Ist die Dr Joe Dispenza Methode unfehlbar?
Die über 30-jährige Forschungsarbeit von Dr Joe zusammengefasst in einem übersichtlichen Artikel von Gerald Hagler:
Dr. Joe Dispenza experienced spontaneous healing himself after a serious accident, which - when looked at more closely - happened neither spontaneously nor by chance. From then on, he dedicated his entire work to the research of self-healing strategies.
Do you know the movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray? It's about an arrogant TV meteorologist who gets stuck in a time loop while filming in a remote small town. Every day he wakes up in the same hotel bed to the same music from the radio alarm clock and from then on experiences the exact same daily routine as the day before.
The film is special in that it inevitably raises the question in the viewer, "Is my life also just a sequence of the same actions, feelings, thoughts and events over and over again?"
And this is exactly where Dr. Joe Dispenza's message comes in.
"As long as you think from your memories, you can only create what is contained in those memories. Your brain then allows only thoughts and feelings that are based on the past. In this way, you do not create anything new in life. If you seek new perspectives, you must break the habit of 'being yourself' and reinvent yourself."
Joe Dispenza
A momentous accident
In 1986, Dispenza was 26 at the time, he was hit by an SUV during a triathlon event, causing fractures to six vertebrae.
Such injuries are usually treated surgically by stabilizing the fractured vertebrae with metal braces. Dispenza sought four independent medical opinions, all of which recommended surgery as the only promising solution, without which he would most likely never walk again. Nevertheless, Dispenza decided against the surgery.
He said to himself:
"There is this intelligence that gives us life, and this intelligence is consciousness. Consciousness is attention, and to be attentive is ultimately to listen. So maybe I should just listen? Give myself to this inherent power that knows the way to healing."
At the same time, he vowed that if he were ever able to walk again, he would devote his life to the study of mind-matter phenomena.
Since there was also a head injury, the doctors were not sure whether this patient was at all capable of making a rational decision. In the end, however, they agreed to Joe's decision, although in 1986 they were not necessarily open to the subject of "self-healing with the power of the mind".
For Dispenza, the process that followed was by no means something that happened easily and without pain. During the first few weeks, he memorized mental images of himself in a healthy body in the future, but he was also plagued by thoughts such as "Will I have to live in a wheelchair?" or "Should I sell my house, give up my practice?"
Again and again he caught himself focusing on what he was not wanted. He perceived that traumas, such as he had just suffered, trigger stress reactions that, through corresponding hormonal and chemical processes, are diametrically opposed to the healing he longed for. He understood that his only chance was to replace the fears, the uncertainties and the imponderables of the future with clear images and feelings of what he really wanted.
During the first six weeks after the accident, he spent three hours a day trying to see and feel himself completely healthy. At first, he regularly lost concentration, doubts and fears slipped in between the wishful images again and again.
But the longer he practiced the hours of visualization, the more progress occurred, and his physical condition actually began to improve little by little. He needed less painkillers, the injured nerves began to regenerate, and he had more energy and confidence. Ten and a half weeks after the accident, he could already stand again, and after three months he could be discharged from the hospital.
Pulling yourself out of the swamp by your own hair
Dispenza subsequently traveled the world to interview people who, like him, had experienced such spontaneous remission. It turned out that there were consistent factors in all cases. Yet the people he interviewed could not have been more different: Spirituality, gender, profession, sexual orientation, income, cultural background, eating habits, athleticism - nowhere could a common denominator be established. External circumstances as influencing factors could thus be excluded.
Making contact with our own life force
Each of Dispenza's interviewees believed in an organizing force present within him or her.
This ensures that from only two cells, namely a sperm and an egg cell, something as complex as a human body can develop. Digestion, breath, nerve functions, blood circulation, cell regeneration etc. - the "computing power" of our waking consciousness would not be sufficient by far to control all this consciously. So it is obvious that a higher spirit directs the concert of inner processes. Dispenza makes the assumption that this higher spirit is responsible not only for the natural order in our body, but for that of the entire cosmos.
