All language subtitles for Heal.2017

Initially, I was
diagnosed with lupus

and I would say about four
years ago, I was also
diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

I was diagnosed
with Lyme disease,

16 years ago, and my MS
15 years ago.

I just have a lot of
head problems,
like headaches, and just like,

migraines, and like,
light-headedness, and then,
stomach issues

that I've had, like, for a
year, that, and we're not
really sure of the cause.

All I'm gonna ask you to do
here today is to trust and
believe and surrender.

This is not Western medicine.

This is Eastern medicine,
and energy medicine.

What Eastern medicine says,
basically, and energy medicine,
says that,

as human beings,
we've learned how to
hold on to all of our emotions.

And in doing so, we create
density in our body.

Things that Western medicine
has labeled

cancer, fibromyalgia,
Crohn disease,

migraine, headaches,
depression, anxiety,
all of that.

[Kelly Noonan Gores]
I'm fascinated with healers,

and how our thoughts
and emotions affect our health.

Now, energy healers and
mind-body medicine
may not be considered normal.

By what's not normal to me
is that so many people
are sick these days.

I mean, the people in
this room are just some of
my close family and friends.

I went from being a healthy,
happy mom,

the best days of my life to

being completely unable
to take care of my child.

I've been living with chronic
pain for a long time.

And just haven't quite yet
figured out how to feel good.

Doesn't it seem like
so many people you know
are dealing with illness?

I feel like it's changed
from the Six Degrees
of Kevin Bacon,

to the one degree of cancer.

I mean, has our world and
our food become so toxic

that illness is inevitable?

And then I feel like every other
ad on TV is a drug commercial,

filling us with fear that
our bodies are failing us.

...a shiny field.

When I was a kid,
besides being terrible
at gymnastics,

I remember thinking
how magical it was that
when you get a cut,

all you did was clean
the wound, forget about it,

and it healed, all by itself.

I feel like we've forgotten
how intelligent the body is.

Having been to all kinds of
healers and doctors
over the last 20 years,

I've experienced firsthand
how my thoughts,

beliefs and emotions
affect my health.

I'm convinced we have more
power to heal than we've
been led to believe.

But don't take my word for it.

[music playing]

I'm gonna go out on the road
and speak to some of
the leading scientists,

doctors and teachers
in the field
of mind-body medicine,

to share with you
what is truly possible
when it comes to healing.

It's not just that disease
starts in the mind.

It's that everything
starts in the mind.

Body has a capacity to heal
that I was never informed of

as a medical student or
resident.

The mind-body emotions,
relationship,

sensory experiences,
sound, touch, sight,

all these senses are windows
to our inner pharmacy.

You gotta get to the root cause
of your disease

if you're gonna find freedom.

So if I change my perception,

my mind, change my belief
about life,

I change the signals that are
going in and adjusting
the function of the cell.

Tonic thoughts
produce tonic chemicals.

Toxic thoughts produce
toxic chemicals.

But how deeply can we influence
our bodies or the bodies

of our loved ones
when it comes to healing?

Or the world beyond our bodies?
How much influence
do we really have?

[Joe Dispenza] In order
for some of us to wake up,
we need a wake-up call.

And in 1986, I got the call.

I was in a triathlon in
Palm Springs, California.

And I was in the biking portion
of the race.

And I was coming up
to this intersection,

so as I made the turn,

a 4-wheel drive Bronco
going about
55 miles an hour,

hit me from behind

and catapulted me
out of my bicycle.

The compressive force
compressed six vertebrae
in my spine.

The prognosis was
I'd probably
never walk again.

And that I needed
a radical surgery called
the Harrington rod surgery.

If this had been anybody else,

I probably would have
recommended that
they have the surgery.

No, but this was me.

I decided to check out
of the hospital.

And I just had this one thought,
and the thought was,

the power that made the body,
heals the body.

And I couldn't stop thinking
about that, because I knew that

there is an intelligence
that's giving us life,

that keeps our heart beating
and digesting our food.

So I decided that
I was gonna make contact
with this intelligence.

And I was gonna give it a plan.
A template, a design.

And when I was happy with my
creation, I was gonna surrender

this creation to a greater mind,
because it knows how to heal

way better than I do.

And the second thing I said was,

"I'm not gonna let any thought
slip by my awareness

that I don't wanna experience."

So, I would start off

in my mind, reconstructing
my spine vertebrae
per vertebrae

And then I'd start thinking
about living
in a wheelchair.

So, for six weeks, I went
through this incredible
dark night of the soul.

Because I couldn't really
get my mind to do
what I wanted it to do.

And it would take me about
three hours

in closing my eyes and
reconstructing every
single vertebrae.

And starting over again
every time I lost my attention.

At the end of six weeks,
I went through
the whole entire process

without losing my attention.

And it was like I hit
a tennis ball
in the sweet spot.

Something clicked in that
moment. I clicked.

I started noticing significant
changes in my body.

My motor functions started
coming back, and my body
began to change dramatically,

and I was back on
my feet in 10 weeks,

and back training again
at 12 weeks.

I just made a deal with myself,
and the deal was that,

if I was ever able to walk
again, I'd spend the rest
of my life

studying the mind-body
connection and
mind over matter

and pretty much that's what
I've been doing since 1986.

The best science of our time
is now showing that every organ

in the human body has the
ability to heal itself
given the right environment.

Even the organs we were told
could not.

So spinal cord tissue,
brain tissue, heart tissue,
pancreatic tissue,

prostate tissue. All of these
organs are actually designed

to repair and heal themselves
under the right conditions,

given the right environment.

What are those conditions?
That's the question.

Some of them are environmental.
Things like water and air.

Just the quality of our food.

Some of them may be chemical.
The supplements that we take.

And some of the herbal products
that our ancestors understood
and used

with great success in healing
their bodies before modern
medicine ever came along.

And I think those are
interesting.

What really fascinates me
is the inner environment.

And this is the environment that

the Buddha talked to us about
so eloquently.

And the Buddha said
that, "Every man
and woman is the architect

of their own healing
and their own destiny."

There is a natural intelligence
that leads those cells

from the embryo to the baby.

There's a natural intelligence
that leads the acorn
into an oak tree.

There's a natural intelligence
that keeps the planets
revolving around the sun.

We would not have been able
to evolve without
having a mechanism

which allows us to take a hit.

And that's what disease is.
That's what injury is.
You took a hit.

But the immune system is the way
the body corrects.

[Dispenza]
And that intelligence
that's giving us life,

that's keeping
our heart beating
and digesting our food,

that runs through the autonomic
nervous system,

it is the greatest healer in
the world. All we have to
do is get out of the way.

I was always super healthy.

My life was really
just a journey
of healing and health.

I was studying acupuncture
and yoga. I was
a super good eater.

Mostly vegetarian,
probably 40% raw.

But I had gone through
a lot of stress.

I moved, um,
was in a very bad marriage.

My mom died. That was
probably the hardest part.
She died of cancer.

So pretty much, the whole
foundation was shaken.

But I, you know, have always
had this real positive,

so I just kept doing yoga and
rode my bike and I thought
everything was fine.

But I did know that there was
something wrong with me
physically

because I would get headaches
and just kind of feel
a little nauseous.

So, I went to a doctor three
times over the course of a year

and each time he gave me
a different test.
He said, "Oh, you're fine."

So, the third time, I told him
I have a lot of pain.

And there's like a stabbing pain
in this area.

And so, it was bottom
of my colon at the junction
of the rectum.

So he did a sigmoidoscopy,
and there it was.

They thought it was
Stage 2 or 3 at first,
then, of course,

the first thing they do is
they send you to a PET scan.

And then the PET scan showed
that it was in a few places.

And it was in my liver, also.

So it was Stage 4.
That was a shocker.

I had never heard of
anyone living from Stage 4.

Elizabeth's story really
shook me, because she
reminds me a lot of myself.

