- Initially, I was diagnosed with lupus
and I would say about four years ago,
I was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
- I was diagnosed with Lyme's disease 16 years ago
and my MS 15 years ago.
- I just have a lot of head problem.
I get headaches and just like migraines and lightheadedness
and then stomach issues that I've had for like a year
that we're not really sure of the cause.
- All I'm gonna ask you to do here today
is to trust and believe and surrender.
This is not western medicine.
This is eastern medicine and energy medicine,
but eastern medicine says basically
and energy medicine says that
as human beings we've learned how to
hold onto all of our emotions.
And in doing so, we create density in our body,
things that western medicine has labeled
cancer, fibromyalgia, Crohn's disease,
migraine, headaches, depression, anxiety, all of that.
- I'm fascinated with healers
and how our thoughts and emotions affect our health.
Now, energy healers and mind-body medicine
may not be considered normal,
but what's not normal to me is that so many people
are sick these days.
I mean, the people in this room
are just some of my close family and friends.
- I went from being a healthy happy mom,
the best days of my life to
being completely unable to take care of my child.
- I've been living with chronic pain for a long time
and just haven't quite yet figured out how to feel good.
- Doesn't it seem like so many people you know
are dealing with illness?
I feel like it's changed from the six degrees of Kevin Bacon
to the one degree of cancer.
I mean, has our world and our food become so toxic
that illness is inevitable.
And then I feel like every other ad on TV
is a drug commercial filling us with fear
that our bodies are failing us.
Very good and shining fields.
When I was a kid, besides being terrible at gymnastic,
I remember thinking how magical it was
that when you get a cut,
all you did was clean the wound,
forget about it, and it healed all by itself.
I feel like we've forgotten how intelligent the body is.
Having been to all kinds of healers and doctors
over the last 20 years,
I've experienced firsthand how my thoughts,
beliefs, and emotions affect my health.
I'm convinced we have more power to heal
than we've been led to believe,
but don't take my word for it,
I'm gonna go out on the road
and speak to some of the leading scientists, doctors,
and teachers in the field of mind, body, medicine
to share with you what is truly possible
when it comes to healing.
♪ Hydrate these cells
♪ 'Cause the body talks and meditation helps
♪ The body talks and meditation helps
- It's not just that disease starts in the mind,
it's that everything starts in the mind.
- The body has a capacity to heal
that I was never informed of
as a medical student or resident.
- Mind, body, emotions, relationships,
sensory experiences, sound, touch, sight,
all these senses are windows to our inner pharmacy.
- You've got to get to the root cause of your disease
if you're gonna find freedom.
- So, if I change my perception, my mind,
change my belief about life,
I change the signals that are going in
and adjusting the function of the cell.
- Tonic thoughts produce tonic chemicals.
Toxic thoughts produce toxic chemicals.
- How deeply can we influence our bodies
or the bodies of our loved ones when it comes to healing
or the world beyond our bodies,
how much influence do we really have.
♪ Well, you're the guru now so visualize healing
♪ Yeah, you're the guru now so visualize leaving
- In order for some of us to wake up,
we need a wake up call and in 1986, I got the call.
I was in a triathlon in Palm Springs, California
and I was in the biking portion of the race
and I was coming up to this intersection,
so as I made the turn,
a four wheel drive Bronco going about 55 miles an hour
hit me from behind and catapulted me out of my bicycle.
The compressive force compressed six vertebrae in my spine.
The prognosis was I'd probably never walk again
and that I needed a radical surgery
called the Harrington rod surgery.
If this had been anybody else,
I probably would have recommended
that they have the surgery, but this was me.
I decided to check out of the hospital
and I just had this one thought
and the thought was
the power that made the body heals the body
and I couldn't stop thinking about that
because I knew that there's an intelligence
that's giving us life, that keeps our heart beating,
and digesting our food,
so I decided that I was gonna make contact
with this intelligence
and I was gonna give it a place, a template, a design,
and when I was happy with my creation,
I was gonna surrender this creation to a greater mind
because it knows how to heal way better than I do.
And the second thing I said was
I'm not gonna let any thought slip by my awareness
that I don't wanna experience.
So, I would start off,
in my mind, reconstructing my spine, vertebrae per vertebrae
and then I'd start thinking about leaving the wheelchair.
So, for six weeks,
I went through this incredible dark night of the soul
because I couldn't really get my mind
to do what I wanted it to do.
It would take me about three hours in closing my eyes
and reconstructing every single vertebrae
and starting over again every time I lost my attention.
At the end of six weeks,
I went through the whole entire process
without losing my attention
and it was like I hit a tennis ball in the sweet spot,
something clicked in that moment, I clicked.
I started noticing significant changes in my body,
my motor functions started coming back
and my body began to change dramatically.
I was back on my feet in 10 weeks,
back training again in 12 weeks,
and I just made a deal with myself
and the deal was that if I was ever able to walk again,
I'd spend the rest of my life
studying the mind-body connection and mind over matter
and pretty much that's what I've been doing since 1986.
- The best science of our time is now showing
that every organ in the human body
has the ability to heal itself given the right environment,
even the organs we were told could not
and so spinal cord tissue, brain tissue,
heart tissue, pancreatic tissue, prostate tissue,
all of these organs are actually designed
to repair and heal themselves under the right conditions,
given the right environment.
What are those conditions, that's the question.
Some of them are environmental,
things like water, air, just the quality of our food.
Some of them may be chemical, the supplements that we take,
and some of the herbal products our ancestors understood
and used with great success in healing their bodies
before modern medicine ever came along
and I think those are interesting.
What really fascinates me is the inner environment
and this is the environment
that the Buddha talked to us about so eloquently
and the Buddha said that every man and woman
is the architect of their own healing and their own destiny.
- There's a natural intelligence
that leads those cells from the embryo to the baby.
There's a natural intelligence
that leads the acorn into an oak tree.
There's a natural intelligence
that keeps the planets revolving around the sun.
We would not have been able to evolve
without having a mechanism which allows us to take a hit
and that's what disease is,
that's what injury is, you took a hit,
but the immune system is the way the body corrects.
- And that intelligence that's giving us life,
that's keeping our heart beating and digesting our food
that runs through the autonomic nervous system,
it is the greatest healer in the world,
all we have to do is get out of the way.
- I was always super healthy.
My life was really just a journey of healing and health.
I was studying acupuncture, yoga, I was a super good eater,
mostly vegetarian, probably 40% raw,
but I had gone through a lot of stress.
I moved, was in a very bad marriage.
My mom died, that was probably the hardest part
and she died of cancer,
so pretty much the whole foundation was shaken,
but I have always had this real positive,
so I just kept doing yoga and riding my bike
and I thought everything was fine,
but I did know that there was something
wrong with me physically because I would get headaches
and just kinda feeling a little nauseous,
so I went to a doctor three times over the course of a year
and each time he gave me a different test,
he said, "Oh, you're fine."
So, the third time, I told him I have a lot of pain
and there's like a stabbing pain in this area
and so it was the bottom of my colon
at the junction of the rectum,
so he did a sigmoidoscopy and there it was.
And they thought it was stage two or three at first
and then of course the first thing they do
is they send you to a PET scan
and then the PET scan showed that it was in a few places
and it was in my liver also,
so it was stage four and that was a shocker.
I had never heard of anyone living from stage four.
- Elizabeth's story really shook me
because she reminds me a lot of myself.
She was healthy, worked out, did yoga,
seemingly did everything right,
yet one day she wakes up with stage four cancer.
It makes me question are we at the mercy of some random fate
or is there something else going on
that we might just not be aware of?
- I've been in practice for 35 years now
and I've seen a lot of patients,
I've seen a lot of crazy things,
and I'm more firmly convinced every week that goes by
that the ultimate cause of disease is stress.
- 90% of what takes people to the doctor
is stress-related illnesses,
they leave with antidepressants,
they leave with every kind of medication.
- We have three basic stresses.
We have physical stress
like accidents, injuries, falls, traumas.
We have chemical stress like bacteria, viruses,
and hormones in foods, and heavy metals,
and hangovers and blood sugar levels,
and then we have emotional stress
and that's family tragedies, loss, job, finances,
and all of those things
knock our brain and body out of balance.
- When you perceive a threat,
in the old days in school we referred to that
as activating the adrenal system, flight or flight.
If you're being chased by a saber-toothed tiger,
how much energy do you wanna make available
to runaway from that tiger?
I hope you get the answer and the answer is I want 100%
of the energy to run away from the tiger.
- Centuries, thousands of years ago,
that was maybe appropriate
because there was literally a potentially
life-threatening situation with a wild animal let's say,
but now it's your spouse or it's your boss
or it's rent that's due in a week
and yet the system reacts in the same way
as though it's a life-threatening situation,
so you're still releasing cortisol,
you're still releasing adrenaline,
noradrenaline into the system.
