1 00:00:05,346 --> 00:00:08,748 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:11,664 --> 00:00:14,960 Is it possible that your brain has been conditioned 3 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:19,160 and habituated by you to view your outer reality in a very 4 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:20,980 limited way? 5 00:00:20,980 --> 00:00:23,380 When you focus your attention on a daily basis 6 00:00:23,380 --> 00:00:25,450 in this three-dimensional reality, 7 00:00:25,450 --> 00:00:30,100 your brain naturally narrows its focus on everything material. 8 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:32,049 As you learned in the last episode, 9 00:00:32,049 --> 00:00:35,260 this is called a conversion focus. 10 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:40,562 And it's the hormones of stress that amplify this process. 11 00:00:40,562 --> 00:00:42,020 Is it possible there are other ways 12 00:00:42,020 --> 00:00:44,720 to focus your attention to break the habit of how 13 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,130 you see the world? 14 00:00:46,130 --> 00:00:49,790 And can you make your brain begin to work differently? 15 00:00:49,790 --> 00:00:53,280 I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and in the previous episode, 16 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,520 we went into great detail on the difference 17 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,370 between survival and creation. 18 00:00:58,370 --> 00:01:02,240 In this episode, we're going to identify in a very simple way 19 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,150 the different types of brainwaves to show you 20 00:01:05,150 --> 00:01:08,120 the skill of being able to consciously control 21 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:09,260 your own brainwaves. 22 00:01:14,230 --> 00:01:18,206 [THEME MUSIC] 23 00:01:29,140 --> 00:01:33,460 Let's start by understanding the different types of brainwaves. 24 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:36,970 When neurons fire in your brain, they 25 00:01:36,970 --> 00:01:39,760 emit electromagnetic frequencies. 26 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,420 And science has been able to capture those frequencies 27 00:01:43,420 --> 00:01:47,080 by using a technology called electroencephalographic 28 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:51,360 readings, or EEG readings. 29 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,510 We put on a cap on a person's head, 30 00:01:54,510 --> 00:01:56,650 and there's these little electrodes. 31 00:01:56,650 --> 00:01:59,850 And we use a gel that begins to couple the surface 32 00:01:59,850 --> 00:02:02,760 of that electrode to the scalp. 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,150 And we hook up those electrodes to a computer 34 00:02:06,150 --> 00:02:09,419 that begins to measure the different frequencies 35 00:02:09,419 --> 00:02:14,590 in different compartments in different regions in the brain. 36 00:02:14,590 --> 00:02:17,560 So then, let's talk about the different brainwaves. 37 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,130 The first type of brainwave is called beta brainwaves. 38 00:02:22,130 --> 00:02:25,550 Think about your brain as an organ 39 00:02:25,550 --> 00:02:29,330 that begins to create meaning and coherence 40 00:02:29,330 --> 00:02:32,540 and order between what's going on in your outer world 41 00:02:32,540 --> 00:02:35,500 and what's going on in your inner world. 42 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:38,620 Now, when you're conscious and you're awake 43 00:02:38,620 --> 00:02:40,870 and your attention is on your outer environment 44 00:02:40,870 --> 00:02:44,110 and you're aware of your body in space and time, 45 00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:46,480 your brain has to gather and begin 46 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,990 to integrate all the different information through those five 47 00:02:49,990 --> 00:02:52,360 different sensory pathways. 48 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,580 Everything you're listening to and hearing, 49 00:02:54,580 --> 00:02:56,980 everything you're seeing, everything you're feeling, 50 00:02:56,980 --> 00:02:59,770 everything you're smelling-- all of that information 51 00:02:59,770 --> 00:03:02,440 has to be integrated by the brain. 52 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,580 And when the brain is active and conscious and you're aware, 53 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:11,570 your brainwaves go into what's called beta brainwave patterns. 54 00:03:11,570 --> 00:03:15,190 Now, think about beta brainwave patterns as your attention 55 00:03:15,190 --> 00:03:18,560 primarily on your outer environment. 56 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,740 So then, we've talked about the principle 57 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:24,040 of meditation and beginning to regulate and change 58 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:25,890 your brainwaves. 59 00:03:25,890 --> 00:03:27,870 So is it possible, then, that you 60 00:03:27,870 --> 00:03:31,230 can begin to change your brainwaves from beta brainwaves 61 00:03:31,230 --> 00:03:33,190 to alpha brainwaves? 