Tuning In With Your Heart: Creating Your Future

 

If you’ve been in this work for some time, you’ve probably realized we begin almost every meditation with at least one song to open our hearts. 

Why? 

In short, it’s because the heart is the center of creation. 

It’s where wholeness begins; where we connect with our divinity. The heart is where we practice feeling elevated emotions – such as love, joy, gratitude, forgiveness, trust, care, kindness, and inspiration.

As you cultivate and sustain these emotions, your heart becomes coherent. 

And our research tells us from this point, energy moves directly into the brain. 

In a sense, the heart is informing the brain it’s time to create. 

From here, the brain moves into coherent alpha brain waves – the brain state in which we imagine, dream, and open our minds to possibilities.

You can think of the heart, then, as a “springboard” – thus, opening the heart isn’t the end of the process of creation; it’s the beginning. 

So, when you begin a meditation by opening and activating your heart, you’re generating the heart coherence that – combined with brain coherence – is essential to create.

Synchronizing Your Energy to Unlimited Possibilities

In this work, you learn that infinite potential realities exist in the quantum field – that invisible field of unifying energy that exists beyond your senses; beyond matter; beyond the three-dimensional reality in which we live.

You learn to work with energy as frequency – frequency that carries information.

You can tune in to different frequencies by working with your thoughts (in the brain), which are electric – and your feelings (in the heart), which are magnetic. 

And how you think, combined with how you feel, creates an electromagnetic field that has direct effects on your life. 

There is excellent research from the HeartMath Institute showing that magnetic field spans anywhere from three to 10 feet in diameter, depending on the amplitude of the heart coherence. So, just like beating a big drum produces resonant waves of sound, the heart is capable of producing really strong magnetic fields.

In my online and in-person Progressive Retreats, I teach different methods to access and create from the field by working with this formula of combining a clear intention (a function of a coherent brain) that sends a signal out, and an elevated emotion (a function of a coherent heart) that creates a magnetic field.

One way to do this is to start with the brain. 

You get clear on what your intention is, and then marry it with an elevated emotion – teaching your body, chemically, what it would feel like to experience your new future.

“Tuning In With Your Heart” offers another way to do it. 

In this meditation, you begin with first activating the heart to produce that magnetic field, open to that future, and tune in to that possibility. And then, you combine your coherent heart with your coherent brain to broadcast electromagnetic signatures into the field.

In other words, instead of starting with the brain, you can start with the heart. 

It’s just another way to create by changing your energy. 

You practice feeling the emotions of the possibility that exists in the field before you experience it. It’s the emotions of the heart that bond us to people and things we love. So, when you feel the feelings of your new future, you’re bonding to it – and drawing it to you.

Whatever you broadcast into the field is your experiment with destiny. 

Think of it like this: 

The more coherent the brain and heart; the more coherent the signal; the more coherent the information being sent out into the field – and the more powerful the magnetic attraction of that future reality in your life.

When there’s a vibrational match between your energy and some potential in the quantum field, opportunities and coincidences appear in your life. That’s because you’re synchronizing your energy to those possibilities by tuning into them with your heart.

Activating and Opening Your Heart

I often receive questions from students about how to activate and open their heart. This is especially common for those new to the work. Here are some simple suggestions you can try:

• When you first sit down (or stand, or lie down, depending on the practice) for your meditation, gently place your hands over your heart. Studies suggest that doing so activates the release of oxytocin, known as the “feel-good” or “love” hormone. You’re giving your heart energy, generating feelings of safety and trust – a great place from which to create.

• Next, take a moment to sit with yourself before your meditation. Acknowledge your effort in showing up for yourself as a soul on your journey home back to source. As you evolve your practice and become more comfortable, my hope is you’ll feel love and gratitude for yourself – even before you begin.

• With your hands still on your heart, ask yourself: What would it be like to be in my new future? If I really were in a whole new reality, how would I feel? What would be the consciousness of that reality – and what would that energy feel like? And, as you play it out in your mind, allow yourself to feel the feelings of that new future in your heart.

• If you’re having trouble opening your heart, think of something, or someone, that evokes elevated emotions. For many people, this is their child or partner – or even a beloved pet. Think of whatever, or whomever, brings you feelings of love and joy. Ultimately, you’re teaching your body to feel these feelings ahead of a new experience. As you become more practiced at this, you can naturally, emotionally, connect to your intentional new creation.

Falling in Love With Your New Future

When the heart switches on, it informs the brain to move into an imaginary state. This is the coherent alpha brain wave state I talked about earlier – in which you dream; in which you imagine; in which you create your new future. When your heart is open, you fall in love with that future. And when your heart is coherent, you create the field of magnetism that draws it to you.

Remember, there’s more than one way to work with energy. 

“Tuning In With Your Heart” offers another way to create. Another way to dream of your future and bond with it. 

Another way to fall in love with your life – and yourself.

Joe Dispenza

Working With Doubt

 

Understanding Levels of Mind

I’ve been moved by aligning your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with your mission in life – particularly the idea that your practice can be your purpose. That quest for a higher purpose has led to a series of conversations among community members about something we all come up against in this work – doubt.

The first thing I want to say is: doubt isn’t a sign that you’re doing something wrong or failing in your practice. Remember: there’s no such thing as failure; it’s all information. Doubt comes up for all of us, including me. And so, we’re going to talk about when and why we encounter doubt – and how to work with it.

Your State of Consciousness: Your Level of Mind

The first thing we need to recognize and understand is the level of consciousness – or unconsciousness – that leads to doubt.

What do we mean when we talk about consciousness? 

You can break it down like this: consciousness is awareness. Awareness is paying attention. And paying attention is noticing where you’re directing your energy.

Think of your state of consciousness as your level of mind. 

