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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to why your meditation isn't changing your life with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy.
Many people will say, oh my God, I'm doing the work. I'm dedicating 45 minutes a day to my meditations. I haven't seen much change in my life. I'm happier. I feel better, but I'm not seeing the changes I want in my life. It doesn't mean that the principles don't work for that person. That means that there's some blind spot, some place where they're not seeing themselves that they need to look.
I mean, this is the tough part, right? And there's so many variables, Raj, because some people will get in the routine of doing the same thing meditation every day and it's become such a routine that they have no meaning. They don't understand the what and the why any longer and it's just another thing they're doing to do the right thing or to please God or to be more perfect or whatever.
Chapter 2: Why isn't my meditation changing my life?
None of that matters, right? And then other people have a great 45 minute meditation and then they get up and they spend the next 16 hours of their day stressed out, unconscious and living in a program. Okay, so what was the purpose of meditation? The purpose of meditation is to be more mindful in your life. You practice that so that when you're in your life, you don't go unconscious.
That's why you do it, right? So the person may have one hour, 45 minute great meditation. It's happened to all of us. And then they spend the rest of their day living in the hormones of stress or living in fear or living out of balance. And you got to do the math, like one hour, 45 minutes against this amount of time. You got to get really good at doing it with your eyes open.
And many people that heal from health conditions in our work. It's really interesting because that's exactly what happens. They'll say, hey, I started doing the work. I'm sleeping better. I have less pain. I have more energy. I feel happier. I feel better. But my scans and my blood tests really haven't changed much. They don't go, oh my God, it's not going to work for me.
What they say is, okay, what am I doing here? What am I missing? Oh my God, every time I do my meditation, I feel great, but then I see my ex or I see my co-worker or I see my mother-in-law or I see my father or my brother or whatever and I react. If I'm reacting and feeling the same emotion, I just defaulted.
I return back to my old self and it's seamless because the moment you feel that emotion when you react, you behave as if you're in your past and you believe in your past and it's so seamless that we can go unconscious in a matter of seconds. So the person then says, I want life, I want health, I want healing more than my resentment or anger towards my coworker. what would greatness look like?
What would love do? That means I got to be more kind and more compassionate. I don't know if I want to. Well, if it means my life, I'm going to try it out. So then they close their eyes and they start to rehearse. When I see my coworker, it'll remind myself what I'm not going to do. I'm going to remind myself what I am going to do.
And as they rehearse the act in their mind over and over again, as I said earlier, they're starting to install some circuitry. They're priming their brain. If they keep doing it enough times, enough times, enough times, enough times, it's gonna become more automatic, right? It's gonna become more like a software program.
So then they get in the presence of their coworker, they get in the presence of their ex or their mother-in-law or whoever, And they get their behaviors to match their intentions. And when they do, they create a new experience. And the experience produces a different emotion. And they're like, oh my God, I felt compassion and love for that person. And I don't know what happened.
It's all shifted for me. That's good medicine right there. That's real medicine right there. So the person then goes, oh my God, now I've mastered that emotion and I've mastered my creation, right? So they're getting really good at evolving themselves. Certain people may not want to light a match in a dark place and say, no, you know what? I'm never going to forgive that person.
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Chapter 3: What are the common challenges people face with meditation?
And by the way, if you practice being in your heart, it's not hard to forgive. I mean, when you're feeling that feeling, it's very easy to forgive. It's not like you're really trying to forgive the person. You're feeling so good. You're like, you're good. I'm good. Let's go. Like, I'm free. That's... That's what the side effect of the work is when the person's really looking.
So I think sometimes it's a person defaults automatically and they go unconscious. We all do it. I think that sometimes people... They forget why they're doing it or what they're doing is just become another routine. They don't really, they haven't really thought it through and really said, okay, I'm doing this for this intention.
Chapter 4: How can mindfulness during meditation improve daily life?
I think people sometimes give up on themselves and that becomes a habit. They don't really get into it. They really don't really invest themselves like because they don't believe On a deep level that they can change. So there's a lot of factors. Some people would only do a short little meditation and think their life is going to blow up and they're going to be abundant tomorrow.
