Living in SURVIVAL vs. Living in CREATION - Dr. Joe Dispenza 

I get that childhood-like feeling every now and then. It’s very brief but when I do.. it’s amazing man.

When I am drawing, coloring or sewing I don’t realize time I am zoned out and I love it I enjoy it so much!

I cured my stress by going to art exhibitions, painting beautiful tropical flowers and walking on the damp green grass. I feel so much more myself and not so alone …..I loved it.

It took me 11 years to learn all of this collectively and heal from immense traum, disease and a stroke, and I'm only 28, yet I just learned this all in 27 minutes on RU-vid. Bless the internet.

I have a terminal autoimmune disease and its from being so stressed my whole life, I literally fried my immune system from the stress and working 100+ hours a week at a super high stakes job. And financially taking care of my mom, and others. Too much. It wasn't worth it. Now, I stay to myself and ENJOY my days. Doing what I WANT TO. and it has healed me so much.

Dr Joe Dispenza's book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself changed my life. I learned to do the meditation he's talking about here and after 6 months I cured my chronic depression and panic attacks.

Having our phones connected to social media, plus watching the news (which is designed to rile you up) makes it so hard to escape these thoughts. I deleted Facebook, I turned off all notifications for my apps, and I basically did my best to turn turned my life into 1993 again. It's helped immeasurably. Every once in a while something happens and I'll convince myself I have a need to get back online more consistently, and within a day I'm back to being a stressed out mess who can't sleep. And for what?

A mind-blowing video. I used to be that type of student who always rushed in the last hour to study. Last semester, I studied for my final exam a night before the exam date. It was stressful, and I could even hear my body calling for help. Now that I have adapted a new study schedule and actually used it, I'm always a week ahead of the following lecture, and I feel good. Thanks to this video, I understand I used to be addicted to stress. It was scary; you can get out of it as I did. Trust yourself, and pull yourself together. You can do this!

Having OCD, my stress response never turns off. I’m so chronically stressed and this is helping me put things in perspective. I’ve done so much meditation but mental illness is real- also leading to more debt and job impairment. Sending love to all of those suffering.

This channel is pure water in the desert. I’m so grateful for it because sometimes, even if I know what is right, I forget about it. I get lost in this life full of alienation. Then I come back here to this channel, and I remember again what it feels to be aware. Thank you

I find that excitement and anxiety evoke the same response. One way I’ve reduced my anxiety over the year was to train my brain into being addicted to optimism and happiness. I let my self feel more excited about things, the small things as well. Like coffee or rain…small inconveniences add excitement to the day. Something embarrassing? It’s not anxiety evoking but something funny to laugh back at

I truly believe that depression is your body/mind saying “I’m sick of trying to play this role, it’s not me”’

this is the message I tried to get my ex boyfriend to understand, he was so miserable and depressed - you gotta change the way you perceive the world. I tried but in the end, I had to leave. His negativity was starting to take a toll on my mental health. I am an artist normally, my life is painting and drawing. During our relationship, I completely stopped creating. I think this says it all, I was in complete survival mode, giving all of my self to the other person.

"a person who can't sit at ease is in a state of dis-ease" - sadhguru

I'm disabled and living in my car. Been slowly teaching myself how to do this, and if I can do it while I'm homeless I can definitely do it while I'm back on my feet

In my 40 years i cannot remember a single day without stress, fear, anxiety and an all consuming anger. I cannot even imagine life without it. I am also constantly sick. Got diabetes, cancer, my lung keeps collapsing, inflammation all the time, bones keep breaking, nerves in my eye are paralyzed and the list goes on. Lost about 45 kilo and i look like a zombie. I wish someone would have taught me these things when i was young. Thanks for this video.

Wow I'm in tears as I'm writing this after watching the whole video. I've been way extremely hard on myself. Time to let things go, let things be, and no more living in survival more. And forgiving myself for being so hard on myself for almost 2 years straight. For all the extreme stress I put on my mind and body. I even feel like I can breathe better. Tysm for this video. Eternally grateful, you explained it so well.

NEVER EVER allow anyone or even self trick you into believing that you aren't enough. And end up fighting a life long disease while they party their lives away. Really, never put anyone before YOU. Self Love is the only way you can truly love anyone else unconditionally.

It makes so much sense now. I can literally think about one wrong thing and it sends my whole system out of whack.

