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It has been said that the brain thinks,
but the heart knows.
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Over the last 10 years, my research team and I
have gone to great measures to teach people
how to sustain both brain and heart coherence.
Once you begin to understand the value of how your heart
and brain can work together to not only change
the health of your body, but to influence your life,
It's my hope that you'll begin to apply some of these concepts
on a daily basis.
I'm your host, Dr. Joe Dispenza, and in the last two episodes
we demystified the mystical into a deep study
of the pineal gland and its sacred metabolites that
induce a transcendental moment.
In this episode, I want to help you understand
how your heart dramatically influences your brain
and how brain coherence begins to open the door to your heart.
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Let's first start with how the brain and the heart
both become incoherent.
If you remember from previous episodes,
coherence represents order, rhythm, synchronization.
Incoherence is a lack of order, or disintegration.
Let's start with the brain, when you
react to someone or something in your life,
you turn on that primitive nervous system called the fight
or flight nervous system.
When the body and brain become aroused because of the release
of these stress hormones, the rush of adrenaline
begins to cause us to become more alert and more aware.
The arousal causes us to put our attention on our bodies,
on all of the elements in our outer environment.
And what is our environment made of?
People, objects, things, and places.
And when we're under the gun of these stress hormones,
we're preoccupied with time.
Now, where you place your attention
is where you place your energy.
And in a sense, then, all of our attention and energy
is invested into this three-dimensional reality,
and we have to play by the rules of Newtonian physics.
And as you learned, everything takes time
to happen in this three-dimensional world.
Under these stress hormones and the arousal of those chemicals,
the brain moves into a brainwave state called
high beta brainwave patterns.
And in this state of survival, we
try to control and predict everything in our lives.
And in a sense, we shift our attention
from one person to another person
to another problem
to another place to another object or thing.
And every one of those elements are already neurologically
mapped in our brain.
In other words, every person--
like your boss, your co-workers, your partner, your kids,
your cell phone, your computer, where you work, where you live,
where you sleep--
every one of those elements has a neurological network
in your brain.
And when the brain is aroused because of those stress
hormones, as we shift our attention
to each one of those different elements
in our external environment, we activate the associated
neurological networks.
And when that happens, the brain begins to fire incoherently.
When your brain is incoherent, you're incoherent.
So then, the hormones of stress cause
us to narrow our focus on the danger, or the element,
that's causing the stress reaction.
And in a sense, we are narrowing our attention
on the material world.
So then we begin to experience separation
because our senses fool us into believing
that we're separate from everyone and everything
in our lives.
And because of the arousal of these hormones,
we become materialists.
And the material world then, under the gun
of the fight or flight nervous system, in this state,
it's not a time to create.
It's not a time to open your heart.
It's not a time to learn.
It's not a time to communicate.
It's not a time to meditate.
It's not a time to sit down and be vulnerable.
It's a time to run, to fight, or to hide.
So then people habituate in this state,
and they live 70% of the time under the hormones of stress.
Now, at the same time, the heart is
racing because the person is living in survival.
And when the heart is racing, the body
is prepared to run, to fight, or to hide.
But if you're not running, if you're not fighting,
and if you're not hiding or freezing,
and you're in a staff meeting, or you're in traffic,
it's like stepping on the gas pedal as your heart races
and stepping on the brake at the exact same time.
And when that occurs, when there's
incoherence in the brain and the heart,
there's less energy in the brain and the heart.
Now, every single one of those elements
in your external environment is a known to you
because you've experienced them already.
And because you've experienced them already,
you have a neurological network in the brain.
By the same means, if you experienced
each one of these elements in your environment,
you have a feeling, or an emotion, associated with them.
Now, the stronger the emotion you
have to those different elements in your external environment,
the more you pay attention to them.
So if where you place your attention
is where you place your energy, you are giving your vital life
force and your power away to all of those elements
in your external environment.
And in a sense, we have no energy
in our inner world for thoughts and feelings
to create anything new in our life if all of our attention
is on everything null.
And over time, we begin to create a connection
energetically with everything known
in our past, present reality.
And they're predicting their future based on the past,
and they can't relax into the present moment.
If you remember from previous episodes,
we have this invisible field of vital life force surrounding
us, this invisible field of light and information.
And as we respond to some stressor in our lives,
we draw from this invisible field of energy,
and we begin to turn it into chemistry,
and the field around our body shrinks.
