1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,900 The 2 00:00:54,899 --> 00:00:55,899 world. 3 00:00:55,899 --> 00:00:59,759 However, is it possible that you can learn how to control your inner world of thoughts 4 00:00:59,759 --> 00:01:00,759 and feelings? 5 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:03,259 I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza. 6 00:01:03,259 --> 00:01:08,480 And in the previous episode, we went into depth on the ancient practice of meditation 7 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,259 and what it means to be truly present. 8 00:01:11,259 --> 00:01:16,599 In this episode, we're going to identify different kinds of stress, show you the... 9 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:19,620 of stress, how it can create illness in your body. 10 00:01:19,620 --> 00:01:23,960 And once you understand what stress can do to you, it's my hope that the information 11 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,000 you learn will empower you to make some important changes in your life. 12 00:01:42,039 --> 00:01:44,079 There are three types of stress. 13 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:49,560 There's physical stress, chemical stress, and emotional stress. 14 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:57,960 Now, physical stress are things like traumas, accidents, injuries, falls, chemical stress, 15 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:07,120 flus, bacteria, viruses, blood sugar levels, toxins in food, emotional stress, family... 16 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,199 second mortgages, single parenting, traffic jams. 17 00:02:12,199 --> 00:02:18,039 And all of these different stressors, whether they're physical, chemical, or emotional, 18 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:21,239 knock your brain and body out of balance. 19 00:02:21,239 --> 00:02:26,919 In fact, the definition of stress is when your brain and body are knocked out of... 20 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:35,120 Now, the stress response is what your body innately does to return itself back to order. 21 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,120 When you or any organism in nature begins to perceive a danger or a threat in their 22 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:44,879 external environment, they turn on a primitive nervous system called the... 23 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:46,359 nervous system. 24 00:02:46,359 --> 00:02:52,479 And when the person or the organism is perceiving that danger, the body innately... 25 00:02:52,479 --> 00:02:56,840 mobilize enormous amounts of energy and resources. 26 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,759 All of its energy now is being mobilized to be able to adapt to the stress in the... 27 00:03:02,759 --> 00:03:08,599 So then we begin to tap the body's vital resources so that we can survive the... 28 00:03:08,599 --> 00:03:11,280 outer world. 29 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:17,719 All organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress, whether it's a zebra be... 30 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:22,560 by a lion or whether it's a pack of coyotes chasing a deer. 31 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:28,639 The moment the organism perceives that danger and switches on that emergency system, there 32 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:34,599 is a rush of adrenaline and a rush of energy, and there is an arousal that takes place 33 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:36,400 in the brain and body. 34 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,620 And those chemicals then alter our normal homeostasis. 35 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:46,480 And in that state of survival, we switch on that sympathetic nervous system, or what's 36 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,319 called the fight-or-flight nervous system, and our pupils dilate, our salivary juices 37 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:52,319 shut down. 38 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:53,759 It's not a time to eat. 39 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:55,580 Our heart rate increases. 40 00:03:55,580 --> 00:03:57,860 Our respiratory rate increases. 41 00:03:57,860 --> 00:04:02,200 Blood is sent to the extremities, and it's shut down in the internal organs because it's 42 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:07,679 a time to run, it's a time to fight, or it's a time to hide. 43 00:04:07,679 --> 00:04:15,319 Now, if the zebra or the deer outrun the predator, 30 minutes later, the stress... 44 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:20,360 to switch off, and the body returns back to balance. 