Do I want to change, or do I just want things to go my way? Quickly and magically pretty please! According to Dr. Joe Dispenza, in his book You Are the Placebo; making our mind matter:
“We think somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 thoughts in one day. 90 percent of those thoughts are exactly the same ones we had the day before.
“We get up on the same side of the bed, go through the same routine in the bathroom, comb our hair in the same way, sit in the same chair as we eat the same breakfast and hold our mug in the same hand, drive the same route to the same job, and do the same things we know how to do so well with the same people (who push the same emotional buttons) every day.
“And then we hurry up and go home so that we can hurry up and check our e-mail so that we can hurry up and eat dinner so that we can hurry up and watch our favorite TV shows so that we can hurry up and brush our teeth in the same bedtime routines so that we can hurry up and go to bed at the same time so that we can hurry up and do it all over again the next day.”
“Holy Smokes Batman!”
“As a result of this conscious or unconscious process, your biology stays the same. Neither your brain nor your body changes at all, because you’re thinking the same thoughts, performing the same actions, and living by the same emotions—even though you may be secretly hoping your life will change.”
“You must observe and pay attention to those emotions derived from past experiences that you’ve memorized and that you live by on a daily basis, and decide if living by those familiar emotions over and over again belongs in your future or is loving to you. You see, most people try to create a new personal reality as the same old personality, and it doesn’t work. In order to change your life, you have to literally become someone else.”
Back in the 80’s I was the “affirmation” queen; devouring Florence Scoval Shinn’s Your Word is Your Wand, and Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life. Everything was open for reimagining and a divine boost. Scraps of paper could be found tucked, taped and displayed wherever I went – reminding me that I was “willing to change.” Over 100 affirmations remain jotted down for rumination in my quote journal. So many hopes, dreams and desires.
Over 30 years ago I planted the seed that I was willing to change; and change I have – quite dramatically. The desire and willingness remain; leaving me with a bit of a butterfly stomach – seeing I’ve experienced that this stuff works.
Dr. Joe says: “.. new thoughts should lead to new choices. New choices should lead to new behaviors. New behaviors should lead to new experiences. New experiences should create new emotions, and new emotions and feelings should inspire you to think in new ways. That’s called “evolution.” And your personal reality and your biology—your brain circuitry, your internal chemistry, your genetic expression, and ultimately your health—should change as a result of this new personality, this new state of being. And it all seems to start with a thought.”
As some of my friends would say – “sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly – it will always materialize if we work for it.” The magic is with the work and outside the comfort zone.
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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning