He literally described childhood - not focusing on your body, time, your possessions etc. This is why I crave my childhood. I want to feel whole and at peace again.

I get that childhood-like feeling every now and then. It’s very brief but when I do.. it’s amazing man.

I truly believe that depression is your body/mind saying “I’m sick of trying to play this role, it’s not me”’

I'm disabled and living in my car. Been slowly teaching myself how to do this, and if I can do it while I'm homeless I can definitely do it while I'm back on my feet

I have a terminal autoimmune disease and its from being so stressed my whole life, I literally fried my immune system from the stress and working 100+ hours a week at a super high stakes job. And financially taking care of my mom, and others. Too much. It wasn't worth it. Now, I stay to myself and ENJOY my days. Doing what I WANT TO. and it has healed me so much.

"a person who can't sit at ease is in a state of dis-ease" - sadhguru

Having our phones connected to social media, plus watching the news (which is designed to rile you up) makes it so hard to escape these thoughts. I deleted Facebook, I turned off all notifications for my apps, and I basically did my best to turn turned my life into 1993 again. It's helped immeasurably. Every once in a while something happens and I'll convince myself I have a need to get back online more consistently, and within a day I'm back to being a stressed out mess who can't sleep. And for what?

It took me 11 years to learn all of this collectively and heal from immense traum, disease and a stroke, and I'm only 28, yet I just learned this all in 27 minutes on KZfaq. Bless the internet.

That moment when you get stressed because you hear that stress leads to disease :O

I cured my stress by going to art exhibitions, painting beautiful tropical flowers and walking on the damp green grass. I feel so much more myself and not so alone …..I loved it.

As a recovering meth addict, I cannot begin to describe how much this video helped me. Knowledge really is power.

A mind-blowing video. I used to be that type of student who always rushed in the last hour to study. Last semester, I studied for my final exam a night before the exam date. It was stressful, and I could even hear my body calling for help. Now that I have adapted a new study schedule and actually used it, I'm always a week ahead of the following lecture, and I feel good. Thanks to this video, I understand I used to be addicted to stress. It was scary; you can get out of it as I did. Trust yourself, and pull yourself together. You can do this!

Let's not forget the importance of real food as essential ingredients for our body to make the correct chemicals we need when we need them....

Dr Joe Dispenza's book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself changed my life. I learned to do the meditation he's talking about here and after 6 months I cured my chronic depression and panic attacks.

In my 40 years i cannot remember a single day without stress, fear, anxiety and an all consuming anger. I cannot even imagine life without it. I am also constantly sick. Got diabetes, cancer, my lung keeps collapsing, inflammation all the time, bones keep breaking, nerves in my eye are paralyzed and the list goes on. Lost about 45 kilo and i look like a zombie. I wish someone would have taught me these things when i was young. Thanks for this video.

I find that excitement and anxiety evoke the same response. One way I’ve reduced my anxiety over the year was to train my brain into being addicted to optimism and happiness. I let my self feel more excited about things, the small things as well. Like coffee or rain…small inconveniences add excitement to the day. Something embarrassing? It’s not anxiety evoking but something funny to laugh back at

society makes us depressed. we were born into this society and we dont have to live this way.

Quote of the year : if you’re going to create something new in your life, you have to crave the unknown!

I cured my stress by deleting social media, specially Instagram and tiktok

Wow I'm in tears as I'm writing this after watching the whole video. I've been way extremely hard on myself. Time to let things go, let things be, and no more living in survival more. And forgiving myself for being so hard on myself for almost 2 years straight. For all the extreme stress I put on my mind and body. I even feel like I can breathe better. Tysm for this video. Eternally grateful, you explained it so well.

When I am drawing, coloring or sewing I don’t realize time I am zoned out and I love it I enjoy it so much!

this is the message I tried to get my ex boyfriend to understand, he was so miserable and depressed - you gotta change the way you perceive the world. I tried but in the end, I had to leave. His negativity was starting to take a toll on my mental health. I am an artist normally, my life is painting and drawing. During our relationship, I completely stopped creating. I think this says it all, I was in complete survival mode, giving all of my self to the other person.

You can’t control your what happens in the outside world but you can control your inner world love it 🥰 i was feeling so hopeless and depressed over feeling out of control of my life and I can’t afford therapy right now but I swear the universe always gives me the most perfect answers that I need in the divine timing I’m so grateful 🙏🏽

Thank you for this. I’m a nurse suffering from extreme burnout. Last week I cried going to work..... and cried when I got home. There’s also stress at home, so no relief. It’s been like this for years, and it’s taken a big toll on my health and happiness. I have a lot of work to do in order to change my thoughts. At least now I see the connection.

