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If we can get
back to our essence,

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I think that's where
we belong, that's home.

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You've had all these
experiences in life

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and yet, there's one part of you

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that was there the whole time.

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That same essence,
your same awareness,

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your same consciousness has
been with you this whole time

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and it's with you now.

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We're still struggling
and stumbling.

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Some people are
dying in the process,

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some people are
sick unnecessarily

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but eventually,
we've gotta get there

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and we can change the paradigm.

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We can do it.

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Stress, it's a word
we hear every day.

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People are stressed
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but what do we really
know about stress?

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Before we can figure that
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back in time starting
around 70,000 BC.

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Hunter-gatherers had to
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to survive from other
predators in their environment.

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Even though this seems like
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we actually react to
stress in the environment

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just like these early people.

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Let's fast forward to
early in the 17th century

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to see French philosopher
Rene Descartes

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who famously said, "I
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He is also responsible for
the idea of mind-body dualism

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which some call the
mind-body problem.

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He theorized that if the
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and the body was a
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that the mind could
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but the body could not
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which essentially
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This paved the way for
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addressing this mind-body split.

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Several decades later,
we hear the word stress

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used by English natural
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in engineering terms.

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He was interested in
how man-made structures
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could be made to withstand
heavy loads without collapsing.

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He created what he called
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which demonstrated how
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could withstand a
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before it reached
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This machine-like analogy
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for future explanations of
how humans experience stress.

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His rival at the time,
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would soon introduce
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which would continue
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a mechanistic view of the body.

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He also held a grudge
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and is responsible for
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never heard of him.

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And now to jump ahead
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French physician Claude Bernard

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introduced the idea that
the internal environment

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of living organisms must
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in response to changes in
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Based on this work,
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American physiologist
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coined the term Homeostasis
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stable state that needed to
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He also coined the
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but we'll get back
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When it comes to our current
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the man responsible
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Hans Selye, he is known for his
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General Adaptation Syndrome.

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He would later coin the term
stress which is still used

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to explain aspects of
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This response is
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for helping the body
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Which brings us to today.

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Most people, when
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they think it's like they're
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they're worrying about things,

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they're obsessing about things.

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The response part of
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is your body's response
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So most of us walking around,

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we don't put two
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When they layperson hears
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they know that stress,
they think that stress

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is the cause of their problem.

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But we teach them that stress
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factor over whatever
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'Cause we're all
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One of the things we
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is that people have
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biochemical/nutritional stress

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and mental/emotional stress.

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People think, when
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it's whatever they're stressed
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or their career or their family

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or whatever's going on
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but stress takes
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So our goal is to make
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all of these things
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your mind and your body
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It's not some new age-y
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If you alter your mind,
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If you can address a
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I feel like that
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because we know that mental
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in a physical way.

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So many American's have
gastro-intestinal issues,

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they have stomach issues,
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they bloat after
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there's a good portion
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but we also know that
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goes right to our
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And so I've found
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as I'm addressing their
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it's also looking at what else
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And it's amazing how when
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of what's going on in their life

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they're able to digest
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and everything else in the
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The person who has
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were they healthy yesterday?

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Of course not, where they
healthy last week or last month?

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Most likely not.

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But there was something
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that led to that crisis,
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The emotions work they
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they accumulate and then
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When somebody's
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at least emotional stress,
a whole cascade of things

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can be going on, from neck
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to stomach problems
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I've seen people go
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to you name it.

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Stress causes almost
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And if we can just take some
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off their system, at least
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their body has a
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that our system is already
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it's just like, it's really
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one more little, teeny,
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and it just, everything just
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And we're very adaptable
and we're very, you know,

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our nervous systems
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but what we often
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developing coping
mechanisms that don't work

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when we get a little bit older.

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I often have patients
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"Oh, I'm sabotaging myself,

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"I don't know why I'm
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And they are beating
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because these patterns
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but what they don't
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these patterns saved
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These patterns are survival
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gone a little wonky.

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Where I find stress
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for a lot of people are
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They beat themselves up.

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They don't think
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They feel like they
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they stress themselves out.

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And those are the
stressors which oftentimes

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people don't think
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So ask yourself this, if every
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do you beat yourself up?

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If you do that, you're
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those things so that
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a little bit more effectively
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actually stress
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Some people understand
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called a fight or
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that's looking at a part
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called the autonomic
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The autonomic nervous system is

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a science-y way of
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part of the nervous system

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that isn't the central
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and the nerves
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The autonomic nervous system
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so to speak, sympathetic
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and the parasympathetic
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relaxation and restoration.

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When we're in that latter mode,

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the relaxation/restoration
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that's when healing occurs,

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that's when the body
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we're actually getting
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something threatening so

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we need that but we can't
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or it has negative
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You might be driving
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cuts in front of you,
your life's not in danger

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but your body gives
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because when you go into
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state of being,
your parasympathetic
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is turned off, that also
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and resting and digesting
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that fight or
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the symptoms you see
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poor digestion, can't
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because you have this activated
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that, that's what
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So it's kinda like, you know,

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if you have a Ferrari and
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24/7 and you never stop
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for it to be garaged and
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that can be damaging to the car.

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So that's much like
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if it's constantly in fight
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all the time then it can
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We need to remember that
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It's whole body.

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And that stress is a
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And I often will use, with
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okay, you know, stress is
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that is not necessarily
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It's not about the
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So it's kind of like when
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okay, I look at my
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is in front of me and it
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Patients always know,
they say, "Oh, well, yeah,

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"I grip the steering wheel,
my heart starts to pound.

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"Sometimes I sweat, my
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And with that it's like exactly.

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That is the physiology of stress

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because your rational brain
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and says, "Oh, I'm going 55."

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But you still see
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I'm in trouble, it's a threat.

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And it's a perceived threat,
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it's the emotional reality.

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And then the police
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and you go okay.

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But you still feel the
physiological effects of stress.

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The other part of
that is that people

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are so used to that
nowadays that it's normal.

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Neuroscientist and
pharmacologist, Dr. Candace Pert

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made a breakthrough
discovery in 1972

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when she discovered
the opiate receptor.

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It was thought for any drug
to work in your system,

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it had to first bind to
receptors in your cells.

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But what made this
discovery so exciting

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was that it meant that
the receptor must be used

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for something
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not just for external
things like drugs.

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This led to the
discovery of endorphins,

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our body's very own morphine.

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These discoveries led
to what she called

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the molecules of emotion.

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That when you have an emotion,

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it is the result of
physical molecules

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known as neuropeptides being
released into your body

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and attaching
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in every cell of your body,
which means that emotions

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are actually a
physiological phenomenon,

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not a mental construct
as we had thought.

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Candace Pert, the famous
researcher actually found

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that there were
neuro-transmitter
receptors in our gut.

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In fact, there's more
neuro-transmitter receptors

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in our gut than there
are in our brain.

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She taught us that the mind
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it's throughout the whole body.

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And that's true,
there's intelligence

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in every cell of the body.

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Emotions, really, as it
turns out, are physiological

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phenomenon not necessarily
psychological phenomenon.

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So kind of how we say it is that

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we use these words to
explain how we feel,

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that we're stressed, that
is going on in my life,

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to try and communicate
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what we're experiencing.

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The reality is is
that we all have these

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what we would call
conditioned responses.

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The concept of conditioning
came from the observations

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of Ivan Pavlov, he was
a Russian Physiologist

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who conducted the famous dog
studies in the late 1800s.

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While they weren't the most
ethical of experiments,

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at least we were able
to learn from them.

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Every time he
would feed the dog,

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he would ring a bell.

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After doing this several
times, he simply rang the bell

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without feeding the dog.

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Even though there
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the dog still salivated
as if food was coming.

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This unconscious,
physiological response

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is the result of conditioning.

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Humans, we drool our
whole life away, right?

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We have these different
metaphors that people use

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like he really
pushed my buttons,

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she really knows how
to pull my strings,

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they did it to me, all
of this kind of stuff

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to really explain our
experience of what's going on.

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But it's really just a
conditioned response, you know?

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And what we like to leave
everybody with knowing is that

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how it works is what you
don't express in life

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you'll repress until
it expresses as
disease or dysfunction.

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It's kinda like Woody
Allen used to say,

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"I never get angry,
I just grow a tumor."

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Meaning, if I don't
get my stuff out,

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it stays in until it comes
out as something ugly,

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either a behavior or
a health condition.

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Symptoms can show up in
the form of like anxiety

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or depression and in
modern days I think people

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are quick to try to take a pill.

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And maybe the drug helps, it's
not to say that medication

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isn't good once in a while,
but often it's just masking

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or covering up a symptom.

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And maybe it helps a
person through a crisis,

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so it can be good,
but if we can get to

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what is the underlying cause

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that keeps getting
re-triggered, lives can change.

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In Philadelphia,
exciting new research

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is being done at the Marcus
Institute of Integrative Health

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at Jefferson University, one
of the leaders in this field.

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One of the critical
pieces of what we were doing

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with our initial imaging
study is to expose people to

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the various traumas
and stressors that
have really created

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a problem for the person.

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So they actually
listen to an audio file

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of these very traumatic
moments in their life

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and in particular we were
looking at cancer patients

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who have struggled with
cancer and usually have

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very traumatic part of
either the diagnosis

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or the treatment that they
just can't get rid of.

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All of these people
physiologically reacted

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to thinking about
that stressful event.

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Heart rate went up or galvanic
skin response changed.

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And so what we had
were people who were

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physiologically reactive
and subjectively distressed

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by this event and it's been
going on for a long time.

