Dr Joe Dispenza On 'Being Peace'
"What would love do?"
A Note from Rainn
At Ease Soul-diers,
Welcome back to the Spiritual Revolution!
This week on the Soul Boom podcast we have Dr Joe Dispenza, the world-renowned thinker on the power of the mind-body connection. Dr Joe is passionate about the intersection of neuroscience, epigenetics, and quantum physics and the ways they can synergistically contribute to human betterment. I’ve long been fascinated with Joe’s work and its implications when it comes to how we change and heal, both individually and collectively.
In this edition of the Soul Boom Dispatch, we’ve got a perfect companion for the podcast episode for you—an excerpt from Dr Joe’s groundbreaking book, Becoming Supernatural.
Take it away, Dr Joe!
Being Peace
By Dr Joe Dispenza
It’s not sufficient to just think and feel peace with your eyes closed, and then open them and carry on throughout the day in limited, unconscious states of mind and body… we actually have to demonstrate peace, which requires us to get our bodies involved, and that means we have to move from thinking to doing.
Every time we change our state of being and begin our day by opening our hearts to the elevated states that connect us to a love for life, a joy for existence, the inspiration to be alive, a state of gratitude that our future has already happened, and a level of kindness toward others, we must carry, maintain, and demonstrate that energy and state of being throughout the day—whether we are sitting, standing, walking, or lying down. Then, when upsetting events occur in our lives or in the world, if we demonstrate peace rather than unconsciously act in predictable, so-called natural reactionary ways (expressing anger, frustration, violence, fear, suffering, or aggression), we are no longer contributing to the world’s old consciousness. By breaking that cycle and demonstrating peace by example, we give others permission to do the same. Because knowledge is for the mind and experience is for the body, when we move from thinking to doing—and experience the corresponding emotions of peace and inner balance—the moment we begin to embody peace is when we really begin to change the program.
By tempering those reactive behaviors, and thus no longer creating the same redundant experiences and emotions, we no longer fire and wire the same circuits in the brain. This is how we cease conditioning the body to live in the self-limiting emotions of the mind, and this is how we change ourselves and our relationship to the world around us. Every time we do this, we are literally teaching our body to chemically understand what our mind has intellectually understood. This is how we select and instruct the latent genes that cause us to thrive—not just survive. Now peace is within us and we are knocking on the genetic door to biologically become exactly that. Isn’t that what every great charismatic leader, saint, mystic, and master throughout history has continually preached?
Of course, it’s going to feel unnatural in the beginning to go against years of automatic conditioning, unconscious habits, reflexive emotional reactions, hardwired attitudes, and generations of genetic programming, but that is exactly how we become supernatural. To do what feels unnatural means going against how we have all been genetically programmed or socially conditioned to live when we are threatened in some way. I’m sure any creature that has broken from the consciousness of the tribe, the pack, the school, or the herd in order to adapt to a changing environment must have felt the discomfort and uncertainty of the unknown. But let’s not forget that living in the unknown means we are in the realm of possibility.
The real challenge is not to return to the level of mediocrity that the prevailing social consciousness agrees on merely because we don’t see anyone else doing what we are doing. True leadership never needs confirmation from others. It just requires a clear vision and a change in energy—that is, a new state of being—that is sustained for a long enough period of time and executed with a strong enough will that it causes others to raise their own energy and become inspired to do the same. Once they do raise themselves from their own limited state of being to a new energy, they see the same future that their leader sees. There is power in numbers.
After all my years of teaching people about personal transformation, I know no one changes until they change their energy. In fact, when someone is truly engaged in change, they are less likely to talk about it and more prone to demonstrate it. They are working on living it. This requires awareness, intent, staying present, and constant attention to their inner states. Perhaps the biggest hurdle is not only being uncomfortable, but also being okay with being uncomfortable, because discomfort is our challenge to grow. It makes us feel more alive.
After all, if stress and the survival response are the result of not being able to predict our future (thinking or believing that we are unable to control an outcome or that things are going to get worse), then opening our minds and hearts to believe in possibility requires going against thousands of years of genetically hardwired survival traits. We must lay down the very thing that we have always used to get what we want for something much better to occur. To me, that’s true greatness.
If we can do it once, disturb those neural networks equated with anger, resentment, and retribution and instead activate the neural networks related to experiences of caring, giving, and nurturing (and so create the corresponding emotions), then we should be able do it again—and the repetition of these choices will neurochemically condition our mind and body to become one. When the body knows how to do this as well as the mind, it becomes innate, familiar, easy, and second nature. Then, thinking and demonstrating peace, which once required focused awareness, becomes a subconscious program. Now we’ve created a new, automatic peaceful state of being, and again, that means that now peace is within us.
This is how we memorize a new internal neurochemical order that’s greater than any conditions in our external environment. Now we’re not just being peace, but mastering it, as well as mastering ourselves and our environment. Once enough of us can achieve this state of being—once everybody is locked into the same energy, frequency, and elevated consciousness—just like schools of fish or flocks of birds moving as one in a unified order, we’ll begin to act as one mind and emerge as a new species. But if we continue to act as a cancerous organism at war with itself, our species will not survive, and evolution will continue its grand experiment.