And it was clear to all the people he interviewed that they had to be cut off from this mind to some degree, because otherwise illness could not exist permanently. In the end, was it one's own thinking that disturbed this intelligence?
And if thought is capable of disrupting the natural order, can it not also be restored by changing thought?
Could just noticing the controlling mind be a step toward healing?
"The inner intelligence, the subconscious, or a higher spiritual force - whatever you want to call it - has far greater capabilities than any pill, therapy, or treatment method, and it's waiting for our permission to take the wheel again."
Blog entry by Joe Dispenza (https://is.gd/hYsmN8)
Thoughts are forces that directly influence the body
Psychoneuroimmunology is the name of a relatively new, cross-faculty research area in which the interaction between the psyche, the nervous system and the immune and hormonal systems is studied. Research conducted in this field showed that every thought triggers a biochemical reaction in the brain. As a result, neurotransmitters are released that stimulate the body to produce an emotion corresponding to the thought. Thus, every thought inevitably causes a corresponding emotion.
For example, if one thinks of a pleasant future event, the brain produces a neurotransmitter called dopamine at the same moment, which puts the brain and body into an excited, positive state.
Neuropeptides are the messenger substances that trigger negative emotions such as hatred, fear, insecurity or self-doubt. They, too, only become active on the basis of a corresponding thought.
The brain monitors all physical processes non-stop, including all feelings. Every feeling triggers a matching thought, and so there is a permanent interaction of feelings and thoughts. The resulting predominant state of being we call our personality.
"We think 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day. Ninety percent of them are identical to yesterday's thoughts. The same thoughts lead to the same decisions, the same decisions lead to the same behaviors, these in turn cause the same experiences. The result of this cycle is then called a personality, which will remain unchanged as long as it holds on to the same thoughts."
Blog entry by J. Dispenza (https://is.gd/hYsmN8)
A thought may be consciously thought at the beginning. But if it is repeated regularly, it develops into an unconscious, automatic program.
To describe this with a practical example: Let's take a person who is stuck in a carousel of thoughts and feelings titled "insecurity." The moment she thinks "I'm not good enough, not smart enough, not valuable enough, etc.," her brain releases neurotransmitters that create the feeling of insecurity. She now feels what she was thinking a moment ago.
This feeling subsequently stimulates the brain to think thoughts that match it. One could say that there is an endless ping-pong game between the feeling level and the thought level. What is remarkable here is the fact that if such a pattern is repeated very often, the body actually takes over the control of the thinking, i.e. the brain switches to autopilot, so to speak.
"The more we think the same thoughts, which then release neurotransmitters that trigger corresponding emotions in the body, the more we affect the body physically. Depending on what we think and with what intensity, we model our health, our choices, and in the end, our entire lives."
Joe Dispenza
Returning to the commonalities of the individuals interviewed by Dispenza who had experienced spontaneous remissions: All had seen through the fact that their prevailing thoughts were not only ill-suited to support the healing process, but may even have been the causative trigger for the disease.
Some of them saw in their inner world a computer program that ran independently in the background. They concluded that if they themselves were the programmer, they must also be able to influence or delete these programs.
In scientific terminology, reprogramming is called "Hebbian learning. Simply put, this branch investigates which biochemical processes underlie the learning and storage of information. All this can be broken down to a simple formula: Brain synapses that are active together wire together to the extent that they "fire" together. This means that the more often a thought travels along a particular "neuron road," the better it is developed. This finding is relatively new; it earned the American Eric Kandel, who studied neurological processes during learning, the Nobel Prize in 2000.
In simple words, thoughts that are thought often get stronger nerve connections, so they are easier to think often. In this context, it should be mentioned that on average 70 % of a person's thoughts are fleeting or trivial, 27 % have a negative content and only 3 % have a positive content.