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So what exactly was this study?

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Dr. Monti and his
team created it as

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a randomized controlled trial.

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All of the participants
had a distressing

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cancer-related memory
that was associated

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with symptoms of
traumatic stress.

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These symptoms had been
intruding in their lives

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for at least six months, and
for many of the participants,

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it had been years.

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Each one of them made a script

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explaining the traumatic
events in their own words.

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That script was then
read back to them

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while they were given
a functional MRI

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to measure the levels of
distress they were experiencing.

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Since this was a randomized
controlled trial,

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the participants had been
split up into two groups,

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one group received Neuro
Emotional Technique, or NET,

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and the others were assigned

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to the Waitlist
Control Condition.

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The results of those
who received NET

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were dramatic, to say the least.

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But before we can go any
further, we have to head over

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to Encinitas, California
to meet Dr. Scott Walker.

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Some of my patients
weren't getting well.

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Some of 'em get well over time,

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some of 'em wouldn't get well.

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The people that
didn't get results

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had a look of tension
in their eyes.

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This is just something,
I came from a town

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of 500 people and I'm so happy
I came from a a small town

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because I can see people
in different ways.

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And the people that seemed
to be burdened, I think,

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were emotionally burdened.

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And they were the ones
that had less results.

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And so I made up in my mind that

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maybe they were having
emotional trouble,

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that's not a new thought,

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people have been
thinking that people,

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emotional stress has effected
the body for some time.

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But I didn't know
how to solve it.

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But as it turned out, Dr.
Walker went to a seminar

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where he met a
chiropractor by the name of

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Dr. Jennifer Lamonica.

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He learned that she would give
certain people an adjustment

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and soon after, when they
would think about work,

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that their spine
would be out of place

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before they even
left the office.

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Hearing this reaffirmed
his suspicion

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that there had to be
something else going on.

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The first patient on the
next day that I was home,

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she had gone to work and gotten
in an automobile accident.

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Now I'm still, my mind is not
in my compassionate heart,

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my mind is in my mind
and I'm thinking,

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maybe she had fear
in this accident.

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This is a chance I can
work this hypothesis.

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And I said, "Oh, you
were in an accident."

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I said, "Did you fear when
you were in the accident?"

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And she said, "Yes."

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I said, "Oh!"

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I'm sure I didn't do that but
that's the way I was thinking.

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One of Dr. Scott's mentors,
Dr. George Goodheart,

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correlated the primary
muscles of the body with the

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major meridians used in
traditional Chinese medicine.

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So you have these meridians,
they're kinda like channels

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or what I like to describe
them as like freeways systems.

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So they run from different
areas of the body,

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from your head to your toe,

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to your toes back to your trunk,

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to your trunk to the face.

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So they all travel
across the body

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and they go even through the
deeper layers of the organs.

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You know, the philosophy is
that if there is a traffic jam

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or a blockage in any
of those meridians,

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there's a disruption of
the vital force of the body

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which is the chi, or the blood.

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Even though traditional
Chinese medicine

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has been using meridians
for thousands of years,

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a recent discovery by
Auburn University Professor

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Vitaly Vodyanoy is bringing
more scientific attention

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to this system.

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I didn't know all the
meridians and all the emotions,

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but I knew fear
and I knew kidneys.

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I said, "What I want you to do
is I want you to think about

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"the fear that you had when
you were in that accident."

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And she said, "Oh, okay."

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And so she did and I
adjusted the sequences for

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the kidney, which
is T1, T5 and T8.

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And then I said to her, I
said, "How does that feel?"

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I wanted to see if I
could get rid of fear.

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And she thought I meant
how does her neck feel?

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Well, of course, you know.

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And she says, "Oh,
how do I feel?"

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She goes...

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"Yeah, that feels better."

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And then I was ashamed because

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I wasn't thinking
about her poor neck,

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I was thinking about
this idea that I had

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and maybe I could
get rid of the fear.

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And so I said, "Oh, oh, okay."

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"And how does the
fear feel now?"

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She says, "Yeah, I don't feel
any fear about it at all now."

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I said, "Yes."

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Yes.

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Any symptom that we have,

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really, could have
a stress component.

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And I think that's how
we came to develop NET,

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Dr. Scott figured out
that, as a chiropractor,

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he would help certain problems

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and help spinal conditions
or painful situations

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but there were those
certain cases that didn't

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resolve all the way, so it
could be a knee or a shoulder,

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a TMJ or a backache or a
stomachache or anything

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and, what, 80% would get fixed

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but what about those
20 that didn't?

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It's really a
brilliant intervention.

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I don't know how Dr.
Walker put it together,

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given that there was
nothing like it at the time

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and he just somehow put together
these different concepts.

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It makes sense in hindsight
how he put them together

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but it really required a
special brain to do that.

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I knew I was onto something,
I knew, this is good.

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There is the placebo effect,
you've gotta watch that.

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I do not want to encourage
the placebo effect,

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I want to discourage
the placebo effect.

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So I made a pact with myself.

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No more Mr. Nice Guy.

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And I had this patient
come in one day, she said,

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"You did that emotional thing
about this miscarried baby

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"that I had, I feel so relieved,

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"it was such a cloud over my
head that I lost this baby."

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And I said,

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"Well," I was trying
to write my notes

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and she reached over and I
don't know what kind of shirt

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I had on but she grabbed me.

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And she put her face in
mine, "I said you helped me!"

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And there I was,

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I couldn't write, I was
nose-to-nose with her.

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And she said very
forcefully, she said,

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"I said you helped me!"

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And I thought, my God,
what have I become?

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That I can't celebrate
my patient's win?

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That I can't celebrate
her joy with her?

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What's happened to me?

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I said, I'm gonna
leave the research

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for the researchers, that's it.

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Later, with the help
of fellow practitioners,

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Dr. Scott created The
ONE Research Foundation,

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they have privately funded over
30 research studies to date

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which brings us
back to the present.

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Meet one of the
participants in this study,

495
00:24:32,122 --> 00:24:33,863
Dr. Jim Buckley.

496
00:24:33,907 --> 00:24:37,563
And in 2014, I got a diagnosis

497
00:24:37,606 --> 00:24:40,522
of non-Hodgkin's
B-cell lymphoma.

498
00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:44,526
And it really took me by
surprise, I was shocked

499
00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:47,442
that I had come down
with something like this.

500
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,052
I mean, I'm a
healthcare practitioner,

501
00:24:49,096 --> 00:24:51,054
I'm not supposed to get sick.

502
00:24:51,098 --> 00:24:54,101
But I did and...

503
00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:58,061
I think I was spending
so much time taking care

504
00:24:58,105 --> 00:24:59,169
of everybody else that I kinda

505
00:24:59,193 --> 00:25:01,456
let myself fall by the wayside.

506
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,676
Conventional cancer
therapy was not anything

507
00:25:03,719 --> 00:25:07,897
that I ever thought I
would use just because I

508
00:25:09,203 --> 00:25:11,510
had strong feelings that
that was not the way to go

509
00:25:11,553 --> 00:25:13,163
in terms of getting
healthy again.

510
00:25:14,861 --> 00:25:18,212
But as it turned out, the
tumor that I had in my abdomen

511
00:25:18,255 --> 00:25:19,735
was about as big as a football

512
00:25:19,779 --> 00:25:23,130
and it was pushing on my
kidney and my intestines

513
00:25:23,173 --> 00:25:25,306
and it was really
starting to cause me

514
00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:27,917
an awful lot of
trouble so I ended up

515
00:25:27,961 --> 00:25:29,310
doing what I said
I would never do

516
00:25:29,353 --> 00:25:31,834
and getting chemotherapy.

517
00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:33,792
And

518
00:25:34,881 --> 00:25:37,666
during the process of
that I found out that

519
00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:41,670
The ONE Foundation was
doing a research project on

520
00:25:43,629 --> 00:25:47,154
the emotional effect of
hearing that you have cancer

521
00:25:47,197 --> 00:25:50,113
and I was in that boat now.

522
00:25:50,157 --> 00:25:52,028
First they kinda
questioned me about

523
00:25:52,072 --> 00:25:56,685
what was the biggest impact of
hearing that you had cancer?

524
00:25:58,165 --> 00:25:59,316
How did that impact your life

525
00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:01,821
and what was the
hardest thing about it?

526
00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:04,519
And I had to go down and list

527
00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:06,477
what was the most
difficult for me.

528
00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:09,785
What came up was the hardest
to leave my wife and daughters,

529
00:26:09,829 --> 00:26:12,135
feeling like I hadn't
finished the work

530
00:26:12,179 --> 00:26:15,008
that I was here to
do and felt as though

531
00:26:15,051 --> 00:26:16,313
I was leaving them in the lurch

532
00:26:16,357 --> 00:26:18,489
and felt a lot of responsibility

533
00:26:18,533 --> 00:26:23,103
in terms of how I kinda had
fallen down on my self care

534
00:26:23,146 --> 00:26:25,540
and was, as a result, you know,

535
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:29,979
potentially could lose my
life and closeness with them.

536
00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:52,436
One of the things that I
heard over and over again

537
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,177
from participants in the study

538
00:26:54,221 --> 00:26:57,267
was that these distressing
memories and experiences

539
00:26:57,311 --> 00:27:00,662
would intrude or impact
on positive experiences

540
00:27:00,706 --> 00:27:04,405
in the present day when
they least expected it.

