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The School of Greatness

How To Overcome Your Past To Manifest Your Ideal Future

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

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Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Your mind holds the keys to create the life you want, but most people stay locked in their past instead of manifesting their future. Today, three transformation giants—Dr Joe Dispenza, Gabby Bernstein, and Eric Thomas—share their unique approaches to breaking free from limitations. Dr Joe reveals how our bodies can't distinguish between emotions created by experience versus thought alone, making your feelings the catalyst for your future. Gabby introduces her revolutionary four-step "check-in" process to heal wounded parts of yourself that block manifestation, sharing a personal transformation that led to instant synchronicities. Meanwhile, ET delivers the raw truth about taking responsibility, showing how the moment you stop blaming others and "take the keys back" to your life is when everything changes. This episode provides practical wisdom for anyone ready to overcome their past, heal internal wounds, and manifest their greatest future.Dr Joe’s Books:Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New OneBecoming SupernaturalYou Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind MatterGabby’s Books:The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to FaithSelf HelpSuper Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest DreamsEric’s books:You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your WhyGreatness Is Upon You: Laying the FoundationIn this episode you will learn:Why most people find it easier to believe in their past than their future and how to reverse this patternThe four-step check-in process to heal wounded parts that block manifestationHow to identify and transform the emotions of lack that prevent abundanceWhy taking back "the keys" to your life is the essential first step to transformationHow to create a harmonious relationship with your wounded parts through compassionWhy finding your personal North Star is crucial for sustaining motivation and purposeFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1760For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr Joe Dispenza – greatness.lnk.to/1702SCGabby Bernstein  – greatness.lnk.to/1714SCEric Thomas – greatness.lnk.to/1696SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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Chapter 1: Who are the guests and what is the episode about?

0.209 - 22.918 Lewis Howes

I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. And if you are looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life, and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you want to make it easier, you want to make it flow, you want to feel abundant, then make sure to go to MakeMoneyEasyBook.com right now and get yourself a copy.

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23.338 - 51.877 Lewis Howes

I really think this is going to help you transform your relationship with money This moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode on the School of Greatness. Why do you think so many people lack the energy to create the vision, the dream that they want? Is it something they're missing?

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51.937 - 58.34 Lewis Howes

Is it something they don't have access to? Or they lack that energy that heals and draws to them their dreams?

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Chapter 2: Why do people struggle to believe in their future over their past?

60.021 - 87.995 Dr. Joe Dispenza

I think that, you know, we live in chronic disbelief. What if the truth was that you're greater than you think? more powerful than you know, more unlimited than you could ever dream. If that was the truth, that you are the creator of your life, you have to start, if you believe that to be the truth, then you have to believe in yourself. And your belief in yourself must be earned.

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Chapter 3: How do emotions influence our ability to manifest the future?

89.115 - 115.254 Dr. Joe Dispenza

It must be earned. And the only way that we can believe in a future is when we feel the emotion associated with it. Because if you feel the emotion associated with it, your body is your unconscious mind. It's so objective, it does not know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that you're creating by thought alone.

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115.914 - 142.904 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And so you're giving your body a taste emotionally of the future. And the stronger the emotion you feel, the more you remember that future. And you literally are embossing the circuitry for you to believe in it more. So if we default and become the victim of our life, and we say that some person or some circumstance or some condition is causing me to feel this way and to think this way,

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143.8 - 171.421 Dr. Joe Dispenza

The moment we become angry or frustrated or guilty or unworthy or afraid or anxious, we can't believe in that future any longer. Those emotions are associated with past memories. And those emotions cause us to behave as if we were in our past, make choices that are equal to our past and believe in our past. And more people believe in their past than they believe in their future.

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172.403 - 202.577 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And it's so much easier to forget your vision of the future than to remember it. And so if that's the truth then, if you understood that this emotion that you're feeling is really a creative emotion, living in fear and living in anger and living in hostility and hatred and judgment and resentment, that has nothing to do with your future. It has everything to do with the past.

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204.278 - 228.936 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And so the problem is, is that we get addicted to those emotions that keep us connected to the past. And there's a story that goes with that past. And so many people believe in that story. And why not believe in a different story? And it usually takes crisis or trauma or disease or diagnosis or loss for people to finally make up their mind to change.

