How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
1-Sentence Summary of Becoming Supernatural
Becoming Supernatural is a transformative exploration by Dr. Joe Dispenza, showcasing how individuals can use scientific principles and spiritual practices to transcend common human experience and unlock their extraordinary potential.
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Introduction
How much of your creative energy are you losing to negative emotions such as guilt, hatred, fear, or resentment? You can reroute all that energy to create the future you want. All you have to do is rewire your brain. If you understand your “heart intelligence,” you can enhance your mind-body connection. You can realize self-transformation and empowerment. Lose the habits tying you to the past and become supernatural!
We can’t solve our problems using the same thinking we used when we created them. In Becoming Supernatural, Dr. Joe Dispenza argues a vital yet controversial point. Changing our thinking goes far deeper than just changing perspectives.
This book is a profound read in which Dispenza explores the scientific and mystical realms. He shows you how to free yourself from self-imposed yet unjustified limitations. In doing so, you can transcend physical limitations and become who you truly want to become.
Dispenza also shares many examples and guides to help you understand and do what it takes to become supernatural. Let’s explore the main ideas contained in Becoming Supernatural.
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About Dr. Joe Dispenza
Dr. Joe Dispenza is a chiropractor, writer, and speaker. His primary focus areas have been epigenetics, quantum physics, and neuroscience.
Dispenza is a bestselling author of books including Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself, You Are The Placebo, and Becoming Supernatural. He’s also featured in several documentaries, notably Heal, Rewired, and What The Bleep Do We Know.
His work has earned him acclaim and criticism in equal measure, and it’s easy to understand why.
Dispenza suggests that the world is divided into the explained and the unexplained. Most people are conditioned to accept what science can explain. But our reality is intertwined with things that conventional science cannot explain. In his words, “common people are doing the uncommon.”
In a world surrounded by the mundane, many experience things that are considered out of this world. Having experienced and recorded several of these phenomena, he evaluated them scientifically. Eventually, his findings culminated in Becoming Supernatural.
StoryShot #1: Emotions and Stress Directly Influence Our Health
We first learn the story of Anna. Anna developed serious health conditions after her husband committed suicide.
Medically speaking, living in a stressed state is like living in constant survival mode. The body’s sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight system) turns on and uses a lot of energy in response to the stressor.
The body can only deal with short-term stress. The body never resumes a normal state if the pressure doesn’t end. But we can’t live in this “emergency mode” for extended periods without adverse health and mental health effects.
Effects of Emotional Stress and Trauma
Thanks to our large brains, we can think about our problems, relive past events, or worry about the future. Reliving the past or trying to control an unpredictable future can produce the same effect on us as the actual event. Both throw the body off its typical physiological balance.
Anna repeatedly relived the stressful situation and emotions in her mind. Her body couldn’t differentiate between the actual event and the stressful memories. This response effectively threw her body into a constant state of survival.
Experiences create emotions. As our senses record information, our neurons reorganize into networks. They then freeze into a particular pattern. This causes the brain to send a chemical throughout the body, which is the emotional response.
That’s why we can remember events better if we can remember how they feel. The stronger the emotional response, the stronger the change in internal chemistry it causes. The brain pays attention whenever a significant change occurs inside us. It takes a “snapshot” of that experience, which becomes a memory of that experience.
The memory of an event can also become neurologically implanted in the brain. The scene becomes implanted in our gray matter. Like what happened to Anna, the combination of people, objects, scenes, time, and places is etched into our brains like a holographic image. Over time, it becomes a long-term memory.
Overcoming Stress for Self-Healing
Constantly reliving a traumatic experience turns on the body’s nervous response. The body uses all of its energy to deal with the constant “threat,” leaving it no energy for growth and repair. This state can also compromise the immune response.
In Anna’s case, the repeated inner conflict caused her immune system to attack her body. It was a physical manifestation of the pain and suffering she was going through in her mind. Her mind couldn’t move forward, and her body couldn’t move either.
Anna turned on the stress response by thinking about her problems and past. Her thoughts were making her sick. Since stress hormones are so powerful, she became addicted to her thoughts.
Eventually, Anna made an intentional, firm choice to change herself and her life. As we’ll see next, this decision carried the energy she needed to force her body to respond to her mind.
StoryShot #2: Change Your Future by Changing Yourself
On a cold winter day in February 2011, Anna chose to change herself and her life. She knew she had to start all over, and that moment redefined her.
Anna believed in a new future rather than the familiar past. Using meditation techniques, she combined the power of clear intention and elevated emotions. She then used this combination to change her state of being at a biological level.
Anna had to change from the inside out, starting with her thoughts, habits, and emotions. These had already become hardwired and chemically conditioned into her body. Breaking them would be tough.
Anna realized she could train her body to anticipate her future, even before it happened. Her unconscious mind didn’t know the difference between real and imagined experience, so it embraced both as truth.
Effecting Change at a Genetic Level
Anna understood that the stress chemical coursing through her body had been turning on unhealthy genes.
She could turn on healthy genes instead, by embracing elevated positive emotions with more passion than negative ones.
Further, Anna learned that genes don’t create disease. The environment signals them to create the disease. If she lived every day with the same emotions from her past, Anna was fostering conditions for the genes to cause illness in her body.
Instead, she embraced and embodied the emotions of her future life. This meant she could change her genetic expression and align her body with her new future.
Over time, Anna could see that her thought patterns had changed. Her brain was no longer firing the same circuits, so the old paths stopped wiring together and started pulling apart. She stopped thinking in the old ways and started feeling gratitude and pleasure for the first time in years.
StoryShot #3: All Opportunities Exist in the Quantum Field
Dispenza’s ideas seek to combine quantum physics and spirituality. Anna had connected to a field of information called the quantum field, where all possibilities exist. She had become a new, healthy person, free from the old Anna in whom the disease thrived. By acting and feeling differently, Anna reinvented herself and was reborn.
Thoughts Define Feelings and Vice versa
Any thought or emotion triggers biochemical reactions in the body that cause the brain to release certain chemicals. These make you feel what you’re thinking. Chemical messengers cause your thoughts to manifest physically. You generate more thoughts because of what you’re feeling, and this becomes a vicious cycle.
For example, if you have a fearful thought, you start to feel fear. The emotion of fear influences you to think more fearful thoughts, which trigger more chemicals that increase the emotion of fear.
When you repeatedly fire and wire the same circuits in your brain by thinking the same thoughts, you’re hard-wiring your brain into a pattern. Your brain becomes an artifact of past thinking.
StoryShot #4: The Future Repeats the Past Unless You Change It
The moment you wake up in the morning, your mind searches for the familiar feeling of “you”. In effect, you start your day in the past when you start to think about your problems. These are memories of experiences of different people, things, places, and times.
You create unhappiness, futility, pain, and other negative feelings every time you remember the past.
Your body and mind are predicting a future based on familiar events and feelings from the past. In that familiar future, there’s no room for the unknown.
The unknown is unfamiliar and uncertain but also exciting because it occurs in ways you can’t anticipate or expect. So, Dispenza asks: How much room do you have for the unknown?
If you can still predict the feeling or experience, you’re living in the known. For instance, imagine you are going to have a meeting with co-workers you’ve worked with for years. The thought of it elicits automatic emotions about what will happen.
You can already predict the feeling of that future event based on past experiences. This means you’re likely to create more of the same feelings and experiences.
StoryShot #5: Emotions are Energy
Dispenza proposes that emotions are energy in motion. For example, when someone walks into a room, their energy is palpable. Everyone has felt and understood the intent and energy of another person when they’re angry or frustrated. Usually, that person emits a strong signal or energy that carries specific information.
Each emotion produces a different frequency. For instance, positive emotions produce much higher frequencies than their negative counterparts. This is because they have different energy levels and intents.
You place your energy where your attention is. If you focus on a familiar emotion, your attention is in the past. You’re siphoning your power from the present into the past.
If you think about the people you have to see, the things you have to do, and the places you have to go, you place your energy into a predictable and known future. This is still based on your past experiences.
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Editor’s Note
This article was first published on 5 October 2022. It was thoroughly revised and updated on 7 July 2023.
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