3 KEYS to Reprogram Your SUBCONSCIOUS MIND to Heal Your BODY

28:40It always comes back. So what you want to do is not try not to think about it, but to think about it differently. Interpret it differently. And your feelings will be based on your interpretations. So that, for me, the fire was not the scary thing. So I lost some things. So who cares? And then I got all of this attention, this feeling of the goodness of strangers. Community, love, support. And so it's not a scary thing for me. So if we open up our minds and see that no matter what we're experiencing, there are multiple ways of understanding it. There is no one way of looking at it. And that's what we do when we're being mindless.

29:27And then it lends itself to, again, all sorts of possibilities. And it occurs to me that we only talked about the counterclockwise study. I probably, with your permission. Go ahead. Yeah, share another one. Because there are many in the book, but to be more persuaded of this mind-body unity. Yes. Let's see, the next study in that series was with chambermaids, which is fun. This is awesome, yeah. Chambermaids, I didn't realize this until we did the study, don't see their work as exercise. Because the Surgeon General says exercise is what you do after work. You sit in a chair all day, that's when you get your exercise.

30:05And they're just too tired after work. The study was so simple, as many of these are my studies. We just taught them that their work is exercise. So making a bed is like working on this machine at the gym, sweeping. And so now we have two groups. One group that doesn't realize their work is exercise. One group that now sees that their work is exercise. We take many measures. Turns out they're not working any differently. These two different views. They're not eating any differently. All that's changed is their mindset. Now work is exercise. As a result of that change, they lost weight. There was a change in waist to hip ratio, body mass index, and their blood pressure kingdom.

30:49Wow. So, our thoughts matter. I'll go to the very present because there's so many things for us to talk about. I did this study recently with my graduate student, Peter Ungle. and it's a study on wound healing. Oh, this is interesting. Now, so in order to test the one's mind, the degree to which your mind affects healing. The physical body. Right, we had to inflict a wound. Really? I am not sadistic. Right, right. And even if I were, the Human Subjects Committee is not going to let me. So it's a minor wound. Sure. But it's a wound. A little paper cut or something like that. No, we used the Chinese cupping.

31:31Okay. And so it creates it. And all we have are people in front of a clock. It's like a bruise almost. Exactly. Unbeknownst to them, the clock is going twice as fast as real time, half as fast as real time, or real time. The question we're asking is, does that bruise heal based on perceived time, which is the time the clock tells you, or real time? And it turns out it's perceived time. Come on. Yeah. And we're doing this now with people who've had hernia operations, cataract surgery. I want to do with broken bones as well, where we tell people. Right now, the doctor will probably tell you, say, how long is it going to take for me to heal?

32:19Three to six months. And I think they use the outer limit. I want to tell people, some people have healed as quickly as, and give the quicking healing time, and see what happens. Interesting. So if a doctor who is a credible expert and is telling you this is going to take three to six months of recovery. You're not going to do anything until three or six. Exactly. Of recovery. Right. You're just going to wait until that end time and then start feeling better. So you're saying if what if a doctor said, you know, it's possible you could heal in two to four weeks and start seeing incredible healing fast.

32:59If you do these certain things. Do you think the body could connect to our thinking and our belief in that way? I think it's one. It's one. So it will necessarily be connected. So in the back of, after I talked about, in the book about all these mind-body unity studies, I give a treatment that we've come up with that essentially, you know, what I want to, let me backtrack a little bit. Most people know about placebos. Placebos may be our strongest medicine. I just think about it. You take a sugar pill, you take a nothing and then get better. So it's not the pill, you're doing it yourself. So my life's work has been to try to find out how to do this more directly.

33:42And what I'm just going to tell you is a procedure that seems to work and that could explain placebos and other things as well. But it's the answer to your question. Okay. So if you have three weeks to heal and now you're approaching the second week has passed, what are you doing? And this is what you might be doing. When people are given a diagnosis of a chronic disease, they tend to think that the symptoms are going to stay the same or get worse. Nothing moves in only one direction. There are all these little blips. It's sort of like the stock market. If it's going up, it doesn't go straight up.