- And if you're running
a fight or flight response all the time,
by definition, you are mobilizing resources
from your gut, from your elimination system,
from your immune system, from your higher brain centers,
and putting that energy in your muscles
to fight for your life,
that means your memory is not all that good,
your concentration is down,
you can't digest your food properly,
you can't eliminate toxins properly,
and your immune system is compromised,
chronically, all the time.
- Stress hormones inhibit the immune system, how effective?
When doctors wanna transplant an organ
from person A to person B,
they wanna transplant a heart or a kidney or a lung,
the doctor gives the patient the stress hormones
and then transplants the organ, why?
Once the organ is put in, the foreign organ,
and the immune system is now shut down by stress hormones,
then I'm not rejecting the foreign organ.
unfortunately in today's world,
the stresses are 24/7/365, they never let up.
- Good evening, just ahead of the spring
and summer travel season,
we got a sobering update on Zika today.
- The net result is illness and disease
that's the only consequence that will come
from the chemistry of fear
and yet look at the world today.
- ISIS's so-called caliphate is under attack.
- The DOW plunged another 260 points.
New losses for Americans and their 401Ks.
- In the beginning, I just thought maybe it was
some kind of like reaction or hive
or some dermatological thing,
then it started to progress and get worse and worse
and I started to get massive breakouts and boils and hives
and then it started to spread a little bit
to like my ears and my head,
so then I started to freak out more and thought,
"Okay, it's probably something more serious
"than I'm just guessing it to be
"by putting on some like topical creams and stuff,"
and I think what really sparked it
was maybe about a year and a half ago,
it was the middle of the night
and I woke up but I couldn't move.
My right side of my body was paralyzed.
So, I freaked out for a moment,
I thought I was having a stroke or something was happening
and eventually I could start feeling
some tingling coming back and then I rolled out of bed.
From that moment, I think, about a year and half ago,
when I really started, went to the dermatologist,
went to a neurologist, allergists.
They keep saying, "Oh, it's autoimmune.
"The biopsies now show connective tissue disorder,
"so we know it's something autoimmune."
They give me all this literature
and all these different drugs,
but they sound so scary, I don't wanna take them,
it's like it causes blindness and then heart disease
and just tons and tons of side effects.
- And it's so frustrating
that no one knows how to help you, right?
- Yeah and sometimes I'm thankful it's nothing worse,
but at the same time, for me,
just daily life, it's like I have to work, I have the kids,
I've got other responsibilities,
then I have to go to the doctor like five times a week,
it starts to just get really like daunting.
It's really tiring, like I'm just so tired.
- Jesus, take care of mommy
and help her dots goes away.
I always put the holy water on her, amen.
- My little one, she goes to private school,
and she always prays.
She goes, "Mommy, I prayed for your dots today to go away,"
and so I was telling her,
"Oh, somebody from mommy's work, remember Kelly?
"Well, she's gonna help mommy."
She goes, "See, God's gonna help mommy."
It was so cute, I started crying.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah and I was like, "Oh, yeah, see,
"things are meant to be sometimes, right?"
Things that'll come into your life for some reason,
like who would've thought.
- It's so crazy how the universe works.
Eva brought me some contracts to sign at the office
and apologized for a rash that was on her hand.
Only then did I find out that for three years,
she's been struggling with this mystery illness,
so I'm gonna connect her with some holistic practitioners
that I've worked with,
see if they can come up with an answer for her and help her
and we'll just see what works, what doesn't,
and hopefully find out why.
- We are now about three centuries
into a mindset in medicine that was predicated
on the work of Descartes and even Newton and Darwin even,
this idea that our symptoms are meaningless,
that our body is a machine,
it's full of organs with buttons and levers
that need adjusting
and that you're really not here
for any purposeful existence,
you're here to live and survive until you die.
- Medicine being derived from Newtonian physics
looks at the body as a physical device
and if there's anything wrong with it,
it is a consequence of a problem
in the mechanics of a physical machine
and I say this is really cool until 1925.
In 1925, a new physics came in, quantum physics.
What's irrelevant in quantum physics?
Well, it said that invisible energy around
that was out there that we did not count
and even talk about in medicine
because it's just a physical body,
it turns out our perception
of what is physical is an illusion,
there's nothing physical at all, it's all energy.
- If you look inside any part
of your body with a microscope, so let's your hand,
and you look inside your hand, you find cells,
you look inside the cells,
you get your DNA in the center of the cell.
You look inside the DNA, you find atoms.
You look inside the atoms, there's nothing there.
Well, there's protons, neutrons, electrons
and what's amazing is inside an atom,
there's 99.9999999999999% empty space.
If a proton was an apple, the size of an apple,
the closest electron would be the size of a grain of salt
and it'd be approximately two kilometers away.
Now, that's how much space you would get,
simple pi r squared.
The particles themselves,
they actually emerge
essentially out of what's called the quantum field
and ultimately, you can think of particles
as just waves of energy, just literally vibrations of energy
and I think it shifts your mind from thinking
that something is seemingly solid and permanent
to perhaps something can change
and something can be healed.
- Long, long time ago, the word spirit was what?
Invisible moving forces that influence the physical realm.
Quantum physics is taking us back to a time
that said the invisible forces
that we have been discounting in medicine
turn out to be the primary forces that control everything
and I said, "Well, what do they include?"
Mind, consciousness,
and this is why if you wanna come back
to the supreme power over our biology,
it's thought invisible energy from our mind
that not only shapes our body,
but shapes our relationship to the world in which we live.
- February 2, 2006 should've been the last day of my life.
I had lymphoma which had started four years prior
with just a lump on my neck.
I had tumors, some of them the size of lemons
from the base of my skull, all around my neck,
under my arms, into my chest,
and all the way down to my abdomen.
I was so weak that my organs started
shutting down one by one
and I went into a coma
and the doctors told my family
that these were my final hours.
I then went into a realm
where I became aware of my deceased father.
When I was growing up,
my father and I had a very turbulent relationship.
I was always left with this feeling that I had let him down
and that I had never been
the kind of daughter he wanted me to be
and here I was now with him in the other realm
and all I felt from him and for him
was pure unconditional love.
There was no judgment from him at all
for anything that I had done.
It was like I reached a state of complete and total clarity
and in that state of clarity,
I understood why I had the cancer.
I understood how it was that every decision
and every choice I had made in my life up to that point
was made from fear.
Now that I knew this truth,
I realized that if I chose
to go back to my body that I would heal
and it was in those moments
that I felt myself coming out of the coma.
By about a week, the doctors could actually see
that the tumors were dissolving faster
than they'd ever seen tumors dissolve before.
At the end of five weeks,
I was physically stronger
and they really could find no trace of cancer in my body,
so they let me go home and live my life cancer-free.
- Anita's story is the most powerful example
of just what is possible with the human body.
She is proof that no matter how far gone the body seems,
it is possible for tissues to regenerate
and function to restore.
She had a dramatic shift in the way she looked at life
from one of fear to one of love, that's it,
and her body responded and healed,
but is she just some random miracle
or can we study what happened,
so that more people can make this shift?
- So, I've been studying radical remissions
for over 10 years now
and it started with a trip around the world
to interview radical remission survivors
from all different countries
and then since then I've gone on
to analyze over 1500 of these cases
and I've conducted over 250 in-depth interviews
and these are people from all walks of life.
So, there have been radical remissions
verified and reported for every single cancer type,
people with pancreatic cancer, with stage four lung cancer,
with a big brain tumor that's considered inoperable,
there are examples of people out there
who have healed from it.
I've discovered over 75 different things
that these people have done to try to get well,
but not everybody uses all 75 of these factors.
However, when I looked at the data,
they were all using these nine.
Only two of them are physical,
the rest are mental, emotional, and spiritual
and that hit me like a ton of bricks.
There really is a way to activate the immune system
with your mental, emotional work
and of course, there's plenty of science behind that.
Does that mean that we're all going to heal tomorrow?
No, but it means they deserve to be studied
and there's something incredible there for us to learn.
- I very much believed that perfect health
was only one prescription away
and it wasn't until about nine months post-partum,
my pregnancy, that I got my first diagnosis
and I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
I had symptoms of brain fog, forgetfulness,
of intense fatigue, and very much was not myself,
but of course I was a new mom,
so it's easy to sort of dismiss those symptoms
and I had that same feeling again,
I don't wanna take a medication for the rest of my life,
there's gotta be a way out, right?
There's gotta be another option
and so I went to a naturopath which was very unlike me.
I only ever been trained to dismiss alternative medicine
as sort of a nuisance,
like a nuisance to legitimate real medicine,
and I went there because I knew
that conventional medicine had nothing to offer me
and I knew that there was no way
I would ever get out of having a chronic illness
if I proceeded with my conventional doctor.
So, of course, I put into remission in six months
what should be a chronic lifelong disease
and I experienced the raising
of a lot of red flags essentially where I said,
"I never learned that nutrition
"has anything to do with health."