Come more matter and less energy, more particle and less
wave, and now we are forcing, controlling, predicting,
fighting for, manipulating outcomes, competing for them
because we're matter trying to change matter.
The brain stays highly aroused in those high beta brainwave
patterns, and the person has an incoherent brain,
and now they are disconnected from their dreams.
They're disconnected from everyone and everything
in their life, and they're relying
on something outside of them to take away those feelings that
are created inside of them.
And if they're waiting for something
to change in their life, then they're
not creating anything new in their life.
Let's talk about the effects of incoherence.
When you have two waves that are coming together
and those waves are incoherent, are not synchronized,
when they begin to interact or interfere with one another,
they begin to create a change in energy.
In other words, when waves are out of sync or out of order,
and they begin to interfere, we begin
to diminish the amount of energy in the brain and in the heart.
When waves are coherent, and they're
synchronized, as they begin to interfere with one another,
over time, they will begin to create bigger waves.
The more synchronized the brain is, the more coherent it is,
the more coherent the heart is, the higher the amplitudes,
the higher the energy in the brain and the heart.
So it makes sense then, when there's
incoherence in the brain and when there's
incoherence in the heart, there's
less energy in the brain and the heart.
The more coherence that's created
in the brain and the heart, the more energy
we have in the heart.
We started to investigate these principles to see
if we would be able to create more brain coherence and heart
coherence and measure those changes that could take place.
So then if a person's living addicted
to the hormones of stress, and they are narrowing their focus
on everything material, that's called a convergent focus.
That's when we narrow our focus on the material world.
And people habituate and get stuck in the state.
So we thought, what if we taught people
how to go from a narrow focus, focusing on the material world,
to a broad focus, or to an open focus,
or what's called a divergent focus?
Divergent focus-- instead of a convergent focus,
taking your attention of the material world
and putting your attention on nothing material putting
your attention on energy and frequency.
Would it begin to change the way the brain functioned?
And in a sense, that became the formula for us
to begin to record high amounts of brain coherence.
And the process is very simple.
You ask the person to close their eyes,
to take a few breaths, to relax their body.
And all of a sudden, I asked them
to sense the space on both sides of them and how far can
their awareness go into that endless space,
to sense the infinite black space out in front of them,
giving it depth and becoming aware that there's
infinite space behind them.
And as they take their attention off the material world
and begin to put their attention on that field of energy
or information, by opening their focus
and beginning to sense space, they're no longer
analyzing and thinking.
And because they're no longer analyzing and thinking,
they're no longer activating those circuits
in their brain that are connected to everything known.
And as they're closing their eyes
and sitting still in the meditative state, over time,
they forget that they have a body.
They forget that they are connected
to people in their lives.
They're no longer thinking about their cell phone or their car
or their computer.
They're not even aware of where they're
sitting, where they need to go, where they sleep,
where they work.
And they literally lose track of time and space.
And this is where they fall into the sweet spot
of the generous present moment.
When it's done properly, if you're no longer activating
these circuits in the brain, and you're no longer analyzing
and thinking, we begin to slow our brainwaves
down from those beta brainwave states into alpha.
And we begin to cross that analytical mind.
But we're not just looking for any type of alpha.
We started noticing that the brain started getting very
organized and very coherent--
a very coherent form of alpha.
And if the person was capable of continuously relaxing
and falling further into the present moment, all
of a sudden, their brainwaves move into a coherent theta
brainwave state.
And in theta now, there's very little activity
in the neocortex--
the seat of your identity, the seat of the known self--
and all of a sudden, we disconnect from our body,
our environment, and time.
And we become no body, no one, no thing, no where,
and no time, and that is the moment
we become pure consciousness.
Remember, coherence is order.
If we're measuring 19 different compartments of the brain
and each one of those waves are synchronized and organized,
and the valleys line up with the hills,
we could say that the entire brain is coherent.
When you have 19 compartments of the brain,
and they're not synchronized, and some are firing out
of order, if we were to measure those heights
and peaks and valleys, it would no longer be organized,
and that would be incoherent.
Take a look at this brain scan.
This is called the strip chart, and we're
measuring 19 different compartments of the brain.
And you can see the person's in a low beta brainwave pattern.
Now, we asked them to open their focus.
We asked them to begin to connect to that unified field
and put their attention on nothing.
