Book Review: Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza

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Somewhere in my first year of healing rheumatoid arthritis, I started saying a sentence to myself every day: I am healthy, I am healed. If that makes you want to close this tab, stay with me. There was a version of me who would have rolled her eyes too, and she’s the same person who read Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza in October 2021 and rated it five stars.

The premise: Dispenza argues that ordinary people can produce extraordinary changes in their health and lives through meditation, breathwork, and retraining the mind-body connection — that the heart and the brain are in constant conversation, and most of us never pick up the phone. It’s part neuroscience, part mysticism, and it does not apologize for the mysticism.

What I Loved About Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza

It arrived at the exact moment my skepticism was losing ground to my results. Everything I was reading that year from functional medicine doctors and nutritionists pointed the same direction: healing meant turning away from what’s making us sick, in the kitchen and also in the nervous system. This book is the furthest station on that line — an exploration of spirituality and the power of the human heart that genuinely tries to bring science along for the ride. We can’t explain every part of what it means to be human, or what “miracles” are made of. I’ve stopped pretending we can.

And the practices earned their keep. The meditations gave my daily mantra some architecture, and my nervous system (living, at the time, in a body that had recently declared war on itself) needed every tool with a calm-down button. Whatever you believe about the metaphysics, an hour of practiced calm is not nothing when you’re inflamed.

Now, the flashing neon reminder: I’m a writer, not a doctor, and none of this is medical advice. My remission came from two years of deeply unglamorous protocol (bloodwork, a nutritionist, an integrative rheumatologist, a mountain of vegetables), with the mindset work as one layer of many. The full story is here. Mantras were the soundtrack, not the surgery.

What I Didn’t Love About Becoming Supernatural

You have to bring your own open mind, because the claims regularly outrun the citations. I treated the meditations as practice, not proof, and I’d suggest you do the same. If you need every sentence peer-reviewed before you’ll try a breathing exercise, this will be a bumpy ride.

Final Thoughts on Becoming Supernatural

Five stars for what it did for me at the moment it found me. If the mind-body connection intrigues you but you want to start closer to the science, The Body Keeps the Score is the gateway. Come back for this one when you’re ready for the deep end.

My final score: 5 out of 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Do I recommend this book? 👍 Yes — with an open mind and both feet on the ground.

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