- Now, open your little mouth.
- We have a sick care system
where doctors and insurance companies
are basically treating symptoms,
but aren't really getting to root causes
and in many cases aren't dealing with the whole person.
They're dealing with the symptom
by which they then give a drug which then has a side effect
and so it keeps on spinning,
more toxicity, more toxicity, more disease, more ill health.
- Conventional medicine tied up in an old belief system
is locked into the cause of illness
is tied into our genetics and our biochemistry
and therefore the pharmaceutical industry
is the great savior.
Why, because it'll make the chemistry
that should bring us back to health again.
Well, it turns out that's totally false.
There so few diseases that are actually organic.
In fact, 100% of diabetes type 2
has nothing to do with genetics
and everything to do with lifestyle.
90% or more of cardiovascular disease
has nothing organically wrong with the individual,
it's just a consequence of dealing with stress.
- What am I gonna do?
Hello, hello, Professor--
- Does this mean medicine's all negative?
I go, "Absolutely not."
Medicine does miracles with trauma.
If I physically hurt myself, I get in a car accident
and my guts are hanging out,
don't send me to a chiropractor
and I don't need a massage therapist
and homeopathy is really not gonna help,
I want a surgeon.
- Medicine is useful, pharmaceutical medicine,
therapeutic interventions, surgery et cetera are useful
I would say in maybe 10% acute illnesses.
Otherwise, if you have a chronic illness,
doesn't matter what it is,
cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses,
use a holistic approach which means everything
from mind, body, emotions, energy healing,
even distant healing, anything that influences
your experiences of mind, body, emotions.
- So, with emergencies and acute illness
like injury or infection, we need a quick fix,
so thank God we have the most advanced
life-saving technology, but with chronic illnesses,
they've developed over time,
so the quick fix model won't work.
We need to get to the root cause
if we're gonna make a change.
I'm gonna speak to a guy who is helping
thousands of people get to that root cause.
He uses, well, a different kind of diagnostic technology.
- I'm gonna do a little of this, just hang on,
thought you had a heart murmur before but it looks good.
It all started at age four, woke up one morning to a voice
that I call Spirit and this voice talked to me,
just like someone else is talking to like you
or if you're hearing someone talk
or you're talking to someone else.
So, in real time and then that evening at the dinner table
with my family all sitting around,
Spirit appeared, asked me to come out of my seat.
I came out, walked up to my grandmother,
and then Spirit had took my hand, put it on my grandmother,
and I put it on my grandmother's chest
and Spirit said, "Pronounce lung cancer.
"Say that grandmother has lung cancer.
"Grandma has lung cancer."
A few weeks later, they brought her in out of curiosity
because it couldn't leave us.
We couldn't forget about it and she had lung cancer,
so that's how it started.
Lower back is not as good as it should be.
I don't know if you go to a chiropractor.
- Like weekly.
- Weekly. - Yeah.
- Okay, is he working on that?
- Yeah, I feel like I have spasm that's right there.
- Yeah, that's from L3, L4.
- Okay, but that's okay, I like that stuff, this is fun
because you're really healthy.
It breaks my heart when someone
has something serious wrong with them.
- How do you convince
the skeptics out there to believe you?
- It's really not an issue
and I don't really run into too many skeptics actually
to tell you the truth.
I'm sure there's plenty of them out there,
but when you're in this where you wanna help people,
you wanna give 'em the answers
and people are suffering out there
and they got chronic illness
and the answers aren't out there,
it's not about the skeptics, it's not about that.
It's about the person getting better,
it's about the person healing,
it's about what they need, that's the focus,
so I really don't focus on the skeptics.
- Talk about these chronic mystery illnesses,
doctors have labeled them autoimmune disorders.
- The reason we call it autoimmune
is because we don't know the cause of the symptoms
or disease or illness that's occurring.
Look into psoriasis and eczema, cause unknown.
Multiple sclerosis, cause unknown.
Fibromyalgia, cause unknown.
Rheumatoid arthritis, cause unknown.
What's happening is there's a pathogen involved,
there's something causing the problem,
a toxin or a pathogen, it's causing the symptoms,
the body is trying to protect you from it.
The key to getting rid of it
is knowing how to use certain things
like certain herbs, certain foods.
Most importantly is the foods, to know what starves it.
- Treating certain toxins and pathogens
with diet and herbs really resonates with me.
Turning to nature and food as medicine
is what ancient civilizations
have been doing successfully for thousands of years.
I know that when I cleaned up my diet,
the positive effect on not only my physical health,
but my mental health as well was huge
and this is why I thought a good place for Eva to start
was to see a nutritionist.
- With Eva, she had a barrage of symptoms.
One thing in particular as I looked at her blood lab
is that she is really inflamed, chronic inflammation.
We literally have trillions of bacterial microbes,
good microbes in our body,
we actually have more bacteria in our body
than we do our own human cells
and the majority of these live in our gut
and what the microbiome is it's like a
little universe in itself inside our gut
that constantly is cleansing us,
stimulating immunity, building vitamins,
and keeping pathogens out of our system,
so if someone's microbiome gets killed off
for various reasons, mostly bad diet,
stress, medications perhaps,
you can kill off enough of that microbiome
where the actual intestinal wall starts to get injured.
So, if your intestinal wall starts getting holes in it,
junk is bleeding into your bloodstream
and then going all over your body.
The key is we gotta remove that.
We gotta remove the offending items,
fix the diet, and get her to heal.
We're gonna start her on a diet this week.
The whole food plant-based diet
is really an unprocessed predominantly plant-based food,
what does that mean?
That means vegetables and fruits
and whole grains and legumes,
all the foods that are nutrient rich.
So, if we could stimulate your immune system,
remove the offending things
you're doing to yourself every day,
you'll heal way faster
than it took to get the disease process
and that's the beauty of healing.
- Over the last decade or even moreso,
the amount of research that's come out
in the scientific journals
showing without any shadow of a doubt
that there is such a thing as a mind-body connection,
I mean, thinking, believing, emotions,
all cause really substantial chemical and physiological
and biological changes all throughout the body
and I love that that's how much
of a transition we've made in the last decade or two,
from woo-woo stuff about the mind-body connection
to hard, factual scientific evidence.
I have a PhD in organic chemistry,
that's nothing at all to do with organic foods
and an organic chemist basically plays the child LEGO game,
but we do with atoms,
so people like me end up in the pharmaceutical industries,
so I worked for one of the world's largest
pharmaceutical companies developing drugs
for cardiovascular disease and for cancer
and although I loved doing what I was doing,
I love the science of it,
but what fascinated me moreso I would say
was what happens when you test the drugs.
So, let's say in a typical trial
you might give 100 people a drug to show that it works,
so you've also gotta give 100 people a placebo
for comparison purposes
and you might get 75 people improving on the drug,
but it's not uncommon to get 40, 50, 60, 70, 74,
or 75 sometimes even also improving on the placebo
because they think they're getting the drug
and I thought, "Whoa, that's amazing."
What we see here is belief itself shifts biology
and I don't think that's taught enough in medical schools.
- So, how is it that you can give someone
a sugar pill, a saline injection,
or perform some false surgery or treatment
and a certain percentage of those people
will accept, believe, and surrender to the thought
that they're getting the actual substance or treatment
and they begin to program their autonomic nervous system
to make their own pharmacy of chemicals that matches
the exact same chemical they think they're taking?
So, the question is is it the inert substance
that's doing the healing
or is it the body's innate capacity to heal?
- Well, everyone seems to be aware of the placebo effect,
the result of positive thinking,
the important question is this,
what is the consequence of negative thinking?
Guess what, it's equally powerful in influencing your life,
but it works in the opposite direction.
While a placebo, positive thinking,
can cure you of anything,
a nocebo, negative belief can actually cause any illness
and can cause death just because you believe that.
- We give too much authority to someone in a white coat.
I remember one time someone came in
and they were really crying
because they had received a tremendous
diagnosis and prognosis
and the doctor said, the doctor said, the doctor said,
so I said, "I'll be right back,"
and I went out and I got a white coat and put it on
and I put my name tag on it, it said Dr. Michael Beckwith
and I came in, I said, "I'm Dr. Michael Beckwith
"and I want you to know that your life
"is about to get better and better and better.
"You had a tremendous wake up call about tremendous habits
"that you have had for many, many years.
"You're about to break that cycle of those bad habits
"and you're gonna watch your body change.
"You're gonna watch yourself
"come to a greater sense of fulfillment,"
and then I got a prescription tablet and I said,
"Every day, this is what I want you to say to yourself,
"this is what I want you to read,
"this is what I want you to not eat,
"this is what I want you to eat,
"come see me in 30 days and tell me how you feel,"
and she went from crying to just laughing
'cause she realized that she had given her power away.
It doesn't mean you don't go to a doctor,
it doesn't mean you don't follow good medical advice,
but if you just give yourself over
to an external authority figure,
you basically become a victim twice,
a victim to the condition and the diagnosis
and now you become a victim to an authority figure
telling you about what's gonna happen in your life.
