Joe Dispenza: Healing and the Placebo effect
OMTimes: For how long should we meditate in order to see change happening?
Joe Dispenza: After all the research we’ve done, I have never seen the old paradigm that you change your habit in the 21-day period as often is suggested. It just don’t see any correlation because it depends on the person’s how long they meditate, what they’re doing to change, how addicted to an emotion they are, if there’s a substance, whether they have a good attention span or not and how organized they are.
We have seen people change in one meditation in our advanced workshops. There are many examples like that. But there are also examples of people who take a year or two years because they are turning around in genetic condition that they’ve had since they were a child. But when they finally break through, the feedback is always the same: “That was my greatest teacher”.
So we may get frustrated and impatient or try to force outcomes but that’s the ego just trying to control reality. But when you finally just decide that you’re going to do it and you keep at it long enough, you will see so many changes that take place at so many levels. People don’t really care how long it takes once they start seeing the effects.
OMTimes: In the afterword of your book you write: “This whole process is tricky. If you try too much, you’ll get in your own way and always fall short of your vision. If you over-surrender, you’ll become too lazy and uninspired”. How do we find this balance?
