1 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:13,176 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,610 Stress can be defined as a state of mental or emotional 3 00:00:23,610 --> 00:00:28,020 strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding 4 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:29,820 circumstances. 5 00:00:29,820 --> 00:00:31,710 But how do different kinds of stress 6 00:00:31,710 --> 00:00:35,610 cause long-term effects on our brain and body? 7 00:00:35,610 --> 00:00:37,530 Stress usually is created when we 8 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:40,200 can't predict a future outcome, when 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,638 we feel that we can't control a situation, 10 00:00:42,638 --> 00:00:44,430 or when we have the perception that there's 11 00:00:44,430 --> 00:00:47,130 a threat, a danger, or a perception 12 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:51,240 that something's going to get worse in our lives. 13 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,070 You may not be able to control everything 14 00:00:53,070 --> 00:00:55,500 that happens in your life or your outer world. 15 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:57,780 However, is it possible that you can 16 00:00:57,780 --> 00:01:01,500 learn how to control your inner world of thoughts and feelings? 17 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:03,450 I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza. 18 00:01:03,450 --> 00:01:06,090 And in the previous episode, we went into depth 19 00:01:06,090 --> 00:01:08,490 on the ancient practice of meditation 20 00:01:08,490 --> 00:01:11,100 and what it means to be truly present. 21 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:13,380 In this episode, we're going to identify 22 00:01:13,380 --> 00:01:16,590 different kinds of stress, show you the long-term effects 23 00:01:16,590 --> 00:01:19,470 of stress, how it can create illness in your body, 24 00:01:19,470 --> 00:01:22,508 and once you understand what stress can do to you, 25 00:01:22,508 --> 00:01:24,300 it's my hope that the information you learn 26 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:28,040 will empower you to make some important changes in your life. 27 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:32,040 [THEME MUSIC] 28 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,950 There are three types of stress. 29 00:01:43,950 --> 00:01:47,580 There's physical stress, chemical stress, 30 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:49,500 and emotional stress. 31 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:54,100 Now, physical stress are things like traumas, accidents, 32 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:56,580 injuries, falls. 33 00:01:56,580 --> 00:02:01,260 Chemical stress-- flus, bacteria, viruses, blood sugar 34 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:04,020 levels, toxins in food. 35 00:02:04,020 --> 00:02:08,610 Emotional stress-- family tragedy, second mortgages, 36 00:02:08,610 --> 00:02:12,030 single parenting, traffic jams. 37 00:02:12,030 --> 00:02:15,150 And all of these different stressors, whether they're 38 00:02:15,150 --> 00:02:18,000 physical, chemical, or emotional, 39 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,150 knock your brain and body out of balance. 40 00:02:21,150 --> 00:02:23,640 In fact, the definition of stress 41 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,810 is when your brain and body are knocked out of homeostasis. 42 00:02:27,810 --> 00:02:31,980 Now, the stress response is what your body innately does 43 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:34,950 to return itself back to order. 44 00:02:34,950 --> 00:02:37,260 When you or any organism in nature 45 00:02:37,260 --> 00:02:39,870 begins to perceive a danger or a threat 46 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:42,120 in their external environment, they 47 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,890 turn on a primitive nervous system 48 00:02:43,890 --> 00:02:46,230 called the fight-or-flight nervous system. 49 00:02:46,230 --> 00:02:48,540 And when the person or the organism 50 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:51,900 is perceiving that danger, the body innately 51 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:54,450 begins to mobilize enormous amounts 52 00:02:54,450 --> 00:02:56,490 of energy and resources. 53 00:02:56,490 --> 00:02:59,220 All of its energy now is being mobilized 54 00:02:59,220 --> 00:03:02,710 to be able to adapt to the stress in the environment. 55 00:03:02,710 --> 00:03:06,570 So then, we begin to tap the body's vital resources 56 00:03:06,570 --> 00:03:11,010 so that we can survive the condition in the outer world. 57 00:03:11,010 --> 00:03:16,030 All organisms in nature can tolerate short-term stress, 58 00:03:16,030 --> 00:03:18,810 whether it's a zebra being chased by a lion, 59 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:22,410 or whether it's a pack of coyotes chasing a deer. 60 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:25,470 The moment the organism perceives that danger 61 00:03:25,470 --> 00:03:28,440 and switches on that emergency system, 62 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,980 there is a rush of adrenaline and a rush of energy, 63 00:03:31,980 --> 00:03:33,750 and there is an arousal that takes 64 00:03:33,750 --> 00:03:36,180 place in the brain and body. 65 00:03:36,180 --> 00:03:41,400 And those chemicals, then, alter our normal homeostasis. 