Change, though we all know is inevitable, many of us resist. For some, keeping the status quo is a way of
normalizing their lives and setting their expectations and for others it is something they thrive for but
don’t really know how to make it happen without looking completely crazy or break a societal rule. The
truth remains – change cannot be avoided; you could either be passive or play a more active part about
it.
But why is change so hard? And why do people talk about a better future, a better mindset or a better
body and yet they can’t seem to change on a deeper level? The truth is, many of us wait for some sort of
a trauma, disease or even loss to finally decide to change. Wouldn’t it be better to learn and change in a
state of inspiration and joy rather than pain and suffering!
One of the very renowned figures to write about change is Dr. Joe Dispenza, a chiropractor, researcher,
lecturer, author and corporate consultant who has written several books on change form Breaking the
Habit of Being Yourself (LCE’s book of the month) to You Are the Placebo and Evolve Your Brain: The
Science of Changing Your Mind. According to Dr. Joe, not only can you choose to incur specific changes
into your live, but you could actually become supernatural and move past the pain of yesterday into the
joy of the future by thought alone and here is how you can do it.
The premise upon which Dr. Joe’s explanation of change is based is thought. On average, we think from
60000 to 70000 thought a day of which 90% are the same thoughts as the day before. If thoughts have
anything to do with our future and 90% of those are thoughts we have already thought about before,
then you are facing a 90% chance of never changing anything in your life. The reason for that is because
your same thoughts will create the same choices which will lead to the same action and will create the
same experiences which produce the same emotions that fuel the same thoughts again. And so, you
spend your life moving within this circle of hardwired programs never realizing that how you think, and
how you act and how you feel creates your personality which pretty much creates your personal reality.
The scary part of it is that our bodies become so wired to the extent that we live our lives on autopilot
never allowing any new thoughts to rise onto our consciousness. In fact, we spend our lives living in the
memory of the past and therefore it is no wonder that our future becomes pretty much a mirror image
of our past and we call it ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’. Imagine that by the time we are 35 years old we
become a set of memorized behaviors and automatic habits that function just like a computer program.
And so even if we try to think positive thoughts with our 5% conscious mind, these will never get past
the hardwired programs because they negate the 95% that has been memorized subconsciously. This
means that without a conscious thought of a future vision paired with a heightened emotion or feeling
of that future, our lives become predictable and change will be happening to us rather for us.
The reason why emotions or feelings are so important to this theory is that according to Dr. Joe, feelings
are records of the past. If you wake up every day and you immediately start thinking about objects and
things and problems and then you associate a feeling to each one of those, those familiar feelings will
drive your thoughts and thoughts shape your destiny. You could then say that you are thinking of the
past and your past will become your future.
In order for us to create the change that we want for ourselves, we have to become greater than our
thoughts and subconscious feelings and behaviors. We have to believe in a future that is so alive in our
mind that we start living the present moment like this future has already happened. Unless we create
conscious thoughts every day, every person, every thing we know or that is familiar to us is an
experience that has an emotion connected to it that reaffirms and recreates the same environment and
thus, the same future. Not only that, we also need to go beyond the known which is the past and future.
To do that, we will feel uncomfortable as we will no longer be able to predict the future based on what
we already know. There will be moments of uncertainties and doubt especially that our bodies and
minds are so addicted to the known.
Here is how you do it:
- Ask yourself this, is it possible for me to be healthy, fit, to have the job of my dreams to be
abundant…etc? What would that look like? By doing that, you are activating your creative center
of your brain (your frontal lobe) which will call up on all your brain networks, piece them
together to form an image in your mind which is an intention. - What emotions are associated to that image? Once you are able to make connection between
the thought of the future and the emotion, you are creating an experience in your mind. - Write down all the choices you have to make, all the decisions, the kind of person you need to
become, everything that comes to your mind that will get you to that vision and those goals.
Every time you write those goals down, you get those feelings and you keep reviewing them in
your mind to move them to the conscious mind. - Write down the thoughts that you would not let slip your mind unnoticed. Thoughts of ‘I am not
good enough’, ‘this is not for me’. - Stay open to coincidences in your live and synchronicities as this is the universe telling you, you
are heading towards your vision.
If this month topic about change is something that you are interested in, make sure you join our LCE
Book Club for the month of Feb and March as we will be discussing the Dr. Joe’s Breaking the Habit of
Being Yourself.