This video will literally save what's left of my life.

This channel is pure water in the desert. I’m so grateful for it because sometimes, even if I know what is right, I forget about it. I get lost in this life full of alienation. Then I come back here to this channel, and I remember again what it feels to be aware. Thank you

I lost my dad and my mum and my house before the age of 24 which I just didn’t expect to happen. So because of that I feel like my brain believes any bad can happen. So I’m just living in survival mode preparing for the worst and I’m really trying to get out of it but it’s hard, I’m struggling. But this video definitely makes perfect sense.

This blew my mind. I’ve learned more about myself in this short video than I have in 37years. Living in creation for me has been my own self healing.

I lived in fight or flight for 30 years, starting life at 39. For sure my dad was stuck in survival his whole life and I unfotunately inherited all that crap plus the endless projection onto me and manipulating my mind for his own f-ed up ego.

The weirdest thing happened. I listened to this in tje morning and then i moved on with my daily meditation. As i was meditating i felt uncomfortable, my back hurt and it was just not a pleasant feeling. I sat there trying to embrace it. And then i just heard this question ..are you in survival or creation? And as soon as i answered this my body stopped aching, i got relaxed, my breathing got deeper and easier. I am completely in awe of this

This just made me cry. My default state is stress and anxiety. I'm constantly being treated like shit by society, just walking out of my house. Why can't people be nice

When I was living in Paris I was surrounded by art and creativity. My stress levels were significantly lower

"You can turn on your stress response just by thought alone, you can become addicted to your own thoughts. Your thoughts can literally make you sick." - Wow 😱

Min 16:50: “If you keep the same reaction lingering for hours or days, thats called the Mood. If you keep that same refractory period going for weeks to months, thats called the Temperament. If you keep that same emotional reaction going for years on end, thats called the Personality...”

“The unknown becomes the adventure. Why is that important? Because if we are going to create something new in our life, we have to crave the unknown”

I have suffered depression , stress and anxiety for the past 8 years and I’m 33 years old women .. I became so sick last year thanks for KZfaq I found out I was making my self sick.. It was an aha moment for me .. I learned I have power to make myself sick and have the power to heal my self

This is why I started smoking weed often. LIfe too stressful, weed brings me back to normality and the present. BUt now I use meditation to do it and that's way healthier.

Having OCD, my stress response never turns off. I’m so chronically stressed and this is helping me put things in perspective. I’ve done so much meditation but mental illness is real- also leading to more debt and job impairment. Sending love to all of those suffering.

They way he describes being addicted to stress response is mind opening

00:09 Placebo and Nocebo Effects 01:33 Living in a State of Stress 16:05 The impact of emotional reactions on mood, temperament, and personality 19:09 Living in creation and the power of broad focus 23:05 The healing potential of creating coherence in the brain and body 26:36 Introduction to brain wave states and conscious control of brain waves

It makes so much sense now. I can literally think about one wrong thing and it sends my whole system out of whack.

I thought that I was addicted to the pain. This affirms my suspicions.

This is absolutely profound. I am living in a heightened fear state all the time (anyone who works in IT will know what I am talking about). What I found so amazing is this explains why I am always in such an analytical state. I over analyze everything, right down to the way that people breathe and I "predict" their emotions or intentions in my mind. I desperately need to find the remedy to change my mindset. I lived like this for 42 years of my life and I want the change so badly. Thank you so much for this information, this is helping me to find the right path.

I grew up in so much household and war trauma, and now somehow I found myself completing my masters in neuroscience not knowing that in hindsight I was perhaps seeking answers to why I am the way I am. I found the brain fascinating but deep down it was that I wanted to understand my own. Now with the knowledge I have I can attest that the brain is indeed fascinating and capable of so much and is extremely plastic and less concrete than scientists wish to admit. It is sad that the recent narrative has been that mental illnesses are “hardwired chemical imbalances”. A definition that completely stripped a person’s self-autonomy and choice in the matter. We all have a choice and our brains are ready to listen to it and rewire accordingly. We just have to make it. I wish all a blessed existence ❤

you mean i should change my gamemode to creative?

NEVER EVER allow anyone or even self trick you into believing that you aren't enough. And end up fighting a life long disease while they party their lives away. Really, never put anyone before YOU. Self Love is the only way you can truly love anyone else unconditionally.

As someone with both these diseases, this was eye opening. I've been working for a yr to get out of survival mode.