45 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,680 After there's a stress response, many organisms need to rest and repair because ... 46 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,959 has to come back online and regenerate and conserve energy. 47 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:37,680 What if, though, you're being chased by T. rex and you're turning on that primitive 48 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,680 nervous system called the fight-or-flight nervous system? 49 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,079 And the moment you perceive that threat and you're in danger and now you're running from 50 00:04:45,079 --> 00:04:48,319 the predator, that's very adaptive. 51 00:04:48,319 --> 00:04:52,959 But what if, then, the predator is waiting outside the cave and waiting for you to go 52 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,799 out and get some food? 53 00:04:54,799 --> 00:05:00,919 We could say, then, that your ability to sustain a certain stress response would be... 54 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,680 But what if it isn't T. rex outside the cave? 55 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,480 What if it's your coworker? 56 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,000 What if it's your mother-in-law? 57 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,500 What if it's your boss? 58 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:11,120 What if it's traffic? 59 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,520 And what was once highly adaptive becomes very maladaptive. 60 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:21,480 Because when you turn on the stress response and you can't turn it off, now you're headed 61 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:29,000 for disease because no organism can live in emergency mode for an extended period of... 62 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:30,319 I've been doing this with me. 63 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:35,720 If you keep mobilizing enormous amounts of energy for some threat in your outer world, 64 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,720 there's no energy in your inner world for growth and repair. 65 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,759 So think of the sympathetic nervous system as the emergency system that's like the gas 66 00:05:44,759 --> 00:05:46,860 pedal in the car. 67 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:51,680 The other nervous system, called the parasympathetic nervous system, that nervo... 68 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,500 nervous system of relaxation, of regeneration, of metabolism. 69 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:03,899 So that if a person is living in a constant state of stress and they, like an addict, 70 00:06:03,899 --> 00:06:10,019 become conditioned to the rush of the arousal of those chemicals, then in time then, they 71 00:06:10,019 --> 00:06:16,860 will begin to use the problems and conditions in their life to reaffirm their conditioning 72 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:19,459 or their addiction to that emotion. 73 00:06:19,459 --> 00:06:24,660 We become so conditioned to these chemicals that, like a drug addict, we need the bad 74 00:06:24,660 --> 00:06:25,660 job. 75 00:06:25,660 --> 00:06:27,339 We need the poor relationship. 76 00:06:27,379 --> 00:06:31,500 We need a difficult situation in our life to keep getting that rush of adrenaline, 77 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:33,500 to keep getting that rush of energy. 78 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:39,500 And in a sense, people become addicted to the life they don't even like. 79 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:45,479 So then because of the size of the neocortex, the thinking brain, as you learned about, 80 00:06:45,479 --> 00:06:48,659 we can make thought more real than anything else. 81 00:06:48,659 --> 00:06:52,819 And people can begin to think about their problems. 82 00:06:52,819 --> 00:06:58,659 And as they begin to think about their problems, they can turn on the stress... 83 00:06:58,659 --> 00:07:01,379 by thought alone. 84 00:07:01,379 --> 00:07:05,579 And we now know that those chemicals can become addictive. 85 00:07:05,579 --> 00:07:09,139 And you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. 86 00:07:09,139 --> 00:07:13,939 So then you can become addicted to your own thoughts. 87 00:07:13,939 --> 00:07:21,100 So it's a scientific fact that the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the 88 00:07:21,180 --> 00:07:24,620 genetic buttons that create disease. 89 00:07:24,620 --> 00:07:29,420 And you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. 