Gandhi said, “A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
It’s an understatement to say that the world is facing a lot of anxiety right now. COVID-19 has changed all of our lives on some level. Maybe you find yourself at home with your kids, who can’t go to school, while trying to work from home. Perhaps, you’ve been consuming more media than usual, and all you can think about is how the world might be ending (I promise, it’s not). Or maybe, you got laid off from your job, and you’re struggling to pay the bills.
Regardless of your circumstance, we’re going through some challenging and uncertain times. As a result, many of us feel high levels of anxiety right now — which is completely normal. But there is danger in obsessing over hard and scary things. Research shows that constant anxiety actually harms our body and weakens our immune system.
However, if we focus on thinking positively, we can literally make our bodies and minds healthier. Today, Dr. Joe Dispenza is joining us for the third time on The School of Greatness to teach us how to abound with creativity and hope in the midst of uncertainty. We will also discuss steps you can take to positively rewire your mind in order to heal emotionally and physically and stay healthy.
You’re going to want to grab a pen and a piece of paper because this message is full of life-changing wisdom! Let’s get to it.
Who Is Dr. Joe Dispenza?
Dr. Joe Dispenza is an international lecturer, researcher, corporate consultant, New York Times bestselling author, and educator who has spoken in more than 33 countries on six continents. As a lecturer and educator, he is driven by the conviction that each of us has the potential for greatness and unlimited abilities.
In his easy-to-understand, compassionate style, Dr. Joe has educated thousands of people on the ins-and-outs of rewiring their brains and reconditioning their bodies to make lasting changes. His most recent book, Becoming Supernatural, talks about how we can intentionally change our brain chemistry to initiate profoundly mystical and transcendental experiences while developing a more healthy body, mind, and spiritual life.
Obviously, Dr. Joe is an accomplished and influential man. But if I were going to introduce this man to you in a really chill setting, I would tell you that he is a love machine! His love for people and the work he does to help them live their most free and vibrant life is palpable even through Zoom.
What Dr. Joe shares with us today is top-level insight on how to change your brain chemistry, develop a healthier body, mind, and spiritual life, and experience a life of abundance. If you’re ready to have your mind blown and your life expand in exciting ways, keep reading!
How to Heal Trauma with Mindset Shifts
From childhood wounds to traumatic experiences, we all carry trauma with us throughout our lives. But the good news is that we don’t have to allow traumatic experiences to limit us or replay in our mind — even if they happened over a decade ago or feel like they’re suffocating us.
In fact, attendees of Dr. Joe’s events have mentally broken free from traumatic experiences and walked into the rest of their lives with hope and joyful anticipation. The best part about this is that powerful, life-changing experiences can take days! They don’t have to take years.
When I asked Dr. Joe how people at his events have traded trauma for triumph in seven days or less, he began by sharing how trauma becomes written in our minds:
“Here’s the deal with trauma. … When you’re traumatized, [it’s] by some threat or some danger or some condition in your outer world. Through your senses changing how you feel in your inner world and … [moving] into that emergency mode, … the brain takes a snapshot of [the traumatic experience]. … We remember [these] experiences better because we can remember how they feel.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Have you ever experienced something and whenever it comes to mind — whether it was traumatic or not — it comes with a powerful wave of emotions? It may be because, at the moment, you had a strong emotional response. Your strong emotional response triggered your brain to take a screenshot and store it in your long-term memory. Now, every time the experience comes to mind, you don’t just get a picture of the event, you get waves of the exact same feelings that accompanied that moment.
Dr. Joe said that the mental repetition of this experience eventually changes a person’s behavior and chemical makeup.
“[A traumatic] memory then changes the person’s biology. They think neurologically within the circuits of that experience, and they feel chemically within the boundaries of those emotions. [This is important because] how we think and feel becomes our state of being.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
Every time you review a traumatic memory, it strengthens the pathway in your mind, and you embody the feelings you experienced at that moment more and more. On the flip side, every time we think a positive thought with potent, uplifting energy, we strengthen a healthy pathway in our minds.
Dr. Joe said the people who have attended his events and reached a level of thought that was bursting with positivity are the ones who rewrite their trauma into stories of triumph:
“[When] they create an inner event that carries an amplitude of gratitude or joy or freedom and break through the chains of the past, … the body is liberated [as] you feel that elevated emotion. The stronger the emotion you feel from that breakthrough, the more you’re going to pay attention to the image in your mind. And you’re now beginning a brand new circuitry in the brain, and your body’s being conditioned into a new future by the stronger the emotion you feel.” – Dr. Joe Dispenza
By choosing to think thoughts that are brimming with hope, you can reverse some of the damage you’ve mentally done in your body. Setting yourself on a path of healing and greatness is genuinely as simple as replacing the imagery, visualization, or acknowledgment of negative emotions with joy, gratitude, peace, or acceptance!
