Transformation is distinct from epiphany in that it actually changes what you do. “Transformation is I now can’t do things the same way — and it’s not willpower.” People in Joe’s courses suddenly can’t buy the same food at the grocery store, not because they decided to change their diet, but because their system is now more attuned and certain choices become impossible.
Transformation operates on three levels. Intellectually, it changes what gets done and how. Emotionally, it changes decisions by expanding what emotions you’re willing to feel — “neurologically speaking, you make decisions based on emotions.” At the deepest level, transformation changes the sense of self, which is “an experience of deep freedom because usually when the sense of self transforms, it widens, it grows, it becomes less of a small thing, more of a big thing — and so there’s less to defend.”
The scariest transformations are the ones where you can’t choose the old way anymore. But “when it’s integrated you have complete availability to where you were before and availability to a new thing. It increases your flexibility, it doesn’t decrease it.”
Related Concepts
- Transformation is experiments, not epiphany
- Transformation requires experience, not information
- Changing behavior changes consciousness