Another common feature of the spontaneous healers was that, on the one hand, they questioned all habits and examined whether they were conducive to a healthier future. This included eating habits as well as an analysis of the social environment, television habits or their own automatic reaction to everyday events. They realized that they could no longer hold on to the old routines if they desired radically different living conditions. They encapsulated themselves from the familiar environment and everyday routines, spent a lot of time alone in introspection, and asked themselves a variety of "what if" questions:
What if I just stopped giving so much space to this traumatic event and taking it as a reason to be in a bad mood? What if I stopped being a suffering victim? What if I could just brush off fears, resentment and anger, who would be left?
They also analyzed the behavior and attitudes of people they admired and looked up to. What attitudes, and behaviors could they adopt? What character traits shaped the behavior of these people and what experiences were they based on? What books would these role models read, what movies would they watch, what would their eating and drinking habits be like? In what ways did they achieve and cultivate desirable qualities such as balance, creativity, and optimism? In short: What made this role model tick?
The later spontaneously healed spent every free minute analyzing their ingrained programs, consistently omitting unwanted things that were guaranteed not to help them get well, and continuously mentally integrating beneficial behaviors and ideas.
This mental "rehearsal of the future" was not perceived as burdensome, or as something that required great discipline. It was experienced by the practitioners as a joyful and liberating activity.
Many began a new life as a result of this inner process, for example, with a different set of friends or partner, a new job, a change of location, new hobbies, charitable activities, more time alone, more time in nature, less in front of the TV, healthier eating and sleeping habits, and/or regular meditation, etc.
In a nutshell: They became the person they wanted to be. And as a "small side effect" their serious illness disappeared.
The detailed write-up of the interviews can be read in Dispenza's book, You Are the Placebo, which became an international bestseller.
About Genetics & Quantum Physics
"Genes do not determine everything. Their activity can be controlled, not least by our lifestyle. This gives us unprecedented power over our physical and mental well-being."
Dr. Peter Spork
Until recently, the genetics of a living being were considered immutable. The statement: "You have this disease because of your genes." implies that the problem is unchangeable, that is, that the body has an unrecoverable software error, so to speak, from birth.
However, the latest findings in epigenetics show that genes to at least 85% are influenced by their environment, and thus are very much modifiable.
Genes are responsible for the production of proteins, and as essential building blocks of the body, these proteins determine its structure and function.
Now comes the important point: Someone who interprets his life cosmos in the same way day after day, i.e. thinks the same thoughts, perceives the same emotions and performs the same actions, leaves all biochemical processes the same and thus also his genetic structure unchanged. When we say something is "genetically determined", in most cases we mean that it is environmentally determined, referring mainly to a person's "internal environment".
This leads us to the following question: Is it possible to offer the genes a different environment? The answer is yes, and to achieve this, it is already enough to cultivate a specific thought environment.
This is because neither your brain nor your body makes a distinction between internal and external processes. In other words, your body chemistry settles in the direction of "life-affirming", regardless of whether you only imagine the resolution of this or that stressful disharmony on the inside, or whether this has actually happened on the outside.
How does it work? The moment you give yourself over to a clear intention with the corresponding positive emotion in your imagination, the same biochemical reactions occur as if you were actually experiencing what you imagined. However, for lasting change in the direction of desired life circumstances, it is not enough to just fade them in for a moment. In order for disease-causing genes to be downregulated and health-promoting ones to be stimulated, you must project the desired situation onto the screen of your consciousness as often as possible.
When you wake up in the morning and see the same people in the old familiar places, doing exactly the same things as usual, at the same time as always, it is not that you are defining your circumstances, but the other way around. You have been doing all these things in the same way all the time, and as a result you have felt these specific emotions every time. The body has fallen into an automatism that ensures that the environment defines how you think and feel on a subconscious level. You wake up in the morning and your first thought is, "Where is my pain?"
It is not uncommon to become literally addicted to undesirable life circumstances in this way.