62 00:03:33,190 --> 00:03:36,060 Well, back in the '60s and the '70s 63 00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:39,300 when there was a lot of research done on biofeedback, 64 00:03:39,300 --> 00:03:41,970 there were researchers at Princeton University that 65 00:03:41,970 --> 00:03:45,420 spent an enormous amount of time trying 66 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:47,040 to change their brainwaves. 67 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,230 And over and over again they were 68 00:03:49,230 --> 00:03:51,600 unable to change their brainwave patterns no matter 69 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:52,740 what they did. 70 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:55,980 Whether they chanted, whether they had positive affirmations, 71 00:03:55,980 --> 00:03:57,840 whether they burnt incense, they did 72 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:01,590 all of these different types of things, relaxing their body, 73 00:04:01,590 --> 00:04:04,320 nothing actually changed their brainwaves, 74 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,260 until one researcher was so tired that he finally 75 00:04:07,260 --> 00:04:09,180 said, I give up. 76 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:12,660 And the moment he surrendered and he let go and he gave up, 77 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:15,720 he watched his brain right before his eyes move 78 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:20,140 from beta brainwave patterns to alpha brainwave patterns. 79 00:04:20,140 --> 00:04:23,490 Think of alpha when your inner world starts becoming more real 80 00:04:23,490 --> 00:04:25,380 than your outer world. 81 00:04:25,380 --> 00:04:29,100 Now most people, when they're functioning in beta brainwave 82 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:33,570 patterns, they naturally shift to alpha brainwave patterns. 83 00:04:33,570 --> 00:04:36,180 The brain pauses for a moment, and you 84 00:04:36,180 --> 00:04:39,310 begin to think about what you're thinking about. 85 00:04:39,310 --> 00:04:42,030 And in fact, when I do lectures around the world 86 00:04:42,030 --> 00:04:45,420 and I'm watching people pay attention, they're relaxed, 87 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:47,783 their attention is on their outer environment, 88 00:04:47,783 --> 00:04:49,200 they're exposed to the information 89 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,070 that I'm teaching them, then all of a sudden they stop 90 00:04:53,070 --> 00:04:55,650 and they pause and then go like this. 91 00:04:55,650 --> 00:04:58,680 And when they stop and they pause, all of a sudden 92 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,770 they're making their inner world more real than the outer world, 93 00:05:01,770 --> 00:05:03,990 and they freeze that image in the brain, 94 00:05:03,990 --> 00:05:08,310 and the brain begins to consolidate it neurologically. 95 00:05:08,310 --> 00:05:11,400 So when you get into the meditative process 96 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,070 and you sit your body down and it's not eating, 97 00:05:14,070 --> 00:05:16,440 it's not smelling, it's not tasting, it's not feeling, 98 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:20,100 it's not experiencing, you're not seeing, you're not hearing, 99 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:22,860 of course now you're starting to disconnect 100 00:05:22,860 --> 00:05:24,600 from your outer environment. 101 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,690 And now your inner world starts becoming more real 102 00:05:27,690 --> 00:05:29,170 than your outer world. 103 00:05:29,170 --> 00:05:32,430 And in that state, brainwaves in your thinking brain 104 00:05:32,430 --> 00:05:34,500 begin to slow down. 105 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:38,400 And when that occurs, you move into alpha brainwave patterns. 106 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,460 And alpha brainwave patterns are slower brainwave patterns. 107 00:05:42,460 --> 00:05:45,060 Now, what's the significance of this? 108 00:05:45,060 --> 00:05:47,980 When you begin to move into alpha from beta, 109 00:05:47,980 --> 00:05:52,110 you're beginning to move beyond your analytical mind. 110 00:05:52,110 --> 00:05:54,740 And now you're entering the operating system 111 00:05:54,740 --> 00:05:58,170 where all those subconscious programs, habits, and behaviors 112 00:05:58,170 --> 00:05:59,880 exist. 113 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,930 So then in alpha, we tend to no longer hear 114 00:06:03,930 --> 00:06:07,110 the voice in our head that's talking to us, 115 00:06:07,110 --> 00:06:11,550 and all of a sudden we start to see in pictures and images. 116 00:06:11,550 --> 00:06:16,040 Think of alpha as the imaginary state. 117 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:18,500 Another way to think of alpha is when you're driving down 118 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:20,270 the freeway in your car. 119 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:23,120 Your brain is fixed in a state of trance. 