{"id":37273,"date":"2025-12-25T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=37273"},"modified":"2025-12-25T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:59:16","slug":"stepping-towards-a-new-destiny-with-a-scorecard-that-doubles-as-a-treasure-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/stepping-towards-a-new-destiny-with-a-scorecard-that-doubles-as-a-treasure-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Towards A New Destiny With A Scorecard That Doubles As A Treasure Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The Mind Rewires the Score: Trauma, Neuroplasticity, and Supernatural Healing. Stepping Towards A New Destiny With A Scorecard That Doubles As A Treasure Map<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image1-12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image2.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image2-6.png\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">***A Sequel to *The Body Keeps the Score* by Bessel van der Kolk, MD***<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Prologue: From Keeping the Score to Rewiring It<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In *The Body Keeps the Score*, we learned how trauma imprints itself not just in the mind, but in the very fabric of the body and brain. But what if the story doesn&#8217;t end with the score being kept?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">What if, through the power of focused intention, meditation, and elevated emotion, we can actively rewrite that score? Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Joe Dispenza in neuroplasticity, epigenetics, quantum fields, and self-directed healing, this book explores how trauma survivors can move beyond survival to supernatural transformation\u2014becoming the placebo for their own healing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Part 1: The Brain&#8217;s Plastic Potential<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 1: Evolving Beyond the Trauma Brain** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Building on the neuroscience of trauma&#8217;s impact on the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, we delve into Joe Dispenza&#8217;s *Evolve Your Brain*. Trauma hardwires survival patterns, but neuroplasticity allows us to forge new pathways. Through mental rehearsal and focused attention, survivors can &#8220;evolve&#8221; their brains, turning hypervigilance into calm awareness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 2: Breaking Old Habits, Creating New Selves** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">From *Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself*, we examine how 95% of our thoughts and behaviors are habitual by adulthood\u2014many rooted in trauma. Dispenza&#8217;s step-by-step process teaches how to observe these loops, interrupt them, and install new ones via meditation, freeing the self from the &#8220;habit of being&#8221; a trauma survivor.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Part 2: The Placebo Power Within<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 3: You Are the Placebo for Your Trauma** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In *You Are the Placebo*, Dispenza documents cases where belief alone heals chronic conditions. For trauma, this means shifting from &#8220;my body keeps the score&#8221; to &#8220;my mind changes the game.&#8221; Stories of spontaneous remissions show how elevated emotions like gratitude can downregulate stress genes and heal physiological trauma markers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 4: Epigenetics: Genes Are Not Your Destiny** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trauma alters gene expression, passing vulnerability across generations. But epigenetics reveals environment and mindset can switch genes on or off. Dispenza&#8217;s research integrates with van der Kolk&#8217;s findings: mindful practices signal new genes, allowing survivors to transcend inherited or acquired trauma.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Part 3: Becoming Supernatural in Recovery<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 5: Accessing the Quantum Field** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">From *Becoming Supernatural*, we explore how meditation takes us beyond the material body into coherent energy fields. Trauma fragments the self; connecting to the quantum unified field rebuilds coherence, enabling mystical experiences that dissolve old pain and manifest healing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 6: Elevated Emotions and Heart Coherence** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Dispenza emphasizes moving from survival emotions (fear, anger) to elevated ones (love, joy). Heart-brain coherence, measured in workshops, amplifies healing. Combined with body-based therapies like yoga, this creates a &#8220;supernatural&#8221; state where the body no longer &#8220;keeps&#8221; the old score.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 7: Meditation as the Ultimate Tool** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Practical guides from Dispenza&#8217;s works: breathwork to activate energy centers, walking meditations, and pineal gland activation. These complement EMDR, yoga, and theater\u2014rewiring fragmented memories into coherent narratives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Part 4: Interpersonal and Relational Healing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 8: Weeding the Garden of the Mind** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Relationships can retraumatize or heal. A key insight: &#8220;We must weekly or daily weed the weeds that our significant other plants in our head and weeds that propagate in her mind that she 4k projects into our fertile mind.&#8221; Using Dispenza&#8217;s tools, couples practice mutual coherence meditations to break projection cycles and co-create elevated realities.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 9: Collective Supernatural Healing** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Trauma isolates; group meditations create field effects. Dispenza&#8217;s &#8220;Project Coherence&#8221; shows how communal intention amplifies individual healing\u2014envisioning trauma-informed societies where supernatural recovery is the norm.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Part 5: Case Studies and Paths Forward<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 10: Real Stories of Supernatural Recovery** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Integrated case studies: Veterans using Dispenza meditations to transcend PTSD; abuse survivors manifesting new lives; chronic pain patients becoming their own placebo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 11: Integrating Modalities** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Blending van der Kolk&#8217;s bottom-up approaches (yoga, neurofeedback) with Dispenza&#8217;s top-down (intention, quantum access) for holistic protocols.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">**Chapter 12: A Call to Evolve** &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Society must shift from medicating symptoms to empowering self-healing. With neuroplasticity and epigenetics, trauma&#8217;s score can be rewritten\u2014not just managed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">### Epilogue: The Mind Keeps the New Score<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The body keeps the score, but the mind\u2014elevated, coherent, and intentional\u2014can change it entirely. You are not doomed by your past; you are supernatural by design.