Dr Joe Dispenza is an international researcher, author, and educator. He is a qualified chiropractor with postgraduate training in neurology, neuroscience, brain function and chemistry. So, when he experienced a severe spinal injury, he saw it as a challenge to use his knowledge to heal himself. As a result, he was not only healed himself but also was able to describe and teach the process. You can get extensive material from his website and YouTube videos, including testimonials from people who have shared their experiences.
Dr Joe tells us each memory is connected to people and things at certain times and places, and each is connected to an emotion. If we are not careful, our memories will take energy from the present if we do not recognise them as the past. Almost anything can trigger an emotion, which may invoke a response. The familiar past will sooner or later become the predictable future.
We need routine as a part of life, but the issue is whether it serves you. Where is the benefit in continually reliving an event that happened in the distant past? What happens to us all too often is that something we encounter will trigger a memory. This triggering may be for any reason, which may even be unknown to us, but a memory is triggered, which invokes an emotion. We then start acting in response to that emotion.
The explanation is this is part of the body’s familiar fight-or-flight response (also called hyper-arousal, or acute stress response), which, through experience, has learned that a specific response is appropriate for a given situation. This response is communicated through emotion. As Dr Joe says, “thoughts are the language of the mind”, and “emotions are the language of the body”. It worked well for humanity in the past when we frequently needed to respond quickly due to danger.
Today, a problem is often perceived as a danger, but not actually. So, people live in a state of unnecessary arousal or stress, which, over long periods, causes problems for the body. Most people then wait for a crisis, trauma, disease, diagnosis, or loss; they wait for a tragedy of some kind before they make up their minds to change. Dr Joe says: why wait? We can learn and change in pain and suffering, or you can learn and change in a state of joy and inspiration. We must quiet or even silence the conscious mind to make changes. With a more peaceful mind, we can think fresh thoughts, not revisit old ones of the past. Meditation helps us do this.
In his book, “The Biology of Belief“, Dr Bruce Lipton writes how he came to a similar understanding. Under the heading “The Secret of Life”, he tells the story of how, in 1985, he was revisiting notes, redefining his knowledge of the structural organisation of the membrane (pages 71-73). He writes: “The membrane is a liquid crystal semiconductor with gates and channels.” He goes on to tell how he recalled reading the exact phrase before. He found it in a non-technical paperback guide on how computers work. It read: “A chip is a crystal semiconductor with gates and channels.” We now understand a cell is like a “programmable chip” whose behaviour and genetic activity are primarily controlled by environmental signals, not genes. Genes may create a predisposition for a person’s characteristics or condition but do not determine it.
As surprising as it may be, this understanding of the human experience is not new. Neville Goddard was teaching this in the 1950s.