541
00:27:04,448 --> 00:27:07,103
So they might be chopping
lettuce in their kitchen

542
00:27:07,147 --> 00:27:11,934
and be suddenly reminded
or flooded with feelings of

543
00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:15,198
how stressful it was to be sick

544
00:27:15,242 --> 00:27:19,507
or what it was like to be
retching over the garbage can

545
00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:22,249
in their kitchen
all those years ago.

546
00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:24,338
So just being in
the kitchen again

547
00:27:24,381 --> 00:27:27,080
reminded them of
that earlier stress.

548
00:27:27,123 --> 00:27:29,778
The passage of time
wasn't making it go away.

549
00:27:29,822 --> 00:27:34,348
By the way, that's kind
of an old conception that

550
00:27:34,391 --> 00:27:36,045
we found is incorrect, you know,

551
00:27:36,089 --> 00:27:38,439
time really doesn't
heal all wounds

552
00:27:38,482 --> 00:27:41,442
because emotional wounds
are in the part of the brain

553
00:27:41,485 --> 00:27:43,183
where there is no sense of time.

554
00:27:43,226 --> 00:27:45,707
Sometimes things
happen early in life

555
00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:47,753
where we are in a
dangerous situation

556
00:27:47,796 --> 00:27:51,757
or something is perceived
to be awful happening.

557
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,498
And the body is unable to
extinguish that response

558
00:27:54,542 --> 00:27:56,022
on an unconscious level.

559
00:27:56,065 --> 00:27:59,329
Years later, we find out
that that buried stress,

560
00:27:59,373 --> 00:28:02,376
those buried feelings
that have never gone away

561
00:28:02,419 --> 00:28:05,292
are still being triggered
in any situation

562
00:28:05,335 --> 00:28:07,990
that looks the same,
sounds the same,

563
00:28:08,034 --> 00:28:11,211
smells the same, feels
the same can trigger that

564
00:28:11,254 --> 00:28:14,475
on an unconscious level
and bring the feelings back

565
00:28:14,518 --> 00:28:16,259
even though it's a
different situation.

566
00:28:16,303 --> 00:28:17,826
So whatever happened
to you at seven,

567
00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:20,829
your subconscious still thinks
it's happening right now.

568
00:28:20,873 --> 00:28:22,753
And even as a practitioner,
once I learned that,

569
00:28:22,788 --> 00:28:25,573
it took me a long time to
wrap my mind around that

570
00:28:25,616 --> 00:28:27,227
but it's the truth.

571
00:28:27,270 --> 00:28:32,058
It's not gee, now it feels
like I was then, it is then.

572
00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:34,887
There is no linear
time in that place

573
00:28:34,930 --> 00:28:39,239
so it is exactly that
moment that they're feeling

574
00:28:39,282 --> 00:28:43,939
and it's replicated just as
if it's happening right now.

575
00:28:43,983 --> 00:28:46,507
What we were able to
observe in the brain

576
00:28:46,550 --> 00:28:50,990
is where the distress was
being registered in the brain

577
00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:54,689
when they listened to a
script of the traumatic event.

578
00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,344
And that script has been
going on for a long time.

579
00:28:57,387 --> 00:29:01,609
Again, I emphasize that because

580
00:29:01,652 --> 00:29:05,308
it isn't a matter of time
healing this particular wound,

581
00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:09,356
the time has been going by
and going by and going by

582
00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:12,794
and the period of time of
the study was quite short.

583
00:29:12,838 --> 00:29:14,404
All of the
participants in the study

584
00:29:14,448 --> 00:29:18,278
who received NET were given
treatment over several weeks

585
00:29:18,321 --> 00:29:21,498
and some of them had their
sessions all in one day.

586
00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:23,283
The findings were then published

587
00:29:23,326 --> 00:29:25,720
in the Journal of
Cancer Survivorship.

588
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,722
The main finding
that we really had

589
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:30,464
was that these areas
of the limbic system,

590
00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:33,293
particularly the, what's
called the parahippocampus,

591
00:29:33,336 --> 00:29:35,948
which is very involved in our
sort of traumatic memories

592
00:29:35,991 --> 00:29:39,212
and emotional, our negative
emotional responses,

593
00:29:39,255 --> 00:29:43,085
this was an area that was
far more active initially

594
00:29:43,129 --> 00:29:46,132
and then after undergoing
the NET program,

595
00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:48,917
suddenly didn't really
react very much.

596
00:29:48,961 --> 00:29:52,181
It just wasn't there anymore
for most of those patients.

597
00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:54,967
In fact, everybody
had some response

598
00:29:55,010 --> 00:29:58,405
where there was far
less to no activation

599
00:29:58,448 --> 00:30:01,103
of those areas in
the limbic brain,

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00:30:01,147 --> 00:30:03,323
particularly the
parahippocampal area

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00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:08,067
which is where
distressing memories sit.

602
00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:10,634
The activation was
virtually gone.

603
00:30:10,678 --> 00:30:13,942
So there was a 50% increase
in the neuron density

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00:30:13,986 --> 00:30:17,685
between the amygdala
and the frontal lobe.

605
00:30:17,728 --> 00:30:20,427
Now the frontal lobe is
the front part of the brain

606
00:30:20,470 --> 00:30:24,170
and that's responsible
for long-term planning,

607
00:30:24,213 --> 00:30:27,042
thinking, complex reasoning.

608
00:30:27,086 --> 00:30:28,827
That's the part of
the brain that says,

609
00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:31,568
"Everything's gonna be okay,
I shouldn't be stressed

610
00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:34,267
"about this, this is
nothing to worry about."

611
00:30:34,310 --> 00:30:36,486
And my clients in and the
participants in the study

612
00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:39,141
will say all the time, "I say
all the right things to myself

613
00:30:39,185 --> 00:30:40,795
"but it just doesn't matter."

614
00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,798
And that's exactly true
because the message

615
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,845
isn't getting through
to the emotional brain.

616
00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:49,151
And we also know from this study

617
00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:52,372
that every time a
really distressing event

618
00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:55,375
gets reactivated or
there's a reminder of it,

619
00:30:55,418 --> 00:30:57,551
that your nervous system reacts.

620
00:30:57,594 --> 00:31:00,467
So when we looked
at the biofeedback,

621
00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:03,949
we know that the autonomic
nervous system gets involved.

622
00:31:03,992 --> 00:31:07,996
And when the autonomic nervous
systems gets hyper activated,

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00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,651
that has a negative
effect on health outcomes,

624
00:31:10,694 --> 00:31:13,045
quality of life
across the board,

625
00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:15,569
creates too much inflammation
in the system and so on.

626
00:31:15,612 --> 00:31:18,311
We talk about sort of the
brain normalizing itself

627
00:31:18,354 --> 00:31:20,313
and in many ways
that is reflected

628
00:31:20,356 --> 00:31:21,880
in what these scans looked at,

629
00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:24,621
that instead of having
this overreaction

630
00:31:24,665 --> 00:31:26,928
in these limbic
areas of the brain,

631
00:31:26,972 --> 00:31:28,756
the brain basically
said, "Okay, you know,

632
00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:31,280
"it's just one of my
memories now and it's not

633
00:31:31,324 --> 00:31:33,413
"a traumatic memory,
I don't have these

634
00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:35,241
"horrible feelings
that come up."

635
00:31:35,284 --> 00:31:37,460
And it's reflected in what
the brain looked like.

636
00:31:37,504 --> 00:31:40,463
I was even surprised
that base-line mood,

637
00:31:40,507 --> 00:31:42,857
base-line anxiety, all
of those things changed.

638
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:45,816
Like when you think about
it, the person's overall

639
00:31:45,860 --> 00:31:49,516
quality of life was changed.

640
00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,301
From three to five sessions
of an intervention.

641
00:31:52,345 --> 00:31:53,824
That's pretty dramatic.

642
00:31:53,868 --> 00:31:56,958
I can tell you that I felt

643
00:31:57,002 --> 00:32:00,222
physically different after

644
00:32:02,311 --> 00:32:03,922
receiving the treatment.

645
00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:06,620
I had had a bunch of
different treatments

646
00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:11,755
during my attempts
to treat the disease

647
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:15,542
but I really felt as though
after that treatment,

648
00:32:15,585 --> 00:32:18,240
I really took a
turn towards healing

649
00:32:18,284 --> 00:32:21,940
and it was physically evident.

650
00:32:21,983 --> 00:32:23,898
That's just an example of how...

651
00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:30,861
All the work that I'd been
doing for all those years...

652
00:32:34,213 --> 00:32:37,129
To help other people
could actually

653
00:32:38,565 --> 00:32:39,827
help me too.

654
00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:42,351
It just, it reached
me in another way that

655
00:32:44,614 --> 00:32:46,007
it had never reached me before.

656
00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:51,056
Like how impactful and how
important this work is.

657
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:55,799
I know in my heart that this
treatment really helped to

658
00:32:55,843 --> 00:32:59,325
shift how I healed.

659
00:32:59,368 --> 00:33:01,762
It just felt like
I can heal this now

660
00:33:01,805 --> 00:33:04,373
where before I didn't,

661
00:33:04,417 --> 00:33:06,332
I may have thought that,

662
00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:08,595
but I didn't feel
that in my body.

663
00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:11,206
You can have all the positive
affirmations you want

664
00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:14,122
and intend for different
things to happen

665
00:33:14,166 --> 00:33:17,778
and that's all cognitive,
that's all your brain talking.

666
00:33:17,821 --> 00:33:22,174
But this was distinctly
different in that

667
00:33:22,217 --> 00:33:24,393
it was in my gut that
I felt different,

668
00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:25,786
it wasn't just a thought,

669
00:33:25,829 --> 00:33:28,310
it was I feel like
I can heal this.