In other words, 

1. How aware are you? 
2. What are you paying attention to? 
3. How are you reacting to your environment and circumstances? 
4. Are you noticing where most of your energy goes? 
5. Are your thoughts and feelings making things better – or worse?

What does this have to do with doubt? 

Let’s say you’re in the middle of a challenging situation and struggling to find a solution – but you’re still in the same level of mind that led to the challenge. Then, you probably do what most of us have become programmed to do in that circumstance. You focus even more intensely on the challenge, giving it your attention – and, therefore, your energy. And giving something your energy only ever does one thing: amplifies it.

As a consequence, the challenge has become more solidified in your world as a problem. As you feel the emotions associated with the current circumstance, you give the problem more and more energy. You become more frustrated; more anxious; more resentful. 

You fuel the emotional state that led to the thoughts ... that created the particular level of mind ... that brought you to this situation in the first place.

It’s so important to remember, in these moments, that you can’t solve a problem from the same level of mind – or consciousness – that created it. And the only way to change your consciousness is to change your energy.

What do I mean by that? 

To change your consciousness is to become aware that there is a new possible reality or solution. 

So, if you don’t change your consciousness, you’ll limit your awareness of that possibility and continue to fuel doubt by focusing on your problem – creating ever more distance between you and a solution.

The Level of Mind That Leads to Doubt

To better understand how your level of mind can intensify doubt, think of a challenging situation from your past – one where you struggled to find a solution. Maybe it was a serious health condition that was getting worse. Or a difficult financial circumstance. And let’s say it was a situation you wrestled with for a long time – or kept coming up against in familiar ways. You did everything you thought you knew could change it.

Now, see if you can identify some thoughts and feelings that led to the level of consciousness you associate with that experience. Maybe you had an old story in your head about lack – and it activated feelings about abundance being out of reach for you. Maybe you spent hours online reading about a troubling diagnosis and became convinced there was no hope of healing.

Looking back, you might be able to see that you kept giving energy to the problem by paying more and more attention to it in the same exact ways. Maybe now, you can recognize that you got stuck in that situation because every day, you approached the same problem with the same level of mind – meaning you couldn’t see a solution.

When we can’t imagine a solution ... when we’re unaware of, or can’t envision a new possibility ... then it doesn’t exist for us. And when possibility doesn’t exist for us, we can’t believe our situation will ever change.

And what is disbelief? It’s doubt. 

This isn’t working. This issue will never change. I’ll never figure this out. I’m not doing it right. It works for other people, but not for me. I’ll never ...

So, if you’re facing a problem, but you’re at the same level of mind that created it, you’re going to see and react to it in the same ways that led to it in the first place. You’re going to keep doing what you know – more of the same – even if you’ve already seen and experienced that it doesn’t work.

In other words, your consciousness is now equal to the problem itself. And now, the problem is controlling the way you feel and think. You become a victim of your environment and circumstances – instead of the creator of change in your life.

And the harder you try to solve the problem from within that state of mind, the more elusive the solution seems. And the more doubt takes hold. Even if intellectually, you understand there might be a solution, you still doubt it can happen – because you can’t feel it.

New Level of Mind; New Possibilities

If we use “consciousness” interchangeably with “level of mind,” “awareness,” or “energy,” then we could say the level of mind that leads to doubt arises from a certain level of energy. That’s why it makes sense that we can’t solve a problem from the same level of mind (or energy) that created it.

A simpler way to say it is: to solve a problem, we must first change our energy – or our emotional state – around it. Because it’s only in changing our energy that we change our level of mind ... and only by changing our level of mind that we can become conscious of new possibilities.

When we default back to our old ways of thinking and feeling; old ways of believing and behaving; we return to the level of mind that leads to doubt and disbelief. We limit ourselves from new ways of seeing our circumstances – and new ways of approaching (and solving) the challenges in our lives.

The key, then, is to learn how to change our level of mind by changing our energy – and then sustain that elevated state, even in the midst of persistently challenging circumstances.

Changing Your Energy

In the Part I of this post we began to explore the concept of doubt – why it arises, how to recognize the level of mind that leads to it, and how to begin to work with it.

We left off talking about the key to working with doubt: and that’s learning how to change your level of mind – or consciousness – by changing your energy. What inevitably comes next is:

                    OK, but – how?

In Part I, we discussed the first step: becoming aware of your level of consciousness – that is, how you think and feel about whatever circumstance is creating the doubt – and noticing how it affects your perspective. Now, let’s talk about how you can work with doubt from that place of understanding.

Cultivating Awareness

As you did for Part I, think of a challenging situation in your life – only this time, think of one you’re currently facing. It could be a worsening health condition ... persistent financial troubles ... or perhaps a deepening relationship conflict.

Now, applying what you’ve learned about your level of consciousness, see if you can tune in and become aware of that now. Are you feeling the same feelings, thinking the same thoughts, or doing the same things you’ve always done to try to address the issue? 

In other words, are you trying to solve the problem from the same level of consciousness that led to it?

If it feels challenging to try to see yourself in this way, don’t worry – and don’t judge yourself. Our survival instincts are so hard-wired, it can be difficult to have any objectivity about ourselves when the feelings associated with them – such as fear, anxiety, worry, mistrust, frustration, defeat, or resentment – are activated.

And challenging yourself in this way, especially when it’s unpredictable or unfamiliar, might bring some of those feelings up – along with doubt. But don’t be discouraged. If you can catch your personal reactions while trying to determine your level of consciousness, you’re already raising your awareness. That’s because consciousness is awareness. That’s why the first step is to become conscious of your unconscious self.

Now, let’s work on developing that blossoming awareness to change your energy. The best way to do that is by first practicing during your meditations.

Elevating Emotions; Opening Your Heart

Before you begin, think about your intentions for your meditation. 

