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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
by Joe Dispenza
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Becoming Supernatural | Dr. Joe Dispenza
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I wish I could read this book for the first time again. I flew through the first chapter on Audible & decided I needed to buy the physical book & take notes. That weekend, I found it at Schuler’s Books & bought it.
I recently lost my Grandma to cancer. Tongue cancer. This was a woman who never smoked or drank. This was a woman who endured some pretty heavy things in her life. Physically & emotionally. She survived polio & nearly drowned in creek as a toddler. Her last pregnancy was challenging. She cared for her 4 children while her husband struggled with alcohol addiction. She cared for her special needs son for 50+ years. She cared for her in-laws, parents, brother, sister while they transitioned to heaven. This woman was tough. With caregiving comes a lot of grief & with grief…there's a lot of healing that often times isn't happening. Grief will weigh us down so much that often times we feel like we're pinned there.
It was no surprise that cancer showed up in my girl after I started studying how cancer shows up in seemingly healthy people. There’s been so many studies that show sickness, usually cancer, will show up after a traumatic event. With my Grandma, while she knew losing Grandpa was inevitable with his heart condition, it’s still very much emotionally traumatic losing your spouse after that many years. We don't ever truly prepare for that. How can we?
That’s when it showed up, though. After my Grandpa's passing.
In this book, Dr. Joe talks about that. He talks about just how our negative thoughts can really take control of our physical outcomes.
In the beginning of this book - where he really hooked me, he spoke about a woman, Anna, who seemingly had a wonderful life. Dr. Joe painted a picture of the scene as if it were poetry. Anna lived with her husband who was a lawyer & 2 kids. She had a successful career as a psychotherapist & a beautiful home...until one day her husband left in the morning without a word to her. He had said goodbye to their kids & quietly left. He had unalived himself & she was left with the aftermath of raising kids alone, finances, a hidden mountain of debt she learned of, & everything else that comes with losing a spouse suddenly - including depression. Anna took a leave of absence from her job & woke up paralyzed from the waist down in a hospital bed 9 months later. Dr. Joe explains that our bodies are not meant to stay in survival mode. And because Anna was living in that state for that long - her immune system starting attacking her nervous system, leaving her in this condition. After that - her health & life went into a downward spiral further. She lost her job, all of her money, & her house. By this point she had an emotionally abusive boyfriend that she had to move in with. She developed a tumor & after treatments the doctors were administering weren't working, she decided to quit them all. They calledd her stupid & naive.
She went to one of Dr. Joe's lectors with a friend. Her friend told her if she enjoyed the lector, she could stay for a 2 week workshop. There, they taught her how to meditate & gain control of her thoughts. She started meditating twice a day & made a promise to herself - she would not be the same person when she stood back up from a meditation. She was going to force herself to be in love with life again. Taking control of her inner thoughts helped her realign everything else in her body. Her immune system quit attacking her nervous system which healed her issues with digestion, absorption, blood sugar levels, heart rate, hormones, etc.
Anna stuck with this & continued to go to Dr. Joe's workshops. 1 year & 9 months after her cancer diagnosis & 6 years after her husband's passing - she was cancer free. The same doctor's that told her she was stupid & naive when she told them she was no longer moving forward with their treatment were the same one's telling her she healed herself.
Now before you roll your eyes & say "you're tellin' me she sat criss-cross-applesauce on a yoga mat & ohmed herself into healing her cancer?!" Sorta. I think meditation is more than all of that & dependening on what you believe in terms of God, I do believe meditation is a form of praying & in my experience, there is power in that.
This was just one story on only a couple of pages. This book is more than that. Dr. Joe breaks down the science. He shows real pictures of brain scans, discusses energy centers within the body. You may know these as "chakras." He discusses the pineal gland which is so facinating. Did you know it's the size of a grain of rice?! He brings up manifesting, which I always thought was a little "woo woo" until I lived through my own when I left my fiance with a couple dollars to my name & bought a house without any help 7 months later. I found the topic of "mind movies" so facinating. I could go on & on...
This is a book I will read a few more times in my lifetime & highly reccomend it to anyone willing to go in with an open mind.
My mind became a lot more open to the possibility of being able to heal ourselves when I watched how quickly my Grandma started to deteriorate through her cancer treatments. When you see how much cancer patients treatments are & how awful they feel through said treatment...It sure makes you wonder if there isn't other options…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I wish I could read this book for the first time again. I flew through the first chapter on Audible & decided I needed to buy the physical book & take notes. That weekend, I found it at Schuler’s Books & bought it.
I recently lost my Grandma to cancer. Tongue cancer. This was a woman who never smoked or drank. This was a woman who endured some pretty heavy things in her life. Physically & emotionally. She survived polio & nearly drowned in creek as a toddler. Her last pregnancy was challenging. She cared for her 4 children while her husband struggled with alcohol addiction. She cared for her special needs son for 50+ years. She cared for her in-laws, parents, brother, sister while they transitioned to heaven. This woman was tough. With caregiving comes a lot of grief & with grief…there's a lot of healing that often times isn't happening. Grief will weigh us down so much that often times we feel like we're pinned there.
It was no surprise that cancer showed up in my girl after I started studying how cancer shows up in seemingly healthy people. There’s been so many studies that show sickness, usually cancer, will show up after a traumatic event. With my Grandma, while she knew losing Grandpa was inevitable with his heart condition, it’s still very much emotionally traumatic losing your spouse after that many years. We don't ever truly prepare for that. How can we?
That’s when it showed up, though. After my Grandpa's passing.
In this book, Dr. Joe talks about that. He talks about just how our negative thoughts can really take control of our physical outcomes.
In the beginning of this book - where he really hooked me, he spoke about a woman, Anna, who seemingly had a wonderful life. Dr. Joe painted a picture of the scene as if it were poetry. Anna lived with her husband who was a lawyer & 2 kids. She had a successful career as a psychotherapist & a beautiful home...until one day her husband left in the morning without a word to her. He had said goodbye to their kids & quietly left. He had unalived himself & she was left with the aftermath of raising kids alone, finances, a hidden mountain of debt she learned of, & everything else that comes with losing a spouse suddenly - including depression. Anna took a leave of absence from her job & woke up paralyzed from the waist down in a hospital bed 9 months later. Dr. Joe explains that our bodies are not meant to stay in survival mode. And because Anna was living in that state for that long - her immune system starting attacking her nervous system, leaving her in this condition. After that - her health & life went into a downward spiral further. She lost her job, all of her money, & her house. By this point she had an emotionally abusive boyfriend that she had to move in with. She developed a tumor & after treatments the doctors were administering weren't working, she decided to quit them all. They calledd her stupid & naive.
She went to one of Dr. Joe's lectors with a friend. Her friend told her if she enjoyed the lector, she could stay for a 2 week workshop. There, they taught her how to meditate & gain control of her thoughts. She started meditating twice a day & made a promise to herself - she would not be the same person when she stood back up from a meditation. She was going to force herself to be in love with life again. Taking control of her inner thoughts helped her realign everything else in her body. Her immune system quit attacking her nervous system which healed her issues with digestion, absorption, blood sugar levels, heart rate, hormones, etc.
Anna stuck with this & continued to go to Dr. Joe's workshops. 1 year & 9 months after her cancer diagnosis & 6 years after her husband's passing - she was cancer free. The same doctor's that told her she was stupid & naive when she told them she was no longer moving forward with their treatment were the same one's telling her she healed herself.
Now before you roll your eyes & say "you're tellin' me she sat criss-cross-applesauce on a yoga mat & ohmed herself into healing her cancer?!" Sorta. I think meditation is more than all of that & dependening on what you believe in terms of God, I do believe meditation is a form of praying & in my experience, there is power in that.
This was just one story on only a couple of pages. This book is more than that. Dr. Joe breaks down the science. He shows real pictures of brain scans, discusses energy centers within the body. You may know these as "chakras." He discusses the pineal gland which is so facinating. Did you know it's the size of a grain of rice?! He brings up manifesting, which I always thought was a little "woo woo" until I lived through my own when I left my fiance with a couple dollars to my name & bought a house without any help 7 months later. I found the topic of "mind movies" so facinating. I could go on & on...
This is a book I will read a few more times in my lifetime & highly reccomend it to anyone willing to go in with an open mind.
My mind became a lot more open to the possibility of being able to heal ourselves when I watched how quickly my Grandma started to deteriorate through her cancer treatments. When you see how much cancer patients treatments are & how awful they feel through said treatment...It sure makes you wonder if there isn't other options…