice as you did the day before and the moment you decide to make a different Choice you're going to feel uncomfortable because you're stepping from the known into the unknown so some people would rather cling to their self-pity than take a chance and possibility they'd rather tell the story of their past instead of telling the story of their future they' rather believe in their past instead of believe in their future uh it's so much more
27:03 important though to romance your future instead of romance your past and I think if people understood that they could actually arrive at it I think many people have done this already in their life I think everybody at least once in their life has done something great and when they did something great they just made up their mind and they made a decision in that moment to do something or to change with such firm intention that the amplitude of energy in making that choice caused their body to respond to their mind that the choice that they were making to change became a moment in time that they would never forget and the stronger the emotion they felt in order to change the more they remembered the choice and we could say
27:49 then that they're giving their body a taste of the future emotionally and they're literally aligning to that Destiny we discovered that if you keep doing that every day somehow you'll arrive at that Destiny and your biology will literally begin to change to look like you're living in a different life what are some of the biggest myths relating to behavior change and I guess character and personality change um that hold people back I probably belief I think in so many ways that a belief is a unconscious process a belief is a thought you keep thinking over and over again until it's hardwired in your brain and most beliefs are based on past
28:37 experiences and so many people have a belief about something that has to change in order for them to arrive uh at a new place in their life and what we discovered a lot of times with people in this work is that they they when they say for example they were healings of a health condition sometimes they would do their meditations three times in one day and I asked them why three times and they said because I stopped believing uh and when I caught myself no longer believing in it I had to sit down and change my belief again in other words they had to get up believing more in their future instead of believing Less in it and they have to change their state of being to do
29:23 that so I think that that's a limitation I also think that consciously we're always waiting for something out there in our life to change so that we can change or feel the relief of the lack of what we don't have and I do think that's kind of a limited model of reality I think when you start changing inside of you and you start seeing the changes happening outside of you you go from being a victim in your life to being a creator of your life and and I think that when that occurs then all of a sudden it's no longer a have to it's something that you want to do you don't you actually don't want the magic to end in your life so now you become a work in progress by investing in yourself when you invest in yourself you invest in your future so there is
30:09 probably a chronic disbelief that many of us have that we're not creators of our life uh and that only when we get the parking space or something good happens to us do we believe that we're the creator of our life but imagine a world where everybody actually took responsibility in being the creator of their life and no longer the victim of their life I think we would see a dramatic shift in Consciousness that makes people feel uncomfortable this idea of personal responsibility it's quite a it's almost become quite a controversial controversial idea the idea that we are the creator of Our Lives because then I have to accept responsibility for all the bad things that happened Dave dumped me I got fired from work uh someone bumped into my car and it hurt my neck well maybe maybe that
30:57 happened by default maybe that happened by not creating maybe you were just left to the randomness of reality that that maybe you're not creating and the fact that you're not creating you're you're left to the effects of your environment actually controlling you controlling your feelings and thoughts and by creating what you mean by creating is in well well if you intentional if you woke up every morning and you truly made time to to think like this okay if my personality creates my personal reality and my personality is made up of how I think how I act and how I feel if I want to create a new personal reality a new life I'm going to have to
31:45 change my personality and most people try to create a new reality a new personal reality as the same personality and it doesn't work we literally have to become someone else so if you said okay let me not default and go unconscious to that 95% of who I am that's programmed let me become so conscious of the way I think let me become so aware of how I'm going to act today let me decide what emotions keep me connected to my past and bring me to a lower level lower level of energy let me not go unconscious and then if you said okay A belief is just the thought I keep thinking over and over again what thoughts do I want to fire and wire in my brain and with with attention and with intention to begin to familiarize
32:32 yourself with a new way of thinking meditation means to become familiar with if you keep firing and wiring those circuits you're going to begin to install the hardware repeat it enough times and it becomes a software program that could be the new voice in your head that says I can it is possible if you said okay when did I fall from grace yesterday when did I when did I lose it oh my gosh it was with at work work with my co-workers with my ex with my enemy with the news with traffic acting this way is not going to make me happy if I had another opportunity another opportunity how would I do it if you could close your eyes and rehearse in your mind mentally how you're going to behave in certain