229.016 - 257.369 Dr. Joe Dispenza

But that default that takes place so seamlessly when we feel the emotions of our past causes us to think the same way, to act the same way, and to feel the same way. And how you think, how you act, and how you feel is called your personality. And your personality creates your personal reality. That's it. That's it.

257.429 - 271.293 Dr. Joe Dispenza

So the present personality who's sitting here today called you has created the present personal reality called your life. That's the truth. So if you wanted to create a new personal reality, a new life, you would have to change your personality.

272.233 - 291.747 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And the first step in that is becoming conscious of your unconscious thoughts, those thoughts that say, I can't, it's too hard, I'll never change, it's my ex's fault, it's a, you know, whatever, you know. It's all your ex. Or if you really truly wanted to be a happy person, you would have to stop complaining.

292.668 - 317.956 Dr. Joe Dispenza

You would have to stop blaming and have to stop allowing your environment to control how you're feeling and thinking. And if you truly wanted to become a new personality, you would have to decide that the emotion of lack cannot belong in an abundant person. This is where the rubber hits the road now. Because how could you believe in a future that you haven't seen yet?

Chapter 4: What role does changing your personality play in creating a new reality?

343.325 - 368.048 Dr. Joe Dispenza

So then you gotta trade that emotion of your past and that story's gotta go with it. And when you overcome your emotions, you master your creations. And that's freeing the body from the past. So the person who wants to become wealthy, They got to romance wealth. Romance it. They have to romance it.

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368.168 - 388.436 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And you have to start thinking about how a wealthy person would think, how a wealthy person would act, how a wealthy person would feel. And you would have to become that personality. And that personality really should begin to create some change in your personal reality. You know, the synchronicities that are not just parking spaces, you know, not that stuff.

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389.943 - 411.281 Dr. Joe Dispenza

But the bigger stuff that would stretch your belief so that when you see the synchronicity, all of a sudden you're like, oh my God, I created that. Is that possible that I actually created that? Now you start believing more that you're the creator of your reality instead of the victim of your reality. And that's the truth.

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412.322 - 441.643 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And you cannot experience that truth unless you step in the realm of creation. And in order for you to arrive at that wealth, you have to make a very clear decision that that person who wants the wealth and who is in lack of having it is going to have to make a lot of changes to finally run into that goal or vision of their wealth. You can't create a new personal reality as the same person.

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441.663 - 467.879 Dr. Joe Dispenza

Now, honey, you got to become someone else. That means you got to give up. some aspect of those unconscious thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that are programmed because we do them so much and think that way. And that's the hard part of change. When people do the work, I want to be really clear. They don't do the meditations to heal. They do the meditations to change.

469.02 - 489.266 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And understand that when I change, my body will change, my life will change. That's the experiment they're involved in. So this energy, this feeling that you have, the fundamental question is when you leave this place, can you take it with you every day? Could you remember this feeling and could you bring it up on your own?

490.626 - 506.011 Dr. Joe Dispenza

Ah, now you're becoming the creator of your life because now you'll believe more in that future and less in your past. And then you'll default just like we all do, but how many times do you have to forget? until you stop forgetting and start remembering. That's called the moment of change.

507.173 - 528.874 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And that's catching yourself from defaulting seamlessly back to that old personality that has been programmed for us to be victims. That if you say to someone, why are you so unhappy? Why are you so mad? Why are you so angry? Oh, it's that person, it's that circumstance that's causing me to feel this way and think this way. Well, that's an unconscious program.

529.335 - 554.785 Dr. Joe Dispenza

A person is saying that someone in their outer world or some condition is controlling. It's controlling their feelings, controlling their thoughts. Anything that's controlling us, we're victims to. And that's got to change. So then to overcome victimization is worth more than all the wealth in the world. Because that's exactly what creates the wealth. That's exactly what creates the health.

Chapter 5: What are the emotions of lack and how do they affect abundance?

