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Modern Wisdom ft. Dr Joe Dispenza

Becoming aware of your unconscious self, breaking the addiction to your own emotions, and why the body has to be taught the future before it arrives.

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With Joe Dispenza

"How many times do we have to forget until we stop forgetting and start remembering. That's the moment of change." — Dr Joe Dispenza
Joe Dispenza, on the episode

This is a long conversation between Chris Williamson and Joe Dispenza, recorded around Dispenza's ongoing research collaboration with the University of California San Diego. The pop framing of Dispenza is mystical, retreat-circuit, woo-adjacent. The actual operating system underneath is more clinical: a model where 95% of behaviour by midlife is unconscious programming, where emotions function as chemical addictions you have to break, and where change requires teaching the body the future before the future arrives. This playbook pulls the operationally useful pieces from that model.

Tactic 01

Joe Dispenza, Modern Wisdom

Become Conscious Of Your Unconscious Self

The play

Notice one automatic thought or feeling today and simply name it without trying to change it.

Joe Dispenza says

By the middle of life about 95 percent of who we are is an unconscious set of thoughts, behaviors and emotions that are automatically programmed into our biology. The first step to change is not thinking positively, you have to become conscious of those unconscious thoughts. Automatic thoughts sound like start tomorrow, it's too hard, you're not good enough, you'll never change, you're too much like your parents, I failed last time. If you want to be happy but you're blaming, complaining, feeling sorry for yourself and judging everyone, those behaviors are not going to make you happy, they're actually going to make you unhappy.

Try this

Today, notice one automatic thought, behaviour or emotion as it happens and simply name it to yourself without trying to change it yet.

Tactic 02

Break The Addiction To Your Own Emotions

Joe Dispenza says

Emotions have a chemical component and you can be addicted to an emotion. Every time you review a traumatic…

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Tactic 03

Cross The River From Old Self To New Self

Tactic 04

Master The Present Moment As The Only Place The Unknown Lives

Tactic 05

Teach The Body The Future Before It Arrives

Tactic 06

Use Gratitude As The Receiving State

Tactic 07

Self-Regulate In The Conditions That Produced The Dysregulation

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