Steven Bartlett with Dr Joe Dispenza
By the age of thirty five, ninety five percent of human identity is a subconscious set of automated thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. When a person repeatedly makes the same choices, they reproduce the exact same experiences and elicit the same emotional responses. This repetitive cycle causes nerve cells that fire together to wire together, hardwiring the brain and programming the body to biologically expect a predictable future. The body eventually learns how to execute these habits better than the conscious mind, effectively making the physical body the master of the mind.
Living in a constant state of stress knocks the brain and body out of natural homeostasis. When the fight or flight nervous system activates continuously, the body pumps out survival hormones that alter genetic expression and manufacture physical disease. People rapidly develop a biological addiction to this rush of adrenal chemicals. They subconsciously seek out toxic relationships, hostile work environments, and negative memories just to trigger familiar feelings of anger or guilt, ensuring their body receives its chemical fix.
The human brain cannot tell the difference between a physical event and a vividly imagined mental experience. When individuals mentally rehearse a specific physical action, they forge new synaptic connections just as if they were physically performing the task. If a person repeatedly visualizes playing a piano chord, their brain grows the exact same neurological hardware as someone who actively practices on a physical keyboard. This neurological priming installs the necessary biological circuits ahead of time, ensuring that future physical behaviors automatically match the individual's mental intentions.
True behavioral change requires a person to become so deeply conscious of their automatic programs that they refuse to let old thoughts slip by unnoticed. Observing an unconscious habit instantly separates the individual's consciousness from the program itself. Because stepping out of a familiar emotional baseline feels deeply uncomfortable, most people retreat to their known misery rather than face the uncertainty of change. Choosing to act differently demands immense energy to override the body's craving for its usual chemical state.
Attempting to change subconscious programming using only conscious willpower inevitably fails because the conscious mind operates outside the brain's core operating system. Slowing down brain waves from a highly aroused beta state into alpha or theta states allows an individual to bypass their analytical mind. Shifting attention away from physical material problems and focusing on empty space forces the brain's isolated, stressed compartments to synchronize. This synchronization creates holistic brain coherence, allowing new information to finally enter and reprogram the nervous system.
New information cannot influence the body unless it is paired with a matching emotional state. When an individual combines a clear mental intention with an elevated emotion like gratitude or love, they establish profound heart and brain coherence. This biological state teaches the body chemically what the mind has understood intellectually. Feeling the emotional reality of a desired future before it actually happens upregulates healthy genes, physically altering the body to reflect the newly created internal environment.