66 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,530 And in that state of survival, we 67 00:03:43,530 --> 00:03:46,130 switch on that sympathetic nervous system, 68 00:03:46,130 --> 00:03:48,540 or what's called the fight-or-flight nervous system, 69 00:03:48,540 --> 00:03:51,970 and our pupils dilate, our salivary juices shut down. 70 00:03:51,970 --> 00:03:53,610 It's not a time to eat. 71 00:03:53,610 --> 00:03:55,440 Our heart rate increases. 72 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,480 Our respiratory rate increases. 73 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,580 Blood is sent to the extremities, 74 00:03:59,580 --> 00:04:01,530 and it's shut down in the internal organs 75 00:04:01,530 --> 00:04:05,670 because it's a time to run, it's a time to fight, 76 00:04:05,670 --> 00:04:07,920 or it's a time to hide. 77 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:12,690 Now, if the zebra or the deer outrun the predator, 78 00:04:12,690 --> 00:04:16,680 30 minutes later, the stress response begins to switch off, 79 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,100 and the body returns back to balance. 80 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:22,920 After there's a stress response, many organisms 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,950 need to rest and repair because the body has 82 00:04:25,950 --> 00:04:29,020 to come back online and regenerate and conserve energy. 83 00:04:32,550 --> 00:04:35,820 What if, though, you're being chased by T. rex, 84 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:38,310 and you're turning on that primitive nervous system 85 00:04:38,310 --> 00:04:40,500 called the fight-or-flight nervous system? 86 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:42,660 And the moment you perceive that threat 87 00:04:42,660 --> 00:04:44,370 and you're in danger and now you're 88 00:04:44,370 --> 00:04:48,120 running from the predator, that's very adaptive. 89 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,810 But what if, then, the predator is waiting outside the cave 90 00:04:51,810 --> 00:04:54,690 and waiting for you to go out and get some food? 91 00:04:54,690 --> 00:04:56,670 We could say, then, that your ability 92 00:04:56,670 --> 00:05:00,720 to sustain a certain stress response would be extended. 93 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,470 But what if it isn't T. rex outside the cave? 94 00:05:04,470 --> 00:05:06,270 What if it's your co-worker? 95 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:07,800 What if it's your mother-in-law? 96 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,300 What if it's your boss? 97 00:05:09,300 --> 00:05:10,940 What if it's traffic? 98 00:05:10,940 --> 00:05:14,490 And what was once highly adaptive becomes 99 00:05:14,490 --> 00:05:18,870 very maladaptive, because when you turn on the stress response 100 00:05:18,870 --> 00:05:22,560 and you can't turn it off, now you're headed for disease. 101 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,230 Because no organism can live in emergency 102 00:05:25,230 --> 00:05:28,670 mode for an extended period of time. 103 00:05:28,670 --> 00:05:30,170 Reason this with me. 104 00:05:30,170 --> 00:05:32,780 If you keep mobilizing enormous amounts of energy 105 00:05:32,780 --> 00:05:35,480 for some threat in your outer world, 106 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,560 there's no energy in your inner world for growth and repair. 107 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,110 So think of the sympathetic nervous system 108 00:05:42,110 --> 00:05:46,700 as the emergency system that's like the gas pedal in the car. 109 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:49,820 The other nervous system called the parasympathetic nervous 110 00:05:49,820 --> 00:05:52,370 system, that nervous system is the nervous system 111 00:05:52,370 --> 00:05:57,400 of relaxation, of regeneration, of metabolism. 112 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,490 So if a person is living in a constant state of stress 113 00:06:01,490 --> 00:06:04,730 and they, like an addict, become conditioned 114 00:06:04,730 --> 00:06:09,140 to the rush of the arousal of those chemicals, then in time, 115 00:06:09,140 --> 00:06:13,640 then, they will begin to use the problems and conditions 116 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,630 in their life to reaffirm their conditioning or their addiction 117 00:06:17,630 --> 00:06:19,340 to that emotion. 118 00:06:19,340 --> 00:06:22,310 We become so conditioned to these chemicals 119 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:25,410 that, like a drug addict, we need the bad job, 120 00:06:25,410 --> 00:06:28,730 we need the poor relationship, we need the difficult situation 121 00:06:28,730 --> 00:06:31,430 in our life to keep getting that rush of adrenaline, 122 00:06:31,430 --> 00:06:34,070 to keep getting that rush of energy. 