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Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
¿Te atreves a explorar tu mente infinita? «No subestimes el poder de tus pensamientos. Son capaces de alterar la realidad». --JOE DISPENZA Más de 2 millones y medio de lectores ya han transformado su vida con Joe Dispenza. Tú puedes…
- Release Date
- 2026
- Length
- 352 pages
- Publisher
- Grijalbo
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Our Review
About the book
Dispenza explains how thoughts, feelings and habitual behaviors combine into a fixed sense of self, and offers a multi-week meditation program meant to dismantle old patterns and rehearse a new identity. The book moves from theory into a step-by-step practice section.
Our review
Dispenza’s most grounded book: a clear model of habit and identity wrapped in more scientific flourish than it needs.
This is the book many Dispenza readers start with, and it shows his strengths more cleanly than his later work. The core idea is easy to grasp and worth sitting with: we keep recreating yesterday because our bodies get used to the emotions that go with it. He breaks change into stages, observing a pattern, interrupting it and rehearsing an alternative, and the meditation program in the final third gives readers something concrete to do each week.
The first half is a slog. Long passages on neurons, quantum fields and the observer effect rest on loose analogies, and Dispenza often says the same thing three ways when one would do. Skeptical readers may stop before they reach the practical material, which would be a shame, because it is sensible and well organized. Treat the science chapters as a pep talk and you’ll get more from the book.
What we loved
- A memorable model of how emotions keep habits in place
- A structured, week-by-week meditation program
- Encouraging tone for readers stuck in a rut
Keep in mind
- Quantum physics is used as metaphor and presented as fact
- Slow, repetitive opening chapters
Read it if you like
Fans of The Power of Now or Atomic Habits who are open to a more mystical approach to changing habits.
The verdict
A useful habit-change framework buried under pseudo-physics. Skip ahead to the practice section.
