If You're Tired Of Living In The Past, Do This Heart Practice | Joe Dispenza

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1:19What advice would you give to someone in their 20s who struggles with criticism or struggles with what people putting something out there they really care about and getting judged for that? How would you coach them up on that? I think one of the key things is to never take criticism personally. Sometimes feedback that you get that's critical is good for you because you know this, you take a look at yourself on camera and you're like, oh, I'm going to cinch that in a little bit. Criticism causes us to become self-aware, right? It gets abusive when you attack the character of the person and you should never take that personally.

1:57Like people, I don't really, I don't care. Like I really don't know what people say. I really don't care. The other thing is you got to be really bad-ass good at something. You can't, you can't, you can't be mediocre. You got to put your time in again. You got to be an expert. You got to know your message. You got to know what you're doing. You got to know that you know, like you got to be at that level of expertise. You got to be that competent that you're immersed in whatever field that you're in and you're current with it all, then the criticism becomes actually an exchange of information and you can disagree and have a great conversation.

2:34And I think that when you assault somebody's character, it's a distraction, right? So I would never take it personally at this point. I really don't care, especially if you're mission driven and you got a vision and that's where you're going, use the criticism as a healthy way to check in and say, is that true for me? Okay. He's got a point or she's got a point. Okay. I get that. I'm going to change this, but this part I know to be true. And I do that all the time. Like people say, you should do this. No, no. I know where we're going. Like I have to make those decisions. So I think it's healthy.

3:12I think we're living in a little bit of a crazy time where it's very easy to take shots at people. But I think if you're really an expert on what you do, it's hard to take you down. Yeah. We mentioned about people trying to attract more money or a healthy relationship. And it seems like a lot of people are struggling in love and relationships, bouncing around from relationship to relationship or just heartbroken when it doesn't work out. You feel like you have to be fully healed in order to receive love in a new relationship? or if you're brokenhearted and broken, you can still receive love? I think love heals in a lot of ways, but it's got to be really unconditional love.

3:56It really has to be love that transcends conditions. I love you because, but it's just kind of a state. And so practicing feeling love is one of the things that we work on as a community. Feeling frustration, feeling, you know, impatience, feeling resentment. It really changes the way the heart functions. When you're living in that state, I'm frustrated, I'm impatient. When I'm resentful, when I'm judgmental. What happens to the brain and heart when you're living in those lower energetic states? Yeah, well, so for sure, when you're living by those emotions, the heart basically is starting to become aroused.

4:41It's getting a rush of chemistry, but you're not running, you're not fighting, you're not hiding, but it's pumping. So it's pumping against a closed system, and it causes the heart to kind of get strained and beat out of order. When the heart is incoherent like that, the waves that are created that are incoherent cancel each other out. the energy of the heart goes down and you trust less, you're less inspired, you're less affectionate, you're less kind, you're less caring because the heart has a different consciousness, right? So and then the other hormonal centers of the body. So when we do our work, we start many of the meditations with opening our hearts because the heart is the creative center.

5:23And when energy makes it to the heart, we've seen this over and over again. Once there's enough energy in the heart, we've seen it like you put your attention on it and you start to relax into it. There's a very low frequency that builds up in the heart. That's the energy that the heart uses to beat. So you're giving it light. And we know that you can get really good at that. If you slow your breathing down, you slow your brainwaves down and you get out of survival and you start to see in more pictures and images, you're kind of in a relaxed state. But when you're starting to relax into the heart, the heart, we've measured this enough times, does two things.

6:03It sends a wave of energy, like grabbing a big sheet and going like this. It just sends a wave of energy to the brain. It tells the brain to get creative, dream. The heart is telling you, fall in love with your the future. Pick a new possibility that you would love to experience. And the brain goes into that super creative state. So the forebrain is the creative center. The heart is the creative center. It's the union of opposites, of polarity, of duality is where wholeness begins. So the heart informs the brain to become creative. But the other side of that, to answer your question, we see this over and over again, especially when we work with veterans with PTSD, the heart resets the baseline for a past trauma in the brain.

6:49The heart tells the brain it's over, like the past is over. And the person has a new view of their past, and they have a new view of their future. So what I'm hearing you say is until we are able to heal our heart, we'll always stay stuck in a past that holds us back. Yeah, well, look, I mean, it's not easy. I mean, when we work with the youth in our community, they have the same question. It's always like, how do I stay in my heart? Like, this is an ongoing thing. This is something that's going to take a little practice. so you have to agree that when you feel resentment when you feel impatience when you feel frustration it's a very different chemistry than when you feel love more than 70 percent of the time people are living by those emotions that are derived from the hormones of stress to to dial down the survival systems in the body and start teaching the body emotionally how it could feel goes against all the programming we've had about living and survival.

7:56Why would you open your heart in the jungle? You would be, you would be eaten, you'd be afraid, you would be vulnerable, right? So people get injured, they get bruised, and they'll say, this is not a conscious process, by the way, I'll never love like that again, I'll never open up like that again. The experience of the past that ruined my life and ruined this person, ruined my relation, you know, my world and other relationships. That will never heal until the person finds love. Because when you feel love and you start releasing different chemicals like oxytocin and our data shows that some people we study, their oxytocin levels are off the chart.

8:38It's not a little love, a lot of love. We see that some people's amplitudes of heart coherence are three times higher than other people. It's like there's a big resonance going on in the heart. It's a lot of energy going to the brain. And so when we're resentful, when we're judgmental, when we're impatient, the brain is very incoherent as well. And the wave of energy from the heart to the brain causes the brain to get organized, causes it to get coherent. Right. And so it's an art and a practice. So then people who truly have this moment where they start wanting to feel this emotion instead of the past, it's impossible for them to hold a grudge.

9:21They're feeling so good. They're like, listen, you're okay. Let it go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's not like I'm going to forgive you now. Remember, I'm forgiving you. Like, it's not like that. It's more like it's all good. Like, I don't belong to the past anymore. And they see their past. In terms of a level of consciousness that's instrumental for them to gain wisdom. And the memory without the emotional charge is called wisdom. And that's when you belong to the future instead of the past.

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