Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself

by Joe Dispenza

  Now, as the water moves up past your neck, feel the column of your neck, up to your chin, immersed underwater….

  And allow the soothing water to move up over your lips and around the circumference of the back of your head … as it rises over your upper lip and over your nose, relax and let it consume you, so that the warmth of the water is now right below your eyes….

  Allow the water to rise above your eyes, and feel everything from your eyes down immersed in this warm liquid. Feel it move up around your forehead, above the crown of your head; and as the circumference gets smaller and smaller, allow it to move above your head….

  And now surrender into this warm, relaxing water and allow yourself to feel your body in its weightlessness, embraced by this water. Allow your body to feel the density of itself, immersed in this liquid….

  Feel the volume of the water around your body and the space that your body is in, underwater. Let your awareness take in the entire room, submerged underwater. Sense the space that is filled by the room, consumed by warm water … and for a few moments, just feel your body floating in that space….

  APPENDIX C

  GUIDED MEDITATION: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

  (Weeks Two Through Four)

  You may wish to lead off this meditation with the Body-Part Induction in Appendix A, the Water-Rising Induction in Appendix B, or any other method you have used in the past or devised on your own.

  Close your eyes and take a few deep, slow breaths to relax your mind and body. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Make your breaths long, slow, and steady. Rhythmically inhale and exhale until you move into the present. When you are in the moment, you are entering a world of possibility….

  Now, there is a powerful intelligence within you that is giving you life, which loves you so much. When your will matches its will, when your mind matches its mind, when your love for life matches its love for you, it always responds. It will move in you and all around you, and you will see evidence in your life as a result of your efforts. To be greater than your environment, to be greater than the conditions in your life, to be greater than the feelings that are memorized in the body, to think greater than the body, to be greater than time … means that you are tugging on the garment of the divine. Your destiny, then, is a reflection of, a co-creation with, a greater mind. Love yourself enough to do this….

  Week Two

  Recognizing. Now, you cannot create a new future while holding on to the emotions of the past. What was the emotion that you wanted to unmemorize? Remember what that emotion feels like in your body…. And recognize the familiar state of mind that is driven by that emotion….

  Admitting. It’s time to turn to the power within you, introduce yourself to it, and tell it what you want to change about yourself. Begin to admit to it who you have been, and what you have been hiding. In your mind, talk to it. Remember that it is real. It already knows you. It doesn’t judge you. It only loves….

  Say to it, “Universal consciousness within me and all around me, I have been ________, and I truly want to change from this limited state of being….”

  Declaring. It’s time to free the body from the mind, to close the gap between how you appear and who you are, to liberate your energy. Release your body from the familiar emotional bonds, which keep you connected to every thing, every place, and everyone in your past and present reality. It is the moment to free up your energy. I want you to say the emotion you want to change, out loud, and liberate it from your body as well as your environment. Say it now….

  Surrendering. And now it’s time to surrender this state of being to a greater mind and to ask it to resolve this in a way that is right for you. Can you relinquish control to a greater authority that already has the answers? Surrender to this infinite mind and understand that this intelligence is absolutely real. It only waits in admiration and in willingness. It only responds when you ask for help. Surrender your limitation to an all-knowing intelligence. Simply open the door, give it up, and let go completely. Let it take your limitation from you. “Infinite mind, I give you my ________. Take it from me and resolve this emotion into a greater sense of wisdom. Free me from the chains of my past.” Now, just feel how you would feel if you knew this mind was taking this memorized emotion from you….

  Week Three

  Observing and Reminding. Now let’s make sure that no thought, no behavior, no habit that causes you to return back to the old self goes unnoticed by you. To make sure, let’s become conscious of those unconscious states of mind and body—how did you used to think when you felt that way? What did you say to yourself? What voice did you believe that you no longer want to accept as your reality? Observe those thoughts….

  Begin to separate yourself from the program. How did you once behave? How did you speak? Become conscious of those unconscious states to such an extent that they would never go unnoticed by you again….

  To begin to objectify the subjective mind, to begin to observe the program, means you are no longer the program. Awareness is your goal. Remind yourself who you no longer want to be, how you no longer want to think, how you no longer want to behave, and how you no longer want to feel. Become familiar with all aspects of the old personality, and just observe. With firm intention, make a choice to no longer be that person, and let the energy of your decision become a memorable experience….

  Redirecting. Now it’s time to play the “Change Game.” I want you to imagine three scenarios in your life where you could start to feel like the old self again, and when you do, I want you to say “Change!” out loud. First, imagine that it is morning and you are in the shower, and as you are getting ready for your day, all of a sudden you notice that familiar feeling just starting to come up. And the moment you notice it, you say “Change!”—that’s right, you change it. Because living by that emotion is not loving to you. And it is no use signaling the same genes in the same way. And nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together. You control that….

