Transcription
I like to give people a challenge. I'm curious. I want everyone listening for the next seven days to try something. And if you could give one to three different things that we could think differently or eliminate when a thought comes to us or we react in a certain way, if there's something you think that we eliminated one, two, or three things, and we did this every day for seven days, we would start to see incredible feelings of differently. We would feel healthier, more lively, more love. What would be those few things?
Okay, well, most people, number one, they get up in the morning, and the first thing they do is they think about the problems in their life. And those problems are memories from the past. So the moment they think about the problems, they're thinking in the past, right? Every one of those problems has an emotion attached to them. So they start feeling unhappy or unworthy or whatever. And how you think and how you feel is your state of being. So most people's entire state of being is in the past when they start today. So if they're in the familiar past, they're going to live in a predictable future, right? So they get up and they check their cell phone, they check their text, their WhatsApp, their Facebook, they post something on Facebook, they tweet, they Twitter, they check the news. Then they go to the bathroom, get a cup of coffee, take a shower, get dressed, check more emails, drive to work, the same way, do the same thing. So they're in a program. They've actually lost their free will to the program. Wow.
So if you start your day, and you start your day with this simple question, "What is the greatest ideal of myself that I can be today?" You ask yourself that question. Now, listen, your body's going to go like, "Well, you got to get a cup of coffee and you got to go, I'm tired." Yeah. And you got to go, "Ah, you're not the mind. I'm the mind right now. You're going to sit here. I'm going to feed you. You're going to get your coffee. You're going to do all those things. But right now, this is my time. You're going to obey me, right?" So now the body's no longer the mind. You're the mind. And so when it wants to get up, and you become aware of it and return back to the present moment, every time you do that, that's a victory. And you're changing some aspect of yourself.
So then ask yourself, I do this all the time. Write down four thoughts that you're going to stay conscious of the whole day. "I can't. It's too hard." You'd be surprised. The moment you become conscious of what those thoughts are, how unconscious you've been to them all day, you know, for weeks on end. Write down what you speak, how you speak, four things you want to change. How you act. How do you, how do you act? Do you complain? Do you blame? You make excuses? You feel sorry for yourself? That's a victim consciousness. What emotions do you live by? Is it possible that you're so used to living by guilt, you don't even know it's guilt? It just feels like you. You allow your energy to drop. Become conscious of those states of mind and body and review them and say, "This is the old self." Then say, "What thoughts do I want to fire and wire in my brain and start firing and wiring and start feeling it? What behaviors will I demonstrate today? What choices will I make?" One day, one lifetime. And just like you did, rehearse them. Rehearse the whole entire thing. Begin to install the neurological hardware in your brain. And if you keep installing it, the hardware is going to become a software program. You're going to start thinking and acting that way.
And then, here's the tough part. Can you teach your body emotionally what your future is going to feel like before it's made manifest? And don't get up until you feel that way. Now, practice that for a few days, and then see if you can stay in that state. And watch all of a sudden, all those weird doors start opening for you. Synchronicities, synchronicities, whatever they are.
Number two, take up time at the end of your day. The end of your day, before you lay down, and give thanks for your life and feel gratitude. And really teach your body what it feels like, the emotional signature of gratitude. When gratitude means you're getting something. If I give you something that's of value, you would say thank you because you would feel it, right? So when you're receiving, you're giving thanks. So gratitude is the ultimate state of receiving. So then people only accept, believe, and surrender to the thoughts equal to their emotional state. So if you're in a state of gratitude, every thought going to make it right down into your body. If you're saying, "I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, wealthy, wealthy," and your body's programmed the negativity, it's saying, "No, you're not. No, you're not." Knowing that thought is going to stop right here. So as you elevate your state, there are about 1200 different chemical reactions that go on in the body that begin to restore and repair the body in a state of gratitude. And so we've done the research to prove that 10 minutes and just feel it with all of your heart. That's it.