She was healthy, worked out,
did yoga, seemingly did
everything right.

Yet, one day she wakes up
with Stage 4 cancer.

It makes me question,
are we at the mercy
of some random fate?

Or is there something else
going on that we just
might not be aware of?

I've been in practice
for 35 years now.

And I've seen a lot of patients,
I've seen a lot of crazy things.

And I'm more firmly convinced
every week that goes by,

that the ultimate cause of
disease is stress.

Ninety percent of what takes
people to the doctor is
stress related illnesses.

They leave with
anti-depressants. They leave
with every kind of medication.

And we have
three basic stresses.
We have physical stress,

like accidents, injuries,
falls, traumas.

We have chemical stress, like
bacteria and viruses, and
hormones and foods

and heavy metals and hangovers
and blood sugar levels.

And then we have emotional
stress. And that's family
tragedies or loss,

you know, job, finances.

And all of those things
knock our brain and
body out of balance.

When you perceive a threat,
in the old days in school,
we referred to that as

activating the adrenal system.
Fight or flight.

If you're being chased by
a saber-toothed tiger,
how much energy

do you want to make available
to run away from that tiger?

I hope you get the answer
and the answer is,
I want a 100%

of the energy to run away from
the tiger.

Centuries, thousands of years
ago, that was maybe appropriate

because there was literally
a potentially
life-threatening situation

with a wild animal, let's say.

But now, it's your spouse.
[chuckling]

Or it's your boss, you
know. Or it's rent that's
due in a week.

And yet, the system reacts
in the same way

as though it's
a life-threatening situation.

So, you're still releasing
cortisol.

You're still releasing
adrenaline, noradrenaline
into the system.

And if you're running a flight
or fight response all the time,

by definition, you are
mobilizing resources
from your gut,

from your elimination system,
from your immune system,

from your higher brain centers

and putting that energy
into your muscles to
fight for your life.

That means your memory
is not all that good,

your concentration is down.

You can't digest your food
properly. You can't eliminate
toxins properly

and your immune system is
compromised.

Chronically, all the time.

Stress hormones inhibit the
immune system. How effective?

When doctors want to transplant
an organ, from person A to
person B,

they want to transplant a heart
or a kidney or a lung,

the doctor gives the patient
the stress hormones, and then,

transplants the organ. Why?

Once the organ is put in,
the foreign organ,

and the immune system is now
shut down by stress hormones,

then I'm not rejecting
the foreign organ.

Unfortunately in today's world,
the stresses are 24/7, 365.

They never let up.

Good evening. Just ahead of the
spring and summer travel season,

we've got a sobering update
on Zika today.

[man] Thank you, New York City!

[Lipton] The net result is
illness and disease.
That is the only consequence

that will come from the
chemistry of fear and yet,
look at the world today.

[news anchor 1]
ISIS's so called caliphate
is under attack.

[news anchor 2] The Dow
plunged another 260 points.

New losses for the Americans
and their 401K's.

[Eva Lee] In the beginning,
I just thought maybe it was

some kind of, like, reaction,
or hive, or some
dermatological thing.

Then it started to progress
and get worse and worse,
and I started to get

massive breakouts and boils
and hives, and then
it started to spread

a little bit to, like, my ears,
and my head,

and so then I started
to freak out more
and thought, okay,

it's probably
something more serious

than I'm just guessing it to be
by putting on, you know, like,

topical creams and stuff.

And I think what really
sparked it was, maybe about
a year and a half ago,

it was the middle of the night,
and I woke up,
but I couldn't move.

My right side of
my body was paralyzed.

So, I freaked out for a moment.

I thought I was having a stroke,
or something was happening.

Eventually I could start to feel
some tingling coming back,

and then I rolled out of bed.

From that moment, I think,
about a year and a half ago
is when I really started to

went to the dermatologist,
went to a neurologist,

allergists.

They keep saying,
"Oh, it's auto-immune,
you know,

the biopsies now show
connective tissue disorders,

so we know it's something
auto-immune."

Give me all this literature,
all these different drugs,

but they sound so scary,
I don't wanna take them.

It's like, causes blindness,
and then, heart disease,
and just,

tons and tons of side effects.

And it's so frustrating
that no one knows
how to help you, right?

Well, you know,
sometimes I'm thankful
it's nothing worse.

But at the same time, for me,
you know, just daily life,
I have to work,

have the kids, you know,
I've got other
responsibilities, and just,

then I have to go to the doctor
like five times a week,

and starts to just get really,
like, daunting.
It's really tiring.

-Yeah.
-Like, I'm just so tired.

Jesus, take care of Mommy.

I hope her dots goes away.

I always put the holy water
on her. Amen.

My little one, she goes
to a private school,
and she always prays.

She goes, "Mommy,
I prayed for your dots today
to go away."

And so, I was telling her,

"Oh, somebody
from Mommy's work,
remember Kelly?

Well, she's gonna help Mommy."

She goes, "See,
God's gonna help Mommy."

-Oh!
-So cute I started crying.

Oh, my God!

And I was like, "Oh, yeah!"

See, just, the things are meant
to be sometimes, right?

Things that'll come, yeah, come
into your life for some reason.

-Like, who would've thought?
-[Gores] Yeah.

It's so crazy
how the universe works.

Eva brought me some contracts
to sign at the office.

And apologized for a rash
that was on her hand.

Only then did I find out
that for three years,

she's been struggling
with this mystery illness.

So, I'm gonna connect her
with some holistic
practitioners

that I've worked with. See if
they can come up with an
answer for her

and help her,
and we'll just see
what works, what doesn't

and hopefully find out why.

We are now about three centuries
into a mindset
in medicine that was

predicated on
the work of Descartes,
and even, you know, Newton

and Darwin, even. You know,
this idea that our symptoms
are meaningless.

That our body is a machine.

It's, you know, full of organs
with buttons and levers that
need adjusting,

and that you're really not here
for any purposeful existence.

You know, you're here to live
and survive until you die.

[Lipton] Medicine,
being derived
from Newtonian physics,

looks at the body
as a physical device

and if there's anything wrong
with it, it is
a consequence of a problem

in the mechanics of
a physical machine.

I say, well this is really
cool, until 1925.

In 1925, a new physics came in.
Quantum physics.

What's the relevance of
quantum physics?

Well, it said that invisible
energy around
that was out there,

that we did not count,
and even talk about
in medicine,

because it's just a physical
body? It turns out,

our perception of what is
physical is an illusion.

There's nothing physical
at all. It's all energy.

If you look inside any part of
your body with a microscope,

so, let's say, your hand
and you look inside your hand,
you find cells.

You look inside the cells,
you get your DNA
in the center of the cell.

You look inside the DNA,
you find atoms.

You look inside the atoms,
there's nothing there.

Well, there's protons, neutrons,
electrons and what's amazing,
is inside an atom,

there's 99.9999999999999%
empty space.

If a proton was an apple,
size of an apple,

the closest electron would be
the size of a grain of salt.

And it'd be approximately
two kilometers away.

Now, that's how much space you
would get, simple pi r squared.

The particles themselves,
they actually emerge and
essentially,

out of what's called
the quantum field.

Then ultimately,
you can think of particles

as just waves of energy.
Just literally vibrations
of energy.

And I think it shifts your mind
from thinking

that something is seemingly
solid and permanent,

to perhaps, something can change
and something can be healed.

[Lipton] Long, long time ago,
the word "spirit" was what?

Invisible, moving forces
that influenced
the physical realm.

Quantum physics is taking us
back to a time

that said the invisible forces
that we have been
discounting in medicine,

turned out to be the primary
forces that control everything.

And I said, well,
what do they include?

Mind, consciousness,
and this is why

if you wanna come back
to the supreme power
over our biology,

it's thought the invisible
energy from our mind

that not only shapes our
body, but shapes our
relationship to the world

in which we live.

