Moment 144: How To ACTUALLY Break Bad Habits: Joe Dispenza

Joe Dispenza (0:03)

The hardest part about change is not making the same choice as you did the day before. And the moment you decide to make a different choice, you're going to feel uncomfortable.

Steven Bartlett (0:16)

Probably for most of my listeners who've heard great advice on this podcast, and they think, yes, that's who I want to be. I have an intention to stop eating sugar at 1 a.m. at night, or I have an intention to become organized or to be this kind of friend or partner. They have the information.

There's something stood in the way of me doing something about that information on a regular basis. Yeah.

Joe Dispenza (0:36)

The habit is when you've done something so many times that your body now knows how to do it better than your conscious mind, then it's programmed subconsciously. So then when the body knows how to do it better than the conscious mind, then for the most part, the greatest habit we have to break is the habit of being ourselves. So there's a principle in neuroscience that says that nerve cells that fire together, they're wired together. If you keep thinking the same way, if you keep making the same choices, if you keep doing the same things, if you keep reproducing the same experiences and feeling the same emotions, your biology begins to become hardwired in a sense, it becomes programmed. So in order to change something, to arrive at a new vision of your future, if you weren't wanted to arrive at a new goal or new vision of your future, you'd have to change something about yourself in order to get there. And you'd have to change the way you think, the way you act and the way you feel. So to change then is to become so conscious that you don't go unconscious again.

Steven Bartlett (1:42)

People hear that they go, Joe, how long? How much practice? You know, are you talking about, I've got to do this for three, four, five years or, you know, and that practice, what does that look like practically for someone like me, who hears everything you've just said and wants to make changes and curious of my life?

Joe Dispenza (2:01)

OK, so there's two times when the door to the subconscious mind opens up. When you wake up in the morning, because your brainwaves are going from delta to theta, to alpha to beta. When you go to bed at night, you go from beta to alpha, to theta, to delta, and you slip through that scale pretty quickly in the morning and the evening. But your brainwaves start to change during those times. One of the features, one of the important elements of meditation is to get beyond the analytical mind. What separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind. Five percent, as we said, is our conscious mind, 95 percent is programmed subconsciously. If you're going to try to change yourself with your conscious mind, you're outside the operating system. Then you got to learn how to change your brainwaves, slow them down, get beyond the analytical mind, and enter the operating system where you can rewrite a program, where you can make this changes. So learn how to do that, practice, learn how to do that. Again, it's not a big deal, it's easy to learn. Then once you can slow your brainwaves down and you're more suggestible to what you're thinking, now you can reprogram. You can't do it with your conscious mind. You can say, I'm healthy, I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I'm wealthy, I'm unlimited, I'm unlimited, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm whole, I'm whole and your body's saying, no, you're not, dude, you're miserable, you're unhappy. That thought never makes it past the brain stem to reach the body.

It's important for us to in the morning or the evening, instead of reaching for our cell phone as the first thing, as a habit that we do, and checking our texts and our WhatsApp and our Telegram and our social media, and our Instagram and our Twitter and Facebook, whenever else people do their emails, they get connected to everything known in their life. Before you start that, try this out as an experiment. Before you start your day, instead of falling into that redundant habit, go on autopilot. Just say, okay, if the change is to be greater than my body, to be greater than my environment, be greater than time, and the environment is so seductive, and my body is craving certain emotions, and it's programmed to get up and do things, I'm going to sit my body down, I'm going to tame the animal here. When I'm ready to get up, we're going to get up not when it's tired, but when it wants to go. And if you were sitting there in silence, aware of nothing but you, and you said, OK, what is the greatest expression of myself I can be today?