90 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:35,420 It means then that your thoughts can literally make you sick. 91 00:07:35,420 --> 00:07:41,340 And so many diseases around the world now are created by the immune system being... 92 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:45,379 or what we call immune-mediated diseases. 93 00:07:45,379 --> 00:08:04,439 So the 94 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:10,219 research study where we took 117 people and we wanted to measure their cortisol levels, 95 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:17,100 which is the stress hormone, and another chemical called IgA, immunoglobulin A. 96 00:08:17,100 --> 00:08:23,140 It's your body's primary defense against bacteria and viruses. 97 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:27,980 So as cortisol levels go up and you're mobilizing enormous amounts of energy for... 98 00:08:27,980 --> 00:08:31,060 in your outer world, the immune system dials down. 99 00:08:31,060 --> 00:08:35,660 And now the immune system becomes compromised because all of the energy is going for a... 100 00:08:35,660 --> 00:08:36,660 in the outer world. 101 00:08:36,660 --> 00:08:38,660 Our immune system becomes suppressed. 102 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:42,219 So typically IgA levels go down. 103 00:08:42,219 --> 00:08:48,379 So we measured the cortisol and IgA levels and we put them through four days of... 104 00:08:48,379 --> 00:08:56,500 And we asked them to trade emotions like anger and frustration and hatred and viole... 105 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:00,100 aggression and competition and fear. 106 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:04,000 Those are all the chemicals that are derived from the stress hormones. 107 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:10,039 We asked them to trade those survival emotions for elevated emotions, heartfelt... 108 00:09:10,039 --> 00:09:16,600 like gratitude, appreciation, kindness, care, love for life, a joy for existence. 109 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:22,080 And all we wanted them to do for 10 minutes a day was open their hearts and begin to feel 110 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,240 those elevated emotions. 111 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:30,679 At the end of three and a half days, we went back and we remeasured those same values. 112 00:09:30,719 --> 00:09:37,379 And their immune system, that is IgA levels, went up as a collective, about 50%. 113 00:09:37,379 --> 00:09:41,519 Their cortisol levels dropped about 16.25%. 114 00:09:41,519 --> 00:09:47,719 Their stress hormones went down and their immune system upregulated to a great degree. 115 00:09:47,719 --> 00:09:52,719 That means then when you begin to make a change in the way you think and the way yo... 116 00:09:52,719 --> 00:09:56,879 and you begin to change your attitude and you begin to open your heart again and feel 117 00:09:56,879 --> 00:10:03,279 an elevated emotion, it is those elevated emotions that begin to restore and repair 118 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:05,299 the immune system. 119 00:10:05,299 --> 00:10:10,200 So then there's three things when you're living by the hormones of stress that you 120 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:11,700 keep your attention on. 121 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:12,700 Think about it. 122 00:10:12,700 --> 00:10:17,840 If you're being chased by a predator, all of your attention is on your outer environment. 123 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,039 Where are you going to go? 124 00:10:19,039 --> 00:10:20,740 What place do you need to move to? 125 00:10:20,740 --> 00:10:22,960 What object do you need to move past? 126 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,460 And when you're under the gun of those chemicals, you're thinking about time. 127 00:10:27,460 --> 00:10:29,820 How much time do I have to get there? 128 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:33,720 So then the body, the environment and time. 129 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,680 And if where you place your attention is where you place your energy, it makes sens... 130 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:42,680 if all of your attention is on your body, all of your attention is on your environment 131 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:47,200 and all of your attention is on time, then you are putting all of your attention in this 132 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,960 three-dimensional reality. 