Dr Joe Dispenza- TED Talks with Dr Joe Dispenza
Summary
TLDRThis script delves into the intricate workings of the human brain, highlighting its three main components: the neocortex, the limbic system, and the cerebellum. It explains how learning and experience shape our neural pathways, influencing our behavior and emotions. The narrative illustrates the power of metacognition and the transformational journey from intellectual understanding to embodying compassion, ultimately leading to a state of being that can change our genetic expression and subconscious habits.
Takeaways
- 🧠 The human brain is composed of three distinct 'brains': the neocortex (thinking brain), the limbic system (emotional brain), and the cerebellum (reptilian brain), each with its unique functions and history.
- 🌐 The neocortex, being the newest and most evolved, is responsible for conscious awareness and learning through the creation of new synaptic connections.
- 🔁 Learning involves the formation of new neural pathways, while memory is the maintenance of these connections, highlighting the brain's plasticity.
- 💡 Neurons that fire together wire together, creating neural networks that can represent ideas, memories, experiences, skills, or behaviors.
- 🧩 The mind is defined as the brain in action, with the ability to change its patterns and combinations of neural firing, thus altering our mindset.
- 📚 Reading and contemplating on concepts like compassion and forgiveness can lead to the development of long-term neural relationships and new levels of understanding.
- 🚨 Stress can be triggered by both real and imagined threats, activating the body's fight or flight response and impacting our emotional and physiological state.
- 🤔 Metacognition allows us to observe and modify our behaviors, using self-awareness to change our actions and reactions.
- 🔄 The frontal lobe acts as a control center for our identity, helping to lower the influence of old behaviors and promote new, desired behaviors.
- 🌟 Intention is formed through the synchronization of neural circuits, creating an internal representation that guides our actions and experiences.
- 🔗 The process of embodying knowledge, such as compassion, involves the mind teaching the body through repeated experiences, leading to a change in genetic expression.
- 🔄 Repeated practice of new behaviors can lead to automaticity, where actions become second nature and are stored in the subconscious mind, represented by the cerebellum.
- 🌱 Transforming ourselves can lead to a state of being that influences others, allowing for the transformation of the world around us.
Q & A
What are the three main 'brains' mentioned in the script and what are their functions?
-The three main 'brains' mentioned are the neocortex, the limbic brain, and the cerebellum. The neocortex is the newest and most evolved part, responsible for conscious awareness and learning. The limbic brain, also known as the emotional brain, regulates internal chemical order and emotions. The cerebellum, the oldest part, is the seat of the subconscious mind and coordinates movement and balance.
How many neurons does the human brain have and what is a metaphorical comparison to illustrate their quantity?
-The human brain is made up of about 100 billion neurons. A metaphorical comparison to illustrate their quantity is stacking 100 billion sheets of paper, which would reach a height of 5,000 meters, roughly the distance from Los Angeles to London.
What is the process of learning according to the script and how does it physically change the brain?
-Learning is the process of forging new synaptic connections in the neocortex, the thinking brain. Each time new information is learned, the brain physically changes by creating these new connections, which is how the brain upscales its hardware to reflect a new level of mind.
What is the neuroscientific definition of 'mind' as mentioned in the script?
-The neuroscientific definition of 'mind' is the brain in action, the brain at work, or what the brain does. It is the result of the seamless coordination of 100 billion neurons firing in different sequences, patterns, and combinations.
How does the script describe the relationship between learning, remembering, and maintaining synaptic connections?
-The script describes learning as making new synaptic connections, remembering as maintaining and sustaining those connections, and the importance of communication in strengthening these connections, similar to how relationships become more bonded with more interaction.
What is the role of the limbic brain in memory formation according to the script?
-The limbic brain, or the emotional brain, plays a role in memory formation by producing a chemical response when neurons organize into patterns during an experience. This chemical, called a feeling or emotion, helps to remember significant experiences by altering the internal chemical state.
How does the script explain the process of changing one's mind through metacognition?
-The script explains that metacognition is the process of observing one's own thoughts and behaviors. By becoming aware of one's reactions and feelings, one can modify their behaviors and neural circuits, effectively changing their mind by silencing old circuits and creating new ones.