You can’t control your what happens in the outside world but you can control your inner world love it 🥰 i was feeling so hopeless and depressed over feeling out of control of my life and I can’t afford therapy right now but I swear the universe always gives me the most perfect answers that I need in the divine timing I’m so grateful 🙏🏽

Let's not forget the importance of real food as essential ingredients for our body to make the correct chemicals we need when we need them....

The weirdest thing happened. I listened to this in tje morning and then i moved on with my daily meditation. As i was meditating i felt uncomfortable, my back hurt and it was just not a pleasant feeling. I sat there trying to embrace it. And then i just heard this question ..are you in survival or creation? And as soon as i answered this my body stopped aching, i got relaxed, my breathing got deeper and easier. I am completely in awe of this

Quote of the year : if you’re going to create something new in your life, you have to crave the unknown!

“The unknown becomes the adventure. Why is that important? Because if we are going to create something new in our life, we have to crave the unknown”

That moment when you get stressed because you hear that stress leads to disease :O

Min 16:50: “If you keep the same reaction lingering for hours or days, thats called the Mood. If you keep that same refractory period going for weeks to months, thats called the Temperament. If you keep that same emotional reaction going for years on end, thats called the Personality...”

This video will literally save what's left of my life.

I lost my dad and my mum and my house before the age of 24 which I just didn’t expect to happen. So because of that I feel like my brain believes any bad can happen. So I’m just living in survival mode preparing for the worst and I’m really trying to get out of it but it’s hard, I’m struggling. But this video definitely makes perfect sense.

He literally described childhood - not focusing on your body, time, your possessions etc. This is why I crave my childhood. I want to feel whole and at peace again.

I've have extreme anxiety my whole life. I grew up in placements, after leaving an abusive adopted home. I over came addiction and I really just want to learn to be happy, I'm almost obsessed with self improvement. This is everything, so much help and healing that isn't an unhealthy bs take on what life is supposed to be! Thank you so much! I will be watching this over and over

I lived in fight or flight for 30 years, starting life at 39. For sure my dad was stuck in survival his whole life and I unfotunately inherited all that crap plus the endless projection onto me and manipulating my mind for his own f-ed up ego.

Thank you for this. I’m a nurse suffering from extreme burnout. Last week I cried going to work..... and cried when I got home. There’s also stress at home, so no relief. It’s been like this for years, and it’s taken a big toll on my health and happiness. I have a lot of work to do in order to change my thoughts. At least now I see the connection.

I actually started tearing up. I felt so moved to emotions. This was seen in divine timing thank you 💕

This was like a hug for a troubled mind

society makes us depressed. we were born into this society and we dont have to live this way.

This is absolutely profound. I am living in a heightened fear state all the time (anyone who works in IT will know what I am talking about). What I found so amazing is this explains why I am always in such an analytical state. I over analyze everything, right down to the way that people breathe and I "predict" their emotions or intentions in my mind. I desperately need to find the remedy to change my mindset. I lived like this for 42 years of my life and I want the change so badly. Thank you so much for this information, this is helping me to find the right path.

I have myastheniagravis the disease he mentioned and i’m in shock. I’m watching this video and on this journey to heal myself from it and when i heard him say that i was speechless and started to cry lol i asked the universe for a sign and here it is. I am on the path to heal myself from this illness and get my happiness back and start living in creation. Thank you so much for this video.

Every time I don't analyse or think I perform better 💞

This also sounds like faith to me. Because when I’ve been more faithful and have problems but I truly pray and give it to God and let it go, I don’t ever think about it again. And I feel free and not stressed. The older I get the harder that is to keep doing, however, because I think I can do it all on my own. Guess that’s what childlike faith means.

I grew up in so much household and war trauma, and now somehow I found myself completing my masters in neuroscience not knowing that in hindsight I was perhaps seeking answers to why I am the way I am. I found the brain fascinating but deep down it was that I wanted to understand my own. Now with the knowledge I have I can attest that the brain is indeed fascinating and capable of so much and is extremely plastic and less concrete than scientists wish to admit. It is sad that the recent narrative has been that mental illnesses are “hardwired chemical imbalances”. A definition that completely stripped a person’s self-autonomy and choice in the matter. We all have a choice and our brains are ready to listen to it and rewire accordingly. We just have to make it. I wish all a blessed existence ❤

God bless to anyone reading this! You’ve got this🙏🏽

I can't believe this is free to watch. So insightful! Thank you to everyone who put this together for us. I will be revisiting this every now and then until I've internalised the main facts, cos living in creation is exactly what I want to be doing and what I was looking to get help with when searching for a talk like this in the first place.