133 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:53,860 Now you have to play by the rules of this three-dimensional reality and everything 134 00:10:53,860 --> 00:10:57,860 that you create will take time. 135 00:10:57,860 --> 00:11:03,240 When people are under the gun of those chemicals, they're drawing from this... 136 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,019 of energy surrounding their body, this vital life force, and they're using it to make 137 00:11:08,019 --> 00:11:14,519 chemistry and the field around their body shrinks and they become more matter and less 138 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:18,240 energy, more particle and less wave. 139 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:23,879 And the very hormones of stress heighten our senses so that we become a materialist. 140 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:28,419 And the more altered we feel from that stress response or by the emotional reaction from 141 00:11:28,419 --> 00:11:34,299 some threat or danger, the more we narrow our focus on the cause or the object. 142 00:11:34,299 --> 00:11:39,159 And when we do that, all of a sudden we are focusing only on matter. 143 00:11:39,159 --> 00:11:45,480 And so people over time get hooked in or habituated into narrowing their focus. 144 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,960 So then when you're living in emergency mode, it's not a time to create. 145 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,240 It's not a time to open your heart. 146 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,680 It's not a time to learn anything new. 147 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,000 It's not a time to sit still and go within. 148 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,700 In fact, if the survival gene is switched on, you'd be thinking on some level innately 149 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:09,320 that it's not a time to sit still because you would be prey. 150 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,860 So then the more people are conditioned or addicted to the hormones of stress, the more 151 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:19,259 their attention is on matter, the more they begin to experience separation from everyone 152 00:12:19,259 --> 00:12:21,340 and everything. 153 00:12:21,340 --> 00:12:27,379 Now if stress is created by the feeling that you're losing control in your life, that 154 00:12:27,379 --> 00:12:32,379 you can't predict an outcome, or you have the perception that something or someone is 155 00:12:32,379 --> 00:12:38,060 causing situations in your life to get worse, then if you're living by the hormones of... 156 00:12:38,060 --> 00:12:43,600 on a daily basis, then what we try to do is we try to control everything in our life. 157 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,600 When we're feeling loss of control, we try to predict the next moment based on our memories 158 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:49,840 of the past. 159 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:54,040 That means people under stress are craving the known. 160 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:59,480 They're trying to get back to the familiar or the known because in survival, the unknown 161 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,000 is a scary place. 162 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:07,519 So then as they begin to shift their attention from one person to one problem t... 163 00:13:07,519 --> 00:13:12,820 person to another problem to another thing to another place, each one of those elements 164 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:18,460 has a neurological network in the brain and the arousal of those chemicals then begin 165 00:13:18,460 --> 00:13:23,220 to cause those different circuits as you shift your attention to begin to become... 166 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:29,780 activated and now the brain is functioning in a very incoherent state. 167 00:13:29,780 --> 00:13:35,100 And the arousal of those chemicals drives the brain into a very, very highly analytical 168 00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:37,580 over-focused state. 169 00:13:37,580 --> 00:13:38,580 Think about it. 170 00:13:38,580 --> 00:13:42,300 When you're under stress, have you noticed that you keep thinking about the same problem 171 00:13:42,299 --> 00:13:43,939 over and over again? 172 00:13:43,939 --> 00:13:48,779 Because the very hormones of stress cause you to narrow your focus on the cause because 173 00:13:48,779 --> 00:13:52,259 that's what you do when you're living in survival. 174 00:13:52,259 --> 00:13:57,699 And in fact, out of the infinite possibilities that exist in your reality,... 175 00:13:57,699 --> 00:14:03,819 addicted or living in that stressful state, they'll always select the worst case scenario 176 00:14:03,819 --> 00:14:06,659 in their mind and prepare for the worst. 177 00:14:06,659 --> 00:14:08,179 Why is that? 178 00:14:08,179 --> 00:14:13,419 Because in survival, if you prepare for the worst, anything less that happens, you have 179 00:14:13,419 --> 00:14:16,659 a better chance of surviving. 