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Audible offers a selfhelp book with good reviews, I am always tempted, mostly to my regret, This book turned out to be about meditation and even had some great ideas about how to do what the Bible calls 'renewing your mind, ' Most of those strategies can be gleaned from the book without resorting to speaking of a 'quantum creator, '

It is true that in order to change we have to be able to imagine ourselves as something different, We do have choices and we do not have
to live our lives as victims of circumstances, Those reminders were very helpful, The fact that he shrouded them in quack science and bad theology was a bit too weird for me,

Still, today, I hope I can concentrate on forgetting what lies behind and reaching for the mark of the high calling of Christ Jesus, It can be a lifeturning book if the reader is ready, I'min have already felt tremendous impact on how I preceive life in general, It is a solid upgrade from the popular book/documentary The Secret, Some useful ideas about learning meditation, Unfortunately this books falls in a category of books that I always dislike using random scientific discoveries and theories to justify for example meditation, There is plenty of neuroscientific research supporting the benefits of meditation, Using quantum physics to talk about energies changing the universe is not only annoying, it also makes me think the author is doubting his own ideas and is desperate to prove that he is right.
You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life, A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose, This book combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology and genetics to show you what is truly possible, I enjoyed the first book, and I wish I would have stopped there, In this book he finally reveals he is a quack, Don't get me wrong, some of the information is still fascinating and even useful, but it also comes with a fundamental misunderstanding of what 'quantum' means,

By throwing around 'quantum' and other buzzwords, he essentially covers up the fact that what he's really trying to convince you is that you can just wish for whatever you want, and as long as you wish it hard enough, it will happen, exactly the way you wish it.
He uses his daughter's summer vacation from college as an example:
He essentially tells her to do his little 'quantum meditating' technique and imagine what she wants to happen regarding this Italy trip.
So she says instead of the typical collegestudenthomeforthesummer job she wants to work in Italy, visitcities, spend a week in Florence, and only work for the firstweeks and be able to spend the rest of her break back home.


He then reminded her that "universal intelligence would orchestrate the way her dream summer would manifest, "

Really dude You might as well have said that little italian dream fairies will answer her prayers, or that Ziltoid the Omniscient can bring her to theth dimensional version of Italy beyond time and space, where the pasta actually isn't that great anymore, but the artwork is better.


So she gets a call from her university that she can take an art history summer course in Italy and they'd only have to pay,for it.
So instead of taking the offer, he told her to tell them to shove it up their asses because their quantum intelligent omniversal creator fairies were going to sort out all the details the way that she had originally planned it, and that an Art History course in Italy is only for suckers.


And then we're supposed to believe that she literally did get her perfect dream summer in Italy, Complete with theweeks of working, visitingcities, and spending a week in Florence,


So, first of all, I don't believe this happened, Secondly, if it did happen, it would have been a huge coincidence, and certainly not the result of the fact that she "electromagnetically connected to an intended destiny that existed in the quantum" and that "her body was drawn to the future event.
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Bollocks. I just read a few of the one star reviews and Ive gotta say it baffles me just how much people are addicted to their lives being “stuck”, If you read a book titled “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself”, you obviously want to change some habits, So instead of following the instructions outlined in the book whose author has helped literally MILLIONS of people change their habits with his methodology, they judge the book based on their own limited belief systems.
GET OVER YOURSELVES, PEOPLE!! These are simple techniques that will not hurt you one bit!! Just try them, Youre doing it in private, Whos going to know unless you blast it all over social media Who gives a dang how you achieved your results Just try stuff!! Geez, people!! sigh

Anywho.
. . I loved the book. Fantastic book. Coming to this with a background in yoga and buddhism, this book really helped me make sense of the way the brain works, meditation and how to really make change.
Highly recommend. Only on chapand am blown away, Finally quantum physics and manifestation explained in a way that resonates and shows me HOW to step into being the quantum creator that we all have access to, I just want to tell everyone about this book! So, I guess Joe Dispenza is not really for me, . . Too bad, as I was excited to start this one,
I put this one down after the second chapter, which is something I have rarely ever done,

Dispenza's misuse of the term "quantum" early on got too much, and rang alarm bells for me, Dispenza seems to think that you can manifest any reality you want because "quantum, "
This brought to mind the pseudoscience ideas peddled in "The Law of Attraction, "

The power of meditation and mindfulness practices to one's life are most assuredly beneficial, and are certainly are conducive to establishing a powerful mindset.
However, the writing here delved way too far into the realm of pseudoscientific magical thinking and woopeddling for my tastes, . .

Specifically, after taking a few previous statements of his with a grain of salt, this one really set off my alarm bells:

"When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.
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CITATION MISSING

Sorry, Joe, I'm done, . .

I guess it's good that Dispenza covered the whole "quantum" debacle upfront, instead of me trudging through the rest of his book, and hearing this woo later on.