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">*(Note: This was a creative, hypothetical sequel outline and chapter-by-chapter summary, synthesizing the themes of *The Body Keeps the Score* with Larry Chiang and Joe Dispenza&#8217;s key works for perspirational purposes.)*<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/larrychiang\/status\/2004201355531981305?s=43\"><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"border:1px solid #ccd6dd; border-radius: 12px;\" width=\"500\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px;\" height=\"12\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"18\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" width=\"464\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"48\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/larrychiang?s=43\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1388307931125460994\/KWn5HNMY_normal.jpg\" style=\"border-radius: 50%; padding: 0px;\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td width=\"8\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width:8px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/email\/self_serve\/media\/spacer.png\" width=\"8\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\" width=\"388\" style=\"min-width: 388px;\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"388\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"388\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/larrychiang?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; color: #292c2f; text-decoration: none;\">Larry Chiang, 650-283-8008<\/a><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/larrychiang?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; color: #7e8c98;\">\u2066\u202a@LarryChiang\u202c\u2069<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/email\/self_serve\/media\/logo_twitter-1497383721365.png\" height=\"20\" width=\"24\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"9\" colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height:0px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ea.twimg.com\/self_serve\/media\/spacer_464x1-1582829598167.png\" width=\"464\" height=\"1\" data-unique-identifier=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;color: #292c2f; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/arrington\">\u2066\u202a@arrington\u202c\u2069<\/a> Confucius say<br \/>Larry Chiang say: We must weekly or daily weed the weeds that our significant other plants in our head and weeds that propagate in her mind that she 4k projects into our fertile mind. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%23bodyKeepsScore&amp;src=hash\">#bodyKeepsScore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Dispenza <\/p>\n<p>&#x2705; becoming supernatural <br \/>&#x2705; breaking the habit of<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"3\" colspan=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height:0px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/larrychiang\/status\/2004201355531981305?s=43\" style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;color: #667785; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration:none;\">12\/25\/25, 8:43\u202fAM<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"18\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px; min-width: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"font-size: 0px; line-height: 0px;\" height=\"12\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p><br id=\"lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature\"><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 17pt; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Chapter 1 to Chapter 14\u2019s an \u201cEaster Egg\u201d at&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17pt;\">#ch1 to #ch14. Including #ch2 which\u2019s chapter 2 at my house in Napa California<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">On 09-09-39, &#8220;What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business School&#8221; debuts at 300 w 44th St at New York Fashion Week&#8217;s front row<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QXIaNZi3mHQ<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>What A Super Model Can Teach a Harvard MBA About Credit&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit\">www.slideshare.net\/larrychiang\/what-a-super-model-can-teach-a-harvard-mba-about-credit<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>American Express hosts me mentoring you about FICO scores at New York Fashion Week<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/inxTmZAj\">t.co\/inxTmZAj<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My video boils down 20,000 hours and moves you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve&nbsp;<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE<\/span><br \/><\/span><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: 17pt;\">***********<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Steve Jobs Texted me on 650-283-8008 in the same way that Mr Jobs called Bill Hewlett&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1\">https:\/\/x.com\/superSaiyanSkai\/status\/1941392367304761636\/video\/1<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><\/p>\n<div><span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span dir=\"ltr\">Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Fund of Founders<\/div>\n<div>Founding Stanford EIR<\/div>\n<div>@duck9 alum, Deeply Understood Capital Credit Chinese Knowledge 9<\/div>\n<div>Solo Founder Uber API<\/div>\n<div>650-566-9600 Office<\/div>\n<div>650-566-9696 Direct<\/div>\n<div>Cell: 415-720-8500&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">650-283-8008 (cell)<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Editor of the widely syndicated &#8220;What They Don&#8217;t Teach at School&#8221;<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\">whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CNN Video Channel:&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang\">ireport.cnn.com\/people\/larrychiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read my last 10 X posts at&nbsp;<span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.X.com\/LarryChiang\">www.X.com\/LarryChiang<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Author of #WTDTYASBS a NY Times Bestseller released 09-09-09 at #NYFW on a runway under the tents<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller\">whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.com\/blog\/?s=Ny+times+bestseller<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049\">www.fastcompany.com\/embed\/c0d4562ea2049<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>52 Cards. Two Jokers. What They DO Teach You at Stanford Engineering<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vDBY0GkI3-g<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Emergency swings and cutting deals as an 9 year old<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFGY7v9C4G0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Pence shared thoughts before winning WORLD SERIES&#8217; Game #7<br \/><span dir=\"ltr\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=usu0luYy9pw<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span dir=\"ltr\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mind Rewires the Score: Trauma, Neuroplasticity, and Supernatural Healing. 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