180 00:14:16,659 --> 00:14:20,859 So people spend the majority of their life preparing for the worst thing that could 181 00:14:20,859 --> 00:14:23,859 happen to them when they're living in the stressful state. 182 00:14:23,859 --> 00:14:32,059 And it turns out that 70% of the time, most people are living in survival. 183 00:14:32,059 --> 00:14:37,099 So then when you react to someone or something, there's a refractory period of... 184 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:40,139 that's created from your emotional reaction. 185 00:14:40,139 --> 00:14:45,500 And if you don't know how to regulate or stop that emotional reaction, and you keep 186 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:53,100 that same reaction lingering for hours or days, that's called a mood. 187 00:14:53,100 --> 00:14:58,460 If you keep that same refractory period going for weeks to months on end, that's called 188 00:14:58,460 --> 00:15:00,899 the temperament. 189 00:15:00,899 --> 00:15:06,540 If you keep that same emotional reaction going on for years on end, that's called t... 190 00:15:06,539 --> 00:15:07,539 trait. 191 00:15:07,539 --> 00:15:14,459 And most people's personalities then are defined by experiences from the past. 192 00:15:14,459 --> 00:15:18,899 So now that you understand that stress is when the brain and body are knocked out of 193 00:15:18,899 --> 00:15:24,779 balance, and you understand that the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons and create 194 00:15:24,779 --> 00:15:33,379 disease, it begs the question, is there anyone or anything truly worth living in t... 195 00:15:33,379 --> 00:15:39,399 So then if people are living in chronic stress, and they're drawing from this... 196 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:45,860 of energy surrounding their body, and they're mobilizing that vital life force to make... 197 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:50,620 and the field around their body is shrinking, and they're feeling more like matter and 198 00:15:50,620 --> 00:15:56,500 less like energy, more like particle and less like wave, and they feel separate or... 199 00:15:56,500 --> 00:16:01,460 from everyone and everything in their life, well, when you're matter trying to change 200 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:08,180 matter, we tend to force outcomes, control outcomes, try to predict outcomes, and... 201 00:16:08,180 --> 00:16:13,180 only a certain number of resources that we have when we're matter trying to change... 202 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:19,500 We'll compete, we'll fight for it, we'll manipulate, we'll try harder, we'll hope,... 203 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:23,180 because we're experiencing separation. 204 00:16:23,180 --> 00:16:28,680 And yes, you may accomplish your dreams, but if you're matter trying to change matter, 205 00:16:28,679 --> 00:16:33,759 and all of your attention is on your body, the environment and time, then everything 206 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:40,639 you create in your life will take time, because you'll have to move your body thro... 207 00:16:40,639 --> 00:16:45,000 and when you move your body through space, it's going to take time for you to get what 208 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,639 you want. 209 00:16:46,639 --> 00:16:51,159 So you may want a house, you may want a new car, you may want a new experience, a new 210 00:16:51,159 --> 00:16:56,620 vacation, but you're going to have to drag your body to work every day to make the money 211 00:16:56,700 --> 00:16:59,139 to pay for those things. 212 00:16:59,139 --> 00:17:03,460 And yes, you may arrive at your goals, but you may have to work harder, and it may take 213 00:17:03,460 --> 00:17:07,660 some time to get it. 214 00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:12,700 There's another state of mind and body that you can live in, and that's called living 215 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:14,700 in creation. 216 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:19,279 And it's the exact opposite of living in survival. 217 00:17:19,279 --> 00:17:24,859 If the hormones of stress create incoherence in the brain, as well as incoherence in the 218 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:29,659 heart, what we've found is that when people are living by those states, what if they 219 00:17:29,659 --> 00:17:35,099 had the ability to go from a narrow focus, or what's called a convergent focus, to what's 220 00:17:35,099 --> 00:17:39,859 called a divergent focus, or a broad focus, or an open focus? 221 00:17:39,859 --> 00:17:46,459 And it turns out when people take their attention off their body, when they take... 222 00:17:46,459 --> 00:17:51,519 off the people in their lives, when they're no longer putting any attention on the things 223 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:55,480 they own, like their cell phone, their computer, their car, they're not thinking... 