Dispenza explains:
"Every person, thing, place and experience is linked to a neurological pattern in your brain. Every experience you associate with a person produces an emotion. The body enjoys feeling a familiar emotion over and over again, even if it's unpleasant. And so, for example, you can use your boss to satisfy your addiction to condemnation. Or his unloving partner to satisfy his addiction to being devalued."
Joe Dispenza
This often results in the previously described ping-pong game between body and brain, between emotion and physical reaction.
In other words: We have locked ourselves in our own little box, a box with walls of attitudes, emotions and feelings.
With someone else, it becomes clear to us relatively quickly what kind of box this person lives in, i.e. to what extent they limit themselves. Beliefs, emotional patterns or past traumas, for example, are literally broadcast through body language, voice tone or choice of words.
But how can we succeed in overcoming the limitations of the own box to overcome? Is there a reliably functioning technique for this?
"Once you understand reality as a quantum model, you realize that all problems, situations, and challenges are generated by a certain kind of consciousness, or unconsciousness."
J. Dispenza
A basic principle of quantum physics states that all matter, when broken down into the smallest possible parts, is a vibrating energy field. The particles exist in wave form (this corresponds to all imaginable possibilities), and take a fixed position only through an observer (this corresponds to a certain possibility).
So our universe hides the potential of every imaginable reality. Through our observations, we rather reduce this potential to a single reality. And since our observations come from our brain, happiness or unhappiness is basically always the product of our thinking.
Although Dispenza attempts to explain healing effects through quantum physical phenomena, I will not go into detail here for two reasons:
1. The subject is difficult to understand for a human mind. Even findings and theories of specialized researchers are refuted again and again by new ones. Only as a small example: In 1997 the Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger proved the effect of quantum teleportation. This was still considered absurd by Einstein.
2 Dispenza had to take a lot of criticism for some of his derivations. To verify who is right, one would have to be an expert. Regardless of quantum physics explanatory models, however, Dispenza has managed to help thousands of people achieve a life-changing breakthrough. This achievement should not be diminished by any scientific vagueness.
So let us summarize: Bringing about change in a desired direction means that we have to grow beyond our familiar environment. That we need to look at the triggers that keep us trapped in the endless loop of our unconscious habits and our negative emotions, and subsequently transform them. And that we need to rehearse a desired future until it occurs.
An excellent tool to achieve this, according to Dispenza, is meditation.
Meditation: potential and stumbling blocks
Dr. Joe recommends treating your body like your dog for once and commanding it to just sit still and close your eyes. Disconnect from your environment for a moment, don't do the usual things, and put normal needs and routines on the back burner. In a meditative state, less sensory information reaches your brain; after all, your eyes are closed and your other sensory organs are largely inactive. This gives you the chance to replace familiar images and patterns with new ones, in other words to virtually empty the cinema screen in order to now project a desired image onto it and charge it with a positive emotion.
Like an animal that goes through a learning process and wants to "get out" again and again, the body will also want to take over the mind again and do and feel familiar things. Every meditator knows this.
But you don't let yourself act during the meditation. Now you, as consciousness, are the boss and the mind is not let off the leash until the exercise is finished. Thus your will suddenly becomes more powerful than the program and if you repeat this process regularly, the program changes in the direction you want.
"The moment the body no longer controls the mind, a tremendous energy becomes available, we free ourselves from the emotional chains that keep us trapped in a familiar past."
Joe Dispenza
The problem with meditation is this: No matter how deeply one is immersed in the state of relaxation, no matter how powerful and vivid the visualization, no matter what other positive effects occur, all this cannot prevent one thing: namely, that as soon as one comes out of meditation, one still finds oneself in exactly the same old limiting circumstances as before the meditation. The reality that the meditator is trying to create has moved back into a distant future. It is as if one is virtually shouted at by life, "There is no escape!!!"
The perception of not having what one wants triggers the very emotions that exacerbate the lack. Frustration, impatience, self-doubt, and self-judgment solidify the feeling of being disconnected from the desired future.
