Moment 144: How To ACTUALLY Break Bad Habits: Joe Dispenza

Jan 12, 2024 15m 19s 11 insights
This episode explores how to break ingrained habits and change one's personal reality by altering thoughts, actions, and feelings. It emphasizes leveraging specific times of day and mental rehearsal to reprogram the subconscious mind and become the creator of one's life.
Actionable Insights

1. Change Your Personality, Change Reality

To create a new personal reality or life, you must change your personality, which is made of how you think, act, and feel. Trying to create a new reality with the same personality will not work, requiring you to become someone new.

2. Reprogram Subconscious in Key Windows

Utilize the times when you wake up in the morning and go to bed at night, as these are when your brain waves slow down, opening the door to the subconscious mind. Learn to slow your brain waves to bypass the analytical mind and rewrite programs.

3. Practice Mental Rehearsal

Mentally rehearse desired behaviors or how you will act in specific situations to install new circuits in your brain. This primes your brain and body for the act, making it easier for your behaviors to automatically match your intentions.

4. Cultivate Desired Emotions

Consciously bring up and feel emotions like kindness, care, love, gratitude, and appreciation with your heart, practicing until you can do it with your eyes open. This conditions your body to feel a desired future emotion before it happens.

5. Break Habit of Being Yourself

Recognize that the greatest habit to break is the habit of being yourself, as your biology becomes hardwired by repeated thoughts, choices, actions, and emotions. To change, you must become conscious enough to not revert to unconscious patterns.

6. Avoid Morning Phone Habit

As an experiment, instead of immediately reaching for your cell phone in the morning, sit in silence and reflect on the greatest expression of yourself you can be today. This prevents falling into redundant autopilot habits.

7. Tame Bodily Urges

Practice sitting your body down and ’taming the animal,’ deciding when you will get up rather than letting your body dictate it based on fatigue or desire. This establishes discipline over physical cravings and programmed actions.

8. Identify & Shift Thoughts/Emotions

Consciously identify two thoughts and two emotions you live by daily that you want to change, reviewing them repeatedly to become aware of your unconscious patterns. Then, rehearse how you will think and feel instead.

9. Embrace Discomfort of Change

Understand that stepping from the known into the unknown by making different choices will feel uncomfortable. This discomfort is a natural part of the change process, and resisting it can lead to clinging to past patterns.

10. Shift from Victim to Creator

Stop waiting for external circumstances to change before you change; instead, initiate internal change to see external shifts. This transforms you from a victim of your environment to a conscious creator of your life.

11. Daily Reflection & Recommitment

At the end of each day, reflect on how you performed and where you went unconscious. Use this awareness to recommit to your desired changes the next morning, viewing each day as a new opportunity.