And as their brain begins to slow down,
and they shift from beta to alpha,
take a look at the amount of coherence
that's taking place in this person's brain.
You can begin to see that all of those 19 different compartments
are on the same rhythm.
They're on the same beat.
The entire brain is phase synchronized.
Here's another person.
Take a look at their brain when they open their focus
and they put their attention on nothing.
The entire brain is phase synchronized into an alpha
brainwave pattern.
This is a high amount of coherence.
Now remember, the higher the coherence,
the higher the energy in the brain.
Take a look at this brain--
another example where the brain is completely synchronized.
Every single compartment of the brain is on the same channel,
and the brain is functioning in a more holistic, organized,
integrated state.
Now in this brain scan, we can see a person now
in theta brainwave patterns.
This is the state where the body is falling asleep or resting
and the mind is awake.
And this is when the person has completely switched off
the sympathetic nervous system, and now they're
functioning in a very slow state of the parasympathetic nervous
system.
And this is where regeneration and growth and repair
begin to happen because now, the person is
conscious in their subconscious mind.
They are connected to the autonomic nervous system
because they've gotten beyond their conscious mind
in high beta brainwave patterns.
And now they're in the operating system
where they can begin to make the most important changes.
Let's talk about how we create heart coherence.
When a person is living in stress,
and they're out of balance, their heart
is always racing a little bit.
And over time, people begin to condition their heart
to race like that all the time.
And if you keep creating that kind of incoherence
in the heart, where it's no longer
beating in a rhythmic fashion, the disintegration
of the interference of those individual frequencies
diminishes energy in the heart, and now we
stop trusting ourselves.
We stop trusting in our future.
And the heart is the creative center.
The heart represents the union of polarity,
the union of duality, the union of opposites.
This is where our divinity begins.
If you can teach a person how to open their focus
and begin to become no body, no one, no thing, no where,
and no time, and begin to open up into that blackness,
that quantum field where there is nothing physical,
and out of all the things they can put their attention on--
instead of putting it on their cell phone or their Facebook
or the co-workers or their boss or their ex or the problems
in their lives--
they're taking all of their attention
and placing it on their heart.
And where you place your attention
is where you place your energy.
And in a sense, you are putting attention and giving your heart
life, the very life force it needs
to begin to bloom like a flower.
So as you rest your attention in your heart
and you're able to keep your attention there,
the next step is to slow your breathing down,
and then you breathe in and out of your heart.
And what you're doing is you're working with your body
so that it feels safe enough to relax into the present moment
and switch from the sympathetic nervous system
to the parasympathetic nervous system.
And of course, if a person is aroused constantly,
it's going to take some practice to begin to do this.
And as you begin to breathe in and out of your heart slower
and deeper and more relaxed, as your breathing slows down,
your brainwaves slow down.
And now the person now is starting
to slip right into the autonomic nervous system
and into the operating system.
Now, let's trade the emotions of guilt, of shame,
of unworthiness, of pain, of suffering, of anger, of fear,
of hostility, of judgment, of envy
for heart-centered elevated emotion.
And as you breathe, give yourself
permission to begin to feel gratitude, appreciation.
Begin to feel thankfulness, a love for life,
a joy for existence, but doing that independent
of any condition in your external environment.
In other words, so many people are conditioned into believing
they need a reason for gratitude,
they need a reason for joy, they need a reason to feel love,
they need something outside of them
to create that emotion inside of them.
And here, we're doing the exact opposite.
We're beginning to open our hearts
and begin to put energy in there.
And as we begin to breathe and feel
these elevated emotions, all of a sudden,
the heart starts to become more coherent.
And like dropping pebble in very still water--
pebble after pebble after pebble in a very rhythmic fashion--
all of a sudden, the heart begins
to produce an ambient magnetic field that
can be up to three meters wide.
And now, like beating a great drum, frequency that's
being created from the heart, that frequency
can carry information.
And now the person, once energy moves into their heart,
they're in the perfect state to create it.
In other words, once this creative center opens up,
and once it begins to become more coherent,
not only are you producing that magnetic field that's beginning
to spread out from your body--
you're becoming more energy and less matter, more wave
and less particle--
you'll begin to feel like you're connected to something greater.
And when your heart is open, you're
no longer experiencing lack, polarity, separation,
or duality.
You feel connected.