Because you’re working with doubt, and how to change your level of consciousness by changing your energy, here are some things to focus on:

1. Set the intention to move out of the addictive emotions of survival – which fuel doubt – and into the elevated emotions of creation (remember, your heart is your creative center): joy, wonder, curiosity, awe, gratitude, compassion, and care. I’ve found there’s no greater way to change your energy than feeling the emotions connected to pure love. That’s the consciousness – and the energy – of the heart; the fourth energy center.

2. To help you feel those elevated emotions, practice opening your heart during your meditation. 

In doing just these two things during your meditation, you’ll get a sense of the energy and emotions related to what it feels like to be in a new reality – one where the situation you’re in is significantly different. And simply doing that will change your energy. Why? Think of emotions as “energy in motion” – meaning, when you change your emotions, you change your energy.

And, as I’ve said many times: 

When you change your energy, you change your life.

When you feel the emotions of your new future, you turn up the volume on trust – and turn down the volume on doubt. Suddenly, you begin to become conscious and aware of possibilities you’d never considered before.

Memorizing a Feeling; Installing a Mind

In essence, you’re using your meditation practice to train your body and mind to feel new emotions and to think differently – which will lead to new behaviors. Through this practice, you’re “memorizing the feeling” of living in a different world; one where a new experience – in this case, the resolution of a problem – has already happened.

You’re learning how to install and exercise a new mind; one capable of staying aware of new thoughts and possibilities – not only while in meditation, but also after you’ve opened your eyes and returned to daily life. That’s why you’re doing the meditation in the first place.

The purpose is to evolve from a place of limited belief to one of unlimited belief. And since a belief is just a thought you keep thinking over and over again, you must remind yourself to stop thinking the same old way and start thinking a new way – until you believe those new thoughts. That’s when you’ve installed a new mind – and, at the same time, uninstalled the old one.

The best part about this exercise is, you don’t have to know how the situation is going to change (that’s the known); you just have to change your energy and live in the possibility that it already has changed. That is, you live in the unknown – but without doubt.

Let’s go back to the situation you’re currently facing. 

If it’s financial stress, you might be stuck in survival emotions and thoughts based in fear, worry, and guilt – that this won’t ever change; that you’ll never have enough; that your family’s future and well-being will be negatively impacted. You might compare yourself to other people and feel unworthy to have abundance yourself – or shame about not measuring up.

So now, when you enter your “think box” before meditation, you’re aware of the level of consciousness (or unconsciousness) that fuels the problem. This will help you identify the feelings and thoughts you want to practice during your meditation. In other words, you’ve clarified the emotions you want to change in order to change your energy – because those are the exact emotions that keep you from seeing change and cause you to doubt. When you feel those familiar emotions, you can’t believe in a different future – and you’re more prone to believe in what you know from the past.

When you enter your “play box” in meditation, then, you practice feeling elevated emotions – because they cause you to believe in that new future. That’s why some people in this work – people who’ve changed their health or life circumstances in other significant ways – sometimes meditate two or three times a day. They do it to overcome their doubt and chronic disbelief – by changing their energy and emotional state. They do it so they can believe again and again.

So, in your meditation, you might practice feeling immense gratitude for having all your needs met. Or the tremendous lightheartedness and relief that comes with the freedom to do whatever you want – whenever you want. Or you tune in to the great joy of having so much abundance, you can give it away – and spread joy to others.

You practice feeling love for your life – every part of it, including the very challenges that brought you to this moment of awakening and possibility.

From Survival to Creation: A Triumph

What you’re learning to do, through these practices, is open and activate your creative center – the heart – and become aware, or conscious, of possibilities that already exist by installing a new mind in the brain as well as the body. In doing so, you change your energy – and, therefore, your consciousness.

You begin to develop a new way of thinking and feeling – which will enable you to face the challenges in your life by behaving in new and different ways. As you hone these skills, you’ll discover solutions that were always there – you just couldn’t see them from the same level of consciousness that created the problem in the first place.

If you can teach your body what it feels like to be in that new future, and keep reminding yourself how to approach the problem with a new consciousness, you’ve entered your meditation as one person (the same old person with the same old problem and the same old inability to solve it) and you’ve come out of it as a new person – with a new mind. You’ve opened your heart to a new possibility.

You’ve moved from survival to creation. And that, in itself, is a triumph.

Over time, you can evolve your practice and perspective so that, when doubt arises – as it will for anyone in the river of change – it won’t overwhelm you. 

Instead, it can become a catalyst in your life. 

It can help you recognize your level of mind, clarify your intentions, and recommit to the work. 

Working with doubt in this way, you can change your energy – and change your life.

Joe Dispenza

Change Your Box, Change Your Reality

 

Over the years, I’ve developed a series of teachings and meditations called “Changing Boxes.” 

The practice is based on the idea of leaving an “old box” – where a problem exists in the 3D realm we call “space-time” – and tuning in to a new potential reality of the 5D realm we call “time-space.” 

Thus, we enter a “new box” – one where the challenge no longer exists.

People sometimes get stuck on the idea of what we literally mean by “box” – or think this has to become about visualization. But it can be looser and more playful than that.

In very simple terms, think of this practice as a way of overcoming the known to make way for the unknown. The “old box” is your current personal reality; the same old way of thinking, feeling, and behaving ... your same way of seeing the same problems, which inevitably limits you to the same outcomes.

And the “new box” can be ... anything you haven’t thought of before. 

A new way of seeing; of thinking; of feeling; of behaving. A new way of being. A reality where there is no problem.

So, when you “change boxes,” you leave the same old personality self behind. You overcome the known in 3D reality and tune in to new, 5D reality where unlimited new potentials exist. You become aware of the possibility of a new box. 

From there, it becomes possible to create a new personal reality.