What is the role of the frontal lobe in the process of changing one's self-concept?
-The frontal lobe is the seat of awareness and acts like a volume control, lowering the volume on the circuits connected to the old self while synchronizing new circuits that reflect a new level of mind, thus helping to change one's self-concept.
How does the script relate the experience of compassion to the process of changing one's mind and body?
-The script relates compassion to the process of changing the mind and body by describing how embodying the knowledge of compassion through repeated experience can neurochemically condition the body to memorize compassion, leading to a change in genetic expression and a new state of being.
What is the significance of the cerebellum in the script's explanation of automatic behaviors and habits?
-The cerebellum is significant as it is the seat of the subconscious mind and is responsible for automatic behaviors and habits. When behaviors like compassion are practiced and memorized to the point of becoming automatic, they are managed by the cerebellum, making them an innate part of one's being.
How does the script suggest that changing one's mind can transform the world?
-The script suggests that by transforming ourselves through personal growth and understanding, we can give others permission to do the same, thereby transforming the world through the collective change in individual states of being.
Outlines
🧠 The Three Brains and Neurological Learning
This paragraph introduces the concept of the 'three brains' theory, which includes the neocortex (the thinking brain), the limbic system (the emotional brain), and the cerebellum (the reptilian brain). It explains that the neocortex is the most evolved part, responsible for conscious awareness and learning through new synaptic connections. The paragraph also highlights the physical changes in the brain associated with learning and emphasizes the importance of maintaining these connections for memory retention. It introduces the idea of neuron networks, which are groups of neurons that form connections related to ideas, memories, skills, or behaviors.
💡 Experience, Emotion, and Memory Formation
The second paragraph delves into how experiences enrich the brain's circuitry and lead to the production of emotions through the limbic system. It discusses the phenomenon of memory, explaining why significant events are more easily recalled than mundane daily activities. The paragraph also explores the impact of stress on the body and the role of the reptilian brain in the fight-or-flight response. It illustrates how thoughts alone can trigger a stress response, affecting the body's homeostasis and potentially leading to disease if not managed properly.
🔄 Metacognition and the Power of Intention
This paragraph introduces the concept of metacognition, the ability to observe and modify one's own thoughts and behaviors. It discusses the role of the frontal lobe in this process, acting as a volume control for neural circuits associated with the old self. The paragraph explains how by focusing on new intentions and behaviors, one can rewire the brain to embody new levels of mind. It also touches on the process of installing neurological hardware ahead of an experience to prepare the mind for a desired outcome, such as compassion, and the importance of persistence in establishing new thought patterns.
🌟 Embodiment of Knowledge and Transformation
The final paragraph discusses the embodiment of knowledge through repeated experiences, leading to a change in genetic expression and the activation of the subconscious mind through the cerebellum. It emphasizes the importance of practicing compassion and other desired behaviors until they become automatic and part of one's identity. The paragraph concludes by highlighting the transformative power of personal change and the ability to inspire others to do the same, ultimately transforming the world through individual transformation.
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Keywords
💡Neocortex
💡Limbic System
💡Cerebellum
💡Neuroplasticity
💡Synaptic Connections
💡Neuronal Networks
💡Metacognition
💡Stress Response
💡Compassion
💡Epigenetics
💡State of Being
Highlights
The human brain is composed of three distinct 'brains', each with unique functions and characteristics.
The neocortex is the most evolved part of the brain, associated with conscious awareness and learning.
The limbic system, or 'emotional brain', regulates internal chemical order and is crucial for memory formation.
The cerebellum, also known as the 'reptilian brain', is the oldest part and governs subconscious processes.
The brain consists of approximately 100 billion neurons, each capable of storing and communicating information.
Learning involves creating new synaptic connections, physically altering the brain's structure.
Neuronal networks form as groups of neurons that fire and wire together, representing concepts, memories, or behaviors.
The mind is defined as the brain in action, reflecting the brain's current state and activity.
Experiences enrich the brain's circuitry and produce emotions, which are regulated by the limbic system.
Routine activities can make the brain less attentive, unlike significant events that create lasting memories.