123 00:06:34,070 --> 00:06:37,220 And in a sense, people become addicted to the life 124 00:06:37,220 --> 00:06:39,310 they don't even like. 125 00:06:39,310 --> 00:06:42,850 So then because of the size of the neocortex-- 126 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:45,310 the thinking brain, as you learned about-- 127 00:06:45,310 --> 00:06:48,460 we can make thought more real than anything else. 128 00:06:48,460 --> 00:06:52,620 And people can begin to think about their problems. 129 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:55,150 And as they begin to think about their problems, 130 00:06:55,150 --> 00:07:01,100 they can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. 131 00:07:01,100 --> 00:07:05,420 And we now know that those chemicals can become addictive, 132 00:07:05,420 --> 00:07:08,960 and you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. 133 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:13,890 So then, you can become addicted to your own thoughts. 134 00:07:13,890 --> 00:07:18,290 So it's a scientific fact that the long-term effects 135 00:07:18,290 --> 00:07:22,640 of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons that 136 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:24,470 create disease. 137 00:07:24,470 --> 00:07:29,270 And you can turn on the stress response just by thought alone. 138 00:07:29,270 --> 00:07:32,540 It means, then, that your thoughts can literally 139 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:35,260 make you sick. 140 00:07:35,260 --> 00:07:37,660 And so many diseases around the world 141 00:07:37,660 --> 00:07:41,500 now are created by the immune system being suppressed, 142 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:44,920 or what we call immune-mediated diseases. 143 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:50,440 Everything from cancer, MS, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, 144 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,510 food allergies, food sensitivities 145 00:07:52,510 --> 00:07:55,370 is a compromise in the immune system. 146 00:07:55,370 --> 00:07:57,350 So here's the question. 147 00:07:57,350 --> 00:08:00,040 If your thoughts can make you sick, 148 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,460 is it possible that your thoughts can make you well? 149 00:08:03,460 --> 00:08:07,420 Well, we did a research study where we took 117 people, 150 00:08:07,420 --> 00:08:10,390 and we wanted to measure their cortisol levels, which 151 00:08:10,390 --> 00:08:13,060 is the stress hormone, and another chemical 152 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:17,260 called IgA, immunoglobulin A. It's 153 00:08:17,260 --> 00:08:23,060 your body's primary defense against bacteria and viruses. 154 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:25,330 So as cortisol levels go up and you're 155 00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:27,250 mobilizing enormous amounts of energy 156 00:08:27,250 --> 00:08:29,260 for some threat in your outer world, 157 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:31,240 the immune system dials down. 158 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,460 And now the immune system becomes compromised 159 00:08:33,460 --> 00:08:35,080 because all of the energy is going 160 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,820 for a threat in the outer world. 161 00:08:36,820 --> 00:08:38,470 Our immune system becomes suppressed, 162 00:08:38,470 --> 00:08:42,070 so typically IgA levels go down. 163 00:08:42,070 --> 00:08:45,100 So we measured the cortisol and IgA levels, 164 00:08:45,100 --> 00:08:48,250 and we put them through four days of training. 165 00:08:48,250 --> 00:08:51,220 And we asked them to trade emotions 166 00:08:51,220 --> 00:08:55,420 like anger and frustration and hatred 167 00:08:55,420 --> 00:08:59,860 and violence and aggression and competition and fear. 168 00:08:59,860 --> 00:09:02,470 Those are all the chemicals that are derived from the stress 169 00:09:02,470 --> 00:09:03,880 hormones. 170 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,300 We asked them to trade those survival emotions 171 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:11,210 for elevated emotions, heartfelt emotions like gratitude, 172 00:09:11,210 --> 00:09:14,680 appreciation, kindness, care, love for life, 173 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,480 a joy for existence. 174 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,140 And all we wanted them to do for 10 minutes a day 175 00:09:20,140 --> 00:09:22,120 was open their hearts and begin to feel 176 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,130 those elevated emotions. 177 00:09:24,130 --> 00:09:27,730 At the end of 3 and 1/2 days, we went back 178 00:09:27,730 --> 00:09:30,430 and we re-measured those same values. 179 00:09:30,430 --> 00:09:32,290 And their immune system-- 180 00:09:32,290 --> 00:09:37,210 that is, IgA levels-- went up as a collective about 50%. 181 00:09:37,210 --> 00:09:41,410 Their cortisol levels dropped about 16.25%. 182 00:09:41,410 --> 00:09:44,800 Their stress hormones went down, and their immune system 183 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,530 up-regulated to a great degree. 