It's unrealistic, right?
if a person wants to be let's just pick healthy or abundant right and this is their dream of being healthy and or abundant and this is the personality who's in lack or feeling unhealthy or is unhealthy you got to agree with me in order for this person this person to arrive here they got to make a lot of different choices and do a lot of different things and create a whole lot of new experiences to finally when they become this person
They're going to change along the way, right? So some people really may not be honest with themselves to see if they're really changing, right? You know when you're really changing because you stop talking about it, right? That's when you know you're getting close. A lot of people default automatically back to the same personality.
But if you give them the information and they understand it really well and they're practicing, that's what I think I'm the most proud of when it comes to our community. I think I'm the most proud of our community because we're doers. Like there's too many stories of transformation that we have now where the person has changed their life in dramatic ways. I hear it all the time.
And they prove to themselves that they're the creator of their life. That's what I want for them. So if you don't know how to change and you don't know what change is... then more than likely you're going to stay the same person.
But if we demystify it and you understand what change is and you understand all those things that you have that are, you know, subconsciously programmed, I guarantee you that if you truly are sincere about it, you won't want to go back because you're feeling very differently. So I just think, you know, many people just don't know. They may know what they want to change or why they want to change.
They just don't know how to change. Thank you. The person who sees it as a deadline is perceiving reality through the lens of their past, through the emotion that they're experiencing. And the person who's seeing the possibility in a state of gratitude is feeling the emotion of the event before it's happened.
So the person who's operating from the past is usually trying to predict the future based on the past. And they're working pretty much off a part of the brain called the default mode network.
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Chapter 5: What role do emotions play in meditation effectiveness?
And that's when the door opens. So what do you want to drop in there? Do you want to do something? Do you want to drop anything in there that's going to cause you to be more limited or distract you or cause you to think and feel later on the next day a certain way? Or do you say, by volition... I'm going to teach my body emotionally what my future feels like.
I'm going to keep bringing up this feeling of gratitude because I know that gratitude strengthens my immune system by 50%. And if I'm having a problem with a chronic health condition or, you know, an immune-mediated condition, this would be loving to me. So, I'm going to go for 10 or 15 minutes just... Feeling gratitude or thinking about all the things I'm grateful for.
And then I'm going to think about all the things I'll be grateful for when they happen. I'm just going to let myself go. I'm just going to play. I'm just going to let myself go. I promise you, though, a person who does that after a period of time is going to feel very differently than when they spend 10 minutes watching Instagram, right? Not that I have an opinion on it. I just know that it's...
It's very seductive and it could cause people to become very dependent on it.
That's again, like if you understand the science between slowing your brainwaves down and what you want to program in there, if you're serious about a better life, you would run through a list of things that were really important to you and remember to think that way, remember to feel that way, remember to behave that way the next day or even better. How did I do today? How was my day?
When did I react? When did I lose my patience? When did I get frustrated? When did I move out of balance? Did I blame the person or circumstance? Was I greater than that? Okay, another day, another lifetime, another chance. My mother used to say, new day, right? Another day, how am I going to be if I had the same circumstance in my life, right?
What's a better way for Raj to be or Joe to be the next day? Let me remind myself that I could be that way tomorrow. I promise you, if you're sincere just for two, three weeks of doing that, you'll naturally surprise yourself like, wow. I really didn't react to that person. Wow, I noticed that I was way more calm. I noticed that the person that normally pushes my buttons, I didn't feel that.
And that's one of the crazy things that happens from our community. You know, they return back into their life. One of the common things people say is, But I return back into my life and people say, what happened to you? What did you do? Are you on a new drug? Are you taking a new medication? Did you get a face thing? You've got a secret you're not telling me?
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Chapter 6: How can we change our emotional responses to challenging situations?
You look different, right? Because they are different, right? That's the joy of change, right? So the evening and the morning are two times in the day where the door opens up. Your brainwaves go from beta to alpha to theta to delta in the evening. When you wake up in the morning, you go from delta to theta to alpha to beta.