34:19It goes up, goes down, a little up, okay? Or down to better not. And it's the same thing with any measure you're going to take over time, there are fluctuations. Now, what happens is there are times you're feeling better, but you're not paying any attention to those times, all right, because your expectation is it's only going to get worse. What happens if you pay attention? So what we do, we start by calling people every day, twice a day, sometimes three times a day at various times, and we say, let's say you have chronic pain for example nobody's stress it doesn't matter what it is people in chronic pain think they're in pain all the time people who are stressed think they're stressed nobody has anything all the time so we call and say how is it right now is it better or worse than before and why the why is the crucial question all right so what happens is now during many times it's going to be better so you're going to feel gee yeah it's not as bad as i thought it was there there are moments of relief why initiates a mindful search why now is it better than before and by doing this the very and the process now gives you some control over the disease so control itself is important to your health interesting when you're in control you're looking for ways to be better to improve yeah right so we use the stress so you're stressed all the time i call you history okay then all of sudden you realize you know when you're talking to ellen langer then you're maximally stressed so then it's easy right don't talk to me as a way of improving all right so three things happen when you do this attention to variability which is a fancy way of saying being mindful noticing change the first is that you see hey it's it's not that you're maximally awful all the time second by asking why you're being mindful that's good for your health and third that you're more likely to find a solution if you're looking for one now we've done this with Parkinson's stroke multiple sclerosis arthritis chronic pain a host of real disorders and in each case we get very positive results and so you know I'm now we were looking at how this might actually explain the placebo and the way is that you take a pill, now you're expecting yourself to get better.

36:50So you're looking, am I better? Oh, now I'm not as better as I was before. Why? And the process unfolds naturally. Now, so when I was trying to arrange it so people could take care of themselves rather than rely on a doctor to give them a nothing so that they take care of themselves, it doesn't seem that way because we're calling them but most people now have smartphones it's very easy you set your smartphone to ring in an hour you ask yourself how is it now better or worse than before set it now for two hours and ten minutes just vary the time um and uh you will be better even if it doesn't completely go away although we have very positive um very positive findings this is powerful you And the thing about a placebo that's kind of interesting, because when we, the BBC did a version of a replication of the counterclockwise study.

37:49And I remember there was this actress who was one of the participants, and she got better and she couldn't understand it. And she said, you know, you say it's placebo, but, you know, arguing because placebos are bad. Now, placebos to people are bad only because the people who started talking about them were pharmaceutical companies. And for a pharmaceutical, I want to bring this drug to market to make a fortune. And this damn thing, you know, this placebo is just as good. So then I can't bring it to market. But if you think about it, and then people say, it's only psychological. As if, wait a second, you know, physical is real.

38:28You know, psychological not. And now I'm saying they're both the same. So what influences the other? Do our thoughts influence our... It's all happening more or less simultaneously. Really? Yeah. So if we feel pain somewhere, we feel overwhelmed or stress, or we feel sharpness of pain somewhere, is our thoughts influencing that pain or is the feeling of it influencing our thoughts? It's one thing. Interesting. I raise my arm. That's affecting my wrist, my forearm. that it's all happening essentially at the same time. You know, there was somebody, I can't believe that I couldn't remember, I couldn't find who did this study where they did the biochemistry of a teardrop.

39:14And that a teardrop of sadness is biochemically different from a teardrop of happiness. And remember the iridologist, iridologist who was able to look in my eye and know there was something wrong with my gallbladder. It's all the same. I go like this, my mind, my brain is different. We don't have the sophisticated machinery, technology to pick up the difference. But if I took a few cells of your skin and you were mindful versus mindless, the difference is there. Really? But we can't see that now. Holy cow. No. This is fascinating. What I mean, what would you say then if people want to live pain-free, if they want to live pain-free, stress-free, and they want to feel like they're aging gracefully.

40:08All in one day. What can they be? What is the cocktail of ingredients that you should be doing on a daily basis to create that? Yeah, you should accept that everything is uncertain. And so then you can't know those things. you know if you forget something doesn't mean now you're becoming sick um getting dementia you know you forgot something and it's interesting because i'm a teacher i'm professor of these wonderful students at harvard and i give an exam and they get a lot of it wrong they studied it they just didn't remember so young people are not infrequently forgetful they just don't worry so much about being forgetful.

40:53If you fall, some people then take themselves out of the world, you know, because they're afraid of falling again. And I remember in this, I was consulting this nursing home many years ago, and this woman who was, I was in the director's office, and this woman who was about i'd say she was about 85 or whatever visiting her sister who was 90 and she was bragging she said you know my sister wanted me to bring tongues to help her put on her underwear by herself on but i wasn't going to do it because she could fall and okay and then i chimed in which i probably shouldn't and i said you know we can prevent her from falling um and burning herself or anything else that happens to people in the course of a lifetime, we can induce a semi-comatose state.

