Finding Calm & Inspiration in my Home Retreat: Joe Dispenza’s Progressive Online Course
- Catherine Pollitt
- Mar 23, 2023
- 2 min read
What a treat: a week experiencing something totally different & inspiring. Last week I immersed myself into Joe Dispenza’s Intensive & Progressive Online Course.
As soon as I realised that GP Dr Rangan Chatterjee (of the Feel Better, Live More podcast) had interviewed Dr Joe Dispenza more than once, I felt I had professional permission to learn more!
Incredible physiological changes
Dr Joe, as he’s known, has guided many of his advanced retreat participants to profound healings from significant disease and ill health, and what piqued my curiosity most was his dedication to research & discovering what physiological effects his meditative methods were creating in the minds and bodies of his participants.
Brain changes
Many people with chronic pain or illness also struggle with anxiety & depression, feeling like their challenging thoughts & emotions are like an uncontrollable dark thunderstorm. Dr Joe uses EEG (electroencephalograms) to objectively measure the electrical activity of his clients’ brains during their guided meditations - and witnesses their brains calming to slower, more coherent & intra-connected patterns, settling from the high-beta brain waves of stress through to alpha & theta of calm, clarity & creativity.
I’m pretty sure I too experienced similar happening to me as I followed the meditations. What’s more, since undertaking this daily practice, my wandering & annoying negative thoughts have significantly quietened during day-to-day life. And I’m more aware when they’re there, as well as now feeling I can change them - & the resulting emotions - to something more positive.
Blood & stool changes
Taking samples from participants before and after face-to-face week-long retreats, Dr Joe and his panel of expert PhD scientists & analysts have seen surprisingly significant positive changes to the many markers they objectively measure, demonstrating the real physiological changes that occur in participants’ bodies and gut microbiomes.
The concept in short
Daily & extended meditation practices are the foundation of Dr Joe’s approach. And by understanding the research, his theories & hence the what & the why of his specific meditation techniques, helps add meaning & motivation to engage in his methods.
Here’s my synopsis:
Working to continuously return to the “sweet spot of the present moment” helps de-train the brain & body away from habitual negative thought patterns & resulting emotions (& thus potential triggers for pain perception).
the long, slow, emotionally loving HeartMath breathing technique encourages healthy, coherent activity in both heart & brain, calming the mindbody’s overactive fight and flight stress response & allowing the rest and repair system to come back online.
Bringing awareness to the space that the body & its natural energy centres take up, together with the space around them, slows our brain activity towards healthy coherence & segmental intra-connection (& connects our consciousness with the "infinite quantum field").
Holding a personal positive intention, together with sustaining the desired elevated emotion such as love, joy or appreciation, facilitates our creation of success in our futures.
It was a great week – although I did need to break up the volume of long video presentations with mindless Vax carpet cleaning (of all things!) - & I now plan to incorporate a little of Dr Joe’s twist into the meditations we practice in our Freedom From Pain coaching programme.
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