If the concept is new to you, it may seem challenging at first. 

But once you get it, I assure you it’s an easy way to shift your consciousness, move out of the “old box” of the present reality you are stuck in, tune in to a new dimension of opportunities in your life, and, ultimately, emerge in a “new box” – a new reality.

First, let’s explore the fundamentals that underpin this practice.

Fueling Problems With Attention and Energy

Let’s begin with the idea that the problems or conditions in our lives are created from our level of consciousness – or, as is more often the case, unconsciousness. So, if you’re faced with an adversity or challenge you can’t seem to get beyond, it’s because you’re most likely bringing the same level of mind to the issue that created it in the first place.

Let’s say that every day, you’re thinking about a problem in the same exact way. 

That’s because your brain is a memory bank of everything you know and have experienced. 

So, based on your past experience, you have a neurological network in your brain associated with every person, object, thing, or place at a certain time in your life.

In a sense, when you think about those familiar problems or challenges, you are thinking in the past. Said another way, you are viewing your current reality through the lens of a past, known consciousness.

For every one of those thoughts (or memories) associated with the problem or person, there is an associated emotion. 

Emotions are the chemical end-products of past experiences. 

In other words, your emotional reactions to any problem in your life cause your body to live in the past – and thus, to think equal to that emotion. In a sense, your consciousness is equal to the consciousness – or unconsciousness – that created it.

If how you think and how you feel creates your state of being, then your reaction to the conditions and problems in your life only serves to reaffirm the same body, mind, thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions related to the problem. Thus, the stronger the emotional reaction you have to the problem or condition, the more you pay attention to it.

In this work, we learn that where you place your attention is where you place your energy. 

And so, by giving a problem your attention, you’re keeping it alive in your life by giving your energy to it.

As a result, you’re giving your very life force away to that problem. 

That’s energy you could be using to create a different reality. 

That means there’s a good possibility you might be the reason why the problem hasn’t changed – because you haven’t changed your energy.

And, since nothing changes in your life until you change your energy, theoretically, that’s why your situation is staying the same.

So, then, once you understand this, the questions become: 

1. How can you become unencumbered by the energy of your problems? 
2. How can you change your energy and move to a greater level of consciousness; one where the challenge no longer exists?

This is where we get deeper into the practice behind the “Changing Boxes” meditations.

There are two fundamental tenets of this work:

1. Where you place your attention is where you place your energy.
2. Nothing changes in your life ... until you change your energy.

Which led to some fundamental questions:

• How can you become unencumbered by the energy of your problems or challenges?

• How can you change your energy and move to a greater level of consciousness; one where the challenge or problem no longer exists?

Now, let’s explore what it means to ascend our energy – and work with it in the quantum field.

The Strength of Your Signal

Think of emotions as “energy in motion.” 

And if every day your negative emotions are creating the same energy to react to the same problem, then that energy produces a specific signal in the quantum field.

Now, if that signal comes from an incoherent brain and heart, you’re producing an energetic frequency carrying thoughts that no longer have coherence, or syntropy. 

Instead, they have entropy – which means they have less power over your three-dimensional reality. 

It’s simply a weaker signal. 

It makes sense, then, that a weak signal would exert weaker effects on outcomes in your life – especially when it comes to the energy needed to change a persistent, challenging situation.

As we talked about, you can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness (or unconsciousness) that created it. 

This means you have to reach a greater level of consciousness than the one that’s actually reinforcing the issue at hand.

This is where we begin to fully explore how to move to a greater level of mind – where the problem or challenge no longer exists.

Thoughts as Patterns

When you’re triggered by a problem or situation, you’ve most likely experienced it many times before – meaning it has an associated neurological network in your brain. 

This means you have emotions associated with the problem, as well.

These well-established connections create a vicious cycle whereby your reaction to the situation – real or imagined – is actually feeding the problem with the same energy. 

And if you keep feeding the same problem with the same energy, you get the same reality.

Now, if thoughts are the electrical charge that you send out into the field ... and feelings are the magnetic charge that draws reality to you ... and how you think and how you feel is broadcasting an electromagnetic signature on a moment-to-moment basis ... then your memories of the past and your reaction to your outer environment are keeping everything the same.

In other words, how you think and how you feel creates your reality. 

And if you keep thinking and feeling the same way, then your life will remain the same.

Asking Questions That Can Lead to Answers

If you’re stuck in this pattern, ask yourself: 

Does how you think about the challenge or problem strengthen or weaken you?

If you’re having an angry reaction to your ex-partner or your boss, those thoughts and feelings are weakening the body – and, consequently, weakening your field. And if the hormones of stress are activating your survival systems, the result will be incoherence in your brain and heart.

This kind of dissonance becomes part of the thought forms that create a specific kind of energy – an incoherent energy. 

Think of the signal from incoherent energy like static on a radio station. 

When you’re not tuned to the right frequency, you don’t get a clear signal.

In other words, since every thought produces a frequency, your incoherent thoughts are creating poorly formed patterns in the field.

And the more those incomplete patterns become incomplete creations, the more they reinforce the problems you want to resolve. 

Why? Because the pattern is not whole.

As those troubling thoughts produce more stress hormones, and you reinforce this pattern over and over, sickness or disease occurs – because you are signaling the same patterns and gene expression by thought alone.

Your thoughts are literally making you sick.

Now, ask yourself: 

Is anyone or anything worth it?

Becoming Aware of Possibilities

Let’s return to the premise I briefly described – the concept behind “Changing Boxes.”

I want you to think of yourself, confronting the same old problems with the same old thoughts and the same old feelings – giving your attention and energy to those the challenges in your life in the same old way – as someone who is trapped in a box.

To an observer watching you from outside that box, wouldn’t it seem obvious you’re not being very loving to yourself – especially if you keep doing this for an extended period of time?