41:51And then she'll be perfectly accident-free and so on. So in some sense, I mean, it may seem silly, but some part of being human is the possibility of some of these things happening. Yeah. Yeah. And recognizing that you can get yourself through it in some of the ways we've already discussed. I'm not suggesting that we all just throw caution to the wind, but I think a life that provides no opportunity for any of these things to happen, it wouldn't be one that I would choose for myself.

42:34people are sick and they want to heal but why do you think so many people struggle to feeling whole and healing when there there seems to be the answer to how to do it but people continue to struggle with their health why do you think that is hmm um well there's a lot of things to unpack there. We have three types of stress that we process in the physical body. We have physical stress, that's like trauma, accidents, injuries, falls. And then you have chemical stress like toxins or pesticides or pollutants or viruses or bacteria or hangovers or nutritional deficiencies. And then you have emotional stress, right?

43:23And emotional stress could be family tragedies, car accidents, second mortgages, single parenting, 401ks, whatever that is. But each one of those things, physical, chemical, or emotional, knock the body out of homeostasis, out of regulation, out of balance. The innate capacity of the body when it's not overstressed is that it wants to always return back and regulate. It wants to return back to homeostasis. It wants to return back to order. And that's kind of innate in us. That's an automatic process that's running through the autonomic nervous system. So we could say the job of the autonomic nervous system is to create balance and regulation and homeostasis, and it's automatic, right?

44:06And that part of the brain sits under the thinking neocortex, and it's called the chemical brain or the emotional brain or the limbic brain or the mammalian brain. And it has all of those functions that make blood sugar balance, hormone levels, digestive enzymes. it's doing what it can to take the body and constantly repair it and regenerate it, move it back into balance. All of those stressors knock the brain and body out of balance, and the innate mechanism, the stress response, brings it back to balance. Well, it just makes sense. If you keep knocking it out of balance over and over again, and you keep moving it out of homeostasis, that imbalance is going to become the new balance, and now you're headed for disease because that autonomic automatic system can't regulate order in the body.

44:53So a system then is compromised. The system breaks down. And so if it's physical trauma, you know, your body can heal if you rest it. If it's chemical imbalance, you take your pharmaceuticals or you take your nutraceuticals, your vitamins, your minerals, your herbs. You intermittent fast. You eat a vegan diet. You do anything you can to get the body back so that it's using more energy for growth and repair. So for some people, digestion consumes more energy than the process makes, right? Really? They're in a state of constant diminishing returns, right? So when the autonomic nervous system is out of balance and the digestive system is perceiving that there's a threat and danger all the time, in the outer world the person's living in fear, it's not a time to digest, right?

45:47So that system was compromised. So then they'd become very sensitized to the foods they consume because the response constantly from the environment is weakening the organism. So they're victim to the environment. So they're more susceptible to have food allergies or whatever it is. So then the person then goes to a diet where they consume less foods that require more energy to break down. So it's like taking a camel in the desert that's fallen and then lifting all the packs off it, getting it back up, and then slowly adding the packs back on. So, people do things to get the body back into chemical balance, and sometimes we're refining or changing their diet in some way.

46:28And there's thousands of options for that, and you've got to feel good about it, and you've got to believe in it. But the big factor is emotional stress. Yes. Really, for the most part, 75 to 90 % of every person that walks into a healthcare facility in the Western world walks in because of psychological or emotional stress. Really? That's pretty much four out of five people. What's really causing their health condition is that they're emotionally stressed and emotionally out of balance. Okay, so what are the emotions that are connected to the stress hormones? It's anger, it's hatred, it's violence, it's frustration, it's competition, it's control, it's judgment, it's envy, it's jealousy, it's insecurity, it's fear, it's anxiety, it's worry, it's angst, it's hopelessness, it's powerlessness, it's guilt, it's shame, it's unworthiness.

47:22And psychology calls these normal human states of consciousness. These are altered states of consciousness. So our response to someone or something in our environment or our response to our own thought, an image of what could happen in the future, a memory of the past, could actually cause chemicals to be secreted from the brain. It's crazy. That causes the body to actually believe it's living in that same environment of fear or danger, right? So what am I hearing you say there, just so I'm correct? We can think a thought of our past memory, whether it's true or not, what happened. A memory. Exactly.