- Okay, so believe the diagnosis,
now you can do something about it,
but don't believe the prognosis.
Prognosis is when somebody says,
"You have three months to live"
or, "60% of people die in six months,"
it's like telling what the temperature is now
knowing the average temperature for the year.
If you're from New York City
and the average temperature is 75 degrees,
it doesn't tell you what the temperature is right now.
- Statistics are impersonal and you are a person
and no one knows what you're capable of
or where you're gonna go.
If someone says, "Well, there's a less than 1% chance
"of recovering from the kind of cancer you have,"
well, someone's gotta be that 1% and why couldn't it be you?
- It's important for people to understand
when they're given a diagnosis
that if they fall prey to the prognosis
without actually considering that there's other options,
without actually realizing
they may have to do something differently,
that they may have to make new choices,
that they are going to have to get beyond certain emotions
and overcome their limited thinking,
if they can understand that if they're able to do that,
more possibilities open up
as a result of their own personal changes,
that's when you start to see all kinds of magical things
start to appear in a person's life.
- When the doctors gave you the diagnosis and the prognosis,
were they trying to rush you into chemo and radiation?
- Yes and I wasn't gonna do it
because I always swore with the acupuncture background
that I believe in natural medicine and natural healing,
so I wasn't gonna do it.
I was gonna to any of the places
that do the natural healing with the juices and things,
but I have a brother that's a rocket scientist
and I value his opinion and he said,
"Lizzie, you're not gonna make it,
"you've been juicing all your life,
"more juicing isn't gonna save your life.
"You've got stage four, you gotta do something,"
but it still took me another month and a half
because I wouldn't do it, I was gonna not do the chemo.
So, finally, enough people gathered me up
and brought me in, so I did it,
and then I started doing a lot of spiritual healing.
My friends did a fundraiser that went kind of fast and wild
because people were like,
"Oh my gosh, if Elizabeth Craig has got cancer,
"we're all gonna die."
So, they raised money for me,
so I started doing,
going to all the alternative healers I could find
because I thought if nothing else,
maybe I can just chronolog the whole thing
and share with people,
some people will learn from that.
Dianne Porchia was one of the people I called
and she's a spiritual psychologist.
- Healing Topanga.
- Originally, the primary purpose for calling her
was so that I could die not afraid
and because I was afraid to die
and they said that the wasn't looking good.
- This guy is fear, panic, worry, and anxiety, but--
- But through the process
instead of that happening, I started to feel miracles.
- The first session that we had together
was actually the day that she got her chest port put in
and I didn't know that she was going to arrive with that
and that was such a tremendous first step
that she had to take in her cancer treatment.
- They got me on a cocktail they call it.
I had one mitomycin that was a little bag
and they ran it into the port
and then they attached me to this one.
- It's so stressful to think that
someone is invading your body
and then having medicine which we know is very scary,
so she had to make friends with that.
- Some people get the port in their arm, their upper arm.
Dianne just kept working with me
and I'm saying this is medicine,
it's gonna heal you, this is good for you,
and I think that made all the difference in the world.
- We have to relate to it
as something that is targeted medicine.
See it as little packmens of little soldiers
that are there just attacking the cancer cells,
leaving everything else intact and not being harmed
because the body does want to move into balance.
- Let's go.
I started calling him 'cause he was my little chemo pack,
I called him chemo-sabe.
- Chemo-sabe, all right.
- Dianne helped me change my attitude
that he was medicine and not poison.
- The power of believe is, it's almost everything,
it really is.
What you are believing and thinking at this moment,
is telling your immune system to either stop and not work
because we gotta run from a stressor
or everything's cool, why don't we relax,
and if there's anything that needs to be cleaned up,
clean up, that's it.
You're either in fight or flight
or you're in rest and repair
and it's your beliefs that toggle that switch,
so beliefs are everything.
- Back in 1968, I was learning how to clone stem cells
and back at that time,
just a handful of people in the entire world
even knew what a stem cell was,
so I was in the right place at the right time
to make some interesting discoveries.
I put one stem cell in a culture by itself,
it divides every 10 or 12 hours.
At first, there's one, then two, four,
eight, 16, 32, doubling,
so I have 50,000 genetically identical cells,
that's not the experiment, this is.
I split the cells into three different Petri dishes
and what I do is I change the chemical composition
of the culture medium.
Culture medium is the equivalent of blood.
So, if I'm growing mouse cells,
then what I do is look at mouse blood,
see what it's made out of
and then try to make a synthetic version of that
called culture medium.
So, here's the point.
Genetically identical cells in three dishes,
but slightly different environment
because of the chemistry.
In one dish the cells form muscle,
in the second dish the cells form bone,
and in the third dish the cells form fat cells.
Significance, what controls the fate of the cells?
Point, they were all genetically identical.
The environment is what was selecting
the genetic activity of the cells.
- People who have the same DNA,
who have the same susceptibility to illness,
one can become ill and the other can stay well.
One can heal and the other can't.
All because they optimize the environmental factors
that control gene activity
and that is what the field of epigenetics is all about.
- The nature of biology is simple.
Biological organisms adapt their biology
to fit into an environment.
Let's say I am looking at the activity
of my liver cells in the body and I say,
"Well, my liver cells should be adjusting
"to what's going on in the environment,"
and I say, "Well, how does the liver cell
"know what's going on in the environment?"
The answer is this.
The liver cell is not touching the environment.
It depends on the nervous system
to send information about the environment inside the body,
so the cells adjust their biology
to match what's going on in the world.
Well, we only have one problem with that and that is this.
Consciousness is an interpretation.
So, my mind is interpreting the environment.
So, if I change my perception, my mind,
change my belief about life,
I change the signals that are going in
and adjusting the function of the cell.
The point is very, very significant.
I, by my ability to change my environment
and by my ability to change my perception of the environment
have the ability to control my genetic activity.
I'm not a victim of my heredity,
I'm a master of my genetic activity.
In understanding how we deal with the environment
and deal with perception,
there's a mind between the environment and my cells
and when I say the mind,
everyone thinks of a single entity, the mind.
The mind is comprised of two interdependent elements
that work together
and that's the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.
The conscious mind, the latest evolution of the brain,
is the creative mind.
When the conscious mind is engaged in thinking,
the subconscious is the default program, the autopilot.
So, my conscious mind could be engaged,
but my subconscious mind will carry out
whatever chore I'm doing, walking, driving the car,
communicating with another person.
I don't need my conscious mind for that.
I already have programs of how to do all those things.
When we look at the world,
we're actually operating through the subconscious mind.
The programs in the subconscious mind
primarily came from downloading other people's behaviors,
your mother, your father, your siblings, your community
in the first seven years of life.
- We are essentially an open sponge to the world,
absorbing the patterns from all of those people
that we are exposed to and surrounded with.
So, if we have caregivers who are really conscious
and have learned to manage their emotions
and heal their hurts in a healthy way,
that's a really good thing,
very few people I know were blessed enough
to come from those families.
- Let's say we're growing up in an environment
where there's trauma in the household,
alcoholism, family conflict, inflamed relationships,
and when we don't have tools
to process our emotions in a given moment,
that becomes a memory that's not fully formed.
We end up seeing our self in the world around us
as if we're still four years of age
and in an environment of just conflict and trauma and drama.
We filter and therefore feel that again and again
every time colors, sounds, smells, tastes,
feelings get triggered, boom,
we react as if that memory were going on for the first time.
So, you can attempt to outrun the subconscious mind,
just like you attempt to outrun a shadow,
you can't, you gotta turn around and face it.
You gotta see the problem as the portal
and so recognizing that these symptoms and stressors
are meaningful and brilliantly intelligent in waking us up.
- I was going twice a week.
There was a day my brother would drive me up
and do the sessions
and the funny thing is that every time,
well, after the first few, no, I would say every one of 'em,
I would think, "I have no idea what I'm gonna say.
"I don't feel like anything's wrong.
"I don't know, okay, we'll just talk,"
and then somehow she would do like an exercise or a thing
and then something would come out,
extracted from some place in the past that I never,
like talk therapy wouldn't get to this
or your own thinking or whatever.
To forgive and erase all the past
and choose to fill my world
with joy and love and improve myself.
Working with Dianne, we started working on
like all those feelings, the grief, the sadness, the fear,
the cancer, and then things that were deep down inside
that I had no idea were residing,
like old stuff that I really didn't even think of.
- And why is that you?
- She kinda takes what everybody gives her
and she doesn't really ask for much
and she's gonna get better.
- Elizabeth identified a time in her life
when she felt really pathetic.
There was an incident,
all the kids were supposed to bring something to school
and she brought graham crackers,
that's all she had to bring and they made fun of her,
so she just kind of adopted this belief
that that was pathetic, how pathetic that was,
and she carried that with her for a lot of years.