Now, consider this. 

If you understand that all possibilities exist in the quantum field, then there already is a door you haven’t thought of or known about ... a way out of the current situation you are in.

There already is a way out of that same old box.

However, you can’t see your way out of that challenge if you’re looking at it from the same level of mind – the emotions, thoughts, and feelings of the past. In order to see a way out, you would have to take all your attention, energy, emotions, and thoughts – your consciousness – off the obstacle that exists in your 3D reality – and turn it toward possibility.

That’s what we mean when we say you can’t solve the problem from the same level of consciousness that created it. 

You have to evolve to a greater level of mind to find your way in to that new box.

Moving to a Greater Level of Consciousness 

As we discussed, when you react to problems or challenges in your life, your thoughts and feelings produce patterns in the quantum field. That’s because thoughts create electrical charges and feelings produce magnetic charges – the totality of which is the energy you broadcast into the field, moment by moment. 

Whatever you broadcast into the field is your experiment with destiny.

And so, when you react to those challenges in the same way, your energy stays the same – meaning your life stays the same. Because, at the same time you’re broadcasting that energy, you’re producing corresponding patterns in your brain that release the same chemicals in your body – which affects your biology and gene expression in the same way. 

And if your response is creating the emotions of stress, this string of events will influence your health – and, ultimately, your life.

Before we move on, let’s go back to that problem in your life that won’t go away. 

The problem keeping you stuck in that “old box.”

Every time you can become conscious of the unconscious thoughts associated with that problem (for example: I quit. I can’t do it. I’m not good enough. This situation is never going to change), you lower the volume of the self-limiting voice in your head – the voice that repeats those same limited thoughts hundreds of times a day. 

That voice represents what you unconsciously believe to be true.

It’s important to notice these blind spots – because the more you become conscious and aware of these thoughts; the more familiar you are with them; the more you’re able to break the programs that enslave you to the same conditions in your life.

That’s because the more you become conscious of those programs, the less prone you will be to go unconscious in your daily life.

In other words, every time you become aware of the thoughts that are sponsored by feelings of resentment, suffering, shame, anxiety, control, pain, anger, or frustration, you are climbing a ladder.

You are moving to a greater level of consciousness.

As you move through those dense layers of emotion, you begin to raise your own personal energy. 

And – because you can’t have energy without awareness or consciousness – when you raise your energy, you raise your awareness. 

You’re moving to a greater level of mind than that which created the problem in the first place. 

And as you move to that greater level of mind, you begin to become aware of new possibilities. 

You begin to become aware of a “new box.”

Merging With the Field

When you practice any meditation, it’s vitally important you first get to the point where you disassociate from everything known to you – everything you perceive and experience with the senses. 

Done properly, you divest all your attention and energy out of this 3D realm of separation – “space-time” – where everything is local, defined by your senses, and material in space and time. 

If where you place your attention is where you place your energy, then the moment you take all your attention off everything known and material in your 3D reality, you’re opening the door to the unknown – the quantum field. 

You become no body, no one, no thing, no where, in no time.

And now, you are pure consciousness in the eternal now – the generous present moment. 

We call this process getting beyond the known self.

As you learn how to “dial down” your neocortex – your “thinking brain” – to create very coherent, low-level, alpha and theta brain waves, you can open your awareness to energy and the unified field. 

Now, you’re in a space where there is nothing physical, material, or known. 

You’re in the unknown – and your awareness can begin to connect to energy or frequency instead of matter. You can cause your biology to become really coherent – because much like your computer connects to WiFi, you’re connecting to a signal. You’re connecting to the field – because that’s where your attention is. 

Now, you’ve overcome your body, your environment, and time. 

You’ve moved from space-time ... to time-space.

The Realm of All Possibilities: 

Time-Space

In time-space, there is nothing material or physical. 

There’s no structure; no form; nothing tangible. 

Everything exists as unmanifest potential. 

In other words, as nothing. The realm of time-space – or what we call “5D” – is rich in frequency, energy, and vibration. That invisible energy connects and gives life to everything physical and material in 3D space-time.

In time-space, there are infinite possibilities. 

There is an infinite amount of time, which means there are infinite potentials for you to experience. When you connect to the frequency of time-space with a coherent nervous system – when you touch it with your awareness – you tune into a greater level of consciousness, information, and order. 

Now, you’re no longer separate from the field. 

And in this moment of connection – in the realm of pure consciousness – you become pure consciousness. 

Bringing It All Together

First, you learned that “Changing Boxes” is based on the idea of leaving an “old box” – where a problem exists in 3D reality – and tuning in to a new potential reality in 5D. 
Thus, you enter a “new box” – one where the challenge no longer exists.

Then, you learned that you can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness (or unconsciousness) that created it. 

Combining these ideas, you can see that if you can’t get beyond the consciousness, the energy, the emotion, the thoughts, or the memories of the challenge you face, it will never change – because you’re not changing.

So, in order to find the solution to the challenge you face in 3D reality, you have to get beyond the consciousness that created the problem in the first place. 

In other words, you have to get beyond yourself.

Once you’ve overcome the personality equal to that aspect of your current personal reality and have truly merged with the unified field – as we explored in today’s post – you’re in the realm of all possibilities. 

Here, you can tune in to another reality where the problem or challenge doesn’t exist. 

 

Now, this is where we bridge the theoretical and the practical – and walk through the practice of Changing Boxes, step by step:

Evolving as Eternal Souls

Knowledge is the great parent to experience. 

In other words, the more you obtain new information, the more prepared you are for new experiences.

We’re all faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. 

These are the challenges and problems in our lives, which feel like obstacles – but are actually here to help us evolve as eternal souls on the journey home.