670
00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:52,552
There is an emotional
component that happens

671
00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:55,076
from being sick for
long periods of time

672
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,209
or struggling with
physical illness.

673
00:33:57,252 --> 00:34:00,516
Or watching someone you love
face a physical illness.

674
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,476
We're not floating heads,
there is a combination

675
00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:07,610
that happens where the mind
and the body work together

676
00:34:07,654 --> 00:34:10,091
and so when you have
a physical illness,

677
00:34:10,135 --> 00:34:11,614
there is emotional component.

678
00:34:11,658 --> 00:34:14,139
And when you're facing
emotional stress like depression

679
00:34:14,182 --> 00:34:16,793
or anxiety, there's a
physical component to it

680
00:34:16,837 --> 00:34:19,057
and that both of those
need to be treated.

681
00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:23,670
Sometimes people don't know
and they need that tool of NET

682
00:34:24,845 --> 00:34:28,936
that utilizes not just
what's in the conscious brain

683
00:34:28,979 --> 00:34:32,461
but what physiology is
doing that actually helps us

684
00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:36,161
to get at what's a little
bit less than conscious.

685
00:34:36,204 --> 00:34:40,078
But because NET uses
several unique components,

686
00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:43,646
first being the muscle
testing which allows the body

687
00:34:43,690 --> 00:34:46,649
to become its own
biofeedback instrument.

688
00:34:46,693 --> 00:34:48,912
The body then
guides the treatment

689
00:34:48,956 --> 00:34:52,699
by using the muscle testing,
it precisely and correctly

690
00:34:52,742 --> 00:34:55,789
identifies what these
periods of distress are.

691
00:34:55,832 --> 00:34:58,574
And what we're really
doing with the muscle test

692
00:34:58,618 --> 00:35:02,926
is we're posing a concept and
then seeing if their body,

693
00:35:02,970 --> 00:35:06,843
the patient's body, has
a physiological response.

694
00:35:06,887 --> 00:35:09,455
We're not measuring
true and false,

695
00:35:09,498 --> 00:35:13,154
we're only measuring
the person's personal

696
00:35:13,198 --> 00:35:15,113
reaction to it.

697
00:35:15,156 --> 00:35:17,593
So it's kind of like,
I over-simplified,

698
00:35:17,637 --> 00:35:20,901
would be the amoeba moving
toward a bit of food

699
00:35:20,944 --> 00:35:24,687
or away from a bit of poison
that's in the Petri dish.

700
00:35:24,731 --> 00:35:27,342
And that's what we're
measuring with the muscle test.

701
00:35:27,386 --> 00:35:31,172
The experience of
NET is far different

702
00:35:31,216 --> 00:35:34,393
than what somebody
observing it can know.

703
00:35:56,937 --> 00:35:58,678
We're run so much
by our subconscious,

704
00:35:58,721 --> 00:36:01,376
at least 80%, probably 99.9%,

705
00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:03,291
we're run by our
subconscious minds.

706
00:36:03,335 --> 00:36:05,641
And therefore we're
kind of victim

707
00:36:05,685 --> 00:36:06,903
to those subconscious minds.

708
00:36:06,947 --> 00:36:08,688
Because our subconscious
mind is running

709
00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,820
so much of the show,
it can be difficult

710
00:36:10,864 --> 00:36:12,692
to break out of
our conditioning.

711
00:36:12,735 --> 00:36:15,651
Dr. Scott explains that a
Neuro Emotional Complex,

712
00:36:15,695 --> 00:36:19,568
or NEC, is when an emotion
gets stuck in the body.

713
00:36:19,612 --> 00:36:22,919
In the NEC, we're shedding
the old perceptions,

714
00:36:22,963 --> 00:36:25,270
we're shedding the feelings
that went with them.

715
00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:26,943
And usually the NEC, of
course, has something

716
00:36:26,967 --> 00:36:30,579
that is perceived by us to
be non-survival oriented,

717
00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:33,669
it's counter survival, that's
the way we perceive it.

718
00:36:33,713 --> 00:36:36,629
And so we're shedding that.

719
00:36:36,672 --> 00:36:39,240
So most of the time what
happens is when people

720
00:36:39,284 --> 00:36:43,853
come into my office, they've
had this issue for so long

721
00:36:43,897 --> 00:36:46,552
that they start to
mistake the problem

722
00:36:46,595 --> 00:36:49,511
that they're having as

723
00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:51,209
it actually being them.

724
00:36:52,384 --> 00:36:56,779
So instead of them
having anxiety,

725
00:36:56,823 --> 00:37:00,696
they feel anxious and then
they start to attribute that

726
00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:03,351
to them just being
an anxious person,

727
00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:05,266
it becomes part
of their identity.

728
00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,834
It's that feeling
of hopelessness

729
00:37:07,877 --> 00:37:10,402
that's so corrosive, I think.

730
00:37:10,445 --> 00:37:12,665
And the idea

731
00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:14,014
for people,

732
00:37:14,057 --> 00:37:17,191
the idea that there's
some hope out there

733
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,846
that they could actually
get to the heart

734
00:37:19,889 --> 00:37:22,544
of why this is
actually happening

735
00:37:22,588 --> 00:37:24,720
over and over
again in their life

736
00:37:24,764 --> 00:37:29,769
and even return to the place
where it becomes something,

737
00:37:31,118 --> 00:37:32,704
a condition that they have
rather than who they are,

738
00:37:32,728 --> 00:37:34,817
that's a great start, okay?

739
00:37:34,861 --> 00:37:36,993
And then move on from there.

740
00:37:37,037 --> 00:37:39,692
People often ask me, "Well,
that event doesn't seem

741
00:37:39,735 --> 00:37:41,781
"like it was so traumatic
or anything like that,

742
00:37:41,824 --> 00:37:43,739
"so why did that come up?"

743
00:37:43,783 --> 00:37:47,221
But I think that we are
just so bombarded with

744
00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:50,311
processed foods and sugar and,

745
00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:53,314
you know, lack of
sleep and the news

746
00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:55,447
and everything that
we're exposed to

747
00:37:55,490 --> 00:37:57,927
that our brain gets overloaded,

748
00:37:57,971 --> 00:37:59,625
our nervous system
gets overloaded

749
00:37:59,668 --> 00:38:01,540
with the emotions
it's trying to process

750
00:38:01,583 --> 00:38:04,282
so something that seems
somewhat insignificant

751
00:38:04,325 --> 00:38:07,328
may have hit us on a day
that our system was weak

752
00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:09,852
and it just didn't know
what to do with it.

753
00:38:09,896 --> 00:38:12,420
When one person,
years and years later,

754
00:38:12,464 --> 00:38:14,901
is still suffering from
the death of a parent.

755
00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:17,991
And then another person,
years and years later,

756
00:38:18,034 --> 00:38:20,776
is suffering because
they didn't get ice cream

757
00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,649
at a birthday party,
it doesn't matter.

758
00:38:23,692 --> 00:38:24,824
It doesn't matter.

759
00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:26,105
The person who lost
a parent might've

760
00:38:26,129 --> 00:38:28,044
actually adapted
better than the kid

761
00:38:28,088 --> 00:38:29,718
who didn't get ice cream
at a birthday party.

762
00:38:29,742 --> 00:38:32,832
Emotions have no logic,
they're just emotions.

763
00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:35,835
If they were logical, we'd
all figure our stuff out

764
00:38:35,878 --> 00:38:37,880
and no one would ever
have a health issue

765
00:38:37,924 --> 00:38:40,448
or need to see a doctor or
therapist for any reason

766
00:38:40,492 --> 00:38:42,363
'cause we would just
think about it, go huh,

767
00:38:42,407 --> 00:38:43,538
and then we'd be fine.

768
00:38:43,582 --> 00:38:44,887
Doesn't really work like that.

769
00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:48,761
The memory stores
things, often inaccurately

770
00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:52,417
as to what really happened,
'cause it's not about that.

771
00:38:52,460 --> 00:38:56,116
And what it can do is it
can put associated memories

772
00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:59,859
together so that when
you recount something

773
00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:02,905
or retell a story, you
had pieces that really

774
00:39:02,949 --> 00:39:06,561
didn't even happen just by the
way our memory stores stuff.

775
00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:09,782
And it doesn't matter that
it's logically correct

776
00:39:09,825 --> 00:39:13,786
or that they're overly
emotional or underly emotional.

777
00:39:13,829 --> 00:39:17,572
If the body's having a
physiological reaction,

778
00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,314
we can help connect the
different piece parts

779
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:23,099
and let the body come to
closure with that thing.

780
00:39:23,143 --> 00:39:25,798
When we do muscle testing
we get the body's feedback

781
00:39:25,841 --> 00:39:27,974
and we use that to
help the body heal.

782
00:39:28,017 --> 00:39:31,934
So logic and reason
oftentimes are not involved

783
00:39:31,978 --> 00:39:33,762
when we're doing NET,
we're just finding out

784
00:39:33,806 --> 00:39:35,373
where the body is stuck.

785
00:39:35,416 --> 00:39:38,419
And sometimes there's no
way that we would logically

786
00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:41,074
ever figure it out unless
we use muscle testing.

787
00:39:49,256 --> 00:39:51,519
Upon further
analysis of the data,

788
00:39:51,563 --> 00:39:54,304
the team at Jefferson noticed
some very interesting changes

789
00:39:54,348 --> 00:39:55,915
regarding the cerebellum.

