Use Your Thoughts to Optimize Your Health - Dr Joe Dispenza
Summary
TLDRThe video script delves into the three types of stress—physical, chemical, and emotional—and their impact on the body's homeostasis. It emphasizes the body's innate drive to restore balance through the autonomic nervous system. The script highlights that chronic stress, particularly emotional, can lead to disease by disrupting the body's natural equilibrium. It suggests managing thoughts and emotions to promote health, illustrating the profound mind-body connection. The speaker advocates for cultivating positive emotions like gratitude to stimulate the body's healing processes, supporting the idea that our thoughts and feelings significantly influence our physical well-being.
Takeaways
- 🏗️ There are three types of stress that affect the body: physical (e.g., trauma, accidents), chemical (e.g., toxins, pollutants), and emotional (e.g., family tragedies, financial stress).
- 🔄 The body naturally seeks to maintain homeostasis, and the autonomic nervous system plays a crucial role in this regulatory process.
- 🚨 Chronic stress from any source can disrupt homeostasis, leading to a 'new normal' of imbalance that can result in disease.
- 🌟 Emotional stress is particularly impactful, with 75-90% of health issues in Western healthcare facilities linked to psychological or emotional stress.
- 🧠 Stress hormones are connected to a range of emotions, including anger, hatred, frustration, and fear, which can alter the body's chemical balance.
- 🧬 Long-term stress can activate genetic buttons, potentially leading to disease, highlighting the profound Mind-Body Connection.
- 🔄 The power of thought is such that it can trigger stress responses and corresponding hormonal changes, even in the absence of physical threats.
- 🔄 Managing attention and energy is key to altering the body's stress response, as where we focus our attention, we direct our energy.
- 🔄 Breaking the cycle of stress and disease involves changing thought patterns and emotional states, akin to breaking an addiction.
- 🌱 Cultivating positive emotions like gratitude can reprogram the body's chemistry, promoting health and well-being, as evidenced by increased immunoglobulin A levels.
- 🌟 Taking control of one's thoughts and emotions can lead to a sense of empowerment and a shift from being a victim to being a creator of one's life experiences.
Q & A
What are the three types of stress mentioned in the script?
-The script mentions three types of stress: physical stress, which includes trauma, accidents, injuries, and falls; chemical stress, which involves toxins, pesticides, pollutants, viruses, bacteria, hangovers, and nutritional deficiencies; and emotional stress, which can stem from family tragedies, car accidents, financial stress, single parenting, and other emotional challenges.
How does stress affect the body's homeostasis?
-Stress, whether physical, chemical, or emotional, knocks the body out of homeostasis, which is the body's natural state of balance and regulation. The body's innate capacity is to return to homeostasis, but if stress is continuous, the body may adopt the imbalance as the new normal, potentially leading to disease.
What is the role of the autonomic nervous system in relation to stress?
-The autonomic nervous system is responsible for creating balance, regulation, and homeostasis in the body. It operates automatically and is part of the brain that sits under the thinking neocortex, also known as the chemical, emotional, or limbic brain. It works to constantly repair and regenerate the body, moving it back into balance.
Why is emotional stress considered a significant factor in health conditions?
-Emotional stress is considered a significant factor in health conditions because it is estimated that 75 to 90% of individuals in Western healthcare facilities present due to psychological or emotional stress. This makes it a primary cause for many health issues.
What are some of the emotions connected to stress hormones?
-Emotions connected to stress hormones include anger, hatred, frustration, competition, control, judgment, envy, jealousy, insecurity, fear, anxiety, worry, angst, hopelessness, powerlessness, guilt, and shame.
How do thoughts and emotions influence the body's physical state?
-Thoughts and emotions can influence the body's physical state by triggering the secretion of stress hormones that can push the genetic buttons and create disease. The body may not distinguish between real-life experiences and those fabricated by thought alone, leading to a conditioned state of imbalance.
What is the significance of managing one's attention and energy in relation to stress?
-Managing one's attention and energy is significant because where attention is placed, energy follows. By managing these, one can inhibit thoughts that condition the body into a state of imbalance and instead focus on thoughts that promote health and well-being.
