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Art
of
Change
By
Dr
Joe
Dispenza
Change
is
an
interesting
concept
because
it
requires
becoming
aware.
It
requires
deciding
how
you
no
longer
want
to
be.
And
that
level
of
awareness
takes
a
certain
amount
of
mental
effort
and
restraint.
I
want
to
talk
about
the
importance
of
change,
of
why
we
should
or
why
we
want
to
change,
and
why
we
would
actually
want
to
create
a
new
self
or
a
new
life.
What
are
the
benefits?
Change
is
all
about
expansion.
Its
all
about
unlearning
certain
traits
that
weve
memorized
and
relearning
new
states.
Its
about
breaking
the
habit
of
your
old
self
and
reinventing
a
new
self.
Its
all
about
your
decision
to
no
longer
think,
act,
or
feel
in
predictable
ways.
And
with
this,
it
requires
pruning
synaptic
connections
and
sprouting
new
connections.
It
requires
un-memorizing
emotional
states
that
have
become
part
of
your
personality
and
then
reconditioning
your
body
to
a
new
emotion
or
to
a
new
mind.
In
neuroscience,
we
have
three
brains
that
allow
us
to
go
from
thinking
to
doing
to
being.
The
thinking
brain
is
the
neocortex.
And
every
time
we
learn
something
new,
we
forge
a
new
synaptic
connection
in
our
thinking
brain.
The
neocortex
is
that
corrugated
brain
that
sits
on
the
outside,
allows
us
to
gain
information
from
our
environment.
So
was
we
begin
to
learn
new
things,
we
add
a
new
stitch
to
circuits
that
represent
the
three-dimensional
tapestry
in
our
gray
matter.
Now
its
not
enough
to
just
learn
that
information.
Its
important
for
us
to
apply
what
we
learn,
to
personalize
it,
to
demonstrate
it.
We
have
to
take
what
we
learned
intellectually
of
philosophically,
the
knowledge
that
weve
gained,
and
apply
it,
personalize
it,
demonstrate
it,
and
change
something
about
ourselves.
And
when
we
do,
we
have
a
new
experience.
Now
experience
enriches
the
brain
because
when
in
the
midst
of
a
new
experience,
everything
were
seeing
and
smelling
and
tasting
and
feeling
and
hearing,
all
of
our
five
senses
are
gathering
all
this
information
from
the
environment
and
its
sending
a
rush
of
information
back
to
the
brain
through
the
five
different
pathways,
causing
jungles
of
neurons
to
organize
themselves
to
reflect
the
event.
These
neurons
begin
to
represent
the
environment
and
produce
chemicals
that
begin
to
signal
the
body.
And
when
that
happens,
we
activate
the
second
brain,
called
the
limbic
brain,
or
the
emotional
brain.
The
moment
we
begin
to
modify
our
behavior
and
we
have
a
new
experience,
now
we
are
instructing
the
body
emotionally
to
teach
it
what
it
has
intellectually
understood.
Now
we
have
two
brains
working
together
We
have
mind
and
body
in
unison.
You
are
embodying
knowledge
now.
Now
its
not
enough
to
have
the
experience
once.
You
have
to
be
able
to
repeat
it,
do
it
over
and
over
again,
you
have
to
memorize
it.
Youve
got
to
neurochemically
condition
your
mind
and
body
to
the
point
where
your
body
knows
as
well
as
your
brain.
And
when
you
do
that,
you
move
into
a
state
of
being.
And
when
were
in
a
state
of
being,
thats
when
our
thoughts
and
feelings
are
aligned
to
a
concept
and
we
activate
that
certain
brain
called
the
cerebellum,
the
memory
center
in
which
weve
practiced
it
so
many
times,
we
no
longer
have
to
think
about
it.
The
process
of
change
requires
us
to
go
from
thinking
to
doing
to
being.
Our
hardwired
thoughts,
our
habituated
behaviors,
and
our
memorized
emotions
determine
who
we
are.
And
the
quantum
field
tends
to
respond
to
who
we
are.
Not
so
much
our
desires
or
what
we
want,
but
who
were
being.
So
moving
into
a
state
of
being
then
allows
us
to
change
not
only
our
health,
but
avenues
and
venues
in
our
lives.