I mean, into adulthood without even
understanding or realizing how that pathetic self-image
would carry forward in relationships and in adult life.
Ask the spirit's assistance.
The healing tools can involve
inner child healing work, sacred anger work.
- Yeah, I've got it right now,
boy, am I mad right now, I'm mad.
- So, the sacred anger work, when that comes up
and there's anger in a session that's ready to move,
we will go out on the back hillside and we throw rocks.
And to throw these rocks as hard as they can
and move that stuck energy.
- I didn't know that I had such a detrimental mindset.
I thought that it was a pretty good one,
but the cancer personality style,
the I don't wanna be a burden,
the it's easier for me to give love than to ask for it,
it was really important for me to learn how to ask for help
and connect, to connect.
- There's this tendency for people to feel like
that they did something wrong if they got sick,
but if we aren't aware that we have limiting and negative
subconscious beliefs running our lives
then we can't blame ourselves for getting sick.
If we stay in fear and resistance,
we not only waste valuable energy that we can use to heal,
but we are closed off to information and possibility.
If instead we ask ourselves,
what is this pain or condition trying to tell me,
it creates space so that the answers
can come into our awareness.
- I've always, even from when I was young,
been fascinated with health and wellness,
being the best you can be,
it was always part of even going through
high school and college
and then I came across Ayurveda
probably about 16 to 17 years ago.
I was sitting and I was like,
"Finally, someone knows what the hell
they're talking about."
- The constitution is.
- I think one of my favorite parts
is that we have something called
which is a Sanskrit name
which describes the process
of how disease comes into existence
and there's six stages.
And when I first heard this,
it was just so beautiful and so simple.
And the first stage is accumulation.
You accumulate too much of what we call
,
is the quality of energy.
You got too much fire, you got too much air,
you got too much earth or water in your system.
So, let's take fire.
If you accumulate too much fire in your system
You may have a symptom of like
a sour belch from time to time, no big deal,
but that would be a sign of
there's too much heat in the system.
The next stage is aggravation.
Now, it becomes aggravating to the system,
so what was a sour belch,
now becomes a little bit of heartburn.
- Don't let the food you eat during the day
haunt you at night.
- Again, in this day and age,
no problem, we've got the solution,
you take Prilosec, Nexium, whatever,
you don't actually deal with why do I have the imbalance
'cause it's considered somewhat normal to have heartburn.
The next stage is spread.
So, now the excess heat that's in the system,
that hasn't been addressed
'cause that individual is still eating too much spicy food,
still drinking alcohol,
putting too much heat into the system, it spreads.
The fourth stage is localization.
So, now that excess heat that's in the system
that started with accumulation,
now finds a weak spot in the system
where we've lost some integrity.
Let's say the guy we're talking about
was a football player in high school
and maybe took one too many blows to the knee
and his knee is a little funky,
that would be an ideal place
for the excess heat to find a home.
So, now that progresses over time to maybe arthritis.
So, it becomes manifested as disease
and at the sixth stage, it becomes diversified.
So, now it actually alters the tissue system itself,
maybe it becomes rheumatoid arthritis.
So, the beauty of that system
is if you understand those six stages,
that if you wanna prevent disease, what do you prevent?
Excess accumulation.
Prevent buildup.
Now, to me, where the biggest buildup is is right here.
And so you see the whole disease process
applies to the physiology and the psychology.
- We've been emailing back and forward
before our meeting today of things that you want to approach
and why do you feel that it's time for you to work on this?
- I think it's the physical aspect of it
that's forcing me to realize
that maybe there's something more to it
than just being sick physically.
Past emotions that are maybe affecting me.
- Before we go on a plane, we're frightened.
We have a physical response
to something that's happening emotionally
which is we have sweaty palms, we have heart palpitations,
so that's a physical response to something emotional,
but imagine if you were denying something daily
and it has nowhere to go until it starts to build
and it builds and it builds and it builds into,
you know, pick your disease.
- This idea that emotional blockages
can lead to physical blockages,
so the idea then is to release them
and you can do that however you want to.
Some people let it go in a Zumba class,
other people went to see a shaman and did soul retrieval,
it's across the board.
Some people did psychotherapy,
some people burned all the letters from their ex-husband,
so it really is whatever works,
whatever is gonna allow you to let go of that anger,
to let go of that resentment or that grief or that trauma,
especially trauma which can often be
locked away inside your brain in the subconscious part.
- So, we're gonna do a emotional freedom technique.
We spoke about it the other day
and it took a little bit to get to the emotions
because you're so good at denying them
and pretending that everything's fine,
but we took a lot of notes
and the emotional freedom is
being able to go there,
being able to go to the thing that we suppress
and allow it to come up.
I'm frightened of the unknown.
- I'm frightened of the unknown.
- I'm frightened of what I know.
- And what I don't know.
- I'm frightened of what I know.
- And what I don't know.
- I'm frightened of what I know.
- And what I don't know.
- I'm frightened of what might come up.
- When we have an emotion within our hearts,
that emotion sends a signal to our brain
and the quality of that signal
determines what the brain does in response to the emotion,
so if you can imagine a signal from the heart to the brain
that is a very smooth series of waves,
nice, even, coherent is the term that's used, waves
from the heart to the brain,
the brain will match that smooth even organized chemistry
and it will release chemistry
that supports life in our bodies,
this is where our immune systems become really strong,
super immune response.
On the other hand, the stress chemistry,
when we feel those moments of frustration,
anger, hate, jealousy, rage, fear,
the signal looks different.
It looks kinda like a bad day in the stock market.
It's a lot of very chaotic unorganized jagged waves
going from the heart to the brain
and the brain receives those waves and says,
"Oh, I need to match this chemistry."
This is stress chemistry.
When we're in a state of stress,
our energy field goes into a state of resistance,
that's why a polygraph works.
We're able to read it.
In that energy, our blood is affected,
it doesn't flow as effectively.
It heats up, cools down.
When we're in stress, there's resistance,
that affects our PH
and we become more acidic when we're in a state of stress.
In a localized or systemic full body acidity,
inflammation occurs,
and it's just a reactive way of pumping more blood
to attempt to help with healing.
However, we're starting to go down a slippery slope
'cause that inflammation is a fire
and that fire starts to burn the house down.
So, we have things building.
- Yeah, maybe.
- Things just build and build and build
and then they come out in the skin.
Things that you pretend don't bother you.
- What about your mother?
You mentioned your mother in the email.
- No, can't even go there.
- You can go there, this is the opportunity.
- Well, we're estranged, we don't speak.
It's been off and on like that for 10 years, maybe more.
- Is she ill?
- Mentally? - Yeah.
- Yeah, I would say so.
She's on Valium, she's done a lot of stuff before
and she's weaned down over the years, I think,
and so it's affected her a lot.
Okay, you have to go pay the rent, you have to do this,
all of this like from a very young age,
third or fourth grade.
So a lot of responsibility very young.
I started driving very young,
so I could drive her to work and drop her off.
Ironing her outfit for work
or certain things that are a lot.
- You're the mother of the mother.
- I think so, yeah.
- Where's your father?
- He couldn't deal with her craziness either,
so he left when I was maybe 11
and just left and never came back.
- And you've never seen him since?
- Nope.
- Ready?
Take in a deep breath.
- Even though.
- It was a lot for me to take on.
- But I did it anyway.
- I deeply.
- And profoundly. - And profoundly.
- Send that little girl my love.
- Even though.
- It was a lot for me to take on.
- But I did it anyway.
- I deeply.
- And profoundly.
- Love and accept that little girl.
- Even though.
- It was a lot for her to take on.
- But she did it anyway.
- I deeply.
- And profoundly. - And profoundly.
- Send her my love.
- It was a lot for her to take on.
- It was a big burden.
- And who else was gonna do it?
- Who else was gonna do it?
- He left. - He left.
- I picked up all the slack.
- Because I loved her.
- I loved her.
- And I wasn't gonna abandon her.
- I wasn't gonna abandon her.
- Take a deep breath.
How do you feel?
- Good.
- How do you feel about her now?
- Every authentic spiritual path
has some mention or some teaching around forgiveness.
I always say that all forgiveness is self-forgiveness
because the resentment I may hold towards another
or the unforgiveness or the rancor or the resentment,
all of those thoughts are happening within me,
even if someone did me wrong, I still have those thoughts,
those thoughts are affecting me,
they're affecting my body temple,
they're affecting my blood chemistry,
they're affecting everything.
So, when I begin to forgive the so-called other person,
I'm releasing rancor, resentment, animosity.
I'm releasing all that unforgiveness,
so that I'm actually forgiving myself.
Now, it doesn't necessarily let the other person
off the hook for whatever they did or didn't do
or should've done or should not have done,
it has nothing to do with them.
It has everything to do with me.