How can changing one's emotional state impact health?
-Changing one's emotional state can impact health by altering the body's chemistry. For example, practicing gratitude can lead to an increase in immunoglobulin A, which is a natural immune booster. This suggests that positive emotions can stimulate the body's natural healing processes.
What is the role of the prefrontal cortex in managing stress and emotions?
-The prefrontal cortex is activated when one assigns meaning to a task and has a strong intention for an outcome. It helps in managing stress and emotions by facilitating a change in energy or emotional state, which can lead to a change in one's state of being and potentially improve overall health.
How can the body be reconditioned to a state of balance after being in a state of stress?
-The body can be reconditioned to a state of balance by practicing new emotional states, such as gratitude, through intentional focus and breathing exercises. This can help the body to relax and feel safe enough to experience different emotions, eventually leading to a state of homeostasis.
What is the concept of 'self-fulfilling prophecy' in the context of emotional stress?
-In the context of emotional stress, a 'self-fulfilling prophecy' refers to the phenomenon where an individual's negative emotions and beliefs about their life and experiences lead them to act in ways that confirm those beliefs, perpetuating a cycle of negative emotions and stress.
Outlines
🔬 Understanding Stress and Homeostasis
The first paragraph delves into the concept of stress and its impact on the human body. It outlines three types of stress: physical (trauma, accidents), chemical (toxins, pollutants), and emotional (family tragedies, financial stress). These stressors disrupt the body's homeostasis, a state of balance that the body naturally seeks to maintain. The autonomic nervous system is highlighted as the body's automatic mechanism to restore balance, which is essential for health. The paragraph emphasizes that chronic stress can lead to disease as the body's regulatory systems become overwhelmed and unable to maintain order, leading to a 'new normal' of imbalance.
🧠 Emotional Stress and the Mind-Body Connection
The second paragraph focuses on the profound influence of emotional stress on health, suggesting that 75 to 90% of health issues in Western healthcare facilities stem from psychological or emotional stress. It discusses how emotions like anger, hatred, and fear are linked to stress hormones that can, over time, trigger disease by activating genetic predispositions. The 'Mind-Body Connection' is explored, illustrating how thoughts alone can activate the stress response and potentially cause illness. The concept of managing attention and energy is introduced as a means to regulate the body's response to stress and promote well-being.
🌟 Shifting Emotions for Health and Balance
The third paragraph continues the discussion on the power of emotions, emphasizing the importance of shifting from negative to positive emotions like gratitude to promote health. It suggests that the body can become addicted to the stress response triggered by negative emotions, making it challenging to change. The paragraph proposes that by consciously practicing positive emotions and managing one's thoughts, an individual can reprogram the autonomic nervous system to support growth and repair. It concludes with the idea that changing one's emotional state can lead to a significant increase in immune function, as demonstrated by a 50% increase in immunoglobulin A levels within four days of practicing gratitude.
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Keywords
💡Stress
💡Homeostasis
💡Autonomic Nervous System
💡Emotional Stress
💡Disease
💡Mind-Body Connection
💡Hormones
💡Addiction
💡Gratitude
💡Prefrontal Cortex
💡Synchronicities
Highlights
There are three types of stress: physical, chemical, and emotional, each affecting the body's homeostasis.
Physical stress includes trauma, accidents, and injuries.
Chemical stress stems from toxins, pollutants, viruses, and nutritional deficiencies.
Emotional stress can arise from family tragedies, financial issues, and single parenting.
The body has an innate capacity to return to homeostasis when not overstressed.
The autonomic nervous system is responsible for creating balance and homeostasis.
Stressors can knock the body out of balance, leading to disease if homeostasis is not restored.
75 to 90% of health conditions in Western healthcare facilities are due to emotional stress.
Emotions such as anger, hatred, and fear are connected to stress hormones.
Thoughts can trigger stress responses and potentially lead to disease.
Managing attention and energy is crucial for emotional and physical well-being.