120 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:25,250 You're in that state of alpha. 121 00:06:25,250 --> 00:06:28,970 You have no idea how long you've been driving, 122 00:06:28,970 --> 00:06:32,840 you have no idea who's been driving the car, 123 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,870 you have no attention on anything in your outer world. 124 00:06:35,870 --> 00:06:38,680 You're imaging pictures in your mind, 125 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,570 and you have to move in the alpha in order to do that. 126 00:06:42,570 --> 00:06:46,310 There's another brainwave state called theta brainwave state. 127 00:06:46,310 --> 00:06:48,570 This is a hypnotic state. 128 00:06:48,570 --> 00:06:52,860 This is a state of heightened suggestibility. 129 00:06:52,860 --> 00:06:56,880 Suggestibility is your ability to accept, believe, 130 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,940 and surrender to information without any analysis. 131 00:07:00,940 --> 00:07:05,140 So in theta, it's a very slow brainwave state. 132 00:07:05,140 --> 00:07:11,070 And in a sense, the body is resting and semi-asleep, 133 00:07:11,070 --> 00:07:12,450 and you're awake. 134 00:07:12,450 --> 00:07:16,140 Or better said, you are conscious in your subconscious 135 00:07:16,140 --> 00:07:17,850 mind. 136 00:07:17,850 --> 00:07:21,300 When a person moves into theta, lights are out. 137 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:23,310 And the part of the brain that connects you 138 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:26,580 to everything known or familiar in your life-- 139 00:07:26,580 --> 00:07:29,400 the seat of the identity, the conscious mind, 140 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,120 the personality-- now has been suppressed. 141 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,370 And now consciousness or awareness 142 00:07:35,370 --> 00:07:37,920 is moving out of the neocortex, and it's 143 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,080 beginning to move into the subconscious 144 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,460 centers of the brain. 145 00:07:42,460 --> 00:07:45,670 Now, the next state is called delta brainwave states. 146 00:07:45,670 --> 00:07:50,800 And in delta, think about delta as restorative sleep. 147 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,160 This is when your body is in a catatonic state, 148 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:55,960 and it's completely asleep. 149 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,060 And now there's very little activity 150 00:07:58,060 --> 00:08:00,640 in your conscious mind. 151 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,010 The last state is called gamma brainwave patterns. 152 00:08:05,010 --> 00:08:07,190 Now, you would think that gamma is 153 00:08:07,190 --> 00:08:10,120 a faster frequency than beta. 154 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,520 And in a sense, it is. 155 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,970 But now, when you live by the hormones of stress, 156 00:08:15,970 --> 00:08:19,000 the arousal of those stress hormones 157 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,670 drives the brain not into just a normal beta state 158 00:08:22,670 --> 00:08:24,520 but a high beta state. 159 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,580 And if you look at gamma, there is an arousal that's 160 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:29,590 taking place in the brain. 161 00:08:29,590 --> 00:08:33,970 But the arousal is not coming from some danger, some threat, 162 00:08:33,970 --> 00:08:36,820 or some condition in your outer environment that's 163 00:08:36,820 --> 00:08:40,030 evoking the stress hormones and causing emotions 164 00:08:40,030 --> 00:08:44,260 like aggression or fear or sadness to occur. 165 00:08:44,260 --> 00:08:47,920 In gamma, there is an arousal within the body. 166 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:52,150 Energy from the body begins to move up into the brain. 167 00:08:52,150 --> 00:08:54,220 And when that happens, the brain moves 168 00:08:54,220 --> 00:08:58,750 into a super-conscious or super-aware state. 169 00:08:58,750 --> 00:09:03,370 So think about gamma as a super-aroused, super-conscious, 170 00:09:03,370 --> 00:09:06,550 super-aware state, where your inner world tends 171 00:09:06,550 --> 00:09:09,670 to become more real than your outer world. 172 00:09:09,670 --> 00:09:11,320 I want you to just see the difference 173 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:15,050 between high beta brainwave patterns and gamma brainwave 174 00:09:15,050 --> 00:09:15,850 patterns. 175 00:09:15,850 --> 00:09:18,130 You can see that the waves of gamma 176 00:09:18,130 --> 00:09:21,370 tend to be more compressed, and the frequency 177 00:09:21,370 --> 00:09:24,310 tends to be a little bit faster. 178 00:09:24,310 --> 00:09:27,430 Now, look at the left-hand side of this graph. 179 00:09:27,430 --> 00:09:33,070 You see the numbers going from 0 all the way up to 100. 180 00:09:33,070 --> 00:09:36,430 So delta brainwaves tend to be at a frequency that's 181 00:09:36,430 --> 00:09:38,830 very slow in the neocortex-- 182 00:09:38,830 --> 00:09:41,920 0.5 to 4 cycles per second. 