33:19 situations I'll give you a specific one anyone so I'll give you the specific one where late late at night on occasion I've eaten things things that I really regret eating Al also another one that I'm I'm trying to work hard on is I can be very messy with when I travel so my my hotel room can look like a mess and I don't like that about myself and I don't know why I do it but it's almost like you talk about being unconscious I'm clearly not thinking about it but that's part of the problem and it's the same with the bloody sugar midnight eating ordering things that are and then feeling instant guilt 10 seconds after I've put it in my mouth well well it may be that on some level well you could actually be addicted to the guilt not to the
34:06 sugar and so you you return to the same emotional state that allows that action to reoccur so if you said let me decide how I am going to act what I'm not going to do and you rehearsed it the research on mental rehearsal says your brain will look like you already did it that you'll be so present the brain won't know the difference between what you're imagining and what is real the brain will begin to change to look like the experience has already happened now you're priming your brain for that behavior keep rehearsing it rehearsing it how so give me well so I mentally mentally rehearsing mental rehearsal is one of these great ideas in Neuroscience where you can actually install circuits in your brain right so
34:53 everybody has done this musicians do it they're playing a song in their mind all the time athletes do it they're always going over their moves uh dancers do it actors do it uh so many people rehearse mentally what they're about to do and when they do that they actually Prime their brain they actually can change their brain and change their body just by thought alone physiologically change it physiologically change you can take a group of people that never played the piano before and divide them into two different groups and do functional brain scans on both groups one group they'll come for two hours a day for 5 days and they'll practice these one-handed scales and chords now you learn something new you make new Connections in your brain you get some
35:38 instruction you get your body involved when you get your body involved you're going to have an experience you pay attention to what you're doing and you repeat it over and over again nerve cells that fire together wire together you're going to begin to install new circuits in the opposite side of your brain that's that's common you do the scan at the end you see those actual physical changes it's you take those people uh the other group and you ask them to close their eyes without lifting a finger have them mental rehearse those scales and chords and at the end of five days they grow the same amount of circuits in their brain as the people who actually physically demonstrated the act in other words they were so present with what they were doing the brain did not know the difference between the real life experience and what they were Imagining the brain was physically changing to look like they already experienced it
36:24 they already did it so now you take those people people never played the piano before they just been mentally rehearsing for two hours a day for 5 days you set up in front of a piano and they could actually play those scals and cords why because they Prime their brain for that behavior so then if you're going to prime your brain for a new Behavior whether you're the CEO of a company whether you're a parent uh whether you're learning something the more you rehearse it mentally the more you prime your brain and body for the act so you could actually practice rehearsing how you're going to change in your life and if you keep doing it enough times your behaviors will match your intentions automatically because you have the Mind installed to do it if you don't have the Mind installed to do it you'll go back to the same past Behavior so I play
37:11 through that scenario of making the decision differently exactly and rehearse it in your mind until it feels right till you feel like I could actually do that and go from start to finish without losing your attention and so that it gets easier each time you do it it makes sense then you're you'll you'll actually do it and then if you said okay enough of this guilt i' I've felt enough of it I don't like feeling that way I could actually break the conditioning of that emotion in my body can I condition my body can I teach my body to feel something differently what would be the feeling that I want to feel if I was able to do it would it be worth would it be self-love would it be Freedom would it be Joy let me teach my body emotionally
37:58 what a future could actually feel like before it happens if you keep doing it over and over again you're going to start making more of those chemicals and it's become easier for you to do it it's going to become familiar to you and that's exactly what meditation is to become familiar with an old self to know thyself become so conscious of that unconscious self that you don't go unconscious to that self and how many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering that's the moment of change what thoughts do I want to find fire and wire in my brain let me become familiar with those what behaviors do I want to demonstrate what would greatness do what would love do and actually rehearse a greater a greater way rehearse it enough times so that you could actually step into that footprint teach your body emotionally that there's another way to feel and do
38:45 it over and over again it'll become familiar to you and so the model of change is unlearning and relearning it's breaking the habit of the old self and Reinventing a new self it's pruning synaptic connections and sprouting new connection C it's uniring and unwiring reiring and rewiring deprogramming and reprogramming losing your mind and creating a new one unmoral changes if they immerse themselves into the experience and what do those biological changes look like well um so we run week-long events um around the world and I think it's so important to do events uh in person with