[heart monitor flatlining]

[Anita Moorjani]
February 2, 2006, should have
been the last day of my life.

I had lymphoma, which had
started four years prior

with just a lump on my neck.

I had tumors, some of them
the size of lemons,

from the base of my skull,
all around my neck,

under my arms, into my chest and
all the way down to my abdomen.

I was so weak that my organs
started shutting down
one by one.

And I went into a coma,

and the doctors told my family
that these were my final hours.

I then went into a realm,

where I became aware
of my deceased father.

When I was growing up,
my father and I had
a very turbulent relationship.

I was always left with
this feeling that
I had let him down.

And that I had never been
the kind of daughter
he wanted me to be.

And here I was now, with him,
in the other realm.

And all I felt from him,
and for him was pure,
unconditional love.

There was no judgment from him
at all for anything
that I had done.

It was like I reached a state
of complete and total clarity.

And in that state of clarity,
I understood why
I had the cancer.

I understood how it was
that every decision

and every choice I had made in
my life up to that point was
made from fear.

Now that I knew this truth,
I realized that if I chose
to go back to my body,

that I would heal.

And it was in those moments
that I felt myself coming
out of the coma.

By about a week, the doctors
could actually see
that the tumors

were dissolving faster
than they had ever seen
tumors dissolve before.

At the end of five weeks,
I was physically stronger

and they really could find
no trace of cancer in my body.

So they let me go home
and live my life cancer free.

[Gores] Anita's story is
the most powerful example of
just what is possible

with the human body.

She's proof that no matter
how far gone the body
seems, it is possible

for tissues to regenerate
and function to restore.

She had a dramatic shift in the
way she looked at life.

From one of fear to one of love.
That's it.

And her body responded
and healed.

But is she just some random
miracle or can we study
what happened

so that more people
can make this shift?

So I've been studying
radical remissions
for over 10 years now.

And it started with a trip
around the world to interview

radical remission survivors
from all different countries.

And since then,
I've gone on to analyze
over 1,500 of these cases.

And I've conducted over 250
in-depth interviews.

And these are people
from all walks of life.

So there have been
radical remissions,

verified and reported
for every single cancer type.

People with pancreatic cancer,
with Stage 4 lung cancer,

with a big brain tumor
that's considered inoperable.

There are examples of
people out there
who have healed from it.

I've discovered over 75
different things

that these people have done
to try to get well.

But not everybody uses
all 75 of these factors.

However, when I looked
at the data, they were
all using these nine.

Only two of them are physical.

The rest are mental, emotional
and spiritual.

And that hit me
like a ton of bricks.

There really is a way to
activate the immune system.

with your mental,
emotional work.

And, of course,
there's plenty of
science behind that.

Does that mean we're all
going to heal tomorrow?

No, but it means they deserve
to be studied

and there's something incredible
there for us to learn.

[Kelly Brogan] I very much
believed that perfect health was
only one prescription away.

And it wasn't until about nine
months post-partum,
my pregnancy,

that I got my first diagnosis.

And I was diagnosed
with Hashimoto thyroiditis.

I had symptoms of brain fog,
forgetfulness, intense fatigue.

And, you know, very much was not
myself. But, of course,
I was a new mom.

So it's easy to sort of,
dismiss those symptoms.

And I had that same feeling
again, like,

I don't wanna take medication
for the rest of my life.

There's gotta be a way out,
right? There's gotta be
another option.

And so, I went to a naturopath,
which was very unlike me,
you know.

I'd only ever been trained to
dismiss alternative medicine

as sort of a nuisance, you know,
like a nuisance to legitimate,

real medicine, right?

And I went there because
I knew that conventional
medicine had nothing

to offer me, and I knew that
there was no way
I would ever get out

of having a chronic illness
if I proceeded with
my conventional doctor.

So, of course,
I put into remission
in six months

what should be
a chronic, life long,
you know, disease.

And I, you know, experienced
the raising of a lot of
red flags essentially,

where I said, you know,
I never learned that

nutrition has anything to do
with health.

[music playing]

Now, open your little mouth.

We have a sick care system,
where doctors and
insurance companies

are basically treating symptoms
but aren't really getting to
root causes,

and many cases, aren't dealing
with the whole person.

They're dealing with the
symptom, by which
they then give a drug

which then has a side effect,
and so, it keeps on spinning.

More toxicity, more toxicity,
more disease, more ill health.

Conventional medicine,
tied up in an old belief system,

is locked into
the cause of illness,

is tied in to our genetics
and our bio-chemistry.

And therefore, the
pharmaceutical industry
is the great savior. Why?

Because it'll make the chemistry
that should bring us
back to health again.

Well, it turns out, that's
totally false.

There's so few diseases
that are actually organic.

In fact, 100% of diabetes type 2
has nothing to do with genetics

and everything to do with
lifestyle.

90% or more of
cardiovascular disease
has nothing organically wrong

with the individual.
It's just the consequence
of dealing with stress.

What am I gonna do?

Hello! Hello!

Does this mean medicine
is all negative?
I go, absolutely not!

Medicine does miracles
with trauma.

If I physically hurt myself,
I get in a car accident,

and my guts are hanging out,
don't send me to a chiropractor.

And I don't need a massage
therapist. And homeopathy is
really not gonna help.

I want a surgeon.

Medicine is useful.
Pharmaceutical medicine,
therapeutic interventions,

surgery, etc are useful.

I would say in
maybe 10% acute illnesses.

Otherwise, if you have a chronic
illness, doesn't matter
what it is,

cancer, heart disease
auto-immune illnesses,

use a holistic approach, which
means everything from mind,
body, emotions,

energy healing, even distant
healing, anything that
influences

your experience of mind,
body, emotions.

So with emergencies
and acute illness
like injury or infection,

we need a quick fix. So thank
God we have the most advanced
life-saving technology.

But with chronic illnesses,
they've developed over time,

so the quick-fix model
won't work.

We need to get to the root
cause if we're gonna
make a change.

I'm gonna speak to a guy who
is helping thousands of
people get to that root cause.

He uses, well, a different kind
of diagnostic technology.

Here, do a little of this,
just hang on.

I thought you had a heart murmur
before, but it looks good.

It all started at age four.
Woke up one morning to
a voice that I call Spirit.

And this voice talked to me
just like someone else
is talking to, like,

you, or if you're hearing
someone talk or you're talking
to someone else.

So it's in real time and then
that evening at the dinner table
with my family

all sitting around, Spirit
appeared, asked me to come out
of my seat.

I came out, walked up to
my grandmother
and then Spirit took my hand,

and I put it on my grandmother's
chest, and Spirit said,
"Pronounce lung cancer."

Say that grandmother has lung
cancer. Grandma has lung cancer.

A few weeks later, they brought
her in out of curiosity
because it just,

it couldn't leave us.
We couldn't forget about it.

And she had lung cancer.
So that's how it started.

Lower back's not as good as it
should be. I don't know if you
go to a chiropractor.

I, like, weekly.

-Weekly? Okay.
-Yes.

Is he working on that?

I feel like I have a spasm
that's right there.

Yeah, that's from L3, L4.

From, yeah.

Okay, but that's okay. I like
that stuff. This is fun because
you're really healthy.

Breaks my heart when
someone has something
seriously wrong with them.

How do you convince the skeptics
out there to believe you?

It's really not an issue
and I don't really run into
too many skeptics,

actually, to tell you the truth.
I'm sure there's
plenty of them out there.

But, you know, when you're
in this, where you want
to help people,

you want to give them
the answers and people
are suffering out there,

and they got chronic illness,
and the answers
aren't out there,

it's not about the skeptics.
It's not about that.

It's about the person getting
better, it's about
the person healing,

it's what about they need,
that's the focus.

So I really don't focus
on skeptics.

Talk about, you know,
these chronic mystery illnesses

Doctors have labeled them
auto-immune disorders.