183 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,880 Theta brainwaves tend to be a little bit faster. 184 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,620 They're 4 to 8 cycles per second, 185 00:09:47,620 --> 00:09:50,260 and as we keep increasing frequencies, 186 00:09:50,260 --> 00:09:53,530 you can see that alpha brainwave patterns are about 8 187 00:09:53,530 --> 00:09:56,060 to 13 cycles per second. 188 00:09:56,060 --> 00:09:58,900 Now, in low-level beta, you can see 189 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:02,780 low level beta is about 13 to 15 cycles per second. 190 00:10:02,780 --> 00:10:07,400 Mid-range beta is about 16 to 22 cycles per second. 191 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,720 Now, let's talk about this before we go any further. 192 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,540 Low-level beta is a healthy brainwave state. 193 00:10:14,540 --> 00:10:16,340 In fact, when you're learning, you 194 00:10:16,340 --> 00:10:18,120 should be in low-level beta. 195 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:18,920 Why? 196 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,140 Because there's no threat, there's no danger, 197 00:10:21,140 --> 00:10:23,300 it's the perfect time to learn. 198 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:25,460 But if a professor came out while you 199 00:10:25,460 --> 00:10:27,080 were learning and said, there's going 200 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,650 to be a quiz at the end of this teaching session 201 00:10:30,650 --> 00:10:33,110 and you have to pass the quiz in order for you 202 00:10:33,110 --> 00:10:36,243 to pass the course, all of a sudden the light bulb 203 00:10:36,243 --> 00:10:38,160 in your brain would get a little bit brighter, 204 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,743 and it would put more energy in there, 205 00:10:39,743 --> 00:10:41,992 and you would get more awake or more aroused. 206 00:10:41,992 --> 00:10:43,700 When you're getting ready to do a lecture 207 00:10:43,700 --> 00:10:47,210 or getting ready to do a speech, this kind of stress, 208 00:10:47,210 --> 00:10:49,730 called eustress or good stress, gives you 209 00:10:49,730 --> 00:10:52,423 a little bit more energy to be able to navigate 210 00:10:52,423 --> 00:10:53,840 in your three-dimensional reality, 211 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,050 and the brain begins to perk up a little bit. 212 00:10:57,050 --> 00:11:00,080 Now, take a look at high-level beta. 213 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,830 It's 22 to 50 cycles per second. 214 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:07,490 And high-level beta is more than two to three times 215 00:11:07,490 --> 00:11:09,860 higher than low-level beta. 216 00:11:09,860 --> 00:11:12,860 And in high-level beta, this is when your brain 217 00:11:12,860 --> 00:11:15,110 is stuck in emergency mode. 218 00:11:15,110 --> 00:11:18,800 And think about high beta like driving your sports car 219 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,930 on the freeway in first gear. 220 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:24,380 It's good for the short term, but once a person 221 00:11:24,380 --> 00:11:26,780 gets stuck in this high beta state, 222 00:11:26,780 --> 00:11:30,590 now they're living in severe anxiety, severe depression. 223 00:11:30,590 --> 00:11:33,620 They're in a state where their brain is always aroused, 224 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:36,650 and they need something outside of them 225 00:11:36,650 --> 00:11:40,760 to begin to sedate the body so they can begin to relax. 226 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,910 And this is a problem because living in high beta 227 00:11:43,910 --> 00:11:46,580 is the arousal of the stress hormones. 228 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:49,640 And as we begin to shift our attention from one 229 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,610 person to another person to another thing to another place 230 00:11:52,610 --> 00:11:56,180 to another time, the arousal of the brain because 231 00:11:56,180 --> 00:12:00,320 of those stress hormones moving into a very high beta state 232 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,690 not only causes the high beta to happen, 233 00:12:02,690 --> 00:12:07,370 but it causes the brain to begin to function very incoherently. 234 00:12:07,370 --> 00:12:11,570 And people tend to narrow their focus on the danger. 235 00:12:11,570 --> 00:12:15,260 And now they're enslaved to the laws of Newtonian physics, 236 00:12:15,260 --> 00:12:17,600 where they have to rush to try to get 237 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:19,440 things to happen in their life. 238 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,990 And for a lot of people, their brains are stuck in high beta. 239 00:12:23,990 --> 00:12:26,450 Now, take a look at gamma brainwave patterns. 240 00:12:26,450 --> 00:12:30,740 You can see low gamma cycles are between 25 to 50 cycles 241 00:12:30,740 --> 00:12:33,710 per second, and high gamma brainwave patterns, 242 00:12:33,710 --> 00:12:38,270 they can go from 50 to 100 cycles per second. 