48:03A memory of something that we think happened. It may have happened. It may have been something that we continue to make up that happened, right? A memory. 50 % of that is a lie. So yeah, more than likely. 50 % of our memories are lies. Yeah, they're not the truth. Right, right. Or they're expanded into something else, right? They're embellished. They're embellished. So we can think of a memory, a painful memory, and we can hold on to that thought. Or we can think about something we're worried about in the future that hasn't happened, it may never happen. We could pick some worst case scenario and obsess about it.

48:32And we could obsess about it. And just the thought alone could create an emotion that could make us sick. Is that what I'm hearing? Yeah, because that thought, when you're seeing that thought in your mind or remembering that image it's the image and the emotion it's the thought and the feeling it's the stimulus and response that's immediately conditioning the body into that state of imbalance so it's a scientific fact that the long-term effects of the hormones of stress push the genetic buttons and create disease if you can turn on that stress response just by thought alone your thoughts are literally going to make you sick okay crazy so that's the greatest example of the mind-body connection so the next fundamental question is, okay, if our thoughts could make us sick, is it possible that my thoughts could make me well?

49:17Well, if that's the case, then I'm going to have to manage my attention and I'm going to have to manage my energy because where I place my attention is where I place my energy. And I'm going to have to inhibit that thought that has conditioned the body to subconsciously be the mind of that emotion. And the body's so objective that it does not know the difference between the real life experience that's creating that emotion and the emotion that person is fabricating by thought alone. To the body, it's exactly the same. So the body's believing it's being chased by a predator. The body's believing it's in an offensive situation where it has to attack.

49:55The body's believing it's constantly needing to be ready. And it's constantly out of homeostasis. It's constantly out of balance. It's in emergency. It's in fight or flight. It's a different system in the autonomic nervous system where you're stepping on the gas, where you're We're mobilizing enormous amounts of energy for some threat, some danger, real or imagined. But that thought and the feeling, the image, the emotion, the stimulus response is conditioning the body to automatically be the mind of that emotion. So then now the body becomes conditioned and addicted. Now, this gets to be a problem because people get addicted to their own thoughts.

50:29It becomes their personality, right? It is their identity. And they become addicted to the life they don't even like because the response to the co-worker to the boss to the ex is actually giving them a rush of energy a rush of a gentleman and they're they're associating that rush of energy with some problem or condition in their life and now come time to change and manage your attention and manage your emotion it's no different than breaking addiction to anything there's cravings the body the body wants to return back to how it's been conditioned into the familiar past into the known even if it's uncomfortable painful and a horrific feeling, why do we go back into that feeling?

51:10Because we don't believe there's anything in the future. If we knew that the best way to create a future really is to change your state of being, then you would have to manage your attention on that thought and have to say, is this thought actually the truth? And how long am I going to keep thinking this thought? And firing and wiring that circuit in the brain. So, there's biology because now it's an automatic program. It's a belief. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking over and over again until it becomes subconscious or unconscious. So to change then is become so conscious of that unconscious thought, that unconscious belief that it wouldn't slip by your awareness, unnoticed and checked.

51:47And now the body's in rehab because it's overdosed. It's been on a bad trip. And the body which has been conditioned to be the mind is 95 % of who we are, right? By the time we're in the middle of our life. So there's David and Goliath. And the body's just saying, look, you think you've been making all your decisions your whole life? Actually, you haven't. The body has been making these decisions because it's the mind. So then the body says, okay, Lewis, this is really good that you want to be kind and compassionate. That's not how you've been for 30, 40 years. So the body says, let me just send some thoughts or some memories of the past that are going to just cause you to feel that emotion.

52:26So the body starts saying to the mind, you can, it's too hard, you'll never change, this is too uncomfortable, I don't like this, go back to make the same choice, do the same thing, create the same experience, feel the same emotion, so you can return back to the known. And that's how people seamlessly return back to that same identity. So back to the concept of health. Physical balance, okay, let's talk about that. What do you want to do? Intermittent interval training, you want to do yoga, you want to do Pilates, you want to do sprinting, you want to do running, you want to do weights, whatever it is.

53:07Get your body more physically balanced. And physical balance has to do with strength, flexibility, and endurance. and get those three in balance, right? So you want to do acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, whatever it is that you want to treat your body to, to honor it in that way, get it back into physical balance. And there's no doubt in any one of these areas, you're going to have to stretch yourself outside of what you think you can do, because that's the only way you're going to change. Yes. So just when you think you've had enough, then go a little bit more. Stretch yourself out that way without hurting yourself, but do it with intention.