11:12 Take ten minutes a day to feel love for life, gratefulness, etc. 7:26 "No organism can live in an emergency state for an extended period of time." (So it is important to turn it off and take time to relax, play video-games, meditate, sleep, etc.)

does anyone else get more anxious as they learn more about anxiety lmaoo

This was like a hug for a troubled mind

A happy heart is good medicine and a joyful mind causes healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. - Jesus

I’ve been living in survival mode for so long. “When you continue those behaviors for years on end they become a personality trait” yeah that’s why I feel like a shell of a human being, because I’ve just been nothing but negativity and stress for so long that I’ve gotten lost. This journey is so difficult I feel like every time I start going up I end up coming back down.

Every time I don't analyse or think I perform better 💞

I really want my thoughts and stress to not take over my life. I will practice mindfulness because the feeling of being stuck in a situation that you can’t get your mind off of is the worst.

I’m gonna listen to this every single day for the rest of my life, I want to make significant changes in my brain for the sake of peace and balance. I want homeostasis

I grew up in constant stress, fear and actual torture. I have been very sick as an adult. I am 40 and I think I’m just starting to heal

God bless to anyone reading this! You’ve got this🙏🏽

This also sounds like faith to me. Because when I’ve been more faithful and have problems but I truly pray and give it to God and let it go, I don’t ever think about it again. And I feel free and not stressed. The older I get the harder that is to keep doing, however, because I think I can do it all on my own. Guess that’s what childlike faith means.

So casting all my cares and anxiety on to God will heal me. And living out my true freedom in Jesus gave me basically. Love it! God designed humans perfectly to heal ourselves.

thank you Dr Joe for these insights. Many viewers may feel "my daily situation is just too stressful and it feels like there is no way out of it, because of my past/present situation - its very difficult for me to be positive and spend time thinking positive thoughts". If this is you - then my message to you is: start small. If you can be 5% more positive today - it will make a difference. Take small steps to get out of stress, debt, a bad work situation, etc. Rome was not built in a day; and you can move slowly from a bad environment to a good one, its a journey. try it. thank you

If your job stresses you out, *please leave* 1) prepare your resume 2) start looking for a new job/start turning your ideas into physical material 3) schedule time for interviews/advertising 4) accept the most logical position/work schedule and never look back

I've have extreme anxiety my whole life. I grew up in placements, after leaving an abusive adopted home. I over came addiction and I really just want to learn to be happy, I'm almost obsessed with self improvement. This is everything, so much help and healing that isn't an unhealthy bs take on what life is supposed to be! Thank you so much! I will be watching this over and over

This explains perfectly so much behind how we are as humans. Be patient with others, behind every "Karen", is a stressed, possibly abused, lady in an unhappy marriage - overworked and living off of stress hormones - trying to control every little thing because in all actuality she feels out of control. That is why I'm nice to everyone - unless they're really bad obv.

I have a chronic pain condition & sometimes faking that I feel better to myself is the only way I actually do. The brain is amazing

This is the best piece of advice ever for any person where attention goes enegry flows

i remember when i was a child i promissed to never have stress because it caused Cancer, but i didnt know what stress was at that time...now i feel it every day

This honestly made me cry a little bit. Last year i changed my studies to something way more „unstable“ and „risky“ (at least in my thoughts) than before, but i knew it was my passion. I felt stressed for the year i studied the wrong thing and the thought about „will the change be the right decision?“ Put me in tension all the time. I cared too much about social status, how people perceive me and if I could reach my own standards after the change. So I switched my studies to Design and after all the overthinking and decision making was through, I thrived in my new profession. After that, good things just kept falling into my lap that reassured me in my decision every day. I randomly met people who share my interests and work, people started telling me Im amazing in my work and I landed a job that I thought is out of my league. I am good in my field and I keep learning every single day with a motivation and passion I didnt have before. I love it and I am thankful that my own mindset has changed so much over the past year. Seeing this video also shows me that I am on the right path. Thank you.

I went through a period of pretending I was in a simulation and not to take anything seriously. People asked why I was constantly smiling. Some said I was disassociating when I told them this. I’ve relapsed somewhat in the last few years, but wish to go back to my simulation.

I actually started tearing up. I felt so moved to emotions. This was seen in divine timing thank you 💕

I can't believe this is free to watch. So insightful! Thank you to everyone who put this together for us. I will be revisiting this every now and then until I've internalised the main facts, cos living in creation is exactly what I want to be doing and what I was looking to get help with when searching for a talk like this in the first place.

This is true when I was dealing with trauma at 15, all I could think of was the trauma and stressful scenarios. I didn't have control over my thoughts and couldn't sleep either. Got to a point where I was starting to hear voices a few times and was scared I could become schizophrenic. That's when I decided to try to best to improve my life. I moved out and am living a good life , no more panic attacks, no more anxiety, etc.

i've been living with ocd, ptsd, complex grief, depression and things of that nature. trauma is inflated by the ruminating process my mind goes through to the point where i spiraled into alcoholism, drug addiction, etc. after sobriety wasn't any better. i had an extremely abusive, and stressful childhood. i feel my mind has never rested a day. i've been in an out of therapy and tried numerous medications from 12-19 years old. i'm now just turning 20 and this was what i've been wrestling with the whole time -- and never knew how to reassure myself of psychosomatic vs. reality vs. what the stress of being this way has made me feel like. i think this saved my life.

Wall-E taught me that living the wonders of life is more important than just surviving in auto-pilot

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18) "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." (Colossians 3:2) I love hearing neurological studies on God's Truth. The way we are created, our brains our wired, and this earth is made is SO COOL. Thank you for making this video (Y)

I must confess, at some point i thought "This is too idealistic" but he did point out some real things that relate to me, from experience. I am glad that i kept watching this. Thank you, doc!

I have been living with anxiety my whole life when though I am young. This helped me see things from a new perspective. Thank you

I am reflecting my childhood a lot recently. Truly I had no focus on body nor the poor conditioned environment and time didn’t Exist. No cell phone to take attention away. All the focus is on day-to-day life itself. No assumption no insistence on how life ought to be. Open to all the changes and new things.

I have a friend that yell at their 8 yo kid all the time, about everything. Not doing homework fast enough, not eating all their food, not staying focused on things, cause they are a kid etc... Literally yelling habits about every little thing. They are not bad parents, the kid is not a bad kid, actually really smart and super sweet. But the kid starts to pull her hair and bite herself saying she is a bad kid (I must be bad, cause my parents wouldnt yell at me if I wasnt.) This is stress, poor self esteem and lack of confidence that is *AUTOMATICALLY* developing within the kid, with no bad intention. Just a lack of awareness and proper attention, habits of emotional conditioning being taught. Similar to this, is why a lot of people are at unease with themselves. Even if you are loving parents, be careful. Sticks and stones may break our bones but your words will shape their growing souls, for better or for worse. Then as we grow older we start to contemplate ourselves. Trying to build on a template that was given to us in sections by all the people while we were growing up. A kid doesn't have much of a reason to wonder what might happen to them tomorrow or try to figure out why they are the way they are. A kid doesnt have to try to figure out how to fix or solve their circumstances. They are already at ease with not knowing because they are growing. We don't need to be a kid to be at ease or at peace. We need to be less grown up. Perhaps we have stopped growing, keep on growing without ever being fully grown. No need to know why or how you will grow, just experience it. We will figure out things when needed so stop the NEED to understand anything. Stop interpreting yourself in comparison to others. If you notice something that you are envious of, that is because of interpretation. Find inspiration from it instead and grow towards it, without any mental dialogue about it. Not about how you wish you have it and why it sucks, no dialogue about how or what it must be like, no dialogue about how your life will be better when you get it. When I try to think back to my childhood. I can remember experiences. But that's it! I was a kid growing and just experiencing. A kid has circumstances and an adult has circumstances who worries about them more? Be a person who is growing and just experience, take care of things as they come, not getting ahead of yourself mentally. You may find that we still have this jovial part of us when we are not spending the majority or our time thinking about our circumstances, particularly when we are usually doing things daily that aren't related to them. We just carry it as burden into every moment of our life. Time to let go and be free.

This is what the pandemic caused me. Until now, I'm still on Survival Mode. I noticed that whatever I'm feeling physically is gravely affected by the happenings around me. Thanks to youtube for recommending this video. I never thought I needed this. Really, the brain could be so powerful it's terrifying sometimes. Thank you for he enlightenment!! 💓

The amount of art put into this video is incredible. I couldn’t imagine how long it took. I am so thankful to have stumbled across this video!

Not everyone had a childhood with that experience. This is why long-term childhood trauma is soo damaging!

I have myastheniagravis the disease he mentioned and i’m in shock. I’m watching this video and on this journey to heal myself from it and when i heard him say that i was speechless and started to cry lol i asked the universe for a sign and here it is. I am on the path to heal myself from this illness and get my happiness back and start living in creation. Thank you so much for this video.

I've been running my body and mind to their limit for more than a decade, with enough stress for a few lifetimes, and never gave myself the time for rest or consumed sufficient nutrition and it's definitely taken its toll. Finally got to a point where I decided to recharge myself and I'm already feeling my strength returning and health improving. Sometimes the hardest lesson to learn but you need to put yourself first, especially if you want to provide for, and protect, others.

This has just blown my mind, I’ve been living in survival mode for the longest time and have recently been found to have hypothyroidism most commonly caused by an autoimmune issue and the prospect of fixing this with my mind set is an incredible concept

I have MS, and I had a horrible abusive childhood from a very young age. Information about these subjects has been helpful in my journey to emotional health and spiritual recovery, and whatever comes after that i can handle

This is literally mindfullnes with fancy sciency words

Diagnosed with a burn out yesterday. This video made things so clear for me. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, for explaining the different types of stress. Physical stress applies to me as I inherited a genetic condition called EDS that effects my joints, making them too hypermobile. I end up with a lot of injuries to my joints and having connective tissue that’s too stretchy has also impacted my heart. I use meditation to help support my body and mind and I also have physical therapy which helps me to build muscles around the joints to help prevent injuries from my loose joints. It is SO, unbelievably frustrating when people seem to think that these issues are emotional. Like if I rub a magnet on my head I will be healed. That level of misunderstanding is what I mostly encounter. Thank you for this insightful video which brings everything together, I will rewatch it again later. Physical stress is on the body is real and not everything is emotional such as a car accident, genetic issues such as Down syndrome etc, aging. Some things really are taxing on the body externally and if people want to know how to better support and encourage people, maybe start by not assuming their issues are all in their thoughts.

be positive. that's all you have to do! people tend to get caught up in the details, but it's so simple. turn to love.

I needed to watch this. I'm addicted to drama, or self-doubt, or that stress, though I could not quite put my finger on just why I keep cycling through these same unhealthy thoughts. It reminded me of a shamanic mentor I once worked with who mentioned addictions to other things besides alcohol and drugs, things like self-doubt and drama. Thank you for sharing this!

I am so grateful that I came across this today-Wednesday August 16th 2023! It is so me and describes almost to a T how I perceive and how I approach anything and all things! A realist-I seek control and ensure that a game plan is always in effect for a desired outcome! I anticipate the worst whilst doing my damnest best so when I obtain a different outcome I simply smile because I am pleasantly surprised..on the other hand however-evidently nothing really surprises me as I plan for the worst-ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS! Fully aware as well that I control my body-I seek quite often according to me to NOT be separate from me from self and to acquire balance because I’ve realized that in so doing I acquire much and all isn’t spent and I am entirely aligned! I had no idea there were researches into this phenomenon but I wholeheartedly embrace and will further explore and practice the methods-as aforementioned I have reaped results. Thanks for the confirmation on my end and the enlightenment as I continue to delve deeper and repair self and soul! Much Appreciated!

I literally feel like I can’t get out of the survival state honestly due to the current conditions of and in my life. In my personal experience, the survival is predominantly social, growing up was rough in its own ways, adulthood has been much the same, in similar and new ways, and I’ve just come to expect generally life is… a dull game where you just wait to die, that’s how it was growing up, that’s how it feels as an adult

I’M ADDICTED TO STRESS!! Why does that actually make so much sense I’m so pissed

What a wonderful thing to stumble across during this unknown time we are living in. Thank you Joe, listening to you feels very natural and wise.

This one good explanation of how higher emotions and feeling them, such as gratitude, work in your life. I never really got it before I felt it listening to you. Thanks . Intention + elevated emotion = transformation.

All my life I've created a sort of placebo effect for myself. I've always had an unshakeable faith in my immune system and my body's ability to heal itself. It is probably at least part of the reason why I almost never get sick. I also avoid doctors like the plague, that helps as well.

One of the best, if not the best, lectures of Joe Dispenza. Beautifully animated as well. Thank you 🙏🏻

True love is the solution for everything,

You simply can’t get enough of joe dispenza, learn something every time, always gravitate back and reset!

I struggle with a lot of anxiety and a lot of these topics I covered in therapy. I came to the realisation that it's about focusing on the present moment, not imagining the future or reminiscing of the past. The future is a fictional concept, no one knows what will happen next week month or year so any thoughts you have about it are only speculation. It's fiction till it becomes present. My jaw dropped when double vision was mentioned. We all hear of raised heart rates, sweaty palms etc but I have been struggling with double vision in times of stress for years and never hear it covered. I think we need to do what we want to do. And if you don't want to do something, don't do it. If your job is making you miserable, leave and find one that brings you joy. I know that sounds like a fairy tale concept but as far as we know we only have one life and one chance, if we don't find a way to live in peace with our minds the stress will kill us.