224 00:17:55,480 --> 00:18:00,359 place they need to go or the place they're sitting, and they're not thinking about time 225 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,279 in and of itself. 226 00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:08,599 They are disinvesting all of their attention and all of their energy out of this... 227 00:18:08,599 --> 00:18:09,599 reality. 228 00:18:09,599 --> 00:18:13,920 Because they have no attention on it, it makes sense then that they're beginning to... 229 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,039 their brain state. 230 00:18:16,039 --> 00:18:19,859 So then we've taught people how to broaden their focus. 231 00:18:19,859 --> 00:18:26,779 When they open their focus and sense nothing but space, when they open their awareness 232 00:18:26,779 --> 00:18:32,599 and they tune in to the energy or the frequency out here, and instead of putting... 233 00:18:32,599 --> 00:18:38,939 on matter, they're putting their attention on energy, the act of opening their awareness 234 00:18:38,939 --> 00:18:44,559 causes them to stop thinking, to stop analyzing. 235 00:18:44,559 --> 00:18:49,779 And if they're no longer thinking and they're no longer analyzing, they're no longer... 236 00:18:49,779 --> 00:18:51,940 these circuits in the brain. 237 00:18:51,940 --> 00:18:57,200 All of a sudden, they begin to slow down brain activity and they start getting beyo... 238 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:58,740 analytical mind. 239 00:18:58,740 --> 00:19:06,079 And as they suppress the neocortex, the memory bank of the autobiographical self,... 240 00:19:06,079 --> 00:19:13,960 to suppress everything known in their three-dimensional reality and they turn of... 241 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,799 They begin to regulate their brain waves and slow them down. 242 00:19:17,819 --> 00:19:20,759 All of a sudden, something magical happens. 243 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:26,159 The act of opening their awareness causes different compartments of the brain that were 244 00:19:26,159 --> 00:19:29,460 subdivided like a house against itself. 245 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:35,159 All of a sudden, to begin to synchronize, to begin to unify, you start to seek neurons, 246 00:19:35,159 --> 00:19:38,480 beginning to join larger communities of neurons. 247 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:44,440 What was once an incoherent brain begins to become more organized and more coherent. 248 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:51,240 Now, the chronic stress creates a thyroid condition called Graves' disease. 249 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,920 And the person develops what's called myasthenia gravis. 250 00:19:54,920 --> 00:20:00,279 And the side effect of that, aside from a tremendous lack of energy, is double vision. 251 00:20:00,279 --> 00:20:07,279 Now, this person said, I've created this condition now that I understood that I've... 252 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:10,620 my thoughts and feelings and my emotional reactions. 253 00:20:10,659 --> 00:20:15,539 If I created this condition by pushing the genetic buttons every single day, and it's 254 00:20:15,539 --> 00:20:20,199 taken me a couple years, I lost my marriage, I lost my business, I have to get beyond 255 00:20:20,199 --> 00:20:24,899 that story and I have to tell a new story, I have to start believing in my future more 256 00:20:24,899 --> 00:20:29,619 than I've been believing in my past, is it possible then that I can begin to make those 257 00:20:29,619 --> 00:20:32,179 significant changes? 258 00:20:32,179 --> 00:20:37,579 And as the person started overcoming the stress hormones and taught her brain and b... 259 00:20:37,579 --> 00:20:43,619 to create coherence, the side effect of it was the body came back to balance. 260 00:20:43,619 --> 00:20:48,980 Her vision is now perfect, her thyroid hormones are moving back into balance, and... 261 00:20:48,980 --> 00:20:52,899 her brain and body back into homeostasis. 262 00:20:52,899 --> 00:20:58,019 And in a sense then, she healed herself of the condition because her autonomic nervous 263 00:20:58,019 --> 00:21:03,579 system got back into doing its job, which is to create order and balance. 264 00:21:03,579 --> 00:21:08,559 So then, when we live in two states of mind and body, living in survival is living in 265 00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:10,119 our animal state. 266 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,379 When we live in survival, we live in stress. 267 00:21:12,379 --> 00:21:16,500 And we live in stress, there's contraction that takes place in the body. 268 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:22,539 And because we're using a lot of the body's resources, we experience what's called... 