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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One Paperback – Illustrated, February 15, 2013
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Best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, and neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares that you are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life.
New science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose.
In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Dr. Joe Dispenza combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible and how to recondition the body and create better health.
Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change your energy and any aspect of yourself, but you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn in order to make measurable changes in any area of your life.
Chapters include:
Foreword by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Introduction: The Greatest Habit You Can Ever Break Is the Habit of Being Yourself
PART I: The Science of You
The Quantum You
Overcoming Your Environment
Overcoming Your Body
Overcoming Time
Survival vs. Creation
PART II: Your Brain and Meditation
Three Brains: Thinking to Doing to Being
The Gap
Meditation, Demystifying the Mystical, and Waves of Your Future
PART III: Stepping Toward Your New Destiny
The Meditative Process: Introduction and Preparation
Open the Door to Your Creative State
Step 1: Induction
Prune Away the Habit of Being Yourself (Week Two)
Step 2: Recognizing
Step 3: Admitting and Declaring
Step 4: Surrendering
Dismantle the Memory of the Old You (Week Three)
Step 5: Observing and Reminding
Step 6: Redirecting
Create a New Mind for Your New Future (Week Four)
Step 7: Creating and Rehearsing
Demonstrating and Being Transparent: Living Your New Reality
Dr. Joe demystifies consciousness and ancient understandings to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. Through his powerful healing workshops and lectures, thousands of people in 24 different countries have used these principles to change from the inside out. Once you break the habit of being yourself and truly change your mind, your life will never be the same!
“In this book, I want to share some of what I learned along the way and show you, by exploring how mind and matter are interrelated, how you can apply these principles not only to your body, but to any aspect of your life.”
— Dr. Joe Dispenza
“Anyone who reads this book and applies the steps will benefit from their efforts. Its cutting-edge content is explained in a simple language that is accessible to anyone, and provides a user-friendly guide for sustained change from the inside out.”
— Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research, HeartMath Research Center
- Print length360 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHay House LLC
- Publication dateFebruary 15, 2013
- Dimensions5.94 x 0.94 x 9 inches
- ISBN-109781401938093
- ISBN-13978-1401938093
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-- Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Director of Research, HeartMath Research Center
We're in the midst of an unparalleled new era of personal growth, in which a productive feedback loop has been established between the latest discoveries of neuroscience and the ancient practices of meditation. Dr. Joe Dispenza's new book masterfully yet clearly explains the 'hard science' of how our brains and bodies work. He then applies it practically in a four-week program of fundamental personal change, showing how we can use a structured meditation program to consciously rewire our neural network for creativity and joy. Dawson Church, Ph.D., bestselling author of The Genie in Your Genes
"Dr. Joe Dispenza brings us the manual for becoming a divine creator! He makes the brain science practical; he shows us how to break free of the grip of our emotions to create happy, healthy, and abundant lives, and how to finally dream our world into being. I've been waiting for this book for a long time!"
-- Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., author of Power Up Your Brain and Shaman, Healer, Sage
"As a semiretired psychologist who has thought about many of these issues for years, I have to admit that [this book] will likely change some long-held beliefs in the field of psychology. Dr. Joe's conclusions, which are well grounded in neuroscience, challenge our ideas of who we think we are and what we think is even possible. A brilliant and uplifting book."
-- Dr. Allan Botkin, clinical psychologist; author of Induced After-Death Communication
"Dr. Joe Dispenza's entertaining and highly accessible manual for rewiring your mental and emotional circuitry carries a simple but potent message: what you think today determines how you live tomorrow."
-- Lynne McTaggart, best-selling author of The Field, The Intention Experiment, and The Bond
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- Publisher : Hay House LLC; Reprint edition (February 15, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 360 pages
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- ISBN-13 : 978-1401938093
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.94 x 0.94 x 9 inches
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A New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant, Dr Joe Dispenza has developed a practical formula to help people transform their lives.