643.059 - 672.845 Dr. Joe Dispenza

Yeah, I got it. But we create based on lack. We create based on separation. You see the sports car, you see the wardrobe, you see the scene, you see the vacation, and you see that experience that you want. your brain naturally goes, oh God, that would be so wonderful to be in that reality, to be in that future. Based on the lack of not having it,

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674.221 - 699.754 Dr. Joe Dispenza

in the plane of duality and separation that lack causes us to dream about having it. So the natural thing is to dream of a new possibility based on your understanding that you don't have that experience yet. You understand? Yes. So then now that vision of that future, the brain naturally creates for the passionate person,

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701.175 - 725.503 Dr. Joe Dispenza

That vision where they're seeing that future, they put themselves in that future. And when they do that, they feel the emotion of that future. And they're actually doing that by thought alone. So once they feel the feeling of that future, they can believe in that future because they felt it. Interesting. Right? And they'll tell you there's nobody or no one or no circumstances.

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726.024 - 745.514 Dr. Joe Dispenza

I know that I could create that. And you've all done it. Everybody in this room has done something great. And you kept that vision alive in your mind and you got your behaviors to match your intentions. You got your actions equal to your thoughts. You got your mind and body working together.

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746.474 - 766.092 Dr. Joe Dispenza

You stopped thinking certain thoughts like I can't, it's too hard, I don't feel like it, I'll never change. You had to make different choices. And the hardest part about change is not making the same choices the day before. And that means you're gonna get uncomfortable. You stopped doing the same things, the same habits, sitting on the couch, whatever it was.

766.112 - 782.251 Dr. Joe Dispenza

You didn't have time to complain, you know, that stuff. You started staying away from the experiences with certain people and certain circumstances. You didn't want to live that anymore. And you had to really get beyond your emotional feelings and do it anyway.

784.082 - 805.398 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And we do this all the time, and then you run, and all of a sudden the synchronicities start to happen, everybody's experienced this, and next thing you know, the experience occurs, and you feel the emotion from that experience, and it takes away the lack or separation from not having it. So the emotion is the end product of the experience in three-dimensional reality. Say it again?

805.418 - 824.81 Dr. Joe Dispenza

The emotion is what? The end product of the experience. It's the payoff. The payoff from the experience, having the experience, is the emotion that is the consequence of the experience. And that emotion is all the sensory information that you're perceiving. Everything you're seeing and hearing and smelling and tasting and feeling.

825.45 - 849.078 Dr. Joe Dispenza

All that information is rushing back to your brain and jungles of neurons are organizing into networks. And when they string into place, another part of the brain called the chemical brain, the limit brain, the emotional brain begins to make chemicals to produce that emotion. And that emotion then takes away the lack. And now you say, I created that. And then you go to the next one.

Chapter 6: How can feeling the emotion of the future help you manifest it?

876.932 - 900.506 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And what if you were to feel the emotion of the future before it happened every single day, remember that feeling and that feeling was for your heart to fall in love with your life, to fall in love with your vision, you'd have to awaken that heart. If you could do that and marry that with the vision of your future, I promise you it'll be easier for make choices to step into that future.

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900.526 - 929.481 Dr. Joe Dispenza

I guarantee you'll believe in it and do things to advance yourself into that future and you step right into it. So then if it doesn't happen when we want it to happen, you know what I mean? Like people stop me and they say, well, I've been creating my reality for three days, nothing happened. And I say to them, you're not that good. Look, I don't know what else to tell you. You're not that good.

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929.521 - 949.45 Dr. Joe Dispenza

Or they'll say, how come I'm not living in Mallorca with my two dogs and my lover? I'm like, because the person who's living in Mallorca looks nothing like you. Like, that's not what the person looks like. So when it doesn't happen, the lack becomes greater.

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951.013 - 978.047 Dr. Joe Dispenza

then what and because lack is separation and separation is based on time and so when you imagine that vision of your future you're putting your attention in a future reality you have one point of consciousness that's your future and you are making the choice from this point of consciousness that that's where you want to go And the distance between those two is called time.

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978.927 - 996.111 Dr. Joe Dispenza

So time is based on lack or separation. Are you with me? Yes. And when it doesn't happen, we start to feel more lack and more separation. So we start to force outcomes. So we try harder. We try harder. We manipulate. We compete. We fight. Because trying is what you do when you're in lack.

997.864 - 1019.815 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And so the person's living in separation their whole entire life, waiting for the event to occur to take away the feeling of not having it. And it could be their whole entire life. Wow. And that becomes a program. So then you ask them, why are you this way? Well, because life isn't working for me. That's the belief that they have. It's unfair.