Your body begins to believe when you train your heart
that your future is actually happening in the present moment
because you're experiencing the emotion of your future
before it happens.
You can place the thought of your new life, your new job,
your new relationship, your healing, the new opportunity
in your life--
that energy can carry the thought of your future.
The energy of suffering, the energy of guilt cannot carry
the thought of your healing.
It cannot carry the thought of your abundance.
That frequency of suffering carries a different set
of thoughts.
And now, once the heart is open, it immediately
begins to influence the brain.
As the heart becomes more coherent,
and there's more energy in the heart,
it automatically begins to amplify energy into the brain.
And now we have more energy in the brain.
And when that occurs, we start thinking
with a different level of awareness,
a different set of thoughts, a different consciousness that's
equal to those emotional states.
In other words, the moment you feel unlimited,
you're going to think unlimited thoughts.
The moment you feel worthy, you are going
to think different thoughts.
And those thoughts are going to begin
to make more chemicals for you to feel more heart coherence.
And when you feel that more heart coherence,
your brain's going to check in with your body,
and it's going to generate more corresponding thoughts.
And in time, you will begin to change your state of being.
When people can sustain heart coherence,
just for a short amount of time, there's
a resetting that takes place in the baseline of trauma.
When people have traumatic events in their life
that are shocking, that are related to betrayal or loss,
we begin to become branded emotionally.
And that trauma stays right in the survival center
of the brain called the amygdala.
But as we begin to reset our inner state
and we begin to self-regulate, when the heart begins
to open up and energy moves to the brain,
there are fibers that run right up
to the amygdala that begin to reset the baseline of trauma.
In a matter of moments, a person starts
to feel more like themselves.
Now, take a look at what heart coherence and incoherence
looks like.
If you look at the top graph, this
is a person who's feeling frustration,
anxiety, impatience, fear, and you
can see that the heart is completely out of rhythm.
Take a look at the second graph.
When the person is feeling an elevated emotion like gratitude
or appreciation or kindness or care,
look at the amount of coherence, or rhythm or order,
that's taking place in the heart.
Now, elevated emotions-- like gratitude, love, joy,
inspiration, peace, wholeness, trust, knowingness, patience,
empowerment--
are selfless emotions that tend to open the heart.
The survival emotions that we've been talking
about over the last several episodes
are related to those emotions of guilt and shame
and unworthiness and anger and fear.
They have nothing to do with heart-centered emotions.
So then what if, then, the heart begins
to become more coherent and it begins to send energy up
to the brain through these fibers called afferent fibers?
The vagus nerve, the primary nerve
that's dominant in the parasympathetic nervous system,
begins to reset the baseline of the brain.
And when the heart becomes coherent,
the brain becomes coherent.
And when the brain starts to become coherent,
the heart becomes coherent.
And how do we know that?
Because when we look at a brain scan,
and we see a person beginning to become
more orderly in their brain, we see the front
of the brain beginning to resonate
with the back of the brain.
We see different communities of neurological networks beginning
to form larger communities, and they begin
to oscillate and resonate.
And all of a sudden, you see the left side
of the brain talking to the right side of the brain.
And if the person is connecting to that unified field,
the signature of order and unity is
beginning to become entrained in the nervous system.
When this occurs-- when you see the union of opposites,
the union of polarity, the union of duality--
all of a sudden, when those two hemispheres come together
and there's that psychic union, in that moment when
the person feels whole, the heart
begins to function more coherently.
So then a coherent brain begins to produce a coherent heart.
And a coherent heart amplifies energy
and creates a coherent brain.
So take a look at this person right here.
Each one of these individual squares,
these individual blocks, represent five minutes.
And this is a person in a meditation,
and we're asking that person to begin to elevate
their emotional state.
And for a little over 50 minutes you can see from this graph
that they're sustaining an extended period of time
of heart coherence.
Now, take a look at this last period of heart coherence.
Now this is the interesting thing.
This person was not in a meditation
when she was experiencing this level of heart coherence.
And I asked her, what were you doing?
She said, I was finishing up my day.
I was unpacking.
It was 8 o'clock at night, and all of a sudden,
out of nowhere, I felt this incredible feeling of love
take over me.
She said it was so intense, it was so powerful,
that she had to lay on her back in bed
and just surrender to the feeling.
And for over an hour, she's relaxing into love.