Stress can be triggered by thoughts alone, affecting the body's physiological response.
Metacognition allows us to observe and modify our behaviors based on self-awareness.
The frontal lobe acts as a control center for our identity and can modify neural circuits related to our self-concept.
Applying knowledge to change behavior involves a process of neural reorganization and the creation of new mind states.
The process of embodying knowledge through repeated experiences can lead to a change in genetic expression.
Practicing compassion repeatedly can lead to it becoming an automatic behavior, stored in the subconscious mind.
The transformation of self and mind can have profound impacts on our interactions with others and the world.
The journey of self-improvement involves a continuous cycle of learning, practicing, and embodying new behaviors.
Transcripts
good
afternoon now we have three brains that
allow us to go from thinking to doing to
being each brain is its own individual
bioom computer with its own anatomy and
own circuitry its own physiology and
chemistry they even have their own
history as well as their own sense of
time and space now the first brain the
neocortex it's the newest brain in
evolution it's that walnut-shaped
structure that sits on the outside with
all of its folds and valleys and yellow
there it's the newest the most evolved
and highly specialized in human beings
right under the neocortex is called the
limic brain the chemical brain the
emotional brain or the mamelon brain
it's about the size of a lemon and it's
responsible for regulating internal
chemical order right in the back of the
brain stem there in red is called the
cerebellum The Reptilian Brain it's the
oldest brain in evolution it's the seat
of the subconscious mind now your brain
is made up of about a 100 billion
neurons if you took a 100 billion sheets
of paper and stacked them on top of each
other it would be 5,000 m High that's
the distance from Los Angeles to London
now Nur cell
possess the unique ability to store and
communicate information between each
other so your neocortex your thinking
brain is the seat of your conscious
awareness you're listening to me right
now with your neocortex and what the
neocortex loves to do is to gather
information and every time you learn
something new you make a new synaptic
Connection in your thinking brain that's
what learning is learning is forging new
connection and every time you learn
something new your brain physically
changes so you read a book on how to
ride a bicycle you read a book on how to
build a dogghouse you read a book on how
to dance the salsa how to cook French
cuisine how to become successful how to
be a better parent and your brain
literally upscales it upscales its
Hardware to reflect a new level of
mind the principle in Neuroscience says
this nerve cells that fire together WI
together and as you begin to learn new
information you biologically wire that
information into your cerebral
architecture so if learning is making
new synaptic connections then
remembering is maintaining and
sustaining those connections and just
like any relationship the more you
communicate the more bonded you become
and neurons are exactly the same way now
once these neurons begin to Fire and
wire together together they actually
form networks what neuroscientists
called neuron networks now neuron
networks are just gangs of neurons that
have fired and wired together to form a
community of neurosynaptic connections
it could be related to an idea a concept
A Memory experience a skill or behavior
and
action but these networks actually have
an electrochemical component and if you
want to see mind in action watch this
that's a thought right there again so
you generate more electrical impulses in
your brain in one day than all the cell
phones on the planet put together now
the neuroscientific definition of mind
is mind is the brain in action mind is
the brain at work mind is what the brain
does and because we have a 100 billion
neurons seamlessly piece together we can
make the brain fire in different
sequences different patterns and
different combinations and whenever we
make the brain work differently we're
changing our mind so once you've
understood something intellectually
theoretically once you've understood
something philosophically if you take
what you intellectually learned in your
thinking brain and you apply it you
personalize it you demonstrate it it
means you're going to have to modify
your behavior in some way and if you
change your actions and you do something
different L you're going to have a new
experience now when you're in the midst
of an experience everything you're
seeing and smelling and tasting and
feeling and hearing all of your five
senses are gathering this Vital
Information from the environment and as
you begin to process all this
information and it's rushing back to
your brain jungles of neurons begin to
organize themselves into patterns the
moment those neurons string into place
the brain releases a chemical and that
chemical is called a feeling or an
emotion so experience then enriches the
circuitry in your brain neurologically
but then it produces a chemical that's
released in the second brain called the
lyic brain or the emotional brain so you
can remember your first kiss you can
remember graduating from college you can
remember the birth of your first child
you can remember finishing a marathon