  Next, I want you to see yourself in the middle of the day. You are driving down the road, and suddenly, that familiar feeling that drives those familiar thoughts starts to come up, and what do you do? You say, “Change!” That’s right, you change. Because the rewards of being healthy and happy are so much more important than returning back to the old self. And by the way, living by that emotion has never been loving to you. And every time you change your state, you know that nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together, and you no longer turn on the same genes in the same ways….

  Now I want you to play the Change Game one more time. I want you to see yourself getting ready for bed, and you are pulling the covers back, and as you start to get into bed, you notice that familiar feeling coming up, which is tempting you to behave as the old personality, and what do you do? You say, “Change!” That’s right. Because nerve cells that no longer fire together, no longer wire together. Signaling that gene in that way is not loving to you, and nobody and nothing is worth it. You control that….

  Week Four

  Creating. Now, what is the greatest expression of yourself that you can be? How would a great person think and act? How would such an individual live? How would he or she love? What does greatness feel like? …

  I want you to move into a state of being. It is time to change your energy and broadcast a whole new electromagnetic signature. When you change your energy, you change your life. Let the thought become the experience, and let that experience produce an elevated emotion so that your body begins to emotionally believe that the future you is already living now….

  Allow yourself to turn on new genes in new ways; signal the body emotionally ahead of the actual event; allow yourself to fall in love with the new ideal; open your heart and begin to recondition your body to a new mind….

  Let the inward experience become a mood, then a temperament, and finally a new personality….

  Move into a new state of being… How would you feel i
f you were this person? You can’t get up as the same person who sat down. You have to feel so much gratitude that your body begins to change ahead of the actual event, and accept that the new ideal already is you….

  Become it….

  To be empowered—to be free, to be unlimited, to be creative, to be genius, to be divine—that is who you are….

  Once you feel this way, memorize this feeling; remember this feeling. This is who you really are….

  Now let go and release it into the field for a moment; just let go….

  Rehearsing. Now, like those piano players who changed their brains and the finger exercisers who changed their bodies, let’s do it again. Can you create your new self out of nothing one more time? …

  Let’s fire and wire a new mind and recondition the body to a new emotion. Become familiar with a new state of mind and body. What is the greatest expression of your self? Allow yourself to begin to think like this ideal again….

  What would you say to yourself, how would you walk, how would you breathe, how would you move, how would you live, what would you feel? Allow yourself to emotionally feel like this new self, so much so that you begin to move into a new state of being….

  It is time to change your energy again and remember what it feels like to be this person. Expand your heart….

  Who do you want to be when you open your eyes? You are signaling new genes in new ways. Feel empowered once again. Move into a new state of being; a new state of being is a new personality; a new personality creates a new personal reality….

  This is where you create a new destiny. From this elevated state of mind and body, it is time to command matter as a quantum observer of your new reality. Feel invincible, powerful, inspired, and overjoyed….

  From this new state of being, form a picture of some event you want to experience and let the image become the blueprint of your future. Observe that reality and allow the particles, as waves of probability, to collapse into an event called an experience in your life. See it, command it, hold it, and then move to the next picture….

  Let your energy now become entangled to that destiny. That future event has to find you because you created it with your own energy. Let yourself go and create the future you want in certainty, trust, and knowingness….

  Do not analyze; do not try to figure out how it is going to happen. It is not your job to control the outcome. It is your task to create, and leave the details to a greater mind. As you see your future as the observer, simply bless your life with your own energy….

  From a state of gratitude, be one with your destiny from a new state of mind and body. Give thanks for a new life….

  Feel how you will feel when these things manifest in your life, because living in a state of gratitude is living in a state of receivership. Feel like your prayers are already answered….

  Finally, it is time to turn to that power within you and ask it for a sign in your life: if today you emulated this greater mind as a creator who is observing all of life into form, and you made contact with it, and it has been observing your efforts and intentions, then it should show cause in your life. Know that it is real, that it exists, and that you now have a two-way communication with it. Ask that this sign from the quantum field come in a way that you would least expect, that surprises you and leaves no doubt that this new experience has come from universal mind, so that you are inspired to do it again. I want you now to ask for a sign….

  And now move your awareness back to a new body in a new environment and in a whole new line of time. And when you are ready, bring your awareness back up to Beta. Then you can open your eyes.