53:47Do it with assigning meaning to why you're doing that activity. Get the greatest value out of it. Works better when you do. Don't resist and get into it. Face off with whatever it is, the pain, the limitation, whatever, and just mark your progress and have it be something that you mindfully want to improve on. Do that and your body will get stronger, get more flexible, and have more endurance. Okay. So take care of your body chemically, you know, get a blood test. I don't know. Do whatever you need to do to get it chemically back in the balance. If you're having these symptoms, then you're going to have to maybe start eliminating certain things and making different choices.

54:26Does that mean that stuff is bad? No. It means you're out of balance and it's bad for you. And don't make it a thing like you have to do it forever. Just understand why you're doing it. So take your nutrients and your vitamins and your minerals and understand why you're taking those things and do that with the intention. Right. But meaning behind it, you'll get a greater outcome. But it sounds like if you take care of the physical and you take care of the chemical, you still might feel or be sick if you don't take care of the emotional. That's exactly where I'm going. So get those two in order.

54:57But you can do all the right things and still feel stressed and still feel sick. No, listen. I still feel like my brain and my body is not working and I feel exhausted and I feel drained, right? Right. Because your response to the environment and response to your own thoughts is weakening the organism. You're squandering energy. Okay. So do all the physical things, do all the chemical things, but be controlling, rigid, judgmental, self-judgmental, you know, get really over-focused on your food and get really over-focused on everything, but you're controlling everything in your life and you're living in fear.

55:29none of this is going to make much of a difference until you get your body back into homeostasis and balance emotionally right so so why because the moment you return back to this same emotion your body's so objective it's believing it's living the same past experience and you will behave as if you're in the past and you will think as if you're in the past and you're literally living your life from the past and that's the way it is and so it takes crisis it takes trauma takes disease diagnosis loss betrayal so for people to finally go i've had enough right why wait you know so you do the organic diet you do right right intermittent fasting you do the vegan you do the gluten-free you do the keto you do your supplements everything but you're just controlling and rigid you are going to take the signal to your cell which is fear and make organic fear proteins and i have no listen i take care of my body i exercise i eat well i make great choices but i know that if this component then and we have case histories of people that have healed themselves of als of lupus um of cancer uh that complete reverse parkinson's complete reversal of their health condition one person in one hour got bad news in one hour all of her symptoms came back she's went right back to the same emotion signal the same gene if the environment signals the gene according to epigenetics and the end product of an experience in the environment is an emotion then it makes sense then as long as you feel that emotion you're signaling the same gene and your body's believing it's living in the same environment seamlessly you'll return back to the same health condition because you'll up regulate the genes and down regulate genes and you'll move your body back out of balance and and as i said seamlessly the condition in one hour came back she couldn't get out of her car she said if i did it once i could do it again she just reversed the process and the second time she was able to do it again.

57:36She learned that nobody or nothing is worth it, justified or not. The only person we're hurting is ourselves, okay? So self-regulation, getting your autonomic nervous system back into balance and homeostasis is going to require then breaking the addiction to those emotions and those emotions that are driving certain behaviors and thoughts that cause a person in an instant to say, I want to be healthy. I want to live for a long period of time. And then they go back to making the same choice because they returned to the same emotion and now they're back in the past. And, and. It's like you're fighting against what you really want, what you say you want.

58:21Right. By living in this past emotion. Because you've got 95 % programmed working against 5 % of your conscious mind that's saying, okay, have the intention, and you could say, I'm healthy, I'm wealthy, I'm mortal, whatever. Abundant. Yeah, and your body's saying, dude, you're miserable. Right. Dude, that thought never makes it past the brainstem to the body because that's not consistent with the emotion of the body. Because we only accept, believe, and surrender to the thoughts equal to our emotional state. We never accept and believe or surrender to any thoughts that are not equal to our emotional state.

58:53Can you say that one more time so people can fully understand that? We only accept, believe, and surrender to the thoughts that are equal to our emotional state. We'll never accept, believe, and surrender any thoughts that are not equal to your emotional state. So you could say I'm abundant, I'm eternal, I'll live forever, I'm healthy, I'm wealthy. And if you're programmed your body into that emotional state, it's going to say you're not that. It doesn't believe it. It doesn't believe it. It only accepts the thoughts of suffering and misery because it's equal to that emotional state. So then here's the fundamental question.