you can remember catching a fish off the
coast of Mexico and then taking it home
and cooking it and drinking some really
good wine that tastes good and feeling
the ocean breeze on your face and seeing
the sunset and we could say that you
were altered from that
experience the problem is you can't
remember what you had for dinner the
night before that's because routine
lulls the brain to
sleep so a great example of this then is
most Americans can remember exactly
where they were at 9/11 you can tell me
who you were with what time of day it
was and what you were doing we could say
then when you were in the midst of that
moment or that experience everything you
were seeing and hearing changed your
internal chemical State and the moment
you felt altered in some way internally
your brain perked up and you paid
attention to whoever or whatever caused
it and that event in and of itself is
called a
memory now let's say you read the book
called from forgiveness to compassion to
unconditional love and this book had
inspired you so much so that you decided
to read it
twice and as you began to review this
information in your mind and contemplate
on it and
self-reflect you begin to cause those
neurons to form into networks to reflect
a new level of mind you find yourself in
a shower thinking about it you're
driving to work and you're contemplating
these
Concepts you begin to talk to your
friends about what you learn and you're
beginning to develop long-term
relationships in those
neurons and all of a sudden you're
moving around your office and you're
saying you know you need to be more
compassionate you know wow and someone
else you say you need to
forgive everybody is impressed with your
knowledge they're knocking on your
office door and they're asking you to
administer to them and you're resolving
everybody's problems things are going
really
well all of a sudden you're driving home
from work and you get a call on your
cell phone and it's your
spouse and your spouse tells you that
they
forgot to mention in the morning that
it's your mother-in-law's birthday and
you pull over on the side of the road
and you think I hate my mother
in-law she hurt my feelings 10 years ago
she tells the same stories over and over
again and you begin to remember that you
had some pretty stressful moments that
branded you emotionally from your past
with your
mother-in-law now stress is when your
body is knocked out of
homeostasis stress is when your body is
knocked out of balance now when you see
a lion you begin to turn On A Primitive
nervous system but it doesn't even have
to be a lion a lion you could see your
mother-in-law and it produces the same
exact effect now let's go one step
further it doesn't even have to be the
physical appearance of your
mother-in-law you can begin to think
about certain things and auto suggest
and you can turn on the stress response
just by thought
alone now your body is your unconscious
mind it does not know the difference
between between the actual experience in
reality that produces the emotion and
the emotion that you fabricate by
thought alone to the body it believes
it's in that experience so the moment
the lyic brain begins to make blend of
neuropeptides it begins to Signal the
hormonal centers and you get a rush of
energy to prepare you for this event
real or imagined now moment that happens
you become altered in some way a fight
ORF flight nervous system causes your P
pupils to dilate your mouth gets a
little dry all of a sudden your heart
rate begins to change your respiratory
rate changes and blood is being sent to
your extremities and now you're prepared
to either do battle with your
mother-in-law or never go to the dinner
to stay and run stay and fight or to run
now what was once highly adaptive all of
a sudden is now
maladaptive because when we turn on the
stress response and we can't turn it off
now we're headed for
disease so then you're sitting on the
side of the road and then you
think I read the book on
compassion damn the moment you begin to
think
about what you have to do something very
natural happens you begin to think about
what you were thinking about you begin
to pay attention to how you're reacting
you begin to know notice how you're
feeling and that Concept in Neuroscience
is called metacognition we can observe
who we're being and because we can
observe who we're being it means we
could modify our behaviors to do a
better job in life so now the frontal
lobe is the seat of your awareness it's
the home of the you and the me and as
you begin to think about who you no
longer want to be the frontal lobe acts
like a volume control
and it begins to lower the volume in the
circuits in your brain that are
connected to the old self and as it
begins to silence those circuits that
are connected to the old level of mind
that level of mind no longer fires and
you're observing it instead of
participating in it and as you begin to
silence those circuits nerve cells that
no longer fire together no longer wire
together and you begin to biologically
break down the circuits in your brain
that are connected to the old self and
to the old mind now as you're sitting on
the side of the road you
think what piece of knowledge could I
apply in this situation from what I
learned in the book and as you begin to
plan your actions and you begin to think
about a new way of being and you begin
to put yourself into the equation your