The reason we call it
auto-immune is because
we don't know the cause

of the symptoms or the disease
or illness that's occurring.

Look into psoriasis and eczema.
Cause unknown.

Multiple sclerosis,
cause unknown. Fibromyalgia,
cause unknown.

Rheumatoid arthritis, cause
unknown. What's happening is,

there's a pathogen involved,
there's something
causing the problem.

A toxin or a pathogen.
It's causing the symptoms.

The body is trying to protect
you from it. The key to
getting rid of it,

is knowing how to use
certain things like,
certain herbs, certain foods.

Most importantly, is the food.
To know what starves it.

[Gores] Treating certain toxins
and pathogens with
diet and herbs

really resonates with me.

Turning to nature and food
as medicine is
what ancient civilizations

have been doing successfully
for thousands of years.

I know that when I cleaned up
my diet, the positive
effect on not only

my physical health but my
mental health as well,
was huge.

And this is why I thought
a good place for Eva to start,
was to see a nutritionist.

[Mark D. Emerson]
With Eva, she's got a barrage
of symptoms.

One thing in particular,
as I looked at her blood lab is,

she's really inflamed.
Chronic inflammation.

We literally have trillions
of bacterial microbes,
good microbes, in our body.

We actually have more
bacteria in our body than
we do our own human cells.

And the majority of these
live in our gut.

And what the microbium is,
it's like a little universe
in itself inside our gut

that constantly is cleansing us,
stimulating immunity,
building vitamins

and keeping pathogens
out of our system.

So if someone's microbium gets
killed off for various reasons,

mostly bad diet, stress,
medications, perhaps,

you can kill off enough of
that microbium where the
actual intestinal wall

starts to get injured.

So if your intestinal wall
starts getting holes in it,

junk is bleeding into your
bloodstream, and then
going all over your body.

The key is, we gotta remove
that. We gotta remove
the offending items,

right? Fix the diet,
and get her to heal.

We're gonna start her
on the diet this week.

So whole-food plant-based
diet is really
an unprocessed, predominantly

plant-based food.
What does that mean? That
means, vegetables and fruits,

and whole grains and legumes,
you know, all the foods
that are

nutrient rich.

So if we can stimulate
your immune system,
remove the offending things

you're doing to yourself
every day, you heal
way faster than it took

to get in the disease
process. And that's the
beauty of healing.

Over the last, you know,
decade or even more so,
the amount of research

that's come out in the
scientific journals, showing
without any shadow of a doubt

that there is such a thing
as a mind-body connection,

I mean, thinking, believing,
emotions, all cause
really substantial

chemical and physiological,
biological changes all
throughout the body.

And I love that that's how much
of a transition we've made

in the last decade or two.
From, "woo-woo" stuff
about mind-body connection,

to hard, factual,
scientific evidence.

I have a PhD
in organic chemistry.

Now, it's nothing at all to do
with organic foods.

An organic chemist, basically,
plays the child's Lego game,

but we do it with atoms.

So people like me end up
in the pharmaceutical industry.

So I worked for
one of the world's largest
pharmaceutical companies,

developing drugs for
cardiovascular disease
and for cancer.

And although I loved doing
what I was doing,
I love the science of it,

but what fascinated me more so,
I would say, was what happens

when you test the drugs.

So, let's say, in a typical
trial, you might give
100 people a drug,

to show that it works.

So you've also got to give
100 people a placebo for
comparison purposes.

And you might get, say 75
people improving on a drug.

But it's not uncommon to get
40, 50, 60, 70, 74, 75,

sometimes even,
also improving on the placebo.

because they think they're
getting a drug, and I thought,
"Whoa, that's amazing."

What we see here is,
is belief itself
shifts biology.

And I don't think
that's taught enough
in medical schools.

So, how is it that you can
give someone a sugar pill,
a saline injection,

or perform some false surgery
or treatment

and a certain percentage of
those people will accept,
believe, and surrender

to the thought that
they're getting the actual
substance or treatment.

And they begin to program their
autonomic nervous system
to make their own

pharmacy of chemicals that
matches the exact same chemical

they think they're taking.

So, the question is,
is it the inert substance
that's doing the healing?

Or is it the body's innate
capacity to heal?

While everyone seems to be aware
of the placebo effect,

the result of positive thinking,
the important question is this.

What is the consequence
of negative thinking?

Oh, guess what?
It's equally powerful

in influencing your life,
but it works
in the opposite direction.

While a placebo,
positive thinking,
can cure you of anything,

a nocebo, negative belief,
can actually cause any illness,

and can cause death just because
you believe that.

Should we give too much
authority to someone
in a white coat?

You know, I remember one time
someone came in,

and they were really crying,
because they had received
a tremendous

diagnosis and prognosis,
and the doctor say,
the doctor say,

the doctor said, so I said
I'll be right back.

I went out, and I got a white
coat, and put it on,

and I put my name tag on,
it said "Dr. Michael Beckwith,"

and I came in, I said,
I'm Dr. Michael Beckwith.

And I want you to know that your
life is about to get better and
better and better.

You've had a tremendous wake-up
call about tremendous habits,

so, that you've had for many,
many years.

You're about to break that cycle
of those bad habits,
and you're gonna watch

your body change. You're gonna
watch yourself coming
to a greater sense

of fulfillment.

And then I got a prescription
tablet, and I said,

every day, this is what I want
you to say to yourself.

This is what I want you to read.
This is what I want you
to not eat.

This is what I want you to eat.

Come see me in 30 days and tell
me how you feel, you know.

And she went from crying to just
laughing, because she realized

that she had
given her power away.

It doesn't mean you don't go
to a doctor.

Doesn't mean you don't follow
good medical advice.

But if you just give yourself
over to an external
authority figure,

you basically become
a victim twice.

A victim to the condition
and the diagnosis,

and now you become a victim to
an authority figure telling you

about what's gonna happen in
your life.

Okay, so believe the diagnosis,
now you can
do something about it.

But don't believe the prognosis.

Prognosis is when somebody says,
"You have three months
to live" or,

"60% of people die
in six months."

It's like telling
what the temperature is now,

knowing the average temperature
for the year.

If you're from New York City,
and the average temperature

is 75 degrees, doesn't tell me
what the temperature
is right now.

You know, statistics are
impersonal and you are
a person and no one knows

what you're capable of,
or where you're gonna go.

You know, if someone says,
well there is
a less than 1% chance

of recovering from the kind of
cancer you have,

well, someone's
gotta be that 1%.
And why couldn't it be you?

It's important for people to
understand when
they're given a diagnosis,

that if they fall prey
to the prognosis,

without actually considering
that there's other options,

without actually realizing
that they may have to
do something differently,

that they may have to
make new choices,

that they're going to have to
get beyond certain emotions.

And overcome
their limited thinking.

If they can understand,
that if they're able to do that,

more possibilities open up
as a result of
their own personal changes.

That's when you start to see,

all kinds of magical
things start to appear in
a person's life.

When the doctors
gave you the diagnosis
and the prognosis,

were they trying to
rush you into chemo
and radiation, like...

Yes, and I wasn't gonna do it,

because I always swore,
with the acupuncture background,

that I'd believe
in natural medicine,
and natural healing.

So I wasn't gonna do it.
I was gonna go to, you know,
any of the places that

do the natural healing
with the juices and things.

But I have a brother,
that's a rocket scientist

and I value his opinion,
and he said,

"Lizzie, you're not gonna
make it. You've been
juicing all your life.

More juice isn't
gonna save your life.

You've got Stage 4. You've
got to do something." So...

But it still took me another
month and a half
because I wouldn't do it.

I was gonna not do the chemo,
and so finally,

enough people gathered me up
and brought me in, so I did it.

And then I started doing
a lot of spiritual healing.

My friends did a fundraiser
that went kind of
fast and wild because

people are like,
"Oh, my gosh, if Elizabeth Craig
has got cancer,

we're all gonna die."

