I have so much LOVE for this man!!
After 3 years of daily meditation for 1-2 hours per day and many 10-day Vipassana silent retreats, I knew I had changed. How? The way in which I showed up in every aspect of my life was fundamentally different, something inside of me had shifted. I was no longer reacting in the same way to the people, circumstances and environment around me. Rather, I knew I was 100% responsible, not just intellectually but experientially with every cell of my being. More often than not I was able to access a space in which I could pause and respond consciously, instead of simply reacting (check out my post about Vipassana here). I was beginning to access the power within (every single one of us can develop this faculty) and had broken the habit of being myself.
The change was so profound, I wanted to know what exactly had happened and continues to happen to me. This lead me to Dr. Joe Dizpenza. What an extraordinary human!! The man (a chiropractor and neuroscientist) healed his spinal chord injury with thought alone and has since dedicated his life to researching and explaining the mind-matter phenomenon. Finally, someone that could feed my analytical mind and explain what I was experiencing is such a practical, scientific, factual way. While still watching one of his interviews, there I was on another tab Googling this man. I don’t believe in coincidences but, I do believe it was fate that he was coming to Perth, Australia for his Progressive Workshop that was 2 weeks away. Anthony and I booked our tickets, watched the 8 hours of video content in preparation for the workshop and waited in anticipation and excitement. What this man was saying was so damn on point and after the 3-day progressive workshop, I bought all his guided meditations and rain, hail or shine, we were going to one of his Advanced workshops.
Fast forward 3 months and there we were in Bonn, Germany getting our brains mapped with an electroencephalography (EEG) as we meditated amongst 1500 people at his Advanced Workshop (his largest event yet). The energy of the collective was INCREDIBLE and together we went on a journey of breaking our self-imposed barriers and overcoming ourselves over and over again. The local newspaper called us ‘The Walking Dead‘ as we went within for our walking meditation along the Rhine connecting to the divinity within us. It was beautiful walking up to the park to see silhouettes of magnificent humans as the sun was rising knowing that we are all so interconnected and so much a part of nature. We took advantage of raising serotonin levels by beginning the pineal gland meditation at 4:30am. At the workshop, this meditation went for over 4 hours and I swear, you would not have known.
There was a beautiful elderly woman there, Rita, who had legions in both of her breasts that weren’t healing, a tumour in her cheek, no movement in one arm and limited movement in the other. After the four days, up she got on stage and shared her story of how she overcame herself. One legion has completely healed, the other was starting to, the tumour in her cheek had shrunk, she had limited movement in one arm and full movement in the other. Rita had all 1499 of us in tears as she shared her story of self-healing. This beautiful soul, ‘ordinary’ human reminded us of how extraordinary we really are. Too often many of us say ‘I’m just human,’ completely unaware of the immensity it is to be human.
One of Dispenza’s lines that stuck with me (and there are many) is ‘Who are you pretending to be?’. I regularly as myself that question and encourage you to do the same. Being human is a tremendous possibility, if only we realised.
Love and Light,
Sharol xx
Learn More:
Attend Upcoming Events / Workshops:
Dr Joe Dispenza regularly holds events and workshops around the world. If you are considering going to one, check out his events page as it is constantly being updated.
Dr Joe Dispenza also has a whole range of guided meditations available for purchase. If you’re stuck on which one to start with, send me a message and I’d be happy to help. Generally, I feel his app is a great starting point for beginners as the meditations (morning and evening) are much shorter.
Read:
Dr Joe Dispenza is a NY Times best-selling author and his books do an extraordinary job at explaining the science behind meditation (for the lay person). If you’re just going to get one ‘You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter
