Dr. Joe Dispenza's Becoming Supernatural

I've been reading Dr. Joe Dispenza's book, Becoming Supernatural and it's definitely compelling stuff. The book starts with a story about a woman that attended his workshops. She has two children and loses her husband to suicide. She becomes so distraught and depressed that her body ends up developing a condition which causes paralysis in both her legs. Her doctors treat her with pharmaceutical drug after pharmaceutical drug and continue to treat the symptoms instead of the root cause. Eventually she develops cancer. She is at her lowest point when she realizes she needs to make serious changes.

She ends up attending one of Dr. Dispenza's workshops and he is lecturing about the fact that our emotions affect our bodies. We can cause our own disease and we also have the ability to heal our own disease. After the workshop, she takes up meditation twice a day. She sticks to it and after the first year, she notices that she is slowly getting better mentally and emotionally. She is slowly moving her body back into balance. She also starts trading the emotions of anger, fear, depression, and resentment for joy, love, gratitude, and freedom. The book says that one year and nine months after her initial cancer diagnosis, her cancer healed. She now works in Dr. Dispenza's organization.

Throughout the book, Dr. Dispenza provides scientific explanations for how this type of case is possible. He specifically talks about epigenetics. He explains that it's not the gene that creates disease, it's the environment that programs our genes to create disease. Not just the external environment like pesticides but also the internal environment of our body. Emotions can signal our genes to either turn on or turn off. For example an emotion like stress can activate the genes for inflammation, but if you make changes to your routine, you can actually turn on new genes for growth and repair and switch off the old genes responsible for disease.

Dr. Dispenza discusses concepts around routine. When we keep the same routing and are feeling the same emotions everyday, nothing will change. Thus, he's suggesting if you change your emotional state, your body will follow. They tested this during a four day workshop. They asked the study participants to move into an elevated emotional state like love, joy, or gratitude for 10 minutes three times a day. They tested the participants' IgA levels before and after. IgA is one of the primary proteins responsible for healthy immune function and internal defense system. The average IgA of the participants shot up by 49.5 percent. Hence, when they elevated their emotion for a few days, their bodies began to follow and believe they were in a new environment.

Dr. Dispenza also talks about energy centers (also known as chakras) in the book. He explains that during meditation when we slow our thinking brains and put our attention to these energy centers, we are sending energy to the different parts of our body. He has a well known meditation called Blessing of the Energy Centers which focuses on each energy center and sending it blessings and healing energy. He goes through these energy centers in the book and what happens when these energy centers are out of balance. Basically when our emotions and energy are out of balance in the body it creates disease and chronic issues. When energy is balanced throughout the body, we are at peace, in coherence, and thriving. You can look this up online also by looking up chakras and which chakras govern which body parts.

There's a part of the book where Dr. Dispenza talks about case studies. Here is one example: Stacy began experiencing severe headaches. For 25 years she worked in health care as a nurse and acupuncturist. She was healthy and rarely took medication. The appearance of headaches so excruciating they nearly caused her to black out was alarming. After a year of exploring remedies, she received a CAT scan and found out she had meningioma, a benign tumor wrapped around certain nerve tissue. The only option was a craniotomy, basically drilling a hole in her head to remove the tumor. Stacy decided to look at alternative options. She attended Dr. Dispenza's workshop and by this time she had lost 70 percent of her hearing in her left ear. On the second day of the workshop during meditation she says she lost track of space and time. She says this amazing flash of light consumed the left side of her head. She explains it as the most divine, loving feeling she's ever had. Finally for the first time in three years, she could hear out of her left ear.

This is just a very high level summary of Dr. Dispenza's book. There is a lot of information and detail in this book so I definitely recommend it. I actually borrowed it on the free Libby library app. He has multiple books on Libby and I recommend checking out all of them. They were on hold when I initially checked but it didn't take long for me to borrow them. I definitely recommend people take a look at his work. It's very scientifically sound work and he provides a nice combination of scientific data with higher level summaries so it's understandable to a non-scientific person.

I also downloaded a couple of Dr. Dispenza's meditations and I like them. I had to get used to his voice because they purposely changed his voice to sound far away and impersonal to get you into a meditative brainwave state. I understand why they did this and I think the reasoning makes sense. I've been listening to different meditations the last couple years and I think I'll add his meditations into my library. I definitely recommend people check out his books, website, and meditations.