- Forgiveness, when it comes to emotions,
is the greatest access to letting go,
the hatred you have of a parent,
the judgment you have of a co-worker,
the wrong-making you have towards your spouse,
like just let go of that inner judgment blame
and basically a victim mindset.
If you can let go of that and recognize
that life is actually working for you not against you,
then again, you're gonna generate healing.
- So, now I have a really good idea
how trauma, negative emotions, and subconscious beliefs
can lead to disease
and might be something we have to look at in order to heal,
but what about the kids
that come into this world already sick
or children that get sick at a really young age?
Surely their condition can't be a result
of accumulated stress or unprocessed trauma
or disempowering beliefs?
Why do they get sick?
- So, people ask me, "Well, what about children?"
"Children, young children that come into this world
"with some condition,
"how can that be from there subconscious or is it?"
And the answer to that is that we simply don't know.
I just have to be honest and say that every human
that emerges into this world,
what has happened before we got here
is different for all of us
and we have no way of knowing
and this is where we begin to cross the boundaries
of science and spirituality
and the words like karma or destiny or fate,
we don't know what those are.
What I do know without any shadow of a doubt
is once that being,
once that beautiful child arrives in this world,
their bodies, their selves,
their DNA will respond to the environment
and the conditions that we give to them.
Our job is to learn to optimize
those environments and those conditions.
- Individuals come into the planet
and many of them come into the planet
because they know they're gonna go through some stuff
and they're coming to up level
their awareness of the species.
So, we don't look at it like,
"Well, this person was born with this disease
"and that kid was born with that disease, what's wrong?"
Many of these individuals
are coming with very special gifts.
On another level, today, a baby that's being born
is affected with tremendous more toxins than ever.
- The World Health Organization
classed outdoor air pollution as carcinogenic.
- When you look at so many of the cancers for instance,
we absolutely know, this is not some mystery,
we know where a lot of these come from,
they have to do with chemicals in the food,
they have to do with chemicals in the air,
they have to do with chemicals in the earth,
so did human consciousness create this?
Absolutely, but not necessarily
the consciousness of the person who contracted the disease.
If you're truly treating the earth with reverence,
would you allow the level of pollution
and contaminants that we allow?
If you're really thinking about your children
with reverence and holy responsibility
to a future generation,
would you allow some of the things that we allow?
If the entire society is allowing
economic forces to prevail
rather than real humanitarian principles
and love of the earth and love of each other
and love of our children, then you get what we're getting.
- Imagine for a moment popping a pill before bed
that cost about $13.50,
now imagine waking up the next morning,
find that the price of the exact same pill
jumped to $750 overnight,
that is just what happened to one drug.
Mae Terrell joining us now with that story
and the man who's behind that price spike, Mae?
- Thank you, Brian.
Martin Shkreli joins us now from the NASDAQ.
He is the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals.
Martin, thank you for joining us.
- Thanks for having me.
- Now, you guys have said that the reason
you increased this price so much
after acquiring the drug was in order to do
the research and development to develop
a better version of Daraprim.
I just got off the phone with a HIV doctor
who told me they don't need a better version of this drug,
what are you doing here?
- We have the most money going into healthcare
than any country in the world today
and we have some of the worst statistics in healthcare.
The problem is this.
The pharmaceutical industry is a corporate industry,
corporations, what are corporations?
They're systems where people invest money
so they can make a profit.
- I entered the pharmaceutical industry as a young scientist
and I just wanted to cure cancer
and it turns out that most of my friends and colleagues
in the pharmaceutical industry, all the scientists,
also just wanted to cure cancer, they wanna save lives.
It's only when you get higher up in the company
that the goals begin to change.
- Martin, we do appreciate you coming,
I gotta ask you one more question.
In response to all of this attention
and doctors and patient groups
saying they can't access this drug,
are you gonna change the price?
- No.
- So, in my examination of
pharmaceutical products in general,
I began to notice a pattern
and the pattern is that we are told that there is a problem
and the problem may not actually exist,
at least not in the way that we're told that it does
and then we're offered a product
based on resolution of the fear
inspired by awareness of this problem.
- Sleep.
Remember when it welcomed you like a friend,
then it became more elusive, but why?
When you have insomnia,
it may affect the wake neurotransmitters in your brain,
disrupting your wake and sleep messages.
- And in fact if you follow and dig into the literature,
what you'll find is that the very product
that's offered to solve the problem
actually creates and perpetuates the problem
it purports to resolve.
- The temporary inability to move
while falling asleep or waking up
and temporary leg weakness have also been reported.
In depressed patients, worsening depression
including risk of suicide may occur.
Alcohol may increase these risks.
Side effects include next day drowsiness.
- Pharmaceutical industry looks at the destination
that it wants to fix
and ignores the fact that when you add a drug,
there are multiple drug interactions
which are not side effects but direct effects.
- So, we have that and then we have to look at the efficacy,
do these meds actually work?
Could those risks be worth it?
And that evidence is really even more concerning
because we have a body of evidence
that suggests that these medications
are no better than a placebo.
A placebo which of course wouldn't incur those same risks.
And then there's the bigger question
of what are you opting out of
when you choose to manage your symptoms in this way?
There's a story I really love
which talks about a caterpillar that's in the chrysalis
and it's struggling to get out
and there's this little hole in the chrysalis
and there's a man nearby
and he sort of feels bad for the caterpillar,
it's trying to get out, right?
So, he takes his pair of scissors and he snips the chrysalis
and of course the caterpillar turns into a butterfly
that dies and never can fly
because it needs to go through the process
of emergence and struggle, literally,
it physically needs to do that to be able to manifest.
- I really have taken to Dr. Emerson's protocols--
- The nutrition? - Yeah, it's really helping
and he's really good about keeping in communication
even though he's in Hawaii.
- Your numbers are outstanding.
It's only been eight weeks that you've been on the program
and it's phenomenal.
- So, this last two flareups,
I haven't had the joint pains
since I started the nutrition
'cause that's the biggest thing is I can't even
go up and down the stairs to my bedroom,
I have to stay downstairs, sleep downstairs.
- Well, here we are.
We're about to go get a sound healing
from Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
- I'm putting these wrist sensors on her wrist
and this is just to hold it in place.
Now, these wrist sensors are connected
to this laptop over here.
Got a little sensor.
It's collecting the electrical information from your heart.
As the sound sweeps into the correct range for her body,
we'll see her nervous system beginning to respond
and when it hits this spot,
I'm gonna make a cue mark on my program here,
so I can identify what frequency we need to use.
We use very precisely tuned sound frequencies for healing.
My innovation is to expose the body
to these precisely tuned sound waves
until I find a sound wave
that makes the sympathetic nervous system
push in the clutch.
Here we go, it's getting there.
Getting really close.
That's it right there.
But that's what we're looking for, is zero.
Zero stress in the autonomic nervous system or homeostasis.
Now, normally I would expect it to look like this,
where it comes downs, hits that point,
and then goes off into parasympathetic, the green,
but hers didn't do that.
She hit the point,
but she went back into this stress response again.
It means that she's had this
chronic stress condition for a long time
and when it begins to respond to the sound waves
and it starts to push in the clutch,
it took a little bit of extra time to get there,
but once it did get there,
it wasn't able to completely crossover
and go into the relaxation phase
which is what parasympathetic nervous system is,
the relaxation response
because her nervous system is still too worried to go there,
to completely let go.
So, people ask me, "What kind of condition
"can you heal with this?"
And my answer at this point
is anything that has a stress as its cause
and as far as I'm concerned that's pretty much everything.
Welcome back.
- Wow.
- That's the first words out of everybody's mouth, is wow.
Okay, you can go.
- What Dr. Thompson showed me
is that Eva is in a constant state of stress.
Even when she's relaxing,
it's hard for her to fully switch over
into the parasympathetic nervous system
which is where you need to be if you wanna heal,
so that just proves to me that healing
really needs to take place on multiple levels.
When it comes to stress,
the tool that's absolutely changed my life
and I know millions of others is meditation.
- Meditation has been around for thousands of years.
The mind is yapping all the time
and it's telling us generally scary and limiting things.
The mind is wonderful when you're using it as a tool,
it's not so great when it's calling the shots.
In the very first research on meditation
done by a mentor of mine, Dr. Herbert Benson,
he said, "Well, it shuts down the fight or flight response,
"the fear response, and it stimulates the parasympathetic
"or relaxing nervous system of the body
"and that's what heals,"
so at the very most basic level meditation relieves stress.
If you wake up in the morning,
you take a shower, you take a bath
because you don't want to take yesterday's dirt
with you out into the day,
but if I wake up in the morning
and I immediately go to television or radio
or the computer or newspaper
and I'm taking in all the stress of the world,
then I might cleanse my body,
but my mind is carrying so much stress,
so that's why meditating in the morning
is as important as taking a bath,
purifying your mind, purifying your consciousness.
- There are many kinds of meditation.
There are meditations that involve self-reflection,
so you sit quietly and you ask yourself, "Who am I?"