59:28Okay, take a person whose identity is resentment. And their identity is anger and frustration and betrayal. And you ask them, why are you this way? And they'll say, I'm this way because of this event that happened to me 15 years ago. the stronger the emotion we feel from some event the more altered we feel inside of us the more that chemical continuity is disrupted from something that surprises us that alters our state the more the brain freezes a frame and takes a snapshot that's called a memory right but the problem is that we think about that event over and over again after it happens we're producing the same chemistry in the brain body as if the event was occurring and so the body is conditioned literally into the past so we're living in the past so a person says so you say the person's resentful about everything they're seeing their lives with a lens of resentment and frustration and anger and everything's upsetting them well that's a self-fulfilling prophecy you say okay now it's an addiction you got to change that and the person goes oh okay that makes sense and now now that you got to get out of bleachers on the playing field and say okay hey, these emotions could literally have something to do with my health.

1:00:39Just saying. If I stop feeling these emotions, what if I start feeling these emotions? Okay, what would be the emotions that would make me happy? These emotions are making me feel really bad. The memories are making me feel really bad. Can I remember a future? How would I feel if my future could happen? I got to trade those emotions for different emotions. Well, if I've been practicing feeling these emotions and that conditioned my body to be the mind, it's going to take some time for me to start making different chemistry with the intention of making that chemistry, getting my body back into homeostasis and balance, work on my breath.

1:01:16When I breathe, I change my state, practice breathing, work with your body so it can start to relax so that it feels safe enough to feel something other than that again. And if it takes you three weeks, it would be worth it. Absolutely. So then person then starts, okay, I don't really know how to feel gratitude. Okay, well, maybe start calling out and giving and give to people. I promise you start giving, start feeling grateful. And then start practicing feeling gratitude. Teach your body just for 15 minutes a day what it would like to feel gratitude, what it would be like. And our data shows that you take someone to do that for four days, three times a day.

1:01:56They make an immunoglobulin called immunoglobulin A. It's your body's natural flu shot. It's the greatest immune chemical we have. 50 % increase in the subjects we've studied in four days. Immunoglobulin A, up 50 % in four days. Where is that chemistry coming from? They're not taking anything. It's coming from within them, right? No supplements, no injections, no topicals. No, no, no. Just their bodies, their autonomic nervous system is manufacturing a pharmacy of chemicals that's causing an immunity to the body. Wow. Right? So now, a person practices feeling gratitude, okay? What is the emotional signature of gratitude?

1:02:39When you receive something, or you just receive something, when something wonderful happened to you, or something wonderful is happening to you, you feel grateful. Yes. So the emotional signature of gratitude is something just wonderful happened or something is happening to me. It's joyful. It's exciting. But you're in a state of receivership. Yes. You've just received something, right? So the emotional signature of gratitude is received, right? So now if you're in a state of gratitude, it makes total sense. Then you will accept, believe, and surrender the thoughts that are equal to that emotional state.

1:03:09And you could actually program your autonomic nervous system to make the pharmacy of chemicals that causes growth and repair to happen in the body. Wow. And that's exactly what we're discovering. So then when people understand what they're doing and they understand why they're doing it, the how gets easier. So you can assign meaning to the task and switch on the prefrontal cortex. And when you switch on that prefrontal cortex, it wants to get an outcome. It doesn't want to mess around. It wants the outcome. You're doing it for the outcome. And that's kind of a strong intention and a change in energy or an emotional state and that's changing your state of being.

1:03:45And when you change your state of being like that every day, get ready because you're going to start having synchronicities and opportunities and coincidences and weird things start happening in your life to prove to you that you're actually the creator of your life instead of the victim of your life. Absolutely. Gosh, there's so much I want to unpack here. One of them is you mentioned something around 75 to 90 % of people go into the doctor's office and it's based on an emotional imbalance that probably causes or influences them to be there, right? They might feel physical pain, but it's based on an emotional state that they've been in for a long time that gets there.

1:04:20And a host of bad choices that may go with that. But a lot of it is emotional as a baseline. That's exactly correct. You talked about frequency. We talked about emotional signatures and we talked about identity and personality. When I went to your advanced seven day experience, when I went there, you had an entire, I don't know, probably a few hour explanation about frequencies and energies. The highest level frequency where we could be at to allow us to feel more abundant and peaceful and have balance and harmony to lower level frequencies that are going to cause us to feel more stress and anger and, you know, feel like we're in constant breakdown, right?

