In this mind-bending episode, Dr. Joe Dispenza explains the neuroscience behind how your thoughts literally make you sick — and provides a specific morning routine that can rewire your brain for health, happiness, and peak performance.
Dispenza breaks down the science of how repetitive negative thinking creates neural pathways that keep your body in a constant state of stress. He explains that when you think the same thoughts every day, you make the same chemical choices, which keeps your body in the same emotional state — creating a feedback loop of illness and disease.
The morning routine Dispenza prescribes involves meditation, visualization, and emotional rehearsal before 10am. He explains that the brain doesn't distinguish between a real experience and a vividly imagined one, so by mentally rehearsing your ideal day with genuine emotion, you literally create new neural connections that change your biology.
Steven and Joe discuss remarkable case studies from Dispenza's workshops where participants have reported spontaneous remissions from chronic conditions, dramatic improvements in mental health, and measurable changes in their brain scans and blood work. While controversial, Dispenza presents the peer-reviewed research behind his claims and explains why mainstream medicine is beginning to take the mind-body connection seriously.
"Your personality creates your personal reality. If you want a new reality, you need a new personality."
"95% of who we are by the time we're 35 is a set of memorized behaviors and emotional reactions."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it — not from the known, but from the unknown."
"When you change your energy, you change your life. The body must follow the mind."
"If you're not being defined by a vision of the future, you're being defined by memories of the past."
"Meditation is not about controlling your thoughts. It's about not letting your thoughts control you."