Dr Joe’s mission unifies complex branches of science in an approachable way – focused on proven research, “Stories of Transformation” testimonials, and the scientific data behind spontaneous remissions. Inspired by the latest findings in neuroscience, psychoneuroimmunology, epigenetics, and quantum physics, his work integrates essential knowledge about the mind-body connection – which teaches people how to heal various health conditions and make significant changes in their lives.
Since 2010, he has partnered with renowned scientists and universities – including University of California San Diego, Harvard University, Stanford University, and others – to perform extensive research on the effects of meditation on the brain and body.
During research studies conducted at his seven-day advanced retreats around the world, Dr Joe and his team have gathered more than 20,000 brain scans (quantitative QEEG and fMRI) and more than 10,000 heart-rate variability (HRV) measurements. Their findings demonstrate the effects of sustained, elevated states of mind and emotions – and how self-regulation produces significant effects on heart and brain function, immune response, and overall mind-body health.
Working with thousands of novice and advanced meditators in these studies, Dr Joe and his team have analyzed a database of 3,000 blood metabolites collected before and after the retreats. Using pre- and post-samples, they have studied epigenetic and microbiome changes, a gross spectrum of urine metabolites, and the healing effects of breast milk.
Dr Joe’s team also has conducted extensive research on cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and neurogenesis – as well as the effects of advanced meditators’ natural resistance to the COVID-19 virus; isolating a specific protein that strengthens the immune responses. The team also has measured how intention can directly influence gene expression and protein regulation. They have measured changes in cellular mitochondrial function, endogenous opioids, neurotransmitters, telomere length, and variations in bioactive cellular metabolic particles.
Research studies conducted at their retreats also include speech analysis to better understand the language of transformation and transcendental experiences; studies on twins and closely bonded pairs; the use of random-event generators to measure changes in collective consciousness; and the biological effects of in-person as well as Remote Coherence Healing™ sessions.
Dr Joe and his team are expanding their reach to include communities in need around the world. They’ve worked with more than one thousand children to study the effects of meditation in a school setting; veterans – including U.S. Navy SEALs – and others suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder; inmates at prisons in the U.S. and Mexico; indigenous tribes in the U.S.; and children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Teaching self-regulation through heart and brain coherence, they’re bringing healing to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Finding a book which combines all of them and that surprisingly makes perfect sense is a great, great thing.
Reading this book helped me uncovering a couple of very interesting issues I have dragging around for years. Therapy helped a lot, of course. But what this book was able to do was making me come to a point where I was able to clearly verbalize one of my biggest issues.
Things made a lot of sense since that moment. And although life is a constant work in progress and what looks like an amazing milestone could after a while simply look like some pebble along a dirt road, and therefore in a few months time I may have maybe a less enthusiast opinion, what comes out is that we are in the presence of a very great work.
In short, this book has been an invaluable help to me. And I really with the same for you.
I highly recommend it.
Shortly after reading this book I was discussing it with a successful, young woman who struggles with the hectic schedule of being a working mom. She heard the title and said, "Sounds interesting, but what if I like myself? Why would I want to change being myself?" I asked her if she ever worried about her kids or felt stressed with her overbearing schedule. "All the time." she said. "Worry, guilt, stress... doesn't that just come with the territory of motherhood and work?" Wow, I thought. I used to think that way too! That's the fallacy we've been led to believe: that worry, fear, resentment, anxiety and all those survival emotions that create chronic stress in our lives are normal. Not only are they NOT normal, they are making us - and our world - chronically ill. As a result, we are seeing breakdown in systems across the board - incoherence in our bodies, our families, communities, and our world.
It's time for conscious change because the truth is, we are so much more than we know. We are multidimensional beings, powerful beyond measure, here to be conscious creators. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself gives us leading edge science revealing the inherent power in each of us to consciously harness the mind (thoughts) and body (feelings) to change our brains, thus creating a new state of Being to affect our external world.