There are forms of meditation that are all self-questioning
which is questioning your beliefs.
A third form of meditation is what these days
called mindfulness which is a terrible word
because you're not using your mind
when you're practicing awareness,
the awareness of a thought is not a thought,
and then there is what is called transcendence
which is usually using a technique like a mantra.
The mantra is kind of a sound
that competes with your thoughts
and ultimately takes you to a place
where there is no thought and no mantra
and you're just left with awareness.
So, as we practice these techniques,
we get in touch by and by with our core being
or core consciousness
which in spiritual traditions is often called the soul.
- Your pituitary gland does amazing things
when you are in meditation.
It releases oxytocin, dopamine, relaxin,
serotonin, endorphins,
everything good that your body can make
is released when you make this spiritual connection.
There really is this internal process
that we can flip on like a light switch.
We can flip on these juices of life
if we just take a moment to connect.
It doesn't have to be meditation or prayer,
it could be going for a walk in nature,
but your mind needs to quiet, your breathing needs to slow,
and you wanna feel that unshakeable peace.
- We did an amazing study to just a little ways back
at one of our advance workshops.
We took 120 people
and we wanted to measure their circulating cortisol levels
and a chemical called immunoglobulin A or IGA.
We put them through four and a half days of training
and at the end of four and a half days,
we measured to see if there were any epigenetic changes
or chemical changes that took place by their internal work.
We found that the majority
of people's cortisol levels diminished,
which means they were no longer in survival,
they were no longer stressed,
but the relevant thing that happened
was that their IGA levels went from about 51 and a half
to 83, right to the ceiling of what's considered high,
and some people were up in the 100s.
Now, IGA is the primary defense
against bacteria and viruses.
It's greater than any flu shot.
- The best part about meditation
is it doesn't cost anything.
You can do it anywhere, anytime,
just quiet the mind
and get rid of that excess mental baggage.
But the mind isn't all bad,
you can actually use your imagination through visualization
to activate the powerful healing response.
- What if I told you to do a simple exercise of imagination,
to go to your refrigerator, open it up,
find a lemon, take the lemon, put it on the cutting board,
cut the thing in half, take a look at it,
juice is welling up, and stick out your tongue and lick it,
your salivary glands would go crazy
and it was all in your imagination,
so there's no questions that what we imagine
can affect our physiology.
- For several years,
I've been collecting stories, testimonies,
interviewing several hundred people
who have used visualization
as some part of their healing journey
and amazingly, what like 99% of them do
is you take an internal picture of illness
and convert it into an internal picture of wellness
and that's it, illness to wellness, that's it,
and they just do it over and over and over again.
So, to give you a few examples
of the strategy of illness to wellness,
people who are even getting chemotherapy,
imagine the chemo drugs as little piranha fish going
and nibbling at the tumor,
but in their mind's eye,
what they're seeing is the tumor
getting smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller
'til it's gone.
People in radiotherapy imagine the radiation
as the bolts of lightning
and bombing chunks out of the tumor,
but again tumor is getting smaller and smaller
and smaller 'til it's gone.
- Toward the end of the treatment, I was really weak,
so Dianne called and she said,
"Do you wanna have your session?"
And I said, "I don't think I can make it,
"I can't really get up."
I was laying down a lot, I couldn't really get up,
and so she came to visit me to give me a session
and when she got there, I was just shaking.
So, she said, "I think you're running a fever."
She gave me the thermometer and it was 103.5,
so she said, "We need to take you to the hospital."
So, she drew me to the hospital
and it was going up as we're driving.
I got the emergency room
and they started giving me antibiotic bags,
one after another, and nothing was working.
I just remember I could hear my heartbeat.
It was like I could hear water and air.
Really loud.
The fever kept going up
and I kinda thought, "Oh, I wonder if this is it."
When I woke up,
my brother was standing outside the glass door with a laptop
and he was telling me, "They're praying for you."
They did a group prayer on Facebook with over 100 people
and right after that, I kinda came out.
It's pretty good.
- How could my prayer, how could my meditation,
how could my loving thoughts of gratitude and appreciation
possibly impact the healing of another person
in the room with me or halfway around the world
and the answer is that we are deeply connected
through a phenomenon that is known as entanglement.
Entanglement is the term in physics
that tells us once something is unified,
once something begins as a whole
even though it is separated physically by many miles
or light years is what they're finding in the cosmos,
energetically everything's still connected,
why is that important?
Because if we go back far enough in time,
there was a point in time when you, me, and the earth
were all connected before what is called the big bang,
the big release of energy.
When that happened, physically particles began to separate,
energetically the particles remained connected.
We are part of this earth and we are part of one another
and that empowers you and it empowers me
to participate in the healing of our bodies
and those of our loved ones
in ways that science is only beginning to understand.
- So, entanglement explains scientifically
how our prayers might work,
but there's a whole aspect of faith and prayer
that can't be explained through science.
People travel all over the world to holy sites
to receive energy or faith healing.
Is it their unshakeable belief in God's power
and therefore the placebo effect
that is responsible for the healing
or is there an actual divine energy
that is causing their transformation?
Either way, I'm fascinated by the mystical
and if faith healing works for people,
why not respect the possibility and keep an open mind?
- All right, take a nice breath.
So, lemme just tell you a little bit about me
'cause you might be a little curious.
I was born into a very religious family.
We were taught to pray.
We were taught to ask God for help,
so what I learned as a child was that
if you ask God and you trust and you believe
and then you get out of the way, then anything's possible.
- I have a brain tumor called a meningioma
and there is no cure for it,
so you're constantly wondering
what's going on inside your head, is it growing,
and you have things like that,
and a little bit of fear
because you don't know if the thing
is gonna explode and grow faster.
- So, please understand I'm not doing anything,
please understand that everything that you'll see happen
is coming from the divine.
There are no spirit guides or no entities.
I'm just grateful that for whatever reason
the divine has chosen me to work through.
Let all that stuff go, every bit of it, all of it,
every last bit of it.
Shake your hands, shake your hands, shake around.
Doing okay, brother?
You came in here wanting this,
whatever's going on with you to be gone,
and so they're taking that as a little tingling.
-I'm vibrating.
- Does he look different?
- Wow.
- Nice work.
- My face was on fire so to speak,
it was an electrical current and pulse,
but it went throughout my whole body
and when I stood up, I was shaking,
but it was a good shake, it was different.
I never felt anything like this in my life.
- Oh wee, man, holy shit, oh wee.
Oh wee.
Holy shit.
- This is why I get up in the morning, right her.
I mean, all of you,
but this is like the perfect, like you see what's possible.
- Oh my god.
- What do you notice in your body so far?
- Yeah, well, and?
- You're doing it, girl.
You're not trying, you're doing, big difference.
Let go.
What she just said is like the bottom line.
There's so many people that don't know
what it's gonna be like,
what it would be like to be well and it's scary,
so they don't go there.
- People say, "Well, I don't have faith,"
but actually, everyone has faith of some kind.
You either have faith in possibility
or you have faith that that possibility doesn't exist
and in a way we have more faith
in the power of cancer to kill us
than we have faith in the power of God,
the power of miracles, the power of infinite possibility,
the power of any force other than what our eyes can see
and our hands can touch to actually interrupt the power
and the trajectory of disease.
- I had no idea what was coming.
I was just trying to prepare myself
for whatever answer they gave me
and Dianne took me into the appointment
and the oncologist said,
"Well, your scans came back all clear."
No cancer!
And I just started crying and laughing at the same time
and he said, "Yeah, we must've misdiagnosed you."
- What?
- Yeah, well, I think because he didn't think
it could be resolved so quickly.
It's a miracle.
The regimen always was with everyone,
they said it'll be a two year thing.
It'll be chemo first, then chemoradiation,
then surgery, then more chemo, and that would take two years
and mine was gone in one round.
- What you did last time, we did our regular--
- And even my oncologist who I thought
was the best that I could find,
they'd said, "Wow, it's amazing,
"all of your hair hasn't come out,
"what are you doing, you look really good?
"Your numbers are good and stuff,"
and I said, "I'm doing wheatgrass,"
and he'd go, "Okay, well, whatever,"
and I said, "Do you not believe in wheatgrass?"
And he said, "No, but if it makes you feel better."
They gave me two different types
and with the one, my hair would've come out completely,
but with the two, yeah, for sure, it was a goner,
and it never all came out.
I still had a good two-thirds of it at the end.
- Young and all the time in the world to enjoy it.
- The best part for me was that
I was supported by friends and family
and that I had a spiritual therapist
that really helped me work through all of this stuff
and get rid of the fear and the old hurts and wounds
and then allow me to return to
a really high state of healing.
- If you perceive that people are coming
to help you and hold you and help you through this process
and you feel this outpouring of love,
they are actually helping your body heal
because as soon as you perceive that,
as soon as you believe that people are sending you love,
you have this oxytocin response
and oxytocin release has been associated
with increased natural killer cells, increased white cells,
the immune response just goes through the roof.