So there's two times where the door between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind opens. And people, I mean, the people in my life that do this, they take their time before they go to bed, they write things down that are important to them, things they want to change, they don't want to watch TV or get on their thing, their device, they really want to invest in themselves, right?
And they're serious about it and as a side effect, The opportunities, the coincidences, the synchronicities, the serendipities somehow are coming to them. It's not like they're going and having to get it. Like somehow it's kind of coming to them. That's all you need. That's all you need to believe that you're the creator of your life, right? Why is that important?
Because you're going to want to do it again. You're going to be like, and that's why our community does the work because they don't want the magic to end. They don't want to jinx it. They're like, it's too good.
I'm not going to miss my meditation because too many wonderful things are happening in my life that those synchronicities, those opportunities are telling you are you are in fact the creator of your life. That's the that's the side effect.
Yeah, I think that a lot of people like they have a lot of strong emotions that are on the surface and they have some strong emotions that are buried in there, right? And I would never say to a person to suppress their emotion. Listen, we all react differently. We all react. But the question is, how long? How long are you going to react? Really, that's the question. Look at a kid, right?
The child just has a reaction, 10 minutes they're over it and they're back, you know, for the most part, you know, playing and doing whatever. And I think the greatest thing we can teach children is that kind of emotional intelligence to kind of shorten their emotional responses. So, I never say to a person, don't react. I will say to them, how long are you going to react for?
Because if you have an event in your life that creates an emotion... And you don't regulate that emotion. It lasts for hours or days. That's called a mood. That's one long emotional reaction. You say to the person, why are you in a mood? I'm in a mood because of this thing that happened to me seven days ago.
If they keep the same emotional reaction going on for months, weeks to months, that's called a temperament. The person just has an angry temperament. Why are you angry? I had this event happen to me nine months ago. It goes on for years on end. That's a personality trait. That personality trait is really based on an experience or series of experiences that create that emotion, right?
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of heart coherence in meditation?
And like an unbridled stallion, It'll buck and kick. It'll do everything it can. You just keep bringing it back to the present moment. Sooner or later, it's going to surrender to a new mind. And now the person is going to liberate energy because the present moment is the unknown. The familiar past, feeling certain emotions and certain memories, that's the known.
Living in a predictable future, you know, where you're always busy, got things to do and people to see and places to go, that's the predictable future. If you can predict it, it's known, right? So if you can settle into the present moment and teach the body to relax into the unknown without it being a scary place...
When you can relax into the unknown like that, the body finally surrenders and it's free. Now the person's ready to create something new. It just takes a little bit of understanding and takes a little bit of practice. Once again, you give numerous times to practice it, it gets easier and easier and easier.
And usually by the third day of the event, people sit for they even know how long they forget that the body no longer bothers them. It's just like it just they've just trained it. Right. And so the cool part is when they go into their life,
and they're with their parents or with their siblings and they're smiling and they're present and they really don't have a conversation they're just really happy to see them you know the veil is gone they're way more way more present um that's what the work is for that's what it's for to live your life and take that into your life and be the you know be that person that you want to be now you said earlier well many people don't know who they want to be
there's a trade. And the trade is you gotta come up against the person you no longer wanna be and you gotta really look. And it comes up very naturally and very automatically. And a lot of people say, I wanted to leave after the first day. Like, oh, it was way too much. And I, you know, I looked at the military veterans, the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets.
I'm like, I want three things from you. Courage. Courage to feel any emotion. Love. That means it's going to reset the baseline for the trauma. You've got to be able to love. And wisdom. The memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom. That's what you're going to get out of this. And you can't give up.
You go all in, sooner or later, I mean, we have, again, you know, all shapes, all sizes, all cultures, all races, all pasts, you know, everybody's able to do it. I really ask myself, is this loving to you? Is this going to solve anything for you? And usually, I usually just go, okay, take a few breaths. And sometimes, you know, I dismiss myself from life.
I take a few moments, close my eyes, get back in that place where I want to be. And I think when it's the hardest, it matters the most. If I get angry, I usually dismiss myself. I know I've done it enough times in my life that it doesn't serve me. Justified or not, like I can't... If I'm saying that person...
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