[both laughing]

So, they raised money for me,
so I started doing,

going to all the alternative
healers I could find,
because I thought,

if nothing else,
maybe I can just
chronologue the whole thing,

and share with people
and then, it'll be, some
people will learn from that.

Dianne Porchia was
one of the people I called,

and she's
a spiritual psychologist.

Healing. Topanga.

[Elizabeth] Originally,
the primary purpose for calling
her was so that I could

die, not afraid.

Because I was afraid to die.

And they said that
that wasn't looking good.

...disguised fear, panic
or an anxiety, but...

But through the process,
instead of that happening,

I started to feel miracles.

The first session that we had
together was actually
the day that she got

her chest port put in.

And I didn't know that she was
going to arrive with that.

And that was such a tremendous
first step that she had to take

in her cancer treatment.

They've got me on a cocktail,
they call it a level one.

Mitomycin, that was a little bag
they ran it into the port,

and then they attached me
to this one.

It's so stressful to think that,
you know, someone is
invading your body.

And then having medicine, which
we know is very scary, you know.

So she had to make friends
with that.

Some people get the port in
their arm. Upper arm.

Dianne just kept
working with me
and saying this is medicine.

It's gonna heal you,
and this is good for you.

And I think that made
all the difference
in the world.

[Porchia] We have to relate
to it as something
that is targeted medicine.

See it as little Pac-Mans,
as little soldiers
that are there,

just attacking the cancer
cells, leaving everything
else intact,

and not being harmed.

Because the body does want to
move into balance.

[Elizabeth] I started
calling him, 'cause he was
my little chemo pack,

I called him Chemo-sabi.

[Porchia]
Chemo-sabi, all right.

Dianne helped me change
my attitude, that it was
medicine, not, poison.

The power of belief
is almost everything.

It really is.

What you are believing
and thinking at this moment,

is telling your immune system to
either stop and not work,

because we gotta run
from its stressor,
or, "Everything's cool,

why don't we relax, and if
there's anything to be
cleaned up, clean up."

That's it. You're either in
fight or flight, or you're in
rest and repair.

And it's your beliefs that
toggle that switch. So beliefs
are everything.

Back in 1968, I was learning
how to clone stem cells,
and back at that time,

just a handful of people
in the entire world even knew
what a stem cell was.

So, I was in the right place
at the right time

to make some interesting
discoveries.

I put one stem cell in
a culture by itself. It
divides every 10 to 12 hours.

At first, it's 1, then 2, 4, 8,
16, 32, doubling.

So, I have 50,000 genetically
identical cells. That's not
the experiment. This is.

I split the cells into
three different petri dishes

and what I do is, I change
the chemical composition
of the culture medium.

Culture medium is the equivalent
of blood.

So, if I'm growing mouse cells,
then what I do is
look at mouse blood,

see what it is made out of, and
then try to make a synthetic
version of that

called culture medium.

So, here's the point.
Genetically identical cells

in three dishes but slightly
different environment
because of the chemistry.

In one dish,
the cells form muscle.

In a second dish,
the cells form bone.

And in a third dish,
the cells form fat cells.

Significance? What controls
the fate of the cells?

Point? They were all
genetically identical.

The environment is what was
selecting the genetic
activity of the cells.

People who have the same DNA,
who have the same susceptibility
to illness,

one can become ill,
and the other can stay well.

One can heal,
and the other can't.

All because they optimize
the environmental factors

that control gene activity.
And that's what the field
of epigenetics is about.

[Lipton] The nature of biology
is simple.

Biological organisms adapt
their biology to fit into
an environment.

Let's say I'm looking
at the activity of
my liver cells in the body.

And I say, well, my liver cells
should be

adjusting to what's going on
in the environment.

And I say, well, how does a
liver cell know what's going on
in the environment?

And the answer is this.
The liver cell is not
touching the environment.

It depends on the nervous system
to send information

about the environment
inside the body,

so the cells adjust their
biology to match what's going on
in the world.

Well, we only have one problem
with that and that is this.

Consciousness is an
interpretation. So my mind is
interpreting the environment.

So if I change my perception,
my mind, change my belief
about life,

I change the signals that are
going in and adjusting the
function of the cell.

The point is very, very
significant. I, by my ability to
change my environment,

and by my ability to change my
perception of the environment,

have the ability to control
my genetic activity.

I'm not a victim of my heredity,
I'm a master
of my genetic activity.

In understanding how we deal
with the environment,

and deal with perception,
there's a mind between
the environment and my cells.

When I say the mind,
everyone thinks of
a single entity, the mind.

The mind is comprised of two

interdependent elements
that work together.

And that's the conscious mind,
and the subconscious mind.

The conscious mind,
the latest evolution of the
brain, is the creative mind.

When the conscious mind is
engaged in thinking,

the subconscious is the default
program, the auto-pilot.

So my conscious mind could be
engaged, but my subconscious
mind will carry out

whatever chore I'm doing.
Walking, driving the car.

Communicating with another
person. I don't need my
conscious mind for that.

I already have programs of how
to do all those things.

When we look at the world,
we're actually operating
through the subconscious mind.

The programs in the
subconscious mind
primarily came from downloading

other people's behaviors.
Your mother, your father,
your siblings,

your community in the first
seven years of life.

We are essentially an open
sponge to the world,

absorbing the patterns
from all of those people
that we are exposed to

and surrounded with.

So if we have care givers,
who are really conscious,

and have learned to manage
their emotions and heal their
hurts in a healthy way,

that's a really good thing.

Very few people I know were
blessed enough to come from
those families.

[Darren Weissman]
Let's say, you were growing up
in an environment

where there's trauma
in the household.

Alcoholism, family conflict,
inflamed relationships.

And when we don't have
tools to process our emotions
in a given moment,

that becomes a memory
that's not fully formed.

We end up seeing ourself
in the world around us,

as if we're still four years of
age, in an environment of

just conflict and
trauma and drama.

We filter, and therefore,
feel that again and again

every time colors, sounds,
smells, taste, feelings get
triggered. Boom.

We react as if that memory
were going on
for the first time.

So, you can attempt to outrun
the subconscious mind,

just like you attempt to outrun
a shadow.

You can't. You have to turn
around and face it.

You gotta see the problem
as the portal.

And so, recognizing
that the symptoms
and stressors are meaningful

and brilliantly intelligent
in waking us up.

[Elizabeth] I was going twice
a week to visit Dianne.
My brother would drive me up

and do the sessions.

And the funny thing is that
every time, well,
after the first few,

no, actually, I'd say every one
of 'em, I would think,

"I have no idea what to say.
I don't feel like
anything's wrong.

I don't know, you know, okay,
we'll just talk."

And then, somehow, she would do
like an exercise or a thing

and then something would come
out, extracted from some place
in the past

that I never, you know, like,
talk therapy wouldn't
get to this

or your own thinking or
whatever.

I lovingly forgive and release
all the past and choose
to fill my world with joy

and love and approve of myself.

Working with Dianne,
we started working on like,
all those feelings,

the grief, the sadness,
the fear of the cancer,

and then things that
were deep down inside that
I had no idea were residing.

Like, old stuff that
I really didn't even think of.

[Dianne] And why is that you?

She kind of takes
what everybody gives her.

She doesn't ask for much
and she's gonna get better.

Elizabeth identified
a time in her life when
she felt really pathetic.

It was an incident, when,
you know, all the kids
were supposed to bring

something to school,
and she brought Graham crackers.

That's all she had to bring
and they made fun of her.

So she just kind of adopted this
belief that that was pathetic.

How pathetic that was.

And she carried that with her
for a lot of years.

I mean, into adulthood, without
even understanding
or realizing how that

"pathetic" self image would
carry forward in relationships
and adult life.

Ask the spirits for assistance.

Go for the deepest healing.

The healing tools can
involve inner child healing
work, sacred anger work...