1:05:02And the higher the frequency we get to, the more conscious we are, the lower the frequency, the more unconscious we are. Essentially, I'm paraphrasing, you know, hours of research and science that you teach during this. What is the lowest level of emotion that will keep us stuck in a non-receivership, a non-abundant mentality and state and a place of pain versus the highest level of emotion that we could be in more frequently that will allow us to feel more peace and harmony in our health, but also in our life. What are those two opposite emotions? Hmm. Okay. Um, I just want to finish the last thought about physical, chemical, and emotional stress.

1:05:47And then I want to answer that. So, if you're truly interested then in sustaining homeostasis and balance, then you're going to have to self-regulate. Yes. And, and it would be wonderful. And we're working, we have this new program called the InterHealth Coalition because we've had so many doctors, so many researchers, so many healthcare providers come through our events. Many of them heal themselves from all kinds of health conditions from spinal cord injuries to stage four cancers that really just want to really look to see how this model could actually fit in their clinic. And there's got to be a different conversation that can happen around health because chronic health conditions are created from a lifestyle.

1:06:35And if you don't change your lifestyle, nothing is going to change because nothing changes in our life until we change. So then, if then you would go to a practitioner where you could actually practice brain and heart coherence, which is our formula, get your brain feeling those elevated emotions, sorry, get your heart feeling those elevated emotions and then get your brain coherent and do the exercises to get your brain and body back into regulation, into homeostasis. And then the key element is not that you react. I mean, who doesn't react? The question is - You're a pervert, Dr. Joe. You never react, right?

1:07:20Yeah. The question is how long? How long are you going to do that for? I mean, if you keep it going on, then it must be an addiction because an addiction is something you think you can't stop. Or knowing something isn't good for you and you do it anyway. That's when you know you're addicted, right? So then get the patient to really work on the emotional states that are keeping them and their body in the past. It's so hard for people, I feel like, right? Yeah, because up until recently, there haven't been a whole lot of scientifically proven formulas or ways to teach people how to do that. People, by nature, want to get over their emotional state.

1:08:06They've just been hypnotized. They've been programmed. They've been conditioned into using something outside of them to take away this feeling inside of them. To numb the pain. Yeah, it's nothing wrong with this. Distract, numb. But you could go watch a movie or you could do this, you can do that, you can do all these different things, go out to dinner just to make the feeling away. But the problem is the feeling always comes back. Right. And so now when the person reaches that point where they're saying nothing's making this feeling go away, this is game time. This is where the person's not responding to texts any longer.

1:08:40They don't want to go to dinner with the same people. They don't want to do the same things. They don't want to watch the same TV show. They want to get on the computer any longer. This feeling is disturbing. Nothing's making it. No drug, no shopping spree, no sports car. No, nothing's making this feeling go away. This is a key moment, right? Because now the person's going to start to realize that no one or nothing in their life is going to make this feeling go away but them. Right. And this is the key moment. This is where the person really decides to change. This is because they can see themselves for the first time because they no longer feel like themselves.

1:09:17They're no longer distracted by that. They can see how they think. They can notice how they've been acting and decide, oh, my God, I don't want to do that anymore. The choices they've made or the experiences they just want to no longer do and the feelings that they no longer want to feel. And they start breaking their emotional agreements with everybody and everything in their life. And people really get worried because they're no longer predictable. They're not showing up as the memory of themselves. right? So what do you do? You medicate them, the person's depressed, you know, their midlife crisis, but really it's the soul saying, um, there's a future and you may not know what it is, but you can't go back to that.

1:09:54You can't, you just can't go back any longer. You can't, you already know, you can predict everything that's going to happen. You got to start, you got to start saying no, or you got to start looking deeper. You got to start changing. And this is where, um, it's so important for people then to understand that this is not a bad thing. This is actually a good thing. It just doesn't feel good any longer because you're ready to change, right? So this is what we should be naturally doing. So when the person says, oh my God, I want to feel something else in my life than this. Okay, I'm going to watch how I respond to my coworker.

1:10:32I'm going to watch how I respond to my own thoughts. When did I default today and we turn back to the old self and they get really serious about looking closely at how they can change the way they think act and feel and we have so many testimonials of people that were diagnosed with chronic health conditions and they got themselves in their meditations back into elevated emotional states and and change their energy and change their frequency we'll get to that but then they get up from their meditation and they spend the next 15 hours and fear and frustration. Why is that though? Because they went unconscious, they defaulted, so you got to get so good at doing it with your eyes closed, you got to start doing it with your eyes open.