184 00:09:47,530 --> 00:09:50,830 That means, then, when you begin to make a change in the way 185 00:09:50,830 --> 00:09:52,840 you think and the way you feel and you 186 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,940 begin to change your attitude and you 187 00:09:54,940 --> 00:09:58,660 begin to open your heart again and feel an elevated emotion, 188 00:09:58,660 --> 00:10:01,360 it is those elevated emotions that 189 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,130 begin to restore and repair the immune system. 190 00:10:05,130 --> 00:10:07,980 So then, there's three things when 191 00:10:07,980 --> 00:10:09,930 you're living by the hormones of stress 192 00:10:09,930 --> 00:10:11,490 that you keep your attention on. 193 00:10:11,490 --> 00:10:14,850 Think about it-- if you're being chased by a predator, 194 00:10:14,850 --> 00:10:17,580 all of your attention is on your outer environment. 195 00:10:17,580 --> 00:10:18,870 Where are you going to go? 196 00:10:18,870 --> 00:10:20,580 What place do you need to move to? 197 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:22,800 What object do you need to move past? 198 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:25,440 And when you're under the gun of those chemicals, 199 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,120 you're thinking about time. 200 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,670 How much time do I have to get there? 201 00:10:29,670 --> 00:10:33,600 So then, the body, the environment, and time. 202 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,630 And if where you place your attention is where you place 203 00:10:36,630 --> 00:10:39,600 your energy, it makes sense, then, if all of your attention 204 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,550 is on your body, all of your attention 205 00:10:41,550 --> 00:10:44,940 is on your environment, and all of your attention is on time, 206 00:10:44,940 --> 00:10:46,980 then you are putting all of your attention 207 00:10:46,980 --> 00:10:48,720 in this three-dimensional reality. 208 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,330 Now you have to play by the rules 209 00:10:51,330 --> 00:10:53,040 of this three-dimensional reality. 210 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,720 And everything that you create will take time. 211 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:00,690 When people are under the gun of those chemicals, 212 00:11:00,690 --> 00:11:03,780 they're drawing from this invisible field of energy 213 00:11:03,780 --> 00:11:06,930 surrounding their body, this vital life force, 214 00:11:06,930 --> 00:11:09,160 and they're using it to make chemistry, 215 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,850 and the field around their bodies shrinks. 216 00:11:11,850 --> 00:11:16,410 And they become more matter and less energy, more particle 217 00:11:16,410 --> 00:11:18,120 and less wave. 218 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,570 And the very hormones of stress heighten our senses 219 00:11:21,570 --> 00:11:23,730 so that we become a materialist. 220 00:11:23,730 --> 00:11:26,490 And the more altered we feel from that stress response 221 00:11:26,490 --> 00:11:29,940 or by the emotional reaction from some threat or danger, 222 00:11:29,940 --> 00:11:34,240 the more we narrow our focus on the cause or the object. 223 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:35,970 And when we do that, all of a sudden 224 00:11:35,970 --> 00:11:39,120 we are focusing only on matter. 225 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,810 And so people over time get hooked in or habituated 226 00:11:42,810 --> 00:11:45,300 into narrowing their focus. 227 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:48,390 So then when you're living in emergency mode, 228 00:11:48,390 --> 00:11:50,760 it's not a time to create. 229 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,040 It's not a time to open your heart. 230 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,600 It's not a time to learn anything new. 231 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,860 It's not a time to sit still and go within. 232 00:11:58,860 --> 00:12:02,190 In fact, if the survival gene is switched on, 233 00:12:02,190 --> 00:12:04,650 you'd be thinking at some level innately 234 00:12:04,650 --> 00:12:06,360 that it's not a time to sit still, 235 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,140 because you would be prey. 236 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:11,870 So then, the more people are conditioned or addicted 237 00:12:11,870 --> 00:12:13,850 to the hormones of stress, the more 238 00:12:13,850 --> 00:12:15,920 their attention is on matter, the more 239 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,410 they begin to experience separation 240 00:12:18,410 --> 00:12:21,200 from everyone and everything. 241 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,770 Now, if stress is created by the feeling 242 00:12:24,770 --> 00:12:27,110 that you're losing control in your life, 243 00:12:27,110 --> 00:12:29,270 that you can't predict an outcome, 244 00:12:29,270 --> 00:12:32,990 or you have the perception that something or someone is causing 245 00:12:32,990 --> 00:12:35,700 situations in your life to get worse, 246 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:38,030 then if you're living by the hormones of stress 247 00:12:38,030 --> 00:12:40,580 on a daily basis, then what we try to do 248 00:12:40,580 --> 00:12:43,400 is we try to control everything in our life 249 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,710 when we're feeling loss of control. 