Take time out of your busy life to invest in yourself, because when you do, you are investing in your future. If your familiar environment is controlling how you think and feel, it’s time to retreat from your life and go inward so you can reverse the process of being a victim of life and instead become a creator of it. After reading this book, by now you know that it’s possible to change yourself from within and that when you do, it will be reflected in your outer world.
This is a time in history when it is not enough to simply know; this is a time to know how. According to the philosophical understanding and scientific principles of quantum physics, neuroscience, and epigenetics, we now understand that our subjective mind influences the objective world. Because mind influences matter, we are compelled to study the nature of mind; our understanding then allows us to assign meaning to what we’re doing. If knowledge is the precursor to experience, then the more knowledge we have about how powerful we are, as well as understanding the science behind how things work, the more we can understand the limitlessness of our potential, both as individuals and as a collective.
Because we are constantly deepening and broadening our understanding of the interconnectedness of all living systems, and because each of us is a contributor to the Earth’s field, I believe we can collectively create and guide a new, peaceful, and prosperous future upon this planet. It all begins by making a habit of practicing leading with our hearts, raising our energy, and tuning in to greater information and frequencies of love and wholeness. With effort and intention, we should begin to produce a coherent electromagnetic signature. Just like dropping pebbles in a still lake over and over, as we continue to raise our energy and open our hearts, we’re producing bigger and bigger electromagnetic fields. This energy is information, and we each have the power to direct our energy with intention to produce nonlocal effects on the nature of reality.
When we direct our energy as an observer, a consciousness, or a thought, we can begin to affect a downward causation of matter—in other words, we can literally make our minds matter. When we practice these concepts on a consistent basis—changing our levels of energy from survival states to greater levels of awareness, compassion, love, gratitude, and other elevated emotions—these coherent electromagnetic signatures entrain to one another. The effect should then be that we can unify communities that were once separated by the belief that we are just matter. Once we transition our state of being from survival into love, gratitude, and creation, then instead of reacting to violence, terrorism, fear, prejudice, competition, selfishness, and separation (which, by the way, the media, commercials, video games, and all types of stimulation are constantly reminding and programming us to live within), we can come together during crisis. We will have no further need for splintering, assigning blame, or seeking revenge.
Every time we meditate as a global community, we’re casting a larger, stronger coherent wave of love and altruism around the world. If we do this enough times, we should be able to not only measure the changes in energy and frequency around the world, but measure our efforts by the positive changes in the events that take place in our future.
To stand up for justice and peace, then, you must first find peace within yourself. You must then demonstrate peace to others, which means you can’t make a stand for peace or be peace while you’re warring with your neighbor, hating your coworker, or judging your boss.
If everybody (and I mean everybody) chose peace, and if we came together at the exact same time, imagine the type of positive change we could create in our collective future. There would be no conflict. What’s equally powerful is that when we are the living embodiment of peace, we show up as unpredictable to others and then they pay attention. Thanks to mirror neurons (a special class of brain cells that fire when we see someone perform an action), we are biologically wired to mimic each other’s behavior. Modeling peace, justice, love, kindness, care, understanding, and compassion allows others to open their hearts and move from fearful, aggressive states of survival to feeling wholeness and connectedness. Think what would happen if we all understood how interconnected we were to one another and to the field, rather than feeling separated and isolated: We might actually begin to take responsibility for our thoughts and emotions because we would finally understand how our state of being affects all of life. This is how we begin to change the world—by first changing ourselves.
The future of humanity does not rest on one person, leader, or messiah with a greater consciousness to show us the way. Rather, it requires the evolution of a new collective consciousness, because it is through the acknowledgment and application of the interconnectedness of human consciousness that we can change the course of history.
While it appears old structures and paradigms are collapsing, we should not face this with fear, anger, or sadness, because this is the process by which evolution and new things occur. Instead we should face the future with a whole new light, energy, and consciousness. As I have mentioned, the old has to fall apart and fall away before something new flourishes.
Integral to this process is not squandering our energy by emotionally reacting to leaders or people in power. When they capture our emotions, they capture our attention, and thus they have captured our energy. This is how people gain power over us. Instead we must make a stand for principles, values, and moral imperatives like freedom, justice, truth, and equality. When we achieve this through the power of the collective, we will unite behind the energy of oneness rather than be controlled by the idea of separation. This is when standing up for truth is no longer personal, but through unifying and building community, becomes universal.
I believe we are on the verge of a great evolutionary jump. Another way to say it is that we are going through an initiation. After all, isn’t an initiation a rite of passage from one level of consciousness to another, and isn’t it designed to challenge the fabric of who we are so we can grow to a greater potential? Maybe when we see, remember, and awaken to who we truly are, human beings can move as a collective consciousness from a state of surviving into a state of thriving. It’s then that we can emerge into our true nature and fully access our innate capacity as human beings—which is to give, to love, to serve, and to take care of one another and the Earth.
So why not ask yourself every day, What would love do?
This is who we really are, and this is the future I’m creating—one in which each and every one of us becomes supernatural.
We’re just scratching the surface here… Be sure to check out Dr Joe Dispenza’s new documentary Source – It’s Within You (available for free June 21-23, and for purchase thereafter)… and If you’d like to find out more about what becoming supernatural means to Dr. Dispenza, check out his book Becoming Supernatural!
Thank you. This was needed today 🙏💜✨💫
Listening right now. Beautiful 😍