790
00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:59,353
This led to the publishing of
their second paper in 2017.

791
00:40:00,659 --> 00:40:01,940
It's kind of
traditionally been taught

792
00:40:01,964 --> 00:40:03,966
that the cerebellum
is primarily involved

793
00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:06,447
in the coordination of our
motor activity so when it comes

794
00:40:06,491 --> 00:40:08,710
to emotions, it's
not that relevant,

795
00:40:08,754 --> 00:40:10,930
it's not really helping
us with anything.

796
00:40:10,973 --> 00:40:12,888
It's really just helping
us to move our hands

797
00:40:12,932 --> 00:40:15,891
and to move our legs and to do
that in a coordinated fashion

798
00:40:15,935 --> 00:40:19,199
but a growing number
of research studies,

799
00:40:19,242 --> 00:40:22,028
as we came to find as we
started to look at it,

800
00:40:22,071 --> 00:40:23,246
we started to see well, gee,

801
00:40:23,290 --> 00:40:24,920
there's some interesting
studies that show

802
00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:27,425
that when the cerebellum is
activated that has something

803
00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:31,254
to do with the laying down
of traumatic memories.

804
00:40:31,298 --> 00:40:34,519
According to a scientific
paper published in 2015

805
00:40:34,562 --> 00:40:38,044
titled "The Emotional
Cerebellum", imaging
experts revealed,

806
00:40:38,087 --> 00:40:40,960
"The cerebellum is activated
during mental recall

807
00:40:41,003 --> 00:40:42,831
"of emotional personal episodes

808
00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:44,746
"and during the learning
of a conditioned

809
00:40:44,790 --> 00:40:48,184
"or unconditioned association
involving emotions."

810
00:40:48,228 --> 00:40:50,186
Even though the cerebellum
is relatively small,

811
00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,232
it's just kind of
these little balls

812
00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:55,148
in the back of the
brain, it has five times

813
00:40:55,191 --> 00:40:57,672
the number of neurons as the
rest of the brain combined.

814
00:40:57,716 --> 00:40:59,413
And then we started
to realize, well,

815
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:01,086
you know, this is all
starting to make some sense.

816
00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:04,592
If this part of the brain
normally is involved

817
00:41:04,636 --> 00:41:07,508
in the coordination of motor
function, maybe it's also

818
00:41:07,552 --> 00:41:10,859
involved in the coordination
of emotional function.

819
00:41:10,903 --> 00:41:14,080
And if that's the case, then
perhaps what we're seeing

820
00:41:14,123 --> 00:41:16,169
is that as a result
of going through the

821
00:41:16,212 --> 00:41:18,519
Neuro Emotional Technique
and the various elements

822
00:41:18,563 --> 00:41:21,000
that are involved in
it, that we are having

823
00:41:21,043 --> 00:41:23,916
a direct impact on
how that cerebellum

824
00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:27,267
is able to regulate
the emotional, or
help in the regulation

825
00:41:27,310 --> 00:41:29,051
of these emotional
centers of the brain.

826
00:41:29,095 --> 00:41:33,403
This is one of the reasons
to get up and go to work

827
00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:36,537
as a medical researcher because

828
00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:40,236
you don't get to see these
kinds of results every day.

829
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,109
But it also opens
up the door even more

830
00:41:43,152 --> 00:41:45,328
in terms of the field of
cognitive neuroscience

831
00:41:45,372 --> 00:41:48,114
and emotions and
psychiatry and psychology

832
00:41:48,157 --> 00:41:51,247
because it helps us to
understand that the cerebellum

833
00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:54,207
may be a very critical
area of our brain

834
00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:58,037
that is very much related
to our emotional selves

835
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,909
and not just how our body moves

836
00:42:00,953 --> 00:42:03,346
but how our body is
moved emotionally.

837
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:05,455
Even the people on my team
who knew nothing about NET,

838
00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:08,047
they're just
analyzing, you know,

839
00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:12,486
doing the quantitative analysis
of the MRIs pre and post

840
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,009
are like, "What is this?

841
00:42:14,053 --> 00:42:16,534
"What was this intervention,
what's going on here?"

842
00:42:16,577 --> 00:42:20,233
Everybody was just really

843
00:42:20,276 --> 00:42:23,018
thrilled and so happy
for the patients.

844
00:42:23,062 --> 00:42:25,368
And of course, that's
what it's really about.

845
00:42:25,412 --> 00:42:27,283
Even though the study
was focused on people

846
00:42:27,327 --> 00:42:30,156
with traumatic stress from
cancer, the traumatic stress

847
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:32,811
of going to war is an
equally important issue.

848
00:42:32,854 --> 00:42:34,726
On his third deployment
to Afghanistan,

849
00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:37,076
United States Marine
Corps Corporal

850
00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,731
Rory Hamill sustained
serious injuries.

851
00:42:39,774 --> 00:42:43,691
It was February 13th, 2011,
it's almost seven years now.

852
00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:47,869
Took the minesweeper
off my point man's back

853
00:42:47,913 --> 00:42:51,177
after he received
some information

854
00:42:51,220 --> 00:42:53,222
that there was an
improvised explosive device

855
00:42:53,266 --> 00:42:56,095
on a compound by our location.

856
00:42:56,138 --> 00:42:57,138
And

857
00:42:58,314 --> 00:43:00,621
we got about three quarters
of the compound swept

858
00:43:00,665 --> 00:43:04,625
and as I was nearing
the end of my search,

859
00:43:04,669 --> 00:43:07,106
I stepped on a little
metallic pressure plate

860
00:43:08,324 --> 00:43:11,414
which detonated homemade
explosives five feet behind me

861
00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:14,504
to the right and the
explosion and the blast force

862
00:43:14,548 --> 00:43:16,506
came from my right side,

863
00:43:16,550 --> 00:43:18,726
sheared my right
leg off instantly,

864
00:43:18,770 --> 00:43:20,249
clipped the back of my left leg.

865
00:43:20,293 --> 00:43:21,990
Flew 10 feet in the air,

866
00:43:22,034 --> 00:43:23,688
hit the ground on
the back of my head.

867
00:43:23,731 --> 00:43:27,822
My Marines saved my life, they
instantly rushed right in.

868
00:43:27,866 --> 00:43:29,998
There could have been a
secondary IED in there

869
00:43:30,042 --> 00:43:31,347
but they didn't care.

870
00:43:31,391 --> 00:43:34,133
They dragged me out
of the blast zone,

871
00:43:34,176 --> 00:43:36,614
worked on me, stopped the
bleeding, stabilized me.

872
00:43:38,093 --> 00:43:42,010
Unfortunately, on the helicopter
to the shock trauma unit,

873
00:43:42,054 --> 00:43:43,838
I flat lined for two minutes

874
00:43:43,882 --> 00:43:45,840
and I was
resuscitated, worked on

875
00:43:47,102 --> 00:43:49,627
and began the long journey home.

876
00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:51,716
Took about a week
for me to get home

877
00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:54,893
'cause they need to keep
you stable when they put you

878
00:43:54,936 --> 00:43:57,156
on a plane and I wasn't
quite stable enough

879
00:43:57,199 --> 00:43:59,680
but eventually I made it
back to Washington, D.C.

880
00:43:59,724 --> 00:44:01,943
where I began my rehab.

881
00:44:15,957 --> 00:44:19,134
It's very common with amputees,
we get phantom limb pain.

882
00:44:19,178 --> 00:44:23,573
That's where your body is
firing of synapses and trying

883
00:44:23,617 --> 00:44:27,186
to remap, you know, where the
nerves are and it realized

884
00:44:27,229 --> 00:44:29,579
that there was a huge
chunk of nerves missing.

885
00:44:29,623 --> 00:44:34,628
But that can translate into
phantom pain, phantom sensation.

886
00:44:36,151 --> 00:44:38,391
And one of the things that we
worked on at the office was

887
00:44:39,154 --> 00:44:42,897
we tried using a mirror,
it helped out a lot.

888
00:44:42,941 --> 00:44:45,291
In a sense, it kind
of tricked my brain.

889
00:44:45,334 --> 00:44:47,380
I'm looking at this,
I have my left leg

890
00:44:47,423 --> 00:44:50,731
and I'm looking at it and
in my brain it made sense

891
00:44:50,775 --> 00:44:52,472
and it helped, you know,

892
00:44:52,515 --> 00:44:54,909
with a combination of
the actual treatment

893
00:44:54,953 --> 00:44:59,131
it helped get a lot of that
stress away from my body.

894
00:44:59,174 --> 00:45:02,221
And the phantom pains
and sensations became,

895
00:45:02,264 --> 00:45:05,093
you know, very less frequent.

896
00:45:05,137 --> 00:45:08,793
Obviously I still have
challenges every single day.

897
00:45:08,836 --> 00:45:13,449
It's very, very hard and over
the past almost seven years

898
00:45:13,493 --> 00:45:17,192
I have a gotten a lot mentally
and physically stronger

899
00:45:17,236 --> 00:45:20,108
but NET has been an
integral part of that.

900
00:45:20,152 --> 00:45:24,286
What I feel, what I've
seen with NET is it's,

901
00:45:24,330 --> 00:45:27,768
it really is a mind/body
type of therapy.

902
00:45:27,812 --> 00:45:31,163
And I can personally attest
to normally, you know,

903
00:45:31,206 --> 00:45:33,774
if you have a physical thing,
go to a physical doctor.

904
00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:36,603
You have a mental thing,
you go to a mental doctor.

