Book: Becoming Supernatural – Dr. Joe Dispenza

Most of us are taught to think of reality as:

Past → Present → Future
“I am this way because of what happened back then.”

Becoming Supernatural flips that script.
Dr. Joe’s core message is:

You don’t have to wait for your future to arrive to feel like your future self.
You can generate that energy now, and let reality reorganise around it.

This post is my reflection on how I began to practice my future self’s energy in the present moment and what changed when I stopped living only from my history and started living from my potential.

The core idea: your future is a frequency, not just a date

In Dr. Joe’s language, every version of you exists as a different energy signature:

  • A “past self” with familiar emotions: worry, stress, guilt, limitation
  • A “future self” with new emotions: freedom, gratitude, abundance, peace

Most people keep recreating their past because they wake up and:

  • Think the same thoughts
  • Feel the same feelings
  • Take the same actions
  • Stay in the same environment

So their state of being never changes.

Becoming Supernatural asks a different question:

“What if you start to consistently feel and embody the energy of your desired future now,
before anything outside you has changed?”

That is what Dr. Joe calls “getting beyond the self” and “tuning into a new future.”

Seeing how I was broadcasting my past

Before applying these ideas, my default pattern was:

  • Waking up and immediately checking things that triggered old emotions
  • Replaying familiar worries and situations in my mind
  • Letting my nervous system live in the same stress-based baseline

If I’m honest, my body was addicted to familiar emotions:

  • Stress about outcomes
  • Low-level anxiety about money or time
  • Self-doubt in the background

That emotional state was a signal I was sending into my day, over and over.

This book made me own a confronting truth:

I said I wanted a new future,
but most of my inner energy was still funded by my past.

Future self energy: not fantasy, but rehearsal

Dr. Joe’s work is not about escaping reality.
It’s about rehearsing a new inner reality with so much consistency that the body and subconscious mind accept it as normal.

So I began to define my “future self” more clearly:

  • How does that version of me feel in their body?
  • What is their baseline emotion?
  • How do they handle uncertainty, money, health, relationships, purpose?
  • What do their mornings feel like, not just look like?

Then I asked:

“If that version of me already existed now,
what emotional state would they live in today?”

Not next year. Not “when everything is fixed.”
Today.

My daily practice: collapsing timelines into the present

Here is how I currently work with these ideas in a practical, grounded way.

1. Morning: tuning into the future self field

In the morning, before I open myself to the outer world, I create an inner one.

I sit quietly and:

  1. Let my attention leave my usual identities for a moment (name, roles, problems).
  2. Bring to mind the specific future I am creating (health, wealth, work, impact, freedom).
  3. Ask: “What does this future feel like in my body?”

Then I:

  • Summon the elevated emotions linked to that future: gratitude, freedom, wholeness, inner success.
  • Stay in that emotional state until it feels real, not forced.

The goal is not visualisation for its own sake.
The goal is to install a new emotional baseline in my nervous system.

This is what “collapsing timelines” means for me:

Instead of waiting for external proof to feel like my future self,
I feel it now and move from that state.

2. During the day: catching when I drop into the old timeline

Of course, life happens:

  • Unexpected messages
  • Delays
  • Triggers
  • Old fears

When I feel myself dropping back into my “past self” energy (stress, lack, frustration), I try to:

  • Notice it without judgment
  • Name it: “This is the old pattern trying to run.”
  • Take a short pause: a few slow breaths
  • Remember the emotional state of my future self
  • Upgrade my reaction, even just 10–20%

Sometimes I can fully shift.
Sometimes I can only soften it.
Either way, I’ve changed the signal.

3. Evening: reviewing my broadcast

At night, I do a quick check-in:

  • Where did I act from my old self today?
  • Where did I successfully act from my future self’s energy?
  • What could I handle differently tomorrow from that elevated state?

This becomes a daily calibration:

Less and less from the past.
More and more from the future.

Working with coherence: aligning head, heart, and body

One of the powerful ideas in Becoming Supernatural is coherence:

  • When your brain and heart are in sync
  • When your thoughts, emotions, breath, and body are aligned in one direction

I see coherence as a kind of “clean signal.”

I support this with simple practices:

  • Slow, rhythmic breathing to calm the nervous system
  • Focusing on gratitude until I feel a real shift in the chest area (not just in the head)
  • Pairing an elevated emotion with a clear intention

When thought (intention) and emotion (elevated feeling) match,
the message to the body and the field around me becomes coherent.

How I take notes from Becoming Supernatural

I don’t treat this book like just inspiring theory.
My notes are set up to help me practice.

1. Anchor concepts

I reduce the big ideas into simple lines:

  • “Your personality creates your personal reality.”
  • “Future self is a frequency you tune into, not a date you arrive at.”
  • “Elevated emotion + clear intention = new broadcast.”
  • “You can teach your body the feelings of the future now.”

These serve as quick resets when I drift.

2. Old self vs future self map

I write two columns:

Old self energy:

  • Stress, rush, scarcity, self-doubt, control, overthinking

Future self energy (by choice):

  • Calm confidence, gratitude, sufficiency, creative flow, trust, clarity

Under each, I list examples:

  • How the old self talks
  • How the future self talks
  • How each reacts to setbacks or uncertainty

This gives me a practical reference point during the day.

3. Practice protocols

I outline simple protocols I can follow:

  • Morning: 10–20 minutes of future self meditation (intention + emotion)
  • Midday: 2–5 minute breathing and re-alignment break
  • Evening: short review of where I embodied or abandoned my future self

This makes the work repeatable instead of random.

How my inner and outer world started to shift

Since applying Becoming Supernatural in this way (imperfect but consistent), I’ve noticed:

  • Less dependence on external conditions to feel “on track”
  • Faster recovery when things don’t go as planned, because I now treat events as tests of alignment
  • More intuitive nudges and synchronicities when I’m in a coherent state
  • A growing sense that I am leading my life energetically, not only reacting mentally

Most importantly, I feel less trapped by my history:

The past is still there, but it no longer has the exclusive right to define me.
My future has a voice now, and I listen to it every day.

Why this belongs on my Growth page

This page is part of my Growth ecosystem because Becoming Supernatural gives me a framework for energetic leadership of my own life:

  • Not just changing habits
  • Not just changing mindset
  • But changing the state of being I live from

“Collapsing timelines” is my way of describing a simple truth:

When you practice the energy of your future self in the present,
your body, your decisions, and eventually your reality begin to reorganise.

If you’re reading this on my Growth site, here’s a simple experiment you can try:

Choose one specific future version of you – clearer, freer, healthier, wealthier, more peaceful.
Ask: “What does that version of me feel like on a normal day?”
Then, once today, close your eyes, breathe, and practice that feeling as if it’s already true.

Do it consistently.
Let your future self get a turn at driving, not just your past.