Use Your Thoughts to Optimize Your Health - Dr Joe Dispenza

[Music] we have three types of stress that we process in the physical body we have physical stress that's like trauma accidents injuries Falls and then you have chemical stress like toxins or pesticides or pollutants or viruses or bacteria or hangovers or nutritional deficiencies and then you have emotional stress right and emotional stress could be family tragedies car accidents second mortgages single parenting 401ks you know whatever that is but each one of those things physical chemical or emotional knock the body out of homeostasis out of Regulation out of balance the innate capacity of the body when it's not overstressed is that it wants to always return back and regulate it wants to return back to homeostasis it wants to return back to order and that's inate in us that's an automatic process that's running through the autonomic nervous system so we could say the job of the autonomic nervous system is to create balance and Regulation and homeostasis and it's automatic and that part of the brain sits under the thinking neocortex and it's called the chemical brain or the emotional brain or the lyic brain or the mamelon brain and it has all of those functions that make blood sugar balanced hormone levels digestive enzymes it's it's it's it's doing what it can to take the body and constantly repair it and regenerate it and move it back into balance all of those stressors knock the brain and body out of balance and the innate mechanism the stress response brings it back to balance well it just makes sense if you keep knocking it out of balance over and over again and you keep moving it out of homeostasis that imbalance is going to become the new balance and now you're headed for disease because that autonomic automatic system can't regulate order in the body so a system then is compromised the system breaks down and so if it's physical trauma you know your body can heal if you rest it if it's chemical imbalance you take your uh Pharmaceuticals or you take your nutriceuticals your vitamins your minerals your herbs you intermittent fast you do anything you can to get the body back so that it's using more energy for growth and repair but the big factor is emotional stress 75 to 90% of every person that walks into a Healthcare facility in the Western World walks in because of psychological or emotional stress pretty much four out of five people what's really causing their health condition is that they're emotionally stressed and emotionally out of balance okay so what are the emotions that are connected to the stress hormones it's anger it's hatred it's frustration it's competition it's control it's judgment it's Envy it's jealousy it's insecurity it's fear it's anxiety it's worry it's angst it's uh hopelessness it's powerlessness it's guilt it shame its unworthiness you know and psychology calls these normal human States Of Consciousness these are Altered States Of Consciousness so our response to someone or something in in our environment or our response to our own thought an image of what could happen in the future a memory of the past could actually cause chemicals to be secreted from the brain that causes the body to actually believe it's living in that same environment of fear or danger right so that thought when you're seeing that thought in your mind or remembering that image it's the image and the emotion it's the thought and the feeling it's the stimulus and response that's immediately conditioning the body into that state of imbalance so it's a scientific fact that the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons and create disease if you can turn on that stress response just by thought alone your thoughts are literally going to make you sick that's the greatest example of the Mind Body Connection so the next fundamental question is okay if our thoughts could make us sick is it possible that my thoughts could make me well well if that's the case then then I'm going to have to manage my attention and I'm going to have to manage my energy because where I place my attention is where I place my energy and I'm going to have to inhibit that thought that has conditioned the body to subconsciously be the mind and the body is so objective that it does not know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone to the body it's exactly the same so the body's believing it's being chased by a predator the body is believing it's in an offensive situation where it has to attack the body's believing it's constantly needing to be ready and it's it's constantly out of homeostasis is constantly out of balance it's in emergency it's in fight ORF flight it's a different system the autonomic nervous system where you're stepping on the gas where you're you're mobilizing enormous amounts of energy for some threat some Danger real or imagined but that thought and that feeling the image the emotion the stimulus response is conditioning the body to automatically be the mind of that emotion now the body becomes conditioned and addicted now this gets to be a problem because people get addicted to their own thoughts and they become addicted to the life they don't even like because the response to the coworker to the boss to the ex is actually giving them Rush of energy A Rush of agine and they're they're associating that Rush of energy with some problem or condition in their life and now come time to change and manage your attention and manage your emotion it's no different than Breaking addiction to anything there's Cravings the body wants to return back to how it's been conditioned into the familiar past into the gnome the body starts saying to the mind you can it's too hard you'll never change this is too uncomfortable I don't like this go back to make the same Choice do the same thing create the same experience feel the same emotion so you can return back to the known and that's how people seamlessly return back to that same identity so we only accept believe and surrender to the thoughts that are equal to our emotional state we'll never accept believe and surrender any thoughts that are not equal to your emotional state so you could say I'm abundant I'm Eternal I'll live forever I'm healthy and wealthy and if you're programmed your body into that emotional state it's going to say you you're not that take a person whose identity is resentment and their identity is anger and and frustration and betrayal and you ask them why are you this way and they'll say I'm this way because of this event that happened to me 15 years ago strong are the emotion we feel from some event the more altered we feel inside of us the more that chemical continuity is disrupted from something that surprises us that alters our state the more the brain freezes a frame and takes a snapshot that's called a memory but the problem is that we think about that event over and over again after it happens we're producing the same chemistry in the brain and body as if the event was occurring and so the body is conditioned literally into the past so you say a person's resentful about everything they're seeing their life through the lens of resentment and frustration and anger and everything's upsetting them well that's a self-fulfilling prophecy you say okay now it's an addiction you got to change that and the person goes oh okay that makes sense and now now you got to get out of the bleachers on the playing field say okay these emotions could literally have something to do with my health just saying if I stop feeling these emotions what if I start feeling these emotions okay what would be the emotions that would make me happy these emotions are making me feel really bad the memories are making me feel really bad can I remember a future how would I feel if my future could happen I got to trade those emotions for different emotions well if I've been practicing feeling these emotions and I've conditioned my body be the mind it's going to take some time for me to start making different chemistry with the intention of making that chemistry getting my body back into homeostasis and balance work on my breath when I breathe I change my state practice breathing work with your body so it can start to relax so that it feels safe enough to feel something other than that again and if it takes you 3 weeks it would be worth it so then person then starts okay I really know how to feel gratitude okay well maybe start going out and giving and give to people I promise you start giving you start feeling grateful and then start practicing feeling gratitude teach your body just for 15 minutes a day what it would like to feel gratitude what would be like and our data shows that you take someone to do that for four days three times a day they make a immunoglobulin called immunoglobulin a it's your body's natural flu shot it's the greatest immune chemical we have 50% increase in the subjects we studied in 4 days immunoglobulin went up 50% in 4 days where is that chemistry coming from they're not taking anything it's coming from within them right what is the emotional signature of gratitude when you receive something or you just receive something when something wonderful happened to you or something wonderful is happening to you you feel grateful so now if you're in a state of gratitude it makes total sense then you will accept believe and surrender the thoughts that are equal to that emotional state and you could actually program your autonomic nervous system to make the pharmacy of chemicals that causes growth and repair to happen in the body and that's exactly what we're discovering so then when people understand why they're doing it the how gets easier so you can assign meaning to the task and switch on the prefrontal cortex and when you switch on that prefrontal cortex it wants to get an outcome it doesn't want to mess around it wants the outcome you're doing it for the outcome and that's kind of a strong intention and a change in energy or an emotional state and that's changing your state of being and when you change your state of being like that every day get ready because you're going to start having synchronicities and coincidences and weird things start happening in your life to prove to you that you're actually the creator of your life instead of the victim of your life [Music]