  ENDNOTES

  Introduction

  1. Bohr, Niels, “On the constitution of atoms and molecules.” Philosophical Magazine, 26: 1–24 (1913). If you really want to split the hairs of the subatomic world, the volume of an atom (roughly 1 angstrom, or 10-10 meters in diameter) is about 15 orders of magnitude larger than the volume of the nucleus (roughly 1 femtometer, or 10-15 meters in diameter)—meaning the atom is roughly 99.9999999999999 percent empty space. Although the electron cloud around the nucleus accounts for most of the atom’s area, this cloud is mostly empty space, and the electrons within it are minuscule to begin with. The highly dense nucleus contains most of the mass of the atom. The relative size of an electron in reference to the nucleus would be like the volume of a pea compared to an SUV, and the perimeter of the electron cloud relative to the SUV would be about the size of Washington State.

  Chapter 1

  1. For example, see Amit Goswami, Ph.D., The Self-Aware Universe (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1993). Also, the “Copenhagen interpretation” of quantum theory developed by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and others says, among other things, that “reality is identical with the totality of observed phenomena (which means reality does not exist in the absence of observation).” See: Will Keepin, “David Bohm,” available at: http://www.vision.net.au/~apaterson/science/david_bohm.htm.

  2. Leibovici, Leonard, M.D., “Effects of remote, retroactive intercessory prayer on outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: randomised controlled trial.” BMJ (British Medical Journal), vol. 323: 1450–1451 (22 December 2001).

  3. McCraty, Rollin, Mike Atkinson, and Dana Tomasino, “Modulation of DNA conformation by heart-focused intention.” HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, CA, publication no. 03-008 (2003).

  4. Christ Returns—Speaks His Truth (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007).

  Chapter 2

  1. Hebb, D. O., The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2002).

  2. Pascual-Leone, A., et al., “Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills.” Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 74(3): 1037–1045 (1995).

  Chapter 3

  1. Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne, “Mysteries of the Mind: Your unconscious is making your everyday decisions.” U.S. News & World Report (28 February 2005). Also see: John G. Kappas, Professional Hypnotism Manual (Knoxville, TN: Panorama Publishing Company, 1999). My first exposure to this concept was in 1981 when I studied hypnosis with John Kappas at the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. Back then, he stated the subconscious was 90 percent of the mind. Recently, scientists are estimating that it’s about 95 percent. Either way, it is still a lot.

  2. Sapolsky, Robert M., Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004). Sapolsky is a leading expert on stress and its effects on the brain and body. Also see: Joe Dispenza, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2007). In addition, emotional addiction is a concept taught at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment; see JZK Publishing, a division of JZK, Inc., the publishing house for RSE, at: http://jzkpublishing.com or http://www.ramtha.com.

  3. Church, Dawson, Ph.D., The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Santa Rosa, CA: Elite Books, 2007).

  4. Lipton, Bruce, Ph.D., The Biology of Belief (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2009).

  5. Rabinoff, Michael, Ending the Tobacco Holocaust (Santa Rosa, CA: Elite Books, 2007).

  6. Church, Dawson, Ph.D., The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Santa Rosa, CA: Elite Books, 2007).

  7. Murakami, Kazuo, Ph.D., The Divine Code of Life: Awaken Your Genes and Discover Hidden Talents (Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 2006).

  8. Yue, G., and K. J. Cole, “Strength increases from the motor program: comparison of training with maximal voluntary and imagined muscle contractions.” Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 67(5): 1114–1123 (1992).

  9. Cohen, Philip, “Mental gymnastics increase bicep strength.” New Scientist (21 November 2001).

  Chapter 4

  1. Dispenza, Joe, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2007).

/>   2. Goleman, Daniel, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam Books, 1995). See also: Daniel Goleman and the Dalai Lama, Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them? (New York: Bantam Books, 2004).

  Chapter 5

  1. Bentov, Itzhak, Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books, 1988). See also: Ramtha, A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Reality (Yelm, WA: JZK Publishing, 2005). The quantum model of reality states that every “thing” or “no thing” is waves of information vibrating at different frequencies. It makes sense, then, that the slower the vibration, the more dense matter is, and vice versa. The emotions of stress lower our vibrations to be more matter and less energy.

  2. Wallace, B. Alan, Ph.D., The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind (Boston: Wisdom Publications, Inc., 2006).

  3. Robertson, Ian, Ph.D., Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential (New York: Bantam Books, 2000). See also: Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Aquili, and Vince Rause, Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001).

  4. From a conversation with Rolin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research, HeartMath Research Center, Boulder Creek, California, in October 2008 about his research relating to the movement of energy from the body to the brain through the heart during coherence. See: Rollin McCraty, et al., “The coherent heart: heart-brain interactions, psychophysiological coherence, and the emergence of system-wide order.” Integral Review, vol. 5(2) (December 2009).

  Chapter 6

  1. Dispenza, Joe, Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind (Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2007).

  Chapter 8