I thought that I was addicted to the pain. This affirms my suspicions.

This blew my mind. I’ve learned more about myself in this short video than I have in 37years. Living in creation for me has been my own self healing.

I have MS, and I had a horrible abusive childhood from a very young age. Information about these subjects has been helpful in my journey to emotional health and spiritual recovery, and whatever comes after that i can handle

They way he describes being addicted to stress response is mind opening

i remember when i was a child i promissed to never have stress because it caused Cancer, but i didnt know what stress was at that time...now i feel it every day

I have suffered depression , stress and anxiety for the past 8 years and I’m 33 years old women .. I became so sick last year thanks for RU-vid I found out I was making my self sick.. It was an aha moment for me .. I learned I have power to make myself sick and have the power to heal my self

I really want my thoughts and stress to not take over my life. I will practice mindfulness because the feeling of being stuck in a situation that you can’t get your mind off of is the worst.

As a recovering meth addict, I cannot begin to describe how much this video helped me. Knowledge really is power.

"You can turn on your stress response just by thought alone, you can become addicted to your own thoughts. Your thoughts can literally make you sick." - Wow 😱

This is the best piece of advice ever for any person where attention goes enegry flows

11:12 Take ten minutes a day to feel love for life, gratefulness, etc. 7:26 "No organism can live in an emergency state for an extended period of time." (So it is important to turn it off and take time to relax, play video-games, meditate, sleep, etc.)

I needed to watch this. I'm addicted to drama, or self-doubt, or that stress, though I could not quite put my finger on just why I keep cycling through these same unhealthy thoughts. It reminded me of a shamanic mentor I once worked with who mentioned addictions to other things besides alcohol and drugs, things like self-doubt and drama. Thank you for sharing this!

When I was living in Paris I was surrounded by art and creativity. My stress levels were significantly lower

I am reflecting my childhood a lot recently. Truly I had no focus on body nor the poor conditioned environment and time didn’t Exist. No cell phone to take attention away. All the focus is on day-to-day life itself. No assumption no insistence on how life ought to be. Open to all the changes and new things.

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” (2 Cor 4:18) "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." (Colossians 3:2) I love hearing neurological studies on God's Truth. The way we are created, our brains our wired, and this earth is made is SO COOL. Thank you for making this video (Y)

Wow...this man just described my existence. Only recently am I learning how years of abuse has effected my mental and physical health. I am so thankful for resources like this.

I must confess, at some point i thought "This is too idealistic" but he did point out some real things that relate to me, from experience. I am glad that i kept watching this. Thank you, doc!

be positive. that's all you have to do! people tend to get caught up in the details, but it's so simple. turn to love.

i've been living with ocd, ptsd, complex grief, depression and things of that nature. trauma is inflated by the ruminating process my mind goes through to the point where i spiraled into alcoholism, drug addiction, etc. after sobriety wasn't any better. i had an extremely abusive, and stressful childhood. i feel my mind has never rested a day. i've been in an out of therapy and tried numerous medications from 12-19 years old. i'm now just turning 20 and this was what i've been wrestling with the whole time -- and never knew how to reassure myself of psychosomatic vs. reality vs. what the stress of being this way has made me feel like. i think this saved my life.

One of the best, if not the best, lectures of Joe Dispenza. Beautifully animated as well. Thank you 🙏🏻

As someone with both these diseases, this was eye opening. I've been working for a yr to get out of survival mode.

you mean i should change my gamemode to creative?

Ive been thinking the emotion of happiness since watching it yesterday and my mind has already started to reduce my over thinking. I feel peace. I hope i can keep it up!

does anyone else get more anxious as they learn more about anxiety lmaoo

I’m gonna listen to this every single day for the rest of my life, I want to make significant changes in my brain for the sake of peace and balance. I want homeostasis

This just made me cry. My default state is stress and anxiety. I'm constantly being treated like shit by society, just walking out of my house. Why can't people be nice

🤯🤯🤯 Thank you for bringing me back ❤️ I’ve been struggling a lot as wife and a mother lately. When I ask myself why I can’t even give myself an answer. I don’t even know why. Sometimes you get lost, this video brought me back and now I realize that Ive just been in survival mode. I was to the point where I was having thoughts of “maybe I do need an antidepressant. And that is unlike me. I hardly ever take anything. This video showed me the clarity I needed.