269 00:21:22,539 --> 00:21:24,299 or tissue breakdown. 270 00:21:24,299 --> 00:21:29,460 When the body's in that state, there's disease or imbalance, there's degeneration... 271 00:21:29,460 --> 00:21:31,220 place in the body. 272 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:37,299 The emotions of fear, anger, sadness are the primary emotions of survival. 273 00:21:37,299 --> 00:21:39,240 The self comes first. 274 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:42,819 When you're living in that state, all of your attention is on your environment, all of your 275 00:21:42,819 --> 00:21:46,460 attention is on your body, all of your attention is on time. 276 00:21:46,460 --> 00:21:49,100 There's always energy lost in the system. 277 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:55,680 We're living in emergency mode, we're narrow-focused or object-focused, we... 278 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,860 we're determining reality with our senses. 279 00:21:57,859 --> 00:22:01,539 In other words, if we can't see it, if we can't smell it, if we can't taste it, if 280 00:22:01,539 --> 00:22:04,699 we can't hear it, we can't feel it, it doesn't exist. 281 00:22:04,699 --> 00:22:06,579 We're living by cause and effect. 282 00:22:06,579 --> 00:22:10,979 We're waiting for our environment to change, to give us the relief from the discomfort 283 00:22:10,979 --> 00:22:13,019 that we're feeling inside of us. 284 00:22:13,019 --> 00:22:18,500 In survival and in stress, we don't see many possibilities because it's not a time to... 285 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:21,859 The brain and heart function in a very incoherent state. 286 00:22:21,859 --> 00:22:26,419 And in survival, we are craving the known because the unknown is just too much of a 287 00:22:26,779 --> 00:22:28,100 scary place. 288 00:22:28,100 --> 00:22:35,300 Now, when we begin to create the creative state, we could call that the divine aspect 289 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:36,580 of us. 290 00:22:36,580 --> 00:22:40,820 In creation, the brain and body move back into homeostasis. 291 00:22:40,820 --> 00:22:44,840 There's an expansion of energy, a release of energy from the tissues. 292 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,460 The body goes into anabolism or tissue repair. 293 00:22:48,460 --> 00:22:52,860 There's health, there's order, there's regeneration taking place in the body. 294 00:22:52,859 --> 00:23:00,259 Elevated, heartfelt emotions like love, joy, trust, knowingness, gratitude, begin to... 295 00:23:00,259 --> 00:23:04,619 all these new chemicals that begin to repair and regenerate the body. 296 00:23:04,619 --> 00:23:10,559 When we're in this heartfelt state, we tend to be less selfish and more selfless. 297 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:16,059 We have our attention now, no longer on our body, on the things in our life, the people 298 00:23:16,059 --> 00:23:20,099 in our life, on our environment, or on time itself. 299 00:23:20,099 --> 00:23:23,219 Reality is always created in the creative process. 300 00:23:23,219 --> 00:23:24,539 There's growth and repair. 301 00:23:24,539 --> 00:23:26,659 We broaden or open our focus. 302 00:23:26,659 --> 00:23:31,299 And when we do that properly, we start feeling less separate and more connected t... 303 00:23:31,299 --> 00:23:32,299 greater. 304 00:23:32,299 --> 00:23:36,299 We start to imagine and dream of a reality beyond our senses. 305 00:23:36,299 --> 00:23:38,939 Now we're interested in causing an effect. 306 00:23:38,939 --> 00:23:42,819 We're looking at all possibilities instead of limited possibilities. 307 00:23:42,819 --> 00:23:49,899 The brain and heart go into coherence, and now the unknown becomes the adventure. 308 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:51,519 Why is that important? 309 00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:58,259 Because if we're going to create something new in our life, we have to crave the... 310 00:23:58,259 --> 00:24:03,180 Now that I've shown you the difference between living in survival and living in... 311 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:08,300 I want to explore the different brainwave states and what you can do to use your mind 312 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,420 to begin to consciously change your own brainwaves. 313 00:24:11,420 --> 00:24:16,100 In the next episode, I want to show you what's happening inside your head when you... 314 00:24:17,099 --> 00:24:18,740 survival and when you live in creation. 315 00:24:18,740 --> 00:24:22,299 That is coherence versus incoherence. 316 00:24:22,299 --> 00:24:27,219 I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza for Rewired, and I hope to see you in the next episode 317 00:24:27,219 --> 00:24:30,219 where we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.