39:34 Community uh because it's a flock it's a herd it's a school um it's a collective and so uh that exact process in seven days uh we uh take people through a very immersive experience and we do functional brain scans or fmis or quantitative eegs before they start the event and then we at the end of seven days we look at their brains at the end of seven days and there are dramatic changes in the way their brain works very significant changes some of them are really outstanding changes we uh put uh teach people how to create more heart coherence when you feel anger when you feel frustration when you feel impatience when you feel resentment your heart beats out of order when you feel gratitude when you have kindness and
40:21 Care You Feel Love For Life your heart beats in a more orderly fashion you can actually train somebody to get good at feeling that way and we we use that and we see people at the end of seven days be able to regulate uh their heart much better and it's a function of really how soon or how slow we age we take blood and we measure 2,882 different metabolites in in a person's blood and at the end of s days we measure again and I can tell you that if you're a novice meditator really never meditated before kind of your first event uh and you go through that 7-Day process at the end of seven days there are so many biological changes that are taking place in the
41:07 collective in the community not just one not just two the majority of people and I mean a significant majority of people suggesting that their body literally is living in a new environment in in a new life and there are chemicals in their bloodstream in terms of information that wasn't there prior to the event in other words some way without taking any drug without any taking any exogenous substance um without changing their diet without changing their lifestyle in any other way except going through this process eating the same foods that they typically eat that at the end of seven days there's chemistry there's biology that suggests that somehow their biology is changing significantly um we measure gene
41:54 expression uh I can tell you that you can change your Gene expression in 7 Days uh we measure the microbiome and um once again 7 days there are dramatic changes in the microbiome uh and the mind somehow is making uh significant and effective changes in our in our body so um our research is pretty outstanding because um an 7-Day uh intervention uh that's producing these effects uh there's there's not a whole lot of drugs that that are as effective and we've discovered that the nervous system makes a pharmacy of chemicals right now that works better than any drug that's what we've discovered and it's all within
42:39 you I am a fixer in my friendship groups and what I mean by that is I'm someone who probably over involves them themselves in trying to help friends change stuff which gift and a curse often times a curse but um I often get because I love someone and they're close to me and I want the best for them when when I see that they are experiencing a recurring pattern of behavior or habit um that is causing them unhappiness loneliness to miss the goals they have in their life of becoming a you know a husband or a wife or a partner whatever it might be I have a growing sense of um frustration because and I and that sometimes exerts it it's that sometimes manifests itself as trying to you know fix and help and give advice and change
43:26 them you must experience that in a different way you're much smarter than me you must experience that in a different way when you meet people that you can see having these recurring patterns of behavior and when you see that in them has there any has there any ever been frustration on your part have you ever been frustrated that change hasn't happened in someone that you loved God I you know I think it's I think it's such a noble act to change and I and I understand how hard it is to change uh I understand that process so I think the greatest thing that I could ever do for someone is to show them what change looks like it's so much more profound than anything that I could ever say um and I would never offer my opinion to them I would love them
44:13 unconditionally because I maybe see a part of myself uh that I've changed and I understand how hard it is to change or or I understand that they'll they're going to have their moment uh when they're ready to change and so I think it's I think it's really interesting because what I've learned over the years is that no new information can enter the nervous system that's not equal to the person's emotional state you can give them the answer the right answer to the problem and they won't hear it because it's not relevant equal to the emotion that they're experiencing what we've learned is a you take people in just just say seven days just cross the river of change go from the old self to the new self immerse
44:58 yourself fully into it break free from the chains of those emotions that keep you anchored to the Past overcome those habits and behaviors that keep you programmed into a predictable future um overcome um all those aspects of your beliefs that keep you stuck in a certain state in terms of how you're thinking in those hardwired perceptions 7even days break free and and normally the person has the answer uh to their own question I think that's when it becomes really relevant when you have your own Insight your own Epiphany when it's your own truth because you've you've worked to get Beyond it people when they analyze themselves or analyze their life within some disturbing emotion when we looked at the real time brain scans we saw that
45:44 they were actually making their brain worse they were driving their brain further out of balance overthinking overanalyzing uh and so when you analyze something within an emotion and emotion is a is a record of the past so you're thinking in the past the solution could never be there free the person from that emotion and of course they they see they they see it from a greater level of Consciousness for all those people listening right now that are like me that try and fix because through I mean through what they think of as love may maybe be I'm doing it for other reasons but what what could they do to be a better ally or friend or partner to that individual B based on everything you've