So casting all my cares and anxiety on to God will heal me. And living out my true freedom in Jesus gave me basically. Love it! God designed humans perfectly to heal ourselves.

I cured my stress by deleting social media, specially Instagram and tiktok

Meditation and gaining control of your thoughts is one of the keys to happiness IMO. Great video, thank you

This honestly made me cry a little bit. Last year i changed my studies to something way more „unstable“ and „risky“ (at least in my thoughts) than before, but i knew it was my passion. I felt stressed for the year i studied the wrong thing and the thought about „will the change be the right decision?“ Put me in tension all the time. I cared too much about social status, how people perceive me and if I could reach my own standards after the change. So I switched my studies to Design and after all the overthinking and decision making was through, I thrived in my new profession. After that, good things just kept falling into my lap that reassured me in my decision every day. I randomly met people who share my interests and work, people started telling me Im amazing in my work and I landed a job that I thought is out of my league. I am good in my field and I keep learning every single day with a motivation and passion I didnt have before. I love it and I am thankful that my own mindset has changed so much over the past year. Seeing this video also shows me that I am on the right path. Thank you.

I relate so much! I’ve been in fight or flight since childhood.

thank you Dr Joe for these insights. Many viewers may feel "my daily situation is just too stressful and it feels like there is no way out of it, because of my past/present situation - its very difficult for me to be positive and spend time thinking positive thoughts". If this is you - then my message to you is: start small. If you can be 5% more positive today - it will make a difference. Take small steps to get out of stress, debt, a bad work situation, etc. Rome was not built in a day; and you can move slowly from a bad environment to a good one, its a journey. try it. thank you

So really, the way corporations force their employees to work in overload is utterly unethical & yet it is not questioned. Love this video, thank you.

Honestly, this channel is one of the main things that keeps me grounded. Thank you so much for sharing perspectives outside of the "norm".

This is what the pandemic caused me. Until now, I'm still on Survival Mode. I noticed that whatever I'm feeling physically is gravely affected by the happenings around me. Thanks to youtube for recommending this video. I never thought I needed this. Really, the brain could be so powerful it's terrifying sometimes. Thank you for he enlightenment!! 💓

I have a chronic pain condition & sometimes faking that I feel better to myself is the only way I actually do. The brain is amazing

I've been saying exactly this for almost 10 years and even got hospitalized for it. amazing what people will cling to, however self-destructive or oppressive, in order to avoid this simple truth.

I have a friend that yell at their 8 yo kid all the time, about everything. Not doing homework fast enough, not eating all their food, not staying focused on things, cause they are a kid etc... Literally yelling habits about every little thing. They are not bad parents, the kid is not a bad kid, actually really smart and super sweet. But the kid starts to pull her hair and bite herself saying she is a bad kid (I must be bad, cause my parents wouldnt yell at me if I wasnt.) This is stress, poor self esteem and lack of confidence that is *AUTOMATICALLY* developing within the kid, with no bad intention. Just a lack of awareness and proper attention, habits of emotional conditioning being taught. Similar to this, is why a lot of people are at unease with themselves. Even if you are loving parents, be careful. Sticks and stones may break our bones but your words will shape their growing souls, for better or for worse. Then as we grow older we start to contemplate ourselves. Trying to build on a template that was given to us in sections by all the people while we were growing up. A kid doesn't have much of a reason to wonder what might happen to them tomorrow or try to figure out why they are the way they are. A kid doesnt have to try to figure out how to fix or solve their circumstances. They are already at ease with not knowing because they are growing. We don't need to be a kid to be at ease or at peace. We need to be less grown up. Perhaps we have stopped growing, keep on growing without ever being fully grown. No need to know why or how you will grow, just experience it. We will figure out things when needed so stop the NEED to understand anything. Stop interpreting yourself in comparison to others. If you notice something that you are envious of, that is because of interpretation. Find inspiration from it instead and grow towards it, without any mental dialogue about it. Not about how you wish you have it and why it sucks, no dialogue about how or what it must be like, no dialogue about how your life will be better when you get it. When I try to think back to my childhood. I can remember experiences. But that's it! I was a kid growing and just experiencing. A kid has circumstances and an adult has circumstances who worries about them more? Be a person who is growing and just experience, take care of things as they come, not getting ahead of yourself mentally. You may find that we still have this jovial part of us when we are not spending the majority or our time thinking about our circumstances, particularly when we are usually doing things daily that aren't related to them. We just carry it as burden into every moment of our life. Time to let go and be free.