243 00:12:38,270 --> 00:12:41,660 And this is an arousal that's taking place in the brain, 244 00:12:41,660 --> 00:12:44,720 and the arousal is producing emotions 245 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,180 like ecstasy, bliss, euphoria. 246 00:12:48,180 --> 00:12:51,920 It's a whole different type of arousal. 247 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,380 So then, if the purpose of meditation 248 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:57,110 is to get beyond your analytical mind 249 00:12:57,110 --> 00:12:58,970 and what separates your conscious mind 250 00:12:58,970 --> 00:13:03,350 from your subconscious mind is your analytical mind, in order 251 00:13:03,350 --> 00:13:06,140 for you to get beyond your analytical mind 252 00:13:06,140 --> 00:13:09,710 and enter the subconscious mind where those automatic programs 253 00:13:09,710 --> 00:13:14,180 exist, you're going to have to learn a formula or a way 254 00:13:14,180 --> 00:13:16,850 to begin to slow your brainwaves down 255 00:13:16,850 --> 00:13:19,940 from high-level beta to mid-range beta 256 00:13:19,940 --> 00:13:21,620 to low-level beta. 257 00:13:21,620 --> 00:13:25,160 And when you start slowing down into alpha brainwave patterns, 258 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:27,890 you've crossed past the analytical mind. 259 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:30,740 And now, as you begin to slow your brainwaves down even 260 00:13:30,740 --> 00:13:34,280 further, you're in the subconscious part of the brain. 261 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:38,960 Now you can begin to make some significant measurable changes. 262 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,550 So then, let's review this. 263 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:48,290 We go from beta to alpha to theta to delta. 264 00:13:48,290 --> 00:13:51,230 And think about beta and alpha being 265 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:56,210 the seat of your conscious mind, and alpha, theta, and delta 266 00:13:56,210 --> 00:13:59,760 representing your subconscious mind. 267 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,820 And as you begin to slow down brain activity because you're 268 00:14:04,820 --> 00:14:09,290 no longer analyzing and thinking with your neocortex, 269 00:14:09,290 --> 00:14:12,200 then consciousness or your awareness or energy 270 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,950 naturally flows right out of the neocortex 271 00:14:15,950 --> 00:14:18,740 right into your limbic brain, the seat 272 00:14:18,740 --> 00:14:21,240 of your autonomic nervous system. 273 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,420 That's the part of your brain, remember, 274 00:14:23,420 --> 00:14:25,760 that begins to control and regulate 275 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,280 all those automatic bodily functions. 276 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,740 In a sense, it's the part of the brain that's 277 00:14:30,740 --> 00:14:33,800 giving you life, that has an agenda, to keep you 278 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,560 in balance, to keep you in homeostasis, 279 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:38,510 and it's very automatic. 280 00:14:38,510 --> 00:14:41,360 So now you're in the very operating system 281 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:44,720 where you can begin to program your autonomic nervous system 282 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:48,830 to change its hormones, to begin to change the body's 283 00:14:48,830 --> 00:14:50,990 function in some way. 284 00:14:50,990 --> 00:14:54,860 And in a sense, you are conscious in your subconscious 285 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:56,640 mind. 286 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,890 Brain scans have shown that students 287 00:14:58,890 --> 00:15:02,250 that know how to regulate and slow down their brainwaves, 288 00:15:02,250 --> 00:15:05,460 they move into that low-level alpha and theta, 289 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:07,710 and all of a sudden they start to merge 290 00:15:07,710 --> 00:15:09,570 with their autonomic nervous system. 291 00:15:09,570 --> 00:15:13,420 And we call this getting beyond the self. 292 00:15:13,420 --> 00:15:16,320 And when the conscious mind is merging with the subconscious 293 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,900 mind or you're beginning to connect 294 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:21,040 to your autonomic nervous system, 295 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:25,030 its job is to create order and balance. 296 00:15:25,030 --> 00:15:26,910 And when you get beyond yourself, 297 00:15:26,910 --> 00:15:30,780 get beyond everything known in your three-dimensional reality, 298 00:15:30,780 --> 00:15:32,550 something magical happens. 299 00:15:32,550 --> 00:15:35,460 When the autonomic nervous system begins to connect 300 00:15:35,460 --> 00:15:37,440 and you're not activating those circuits, 301 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,500 you're not thinking and feeling in the same cycles, 302 00:15:40,500 --> 00:15:45,030 all of a sudden it begins to organize or create coherence 303 00:15:45,030 --> 00:15:48,750 in the neocortex, which has been fractured and subdivided 304 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:51,420 because of the hormones of stress. 