46:29 said that maybe they need their own moment or you know their emotional system isn't in regulation with their information God anytime we want to do anybody a great service is to help them out of their emotional state I mean it's not a lecture that's going to help them come on let's go do something come on let's go just get them doing something just breaking themselves out of that state it's not like the answer it's that you they have to change their state to get the answer so if I were to do anything I would want to help them shorten their emotional reaction to get them get beyond the emotion whatever that is and I wouldn't be a lecture it would be something fun that we did or something unusual that we did or just trying something just let's just do something and I think I think showing people what what what love looks like show them what Joy looks like show them
47:16 what happiness looks like I think I think people notice that I think I think they pay attention to that it gives them permission uh to do the same so um maybe just show up as um the person you would want to be around if you were feeling that way when you look at the state of the world at the moment and the direction of travel the trajectory of you know technology and the way we're living our lives and the decisions we're making at a collective level what are the things that most concern you well I always ask myself is it getting better or is it getting worse you know and I I think um in my lifetime I don't think I've ever experienced the world as it is today
48:03 just with so many variations of so many things uh and I question the information uh that I'm receiving uh and I think that we need some type of intervention uh as a species we need we we need a change uh uh we need an intervention in some way you question the information you're receiving from where and what kind of in intervention are you suggesting I just don't know that the information that I that I am exposed to or information that people are exposed to is the truth I just question that these days and and there because you can you get so many you can get so many degrees of it and so many uh and I and I don't know if it's uh based in altruism you know for the for the goodness of human beings or or
48:51 for self-interests and I and I think that's a I think people are waking up more to the understanding that something has to change you know for us to really survive as a species and what are the symptoms of the cultural disease that you're talking about what are they a lack of connection uh you know you know we're in 3D reality you know connecting communing cooperating uh uh uh creating I think those are things that um I think if you keep people in in survival and you keep them in fear and you keep them at War and you keep them angry and you keep them in pain and you keep them confused and you can control their attention um by controlling their
49:38 emotions um I think I think um we're going to you know we may not make it you know as as a species but I think that when people Truly Come Together in in in an elevated State I think it's Collective networks of observers that determine reality and I don't think it's the number of people I think it's the most coherent uh in heart and brain that begin to produce effects so the coming of a new Consciousness um has to be a collective it's not one person it's a collective uh group of people and and I believe that you get enough people collectively coming together that we can hopefully uh steer it in a different
50:25 direction hopefully yeah how about you are you optimistic I am I'm optimistic because I think people by Nature are good I think there's goodness in human beings and I have the privilege of traveling around the world and I see that and it transcends countries and cultures and races and gender it transcends diet it transcends all that stuff uh it's just when people are happy with themselves and in love with life um I think I think they're natur natural tendency is to give and I think we're wired to do that when we're not in survival when we're not in survival when you use this word survival are you talking about the the fight or flight state that we um many of us live in yeah
51:11 the an say I would say that living in stress is living in survival and stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of homeostasis stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of balance the stress response is what the body innately does to return itself back to balance the problem is is that if you keep turning on that fight ORF flight system you keep turning on that emergency system um you'll actually cause people to stay out of balance and that inbalance becomes the new balance and they're headed for some type of disease some type of breakdown no organism can tolerate emergency mode for an extended period of time and when you're in survival and that primitive system is switched on it's really about the self uh when you're in survival you have to take care of yourself so um the emotions
51:57 of anger and hostility and aggression and competition and frustration and resentment and envy and jealousy and insecurity and fear and anxiety and hopelessness and powerlessness and depression and pain and suffering guilt and shame are all derived from the hormones of stress and psychology calls them normal human States Of Consciousness those are Altered States Of Consciousness and when we're in that state when we're living in survival we experience separation we we divide in in in a lot of ways and so there's biology that goes along with that and um the hormones of stress heighten the senses and cause us to become materialists and and now when we're in lack or separation we force outcomes we control outcomes we fight for outcomes