But: the trick is not to give up. In meditation, one slips into one's new self, only to fall back - this is nothing out of the ordinary - into the old one, which plays according to the script of the past, in which profound change is not foreseen. According to the motto, three steps forward, three steps back. However, whoever stays with it, realizes again and again that it is not matter that influences the spirit, but the other way around, but this happens with a time delay, will inevitably make progress in the desired direction, according to Dispenza.
To speed up this process, he recommends consciously breaking habitual routines. Start with small things. Take a different route to work, write with a different hand than the one you are used to, simply do everyday things differently than usual. This forces you to slow down and train your awareness of programs running unconsciously. By observing yourself living, you come more into the present moment, becoming more mindful, noticing what is otherwise unconsciously taken care of by an inner program. And this new focus transfers to more and more aspects of life.
When your heart is open and you go through life inspired by higher emotions, you also radiate through your subtle field that you already have "It". You have aligned your body with the energy field of what you desire, your personal vibration is now in sync with your longed-for future. Suddenly, "coincidences" and opportunities appear that bring you closer to that future, step by step. All you have to do is to go through the process continuously. The goal of meditation, or mindful observation in everyday life, is eventually to familiarize you with the feelings, intentions and energies of the ideal future until you reach it.
But that's easier said than done.
As long as we are in a harmonious environment, observing and being aware of our own behavior is not particularly difficult. However, as soon as someone behaves inconsiderately in traffic once again, or the work colleague is annoying just by his presence, we all too readily fall back into the old patterns. We become our old personality again, which finds itself in the usual life circumstances and ticks after the old patterns. Our energies have aligned again with the old familiar thoughts and feelings, and the welcome coincidences and opportunities disappear.
Dispenza therefore urges that the goal of meditation be aligned accordingly:
"In meditation, don't focus on a particular outcome. Rather, focus on remaining uninterrupted in the energy that makes the outcome possible."
Another way to give meditation a turbo boost is through group sessions. By meditating simultaneously with others who are pursuing the same goal, a kind of superordinate force field with tremendous intensity is created. This has already been discussed in detail in chapter 1.
Coherence states - consciously regulating the heart energy
Anyone who reads Dispenza's books or attends his workshops will hear the term "heart coherence" very often. Across all cultures and times, the heart is understood as a symbol and source of health, wisdom and intuition. In those moments when we are connected to the inner knowing of the heart, this wisdom can be used as a source of love and higher guidance. Furthermore, the heart is not only a muscle or physical pump that moves blood through our body, but also an organ capable of influencing and controlling one's emotions, attitudes, and decision-making ability.
Almost everyone knows the heightened emotions of heart-love, compassion, gratitude, joy, connection, and so on. The problem is that these heightened emotions of the heart are normally dependent on an external event.
"However, what we have found in studying the many facets of the heart is that we can actually regulate our internal states independently of conditions in our external environment. However, this requires consistent practice."
Joe Dispenza
In order to use Dispenza's philosophy concretely for healing, respectively to manifest a desired future, you must manage to establish a harmony (coherence) between brain and heart.
To do this, you combine a clear intention, generated by thoughts in the brain, with a heightened emotion that comes from the heart.
It is the combination of these two "ingredients," intention and emotion, that causes measurable physical changes to occur that move a person from living in a familiar past to living in a desired future.
These physical changes manifest themselves in lower blood pressure, a balanced nervous system and hormonal balance, and improved brain performance, among other things. In addition, in the state of coherent immersion, you gain access to your intuition and a profound understanding of yourself and others. You see things as they really are.
It all starts with creating heart coherence by cultivating heightened emotions such as gratitude, appreciation, inspiration, freedom, openness, caring, compassion, love, or the joy of being.
According to Dispenza, the moment you surrender to such sensations from deep within your heart, you become the creator of your reality and at the same time cease to be a victim of past circumstances. This is the process by which we create a new personal reality.