The body does not distinguish between real-life experiences and those fabricated by thought.
People can become addicted to their own thoughts and emotional states.
Changing emotional states requires breaking the cycle of addiction to familiar patterns.
Practicing gratitude can reprogram the body's chemistry towards growth and repair.
Teaching the body to feel gratitude can increase immunoglobulin A, enhancing the immune system.
The emotional signature of gratitude can help accept and believe in positive thoughts.
Intention and emotional state changes can lead to synchronicities and a sense of being life's creator.
Transcripts
[Music] we have three types of stress that we process in the physical body we have physical
stress that's like trauma accidents injuries Falls and then you have chemical stress like
toxins or pesticides or pollutants or viruses or bacteria or hangovers or nutritional deficiencies
and then you have emotional stress right and emotional stress could be family tragedies
car accidents second mortgages single parenting 401ks you know whatever that is but each one of
those things physical chemical or emotional knock the body out of homeostasis out of Regulation out
of balance the innate capacity of the body when it's not overstressed is that it wants to always
return back and regulate it wants to return back to homeostasis it wants to return back to order
and that's inate in us that's an automatic process that's running through the autonomic
nervous system so we could say the job of the autonomic nervous system is to create balance
and Regulation and homeostasis and it's automatic and that part of the brain sits under the thinking
neocortex and it's called the chemical brain or the emotional brain or the lyic brain or the
mamelon brain and it has all of those functions that make blood sugar balanced hormone levels
digestive enzymes it's it's it's it's doing what it can to take the body and constantly
repair it and regenerate it and move it back into balance all of those stressors knock the brain and
body out of balance and the innate mechanism the stress response brings it back to balance well it
just makes sense if you keep knocking it out of balance over and over again and you keep moving
it out of homeostasis that imbalance is going to become the new balance and now you're headed for
disease because that autonomic automatic system can't regulate order in the body so a system then
is compromised the system breaks down and so if it's physical trauma you know your body can heal
if you rest it if it's chemical imbalance you take your uh Pharmaceuticals or you take your
nutriceuticals your vitamins your minerals your herbs you intermittent fast you do anything you
can to get the body back so that it's using more energy for growth and repair but the big factor
is emotional stress 75 to 90% of every person that walks into a Healthcare facility in the
Western World walks in because of psychological or emotional stress pretty much four out of
five people what's really causing their health condition is that they're emotionally stressed
and emotionally out of balance okay so what are the emotions that are connected to the stress
hormones it's anger it's hatred it's frustration it's competition it's control it's judgment it's
Envy it's jealousy it's insecurity it's fear it's anxiety it's worry it's angst it's uh hopelessness
it's powerlessness it's guilt it shame its unworthiness you know and psychology calls these
normal human States Of Consciousness these are Altered States Of Consciousness so our response
to someone or something in in our environment or our response to our own thought an image of what
could happen in the future a memory of the past could actually cause chemicals to be secreted
from the brain that causes the body to actually believe it's living in that same environment of
fear or danger right so that thought when you're seeing that thought in your mind or remembering
that image it's the image and the emotion it's the thought and the feeling it's the stimulus and
response that's immediately conditioning the body into that state of imbalance so it's a scientific
fact that the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons and create disease
if you can turn on that stress response just by thought alone your thoughts are literally going
to make you sick that's the greatest example of the Mind Body Connection so the next fundamental
question is okay if our thoughts could make us sick is it possible that my thoughts could make
me well well if that's the case then then I'm going to have to manage my attention and I'm
going to have to manage my energy because where I place my attention is where I place my energy and
I'm going to have to inhibit that thought that has conditioned the body to subconsciously be the mind
and the body is so objective that it does not know the difference between the real life experience
that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone to the body
it's exactly the same so the body's believing it's being chased by a predator the body is
believing it's in an offensive situation where it has to attack the body's believing it's constantly
needing to be ready and it's it's constantly out of homeostasis is constantly out of balance it's
in emergency it's in fight ORF flight it's a different system the autonomic nervous system
where you're stepping on the gas where you're you're mobilizing enormous amounts of energy
for some threat some Danger real or imagined but that thought and that feeling the image the