905
00:45:36,646 --> 00:45:39,954
With NET, it hits both of
those at the same time.

906
00:45:39,998 --> 00:45:43,479
And I really, really feel that's
why there was such a huge,

907
00:45:44,872 --> 00:45:46,787
you know, wave of emotion
released initially

908
00:45:46,831 --> 00:45:49,703
and all the subsequent
appointments afterwards.

909
00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:52,793
The doctor didn't tell me
that I was going to be cured

910
00:45:52,837 --> 00:45:55,622
of my ailments or anything
like that, it wasn't,

911
00:45:57,145 --> 00:45:59,626
but he did tell me that it
would help stabilize my body

912
00:45:59,669 --> 00:46:02,934
and help me get back
to a sense of normalcy

913
00:46:02,977 --> 00:46:06,285
in my everyday life, which it
did, hands down, immediately.

914
00:46:07,721 --> 00:46:10,550
And it only got better
with the next few sessions

915
00:46:10,593 --> 00:46:12,465
and, you know,
subsequently after.

916
00:46:15,163 --> 00:46:17,818
It helped me a lot.

917
00:46:17,862 --> 00:46:19,733
It helped me out
of a dark place.

918
00:46:21,213 --> 00:46:23,781
You know, that with the help
of family and friends as well,

919
00:46:23,824 --> 00:46:26,784
it's just, it was an
amazing supplement to,

920
00:46:28,263 --> 00:46:31,440
to my regimen, to
everything that I needed.

921
00:46:42,887 --> 00:46:44,627
When the doctor's ego is there,

922
00:46:44,671 --> 00:46:47,935
it reduces the capacity
for healing in the patient.

923
00:46:47,979 --> 00:46:51,286
Too often we get an idea,
a preconceived idea about

924
00:46:51,330 --> 00:46:52,610
what's going on
with the patient.

925
00:46:52,635 --> 00:46:54,463
And how could we
possibly do that?

926
00:46:54,507 --> 00:46:56,465
Because we've only
lived our own life.

927
00:46:56,509 --> 00:46:59,077
We haven't lived
that person's life.

928
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,862
We don't know what's
going on with them at all.

929
00:47:01,906 --> 00:47:05,823
And so, well known by
the psychologist is

930
00:47:06,736 --> 00:47:07,912
people project,

931
00:47:07,955 --> 00:47:10,915
people project their
loves and their hatreds.

932
00:47:10,958 --> 00:47:14,396
As a practitioner, you can't
allow your stuff to interfere

933
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,399
and as humans, it's very
easy for that to happen.

934
00:47:17,443 --> 00:47:20,359
We even have seminars
that they're designed

935
00:47:20,402 --> 00:47:22,317
to address the
practitioner's needs

936
00:47:22,361 --> 00:47:25,320
so that we don't have those
needs getting in the way

937
00:47:25,364 --> 00:47:27,279
of the therapeutic relationship.

938
00:47:42,816 --> 00:47:44,949
There are
numerous seminars every year

939
00:47:44,992 --> 00:47:48,300
allowing practitioners to learn
and improve their technique.

940
00:47:48,343 --> 00:47:51,433
As of 2018, there are more
than 10,000 practitioners

941
00:47:51,477 --> 00:47:53,087
in over 30 countries.

942
00:48:02,836 --> 00:48:05,273
Whether they're small
distressing events

943
00:48:05,317 --> 00:48:08,494
that just aren't
resolving themselves well

944
00:48:08,537 --> 00:48:12,106
or the big, big ones,
they all affect us.

945
00:48:12,150 --> 00:48:13,760
And they affect our
quality of life,

946
00:48:13,803 --> 00:48:16,937
they affect how we're
functioning, how we're feeling

947
00:48:16,981 --> 00:48:18,567
and whether or not we're
thriving in the world

948
00:48:18,591 --> 00:48:20,201
the way we want to be.

949
00:48:20,245 --> 00:48:23,901
And where, 30 years ago,
it was different thinking,

950
00:48:23,944 --> 00:48:28,470
I think the whole face
of healthcare is changing

951
00:48:28,514 --> 00:48:30,646
and people are more open now

952
00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:33,388
that what you think could
affect how you heal.

953
00:48:33,432 --> 00:48:36,130
What you eat, how you exercise,

954
00:48:36,174 --> 00:48:37,740
meditation,

955
00:48:37,784 --> 00:48:39,829
yoga, all that kind of stuff.

956
00:48:39,873 --> 00:48:44,138
And NET's just a tool but I
think it's a perfect time for it

957
00:48:44,182 --> 00:48:47,794
because I think the
consciousness of
people in general

958
00:48:47,837 --> 00:48:50,449
is real open that
maybe I have something

959
00:48:50,492 --> 00:48:53,104
to do with my health condition.

960
00:48:53,147 --> 00:48:57,238
And if we can help unlock
what was stuck in there

961
00:48:57,282 --> 00:49:00,415
then all those other things
they're doing as well

962
00:49:00,459 --> 00:49:01,677
work better too.

963
00:49:01,721 --> 00:49:04,289
It pays it forward in
so many different ways

964
00:49:04,332 --> 00:49:07,988
because if one person
can be less stressed

965
00:49:08,032 --> 00:49:09,990
when they go home
to their family,

966
00:49:10,034 --> 00:49:13,428
when they, you know, go
into work, when they are

967
00:49:13,472 --> 00:49:16,431
on the phone as a customer
service representative,

968
00:49:16,475 --> 00:49:18,477
then all of the sudden
we have a better world

969
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,566
cascading, cascading, cascading.

970
00:49:20,609 --> 00:49:22,960
This is a really good
time in history to be there.

971
00:49:23,003 --> 00:49:25,875
It was so wonderful
in the very beginning

972
00:49:25,919 --> 00:49:27,157
because we didn't know
where we were going

973
00:49:27,181 --> 00:49:28,550
or what we were doing
or if it was gonna work

974
00:49:28,574 --> 00:49:30,750
or if it wasn't gonna
work but right now we feel

975
00:49:30,793 --> 00:49:34,493
very confident that every
single research study

976
00:49:34,536 --> 00:49:37,409
that we done, every
single condition

977
00:49:37,452 --> 00:49:40,368
that we've thrown this
as has been improved.

978
00:49:40,412 --> 00:49:43,023
We haven't found anything
that it hasn't improved.

979
00:49:43,067 --> 00:49:44,459
We don't know where
the limits are.

980
00:49:44,503 --> 00:49:47,201
It would be nice if it
was a mechanistic world

981
00:49:47,245 --> 00:49:49,377
and we just tightened
a bolt here and there

982
00:49:49,421 --> 00:49:54,382
and then it worked but that's
not, we're way more than

983
00:49:54,426 --> 00:49:57,907
a piece of machinery and
I don't think we've begun

984
00:49:57,951 --> 00:50:01,389
to touch on the energy
of what runs the body

985
00:50:01,433 --> 00:50:04,610
or even, dare I say,
the spiritual piece.

986
00:50:04,653 --> 00:50:07,526
I never wanted it to go
into a spiritual direction

987
00:50:07,569 --> 00:50:10,050
but really, I don't
know how you can stop it

988
00:50:10,094 --> 00:50:12,574
when you start analyzing
what's going on in this world.

989
00:50:12,618 --> 00:50:16,404
I think the other
interesting piece about this is

990
00:50:16,448 --> 00:50:20,582
healing, healing is so
interesting to me in that

991
00:50:20,626 --> 00:50:24,630
we put on these layers and
layers and layers of protection

992
00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:26,327
of things that happened to us.

993
00:50:26,371 --> 00:50:28,460
And then a person will
come in with a problem

994
00:50:28,503 --> 00:50:30,592
and we'll start
peeling off the layers

995
00:50:30,636 --> 00:50:35,032
but what's totally
interesting to me is the issue

996
00:50:35,075 --> 00:50:39,427
won't come up until the
body's ready to deal with it.

997
00:50:39,471 --> 00:50:43,518
And I know, personally,
I lost my mother

998
00:50:43,562 --> 00:50:45,607
when I was six years old.

999
00:50:45,651 --> 00:50:47,914
And, I'm sure, you
know, I've had issues

1000
00:50:47,957 --> 00:50:51,352
and over the years we've
done a bunch of NET

1001
00:50:51,396 --> 00:50:54,921
and would often go back to
me being a six year old,

1002
00:50:54,964 --> 00:50:57,445
of course, which is
when my mother died

1003
00:50:57,489 --> 00:51:02,624
and we would check the
concept of my mother dying,

1004
00:51:03,277 --> 00:51:04,713
committing suicide,

1005
00:51:04,757 --> 00:51:07,890
and it wasn't there,
for almost five years,

1006
00:51:07,934 --> 00:51:09,196
it would be something else.

1007
00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,633
It'd be that I had to
go stay with my aunt

1008
00:51:11,677 --> 00:51:14,158
or that it was my
father was so upset

1009
00:51:14,201 --> 00:51:15,811
or this or that.

1010
00:51:15,855 --> 00:51:19,424
And then, interestingly,
five years into it,

1011
00:51:19,467 --> 00:51:22,427
on a Mother's Day,
believe it or not,

1012
00:51:22,470 --> 00:51:26,170
I had an issue come up,
goes back to age six

1013
00:51:26,213 --> 00:51:30,609
and this time I was ready
to deal with the death

1014
00:51:30,652 --> 00:51:32,741
and suicide of my mother.

