Quotes from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“My goal is to educate you about the effects of stress on the body, creating a level of self-awareness that causes you to stop and ask yourself, Is anyone or anything really worth it? So”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Personal change takes an intentional act of will, and it usually means that something was making us uncomfortable enough to want to do things differently. To evolve is to overcome the conditions in our life by changing something about ourselves. We”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Breaking away often from daily routines, they spent time alone, thinking and contemplating, examining and speculating about what kind of people they wanted to become. They asked questions that challenged their most deeply held assumptions about who they were. “What if” questions were vital to this process: What if I stop being an unhappy, self-centered, suffering person, and how can I change? What if I no longer worry or feel guilty or hold grudges? What if I begin to tell the truth to myself and to others? Those “what ifs” led them to other questions: Which people do I know who are usually happy, and how do they behave? Which historical figures do I admire as noble and unique? How could I be like them? What would I have to say, do, think, and act like in order to present myself differently to the world? What do I want to change about myself? Gathering”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Conscious thoughts, repeated often enough, become unconscious thinking.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“If a species is subject to repetitive external environmental stimuli over the course of several generations, in time that species will adapt to those stimuli. The genetics of that species will change to support a new internal state, one that will help the species survive that external stimuli for generations to come. This is called survival of the species. It is a linear, slow process for most species.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Change is a powerful word and it is completely feasible, if you choose it. When”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“There is an infinite field of energy that exists beyond our present concept of space and time, which unites all of us.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Reality is not one continuous and consistent stream, but is instead, a field of infinite possibilities over which we can exert enormous influence—that is, if we tune into the proper levels of mind.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Her symptoms began to ease. Within a short time, all the physical symptoms associated with her illness disappeared. Sheila had healed herself of a debilitating disease. More important, she had also freed herself from the chains of her self-imprisonment. A”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Does the brain see or do the eyes see? If the brain sees, then we can only perceive reality based on what we have wired into our brain.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Motivated as they were by serious illnesses both physical and mental, the people I interviewed realized that in thinking new thoughts, they had to go all the way. To become a changed person, they would have to rethink themselves into a new life. All of those who restored their health to normal did so after making a conscious decision to reinvent themselves. Breaking”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“To leave behind what is considered normal amidst social convention and to create a new mind requires being an individual—for any species. Being uncompromising to one’s vision of a new and improved self and abandoning one’s prior ways of being may also be encoded in living tissue for new generations; history remembers individuals for such elegance. True evolution, then, is using the genetic wisdom of past experiences as raw materials for new challenges. What”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Next, I spent three hours a day, morning, noon, and evening, in self-hypnosis and meditation. I visualized, with the joy of being totally healed, that my spine was fully repaired. I mentally reconstructed my spine, building each segment. I stared at hundreds of pictures of spines to help me perfect my mental imagery. My focused thoughts would help direct the greater intelligence already at work to heal me. When”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“This intelligence knows how to maintain order among all of the cells, tissues, organs, and systems of the body because it created the body from two individual cells. Again, the power that made the body is the power that maintains and heals the body. My subjects’ illnesses signified that, to some extent, they had gotten out of touch or distanced themselves from part of their connection with this higher order. Maybe their own thinking had somehow directed this intelligence toward illness and away from health. But they came to understand that if they tapped into this intelligence and used their thoughts to direct it, it would know how to heal their bodies for them. Their greater mind already knew how to take care of business, if they could only make contact with it. The abilities of this innate intelligence, subconscious mind, or spiritual nature are far greater than any pill, therapy, or treatment, and it is only waiting for our permission to willfully act. We are riding on the back of a giant, and we’re getting a free ride. Coincidence”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“A new mind creates a new brain.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“The way we think affects our body as well as our life. You may have heard this concept expressed before in various ways—for example, in that phrase “mind over matter.” The people I interviewed not only shared this belief but also used it as a basis for making conscious changes in their own mind, body, and personal life. To”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Thinking creates feeling, and then feeling creates thinking, in a continuous cycle. This”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“The more we think the same thoughts, which then produce the same chemicals, which cause the body to have the same feelings, the more we physically become modified by our thoughts. In this way, depending on what we are thinking and feeling, we create our state of being. What we think about and the energy or intensity of these thoughts directly influences our health, the choices we make, and, ultimately, our quality of life. Applying”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“To begin changing their attitudes, these individuals began to pay constant attention to their thoughts. In particular, they made a conscious effort to observe their automatic thought processes, especially the harmful ones. To their surprise, they found that most of their persistent, negative inner statements were not true. In other words, just because we have a thought does not necessarily mean that we have to believe it is true. As”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“It takes awareness and effort to break the cycle of a thinking process that has become unconscious. First, we need to step out of our routines so we can look at our lives. Through contemplation and self-reflection, we can become aware of our unconscious scripts. Then, we must observe these thoughts without responding to them, so that they no longer initiate the automatic chemical responses that produce habitual behavior. Within all of us, we possess a level of self-awareness that can observe our thinking. We must learn how to be separate from these programs and when we do, we can willfully have dominion over them. Ultimately, we can exercise control over our thoughts. In doing so, we are neurologically breaking apart thoughts that have become hardwired in our brain. Since”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“They grew and changed their brain just by thinking. With the proper mental effort, the brain does not know the difference between mental or physical effort. Sheila’s”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Now it became easier for Sheila to imagine the person she wanted to be. She explored possibilities that she had never considered before. For weeks on end, she focused on how she would think and act as this new, unknown person. She constantly reviewed these new ideas about herself so that she could remember who she was going to be that day. Eventually, she turned herself into a person who was healthy, happy, and enthusiastic about her future. She grew new brain circuits, just like the piano players have done. It”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Like Sheila, all the people who shared their case histories with me succeeded in reinventing themselves. They persisted in attending to their new ideal until it became their familiar way of being. They became someone else, and that new person had new habits. They broke the habit of being themselves. How they accomplished this brings us to the fourth credo shared by those who experienced physical healings. Coincidence”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“This approach requires great effort. The first step for all of them was the decision to make this process the most important thing in their life. That meant breaking away from their customary schedules, social activities, television viewing habits, and so on. Had they continued to follow their habitual routines, they would have continued being the same person who had manifested illness. To change, to cease being the person they had been, they could no longer do the things they had typically done. Instead, these mavericks sat down every day and began to reinvent themselves. They made this more important than doing anything else, devoting every moment of their spare time to this effort. Everyone practiced becoming an objective observer of his or her old familiar thoughts. They refused to allow anything but their intentions to occupy their mind. You may be thinking, “That’s pretty easy to do when faced with a serious health crisis. After all, my own life is in my hands.” Well, aren’t most of us suffering from some affliction—physical, emotional, or spiritual—that affects the quality of our life? Don’t those ailments deserve the same kind of focused attention? Certainly,”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an action, but a habit. —Aristotle”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

“Thoughts matter and they become matter. We can’t separate them like Descartes did. Our thoughts influence physical phenomena; they interact with all the matter in the universe. In truth, our personal reality is just a reflection of our personality.”
― Joe Dispenza, quote from Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind

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