Earlier this year, my husband and I had the privilege of attending Dr. Joe Dispenza’s Progressive and Advanced workshops back-to-back in Tampa, FL.

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Why had we flown halfway across the world to learn, understand, and practice his method of meditation? What triggered our interest was reading his mind blowing (almost literally) books Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself² and You Are The Placebo³.

The cool thing about his method is that it bridges the science of how the brain works and the esoteric nature of meditative practice. Dr Joe demystifies the process of meditation while giving you a clear, results-based method to overcoming your past, limitations, and beliefs to create the life that you really want.

Getting Beyond The “Self”

The premise is simple enough to understand, but slightly more challenging to put into practice. How do we re-wire our brains and re-condition our bodies to make lasting changes? In essence, we need to get past our “training” or our habitual responses to our external stimuli and environment and move to a point where we are able to be greater than our environment, time, and bodies.

Do you wake up at pretty much the same time every day? Get to work in the same way? Go to a few regular places for your meals at pretty much around the same time? Or fume at the same comment from that colleague that irritates you? Kiss your kids on the same cheek as they go to bed? Well, my friend, most of us do. And it is precisely these habitual behaviors that create hardwired connections in our brain and make us feel like “us”.

Mind/Matter

The practice of meditation, then, allows us some space to keep the daily habitual clutter out of our minds.

What does that do? It gives us an opportunity to get to an alpha, delta, or even theta and gamma brain wave which is the state in which we can literally “change our minds”. Old patterns no longer have to stick, traumatic memories can be resolved, and physical symptoms (read: disease) can be prevented and even reversed.

As the mind gets clear on what it is capable of, we can use the mind to better manage matter (our bodies, time, and environment); and not the other way round.

New Habits, New Me

Personally, several changes have happened since the workshop:

1. Meditation is now a daily practice
   Since coming back from Tampa, I now meditate between one and a half to two hours a day… for someone who could not sit still for 20 minutes before, this is an achievement!
2. Awareness
   There is a greater sense of awareness now that allows me to catch myself falling into old patterns of blame, resentment, and anger. Even my husband noticed it, and as my closest and frankest provider of feedback, that is also an achievement.
3. Old patterns and memories that I held on to for years have dissolved
   As with many people, I used to hold on to memories, both good and bad, that gave me a sense of who I am, and where I have come from. These memories gave me comfort or a means of escaping what was going on in my life at the time. Going through these workshops and meditations, however, I realised that they not only took me into the past, but were holding me back by preventing me from creating new beliefs, new thoughts, and new dreams.

There are also tons of testimonials on how this work has changed lives in deep, amazing ways.

It’s only been a few months, but the changes have been profound, and I can’t wait to see what else comes up as we continue on this work!

So what’s next? Well, the point of all this is that your future can be created, once you have moved beyond your past and are more present.

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