You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
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| Chapter Twelve Changing Beliefs and Perceptions Meditation In this chapter, I’m going to walk you through a guided meditation designed to help you change some beliefs or perceptions about yourself or your life. I recommend meditating while playing a recording, either of this meditation (which helps you change two beliefs or perceptions and lasts about an hour) or of a slightly shorter version (which helps you change one belief or perception and lasts 45 minutes. Both meditations are available for purchase on audio CDs or MP files from my website ( www.drjoedispenza.com ). The one-hour version is called You Are the Placebo Book Meditation Changing Two Beliefs and Perceptions, and the 45- minute version is called You Are the Placebo Book Meditation Changing One Belief and Perception. Or you can make a recording of yourself reading the text of either version of the meditation (both of which you will find in the Appendix). Remember that beliefs and perceptions are subconscious states of being. They start with thoughts and feelings that you think and feel over and over, until they ultimately become habituated or automatic—at which point they form an attitude. Attitudes strung together become beliefs, and related beliefs strung together become perceptions. Overtime, this redundancy creates a view of the world and of yourself that’s largely subconscious. It affects your relationships, your behaviors, and really everything in your life. So if you want to change a belief or perception, you have to first change your state of being. And changing your state of being means changing your energy, because in order for you to affect matter, you have to become more energy and less matter, more wave and less particle. That requires you to combine a clear intention and an elevated emotion— those are the two ingredients. As you’ve read, this process involves making a decision with a high- enough level of energy that your thought about the new belief becomes an experience that carries a strong emotional signature, which alters you on some level in that moment. That’s how you change your biology, become your own placebo, and make your mind matter. We all have had experiences that have affected our biology to some degree or another. Remember the Cambodian women, from Chapter 7 , who developed vision problems because of the horrors they were forced to witness when the Khmer Rouge was in power That’s an extreme example, of course, 273 but you can use the same principle to make a positive change. In order for this to work, the new experience has to be greater than the past experience. In other words, the internal experience you have when you meditate has to have a greater amplitude—greater energy—than the external past experience that created the belief and perception that you want to change. The body must respond to anew mind. So you have to put your heart into that elevated emotion you really have to get goosebumps. You have to feel lifted, inspired, invincible, and empowered. I’ll be giving you the opportunity to change two beliefs and perceptions about yourself in this meditation. So before you begin, decide which two you want to change. You can select one of the common limiting beliefs listed in Chapter 7 , or you can come up with something else on your own —such as, I’ll always have this pain or condition, Life is too hard, People are unfriendly, Success takes a lot of work, or I’ll never change. Once you decide, get apiece of paper and draw a vertical line down the middle. On the left side, write down the two beliefs and perceptions you want to change, one on top of the other. Then think fora minute If you don’t want to believe and perceive these things anymore, then what do you want to believe and perceive about yourself and your life And if you did believe and perceive those new things, how would that make you feel Write down the new beliefs and perceptions that you want to have on the right side of the paper. As you’ll soon see, this meditation is in three parts The first part is the induction, in which you will use the open-focus technique you read about in the last chapter to get you into more coherent alpha or theta brainwave states where you’re more suggestible. This is vital, because the only way you can truly influence your heath and become the placebo is when your own suggestibility is enhanced In the second part, you’ll find the present moment and linger in the quantum void, where all possibilities exist And in the third part, you’ll change your beliefs and perceptions. Here, to walk you through what you’ll be doing when you actually sit down to meditate, I’ll give you some direction at the beginning of each part, and then the text of the meditation will follow in italics. If you’re an experienced meditator, feel free to do the entire meditation the whole way through during your first time. If you’re new to meditation, you may want to practice the first part everyday fora week, 274 then add the second part the second week, and progress to all three parts the third week. Either way, keep doing this same meditation on a daily basis, until you see some changes happening in your life. If you are already practicing the meditation that I outlined in Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, I want to point out that the meditation in this book is entirely different, even though you’ll find some similarities in the way in which both meditations begin (the induction phase. If you can do only one meditation per day, I recommend trying this new meditation fora few months so that you can fully reap the benefits. Then you can decide which meditation you want to continue with, or you can switchback and forth between the two as you wish. Induction: Creating Brain Coherence and Slower Brain Waves with Open Focus When you move into the open-focus meditation, you’ll be going from particle to wave, from the narrow focus you usually have on people, places, and things in the outer world to a more open focus—where you’ll be concentrating not on any physical thing, but on space. After all, if an atom is approximately 99.9 percent energy and we’re always focusing on the particle, maybe it’s time we paid some attention to the wave, because our awareness and our energy are intrinsically combined—putting attention on our energy is what amplifies our energy. When you use this technique, your brain naturally recalibrates, because to do it correctly, you have to let goof your analytical mind (which is very busy thinking in high beta as an identity. That identity, who you know yourself to be, is connected to the external environment, to your emotional addictions and habits, and to time. The moment you get beyond those elements, you’re nothing but pure consciousness, and as you read earlier, the different compartments of your brain begin to communicate better and your brainwaves become very orderly—they start sending a coherent signal to the rest of the body, just as you saw in the workshop participants. Stay present during this meditation don’t try to figure anything out and don’t try to visualize. Just sense and feel. If you can sense where your left ankle is, if you can feel where your nose is, and if you can sense where the space between your sternum and your chest is, then you’re resting your awareness, your consciousness, and your attention in those places. You might get a picture or an image in your head (say, of your chest or of your heart, but you don’t have to strive for that you just have to become aware of the space within and around your body in space. 275 This first part of the meditation should last for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. Download 5.46 Mb. Share with your friends:
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