If you study human nature historically, we always wait for crisis,
or trauma, or disease, or diagnosis,
both as an individual and as a culture before, we decide to change!
And if you look at this and you study it in history, it's a sign that
something new has to be born.
So, as the old model of reality begins to change, something else has to
replace it.
So we have
2 ways that we actually face crisis.
We can either face crisis in a state of emergency, which in the
beginning of a crisis is healthy. Or we can face crisis in the state
of creativity and innovation.
So, let's talk about that biologically, because it says a lot about how
a culture responds. Or a person individually. When you and I were react
to conditions in our life, stressful conditions,
we turn on a very primitive nervous system called the fight-or-flight
nervous system. Or what's called "the sympathetic nervous system".
And when we react to our external environment and we see chaos,
or threat, or trauma, our primitive nervous
system tells us that we either have 2 options.
We either run or we fight! And we mobilize enormous amounts of energy.
Because from a historical standpoint,
running and fighting from a predator was the best way for our chances
of survival.
So, our stressors have become a little bit more complex.
We have finances,
we have jobs,
we have traffic jams,
we have internet connections,
we have second mortgages,
we have single parenting. And all of these elements turn on that
primitive nervous system as if we were being chased by a lion.
So in the short term,
all organisms in nature can deal with short-term stress. A zebra gets
chased by a lion, 15 minutes later
it goes back to grazing and the stress is over.
It returns back to homeostasis.
Now, stress is when your body and brain are knocked out of balance.
The stress response is what your body innately does to return
itself back to order.
So, we know from a scientific standpoint that when you turn on the
stress response and you can't
turn it off,
now you're headed for a disease.
Now you're headed for some type of break down.
So, if you look at a crisis in terms of emergency, and we're releasing
all these primitive chemicals of adrenaline and cortisol,
those chemicals create the emotional states of anger, of frustration,
of aggression, of hatred, of fear, of anxiety of insecurity,
of hopelessness,
of powerlessness, of guilt, of shame, of depression...
Those chemicals of stress bring us to a lower denominator. And what we
know from those chemicals is that most people will do the same exact
thing and react in predictable ways, but expect something to change in
their life!
In other words, those chemicals endorse the ego and we become very
selfish, we become self-indulgent.
self-centered, self-involved, self-important, self-serving, full of
self-pity.
It's all about the self.
Now this is the tragedy, because in crisis if you're addressing a
financial crisis or a crisis in a culture, and everybody is selfish
and everybody's living by those emotions, then they're pushing their way
to get to the head of the line.
They're competing.
They're forcing outcomes.
They're using very primitive systems to try to take care of
themselves.
And we know from the physiology of the brain that most of the blood
supply goes to the hindbrain and away from the forebrain.
And those chemicals create a gap between the way things appear in our life
and the way things really are!
In other words,
we're viewing reality in an altered state!
So we don't see possibility.
We feel separate from each other.
We are competing and striving to get to the head of the line by using
our cunning, manipulative, egocentric ways to get there, and we're very
controllable.
Fear is very controllable.
Competition is very controllable, anger and war divides
individuals.
Now, that is not a way to address a crisis. Because the service to self
or taking care of the self, is the exact thing that enhances the crisis.
Because if you and I are all doing,
if we're all doing the same thing,
then a culture becomes more divided.
It becomes more disintegrated.
It becomes more incoherent. And possibility then is not part of the equation.
So, the other state of mind, if you can view crisis as a great
opportunity brilliantly disguised as an impossible situation, and you
have to match the conditions in your environment with a new mind,
now we're talking about greatness! Because
innovation, and creativity, and a new way of thinking and a new way of being
means that we can't do the same thing from the past.
And so in history, cultures or individuals that overcame their
environmental conditions were considered mystics, and saints,
and leaders, and charismatic leaders.
They were individuals that saw past, the illusion of the present
reality. Now,
when we begin to become Innovative or creative,
the brain begins to switch, we begin to turn on the forebrain,
the frontal lobe, which is really the crowning achievement of the human being.
And we begin to ask bigger questions:
How can we create a new way of being in a world that's
falling apart?
How can we begin to create a new system to adapt to these conditions?
Now, the hardest part without a doubt in all of my research about
change is not making
the same choice as you did the day before!
So reason this - you think 60-70,000 thoughts in one day.
Out of those 60-70,000 thoughts that you think, 90% of those
thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before!
So, the same thoughts will lead to the same choices.
The same choices will lead to the same behaviors.
The same behaviors will create the same experiences, the same
experiences
create the same emotions, and those same emotions drive the same thoughts.
And that's called a personality! And your biology is a
reflection of your state of being.
So then, your personality is directly related to your personal reality!
And your personality is made up of how you think, how you act, and how you feel.
