Joe Dispenza: Healing and the Placebo effect
OMTimes: More than 68% of U.S. adults is overweight or obese. While we intellectually know that being overweight is not healthy for us, we don’t seem to manage change very well. Why is change so difficult for us?
Joe Dispenza: Aside from the fact that we’re creatures of habit, there’s always an emotional pay-off in staying the same, because you can anticipate the event, which is pretty much predictable, comes with a familiar emotion. It’s that familiar emotion that we become reliant on or addicted to that keeps reaffirming the same identity.
The moment you’re not going to think, act or feel a certain way and you’re not going to make the same choices or have the same emotional pay-off and you’re not going to feel the same any longer and that loss of that familiar feeling is for most people very uncomfortable. It’s an unknown, it’s unpredictable.
In the book I talk about ‘crossing the river of change’ because a lot of people will return back unconsciously and make the same choices. The hardest part of change is not making the same choices you did the day before, because that same choice leads to the same behavior, which will create the same experience, which will produce the same emotion and the person will say “this feels right”.
Whether someone is trying to lose weight or trying to break an addiction, whether they’re even trying to just get up earlier in the morning, there’s going to be an element of discomfort and that is fertile ground. We’ve never been told that discomfort, that unknown, that void is “now you are immersed in the process of change”.
