Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
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J. Dispenza – Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
“Your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.”
J. Dispenza
The person you think you are, the thoughts and emotions you identify with, your actions and behavior are in fact, for the most part, not you. Sensed information within your environment is filtered and interpreted 95% of the time involuntarily unconsciously by your subconscious mind running automatic programs based on past experiences, assumptions, opinions and beliefs, i.e. memorized behaviors and habitual emotional reactions.
Emotional Conditioning
From a certain age on, our mental-emotional state, our thinking and feeling, our being and our whole live remains a reflection of the life we’ve already lived. By Hebb’s law – nerve cells that fire together, wire together – whatever the oft-repeated thought, feeling or reaction, it will become even more ingrained into your subconscious programming and eventually an automatic, unconscious habit.
Emotional triggers in the present affect you on a subconscious level, and before you can process what has happened, you’re back in a past memorized and conditioned emotional/chemical state. All you are doing is thinking about and reacting to the external world based on past experiences and memories. You are repeatedly reproducing the same level of mind by “re-minding” yourself who you think you are in reference to the outer world. You become locked in to a self-perpetuating loop of sensed information, ingrained body-mind response and conditioned behavioral reactions. In time, you’ll begin to think “in the box”, because your brain will fire a finite set of circuits that then creates a very specific mental signature – your personality. Not just your actions, but also your attitudes and feelings become repetitive.
Since your memorized thoughts and feelings consistently force your body and mind to “be in” the past, we could say that the body becomes the memory of the past, neurologically and chemically. We repeatedly re-live past memories that become an integral part of our self-identity, by which we describe what we are thinking, how we are feeling and who we are in the present moment, for the rest of our lives.
Personal Reality
Because how we think, feel and behave is in essence our personality, it is our personality that creates our personal reality. To create a new reality, a new life, or just to change some aspects of it, we must create a new state of mind, a new personality. We have to “be” different in terms of our responses to existence. For that to happen, we have to think and act in different and new ways, greater than the familiar feelings and thoughts of the memorized self, in reference to our present environment. Our mind needs to be ahead of our present environment, and, with that in mind, observe a new outcome in our reality.
The greatest habit we must break is the habit of being ourselves.
From Thinking to Doing to Being
For one thing, when we take what we learn intellectually, taking place in the neocortex, and apply it, personalize it, or act on it, we will modify our behavior in some way. When we do, we will create a new experience, which will produce a new emotion, taking place in the limbic brain. If we can repeat, replicate or experience that action at will, we will move into a new state of being and personal reality, taking place in the cerebellum.
Due to the neuroplasticity of the brain, when we are no longer feeding into our old behavioral patterns and creating the same biochemical reaction, associated nerve cells start to prune. With a new experience and a changed behavior and emotional response, new neural circuits sprout and we will be more prone to act and think in ways equal to the personality we envision to be.
Emotional Addiction
However, since we become addicted to emotions and the neurochemical rush that elements in our environment give us due to emotional conditioning in the first place, we embrace our defining environment and reality as our identity. Change would equal withdrawal from sources of emotional triggers and the associated rush. The body and mind react with withdrawal symptoms, such as those of a drug addict, that, when we are not conscious, what we are only about 5% of the time, force us to revert to old patterns of behavior – we are back in our old personal reality.
On Meditation
So, for another thing, by meditation we can slow down the high-speed vigilance of the brain and body into a more relaxed, orderly, systemized pattern of brain waves. We trespass a thinking that is fueled by reactions to our external world, being in survival mode, and enter the inner world of our subconscious mind where all unwanted habits and behaviors reside. We automatically activate the frontal lobe and reduce the synaptic firing in the rest of the neocortex that, at other times, leaves us with paralysis due to analysis and forces to stay in our thinking and behavior patterns, our personal reality. We alter and slow down our brain waves from a high-frequency Beta state into an Alpha and Theta state. Now we are in a state of selflessness and, from there on, can create a new identity from the inside out.
The “Big Three”
When you live a life that is greater than your body, your environment, and time – all things are possible.
To actually influence your reality, heal your body in some cases, or change some event in your future, you have to completely let go of your external world, release the awareness of your body, and lose track of time – in effect, you have to become pure consciousness. When you become that no-body or no-thing in no time, you stop focusing on and energizing the emotional responsive self powered by and addicted to the stress response. You no longer create your customary biochemical signature in reaction to your external environment that was creating the thoughts and feelings you associated with as your identity. You no longer please the self. You moved from selfish to self-less. Now you are free to create a different thinking and feeling, that of an idealized self, of a better version than the “I” that exists today in your particular environment, body, and time. We can change our current personal reality and create every personal reality that we want to.
Living in creation is living as a nobody.
When we are truly focused and single-minded, the brain does not recognize the difference between the emotions that are created from experiences in our external world and those we fabricate in our internal world by thought alone. We don’t need the external world to provide us with a reason to feel a certain feeling in order to create an experience for our body-mind that it will adapt to. During a meditative session, we can experience a personal reality in our internal world that’s created by our idealized personality and influences our brain to change and create the appropriate neural circuits that will enable us to behave accordingly in our life too. In the end, when how you appear is who you are, you are truly free.
Create your Destiny
When you focus so well on a thought that it literally becomes an experience, the end product being an emotion, reality will change as a result to your efforts. However, your mind will arrive at the desired future before your body, time and environment does, before your self-chosen destiny manifests in a physical event. Feedback from the external world takes time to show that you are making a difference. Embrace and believe in a future that you can not yet see or experience with your senses while physically living in the present life. How it will manifest is unpredictable, sometimes makes non-sense, and is not up to you. Trying to influence it will not bring you the desired result and rather take you further away from your destiny.
If you like to read the whole book, get some information on how Einstein’s relativity theory and the Observer Effect come into play when creating your destiny and receive instructions on how to integrate meditation into your daily routine, consider buying J. Dispenza’s book via the link below (personal Amazon Associates link):
J. Dispenza – Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
