THE HABIT OF BEING YOU

"Change and evolution are all about breaking the habit of being 'you.'"

-- Joe Dispenza

Hi,

How weird to think of our identity as being a habit... but there's so much truth in this! And if we're not entirely happy with our lives, we might want to figure out how to break the habits that aren't serving us.

When I read Joe Dispenza's book, 'Evolve Your Brain,' I got my first glimpse of the body's role in shaping our personality and how we do life. Let me give you the story in a nutshell.

We experience a thought when a specific neural pathway in the brain gets activated. Every thought we think produces a bio-chemical reaction in the brain that then sends chemical signals to the body that trigger a feeling.

The frequencies of the thought and the feeling match. If I think, "I need more money," the feeling would likely be anxiety or fear.

The brain then notices the feeling of fear in the body, and this triggers another matching frequency thought like "I'm poor." A feedback loop has been created. In effect, thinking creates feeling, and then feeling creates thinking, and around and around it goes.

The more we think the same thoughts, which then produce the same chemicals that cause the body to have the same feelings, the more we physically become hooked to this pattern. Over time, the sum of our dominant thinking and feeling patterns determines how we are in the world.

How do we break bad habits? By becoming aware of our self-sabotaging thoughts so we can cut the harmful circuits and create new ones that bring us what we want. And that's exactly the aim of my new Awareness Journey email series. Ready for a new lease on life? Click here.

~ Patrice

"As neuroscience is beginning to acknowledge, our thoughts matter and our thoughts literally become matter."

-- Joe Dispenza

"It is where we place our attention ... that maps the very course of our state of being."

-- Joe Dispenza