Yeah, right now.
Boy, am I mad right now.

[Porchia]
So, the sacred anger work,
when that comes up,

then there's anger
in a session, like,
it's ready to move.

We will go out
on the back hill side
and we throw rocks.

And to throw these rocks as
hard as they can, and
move that stuck energy.

I didn't know that I had
such a detrimental mindset.

I thought that it was a pretty
good one, but the cancer
personality style,

the "I don't wanna be a burden,"
it's easier for me to give love,

than to ask for it.

It was really important
for me to learn
how to ask for help,

and connect, to connect.

[Gores] There's this tendency
for people to feel like
they did something wrong

if they got sick.

But, if we aren't aware that
we have limiting and
negative subconscious beliefs

running our lives,

then we can't blame ourselves
for getting sick.

If we stay in fear and
resistance,

we not only waste
valuable energy that
we could use to heal,

but we are closed off
to information and possibility.

If instead we ask ourselves,

what is this pain or condition
trying to tell me,

it creates space,

so that the answers can come in
to our awareness.

[Crone] I've always,
even from when I was young,
been fascinated

with health and wellness,
being the best you can be,

it was always a part of
even going through
high school and college.

And then I came across
Ayurveda, probably about
16 to 17 years ago.

I was sitting there,
and I was like,

"Finally, someone knows
what the hell
they're talking about."

The constitution is Pitta-Vata.

I think one of my favorite
parts is,

we have something
called Samprapti,

which is a Sanskrit name,

which describes the process of
how a disease
comes into existence,

and there are six stages.

And when I first heard this,
it was just so beautiful
and so simple.

And the first stage is
accumulation.

You accumulate too much
of what we call a dosha.

Dosha is the quality of energy.

You got too much fire,
you got too much air,

you got too much earth and water
in your system.

So let's take fire.

If you accumulate too much fire
in your system,

you may have
a symptom of a sour belch
from time to time.

No big deal, but that would be
a sign that there is
too much heat in the system.

The next stage is aggravation.

Now it becomes aggravating to
the system.

So that what was a sour belch
now becomes a little bit
of heartburn.

Don't let the food you eat
during the day haunt you
at night.

[Crone] Again, in this day
and age, no problem.
We've got the solution, right?

We take Prilosec,
Nexium, whatever.

You don't actually deal with
"Why do I have the imbalance?"

'Cause it's considered
somewhat normal
to have heartburn.

The next stage is spread.

So now, the excess heat that's
in the system and
hasn't been addressed,

'cause that individual is still
eating too much spicy food,

still drinking alcohol, putting
too much heat into the system,

spreads.

The fourth stage is
localization.

So now the excess heat
that's in the system
that started with accumulation,

now finds a weak spot
in the system where
we've lost some integrity.

Let's say the guy we're talking
about was a football player
in high school,

and maybe took one
too many blows to the knee,
and his knee's a little funky.

That would be an ideal place
for the excess heat to
find a home.

So now, that progresses over
time to maybe arthritis.

So it becomes manifested
as a disease,

and in the sixth stage,
it becomes diversified.

So now it alters
the tissue system itself,

maybe becomes
rheumatoid arthritis.

So the beauty of that system
is if you understand
those six stages,

that if you want to prevent
disease, what do you prevent?

Excess accumulation.

Prevent buildup.

Now to me, where the biggest
buildup is, is right here.

And so, you see the whole
disease process

applies to the physiology
and the psychology.

[Patti Penn] We'd been emailing
back and forwards,

before our meeting today,

of things that
you want to approach.

Right.

Why do you feel it's time for
you to work on this?

I think it is the physical
aspect of it

that's forcing me
to realize that

maybe there is something
more to it than just
being sick physically.

Past emotions that are maybe
affecting me.

[Penn] Like when
we go on a plane,
we're frightened.

-Right.
-Yeah?

We have a physical response
to something
that is happening emotionally,

which is, we get sweaty palms,
we have heart palpitations.

So that is a physical response
to something emotional.

Right, yeah.

Now imagine
if you were denying
something,

daily,

and it has nowhere to go,
until it starts to build.

Right.

And it builds, and it builds,
and it builds, into...

Pick your disease.

This idea that emotional
blockages can lead to
physical blockages.

So the idea then,
is to release them.

And you can do that
however you want to.

Some people, you know,

let it go in a Zumba class,

other people went to
see a shaman,
and did soul retrieval.

You know, it's across the board,
some people did psychotherapy.

Some people burned
all their letters
from their ex-husband.

So, it really is whatever works.

Whatever is going to allow you
to let go of that anger,

to let go of that resentment,
or that grief, or that trauma.

You know, especially trauma,

which can often be locked away
inside your brain,

in the subconscious part.

So we're gonna do
emotional freedom technique,

we spoke about it the other day.

It took a little bit to get
to the emotions

because you are so good
at denying them.

And pretending
that everything's fine!

And, um, but we
took a lot of notes.

The emotional freedom is

being able to go there,

being able to go to the thing
that we suppress,

and allow it to come up.

I'm frightened of the unknown.

I'm frightened of the unknown.

I'm frightened of what I know.

I'm frightened of what I know.

And what I don't know.

And what I don't know.

I'm frightened of what I know.

I'm frightened of what I know.

And what I don't know.

And what I don't know.

I'm frightened of what I know.

I'm frightened of what I know.

And what I don't know.

And what I don't know.

I'm frightened of what might
come up.

I'm frightened of what might
come up.

[Braden] When we have
an emotion
within our hearts,

that emotion sends a signal
to our brain

and the quality of that signal
determines what the brain

does in response to the emotion.

So, if you can imagine a signal
from the heart to the brain,

that is a very smooth series
of waves.

Nice, even, coherent
is the term that is used,

waves from the heart
to the brain,

the brain will match
that smooth, even,
organized chemistry

and it will release the
chemistry that supports
life in our body.

This is where our immune systems
become really strong,

super-immune response.

On the other hand,
the stress chemistry,

when we feel those moments of
frustration, anger, hate,
jealousy, rage, fear,

the signal looks different.

It looks kind of like a bad day
on the stock market.

It's a lot of very chaotic,
unorganized, jagged waves

going from the heart
to the brain,

and the brain
receives those waves

and says, "Oh, I need
to match this chemistry."

This is stress chemistry.

When we are in
a state of stress,

our energy field goes
into a state of resistance.

That's why a polygraph works.

You know, we are
able to read it.

In that energy,

our blood is affected.

It doesn't flow as effectively.

Heats up, cools down.
When we are in stress,
there's resistance.

That affects our pH,

and we become more acidic when
we are in a state of stress.

In a localized or in a systemic
full body acidity,

inflammation occurs.

And it's just a reactive way
of pumping more blood

to attempt to help with healing,

however, we are starting to go
down a slippery slope,

'cause that inflammation
is a fire.

And that fire,

starts to burn the house down.

So we have things building...

Yeah, maybe.

Things just build and build
and build

and they come out
in the skin.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

Things that you pretend
don't bother you.

Right.

What about your mother?

You mentioned your mother
in the email.

[Penn laughs]

I can't go there.

You can go there.
This is the opportunity.

Yeah, well, we're estranged,
we don't speak.

Yeah.

It's been off and on like that
for ten years.

Maybe more.

[Penn] Is she ill?

[Eva] Mentally? Yeah,
I would say so.
[Penn] Yeah.

[Eva] She's on Valium,
and she was on
a lot of stuff before,

and she has weaned down
over the years, I think, but,

I'm sure it affected her a lot.

You know, okay,
you have to go pay the rent,

you have to do this,
all this at a very young age,

you know, from third,
fourth grade.

So a lot of responsibility,
very young.

I started driving very young,
drive her to work
and drop her off.

Yeah.

Ironing her outfit for her
to work, or doing
certain things that just...

You were the mother
of the mother.

-I think so.
-Yeah.

Where's your father?