305 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:58,740 So now, think about coherence as order, as cadence, as rhythm. 306 00:15:58,740 --> 00:16:02,880 Things are working synchronized in an organized way. 307 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,120 Think of incoherence like a group of drummers 308 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,560 with no rhythm banging on the drums at the same time. 309 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,960 And the brain as well as the heart that 310 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:15,630 are influenced by the hormones of stress, 311 00:16:15,630 --> 00:16:20,430 as they begin to function in a very disorganized way, 312 00:16:20,430 --> 00:16:26,200 that incoherence is a very weak signal for the body. 313 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:27,690 Think about it like this. 314 00:16:27,690 --> 00:16:31,740 If you went to a football game and something happened 315 00:16:31,740 --> 00:16:34,560 favorable to the home team and everybody 316 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,320 was clapping at the same time and applauding, 317 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,110 that would be incoherence in the brain. 318 00:16:40,110 --> 00:16:42,510 Now, normal coherence in the brain 319 00:16:42,510 --> 00:16:46,830 would be like every 10th person in the stadium clapping 320 00:16:46,830 --> 00:16:51,720 in rhythm, and that's normal or average for most human beings. 321 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,690 But when the brain and heart get highly organized, 322 00:16:54,690 --> 00:16:57,600 highly integrated, highly synchronized, 323 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,020 imagine everybody in the stadium clapping 324 00:17:01,020 --> 00:17:03,330 at the same time in rhythm. 325 00:17:03,330 --> 00:17:07,530 Not only does it create order and coherence, 326 00:17:07,530 --> 00:17:10,440 but it also increases the amount of energy 327 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,170 in the brain and heart. 328 00:17:12,170 --> 00:17:14,339 And when there's more energy in the brain, 329 00:17:14,339 --> 00:17:15,869 there's more energy in the heart, 330 00:17:15,869 --> 00:17:18,930 there's a greater level of awareness about your body, 331 00:17:18,930 --> 00:17:21,930 your environment, and time. 332 00:17:21,930 --> 00:17:24,660 I want to show you the difference between coherence 333 00:17:24,660 --> 00:17:26,040 and incoherence. 334 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:28,770 On the left image, where it says coherence, 335 00:17:28,770 --> 00:17:30,570 you're looking at the top of their head. 336 00:17:30,570 --> 00:17:33,180 Now, 19 different compartments of the brain 337 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:35,070 that are connected through electrodes, 338 00:17:35,070 --> 00:17:38,250 and if all of those compartments are synchronized, 339 00:17:38,250 --> 00:17:42,270 you'll see the valleys and the peaks all lined up, 340 00:17:42,270 --> 00:17:45,540 and we'll call that order or coherence. 341 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:49,170 If different parts of the brain are lagging or behind or out 342 00:17:49,170 --> 00:17:51,970 of order, then you'll see all of a sudden, 343 00:17:51,970 --> 00:17:54,990 some of those valleys lining up with some of the peaks 344 00:17:54,990 --> 00:17:56,760 and different compartments of the brain 345 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,250 are not communicating well with each other, 346 00:17:59,250 --> 00:18:02,190 and we call that incoherence. 347 00:18:02,190 --> 00:18:05,190 When we see a lot of blue when we're measuring coherence, 348 00:18:05,190 --> 00:18:09,000 that means it has a low level of coherence in the brain. 349 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,350 If you don't see any blue and you see pink, that's normal. 350 00:18:13,350 --> 00:18:17,370 And normal means average, what the average person experiences 351 00:18:17,370 --> 00:18:19,440 in terms of coherence. 352 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,830 The red represents a high amount of order in the brain. 353 00:18:22,830 --> 00:18:27,090 And red means there's a super level of coherence. 354 00:18:27,090 --> 00:18:30,870 So now, this is a normal brain scan. 355 00:18:30,870 --> 00:18:33,270 This is what we call a strip chart. 356 00:18:33,270 --> 00:18:36,870 And we're measuring the 19 different parts of the brain. 357 00:18:36,870 --> 00:18:41,070 That brainwave pattern is low-level beta brainwave 358 00:18:41,070 --> 00:18:42,700 patterns. 359 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,270 Now, the person's sitting there, their eyes are open, 360 00:18:45,270 --> 00:18:46,920 they're being their normal self. 361 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,760 We ask them to close their eyes, begin to open their awareness, 362 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,490 begin to open their focus from a convergent focus 363 00:18:53,490 --> 00:18:56,225 to a divergent focus or a broad focus, 364 00:18:56,225 --> 00:18:59,460 and in a matter of seconds, this is what we see. 365 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:02,790 Now, remember, coherence is orderliness. 