250 00:12:45,710 --> 00:12:47,960 We try to predict the next moment based 251 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,770 on our memories of the past. 252 00:12:49,770 --> 00:12:53,870 That means people under stress are craving the known. 253 00:12:53,870 --> 00:12:56,600 They're trying to get back to the familiar or the 254 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:01,890 known because in survival, the unknown is a scary place. 255 00:13:01,890 --> 00:13:06,170 So then, as they begin to shift their attention from one person 256 00:13:06,170 --> 00:13:08,750 to one problem to another person to another problem 257 00:13:08,750 --> 00:13:11,030 to another thing to another place, 258 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:14,060 each one of those elements has a neurological network 259 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:15,170 in the brain. 260 00:13:15,170 --> 00:13:17,120 And the arousal of those chemicals, 261 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,510 then, begin to cause those different circuits 262 00:13:20,510 --> 00:13:22,430 as you shift your attention to begin 263 00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:24,410 to become highly activated. 264 00:13:24,410 --> 00:13:29,570 And now the brain is functioning in a very incoherent state. 265 00:13:29,570 --> 00:13:31,610 And the arousal of those chemicals 266 00:13:31,610 --> 00:13:35,060 drives the brain into a very, very highly analytical, 267 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:37,360 over-focused state. 268 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,343 Think about it. 269 00:13:38,343 --> 00:13:39,760 When you're under stress, have you 270 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,580 noticed that you keep thinking about the same problem over 271 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:45,850 and over again, because the very hormones of stress 272 00:13:45,850 --> 00:13:48,310 cause you to narrow your focus on a cause, 273 00:13:48,310 --> 00:13:52,120 because that's what you do when you're living in survival. 274 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,030 And in fact, out of the infinite possibilities that 275 00:13:55,030 --> 00:13:58,180 exist in your reality, when people are addicted 276 00:13:58,180 --> 00:14:00,430 or living in that stressful state, 277 00:14:00,430 --> 00:14:03,760 they'll always select the worst-case scenario 278 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,265 in their mind and prepare for the worst. 279 00:14:06,265 --> 00:14:07,750 Well, why is that? 280 00:14:07,750 --> 00:14:11,320 Because in survival if you prepare for the worst, 281 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,450 anything less that happens you have 282 00:14:13,450 --> 00:14:16,530 a better chance of surviving. 283 00:14:16,530 --> 00:14:19,633 So people spend the majority of their life preparing 284 00:14:19,633 --> 00:14:22,050 for the worst thing that could happen to them when they're 285 00:14:22,050 --> 00:14:24,480 living in a stressful state. 286 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,590 And it turns out that 70% of the time, most people 287 00:14:28,590 --> 00:14:32,020 are living in survival. 288 00:14:32,020 --> 00:14:35,100 So then when you react to someone or something, 289 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,110 there's a refractory period of chemicals 290 00:14:37,110 --> 00:14:40,090 that's created from your emotional reaction. 291 00:14:40,090 --> 00:14:43,080 And if you don't know how to regulate or stop 292 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:47,370 that emotional reaction and you keep that same reaction 293 00:14:47,370 --> 00:14:52,980 lingering for hours or days, that's called a mood. 294 00:14:52,980 --> 00:14:55,260 If you keep that same refractory period 295 00:14:55,260 --> 00:14:58,050 going for weeks to months on end, 296 00:14:58,050 --> 00:15:00,750 that's called a temperament. 297 00:15:00,750 --> 00:15:03,090 If you keep that same emotional reaction 298 00:15:03,090 --> 00:15:05,490 going on for years on end, that's 299 00:15:05,490 --> 00:15:07,320 called a personality trait. 300 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,660 And most people's personalities, then, 301 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:14,280 are defined by experiences from the past. 302 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,010 So now that you understand that stress 303 00:15:17,010 --> 00:15:20,070 is when the brain and body are knocked out of balance 304 00:15:20,070 --> 00:15:22,980 and you understand that the harms of stress 305 00:15:22,980 --> 00:15:25,800 push the genetic buttons and create disease, 306 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,150 it begs the question, is there anyone or anything 307 00:15:30,150 --> 00:15:33,250 truly worth living in that state? 