- It's really important to work with doctors
that treat you as a whole person
and surround yourself with friends
that inspire hope and strength in you
rather than add to your fear.
It's hard, though, because when I'm sick or in pain,
I feel vulnerable
and I just wanna crawl up in a ball and be alone.
So, how do we break out of that downward spiral of fear?
How do we transcend the pain
and shift to a positive mindset?
- So, when a person shows up in a doctor's office
and they're given the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis
or MS or cancer or diabetes,
once they hear that diagnosis,
the common emotions they experience
is either fear or sadness.
They can think positively all they want.
They can say, "I'm gonna overcome this condition,"
but if they are feeling fear,
that thought never makes it past the brain stem
into the body because it's not in alignment
with the body's emotional state.
You get that person to change their emotional state
and get them into a state of gratitude, why gratitude?
Well, we normally give thanks when we get something,
but if you're giving thanks in a state of gratitude,
your body is believing it's receiving something
because the emotional signature of gratitude
means it's already happened.
- So, the more that we can feel the feeling
as if our healing has already occurred,
giving thanks for that healing already being present,
that is the trigger for our bodies
to grow the nerve cells to make the connections
to trigger the brain chemistry to reflect that healing.
We have this advanced nervous system
that we regulate through the choices we make in our lives
and what we think, what we feel, what we believe,
and specifically the emotions that we choose to respond
to what life brings to our doorstep.
- I've been trying not to take the steroids,
so I went through a small breakout last month
which I thought was good
and then it was kinda just dormant,
like it never really went away,
and then all of the sudden,
it just exploded over the weekend,
so I have like these massive boils that are starting
and then I have 'em all over my chest.
- Oh my god.
- Yeah.
- So, that's like?
- This is like when it's almost full blown, it's not quite.
- So, if you have something residing in you,
like say you have Epstein-Barr virus
or say you have one of the shingles viruses,
stress can trigger it.
Mold can trigger it.
Someone breaking your trust can trigger it.
Problems at work can trigger it.
Being fired from your job, everything can trigger it,
but there has to be something in there to trigger.
The key is knowing what the real cause is,
so you can live life like a normal person
and have things go wrong and not go down because of it.
- Okay, so my little flower blossoms
are turning into big dahlias.
They're starting to merge together and get really huge
and extremely painful and hot, constantly burning up,
and then getting the chills.
I powered through today.
They immediately called some doctors
and put me in isolation
'cause they didn't know if it was contagious, viral,
what was going on, infectious.
I've got some really bad abdominal pains
and just this is getting so painful and intense.
So, they called all the specialists
and they ran all these tests
and everything came back basically normal.
As I got out,
they gave me just really heavy doses
of steroids to knock it out
because they could see that it wasn't
getting better on its own
and then my dermatologist was concerned
about me taking the steroids after
to initially knock out the breakout,
so she gave me a prescription of Dapsone
which is an antibiotic
and I didn't realize the strength of the antibiotic
until I went to the pharmacist
and he stopped me at the counter and said,
"Do you know that this is really heavy dose
"of antibiotic that you're taking?"
So, that's where I'm at, I have to pick my poison,
do I bandaid it with steroids
or do I take this heavy antibiotic indefinitely?
Being in LA
and going to some of the best doctors in their field
and probably seeing half a dozen to a dozen doctors now,
nobody can figure it out.
They give me drugs for all these different things
that they think it may be,
but I mean that's kinda the process with western medicine.
It's very difficult 'cause it's just,
"Let's just throw everything at it
"and which one velcroes the best."
- Do you think if alternative doctors
were covered by insurance you might go more often
or they might seem more creditable?
- Definitely because I know with steroids, it's very easy.
It's $5, I get it, and I'm better.
If I could get access to these vitamins
and to these alternative doctors at those nominal costs,
then I would probably go much more often.
I believe the naturopath and all that
and doing everything else alternative,
I just can't seem to dedicate myself, I don't know why.
Maybe I'm just emotionally stunted
to do or open myself up to that
or there's just something that's blocking me
because it seems achievable
and in my condition, I should be able to,
but for some reason, I can't.
- Eva made me realize how much courage
and sometimes cost it takes to commit
to a holistic path of healing.
As a society, we've been conditioned to believe
that conventional doctors know best
and that convenience is key.
- This hurt me so much.
- I had no idea. - I had no idea.
- For me, though, it's either pay now or pay later
and I really fear the long term effects
that steroids will have on Eva's body,
but I truly understand her struggle,
so all I can do is continue to support her
in any way I can and pray she finds an answer soon.
It's around your third anniversary being cancer-free,
some fear comes up around this time of year
because you've heard stories.
- Oh, so many.
When I first went back to work,
they'd say, "Oh, great to have you back,"
and then say, "Yeah, my so-and-so had cancer
"and then oh they were great,
"they did the chemo and they had no cancer for two years
"and then two and a half years later,
"they're all covered with cancer, they died months later,"
so many stories like that.
So, I've been kind of dreading this PET scan
and also I don't like the radiation, but you have to do it.
I actually was manifesting a lot of pain in my body
and then you can't tell whether it's from
the radiation damage or what's going on,
but yeah, it got to the point
where I thought for sure it was coming back.
What seems very, very clear to me
is that my body wants to be healthy,
our bodies wanna be healthy, but it's the head,
it's the fear and the this and the whatever that wants to,
it's just like a racket you're running on yourself kind of,
and how to let go of that.
- What is your one takeaway message
that you wanna share with everybody?
- Well, I would say that the most powerful moment,
the one where I had the largest epiphany
was towards the end of the chemo and radiation,
I was really weak
and I told my brother I just wanted to go to the beach
and I wanted to be in the sun,
so he carried me and laid me in the grass
and then he went out on the beach,
and I was just laying there looking at everybody
and I was watching people rollerblade and bicycle
and walk with each other and laugh,
and I just wish I could've told each of those people,
"You're so fortunate."
It occurred to me that this life is,
it's as beautiful or as terrible as you make it
and we have so much beauty and opportunity around us.
I just wish I could let you all know
what an amazing gift it is to be alive.
- Focus on life.
Focus on something that brings you joy.
Focus on love, focus on your loved ones,
and spend everyday doing things that make you feel good.
What I usually tell people who've been told
that they're in remission,
I say, "Think of the word remission
"as actually meaning remember my mission,
"so now it's time for you to go and remember your mission."
- Disease can be complicated, painful, and scary.
I don't claim to have all the answers,
but on this journey, I have learned
that the human body is capable of miraculous things.
It is an intelligent system deeply connected
to our minds and the world around us
and brilliantly designed to self-regulate and heal.
By detoxing our environment, the air we breathe,
the food we eat, the water we drink,
and the products we use, we support the healing process
and as we go beyond the physical
and improve our inner environment,
our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions,
we can shift our lives and health in powerful ways
and it's all about faith,
whether it's faith in God, faith in medicine,
faith in our body's ability to heal,
or a combination of all three,
if we believe it, we can achieve it.
We live in a world of infinite possibility,
choose and focus on the possibility that you want,
don't get sucked into the fear of what you don't want.
We have the power to heal.
♪ So, tap me out and tap me into you
♪ Heal my brain and my body too
♪ Balance my chemistry, hydrate these cells
♪ 'Cause the body talks and meditation helps
♪ The body talks and meditation helps
- If I could get people to realize how precious they are,
they're an expression of life,
there's no other you out there.
That's one in eight billion, that's pretty special,
but I guarantee you most people don't give themselves
that kind of love and care,
that would be a wonderful precursor to healing.
- The better we know ourselves,
the better equipped we are to heal our bodies,
to heal our emotions, to heal the inner experience
that allows us to love to the deepest degree
in the outer world.
- Educate yourself about the mind-body connection
because your mind exerts an extraordinarily powerful impact
on your body 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
- Every day I meet someone who beat incredible odds
and turned around stage four cancer.
Healing can really happen at anytime,
even when you're at quote-unquote death's door.
- And ultimately go beyond your fear of death
because death happens to an experience not to you.
- It's my expectation that this will become
more and more compelling to more and more people
as we all grow together into a different kind of medicine.
- Rather than this being something
that you just read in a book or watch in a documentary,
put it into action, fall down, get back up,
reach out to other people,
ask them their stories, don't ever give up.
- The body loves you, it loves you unconditionally,
and it's not letting you down,
have patience, have compassion,
take it one day at a time, you're gonna get there.
It doesn't matter how long you've been sick, you can heal,
and always remember that and never forget it.
♪ Hydrate these cells 'cause the--
- I speak the word knowing that from this moment on
everything is working together
for our individual and collective good
and that we claim our wholeness right now.
We claim our health right now.
We claim our vitality and our vigor
and the power to rejuvenate and regenerate right now,
something wonderful is happening and we, we let it be.
Now and forever and so it is.