emotion the stimulus response is conditioning the body to automatically be the mind of that emotion
now the body becomes conditioned and addicted now this gets to be a problem because people
get addicted to their own thoughts and they become addicted to the life they don't even like because
the response to the coworker to the boss to the ex is actually giving them Rush of energy A Rush
of agine and they're they're associating that Rush of energy with some problem or condition in their
life and now come time to change and manage your attention and manage your emotion it's
no different than Breaking addiction to anything there's Cravings the body wants to return back to
how it's been conditioned into the familiar past into the gnome the body starts saying to the mind
you can it's too hard you'll never change this is too uncomfortable I don't like this go back
to make the same Choice do the same thing create the same experience feel the same emotion so you
can return back to the known and that's how people seamlessly return back to that same identity so we
only accept believe and surrender to the thoughts that are equal to our emotional state we'll never
accept believe and surrender any thoughts that are not equal to your emotional state so you could say
I'm abundant I'm Eternal I'll live forever I'm healthy and wealthy and if you're programmed your
body into that emotional state it's going to say you you're not that take a person whose identity
is resentment and their identity is anger and and frustration and betrayal and you ask them why are
you this way and they'll say I'm this way because of this event that happened to me 15 years ago
strong are the emotion we feel from some event the more altered we feel inside of us the more that
chemical continuity is disrupted from something that surprises us that alters our state the more
the brain freezes a frame and takes a snapshot that's called a memory but the problem is that we
think about that event over and over again after it happens we're producing the same chemistry in
the brain and body as if the event was occurring and so the body is conditioned literally into
the past so you say a person's resentful about everything they're seeing their life through the
lens of resentment and frustration and anger and everything's upsetting them well that's a
self-fulfilling prophecy you say okay now it's an addiction you got to change that and the person
goes oh okay that makes sense and now now you got to get out of the bleachers on the playing field
say okay these emotions could literally have something to do with my health just saying if
I stop feeling these emotions what if I start feeling these emotions okay what would be the
emotions that would make me happy these emotions are making me feel really bad the memories are
making me feel really bad can I remember a future how would I feel if my future could
happen I got to trade those emotions for different emotions well if I've been practicing feeling
these emotions and I've conditioned my body be the mind it's going to take some time for me to start
making different chemistry with the intention of making that chemistry getting my body back into
homeostasis and balance work on my breath when I breathe I change my state practice breathing work
with your body so it can start to relax so that it feels safe enough to feel something other than
that again and if it takes you 3 weeks it would be worth it so then person then starts okay I really
know how to feel gratitude okay well maybe start going out and giving and give to people I promise
you start giving you start feeling grateful and then start practicing feeling gratitude teach
your body just for 15 minutes a day what it would like to feel gratitude what would be like and our
data shows that you take someone to do that for four days three times a day they make a
immunoglobulin called immunoglobulin a it's your body's natural flu shot it's the greatest immune
chemical we have 50% increase in the subjects we studied in 4 days immunoglobulin went up 50% in 4
days where is that chemistry coming from they're not taking anything it's coming from within them
right what is the emotional signature of gratitude when you receive something or you just receive
something when something wonderful happened to you or something wonderful is happening to you
you feel grateful so now if you're in a state of gratitude it makes total sense then you will
accept believe and surrender the thoughts that are equal to that emotional state and you could
actually program your autonomic nervous system to make the pharmacy of chemicals that causes
growth and repair to happen in the body and that's exactly what we're discovering so then when people
understand why they're doing it the how gets easier so you can assign meaning to the task
and switch on the prefrontal cortex and when you switch on that prefrontal cortex it wants to get
an outcome it doesn't want to mess around it wants the outcome you're doing it for the outcome and
that's kind of a strong intention and a change in energy or an emotional state and that's changing
your state of being and when you change your state of being like that every day get ready because
you're going to start having synchronicities and coincidences and weird things start happening in
your life to prove to you that you're actually the creator of your life instead of the victim of your
life
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