Dr Joe is a Doctor of Chiropractic, who trained in the fields of neuroscience and neuroplasticity, quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) measurements, epigenetics, mind-body medicine, and brain/heart coherence. As a researcher, lecturer, author, and corporate consultant, his interest lies in demystifying the mystical so that people have all the tools within their reach to make measurable changes in their lives. Dr Joe works on being the living example of everything he teaches. He also appreciates good food and wine, communing with nature, and being around highly creative people.

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DR JOE DISPENZA

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 DR. JOE DISPENZA shares some thoughts
 on heart-brain coherence and moving from thinking to knowing through the
 instrument of perception we know as the heart.
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 Since our human ancestors first began etching their histories upon cave
 walls and stone tablets, like a thread through the needle of time, the heart
 has appeared as a symbol to represent health, wisdom, intuition, guidance,
 and higher intelligence. The ancient Egyptians, who referred to the heart as
 ieb, believed the heart, rather than the brain, was the center of
 life and the source of human wisdom.We know that the heart, beyond its
 obvious role in sustaining life, is not simply a muscular pump that moves
 blood throughout our body but an organ capable of influencing feelings and
 emotions. The heart is a sensory organ that guides our decision-making
 ability as well as our understanding of ourselves and our place in the
 world. It’s a symbol that transcends time, place, and culture. It’s a
 commonly accepted premise that when we are connected to the heart’s inner
 knowing, we can tap into its wisdom as a source of love and higher
 guidance.


 Every thought you think produces corresponding chemistry equal to that
 thought, which in turn creates an emotion. Therefore, you are suggestible
 only to the thoughts equal to your emotional state. We now know that when
 our students are heart centered and feel more wholeness and oneness, they’re
 less separate from their dreams.


 When they feel gratitude, abundance, freedom, or love, all of those
 emotions welcome corresponding thoughts. Those heart-centered emotions open
 the door to the subconscious mind so that you can program your autonomic
 nervous system equal to the thoughts of your new future. We also know that
 if they live in the feeling of fear or lack but try to think they’re
 abundant, they can’t produce a measurable effect, because change can only
 happen when thoughts are in alignment with the emotional state of the body.
 They can think positively all they want, but without a corresponding feeling
 or emotion equal to that thought, the message cannot be felt or understood
 throughout the rest of the body.

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 Heart-centered emotions open the door 
 to the subconscious mind so that you can 
 program your autonomic nervous system 
 equal to the thoughts of your new future.
 


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 So you could repeat the affirmation I am fearless until you’re
 blue in the face, but if it’s fear you’re actually feeling, the
 thought I am fearless never makes it past the brain stem, which
 means you’re not signaling the body and ANS into a new, specific destiny.
 The feeling is what produces the emotional charge (energy) to stimulate your
 ANS into a different destiny. Without the feeling, a disconnect remains
 between your brain and body – between the thought of health and the feeling
 of health – and you can’t embody that new state of being.


 It’s only when you change your energy that you can produce more consistent
 effects. If you sustain these elevated emotions on a daily basis, eventually
 your body, in its innate intelligence, begins to make relative genetic
 changes in the way I described earlier. That’s because the body believes
 that the emotion you are embracing is coming from an experience in your
 environment. So when you open your heart center, practice feeling an emotion
 before the experience occurs, and marry it with a clear intention, the body
 responds as if it’s in the future experience. That heart-mind coherence then
 influences your body chemistry and energy in a series of ways.


 If coherence between the heart and the brain can originate in the heart,
 and their synchronization results in optimal performance and health, then
 you should be taking time every day to focus on activating your heart
 center. By intentionally choosing to feel the elevated emotions of the heart
 rather than waiting for something outside of yourself to elicit those
 emotions, you become who you are truly meant to be – a heart-empowered
 individual. When you are living by the heart, you naturally choose love and
 innately demonstrate it through compassion and care for the well-being of
 yourself, others, and planet Earth. Through our partnership with HMI, our
 students have demonstrated that with practice, we can in fact produce,
 regulate, and sustain elevated feelings and emotions – independent of events
 in our external world.

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 In our workshops around the world, through the practice of regulating heart
 rhythms to sustain elevated emotions, we teach our students how to generate
 heart and brain coherence. We then measure their abilities using HRV (heart
 rate variability) monitors. During guided meditations, we ask our students
 to surrender to the feelings of gratitude, joy, and love, and we encourage
 daily practice outside of our formal instruction, because when one chooses
 to practice sitting in a state of coherence, it becomes a habit.


 I hope that with enough practice, our students can replace old mental
 scripts of feeling unworthy, fearful, or insecure with more elevated states
 of being and fall deeply in love with their lives. We’ve seen enough of them
 demonstrate that it is indeed possible to produce positive, measurable,
 tangible effects in their lives simply by shifting the paradigm of their
 thoughts and feelings. These dedicated individuals return to their homes,
 where the positive effects they’ve produced in their own lives ripple out to
 positively affect their families and communities, continuously expanding
 their vibrational influence of harmony and coherence throughout the
 world.


 By repeatedly practicing the regulation of heightened emotional states, in
 time the constant feeling of elevated emotions creates a new emotional
 baseline. This baseline then begins to continuously influence a new set of
 thoughts equal to the heightened feelings. The summation of those novel
 thoughts creates a new level of mind, which then produces more corresponding
 emotions equal to those thoughts, further sustaining that baseline. When
 this feedback loop between the heart (body) and mind (brain) occurs, you are
 in an entirely new state of being – the consciousness of the unlimited mind
 and the energy of profound love and gratitude. The repetition of this
 process is what it means to recondition your body, rewire your brain, and
 reconfigure your biology equal to your new state of being. Now you are
 naturally, automatically, and regularly broadcasting a different
 electromagnetic signature of energy into the field. This is who you are, or
 who you have become.

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 Countless history books could be written through the lens of incoherent
 emotions. Whether the result is a Shakespearean tragedy, genocide, or a
 world war, survival emotions such as blame, hate, rage, competition, and
 retribution have resulted in an endless, unnecessary trail of pain,
 suffering, oppression, and death. The results have caused humans to live in
 opposition and conflict rather than in peace and harmony. This is a time in
 history when we can break that cycle. This is a pivotal moment in the story
 of humanity where ancient wisdom and modern science are intersecting to
 provide us with the technology and scientific understanding to learn not
 only how to more efficiently and effectively manage our emotions, but also
 what that means for our health, relationships, energy levels, and personal
 and collective evolution. It doesn’t require moving mountains – only
 changing our internal state of being. This allows us to alter the way we act
 with one another, replacing stressful situations with positive experiences
 that give us energy, fill our spirit, and leave us with a sense of
 wholeness, connection, and unity. The brain may think, but when you turn
 your heart into an instrument of perception, it knows.

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 Excerpt reprinted with permission from
 Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon by
 Dr. Joe Dispenza. 
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