So, in order for you to create a new personal reality, a new life,
then you have to begin to examine the thoughts that
you're thinking. And decide if you want to continue thinking that way
or choose a new way of thinking. You have to become aware and
observe your behaviors, and look to see if those habits are something
that's going to support a new future.
And you have to look at the emotions that you've memorized that keep
you connected to the past, and decide if those emotions are healthy.
So, most people try to create a new personal reality as the same
personality, and it doesn't work!
We literally have to become
somebody else!
So it stands to reason then, as you begin to question and speculate
possibilities, the Wright brothers, Madame Curie, Thomas
Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Marconi, they were all thinking
outside the box.
They were asking questions:
Is there a way to create this outcome?
And when they began to think in new and unusual ways, new thoughts lead
to new choices, new choices lead to new behaviors, new behaviors
lead to new experiences, new experiences create new emotions.
And all of a sudden, you start to transform!
So, in order to change a culture, you have to change individuals.
We have to change it individual by individual.
Now, this requires then by not making the same choice as you did the
day before, to begin to think and act
in different ways.
This is the creative function of human beings.
So if an economy is collapsing, if a government is deceiving,
if people are no longer feeling supported, then we have to think in
uncommon ways in order to adapt to the environment.
If we don't, then it is really the environment, the external world,
that's controlling how we think and feel! We are victims to the external world!
Is it possible to change the way you think and feel and have some
effect in your environment?
Now, that is a concept that when people are struggling to survive
becomes very difficult. Because you're still worried about the food on
your table,
you're still worried about the well-being of your children, but what's
the alternative?
I mean, there aren't many other alternatives.
So then, when we start asking
unlimited questions, questions like: What would be a great way to run a
business in this changing world?
How could I begin to influence my future?
It requires one amazing thing and that is gaining knowledge, gaining
information.
Every time you learn something new, you make a new connection in your brain.
That's what learning is.
And as you begin to think about new ways of being and you're learning
new information,
the brain
begins to fire a new sequences, a new patterns, a new
combinations.
And whenever you make the brain work differently, you are changing
your mind. Mind is the brain in action.
So when we begin to get creative, something unusual happens! We stop
living by those survival emotions. Those survival emotions
alter our perception and cause us to look at the future through the
lens of the past.
As we begin to design a new way of being, we have to lay down the very
thing that we used our whole life
to get what we want for something greater to take over!
Now we're talking about genius.
Now we're talking about Innovation.
Now, once the idea comes, the next step is that you have to take
action, you have to do something with it.
So for example, a person may say: I lost my job and they may see it
as the worst thing that ever happened to them.
But Steve Jobs was fired from Apple.
He was on the board and they fired him. And then he created Pixar.
And then when he created Pixar, they hired him back on to Apple
and MacIntosh. And he became, you know, the leading executive.
So, when we have situations in our life, most people are
defined by those exact situation emotionally.
It brands them and they no longer want to
move forward.
So,
let say a person loses their job. And they're confronting difficult
conditions.
But a person who would say: Well, let me look at the world.
Hmm.
China is doing very well.
I have a little experience in computers.
Hey, I have experience in sales.
Oh, I know a person who travels back and forth to China. And we start
having to think outside the box. So maybe I can begin to
leave the present reality that I have, and begin to explore
new realities.
Now, that means that you have to be willing to step into the unknown.
It means that you have to step outside the familiar self.
So, there's this kind of model that says: Here's the old self and
here's the new self! And there's a gap between the two. And when we no
longer think, act and feel in the same way,
all of a sudden we start to feel uncomfortable.
We start to feel unfamiliar.
It starts to become unknown to us.
And most people, the moment they step outside of the old self, because
they're no longer making the same choice,
they don't feel like themselves any longer.
So, the first thing they do is they make the same choices that produce
the same behaviors that create the same experiences that produce the
same emotions, and they say: This feels comfortable.
Well, it feels familiar. The person, the Maverick, who's willing to step
out into the unknown,
that unknown is the perfect place to create from. Because only in the
unknown
can you create something new!
And if you and I can become comfortable in that unknown place, then
the best way to predict the future is to create it from that unknown place.
Now, when people start crossing the river of change from the old self
to the new self, because they're no longer thinking, acting
and feeling in the same way, there is literally a biological,
a neurological,
a genetic, a chemical death of the old self! And this dark night of the soul,
this unfamiliar place
is the true value.
the true step towards developing a new self!
So then, if we're leaving the old and we're creating a new,
then the next most important question is:
Well, if I'm going to create a new self, what thoughts do I want to think?
What behaviors can I plan?
I hope you enjoyed this amazing speech by dr Joe Dispenza
and you'll apply the advice given here. I'm sure this makes a lot of sense to you!
If we change our state of being, it's natural something's gotta change.
We are creators, our thoughts and feelings create our world.
If you analyze the most successful people in the world,
you'll find out that every one of them made many mistakes,
but they found the courage to dream big,
to see the end result even before it's made manifested.
I hope you will try this!
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