So now lets give an example of how this all comes together. Lets say now that you read a book called, From Forgiveness to Love To Personal Freedom and Transformation. And you were so enthralled by the information in this book, that you spent hours driving in your car, thinking about everything youve learned. You piece together new ideas from the information in this book and youve listened to the companion CD. We could say that all of this information is intellectual information. Its theory. Its philosophy. Its all stored in your thinking brain. And as you begin to review this information, as you begin to think about it, what you learn and what you review and what you contemplate, what you memorize in your head, causes neurons to begin to develop a long-term relationship. We could say that the concept in neuroscience, nerve cells that fire together wire together, means that you are wiring new information in your brain philosophically. Now youve read this book, youve reviewed all the information. Youve put some hardware in place to reflect what youve learned. As a matter of fact, every time youve thought about it, and every time youve repeated the thoughts over in your brain, you were reminding yourself and reinforcing those circuits. So if we say that every time we learn something new is forwarding a new connection in your brain, we could say that remembering then is maintaining and sustaining those connections. So through the process of repetition, youre actually reinforcing the circuits so that now those circuits are in place longer than a few moments. So now, all this information is stored in your thinking brain. And now youre invited to a company party. And as you start thinking about going to this company party, youre all excited because for the last couple of weeks youve shared with all of your friends all of this great information from this great book youve read. All the information is in your head. You havent felt it yet, but youve thought a lot about it. You could tell your family and friends at dinner what it is to forgive and how to love and what personal transformation is. You could give advice at parties to your best friend. And you could become an excellent philosopher. But its still theory. So now as youre invited to this company party, you hear that one of your enemies, someone who has betrayed you, someone who has misrepresented you, or someone who has borne false witness about you, is going to be at this party. And the moment you hear that theyre going to be at the party, you start to think as the old self what youre going to say, how youre going to think, what youre going to do, how youre going to feel. And as you begin to think in this old, familiar way, all of a sudden you have this thought. What piece of knowledge, what piece of philosophy, what did I learn from that book that I could actually apply? What could I demonstrate? How should I change my behavior and do exactly what the book says in order to have a new experience? In other words, how can I get my behavior to match my intentions? How could I get my actions equal to these new thoughts? Now the moment you are sitting on your couch and youre beginning to review and think about and remind yourself and contemplate on everything you learned, the moment you begin to think in new ways, youre forcing your brain to fire in new sequences, in new patterns, in new combinations. And whenever we make the brain work differently, were making a new mind. So the process then of your contemplation is literally creating a new mind, and if you do that enough times, youre putting the hardware in place ahead of the actual experience. Now you have some circuits to use when you get in that experience. So now as youre driving to the party and youre reminding yourself who you no longer want to be, how you no longer want to act, how youre not going to feel, as you begin to think about and become conscious of those unconscious propensities, the mere fact of you reviewing them, youre restraining certain
circuits from firing. And the principal in neuroscience says that nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together. In other words, if you dont use it, you lose it. So as you begin to become conscious of those automatic kneejerk reactions and then you begin to think about a new way of being, as youre beginning to think about a new way of being, youre cultivating new hardware neurologically and putting the circuits in place before the experience actually happens. So now you get to the party and you see your enemy. And instead of responding in a predictable way, you decide now to do exactly what the book says. You forgive. You let go. You no longer hold him or her to the past. You no longer revisit the same emotion. And as you do this process and you approach this person as your new self and you actually go through the process of forgiveness, the moment you do it, and you do exactly what the book says, you begin to feel this sense of love. You feel this sense of personal transformation and freedom the moment that happens. Youre in a new experience because you changed your behavior. You are now teaching the body what the mind has intellectually understood. In other words, the body is learning chemically what the mind has understood philosophically. So we could say that thoughts are the language of the brain and the mind and feelings are the language of the body. Now the moment you do exactly what youre supposed to do, and you feel this new feeling called love, you feel this new feeling of liberation and forgiveness, now that second brain is activated and the body and mind are working together. Now you know youre embodying that knowledge and you know what forgiveness and freedom feels like. Now its not enough to do it once. We cant forgive our enemies once and say, Im a saint. We have to be able to repeat it over and over again. We have to memorize a new state. And as we begin to neurologically wire that hardware in place and then condition the body emotionally, the repetition of that over time both neurologically and chemically turns on that third brain called the cerebellum. And now weve just gone from thinking to doing to being. And if we practice it enough times now, when we move into that state of being, what that means then is that our mind and body are in exact order. We are now in a new feeling. And if we can maintain that modified state of being and memorize it, we could say now that in that state of being, when we are being of a mind and body that are working together, weve memorized an internal order so great that no condition in our life can move us from. And thats when in that state of being the quantum field in our life begins to flow as a result of who were being. 90% to 95% of who we are by the time were 35 years old sits in a subconscious memory system in which most of our habits and behaviors exist. So our natural desire in life is to go from thinking to doing to being. And when we can make those states of mind called love and forgiveness and compassion as automatic as the ones that drive us to our lowest denominator, now we are on a new adventure. Were headed to a new life, a new reality Source: This article is an extract from the introduction to Dr Joes audio CD: The Art of Change A Practical Approach to Transforming Yourself and Your Life The Art of Change 2009 Encephalon, LLC