And 1,400 to 1,300 different chemicals
are released in this state that begin to restore and repair
the body.
Now, we all know what a panic attack is.
When a person keeps selecting the worst-case scenario
in their mind, and they begin to become so
preoccupied with that probable outcome
that they start to feel the emotions before it happens,
they're combining an image, or a thought,
with a feeling and an emotion.
And over time, they're conditioning the body
to become the mind of fear.
And if they do that enough times,
the body is going to have a panic attack.
Try as they may to control it with their conscious mind,
they can't because they programmed it subconsciously.
Now, take a look at this--
three people sustaining heart coherence for 45 minutes.
These people are developing the skill of self-regulation,
and I want them to be able to do it with their eyes open as well
as their eyes closed.
They should be able to do it in their life.
And they should be able to notice when they lose
that feeling from their heart.
And they should be able to excuse themselves
from their day, or from certain conditions,
and begin to recalibrate and begin
to open their heart again.
And in time, then, they're going to become
less reactionary to everyone and everything in their lives.
And if they're not reacting, then they're
no longer living in stress.
And now the body can begin to regenerate and repair itself
because it's now no longer living in emergency mode.
Now, take a look at these people.
This is a person with a really weak heart, very little
variability.
And take a look-- for a little over 15 minutes,
this person is able to sustain heart coherence.
For another 8 minutes or so, they're able to do it again.
And to me, this is the beginning of a person changing
their biology.
Another person, very weak heart--
for about six minutes, they're able to create heart coherence.
And again, for about seven or eight minutes,
they're able to do it again.
And if they keep practicing this,
they're going to change their biology and begin to make it
a skill.
Now, what is the significance of creating brain and heart
coherence?
Think about it.
When you create heart coherence, you're
emitting a measurable magnetic field.
When you're creating brain coherence,
you can put a thought or intent on that frequency.
And when you do it properly now, you
are broadcasting a very coherent signature of electromagnetism
all around you.
Once you create a coherent signature in the brain
and heart, now, like a laser, you
can begin to the decode information in the field.
And being able to control those frequencies, or your awareness
in connecting to those frequencies,
now it's like having a Wi-Fi signal where you can connect
to energy and information.
When the brain is incoherent, when the heart is incoherent,
we experience separation, and we have a poor signal,
so we can't connect to the field to create from.
And as the person begins to trade those survival emotions--
like anger and fear or pain--
for elevated emotions-- like gratitude and joy and love--
and they overcome the emotions that
keep them bound to their past, present reality,
and there's no longer a vibrational match
between anyone or anything in their life, all of a sudden,
as they overcome the emotions, they're
going to take their attention off the person or problem.
And now, they're going to begin to weaken
the energetic bonds with their past, present reality.
And in a sense, if they're no longer feeling those emotions,
and they're no longer thinking about that person or problem,
they are taking their power back.
And they begin to build their own electromagnetic field.
And now, they have energy to heal.
Now they have energy to create a new future with.
And now they're creating no longer
from lack or separation--
they're creating from wholeness or oneness.
In other words, when they create they
feel like it's already happening.
And so then when we get up from our meditations
in this creative state, as long as we're
feeling the emotions of our future in our heart,
we're no longer looking for when it's going to happen
or why it's going to happen because you feel
like it's already happened.
And you are connected to the energy of your future.
And when we lose the energy of our future,
and we disconnect from it, now we're
back to the energy of our past, and don't expect anything
to change in your life.
So it's not enough to just do this in your meditation.
We have to sustain this modified state of mind
and body our entire day.
So then when there's a vibrational match
between your energy and some future potential that already
exists in the quantum field, and you're creating from the field
instead of from matter, now we no longer
have to go anywhere to get it.
We will begin to collapse time and space
and draw the experience to us.
And now, we'll begin to believe that we're
more of the creators of our lives instead
of the victim of our lives.
Now that I've shown you how to create heart and brain
coherence, it's my wish that you'll
use this information to synchronize your mind
as well as your heart to better manage your energy.
In the next episode, we're going to discuss
one of our community's favorite meditations.
It's called the blessing of the energy centers.
This meditation in particular has
healed a host of many different health conditions-- from brain
tumors to asthma to thyroid conditions to prostate issues
to vertigo to depression, just to name a few.
I'm your host Dr. Joe Dispenza for "Rewired,"
and I hope to see you in the next episode, where
we go beyond the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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