Since 2013, Dispenza has been making great technical efforts to physically measure and thus ultimately prove the mechanisms described.
For this purpose, collaborations have been established with individuals, teams and institutions conducting research in this field with the aim of substantiating the described processes with scientifically accurate measurements.
Among other things, brain wave measurements were performed during group meditations, some of which revealed values that normally only occur in epilepsy patients during a seizure. In fact, however, the subjects "only" had a profound inner experience.
By means of a GDV device (Gas Discharge Visualization) on the one hand the room energy was measured continuously during a workshop, on the other hand the chakra energies of individual participants were made visible. The measurements of the room showed that the energy level drops during the first two workshop days compared to the normal value, but increases strongly during the following days. This is explained as the participants not being a coherent group in the beginning, many still being internally unbalanced and thus draining space energy. As soon as group coherence is established, energy is produced, so to speak, which is not only measurable in the room by means of a GDV device, but can even be sent to other people and made visible there via brain wave measurements. This agrees with the results of many experiments cited in chapters 1 and 2.
Dispenza's team also collaborated with the Heartmath Institute in Arizona, whose research revolves exclusively around the unknown functions, capabilities and possibilities of the heart. The Heartmath Institute's website features images of heart rate variability measurements, which examines the subtle fluctuations between pulse beats. One can read very nicely from the resulting curves how emotional states are reflected in the body, and how these can be controlled by consciously feeling certain emotions.
It has been found in this way that the immune system of a person who "bathes" in positive emotions for at least 15 to 20 minutes a day for four days in a row produces significantly higher levels of important antibodies (immunoglobulin A). This is just one example of many that shows how you can create health-promoting responses with emotions felt from the heart, in other words, heal yourself.
During the Dispenza workshops, which lasted several days, elaborate measurements were also repeatedly carried out on dozens of people simultaneously in order to explore the group effect of heart coherence. For example, it was shown that when people succeed in establishing heart coherence within their group, and from this state send positive emotions to another group, the recipients also enter a measurable state of heart coherence.
So we can say that the quality of the heartbeat directly influences our state of health. A harmonious pulse contributes significantly to stress reduction. It provides us with more energy and puts us in a state where we function better emotionally, mentally and physically.
The explanation is this: The body assumes that the emotion you are indulging in was triggered by an actual event in the outside world. So you should make it a habit to go into heart coherence every day and connect a high vibrational emotion with a clear intention.
Admittedly, there are also critics who claim that not all of Dispenza's measurements and resulting conclusions stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny. But he who heals is right, and if one researcht third-party opinions on Dispenza's work, then ultimately only a few serious critics can be found. Most of all, he is accused of sometimes presenting himself as a doctor and a scientist, neither of which he is. On the other hand, not all explanations of the occurring effects by quantum physical processes are scientifically watertight.
But: On Joe Dispenza's YouTube channel there are over 400 contributions from people who were present at the workshops and report about spontaneous healings or clearly noticeable healing progress. Such serious diseases as Parkinson's, cancer and paralysis are mentioned.
But even participants who have not had sensational on-site healing experiences often write about the profound, life-changing insights they have gained through Dispenza's work.
Summary:
- Non-beneficial thoughts can trigger disease-causing processes, while others bring about healing
- We become addicted to familiar experiences throughout our lives, even if they are negative
- The body often reflects thoughts with corresponding reactions, a ping-pong game of feelings and physical processes results.
- This ping-pong game is called "Negative Patterns", and they can be replaced
- To do this, one should introspect as often as possible and combine a clear vision of a desired future with a positive emotion felt from the heart
- The body is able to produce the exact chemicals you need to heal - much like a highly effective drug, but without side effects
- Don't wait until you have to lie motionless in a hospital bed due to an accident or heart attack to take time for your inner processes. Step out of everyday consciousness regularly, track down destructive patterns and replace them
- Take advantage of the reinforcing effect of meditation or creating heart coherence in a group setting