brain naturally begins to fire in new
sequences and new patterns and new
combinations and whenever you make your
brain work differently you're changing
your mind because mind is the brain in
action and as the brain begins to fire
in new ways and you produce a new level
of Mind nerves cells that fire together
wire together and you begin to install
the neurological Hardware ahead of the
actual experience and now you have
circuits in place to use when you get
into that dinner
so now as you ask yourself what is
compassion and you begin to remember all
these different things that you learned
in the book The frontal lobe like a
great Symphony leader begins to
synchronize these circuits and when it
begins to produce a certain level of
coherence a certain level of mind your
brain naturally creates a hologram or an
image and that image then becomes the
internal representation of what you are
going to use when you walk into that
dinner we would call that intention now
there's a very very unique Shuffle that
kind of goes on microscopically between
uh different circuits in your brain
you're trying to fire this new thought
called compassion but remember you fired
and wired all these other circuits based
on the last 10 years so as you're
beginning to fire this new thought all
these other thoughts are saying you hate
your mother-in-law you don't want to go
to that dinner why don't you start
tomorrow this isn't a good time to do
this
this but if you persist with a certain
amount of amplitude and you put your
attention behind that thought sooner or
later that thought will be the strongest
and loudest voice in your head now the
moment that becomes the loudest voice in
your head the brain has to seal that
circuit more
permanently so when the action potential
is firing down the neuron from the Press
synaptic cleft to the post synaptic
cleft there's a glue that seals the
circuit called neurog growth factor
factor and it travels in the opposite
direction but there's only a certain
amount of that neural growth factor to
go around so it starts to steal the glue
from the neighboring circuits and when
that happens there goes your memory of
your mother-in-law hurting your feelings
10 years ago there goes the thought that
you hate her there goes the impatience
there goes the intolerance and the only
signal now traveling to that neuron is
called
compassion now every place where one
know neuron connects with another neuron
is a memory when this happens you begin
to biologically and neurologically prune
away the old memory of the old self and
this is the science of changing your
mind if you want to see what it looks
like in real time let's try that again
you want to see what it looks like in
real time unhooking from the old self
reconnecting to the new self this can
happen in
moments now you get back on the road you
make your uturn you're heading to the
dinner you're reminding yourself who you
no longer want to be silencing those
circuits in the brain you begin to think
about who you do want to be based on the
knowledge you've learned and you're
priming your brain ahead of the actual
experience you walk into the dinner and
you get your behaviors to match your
intentions you get your actions equal to
your thoughts you get your mind and body
working together and you do exactly what
the book says the moment that happens
all of a sudden you feel compassion now
the moment your heart begins to open and
you feel compassion you are teaching
your body emotionally to understand what
your mind intellectually understood you
see knowledge is for the mind but
experiences for the body and when we
begin to experience compassion now we
are embodying knowledge the word is
becoming flesh and the lyic Brain makes
a new batch of peptides that signals the
body and you begin to literally change
your genetic expression because there's
new information coming to the Gene and
epigenetically we signal genes from the
environment and you're changing the
fabric of you because you're instructing
your body chemically to understand what
your mind is intellectually and
philosophically understood but it's not
enough to do it once you can't forgive
your mother-in-law one time and expect
to be on the stained glass windows in
church you got to be able to repeat the
experience you got to be able to do it
over and over again you have to do it so
many times that you no longer have to
think about it and when you do it over
and over again you
neurochemically condition the body to
memorize compassion as well as the
conscious mind and when that happens
when the mind and body are working
together or the body knows as well as
the mind you activate that third brain
called the cerebellum the seat of your
subconscious mind you've practiced it so
many times that you know how but you
don't know how you know how it's
automatic it's second nature it's easy
it's a habit it's a skill it's an
automatic behavior and when you get to
this level of memorizing an internal
chemical order a level of innate now
it's so innate in you that it's who you
are when you get to that point where no
person no thing no experience can remove
you from it because you have sustained
this level of coherence now you're in a
state of
being and so the way we transform the
world is we transform ourselves and when
we're in that state of being we give
people permission to do the same thanks
for listening
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