1015
00:51:32,785 --> 00:51:36,615
So I think that is so wonderful

1016
00:51:36,658 --> 00:51:38,225
and it gives a level

1017
00:51:38,269 --> 00:51:41,489
of safety to realize an
issue's not gonna come up

1018
00:51:41,533 --> 00:51:43,491
until you're ready
to deal with it.

1019
00:51:43,535 --> 00:51:46,277
Probably the most
interesting thing that happens,

1020
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,671
that has happened for me
as a practitioner is that,

1021
00:51:49,715 --> 00:51:52,196
person comes in,
maybe for migraines

1022
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,720
and you start doing NET
on them for the migraines

1023
00:51:54,763 --> 00:51:57,549
and then they start to
tell you the other things

1024
00:51:57,592 --> 00:51:58,700
that are getting
better in their life,

1025
00:51:58,724 --> 00:51:59,875
their relationships are better,

1026
00:51:59,899 --> 00:52:01,596
they're happier,
they're sleeping better.

1027
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,077
And you didn't even take
care of those things.

1028
00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:07,559
Which, again, just illustrates
the amazing healing power

1029
00:52:07,602 --> 00:52:09,256
of the body if you
give it a chance.

1030
00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:11,215
If you take some of
these stress factors,

1031
00:52:11,258 --> 00:52:15,044
you reduce that load that
the body is carrying,

1032
00:52:15,088 --> 00:52:16,916
the sky is the limit
as to what it can heal.

1033
00:52:16,959 --> 00:52:21,355
The one thing that we really
are hoping people become

1034
00:52:21,399 --> 00:52:24,750
is to become more
comfortable in their own skin

1035
00:52:24,793 --> 00:52:27,535
because if we're
comfortable in our own skin,

1036
00:52:27,579 --> 00:52:29,755
things are a little bit
less stressful in life.

1037
00:52:29,798 --> 00:52:31,757
We're able to handle
things better,

1038
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,933
we love ourself more.

1039
00:52:33,976 --> 00:52:38,981
And with that, there's nothing
that money or anything else

1040
00:52:40,461 --> 00:52:43,595
can buy except that peace
of mind with yourself.

1041
00:52:43,638 --> 00:52:46,206
Imagine how the world could be

1042
00:52:46,250 --> 00:52:48,904
if we could actually become
more aware of our stress

1043
00:52:48,948 --> 00:52:51,864
and its impact on not only
our own body and ourselves

1044
00:52:51,907 --> 00:52:53,213
but those around us.

1045
00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:55,737
And be able to hold
a space of acceptance

1046
00:52:55,781 --> 00:52:59,219
and allow each of us to
reach our full potential

1047
00:52:59,263 --> 00:53:01,265
and be true, authentic selves.

1048
00:53:01,308 --> 00:53:04,703
I wish that more people
were aware of this work.

1049
00:53:04,746 --> 00:53:09,447
Because the miracles that we
as practitioners get to see

1050
00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:12,406
every day...

1051
00:53:12,450 --> 00:53:15,583
Are amazing and people
don't even realize,

1052
00:53:15,627 --> 00:53:17,629
there's so many people
out there in this world

1053
00:53:17,672 --> 00:53:20,109
that don't even realize
it's a possibility.

1054
00:53:20,153 --> 00:53:22,808
As a result, as a side
effect, a wonderful side effect

1055
00:53:22,851 --> 00:53:25,985
from doing NET, I
started to practice yoga

1056
00:53:26,028 --> 00:53:29,902
and meditation
understanding and teaching

1057
00:53:29,945 --> 00:53:32,644
this idea that your mind

1058
00:53:33,906 --> 00:53:37,997
is very powerful and it
can help you or harm you

1059
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,781
and it's always your choice.

1060
00:53:39,825 --> 00:53:42,262
I mean, I would probably
be, I would probably be

1061
00:53:42,306 --> 00:53:44,482
an emotional wreck.

1062
00:53:44,525 --> 00:53:48,660
If I never had NET, I would
probably be a mess, honestly.

1063
00:53:49,661 --> 00:53:51,837
And I used to be,
I used to be like,

1064
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,839
my emotions would
just go up and down

1065
00:53:53,882 --> 00:53:57,234
and a lot of that stuff also
correlates with your diet.

1066
00:53:57,277 --> 00:54:00,715
So just learning about that
stuff was a game changer for me.

1067
00:54:00,759 --> 00:54:02,413
But

1068
00:54:02,456 --> 00:54:05,329
it's helped so
much in every way.

1069
00:54:05,372 --> 00:54:09,507
Comments through your life
are stored up in your body

1070
00:54:09,550 --> 00:54:11,117
and it's bringing
that emotion out

1071
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,860
and to attack that emotion,
almost, and release it

1072
00:54:14,903 --> 00:54:18,603
and diffuse it
from your body is,

1073
00:54:18,646 --> 00:54:20,431
it's the biggest freedom.

1074
00:54:33,922 --> 00:54:36,447
We want people to prosper,
we want them to be better,

1075
00:54:36,490 --> 00:54:39,493
we want them to be healed and
we can change the paradigm.

1076
00:54:39,537 --> 00:54:40,886
We can do it.

1077
00:54:41,887 --> 00:54:43,758
I thought,

1078
00:54:43,802 --> 00:54:47,022
just 20 years ago,
I thought that

1079
00:54:47,066 --> 00:54:49,155
those of us that
believed in the power

1080
00:54:49,198 --> 00:54:51,853
that made the body, that's in
the body can heal the body,

1081
00:54:51,897 --> 00:54:54,073
and that the body
was natural healing

1082
00:54:54,116 --> 00:54:57,685
and that's what works and
nobody was listening to us,

1083
00:54:57,729 --> 00:55:00,035
again, you know, what's new?

1084
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:02,473
And I just thought, yeah, I'll
just be one of the dinosaurs,

1085
00:55:02,516 --> 00:55:05,563
I'm gonna die off, but what
I'm gonna do while I'm alive,

1086
00:55:05,606 --> 00:55:07,391
I'm gonna keep this principle

1087
00:55:07,434 --> 00:55:10,089
that natural healthcare works.

1088
00:55:24,843 --> 00:55:26,366
So much of
our cultural narrative

1089
00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:28,325
revolves around the
stresses of life

1090
00:55:28,368 --> 00:55:30,239
and it can make
us feel powerless.

1091
00:55:30,283 --> 00:55:32,720
Struggles with anxiety,
depression and chronic

1092
00:55:32,764 --> 00:55:35,897
health problems are becoming
more and more common.

1093
00:55:35,941 --> 00:55:37,290
Every one of us has been through

1094
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:38,813
traumatic events in our life

1095
00:55:38,857 --> 00:55:41,076
and it's something that
should bring us together more

1096
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:42,948
instead of disconnecting us.

1097
00:55:42,991 --> 00:55:44,950
There are little to
no treatment options

1098
00:55:44,993 --> 00:55:47,082
for people suffering
from traumatic stress.

1099
00:55:47,126 --> 00:55:49,346
If you're not
diagnosed with PTSD

1100
00:55:49,389 --> 00:55:51,609
or any other major
traumatic condition,

1101
00:55:51,652 --> 00:55:53,741
it can seem confusing
on how to get help.

1102
00:55:53,785 --> 00:55:56,222
These findings are
about more than NET,

1103
00:55:56,265 --> 00:55:58,616
it's about helping our
society to become more aware

1104
00:55:58,659 --> 00:56:01,880
of our emotions and how much
they actually affect our life

1105
00:56:01,923 --> 00:56:03,360
and the people around us.

1106
00:56:03,403 --> 00:56:05,884
The mind and the body
are intimately connected

1107
00:56:05,927 --> 00:56:07,581
and the more we
can embrace that,

1108
00:56:07,625 --> 00:56:09,409
the more we can take
control of our health

1109
00:56:09,453 --> 00:56:12,412
and ultimately take
control of our lives.

1110
00:56:19,550 --> 00:56:21,639
Part of why brain
imaging is so valuable

1111
00:56:21,682 --> 00:56:24,642
is that it shows the
physiological basis of things

1112
00:56:24,685 --> 00:56:27,819
and we always sort
of joke about how,

1113
00:56:27,862 --> 00:56:29,560
you know, you could
parade 100 people

1114
00:56:29,603 --> 00:56:31,997
in front of a
group of scientists

1115
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,739
and they all say, "This
made me feel a lot better."

1116
00:56:34,782 --> 00:56:36,717
But if you throw up one brain
scan picture and you say,

1117
00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:38,240
well, this is what their
brain looked like initially

1118
00:56:38,264 --> 00:56:40,068
and this is what their brain
looked like afterwards,

1119
00:56:40,092 --> 00:56:42,224
they say, "Oh, okay,
something happened.

1120
00:56:42,268 --> 00:56:44,313
"I get it, I understand it."

1121
00:56:44,357 --> 00:56:47,099
Because the subjective
experiences that
people describe,

1122
00:56:47,142 --> 00:56:49,144
you never really
know and, of course,

1123
00:56:49,188 --> 00:56:53,148
in a very cynical world,
every advertisement,

1124
00:56:53,192 --> 00:56:55,673
every group is trying
to make their product,

1125
00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:57,979
their approach, their
ideas sound great

1126
00:56:58,023 --> 00:56:59,981
so of course there's
a million testimonials

1127
00:57:00,025 --> 00:57:02,462
and every testimonial
always says this was great,

1128
00:57:02,506 --> 00:57:03,942
it changed my life,
I feel fabulous.