1020.376 - 1050.328 Dr. Joe Dispenza

And they'll have a whole story that goes along with it. so then if you could fall in love with your future and the heart produces a very strong magnetic signature and you get your brain coherent and working really well that intention that you have has a signal in the field and we've measured this and so then if you could begin to experiment by changing your energy could it change my life

1051.701 - 1066.765 Dr. Joe Dispenza

That's the experiment. I'm just curious. If you started doing it that, you could actually shorten the distance between the thought of what you want and the experience of having it. And all of a sudden, you're no longer going anywhere to do it. It's kind of coming to you.

1068.045 - 1086.934 Dr. Joe Dispenza

Now, if you experiment like that and then you are successful at it and you start seeing the synchronicities, I guarantee you, you're going to keep it up. Yes. I guarantee you, it's not going to be like, oh God, I got to go fall in love with my future now. It's not going to be like that. You're going to be like, whoa, like it's happening.

Chapter 7: What is the four-step check-in process to heal wounded parts?

1278.936 - 1279.476 Gabby Bernstein

14 years.

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1279.497 - 1281.257 Lewis Howes

15 years maybe since I've known you. 2008, I met you.

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1282.318 - 1301.936 Gabby Bernstein

And when you first met me, I was like parts on fire, right? Like literally on fire. I was a workaholic. Both of us, yeah. Really extreme. I was sober, but like workaholism. I was just extreme anxiety. Didn't know that I had trauma, so I was living in hypervigilance. I was so scared all the time. I was so controlling. It was just like I was doing.

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1302.557 - 1306.66 Gabby Bernstein

You can still be going through hard things and do beautiful things in the world.

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1306.741 - 1308.042 Lewis Howes

Yeah, you still get results in life.

1308.382 - 1331.572 Gabby Bernstein

Yeah, and do good, but you might be having a lot of struggle, right? And so as a result of this model and what I'm gonna teach everybody today and living this and developing this and practicing this and every day checking in with these parts of me, checking in with these parts of me, I've unburdened them. And so it's not that they go away, is that they're not extreme anymore.

1331.693 - 1334.694 Lewis Howes

Interesting, so the parts that were wounded are still inside of you.

1335.262 - 1348.374 Gabby Bernstein

They're no longer wounded. They're in their beautifully developed chrysalis. Their new, for instance, the part of me that was a controller, I mean, that part did good things, right? She wrote 10 books in 14 years, right?

1348.414 - 1349.736 Lewis Howes

Took action, got things done.

Chapter 8: How does compassionate connection with your wounded parts aid transformation?

1349.776 - 1369.269 Gabby Bernstein

Yes, but now she can be in the flow, right? Like now she can be like, I don't have to force my way to, like, get this thing to there. I'm like, oh, you know what, Lewis? Like, I'm going to be in L.A. Like, does that work? I'll be there. Like, I can show up with an energy. She's on top. But she's, but she's trusting.

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1369.289 - 1370.15 Lewis Howes

She's not forcing.

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1370.35 - 1382.912 Gabby Bernstein

Not forcing anything. She's just relaxed, like in the presence. So it's still like, so it's like a really great quality to have that control part present because she gets things done, but without craziness, right?

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1382.932 - 1384.313 Lewis Howes

Yeah, right, right. Chaos.

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1384.493 - 1385.053 Gabby Bernstein

Without chaos.

1385.073 - 1398.271 Lewis Howes

So these parts of us that once controlled us or hurt us to try to protect us because they all had an intention to serve us, but they didn't help the self. really at our highest self.

1398.291 - 1399.072 Gabby Bernstein

They're blocking self.

1399.112 - 1411.902 Lewis Howes

They're blocking self, but they're an attempt to try to protect us. Totally. These parts of us, when we can have a relationship, a harmonious relationship with them through healing and mending those wounds, then we can use them for good.

1411.962 - 1423.612 Gabby Bernstein

That's correct. Yeah. You're so great at like digesting and bringing it back. Yeah, it's beautiful. That self right there in action, clarity. Clarity is one of those qualities of self. So you have such a good job of listening, thinking, pulling it together and bringing it back.

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