Third thing, and and very important, take time whenever it is, sit down, close your eyes, and begin to just open your awareness to the space around you and just sense it and pay attention to it and become more aware of it. The act of opening your awareness begins to reduce the stress hormones and creates more coherent brain wave states. I'm doing it right now, and it's just a practice. Yeah, it's just a practice. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Wow. Who's been your greatest teacher? Ooh, life. No doubt about it. I believe that life is our initiation. I mean, I, I do my best to see my life as a reflection of my mind. And I think that, and I think that life is our greatest teacher. Reflection of your mind is essentially like what you've created is a reflection of how you've been thinking. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So if you're showing up sick physically, then that's what you've created. I don't believe the germs make me sick. I believe I make me sick. I do. I mean, there's no germs with my name on it out there. I mean, they're called opportunistic bacteria because they're waiting for an opportunity for your immune system to be compromised. And so for me, personally, you have to ask yourself this question every day, at what point do I stop believing that I create my life? What, what is that point? So I'm always pushing that envelope a little bit more. So for me, I think life is our initiation. We don't need to go to any ancient school of wisdom in the Himalayas. So our life is our initiation. And when you meet the challenges in your life from a greater level of mind, you're going to begin to move through those initiations. And what is the side effect of that wisdom? And that's what we take with us. Yeah. Being wise, powerful. Wow. Yeah.
How can we connect with you online and go to your events? What's the best place to go to see everything? Yeah, so my website is just drjoedispenza.com. Drjoethespenza.com. And there's just a ton of resources there. We have an online progressive course. Now, I don't teach those courses anymore because my interest is in the week-longs. So for people who come to a week-long, they do a, a home study course where they get the basics, they understand what we're doing. Uh, it's about 23 hours. They can do it in however long they want. And, and then with that comes another study course. And then they can come to a week-long and join a community of people that are all about passion and the unknown. Amazing. Yeah. Amazing.
When's the next event? Um, well, the next event, gosh, the next week-long is in Toronto, uh, September 1st through 7th. And, uh, it's pretty close to sold out. Yeah. Then we'll be in the, uh, in Australia in October, and then the UK in November, and then Cancun, Mexico in December. And then I got, you know, where I got a couple events that I'm doing here and there. Other things. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah.
Um, a couple final questions for you. And this one's called the three truths. Let me ask everyone at the end. If you imagine it's your last day, many years from now, and you've achieved or created or been anything you've wanted to do, you've done it all, right? Everything you can think of has happened, created it, books, events, whatever you want to do, heal the world, you've done it all. Um, but for whatever reason, you've got to take everything with you, all your writings, your research material, videos, events, it's not available for anyone to have anymore. But you have a piece of paper, and you get to write down three things you know to be true about your life or the lessons that you would leave behind. And this is the only lessons that they would have access to. What would you say are your three truths?
Wow. Uh, number one is that the divine lives in every human being. And that, uh, we have to make an effort to connect with it every day. And when we do, it answers the call in ways that we would just never anticipate. And I know that to be the truth. And that nobody is so special to be excluded from that phenomenon.
Number two is that we are the creators of our lives, and not the victims of our lives. And that taking time in your life to invest in yourself is to invest in a future. And when you invest in yourself, you invest in your future. When you believe in yourself, you believe in possibility. And I think that everybody secretly believes in themselves. And so taking time to understand that we are just works in progress and, and to find time to forgive ourselves and to forgive others and start fresh the next day is a blessing. Is a blessing.
And, and finally, uh, um, I think that it, it's not our purpose in life to be popular or successful or beautiful or or intelligent. Our purpose in life is to remove those blocks, those vowels, those limitations that stand in the way between us and that divine intelligence. And when we do, it begins to make its way through us. And we become more like it. We become more loving. It is a loving intelligence. We become more giving. It's a giver of life. We become more conscious. It's a consciousness. We become more mindful. It has an infinite mind. We become more willful. It has an amazing will. Its nature becomes our nature. Its mind becomes our mind. And, and then we don't have to try to be liked or try to be important or try to be recognized. We're just happy for no reason at all. And I think that is the natural state of being. And I think that we innately know that on some level.
Great truths. If you want to learn more about how to master your mind, check out this next video right here. So when people begin to disengage and get beyond themselves, you are at your absolute best when you get beyond yourself. And getting the person to that point, how does someone get to that point? Yeah, so we teach them that formula. We teach them.