52:43 we compete for outcomes we manipulate outcomes in a lot of ways we we turn into more of a primitive self so hard um to change that especially when you don't have enough money or you just lost your job or you just ended a relationship or your best friend past uh it's really hard um to move Beyond those emotional states um and so I think that that teaching people um how to change those emotional states and move out of those are really important and um 75 to 90% of every person that goes to a health care facility in the Western World goes in because because of psychological or emotional stress that's eight or nine
53:29 out of 10 and and emotional stress and psychological stress are the ones that tend to be the most harmful because if it's not T-Rex that's chasing you but it's your coworker in the next cubicle what was once very adaptive becomes very maladaptive and and the rush of those adrenal hormones become kind of addictive to people and they use the problems they use the conditions in their life to reaffirm their addiction to that emotion they need their enemy to feel hatred and and if their enemy died they they'd still feel hatred or they'd find another one uh they need the bad relationship they need the be bad job in order to feel and that's why it's hard to change and people become addicted to the life they don't even
54:15 like and so if you can turn on the stress response just by thought Alone by thinking about your problems and that's the truth you can become addicted to your own thoughts and if the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that create disease your thoughts can make you sick then the question is if your thoughts could make you sick and your thoughts make you well and we're actually discovering that that's absolutely possible so then teaching people then a little bit about how to manage their emotional state and self-regulate I think is a great gift for people because when they begin to break an addiction to any emotion or the conditioning of any emotion there's going to be Cravings that go on just like uh just like any atct there you know and and you've many people overdose
55:02 and many people have bad trips and and so when they start changing and the body's craving uh those familiar emotions the body starts signaling the brain you know of memories or to think certain ways and to make certain choices do certain things crave certain experiences just to feel of that same emotion and people say well this feels right no that feels familiar that really feels familiar and and many people will tell the story of why they feel that way based on some past experience and it's usually not in the recent past it's usually many years ago like a toxic relationship or something whatever that is and so they're basically saying I had an event in my life and since that event
55:48 I'm still living by the same emotion and I haven't been able to change and they'll tell the story of that past and in Psychology the latest research on memory shows that 50% of that story isn't even the truth they're they're they're making it up because they don't have the same brain as they had then and so then people people are reliving a miserable life they never even had just to excuse themselves from changing they embellish the story so that it sounds really hard to change so what is it what is that point then for a person when they say the only person that that this emotion of hatred or anger or frustration or resentment the only person that this is hurting is
56:33 me because those those chemicals are downregulating genes and creating disease and a person finally really realizes that and they really decide to change when they overcome the emotion the memory without the emotion is called wisdom and that's the name of the game and three-dimensional reality now they're ready for a new experience it's not it's not reliving the past you don't need to you don't need to talk about it all you need to do is overcome the emotion when you overcome the emotion you're free from the past you can see it from a greater level of Consciousness and that's when a person so many times when they truly change they'll say this we've seen it over and over again they reach that point where they finally break through and they and some of them have had some really difficult pasts they'll say I would not want to change
57:19 one thing in my past because it brought me to this moment that's the moment the past no longer exists and they can look at their betrayers and see it what all had to happen for that moment and now they're they're free they they no longer belong to the past they belong to the Future I've never heard the concept or idea of being addicted to a negative emotion people talk to me about being addicted to dopamine and pleasure and you know and all those things and you know like masturbation and sugar and but the thought of being addicted to a negative emotion it's what you said to me earlier about the guilt well well think about this what do people do when they when they feel an emotion what do they do they rely on something outside of them to
58:06 make that emotion go away so whether it's the masturbation or the pornography or the gambling or the shopping or the sugar or the whatever it's all because they're trying to make that feeling go away and they're using something outside of them so then there is some emotion that the person is regulating that's why they're doing that that they're doing that right so so change the emotional state and it makes sense then the need to do it diminishes which is not doesn't seem to be very easy to do change my emotional state well again I think um if you if you understood what you were doing and why you were doing it just like learning anything if you if you understood a
58:51 formula I think it wouldn't be as hard as you think it is I mean because there is a way to change and step one in that process of change is new information always it's the Forerunner to any experience without the information we doubt that it's possible and that again that the information and the science removes the doubt I've I was doing some research recently about um why people change their beliefs and why they don't change their beliefs and some beliefs they're more susceptible to take on some information they're more susceptible to take on one of the things I read about was when they believe the source another thing I read about was when they when