Because, in reality, none of us changes unless we’re challenged.

As we’ve explored, the issues and problems you have in your life (in this 3D world of space-time) have been created from a certain level of consciousness – or unconsciousness. 

So, to resolve those problems, you have to move to a greater level of consciousness than that which created them.

You have to evolve to a greater level of mind.

Now, as you’ve learned, in the realm called time-space, there is nothing material or physical. There’s no structure; no form; nothing tangible. Everything exists as unmanifest potential. 

In other words, as nothing.

That vacuum; that void; that emptiness; that nothing ... that reality that exists beyond your senses ... is rich in frequency, energy, and vibration. And that invisible energy connects and gives life to everything physical and material in 3D space-time.

And in that 5D reality ... in that realm ... there are infinite possibilities.

Observing Reality Into Form

The quantum reality is one where multiple universes and dimensions exist simultaneously. 

It’s the realm of infinite thoughts, unlimited information, and a supreme consciousness that is the epiphenomenon of matter in 3D.

In that realm, every thought has a frequency.

This suggests there is a reality where any problem or challenging condition in your life doesn’t exist – and that you could bring it to life simply by becoming aware of it. And the thought of that possibility existing in that potential reality should produce the frequency or the feeling of freedom ... of relief ... of gratitude ... of joy.

It’s the frequency of that thought that connects you to that possibility. 

Since there’s no separation in the quantum field, the thought – and the experience of that thought – are one.

In 3D reality, the thought of that problem or challenge produces familiar, known, stressful feelings. 

So, when you change your consciousness from the “old box” of thinking, 

• "There is no solution to my problems" ... or, 
• "My life will never change" ... or, 
• "The challenge in my life connected to certain people and things will never be different" 

... to a new consciousness; a “new box” of thinking ... you become aware of a solution or possibility you had never thought of before.

Just by becoming aware of it, you could bring that reality into your life.

In a sense, you could observe that reality into form by changing your consciousness – and therefore, your energy – around that condition.

Following Your Mind to a New Destiny

Once you get beyond your body, your environment, and time ... and become pure consciousness ... you can become aware of a new possibility. 

And in this realm of time-space, consciousness and energy are one.

Thus, change your consciousness; change your energy. 

Change your energy; change your life.

When you practice “Changing Boxes,” you’ll become aware of the possibility in the quantum field where a problem or challenge no longer exists. And in that empty space, where there’s nothing physical or material, you’ll find it ... feel it ... experience it ... become aware of it ... and stay connected to it.

You could bring it to life – you could bring it into your life – by becoming aware of it.

Since where you place your attention is where you place your energy, 

you are placing your energy in a new reality. 

Keep doing it, and your body will follow your mind to that destiny.

Then, once you lock into that frequency; that energy – as a consciousness unaware of 3D reality in that invisible field – you can draw your physical body to you with your heart.

Picturing Infinite Possibilities

Think of it like being in a room in one dimension ... a changing room, let’s say, with mirrors on opposite walls. And picture yourself standing in between those mirrors, seeing an infinite number of your existing in different realities ... in different boxes ... in different rooms … in different dimensions.

In those unlimited, infinite mirror images exist an unlimited, infinite number of possible realities and possible selves.

This is what it’s like to enter the realm of time-space. 

The 5D reality.

Your thought produces an electrical charge in the quantum field. 

And so, once you think about a new possibility, you’re connecting to new information in the field.

Your feeling, then, is the magnetic charge.

So, with that thought – your clear intention – you send the signal out. 

And with that feeling – your elevated emotion – you use your heart’s magnetic field to draw that reality to you in space-time.

When you place your attention and energy in a reality where that problem doesn’t exist, 

your body should follow your mind right to that new future. 

That new box.

Feel Your Connection to It ... 

With Your Heart

Now, the only way you can get out of the present reality where the problem exists is through your heart.

That’s because your heart center possesses a different consciousness than that of anger, fear, suffering, pain, resentment, and lack. When you remain in that old level of consciousness, it keeps the problems in your life the same – because your energy is the same.

The door out of that self-limiting reality lives in your heart.

So, when you’re in the void as pure consciousness, you’ll feel your connection to your body – and start drawing your body to you with your heart.

You’ll practice moving from one reality into another seamlessly – so that, when you open your eyes, something has changed. And a new opportunity or synchronicity begins to appear in your 3-D reality of space-time.

Signs and Synchronicities

Done properly, when you come back to this 3D reality and some small thing – some new change – appears in your life, it’s evidence you’ve moved to a new reality.

It might not be the final outcome, but it’s a sign of your move to a new box. 

Keep doing it, and you can actually arrive in a new 3D reality where the challenge or problem no longer exists.

 

If there are infinite possibilities ... 

if there are infinite realities ... 

then by becoming aware of those possibilities and realities ... 

and by changing the energy that was keeping your current reality the same ... 

you should begin to produce measurable changes in your life.

Dr. Joe Dispenza

Befriend the Unknown...Surrender to the Mystery

 

Returning Back to Source and Oneness

Dr Joe, at a recent retreat, I had a profound experience during one of the Walking Meditations. Life showed me what it really was; unlimited beauty readily available to everyone and everything at all times – because we are it, and it is us.  

It completely shifted the way I saw reality. I felt like I didn’t need to do anything to get to my future – because it was already done. It already existed in my life trajectory.  

This was the best feeling I ever felt – and I never wanted to feel anything else in my life. It stayed with me for two days, and then slowly faded away. I tried in different ways to get it back – and I did feel it again during another Walking Meditation – but it quickly vanished again. 

My question is, can we feel this way all the time? Or even most of the time? How do we achieve this? Is it just practice and growth? I’d be so very grateful for your response. 