1:11:17Oh man. And that's the big game. That is the game. That is the game. That is the game, right? Because this is the plane of demonstration. You got to demonstrate. So you got to start, that's why the walking meditations are so important in our work because you got to walk as it. If you're going to be relaxed in your heart and awaken your brain, you better do it your eyes open so let's practice with our eyes no other way to do it you want to get so good at it that you can do it in the most adverse situations that's you know when you own it right so so then the person then realized that she had to watch her response to her ex she had to watch her response to her bank account she had to watch her response to the news all of those things she didn't no drug no surgery no chemo no radiation no diet no supplements were taking her health condition away until she realized I had to change, right?

1:12:04So now she noticed doing her meditations, her pain levels went down. She noticed she was sleeping better. She noticed she had more energy, but her values for that health condition were still the same. And she said, it's not that this doesn't work. She wasn't doing her meditations any longer to heal. She was doing her meditations to change. And so then she'd say, okay, what do I want to believe today? What thought do I want to fire and wire in my brain? Let me remember it. I got to keep remembering it so I don't forget to think this way and a belief is just a thought you keep thinking over and over again so she wanted to hardwire that in her brain she wanted that to be a new voice in her head because thoughts that wire together fire together and wire together right so then how am i going to behave closing your eyes and rehearsing how you're going to be with your your ex and literally there's got to be another way to be i can't respond the way i have respond it's only weakening me i've got to change my state okay i'm going to be loving we rehearse it mental rehearsal when you keep doing it rehearsing yourself in the scene planning your behaviors your brain will look like you already did it and if you keep doing it it's going to become more more automatic it's going to become like a software program so the brain looks like the experience has already happened and now you have you have you have hardware and software in place to use when you're with your ex because you installed it right so now you're now you're doing the meditation to remind yourself who you no longer want to be and remind yourself when you do want to be so now okay the person's now behaves that way and now her response to her ex is different evolution that day and the body's no longer brought back to the past and she does it once and she wants to do it again she wants to get better at it and she starts healing then she says i got to stay in this emotional state i don't care who it is or what it is let me close my eyes i'm going to feel this emotion a hundred times if i have to just so that i can feel it so many times that I can bring it up whenever I want.

1:13:52Now they're becoming familiar with a new state of being, right? And when you feel the emotion of your future before it happens, you'll always believe in that future. Wow. And if you feel the emotion that keeps you connecting in your past, you'll believe in your past. And that's just the way it is. And then you return back to the same self, your same biology, thinking the same thoughts, making the same choices, doing the same things, creating the same experiences, feeling the same emotions in your biology, your neurocircuitry, your neurochemistry, your hormones, your gene expression all stays the same because you just returned back to the same.

1:14:24Okay. So we said seven days, taking a group of people is what I said to the scientists at University of California, San Diego, seven days. Biology stays the same this and they all agreed. I said, give people new information, combine quantum physics with neuroscience, with neuroendocrinology, with psychoneuroimmunology, with epigenetics, with electromagnetism, build models of understanding, get people to learn new information. They're going to have new thoughts. Now give them the instruction so they can make a new choice. They can do a new thing. They can create a new experience. They can feel a new emotion.

1:14:58Will their biology change in seven days? Lo and behold, it changed way greater than we ever expected. Novice meditators, people who never came to a week-long event, never really meditated that much. The novice meditators. seven days their biology at the end of seven days looked like they were living in a whole new life and it wasn't you know 20 percent or 10 percent it was the majority of the collective now all of those people have different genomes different genotypes and they're all different cultures different races different ages but when we look at the biology of gene expression they're signaling the same genes.

1:15:39They're making the same proteins. The collective, the herd, the flock, the school of fish. There's an emergent biology that's changing collectively. The probability of that happening is insanely minimal. Let me just say that. So then think differently, make a different choice, do a different thing, create a new experience, feel new emotion keep doing that your biology will change and that's exactly how people heal so the emotions that keep us i would say in our more limited animal a million human state have everything to do with anger and aggression fear and anxiety and suffering and pain and guilt and shame and you know our was that man is that me all of those those are your think of a think as energy as emotion so those emotions um should should ultimately be retired as wisdom because the memory without the emotional charge is wisdom and now the game is over and you're ready for a new experience and you can't go to the future holding on to the emotion of the past right so you gotta overcome that emotional state so then wow you start feeling gratitude you start feeling more gratitude, you start feeling love, you start feeling more love, you start feeling kindness, you start feeling care, you start feeling appreciation, you start feeling creative, you start feeling inspired, you practice feeling those emotions, and you get that heart of yours back into balance.

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