The amount of art put into this video is incredible. I couldn’t imagine how long it took. I am so thankful to have stumbled across this video!

The battlefield is in your mind.

I went through a period of pretending I was in a simulation and not to take anything seriously. People asked why I was constantly smiling. Some said I was disassociating when I told them this. I’ve relapsed somewhat in the last few years, but wish to go back to my simulation.

If your job stresses you out, *please leave* 1) prepare your resume 2) start looking for a new job/start turning your ideas into physical material 3) schedule time for interviews/advertising 4) accept the most logical position/work schedule and never look back

Wall-E taught me that living the wonders of life is more important than just surviving in auto-pilot

Thank you, thank you, for explaining the different types of stress. Physical stress applies to me as I inherited a genetic condition called EDS that effects my joints, making them too hypermobile. I end up with a lot of injuries to my joints and having connective tissue that’s too stretchy has also impacted my heart. I use meditation to help support my body and mind and I also have physical therapy which helps me to build muscles around the joints to help prevent injuries from my loose joints. It is SO, unbelievably frustrating when people seem to think that these issues are emotional. Like if I rub a magnet on my head I will be healed. That level of misunderstanding is what I mostly encounter. Thank you for this insightful video which brings everything together, I will rewatch it again later. Physical stress is on the body is real and not everything is emotional such as a car accident, genetic issues such as Down syndrome etc, aging. Some things really are taxing on the body externally and if people want to know how to better support and encourage people, maybe start by not assuming their issues are all in their thoughts.

What a wonderful thing to stumble across during this unknown time we are living in. Thank you Joe, listening to you feels very natural and wise.

There are situations that we cannot control. There is pain that we cannot just shut off. We must learn the difference.

Everyone needs this kind of information and learning.

I've been running my body and mind to their limit for more than a decade, with enough stress for a few lifetimes, and never gave myself the time for rest or consumed sufficient nutrition and it's definitely taken its toll. Finally got to a point where I decided to recharge myself and I'm already feeling my strength returning and health improving. Sometimes the hardest lesson to learn but you need to put yourself first, especially if you want to provide for, and protect, others.

I grew up in constant stress, fear and actual torture. I have been very sick as an adult. I am 40 and I think I’m just starting to heal

USEFUL information, thank you. Personally relieved because I based my entire life off the principle "avoid cortisol, don't get stressed...". Learned it from a rat that died. I had pet rats growing up, and the most scared and 'wild' ones always died first. The happiest rat lived for like 5 years, no joke. Rat didn't GAF

I have been living with anxiety my whole life when though I am young. This helped me see things from a new perspective. Thank you

I struggle with a lot of anxiety and a lot of these topics I covered in therapy. I came to the realisation that it's about focusing on the present moment, not imagining the future or reminiscing of the past. The future is a fictional concept, no one knows what will happen next week month or year so any thoughts you have about it are only speculation. It's fiction till it becomes present. My jaw dropped when double vision was mentioned. We all hear of raised heart rates, sweaty palms etc but I have been struggling with double vision in times of stress for years and never hear it covered. I think we need to do what we want to do. And if you don't want to do something, don't do it. If your job is making you miserable, leave and find one that brings you joy. I know that sounds like a fairy tale concept but as far as we know we only have one life and one chance, if we don't find a way to live in peace with our minds the stress will kill us.

Dr. Dispenza: I have to say, you nailed it. As a suicide survivor, every time you would talk about behaviors I would start marking off behaviors that I had to overcome. I seem to have reached most of the same conclusions as you. Thank you, seeing my conclusions coming out of great minds is reassuring.

This explains perfectly so much behind how we are as humans. Be patient with others, behind every "Karen", is a stressed, possibly abused, lady in an unhappy marriage - overworked and living off of stress hormones - trying to control every little thing because in all actuality she feels out of control. That is why I'm nice to everyone - unless they're really bad obv.

This has been the most informing video i've seen in my entire life to help me with really wanting to get passed my anxiety problems. Thank you so much!

This one good explanation of how higher emotions and feeling them, such as gratitude, work in your life. I never really got it before I felt it listening to you. Thanks . Intention + elevated emotion = transformation.

Not everyone had a childhood with that experience. This is why long-term childhood trauma is soo damaging!