“Everything that we are is the result of what we think about. Consciousness is everything. What we think about, so we become,”- a saying attributed to Gautama Sidhartha, Buddha Shakyamuni.
According to the theory of Dr. Joe Dispenza, every time we learn or experience something new, hundreds of thousands of our neurons are transformed, which affects the state of our physical body. Dr. Dispenza is world famous for his original theory of the relationship between mind and matter. Perhaps, the scientist gained the greatest fame after the release of his sensational documentary "We Know What Makes a Signal" in 2004. His research work helped to uncover the extraordinary possibilities of consciousness and its ability to create a synaptic connection with a strong concentration of attention.
Just imagine: with each new sensation, vision or emotional experience, a new relationship is inevitably formed between two of the more than 100 thousand million brain cells.
But for change to really take place, you need to focus on reinforcing the conditioned reflex. If the experience is repeated within a relatively short period of time, the bond will be strengthened. If the experience is not repeated for a long enough time, the connection will become weaker or disappear altogether.
In science, it is generally accepted that our brain is static and fixed, it has little ability to change. But recent research in neuroscience has discovered that the influence of every bodily experience in our organ of thought (cold, fear, fatigue, joy) affects our brain changes.
If a breeze of cold wind can raise all the hairs on our hand on end, can our consciousness create a similar sensation with a similar result? Perhaps it is capable of more.
"What if it is only through thinking that we force our inner alchemy to break out of normalcy so often that the body's self-regulation system ultimately considers this abnormal state to be normal?" - asks Dr. Dispenza in the book "The Evolution of Our Brains, Science to Change Our Mind", published in 2007. "This is a very delicate process, and perhaps we just did not attach the proper importance to it before."
Dispenza insists that the brain is not really capable of distinguishing between physical sensations and mental experiences. Thus, when our consciousness is constantly focused on negative thoughts, our gray matter can easily be deceived and make the body sick.
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Dispenza illustrates his point with an experiment in which the subject had to press the ring finger on a springy device for an hour every day, four weeks in a row. After pressing the spring again, the finger became 30 percent stronger. At the same time, a group of people had to imagine that they were pressing a spring, but they never physically touched the device. Four weeks after this purely spiritual assignment, the entire group experienced a 22 percent stronger finger.
For many years, scientists have been studying the ways in which consciousness controls matter: from the Placebo effect (when a person begins to feel better after allegedly taking medication) to the practice of Tummo (the practice of Tibetan Buddhism, where practitioners sweat, meditating at temperatures below zero). This effect of the practice on the physical condition is just a by-product that appears as a result of chemical reactions between neurons.
Incredible
Dr. Dispenza's investigations came to a standstill with the onset of a crisis in his life. While riding a bicycle, the doctor was hit by a car. In order for him to be able to walk again, the doctors insisted that several vertebrae need to be joined together, a procedure should be performed that would probably cause him chronic pain for the rest of his life.
Dispenza, however, being a chiropractor, decided to challenge science and change his weak position with the power of his thought - and it worked. After nine months of targeted therapy, Dispenza was able to walk again. Inspired by this success, he decided to devote his life to studying the connection between mind and body.
Determined to explore the power of consciousness to heal the body, the "brain doctor" interviewed countless people who have experienced what the doctor calls "spontaneous remission." These are people with serious medical conditions who have chosen to ignore traditional treatments that have never completely cured them. Dispenza found that these people are all united in the understanding that their thoughts determine their state of health. When they focused on changing their thinking, their illnesses disappeared in an incredible way.
Emotional tendency
Dispenza also discovered that a person actually has an unconscious tendency to certain emotions, both negative and positive. According to his research, emotions doom a person to repetitive behaviors that give rise to a "habit" of forming a combination of specific chemicals for each particular emotion that fills the brain with the appropriate frequency.
Despite the fact that Dispenza is able to prove the ability of thought to transform the physical state of a living being, many are still skeptical about the data he received. His theory of "believing in your own reality" seems like something pseudoscientific and doesn't sound very scientific.
Perhaps science is not yet ready to realize that physical manifestation can be changed by the power of consciousness, but Dr. Dispenza nonetheless claims that this does happen.
“There is no need to expect science to give us permission to act out of the ordinary or go beyond what we can. If we do this, we will transform science into some form of religion. We should become “white crows” and do something extraordinary. When we gain confidence in our abilities, then, speaking in literary language, we will create a new science,”writes Dispenza.