59:36 it's good news so in studies where they say to someone you're more attractive according to the public than you believe they're likely to shift rather than finding out they're less attractive and also things like Health you're more healthy than you thought you were genetically they're more likely to shift a belief the nature of our beliefs and the nature of belief change um I I was writing in in in my book about how um looking in the mirror and telling yourself something like some of the sort of modern day manifestation Community belief doesn't seem to work just looking in the mirror and telling myself that I'm beautiful and Rich and successful and Powerful doesn't seem to be an effective way to cause actual belief change do you agree or disagree with this idea that you can look in the mirror and say something to yourself when when we study belief and
1:00:24 the change in belief uh I want I'll answer it on two levels Stephen the first level is that in order for a person to change a belief or perception about themselves and their life the majority of those people made a decision with such firm intention that the amplitude of that decision carried a level of energy that was greater than the hardwired programs in their brain and the emotional conditioning their body as I said earlier their body literally responded to their mind the choice that they were making became a moment in time they would never forget they'll tell you where they were what time of day it was who they were with when they made up their mind to change it became a long-term memory and the stronger the emotion we feel the more altered we are inside of us the more we remember that choice that's why
1:01:11 we need pain sometimes that's when you said when you painted yourself into a corner and you said this is it I don't care how I feel body I don't care how long it takes time I don't care what people think I don't care what's going on on my life environment I'm going to do this and you made up your mind the moment you felt that emotion you were aligning to a new future and to change is to be greater than your body to be greater than your environment and to be greater than time and so when a person comes out of the resting state because your body is trillions of cells 70 trillion cells and they're all spying on your brain and if you were sitting there and and you said nine out of 10 times I'm going to fake standing up one time I'm actually going
1:01:57 to stand up before you ever made that conscious decision your body is so precognitive it already knows when you're going to stand up because it's got to release a certain amount of adrenaline so the same volume of your blood goes to your brain so if you're sitting on the couch with a remote control and you got your cell phone here and your iPad here and your computer here and your dog here and your beer here and the big TV there and you're eating your popcorn and and you say you know I I think um I'm going to change tomorrow you what do you think your precognitive body is going to say relax he's lying again he's not he's not willing to he's not willing to Signal the body it's time to ride you know it's not there's no signal to the body and so making that choice to change
1:02:46 your state of being with a clear intention and elevated emotion actually changes your state to believe in that future more than you believe in your past keep it up keep keep doing it that's a big explosion in the field that's important that's a change in energy and nobody changes until they change their energy and when they change their energy they change their life so then you make up your mind to do that and all of a sudden you have that synchronicity you have that Serendipity you have that coincidence and all of a sudden you're saying hey that worked something I did inside of me produced an effect outside of me I'm going to pay attention to what I did I'm going to do it again let's try it again let's the experiment continue you do it again and then you say Well when did I stop disbelieving oh my God stopped disbelieving when I ran into that person we had that conversation and oh my God I I returned back to my old belief again
1:03:32 okay next time that happens I'm going to this is what I'll do you rehearse it in so your evolution in your belief and self changes as well so then so many people second point will actually say this you know I read the philosophy I understand the knowledge I understand what it means to change I understand the power of meditation I saw the testimonial I saw people heal I believe it's the truth I just didn't believe it could work for me this is a big moment this is a moment where you step out of the bleachers and you got to get on the playing field that's the person who says if this works and I believe it works I got to prove it to myself I got to actually I got to actually prove it to myself that I believe that it could work for
1:04:19 me and some of them show up every day for a year and never miss their work never miss their meditation a whole year and changing from the old self to the new self they were doing their meditations to change not to heal they were doing their meditations to change and when they changed they healed they did their meditation sometimes three times a day because they stopped believing they stopped disbelieving and they were like I defaulted why because I'm feeling the emotion of my past some stray thought some response to someone or something caused me to feel that I forgot I'm back to the emotion that's familiar and I can't believe in that future I'm believing in my past let me sit down and change my state of being again and get up believing in my future again and sometimes they had to do it three times in one day and when they
1:05:04 understood that's the environment that signals the gene that's epigenetics and the end product of an experience in the environment is an emotion and it is you could actually signal genes ahead of the environment by
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