I'll quote from sitelinkanother review here, which captured my thoughts on this succinctly:
"Basically, Dispenza argues that we can manipulate the matter and, therefore, the world around us through mere thought.
His "scientific evidence" for this is a phenomenon from quantum physics known as the Observers Effect, In a nutshell, the Observers Effect states that the act of measuring, or observing, an event can actually alter the outcome of the event, It has been repeatedly observed at the quantum level as researchers have attempted to measure the location of individual electrons, Many in pop culture, including Dispenza, have incorrectly interpreted this to mean that our mere presence or the presence of our thoughts can affect the way matter behaves, He is mistaken.

What most likely happens in these experiments is a matter of measurement and instrumentation, The only instruments that we have available to us for measuring the results of an event require that we observe the event, That doesn't mean that we have to physically observe it with our own eyes the Observers Effect has been recorded by equipment even if no one is around to watch, it simply means that the event must be observed through some form of light waves.
We cannot know what happened if we do not "hit" the event with light in order to observe and make a measurement, In the case of atomic and quantum particles, the mere act of "hitting" them with light requires that photons are introduced to the particles under consideration, These particles are so small that interaction with photons causes them to behave differently than they would have behaved otherwise, Basically, if you shoot a photon at an electron, it is so small that the photon will "bounce" off the electron and change its course, It has nothing to do with our thoughts exerting some sort of telekinetic force on the electron, "




As I mentioned at the start of this review, meditation and mindfulness practices are indeed powerful tools that the individual can train, and use to better their lives, as well as their futures.

However, Dispenza's writing here went way out in left field and lost me early on, . .
I would not recommend this book, There are many other sciencebased mindset books that I would recommend instead,
star. What an amazing book!!! If someone told you that you could heal yourself simply by using your mindeven cancerwould you believe or would you laugh While I've always been a big believer in the power of human mind to do both bad destroy our body via stress, for instance and good to at least reverse that, I would've been suspicious to say the least.
But a very close friend of mine recommended this book and bought it for me because stress had been ravaging my body and i've been getting all kinds of things.
She has been battling progressive multiple sclerosis for years, She read three of Joe's books and used his meditation techniques for nine months, Her latest MRI results showed no lesions on her spine which she'd had for a very long time, Yes, she managed to change her body!

How is that possible We've all heard of the placebo effect, You get a sugar pill instead of the real medicine and it works solely because you believe it would, Your mind heals you because you trust the doctor, This book has some literally amazing examples from medical literature, How about this One group of patients does exercises to strengthen muscles or practices playing the piano while the other one does it only in their minds, The result is not identical unfortunately i have to keep doing the pushups, but pretty darn close,

So if your mind believes in something strongly, it can do wonders, But how do you make it believe if nobody gives you a pill This is where meditation comes into play, Actually, i would call this method sort of a selfhypnosis since you are convincing yourself certain things when you are most susceptible during meditation,

When my friend explained this, my response was, "That is all nice and good, but i've tried meditation several times and i either wanted to fall asleep or my mind kept wandering.
" My friend convinced me that nobody could be worse than her and that it took a while for her to calm her mind, And there are always ups and downs, even for the author, But it works.

So i plunged in, read two books and started meditating, It proved to be easier than i thought because you are not focused on your breathing, which is hard, but are either listening to Joe on youtube or are talking to yourself.
It started out really well for me and kept getting better and then i hurt my back and spent some time in a slump, But it's worth doing. When things were going well, i felt much happier and people told me that i looked healthier and happier without knowing what i had been doing, I would also like to go to a workshop if there is one near me,

This review covers two books:

You are the placebo

I suggest reading it first because it has a boatload of amazing examples from medical research and trials.
It will pump you up, If you know physics, i suggest you skip the quantum mechanics stuff Joe applies the science of the small to the big and metaphysical, Epigenetics is great.

Breaking the habit of being yourself

I suggest reading this one second, There is some overlap between the two books but nothing major, And it is much more practical about meditation,

Then you can listen the "You are the placebo" guided meditation on youtube,

I hope i can continue with all this because it is awesome, Sometimes we give up after a while, I hope i won't.

Enjoy! Im tired of being told to be grateful, To just be happy and imagine a better life reaaally hard, And if your circumstances dont magically change by god the author calls it “the quantum field” as if that makes it sounds scientific, . . it

doesnt then youre just not trying hard enough, The problem is you, not the method, Youre just so flawed and negative, thats why the universe doesnt give you what you want,

Maybe life is just hard, And maybe, just maybe, things dont just happen because you envision them but because you work your ass off, And things dont happen because you dont make them happen, Theres no magic to wish away the bad thoughts, Life is hard. Were all grieving or will be, Were all afraid. Thats OK. Its OK to be angry in an insane world, Dont wish your justified anger away, do something about it,

This book says if you change yourself the world will rearrange itself to cater to you, Anyone who has lost a loved one knows the world keeps on moving regardless of your mood, It is indifferent to your happiness and indifferent to your suffering, Its up to you to take physical, concrete steps towards your goals, This magical thinking is a waste of all our tine, .