308 00:15:33,250 --> 00:15:37,140 So then, if people are living in chronic stress 309 00:15:37,140 --> 00:15:39,870 and they're drawing from this invisible field of energy 310 00:15:39,870 --> 00:15:41,790 surrounding their body and they're 311 00:15:41,790 --> 00:15:45,690 mobilizing that vital life force to make chemistry 312 00:15:45,690 --> 00:15:48,390 and the field around their body is shrinking 313 00:15:48,390 --> 00:15:51,570 and they're feeling more like matter and less like energy, 314 00:15:51,570 --> 00:15:54,360 more like particle and less like wave, 315 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,240 and they feel separate or disconnected from everyone 316 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,700 and everything in their life, well, 317 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:02,550 when you're matter trying to change matter, 318 00:16:02,550 --> 00:16:06,090 we tend to force outcomes, control outcomes, 319 00:16:06,090 --> 00:16:08,020 try to predict outcomes. 320 00:16:08,020 --> 00:16:10,380 And there's only a certain number of resources 321 00:16:10,380 --> 00:16:13,020 that we have when we're matter trying to change matter. 322 00:16:13,020 --> 00:16:16,710 We'll compete, we'll fight for it, we'll manipulate, 323 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:19,350 we'll try harder, we'll hope, we'll wish, 324 00:16:19,350 --> 00:16:23,000 because we're experiencing separation. 325 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,330 And yes, you may accomplish your dreams. 326 00:16:26,330 --> 00:16:28,490 But if you're matter trying to change matter 327 00:16:28,490 --> 00:16:31,670 and all of your attention is on your body, the environment, 328 00:16:31,670 --> 00:16:35,570 and time, then everything you create in your life 329 00:16:35,570 --> 00:16:38,600 will take time, because you'll have to move 330 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,520 your body through space. 331 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:42,770 And when you move your body through space, 332 00:16:42,770 --> 00:16:46,490 it's going to take time for you to get what you want. 333 00:16:46,490 --> 00:16:49,590 So you may want a house, you may want a new car, 334 00:16:49,590 --> 00:16:52,070 you may want a new experience, a new vacation, 335 00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:53,960 but you're going to have to drag your body 336 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:58,930 to work every day to make the money to pay for those things. 337 00:16:58,930 --> 00:17:01,310 And yes, you may arrive at your goals, 338 00:17:01,310 --> 00:17:02,990 but you may have to work harder and it 339 00:17:02,990 --> 00:17:04,569 may take some time to get it. 340 00:17:07,390 --> 00:17:11,290 There is another state of mind and body that you can live in, 341 00:17:11,290 --> 00:17:14,530 and that's called living in creation. 342 00:17:14,530 --> 00:17:19,140 And it's the exact opposite of living in survival. 343 00:17:19,140 --> 00:17:23,079 If the hormones of stress create incoherence in the brain 344 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:26,069 as well as incoherence in the heart, what we've found 345 00:17:26,069 --> 00:17:29,730 is that when people are living by those states, what if they 346 00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:32,640 had the ability to go from a narrow focus 347 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:34,770 or what's called a convergent focus 348 00:17:34,770 --> 00:17:38,490 to what's called a divergent focus or a broad focus 349 00:17:38,490 --> 00:17:40,250 or an open focus? 350 00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:43,650 And it turns out when people take their attention 351 00:17:43,650 --> 00:17:47,250 off their body, when they take their attention off the people 352 00:17:47,250 --> 00:17:49,650 in their lives, when they're no longer 353 00:17:49,650 --> 00:17:51,570 putting any attention on the things 354 00:17:51,570 --> 00:17:54,200 they own, like their cell phone, their computer, the car, 355 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,670 they're not thinking about the place they need to go 356 00:17:56,670 --> 00:17:59,310 or the place they're sitting, and they're not thinking 357 00:17:59,310 --> 00:18:02,230 about time in and of itself. 358 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:05,550 They are disinvesting all of their attention 359 00:18:05,550 --> 00:18:08,940 and all of their energy out of this three-dimensional reality. 360 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:11,100 Because they have no attention on it, 361 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:13,410 it makes sense, then, that they're beginning 362 00:18:13,410 --> 00:18:15,840 to change their brain state. 363 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,325 So then, we've taught people how to broaden their focus. 364 00:18:19,325 --> 00:18:23,280 And when they open their focus and sense nothing 365 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,820 but space, when they open their awareness 366 00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:31,110 and they tune in to the energy or the frequency out here, 367 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:33,780 and instead of putting their attention on matter, 368 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:36,000 they're putting their attention on energy, 369 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,880 the act of opening their awareness 370 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:44,400 causes them to stop thinking, to stop analyzing. 371 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,440 And if they're no longer thinking 372 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,450 and they're no longer analyzing, they're 373 00:18:48,450 --> 00:18:51,750 no longer activating these circuits in the brain. 374 00:18:51,750 --> 00:18:55,560 All of a sudden, they begin to slow down brain activity, 375 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,060 and they start getting beyond their analytical mind. 376 00:18:59,060 --> 00:19:03,180 And as they suppress the neocortex, the memory 377 00:19:03,180 --> 00:19:05,610 bank of the autobiographical self, 378 00:19:05,610 --> 00:19:07,950 they begin to suppress everything 379 00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:10,680 known in their three-dimensional reality, 380 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,980 and they turn off the neocortex, they 381 00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:17,610 begin to regulate their brainwaves and slow them down, 382 00:19:17,610 --> 00:19:20,640 all of a sudden something magical happens. 383 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:22,950 The act of opening their awareness 384 00:19:22,950 --> 00:19:26,010 causes different compartments of the brain that 385 00:19:26,010 --> 00:19:30,030 were subdivided like a house against itself, all of a sudden 386 00:19:30,030 --> 00:19:33,300 to begin to synchronize, to begin to unify. 387 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:35,730 You start to see neurons beginning to join 388 00:19:35,730 --> 00:19:38,200 larger communities of neurons. 389 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:41,040 And what was once an incoherent brain 390 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,970 begins to become more organized and more coherent. 391 00:19:44,970 --> 00:19:49,410 Now, the chronic stress creates a thyroid condition called 392 00:19:49,410 --> 00:19:52,350 Grave's disease, and the person develops what's 393 00:19:52,350 --> 00:19:54,750 called myasthenia gravis. 394 00:19:54,750 --> 00:19:57,900 And the side effect of that, aside from a tremendous lack 395 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:00,900 of energy, is double vision. 396 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:04,170 Now this person said, I've created this condition now 397 00:20:04,170 --> 00:20:07,290 that I understood that I've mismanaged 398 00:20:07,290 --> 00:20:10,530 my thoughts and feelings and my emotional reactions. 399 00:20:10,530 --> 00:20:14,130 If I created this condition by pushing the genetic buttons 400 00:20:14,130 --> 00:20:15,290 every single day-- 401 00:20:15,290 --> 00:20:18,060 and it's taken me a couple years, I lost my marriage, 402 00:20:18,060 --> 00:20:19,380 I lost my business-- 403 00:20:19,380 --> 00:20:21,060 I have to get beyond that story, and I 404 00:20:21,060 --> 00:20:22,740 have to tell a new story-- 405 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:24,660 I have to start believing in my future 406 00:20:24,660 --> 00:20:27,060 more than I've been believing in my past-- 407 00:20:27,060 --> 00:20:29,190 is it possible, then, that I can begin to make 408 00:20:29,190 --> 00:20:31,990 those significant changes? 409 00:20:31,990 --> 00:20:35,680 And as the person started overcoming the stress hormones 410 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,430 and taught her brain and body how to create coherence, 411 00:20:39,430 --> 00:20:43,510 the side effect of it was the body came back to balance. 412 00:20:43,510 --> 00:20:46,420 Her vision is now perfect, her thyroid hormones 413 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:49,450 are moving back into balance, and she's moved her brain 414 00:20:49,450 --> 00:20:52,740 and body back into homeostasis. 415 00:20:52,740 --> 00:20:56,290 And in a sense, then, she healed herself of the condition 416 00:20:56,290 --> 00:20:59,560 because her autonomic nervous system got back 417 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,400 into doing its job, which is to create order and balance. 418 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,820 So then, when we live in two states of mind and body, 419 00:21:06,820 --> 00:21:09,970 living in survival is living in our animal state. 420 00:21:09,970 --> 00:21:12,220 When we live in survival, we live in stress. 421 00:21:12,220 --> 00:21:13,870 And when we live in stress, there's 422 00:21:13,870 --> 00:21:16,330 contraction that takes place in the body. 423 00:21:16,330 --> 00:21:19,750 And because we're using a lot of the body's resources, 424 00:21:19,750 --> 00:21:22,630 we experience what's called catabolism, 425 00:21:22,630 --> 00:21:24,130 or tissue breakdown. 426 00:21:24,130 --> 00:21:28,000 When the body's in that state, there's dis-ease or imbalance, 427 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,970 there's degeneration that takes place in the body. 428 00:21:30,970 --> 00:21:34,330 The emotions of fear, anger, and sadness 429 00:21:34,330 --> 00:21:37,310 are the primary emotions of survival. 430 00:21:37,310 --> 00:21:38,848 The self comes first. 431 00:21:38,848 --> 00:21:41,140 When you're living in that state, all of your attention 432 00:21:41,140 --> 00:21:43,990 is on your environment, all of your attention is on your body, 433 00:21:43,990 --> 00:21:46,270 all of your attention is on time. 434 00:21:46,270 --> 00:21:48,940 There's always energy lost in the system. 