The tools for change and the science behind them are stunning as well. The book "demystifies the mystical," teaching the use of meditation to become aware of how thoughts and emotions are functioning-- how a person can see past their mental programming, and identify as the consciousness observing the program. Meditation, we learn, is the unlearning process-- its purpose is to become aware of the old self, those aspects of our selves we want to change by going into the operating system of those subconscious programs and bringing them into our conscious awareness so that we have dominion over them.
This book is a masterpiece and an evolutionary eye-opener for anyone, old, young, and in between. The science is breath-taking. Dr. Dispenza's teaching style, genius. Is there something you want for your life, for the world? Greater happiness, love, abundance, more time with loved ones, better health and self care? How about creating new, desired habits for a balanced world at peace? You have the hardware - your brain, your body, and the freedom to place your awareness on anything you want if you know how. The newest science tells us that we absolutely have the power! I recommend you embrace this book, fall in love with its knowledge, repeat what you've learned over and over, follow its four-week program for fundamental change, and get ready for a new you and new life beyond your wildest imaginings!!
I am 82 years old, with a doctorate in clinical psychology and both certified to practice and qualified to teach clinical hypnosis. I first heard of Joe Dispenza at the time of the “What’s the Bleep …” presentations, and was intrigued by his part in this. I have done most everything that self-seekers do - seminars, trainings, many books and, most recently, reading books about biology and neurobiology. I have experienced the influence of many wise people like Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Bruce Lipton and Candice Pert. At this stage in my life, nearing its end, I wanted to take one more try at changing myself.
I think Joe Dispenza’s 2013 writing may be kicking me into purposeful action. His perspective in the early chapters captures most of the good sense and research findings in my earlier exposures and adds to this some sensible advice on implementation - not an arduous process but a very sensible approach to undoing some of my past failures and overcoming a long life of building a self-defeating personality. As Dispenza says in the afterword to his book “Your attention is where your energy is. Put all of your attention on the external, material world, and that becomes your investment in reality. On the contrary, command your mindfulness to unfold a deeper aspect of yourself, and your energy will expand that reality. You as a human being have the freedom to place your awareness on anything. To develop your ability to manage and properly use this abundance of power is a gift. Wherever you put thoughts and awareness becomes your reality”. His book lays out in a very comfortable way the research findings and collected wisdom that lead to this truth.
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"I have recently completed reading *Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself* by Dr. Joe Dispenza, a book that I found to be exceptionally wonderful, exciting, and uplifting. This work effectively serves as a profound guide that understands the intricacies of creation and the creator. It explores the concept of a divine essence within each of us and offers insights on how to access our inner selves to connect with this divinity. Dr. Dispenza articulately outlines a step-by-step process for clearing the mind and embracing the divine power inherent within us. Motivated by the rich insights gained, I have decided to reread the book. Revisiting the text, I anticipate uncovering new layers of understanding and learning, which often emerge upon a second reading."
"I have adopted a new approach to meditation, focusing on love and compassion while consciously releasing all fears and concerns, trusting in the divine to provide guidance and care. This shift has significantly alleviated feelings of anger, sadness, and confusion. Now, post-meditation, I feel invigorated and enthusiastic, eager to proceed with my day with a sense of happiness and fulfillment."
Este libro me hizo volar la mente, mucha información y con teoría, con ciencia
Me parece que no es un libro para cualquier o para empezar a aprender de estos temas, sino se puede tornar complicado al leerlo. Toma tiempo leerlo porque tiene muchas páginas y mucha información para procesar y reflexionar.
Excelente calidad del libro además, no se dobla.
Reviewed in Mexico on December 15, 2022
Este libro me hizo volar la mente, mucha información y con teoría, con ciencia
Me parece que no es un libro para cualquier o para empezar a aprender de estos temas, sino se puede tornar complicado al leerlo. Toma tiempo leerlo porque tiene muchas páginas y mucha información para procesar y reflexionar.
Excelente calidad del libro además, no se dobla.






























