Interview with Joe Dispenza

  • 2012

NEUROSCIENCE - YOUR IMMORTAL MIND

A little more than twenty years ago, Joe Dispenza (from the masters of “Y que Qué saber”), was hit by an SUV when he participated in a triathlon. The diagnosis of the four surgeons he consulted coincided, he had to have surgery immediately, he had to implant Harrington bars (20 to 30 centimeters from the base of the neck to the base of the spine), since the tomography showed that the medulla was injured and that could be paralyzed at any time.

Dispenza, who was a chiropractor, knew very well what that meant: permanent disability and, most likely, constant pain. His decision was risky: he would try to help his body recover naturally, he knew everything about bones and muscles, and he devised an action plan that included self hypnosis, meditation, a diet that would help his bones to regenerate and certain Water exercises He recovered fully in record time and decided to delve into the subject.

For eight years, he studied the spontaneous remissions of diseases and was so surprised by the results that he decided to return to the university to try to explain scientifically what he had discovered: the power of our brain as executive director of the body.

Joe Dispenza studied Biochemistry at Rutgers University in New Brunswickle, in New Jersey; He obtained a doctorate in Chiropractic at Life University in Atlanta, where he graduated magna cum laude and received the Clinical Proficiency Citation Award for the extraordinary quality of his relationship with patients. Member of the International Chiropractic Honor Society, he has completed postgraduate studies in neurology, neurophysiology, brain function, cell biology, genetics, memorization, brain chemistry, aging and longevity. Since 1997 he has given lectures to more than ten thousand people in 17 countries on five continents. At the end of May he will speak in Madrid and Barcelona coinciding with the Spanish edition of his book Develop your brain.

"We can change the mentality by creating new wiring in the brain and strengthen them with our thinking"

How did you start to be interested in the brain?

I have interviewed hundreds of people who have been diagnosed with diseases - malignant and benign tumors, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory disorders, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, skeletal muscle aches, rare genetic alterations for which medical science has no solution ... -, but whose body has regenerated on its own without the help of a conventional medical intervention, such as surgery or drugs.

Miracle?

I observed that one of the main causes of these spontaneous remissions was that they had changed their way of thinking, so I went back to university and did the neurosciences career to be able to explain what was happening. When I affirm that our thoughts literally become matter, I rely on the purest scientific vanguard. Basically, those individuals changed the neurological architecture of their brain.

Stimulating curiosity of yours.

All those people who had a spontaneous remission shared four specific qualities. The first thing is that they all accepted, believed and understood that there was a superior intelligence within them, no matter if they qualified it as divine, spiritual or subconscious. The second is that they all accepted that it was their own thoughts and their own reactions that created their illness, and I can speak and cite studies on any of these topics for half an hour. There is a flourishing scientific field called psycho-neuroimmunology that demonstrates the connection between the mind and the body.

I believe him, but let's move forward in his conclusions.

The third common feature is that each person decided to reinvent themselves to become another, and current studies in neurosciences show that this is entirely possible. Finally, they had in common that during the period in which they tried to meditate or imagine what they wanted to become, there were long times when they lost track of time and space.

And what does that mean?

The frontal lobe represents 40% percent of the entire brain, and when we are really focused or focused, the frontal lobe acts as a volume control. Since it has connections with all other parts of the brain, I can reduce the volume of time and space. In other words, the circuits that have to do with moving your body, feeling it, perceiving what is outside and perceiving time go to the background, and thought becomes the experience itself, is more real than anything else . In this way the frontal lobe eliminates everything that is not a priority to focus on a single thought, and it is at that moment that the brain remakes its wiring.

What does it translate to?

What we think about and what we focus on most frequently is what defines us on a neurological scale. A recent study shows that great ideas arise when one is relaxed, thinking about other things. Between the purpose and giving up. It was previously believed that the right part of the brain is the emotional or sentimental part, the creative side, and the left, the rational or logical. But in fact, the right side of the brain is responsible for processing cognitive novelty, the new ideas that, when they are already memorized, when they become relatives, pass to the left side of the brain. It is what we know as cognitive routine.

Change the gears of the car?

All those things we do without thinking, yes. That is the reason that when a neophyte listens to music he hears it with the right side of the brain, but a professional musician does it with the left. This means that we have the opportunity to learn new things and remember them, it is the way evolution has to make the unknown known. We can change our mentality. By creating new wiring and strengthening them with our thinking, giving them priority, those we don't use tend to

disappear.

You talk about spiritual intelligence, what is that, how do you explain it from a scientific point of view?

There is nothing mystical about it. It is the same intelligence that organizes and regulates all bodily functions. This force causes our heart to beat uninterruptedly about a hundred thousand times each day without even thinking about it, and is responsible for the sixty-seven functions of the liver, although most people do not even know that this organ performs so many tasks. This intelligence knows how to maintain order between cells, tissues, organs and body systems, because it was she who created the body from two individual cells.