– Chiara

Seeing Beyond the Veil

The first point I want to make is that everyone goes through this at some point in their evolution – including me. The moment Chiara had in her Walking Meditation was what we call “seeing beyond the veil.”

When we connect to this frequency; this invisible field of energy that is closer to oneness and wholeness; we become aware of far more information than we perceive with our mere senses. Our consciousness – our awareness of the so-called reality around us – is forever changed.

When we see beyond the veil, the gap between the way things really are and the way we are is lessened.

In these moments, we’re more conscious – and we feel more connected to harmony and wholeness. That’s because, in that realm beyond space and time, everything is connected. And with that feeling of connection comes a sense of knowingness that eludes words. It’s just hard to describe – because in doing so, we risk diluting the power of the experience itself.

Somehow, we’re ... aligned in a certain way. We bond to a reality we weren’t aware of or connected to before. But once we’ve had an experience of it; once it’s in our awareness; we have this deeper knowing – and we can’t unknow it.

It’s an awakening. Somehow, something we’d had no awareness of previously is now part of us – and part of our destiny.

‘Remember This Feeling’

As I told the woman who asked the question, I want everybody to have this experience. I want everybody to see beyond the veil – because it’s not only enthralling; it’s literally life-changing.

When I have one of those transcendental moments, I say to myself,  

 

“You’ve got to remember this feeling. You have to. This is who you really are. This ... is what it’s really about.”

Suddenly, I’m in a place of pure love – and I am this feeling. And in that place of exuberant, pure love, the unknown is no longer something to fear. And I realize: there’s so much more to life than I was ever aware of.

And, just like Chiara – the woman who asked the question above – the first couple of times I had that experience, I was eager to get back to that place. Having had a taste of that intoxicating connection to the divine within me and all around me, I wanted to experience it every day.

This became a long journey for me – as it does for most people in this work who’ve had an encounter with the mystical. Ultimately, I had to accept a fundamental truth about working in the quantum – and that is that replication and predictability are impossible. Because, if we can predict the outcome, then we’re working in the known. And that’s counter to the very nature of having a mystical experience. The mystical is the unknown.

Longing and Separation

When I heard Chiara’s question, I started to chuckle – because I saw myself in her. I know this situation well. How many times have I tried to predict when the next mystical experience would happen? How many times have I gotten in my own way, thinking I should – or could – control my experience of the unknown?

How often have I spent my days in separation from that moment of connection, waiting for it to happen – so it would take away my lack of not having it? Or analyzing what I could possibly be doing wrong? Or wondering if there was something wrong with me? I’ve come up against these challenges for years.

I’m sharing my experience because I know many of you are facing the same challenges. You’ve had a moment, and you want to get back to that transcendent place. You’re not alone in this desire. We’ve all been there.

We marvel at the fact that we had the experience. We relish the memory of what it felt like to connect to the divine source within. We remember that we felt an extraordinary sense of wholeness – and that we promised ourselves we’d never forget it. And we regret that, despite those intentions, the feeling began to wane within days.

And so, we start trying.

When we sit down to meditate – or stand, or lie down, or walk – all we can think about is how good it felt when we had that experience. We imagine what it would be like to return to it. We want to feel that feeling again.

And without realizing it, our practice becomes about returning to the place we were before – instead of entering the unknown.

But what we’re actually doing, in those moments of longing – of trying to replicate the experience without the feeling – is reinforcing our separation from it. We’re grasping at something; chasing after it. And that continuously amplifies the feeling of lack – of not having it.

As I implored Chiara in our Dr Joe Live conversation, please don’t try to force, control, or predict the outcome of your next experience. Because if you’re looking for it, you’re separate from it. And you can’t attract anything in your life you feel separate from.

Surrendering Outcomes – and Timing

Without question, the tools and methods Chiara is working with – particularly Walking Meditations, where we practice with our eyes open – are great portals to mystical experiences. 

But it’s important to remember that to truly experience the mystical, we have to let go of any attachment to an outcome – including how or when it’s going to happen.

Because – as I mentioned  – predictability and repeatability are impossible in the quantum, it may seem like we sometimes arrive at a similar place, but we can’t arrive at a new outcome if we’re expecting it to happen the same way. 

If we’re trying to control the result, we’re actually limiting our creation.

That rule about predictability applies to timing as well as the experience itself.

Not only do we think we can control how we come into contact with the mystical or the unknown; we somehow think we can control when it happens.

That expectation is the exact thing that limits the likelihood of the moment occurring at all – because, if you can predict anything, that would mean it’s already known to you. 

In other words, it’s the opposite of the unknown.

Ironically, then, the only way to have the experience we seek is to stop seeking it altogether. 

And here, we have the delicate balance of intention and surrender.

So, looking for it, or unconsciously expecting it to happen in a certain way, at a certain time – during meditation, for example – is a huge limitation. It could happen when you lie down at the end of your practice. It could happen when you fall asleep on the couch at the end of a long day. It could happen while you’re staring into a fire, looking out a window, or standing at the sink washing dishes.

If you’re truly open; that mystical moment can find you at any time. 

In fact, our brain-imaging (fMRI) research shows that when we don’t expect anything to happen, that’s when the unexpected happens. It’s a paradox – but finding that balance is the work.

Learning to Be Satisfied With Your Effort

When we have these mystical, profoundly moving experiences, it’s very real to us; more real than what our senses alone can perceive. Such an encounter changes our understanding of the world, and it can never be the same for us.

It makes sense that in touching that greater frequency; that more unified, organized energy – which is love, by the way – we’d want to grow our awareness and experience of it in our waking lives.

It’s important to keep expanding your model and investing yourself in a deeper understanding of the principles at work. To keep learning. To practice living with the apparent tension between the mundane and the mystical.

It’s equally important to just – stay loose. Stay curious. Stay open and playful. And let it happen.