1129
00:57:03,985 --> 00:57:06,945
So that's one thing
but to have actual data

1130
00:57:06,988 --> 00:57:10,165
and to be able to do
in a controlled trial,

1131
00:57:10,209 --> 00:57:11,993
a randomized controlled
trial, and to be able

1132
00:57:12,037 --> 00:57:13,908
to sort of see what's happening

1133
00:57:13,952 --> 00:57:16,911
and then more specifically to
show the physiological effect,

1134
00:57:16,955 --> 00:57:19,610
that shows that there's
something else that's going on.

1135
00:57:19,653 --> 00:57:22,264
I mean, a person
could say to me,

1136
00:57:22,308 --> 00:57:24,963
"I'm not having a
response to it."

1137
00:57:25,006 --> 00:57:26,878
But you don't know exactly
what they're feeling

1138
00:57:26,921 --> 00:57:29,446
on the inside and I'm not
in the scanner with them

1139
00:57:29,489 --> 00:57:31,796
so they could still be in
tears and just fighting it

1140
00:57:31,839 --> 00:57:33,841
back better and saying,
"No, I feel fine."

1141
00:57:33,885 --> 00:57:36,975
But they wouldn't be able to
change the brain that way.

1142
00:57:37,018 --> 00:57:40,500
Even though it's obvious that,

1143
00:57:40,544 --> 00:57:42,633
you know, mind and body are one.

1144
00:57:42,676 --> 00:57:44,939
We used to talk about
a mind/body connection

1145
00:57:44,983 --> 00:57:46,569
like, I don't know,
maybe there was a rope

1146
00:57:46,593 --> 00:57:48,813
or a chain connecting
them or something.

1147
00:57:48,856 --> 00:57:52,512
And, you know, there
was even a debate about

1148
00:57:52,556 --> 00:57:55,559
whether or not there was a
connection prior to that.

1149
00:57:55,602 --> 00:57:59,214
We now know that they're the
flip side of the same coin,

1150
00:57:59,258 --> 00:58:03,305
that there is a physiology

1151
00:58:03,349 --> 00:58:07,484
and a biology to things
that we experience mentally

1152
00:58:07,527 --> 00:58:11,096
and emotionally and this
study elucidates that,

1153
00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:14,099
you know, beautifully
between both papers

1154
00:58:14,142 --> 00:58:16,623
and the effects that a
distressing event has

1155
00:58:16,667 --> 00:58:19,017
on the brain and the
rest of physiology

1156
00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:21,410
including the autonomic
nervous system

1157
00:58:21,454 --> 00:58:24,718
as well as subjective
ways that people feel.

1158
00:58:24,762 --> 00:58:28,113
And that when that
distressing event

1159
00:58:28,156 --> 00:58:32,247
gets neutralized
to a large extent,

1160
00:58:33,205 --> 00:58:34,859
that all of those things change.

1161
00:58:34,902 --> 00:58:38,036
That the brain changes, that
the rest of physiology changes,

1162
00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:42,562
that subjective feelings of
stress and distress all change,

1163
00:58:42,606 --> 00:58:44,346
quality of life change.

1164
00:58:44,390 --> 00:58:48,437
So it's, mind and body
in that regard are one.

1165
00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:51,919
I think that this
data is very important

1166
00:58:51,963 --> 00:58:54,748
in providing more knowledge
about the mechanism

1167
00:58:54,792 --> 00:58:56,620
of action of the Neuro
Emotional Technique.

1168
00:58:56,663 --> 00:58:59,971
It helps us to understand
better what it's doing,

1169
00:59:00,014 --> 00:59:02,713
how it has an impact on
different parts of the brain

1170
00:59:02,756 --> 00:59:04,149
and how it helps the person

1171
00:59:04,192 --> 00:59:06,673
to regulate their
emotional responses.

1172
00:59:06,717 --> 00:59:09,502
Now, you know, there could be
some other very interesting

1173
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:11,809
aspects because the
cerebellum is involved

1174
00:59:11,852 --> 00:59:14,289
in our body's movement
and our motor function.

1175
00:59:14,333 --> 00:59:16,596
It appears that it
also helps to regulate

1176
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,512
our autonomic nervous system
which was another part

1177
00:59:19,556 --> 00:59:23,037
of this study that showed
that not only do we change

1178
00:59:23,081 --> 00:59:26,780
the way a person's brain is
reacting to the emotional trauma

1179
00:59:26,824 --> 00:59:29,087
but we change the way
the body reacts as well.

1180
00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:32,046
And the cerebellum,
apparently, is able to regulate

1181
00:59:32,090 --> 00:59:34,222
the autonomic nervous
system in terms of

1182
00:59:34,266 --> 00:59:37,008
regulating heart rate and
blood pressure which were also

1183
00:59:37,051 --> 00:59:39,097
measures that we were
looking at in this study.

1184
00:59:39,140 --> 00:59:41,186
And, again, what
we were showing was

1185
00:59:41,229 --> 00:59:43,405
was that after the Neuro
Emotional Technique,

1186
00:59:43,449 --> 00:59:46,626
people's heart rate responses
to the traumatic stimuli

1187
00:59:46,670 --> 00:59:49,629
were much more normalized,
they didn't have that kind of

1188
00:59:49,673 --> 00:59:52,371
over reactivity that we had seen

1189
00:59:52,414 --> 00:59:55,635
before going through the
Neuro Emotional Technique.

1190
00:59:55,679 --> 00:59:58,856
So I think that this
really opens up an ability

1191
00:59:58,899 --> 01:00:02,294
to understand more and more
what the mechanism of action is

1192
01:00:02,337 --> 01:00:04,165
of the Neuro
Emotional Technique.

1193
01:00:04,209 --> 01:00:07,255
It tells us a lot about
what we may be able to learn

1194
01:00:07,299 --> 01:00:10,389
in terms of just
traumatic memories and

1195
01:00:10,432 --> 01:00:14,567
strong negative emotions, how
they play out in the brain,

1196
01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:17,004
what areas of the brain
seem to be involved in them

1197
01:00:17,048 --> 01:00:20,138
and provides us a target
for future studies.

1198
01:00:20,181 --> 01:00:24,664
Initially I do not like the
term alternative healthcare.

1199
01:00:24,708 --> 01:00:27,188
Bugs me, because this is
not alternative healthcare,

1200
01:00:27,232 --> 01:00:30,844
in fact, this is
almost more traditional

1201
01:00:30,888 --> 01:00:33,891
than any other type of
healthcare that we have.

1202
01:00:33,934 --> 01:00:36,502
Because really,
it's saying, okay,

1203
01:00:36,545 --> 01:00:38,504
you've got what
it takes to heal,

1204
01:00:38,547 --> 01:00:42,247
let's unleash, let's unlock,
let's help your body to heal.

1205
01:00:42,290 --> 01:00:47,078
If we start looking at
the body as mind as well,

1206
01:00:47,121 --> 01:00:48,708
it's not just the mind
that's in your head,

1207
01:00:48,732 --> 01:00:51,386
it's also the mind that's
down here in your gut

1208
01:00:51,430 --> 01:00:55,173
that is just as much at play

1209
01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:58,698
in terms of creating your health
as the brain in your head.

1210
01:00:58,742 --> 01:01:02,093
We look at the body
as perfect the way it is

1211
01:01:02,136 --> 01:01:05,139
and if there is a symptom
that's expressing,

1212
01:01:05,183 --> 01:01:07,489
it's because the
body needs something,

1213
01:01:07,533 --> 01:01:10,536
it needs attention in that area.

1214
01:01:10,579 --> 01:01:13,713
And emotions definitely
are not logical,

1215
01:01:13,757 --> 01:01:17,195
they're not rational,
emotions are non rational,

1216
01:01:17,238 --> 01:01:19,240
they're not irrational
but they're non rational,

1217
01:01:19,284 --> 01:01:20,391
they just are what they are.

1218
01:01:20,415 --> 01:01:22,243
Most of the universe
is non rational,

1219
01:01:22,287 --> 01:01:25,159
most of the universe is not
working on a rational plane.

1220
01:01:25,203 --> 01:01:28,641
Most of the universe
is just what it is.

1221
01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:31,296
Human beings, apparently,
have been given reason

1222
01:01:31,339 --> 01:01:33,124
and we can work with our reason

1223
01:01:33,167 --> 01:01:35,039
to make life better
for ourselves.

1224
01:01:35,082 --> 01:01:37,128
But we can't rely
100% on reason,

1225
01:01:37,171 --> 01:01:40,044
we have to understand that
we're more than reason.

1226
01:01:40,087 --> 01:01:42,002
The body heals itself.

1227
01:01:42,046 --> 01:01:46,224
And NET kinda
facilitates that and

1228
01:01:46,267 --> 01:01:47,312
kind of makes it

1229
01:01:48,617 --> 01:01:50,489
easier to do.

1230
01:01:50,532 --> 01:01:52,230
And it's just a process.

1231
01:01:54,623 --> 01:01:55,929
Through virtue of this process,

1232
01:01:55,973 --> 01:01:58,323
it allows that which
heals to come forth

1233
01:01:58,366 --> 01:02:00,542
and get the healing done.

1234
01:02:00,586 --> 01:02:02,849
You know, they say, "Oh,
you helped me so much."

1235
01:02:02,893 --> 01:02:05,112
And yeah, I tried to
help you all right but

1236
01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:08,159
your body healed itself.

1237
01:02:08,202 --> 01:02:10,378
I just want to
remind you of that.

1238
01:02:10,422 --> 01:02:12,859
So that we can get that
consciousness going out there

1239
01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:15,340
and start making that
part of the conversation.