366 00:19:02,790 --> 00:19:06,270 And look how those waves are organized and stacked 367 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:08,440 equally on top of each other. 368 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,010 The brain is highly synchronized, 369 00:19:10,010 --> 00:19:14,640 or phase synchronized in alpha brainwave states. 370 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:15,810 Here's another one. 371 00:19:15,810 --> 00:19:19,440 Another person goes from a narrow focus to a broad focus, 372 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,430 and you can see the entire brain is coherently 373 00:19:23,430 --> 00:19:25,890 in alpha brainwave state. 374 00:19:25,890 --> 00:19:28,350 Here's another person who has global coherence. 375 00:19:28,350 --> 00:19:31,770 They go from a narrow focus to a broad focus, 376 00:19:31,770 --> 00:19:34,290 from a convergent focus to a divergent focus, 377 00:19:34,290 --> 00:19:37,470 and you can see all of those different brainwaves 378 00:19:37,470 --> 00:19:39,630 beautifully stacked on top of each other. 379 00:19:39,630 --> 00:19:43,950 And we can say that the brain is highly integrated. 380 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:47,590 If you look at that arrow on the right side of the screen, 381 00:19:47,590 --> 00:19:50,100 you can see that all of those peaks are lining up. 382 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:55,370 That means the entire brain is in an alpha coherent state. 383 00:19:55,370 --> 00:19:57,390 In this slide, you're seeing someone 384 00:19:57,390 --> 00:20:02,310 in phase synchronized coherent theta brainwave patterns. 385 00:20:02,310 --> 00:20:05,610 The entire brain is synchronized into theta, 386 00:20:05,610 --> 00:20:07,770 and they're in that hypnotic state, 387 00:20:07,770 --> 00:20:09,600 they're in that suggestible state 388 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:13,770 where the lights are out in the thinking neocortex. 389 00:20:13,770 --> 00:20:17,160 And when they slip into that theta brainwave state, 390 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,610 we can say that they're completely beyond themselves, 391 00:20:20,610 --> 00:20:23,520 and they've dissociated from everything 392 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,830 known in their three-dimensional reality. 393 00:20:26,830 --> 00:20:29,820 Our research, as well as other researchers at Princeton 394 00:20:29,820 --> 00:20:31,860 University and around the world, have 395 00:20:31,860 --> 00:20:34,320 found that if you can broaden your focus, 396 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,720 as you begin to open your awareness, 397 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:40,860 the act of taking your attention off of everything material 398 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:44,280 and putting your attention on nothing but space, 399 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,850 if reality is both a particle and a wave, 400 00:20:47,850 --> 00:20:49,890 if it's matter and energy-- 401 00:20:49,890 --> 00:20:53,340 and there's an invisible field of energy called the quantum 402 00:20:53,340 --> 00:20:57,210 field that exists beyond this space and time 403 00:20:57,210 --> 00:20:59,810 that you can't experience with your senses 404 00:20:59,810 --> 00:21:02,490 but can only experience with your awareness-- 405 00:21:02,490 --> 00:21:05,730 and that unified field, that invisible field 406 00:21:05,730 --> 00:21:08,820 of frequency, that it is that very frequency that 407 00:21:08,820 --> 00:21:14,760 connects everything material and organizes everything into form. 408 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,740 So then when you broaden your focus 409 00:21:16,740 --> 00:21:18,810 and you take your attention off of matter, 410 00:21:18,810 --> 00:21:22,440 you're putting your attention on that invisible field of energy, 411 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,490 whose signature is oneness, whose signature is order, 412 00:21:26,490 --> 00:21:30,610 whose signature is greater and greater levels of wholeness. 413 00:21:30,610 --> 00:21:35,250 The person is feeling so whole, so in love with life, 414 00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:37,950 that it's impossible for them to want. 415 00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:41,070 I mean, how can you want when you feel whole? 416 00:21:41,070 --> 00:21:43,440 You feel like you have everything. 417 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:45,870 And so we've measured this on people. 418 00:21:45,870 --> 00:21:48,900 In fact, we can actually predict when it's 419 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:50,730 going to happen to a person. 420 00:21:50,730 --> 00:21:53,250 We start seeing more and more order taking place 421 00:21:53,250 --> 00:21:55,560 in the brain, and all of a sudden we can say, 422 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,480 after a certain point, this person 423 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,710 is going to have a very transcendental moment. 