Make it be about your effort, not the result. Make it be about becoming so lost in the act, the act itself creates the experience ... about being so satisfied with your effort, you no longer care when or how the mystical encounter happens – because you already feel like the mystic.

And then, when you finish your meditations, take a moment and put your hands over your heart. Invite that experience back into your life at a time you would never expect it. And, as you reflect on your sincere effort, allow yourself to feel worthy to receive it – whenever it comes.

Dr Joe Dispenza

Biophotons: The Light in Our Cells

There are trillions of cells that make up your body. 

For the moment I want you to think about just one. 

That one cell is incredibly busy. In just the last second there were over 100,000 chemical reactions that occurred in this cell. 

Now, step back and consider your body as a whole. 

The sheer volume of activity happening inside you at any given moment is almost incomprehensible. With so much information being processed all at once, it’s fair to ask how it all works.

The consensus in the scientific community used to focus on a mechanistic approach to explain the inner workings of your body. In this model, molecular reactions were assumed to follow a very linear formula. Essentially event A produces event B which produces event C, etc. In this theory the human body isn’t a fluid, ever-changing system but a static one, governed by a set of rigid rules where the laws of attraction and repulsion of molecular charges run the show.

In the 1970s Fritz Popp and a team of researchers at the University of Marburg started doing work with biophotons. 

Biophotons are considered ultra-weak photo emissions (UPEs). 

Popp’s work has transformed our understanding of biophotons and the role they play. 

At one point biophotons were considered byproducts of chemical reactions within our DNA. 

We now know that the biophotons emitted from our cells are highly coherent energy that may be responsible for the operation of our biological systems.  

You may have heard of a concept in nature called bioluminescence whereby an animal like a jellyfish or firefly emits light. Biophotons fall into a similar realm of bioluminescence. However, the light coming from our bodies is very faint – invisible to the naked eye – and can only be measured with powerful scientific instruments.

Research into biophotons raises some interesting possibilities. 

Russian scientist Sergey Mayburov observed a batch of eggs from fish and frogs. He found that biophotons communicate in short, synchronized, quasi-periodic bursts. Previous experiments showed that fish eggs stored in different locations were able to sync their development through the use of biophotons. This idea of non-local communication between systems suggests that the light emitted from our cells may carry information which transcends current mainstream thought about how our biological systems work.

Mayburov likens this form of communication to the way error-correcting software sends binary data over a noisy incoherent channel. The goal in Mayburov’s example is to restore the system to coherent working order and that’s important when you consider the potential for biophotons in the human body. Since all frequency carries information, it makes sense that the coherent energy from this light could organize and influence matter into a more healthy balance.

Remember, coherence refers to a highly-structured and organized frequency. 

Think of a drum circle where all the players are working in the same rhythm and beat. This music is synchronized, organized and easy on the ears. That’s coherence. 

Now, picture a few of those drummers playing at a different speed or putting an emphasis on the wrong note. This music is jumbled and much harder to understand or enjoy. That’s incoherence.

Another Russian scientist named Peter Gariaev placed DNA inside a quartz container and zapped it with a laser (a very coherent form of light). The DNA absorbed the light and stored it for up to thirty days inside a corkscrew shaped spiral in an exact blueprint of light reflecting the DNA pattern. 

Even more interesting is that the spiral of light stayed in the same place even after the quartz container and the DNA had been removed

Gariaev’s work suggests some unknown force is holding the light in place. 

One possible explanation is that the DNA is responding to an external energy field. This energy field is exchanging information with your cells in the form of light. In essence, our bodies are working as a giant antenna that is constantly sending and receiving signals from the field.

This research even suggests that all living biological systems, including us, have the exact blueprint of our physical bodies stored in a field of light. 

We don’t have to look too hard to find similar examples of this phenomenon elsewhere in nature. Experiments done years earlier with plants showed that when part of leaf was cut off, a field of light – like the one from Gariaev’s tests – still remained around the perimeter of the leaf for an extended period of time.

The work into biophotons challenges our current understanding of cellular processes. 

In the traditional Newtonian model, the chemical reactions in our cells are essentially runners in a relay race handing off pieces of information at a specific time and place just like runners pass a baton to one another. If the research into biophotons proves correct then our cells behave much more like a symphony.

Picture a conductor using his hands and wand to send cues about whether or not to be louder or quieter, faster or slower. The musicians respond with small adjustments that keep the piece flowing smoothly which cues the conductor which cues the musicians and so on. Viewed in this way, our cells have more of a symbiotic relationship to each other and with the world around them.

Biophoton Manipulation: Scientific Explanation of Energy Manipulation

According to Popp’s research, the symphony of cells in our bodies send and receive messages faster than the speed of light, which further challenges the old Newtonian model of how our bodies operate.   The pace of this interaction means it’s a quantum phenomenon and needs to be evaluated differently. Indeed, the relatively new field of information biology is built on the belief that cells are guided by some external field of information and are not exclusively regulated by molecular charges.

Now, whether or not the biophotons in our cells are responding to an energy field or something else entirely is still being investigated. However, it does appear that we have the ability to influence the light coming from our bodies.

In a recent study, eight volunteers were placed in a darkened room and asked to visualize a bright light. The participants were monitored with light detectors that picked up an aura of light particles coming from the right side of their brains.   In a sense they were enhancing light.

What does this mean? 

We know that our cells emit light and that this light is constantly sending and receiving information. We also know that we have at least some ability to affect this light. If this is true then we have access to the control center of our minds and bodies. And if we have access and influence then we have the ability to change ourselves at the most fundamental level by enhancing our light.

In our Advanced Workshops that are conducted around the world, we have actually measured significant positive changes in this invisible field of light with our participants and it seems to directly correlate with changes in their health.

Dr Joe Dispenza