[Eva] He couldn't deal
with her craziness either,

so he left when I was maybe 11.

Just left, and never came back.

[Penn] And you've never
seen him since?
[Eva] No.

Ready?

Take a nice deep breath.

[breathes deeply]

Even though...

Even though...

...it was a lot for me
to take on...

...it was a lot for me
to take on...

...but I did it anyway.

...but I did it anyway.

-I deeply...
-I deeply...

-...and profoundly...
-...and profoundly...

...send that
little girl my love.

...send that
little girl my love.

-Even though...
-Even though...

...it was a lot for me
to take on...

...it was a lot for me
to take on...

...but I did it anyway.

...but I did it anyway.

-I deeply...
-I deeply...

-...and profoundly...
-...and profoundly...

...love and accept
that little girl.

...love and accept
that little girl.

-Even though...
-Even though...

...it was a lot for her
to take on...

...it was a lot for her
to take on...

[Penn sighs]

...but she did it anyway.

...but she did it anyway.

-I deeply...
-I deeply...

-...and profoundly...
-...and profoundly...

-...send her my love.
-...send her my love.

It was a lot for her to take on.

It was a lot for her to take on.

It was a lot for her to take on.

It was a lot for her to take on.

It was a big burden.

It was a big burden.

It was a big burden.

It was a big burden.

Who else was gonna do it?

Who else was gonna do it?

Who else was gonna do it?

Who else was gonna do it?

-He left.
-He left.

-He left.
-He left.

-He left.
-He left.

I picked up all the slack.

I picked up all the slack.

I picked up all the slack.

I picked up all the slack.

-Because I loved her.
-Because I loved her.

I loved her.

I loved her.

I wasn't going to abandon her.

I wasn't going to abandon her.

I wasn't going to abandon her.

I wasn't going to abandon her.

-Take a deep breath.
-[both breathe deeply]

-How do you feel?
-Good.

[Penn exhales]

How do you feel about her now?

Mmm...

Every authentic,
spiritual path

has some mention or some
teaching around forgiveness.

I always say that all
forgiveness is self forgiveness,

because the resentment
I may hold towards another,

or the unforgiveness,

or the rancor,
or the resentment,

all of those thoughts
are happening within me.

Even if someone did me wrong,

I still have those thoughts.

Those thoughts are affecting me.

They're affecting my body
temple, they're affecting
my blood chemistry.

They're affecting everything.

So when I began to forgive
the so-called other person,

I'm releasing rancor,
resentment, animosity.

I'm releasing all that
unforgiveness, so that I'm
actually forgiving myself.

Now, that doesn't necessarily
let the other person
off the hook

for whatever they did,
or didn't do,

or should have done,
or should not have done.

It has nothing to do with them.

It has everything to do with me.

Forgiveness,
when it comes to emotions,

is the greatest access to
letting go.

The hatred you have of a parent,

the judgment you have
of a co-worker,

the wrong making you have
towards your spouse.

Just let go of that inner
judgment blame

and basically, a victim mindset.

If you can let go of that,

and recognize that life
is actually working for you,

not against you,

then again,
you're gonna generate healing.

So now I have a really good idea

how trauma, negative emotions,
and subconscious beliefs

can lead to disease,

and might be something
we might have to look at
in order to heal.

But what about the kids
that come into this world
already sick?

Or children that get sick
at a really young age.

Surely, their condition
can't be a result
of accumulated stress,

unprocessed trauma,
or disempowering beliefs.

Why do they get sick?

[Braden] So people ask me,
what about children?

You know, young children
that come into this world

with some condition,

how can that be from their
subconscious, or is it?

And the answer to that is,
we simply don't know.

I just have to be honest
and say, that every human

that emerges into this world,

what has happened
before we got here,

is different for all of us.

So we have no way of knowing,

and this is where we begin to
cross the boundaries,

of science and spiritually.

And the words like karma,

or destiny, or fate,

we don't know what those are.
What I do know,

without any shadow of a doubt,

is once that being,
once that beautiful child
arrives in this world,

their bodies, their cells,

their DNA will respond

to the environments and
conditions that we give to them.

Our job is to learn,

to optimize those environments
and those conditions.

[Beckwith] Individuals
come into the planet,

and many of them
come into the planet

because they know that they are
going to go through some stuff.

And they're coming to up level

the awareness of the species.

So we don't look at it like,

"Well, this person was born
with this disease,

and that kid was born
with that disease."
You know, what's wrong.

Many of these individuals are
coming with very special gifts.

On another level,

today a baby that is being born,
is affected with

tremendous more toxins
than ever.

[news anchor] The World Health
Organization's classed outdoor
air pollution as carcinogenic.

[Williamson] When you look at
so many of the cancers
for instance,

we absolutely know,
this is not some mystery.

We know where a lot of these
come from.

They have to do
with chemicals in the food.

They have to do
with chemicals in the air.

They have to do
with chemicals in the earth.

So did human consciousness
create this? Absolutely.

But not necessarily the
consciousness of the person
who contracted the disease.

If you are truly treating
the Earth with reverence,

would you allow the level of
pollution and contaminants
that we allow?

If you are really thinking about
your children with reverence,

and holding responsibility
to a future generation,

would you allow some
of the things that we allow?

So, if the entire society

is allowing economic forces
to prevail,

rather than real
humanitarian principles

and love of the Earth,
love of each other,

and love of our children,

then you get
what we are getting.

Imagine for a moment,
popping a pill before bed,

that costs about $13.50.

Now imagine waking up
the next morning,

to find the price of the exact
same pill jumped to
$750 overnight.

That is just what happened
to one drug. Meg Tirrell
joining us now with that story

and the man who is behind
the price spike. Meg.

Thank you, Brian.
Martin Shkreli joins us
now from the NASDAQ.

He's the CEO of
Turing Pharmaceuticals.
Martin, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

Now, you guys have said
that the reason you
increased this price so much

after acquiring the drug was
in order to do the research
and development,

to develop a better version
of Daraprim.

I just got off the phone
with an HIV doctor who told me,

they don't need a better version
of this drug.

We have the most money
going into healthcare,

than any country
in the world today,

and we have some of the worst
statistics of healthcare.

The problem is this.

The pharmaceutical industry
is a corporate industry.

Corporations?
What are corporations?

Their systems where people
invest money,

so they can make a profit.

I entered the pharmaceutical
industry as a young scientist.

And I just wanted
to cure cancer.

And it turns out that most of
my friends and colleagues

in the pharmaceutical industry,
all the scientists
who also just wanted

a lot of them, to cure cancer.
They want to save lives.

It's only
when you get higher up
in the company,

that the goals begin to change.

Martin, we do appreciate
you coming. I gotta ask you
one more question.

In response to
all of this attention,

doctors and patient groups all
saying they can't access
this drug.

Are you gonna change the price?

No.

So, in my examination of
pharmaceutical products

in general, I began to notice
a pattern.

And the pattern is that,

we are told that
there is a problem.

And the problem
may not actually exist,

at least not in the way
that we are told that it does.

And then we're offered a product

based on resolution of
the fear inspired by awareness
of this problem.

[announcer] Sleep. Remember
when it welcomed you
like a friend?

Then it became more elusive.

But why?

When you have insomnia,
it may affect
the wake neurotransmitters

in your brain.

Disrupting your wake and
sleep messages.

And in fact, if you follow
and dig into the literature,

what you'll find is that
the very product

that's offered to
solve the problem,

actually creates and
perpetuates the problem,

it purports to resolve.

[announcer]
The temporary inability to move

while falling asleep,
or waking up,

and temporary leg weakness
have also been reported.

In depressed patients,

worsening depression
including risk of suicide,
may occur.

Alcohol may increase
these risks.

Side effects include
next day drowsiness.

Pharmaceutical industry looks
at the destination
that it wants to fix,

and ignores the fact
that when you add a drug,

there are multiple drug
interactions,

which are, not side effects,
but direct effects.