424 00:22:00,710 --> 00:22:03,720 And when we see those two hemispheres coming together, 425 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,720 when that person is connecting and they feel whole, 426 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,910 energy moves right into their heart. 427 00:22:08,910 --> 00:22:12,060 And their heart starts beating very orderly and very 428 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:13,690 coherently. 429 00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:17,670 The heart begins to produce an ambient magnetic field. 430 00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:19,880 Now the field and the energy is beginning 431 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,510 to broaden from the body, and that energy is frequency. 432 00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:26,510 And that frequency carries information. 433 00:22:26,510 --> 00:22:30,560 And now the person feels connected to something greater. 434 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,780 And you can walk around and look at that person, 435 00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:36,230 and you can see tears of joy rolling down 436 00:22:36,230 --> 00:22:40,430 their face because they feel so whole, they feel so in love 437 00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:43,850 with life that they feel connected to something greater, 438 00:22:43,850 --> 00:22:48,800 that I call that the natural state of being. 439 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,370 So what does it mean, then, to get beyond the self? 440 00:22:52,370 --> 00:22:54,920 If we're getting beyond the analytical mind 441 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,000 and cooling off brain activity that's associated to everything 442 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,810 familiar in our life, that means, then, in order for you 443 00:23:02,810 --> 00:23:05,090 to get beyond yourself, you're going 444 00:23:05,090 --> 00:23:08,480 to have to take your attention off of everything material 445 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,220 and known in this three-dimensional reality. 446 00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:13,310 And our research shows that when you 447 00:23:13,310 --> 00:23:18,320 go from a somebody to a nobody, from putting your attention 448 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,830 on some things to putting your attention on nothing, putting 449 00:23:21,830 --> 00:23:25,330 your attention from somewhere to nowhere, 450 00:23:25,330 --> 00:23:27,650 when you're putting your attention from some time 451 00:23:27,650 --> 00:23:30,920 into no time, that is the moment you're 452 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,980 disconnecting from this three-dimensional reality. 453 00:23:33,980 --> 00:23:37,820 And in a sense, we call that "getting beyond the self." 454 00:23:37,820 --> 00:23:40,730 And now, at this elegant moment, you 455 00:23:40,730 --> 00:23:44,180 are in the sweet spot of the generous present moment. 456 00:23:44,180 --> 00:23:47,420 And we can say now you're at that perfect place 457 00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:50,150 in the eternal now for you to begin to create 458 00:23:50,150 --> 00:23:52,700 something new from the unknown. 459 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:53,570 Why? 460 00:23:53,570 --> 00:23:56,550 Because if you have no attention on the predictable future 461 00:23:56,550 --> 00:23:59,570 or the familiar past, if you have no attention on anything 462 00:23:59,570 --> 00:24:01,610 material in your outer environment, 463 00:24:01,610 --> 00:24:04,370 on no one or nothing or nowhere, and you've 464 00:24:04,370 --> 00:24:07,130 gotten beyond your body, which has been conditioned 465 00:24:07,130 --> 00:24:10,820 to be the mind, the only thing that you are in that moment 466 00:24:10,820 --> 00:24:12,420 is pure consciousness. 467 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:15,080 And when you're pure consciousness dissociated 468 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,240 from everything material in your life, 469 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:22,010 now you're at the perfect place to create something new. 470 00:24:22,010 --> 00:24:24,290 Now that I've shown you that there's a formula 471 00:24:24,290 --> 00:24:27,590 and how you can create a more coherent, integrated, 472 00:24:27,590 --> 00:24:30,230 synchronized brainwave state, I'd 473 00:24:30,230 --> 00:24:33,080 like to show you that this process can affect your ability 474 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,180 to reprogram and change your own genetic destiny. 475 00:24:37,180 --> 00:24:40,390 In the next episode, we're going to explore how you can become 476 00:24:40,390 --> 00:24:42,460 your own genetic engineer. 477 00:24:42,460 --> 00:24:44,570 I'm Dr. Joe Dispenza for "Rewired," 478 00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:46,570 and I hope to see you in the next episode, where 479 00:24:46,570 --> 00:24:50,880 we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.