435 00:21:48,940 --> 00:21:50,800 We're living in emergency mode. 436 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,500 We're narrow focused or object focused. 437 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:55,480 We experience separation. 438 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,760 We're determining reality with our senses. 439 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,360 In other words, if we can't see it, if we can't smell it, 440 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:02,110 if we can't taste it, if we can't hear it, 441 00:22:02,110 --> 00:22:04,510 we can't feel it, it doesn't exist. 442 00:22:04,510 --> 00:22:06,430 We're living by cause and effect. 443 00:22:06,430 --> 00:22:08,050 We're waiting for our environment 444 00:22:08,050 --> 00:22:10,960 to change to give us the relief from the discomfort 445 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,880 that we're feeling inside of us. 446 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,420 In survival and in stress, we don't see many possibilities 447 00:22:16,420 --> 00:22:18,400 because it's not a time to create. 448 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,640 The brain and heart function in a very incoherent state. 449 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,100 And in survival we are craving the known 450 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:28,520 because the unknown is just too much of a scary place. 451 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,460 Now, when we begin to create the creative state, 452 00:22:33,460 --> 00:22:36,400 we could call that the divine aspect of us. 453 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,590 In creation, the brain and body move back into homeostasis. 454 00:22:40,590 --> 00:22:42,910 There is an expansion of energy, a release 455 00:22:42,910 --> 00:22:44,740 of energy from the tissues. 456 00:22:44,740 --> 00:22:48,380 The body goes into anabolism, or tissue repair. 457 00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:50,830 There's health, there's order, there's regeneration 458 00:22:50,830 --> 00:22:52,750 taking place in the body. 459 00:22:52,750 --> 00:22:56,890 Elevated, heartfelt emotions like love, joy, trust, 460 00:22:56,890 --> 00:23:00,310 knowingness, gratitude begin to mobilize 461 00:23:00,310 --> 00:23:03,160 all these new chemicals that begin to repair and regenerate 462 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,420 the body. 463 00:23:04,420 --> 00:23:06,490 When we're in this heartfelt state, 464 00:23:06,490 --> 00:23:10,420 we tend to be less selfish and more selfless. 465 00:23:10,420 --> 00:23:14,010 We have our attention now no longer on our body, 466 00:23:14,010 --> 00:23:16,870 on the things in our life, the people in our life, 467 00:23:16,870 --> 00:23:19,720 on our environment, or on time itself. 468 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,990 Energy is always created in the creative process. 469 00:23:22,990 --> 00:23:24,430 There's growth and repair. 470 00:23:24,430 --> 00:23:26,530 We broaden or open our focus. 471 00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,210 And when we do that properly, we start 472 00:23:28,210 --> 00:23:32,170 feeling less separate and more connected to something greater. 473 00:23:32,170 --> 00:23:36,130 We start to imagine and dream of a reality beyond our senses. 474 00:23:36,130 --> 00:23:38,800 Now we're interested in causing an effect. 475 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,840 We're looking at all possibilities instead 476 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,700 of limited possibilities. 477 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:44,920 The brain and heart go into coherence, 478 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,720 and now the unknown becomes the adventure. 479 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,200 Why is that important? 480 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,610 Because if we're going to create something new in our life, 481 00:23:54,610 --> 00:23:58,012 we have to crave the unknown. 482 00:23:58,012 --> 00:24:00,220 Now that I've shown you the difference between living 483 00:24:00,220 --> 00:24:03,220 in survival and living in creation, 484 00:24:03,220 --> 00:24:05,680 I want to explore the different brainwave states 485 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,260 and what you can do to use your mind 486 00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:11,290 to begin to consciously change your own brainwaves. 487 00:24:11,290 --> 00:24:13,390 In the next episode, I want to show you 488 00:24:13,390 --> 00:24:17,020 what's happening inside your head when you live in survival 489 00:24:17,020 --> 00:24:19,360 and when you live in creation-- that is, 490 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,270 coherence versus incoherence. 491 00:24:22,270 --> 00:24:25,180 I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza for "Rewired," 492 00:24:25,180 --> 00:24:27,220 and I hope to see you in the next episode 493 00:24:27,220 --> 00:24:31,710 where we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.