Is the power that gives rise to the body the power that maintains and heals it?

The brain cannot change the brain because it is only an organ, and the mind cannot change the brain because it is a product of the brain. So there has to be something that is operating in the brain to change the mindset.

How do you define that something?

Ha ha ha, that's a very philosophical question, two bottles of wine and maybe four hours, because it's about the search for being. But at the moment it is curiously science that allows us to explain that we do have control over our mind and our brain, that is, we are not an effect of our biological processes but a cause. Basically, beyond my studies on the spontaneous remissions of diseases, what I try to convey is that our thoughts cause chemical reactions that lead us to the addiction of behaviors and sensations and that when we learn how those bad habits are created, we can not only break them, but also reprogram and develop our brain so that new behaviors appear in our lives.

And the genetic predestination?

Cutting-edge scientific research is showing that genetics has the same plasticity as the brain. Genes are like switches, and it is the chemical state in which we live that causes some to be on and others off. A very interesting study has been conducted in Japan with patients dependent on type two insulin that showed how patients undergoing comedy programs normalized their blood sugar level without the need for insulin. Twenty-four genes activated only by laughing. Genes are just as plastic as our neuronal tissue.

Every time we think we manufacture chemicals?

That's right, and these substances in turn are signals that allow us to feel exactly how we were thinking. So if you have a thought of unhappiness, after a few seconds you feel unhappy. The problem is that the moment we begin to feel the way we think, we begin to think the way we feel, and that produces even more chemistry.

A vicious circle.

Yes, and so what we call the state of being is created. The repetition of these signals causes some genes to be activated and others turned off. We memorize this state as our personality, so the person says: `` I am an unhappy, negative, or guilty person, but in reality the only thing he has done is to memorize his continuity. Mica and define itself as such. Our body becomes accustomed to the level of chemical substances that circulate through our bloodstream, surround our cells or flood our brain. Any disturbance in the constant, regular and comfortable chemical composition of our body will result in discomfort.

We are hooked on our internal chemistry.

Yes, we will do practically everything in our hand, both consciously and unconsciously and from what we feel, to restore our accustomed chemical balance. It is when the body already rules over the mind.

Does it propose to change brain chemistry with our thinking?

It's a part of my job, it's not just about changing the brain chemistry, also the brain circuits, the wiring. If we can force the brain to think with other patterns or sequences, we are creating a new mind. The principle of neuroscience is that if the neuronal cells are activated together, they are intertwined creating a more permanent connection. A person in a situation, however new, uses that connection, that is, repeats the same thought over and over again and gives the same answers, his brain does not change, he lives with the same mind every day.

How to interrupt the cycle?

Through the process of knowledge and experience we can change the brain. It is a good idea to constantly examine what we can change within ourselves. If every morning we asked ourselves what is the best idea we can have of ourselves, we would have another kind of world.

What questions should we ask ourselves to feel differently?

Most people believe that emotions are real. Emotions and feelings are the end product, the result of our experiences. If there are no new or lived experiences, we always live in the update of past feelings. It is the same chemical process time after time. One question that would help us change is: what feeling do I have every day that serves as an excuse for not changing? If people begin to tell themselves: I can eliminate guilt, shame, feelings of not deserving, of not being worth…; if we can eliminate these destructive emotional states, we begin to free ourselves, because it is these emotional states that drive us to behave like animals with department stores of memories. What is the greatest ideal of myself? What can I change about myself to be a better person? Who in history do I admire and what do I want to emulate?

But knowing who you want to be is not enough to change your wiring.

No. Knowledge is what precedes experience. Learning information is personalizing and applying it. We must modify our behavior in order to have a new experience that in turn creates new emotions. Knowledge is for the mind; the experience, for the body. We have to teach the body what the mind has understood intellectually. If we keep repeating that experience, it is stored in a new system in the brain, and that allows us to move from thinking to doing, to being.

The next step is to change behavior habits, there has to be action.

The biggest habit we have to break is to be ourselves, because neuroscience and psychology say that personality is already formed before age 35, that means we have the circuits made to be able to face any situation and, by Therefore, we will think, feel and act in the same way the rest of our days. But the latest studies show that it is possible to change the personality at all stages of life, for that you have to turn the unconscious habit into something conscious, become aware of those unconscious thoughts and feelings.

Are those 20 years of psychoanalysis?

Even if you come to understand intellectually that your father was very dominant, that does not change your condition. The first step is always learn. As we learn new information and start thinking about it, we contrast it with our beliefs and analyze it, we are changing our wiring, building a new mind. Once that new mind is established, we have to start thinking about how to show it, and then the body enters. Any change process requires unlearning and relearning

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