Use This TRICK To Heal Your Body & Mind TODAY! | Dr. Caroline Leaf EP 451

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1:09Life and managing your mind doesn't mean that it's going to be one big rosy, you know, put on rose-tinted glasses. It is actually the ability to be okay and at peace with having moments of depression and actually looking for the message and seeing them as helpful. We have this really weird philosophy, which has been about 40 years in the West now, where we look at depression and anxiety and those kind of things as illnesses and neuropsychiatric brain diseases and as bad symptoms that we must suppress, like cancer symptoms you must suppress. So it's been lumped on misery of life has been medicalized, to quote a brilliant psychiatrist.

1:43So we've got to really watch out for that. But actually, the real truth is that those depression and anxiety are not illnesses. They are just survival instincts. It's telling you, hey, pay attention. There's something going on. You need to go and unpack. Something's not working. Something's not working. Something's not working. And it's manifesting as a pattern that needs to be addressed. And that'll block the greatness. Did I hear you say that there isn't a mental health disease? It's more of just a pattern or something that we should be mindful of, but it's not an actual disease? No, it's not a disease.

2:12And I know this counters the current philosophy. But if you look at the science, there's a large body of science. In fact, if you interpret all the science around this field and you really look at what's being tested, they've been looking for the neurobiological correlates. They've been looking for where in the brain is depression. And for years, we've been told about the serotonin imbalance causing depression. I mean, that's not even – it was a theory never proven, great for marketing, for telling drugs, and also the simplistic way of telling someone, hey, you're depressed. Don't worry. It's chemical imbalance.

2:42Let me give you a drug to fix it. We want this quick fix mentality. So as medicine has advanced and technology has advanced, so we've become very caught up in the quick fix. But life's not like that. Mind is not like that. Mind is separate from brain and body. You can apply that kind of thinking, not quick fix, but you can apply a symptomatic diagnosis treatment approach to body, to physical brain and body. But when it comes to mind, there's this gravitational field, this force, this think, feel, choose, thing. It's not going to go, medication is not going to change how you're thinking, feeling and choosing.

3:12It's just going to numb your brain. So maybe you don't feel this while it's working. But at the same time as then when that drug wears off, this is still there. This is still being recognized by the immune system of your brain as a problem. And this is what gets you stuck. And these are the patterns. So no, it's not an illness. It is a normal human response. Everyone's going on about the next pandemic is mental health. Mental health has always been an issue. Notice from the beginning of time, mankind has battled with life, with issues, with death, with fighting, with war, with whatever. So mental health is not on the rise.

3:44But the mismanagement of mental health, making it a disease, has created a whole new problem. They started doing a population study in the mid-90s. And I started seeing this decades-long trend of people living longer. So we all hear this message. This is what we've heard. People are living longer because of the advances in medicine and technology. None of us question that. But something happened in 1996 that did start questioning that. By the mid-2000s, it was an established, researched fact that we don't live longer anymore, that the trend of people living longer has actually reversed, and that we have a pandemic of deaths of despair, where people are dying from preventable lifestyle diseases, and the age group most being affected are between 24 and 65.

4:29So people at the beginning of their career and the prime of their career and through that age group are dropping down dead like flies. And it's considered death of despair by preventable lifestyle diseases. Lifestyle disease means that there's something in our body that's weaker. Why? Lifestyle, which is mind-driven. How am I eating, drinking, sleeping? But more than that is what's my mind behind all of that? How am I actually managing the day-to-day moments? How am I managing the patterns, the traumas, the established toxic habits? What am I doing about that stuff?

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