So we have that,
and then we have to
look at the efficacy rate.

Do these meds actually work?
Could those risks be worth it.

And that evidence
is really even more concerning

because we have a body of
evidence that suggests

that these medications
are no better than a placebo.

Placebos, of course,
which wouldn't incur
those same risks.

And then there is
the bigger question of,
what are you opting out of

when you choose to manage
your symptoms in this way.

There is a story I really love,
which talks about

a caterpillar,

that's in the chrysalis, right,
and it's struggling to get out.

There's a little hole
in the chrysalis, and there
is a man nearby,

he sort of feels bad
for the caterpillar.

It's trying to get out, right?

So he takes a pair of scissors
and he snips the chrysalis.

And of course, the
caterpillar turns into
a butterfly, that dies,

that never can fly,
because it needs to go through

the process of emergence,

and struggle literally.

It physically needs to do that
to be able to manifest.

I've really taken to
Dr. Emerson's protocols.

-The nutrition?
-Yeah, it's really helping.

He is really good about keeping
in communication,

even though he is in Hawaii.

Your numbers are outstanding.

I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's only been eight weeks

that you've been
on the program,
and it's phenomenal.

So these last two flare-ups,
I haven't had the joint pain
since I started.

It's the nutrition.

'Cause that's
the biggest thing.

I can't even go up
and down the stairs
to my bedroom,

I have to stay downstairs,
sleep downstairs.

Oh, here we are.

We are about to go
get a sound healing
from Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

I'm putting these wrist sensors
on her wrists.

This is just to hold
them in place.

These wrist sensors are
connected to this laptop
over here.

It's got a little sensor.

It's collecting
the electrical information

from your heart.

As the sound sweeps into the
correct range for her body,

we'll see her nervous system
beginning to respond.

And when it hits the spot,

I'm going to make a cue mark
on my program here.

So I can identify what frequency
we need to use.

We use very precisely tuned
sound frequencies

for healing.

My innovation is to expose
the body to these
precisely tuned sound waves,

until I find a sound wave
that makes the sympathetic
nervous system

push in the clutch.

Here we go.
It's getting there.

Getting really close.

That's it right there.

But that's what
we are looking for,
is zero.

Zero stress on the
autonomic nervous system.

Or homeostasis.

Now normally I would expect it
to look like this,

where it comes down,

hits that point,
and then goes off into
parasympathetic, the green.

But hers didn't do that.

She hit the point,

but she went back into
the stress response again.

It means that she's had
this chronic stress condition
for a long time.

And when it begins to respond
to the sound waves,

and it starts to
push in the clutch,

it took a little bit of extra
time to get there.

But once it did get there,

it wasn't able to completely
cross over and go into
the relaxation phase

which is what parasympathetic
nervous system is.

The relaxation response.

Because her nervous system
is still too worried

to go there,
to completely let go.

People ask me,
what kind of conditions
can you heal with this?

And my answer at this point is,
anything that has stress
as its cause.

And as far as I'm concerned,
that's pretty much everything.

-Welcome back.
-Wow.

[Thompson] Mmm-hmm.

That's the first words
out of everybody's mouth.

-Yeah.
-Is, "Wow!"

[Thompson laughs]

Okay, here we go.

What Dr. Thompson showed me is
that Eva is in a constant state
of stress.

Even when she is relaxing,
it is hard for her

to fully switch over into the
parasympathetic nervous system,

which is where you need to be
if you want to heal.

So that just proves to me
that healing

really needs to take place
on multiple levels.

When it comes to stress,

the tool that's absolutely
changed my life and I
know millions of others,

is meditation.

[Borysenko]
Meditation has been around
for thousands of years.

The mind is yapping
all the time,

and it's telling us generally
scary and limiting things.

The mind is wonderful
when you are using it as a tool.

It's not so great
when it's calling the shots.

And the very first research
on meditation,

done by a mentor of mine,
Dr. Herbert Benson,

he said, "Well, it shuts down
the fight or flight response."

The fear response.

And it stimulates the
parasympathetic, or relaxing
nervous system of the body.

And that's what heals.

So at the very most basic level,

meditation relieves stress.

[Williamson]
If you wake up in the morning,

you take a shower,
you take a bath,

because you don't want to
take yesterday's dirt
with you out into the day.

But if I wake up in the morning,

and I immediately go to
television, or radio, or
the computer, or newspaper,

and I'm taking in
all the stress of the world,

then I might cleanse my body,

but my mind is carrying
so much stress.

So that's why meditating
in the morning is as
important as taking a bath,

purifying your mind,
purifying your consciousness.

There are many kinds of
meditation.

There are meditations
that involve self-reflection.

So you sit quietly

and you ask yourself,
"Who am I?"

There are forms
of meditation that,

are called self-questioning,

which is questioning
your beliefs.

Third form of meditation is
what these days is
called mindfulness,

which is a terrible word,
because you're not using
your mind

when you're practicing
awareness.

The awareness of a thought
is not a thought.

And then there is
what is called transcendence,

which is usually using
a technique like a mantra.

The mantra is kind of a sound,

that competes with your
thoughts, and ultimately,

takes you to a place where
there is no thought and
no mantra,

and you're just left
with awareness.

So as we practice
these techniques,

we get in touch

by and by, with our core being,
our core consciousness,

which in spiritual traditions
is often called the soul.

Your pituitary gland does
amazing things,

when you are in mediation.

It releases oxytocin, dopamine,
relaxant, serotonin, endorphins,

everything good that your body
can make is released

when you make the spiritual
connection.

There really is this,

this internal process,

that we can flip on
like a light switch.

We can flip on
these juices of life,

if we just take a moment
to connect.

Doesn't have to be meditation
or prayer. It could be
going for a walk in nature.

But your mind needs to quiet,
your breathing needs to slow,

and you want to feel
that unshakable peace.

[Dispenza]
We did an amazing study
just a little ways back

at one of
our advanced workshops.

We took 120 people,
and we wanted to measure

their circulating
cortisol levels

and a chemical called
immunoglobulin A, or IgA.

We put them through
four and half days of training,

and at the end
of four and a half days,

we measured to
see if there were
any epigenetic changes,

or chemical changes that took
place by their internal work.

We found that majority of
people's cortisol levels
diminished,

which means there were
no longer in survival,
they were no longer stressed.

But the relevant thing
that happened was
their IgA levels went from

about 51 and a half to 83,
right to the ceiling

of what is considered high,
and some people were
up in the hundreds.

Now IgA is the primary defense
against bacteria and viruses.

It's greater than any flu shot.

[Gores] The best part about
meditation is that
it doesn't cost anything.

You can do it anywhere,
anytime,

just quiet the mind,
and get rid of that
excess mental baggage.

But the mind isn't all bad.

You can actually use
your imagination
through visualization

to activate a powerful
healing response.

What if I told you,

to do a simple exercise of
imagination.

To go to your refrigerator,
open it up, find a lemon,

take the lemon, put it on
the cutting board,
cut the thing in half,

take a look at it,

juice is welling up,

and stick out your tongue
and lick it.

Your salivary glands
would go crazy,

and it was
all in your imagination.

So there is no question

that what we imagine
can affect our physiology.

For several years, I've been
collecting stories, testimonies,

interviewing
several hundred people,

who've used visualization
as some part of
their healing journey.

And amazingly,

what 99% of them do,

is you take an internal picture
of illness,

and convert it into
an internal picture of wellness.

And that's it.
It's illness to wellness.

And that's it. Just do it over
and over and over again.

To give you a few examples
of the strategy of
illness to wellness,

people who are even
getting chemotherapy,

imagine the chemo drugs
as little piranha fish, going...

[imitating fish]

...and nibbling at the tumor.

In their mind's eye,

what they are seeing is
that tumor is getting
smaller and smaller,

till it's gone.

People in radiotherapy,
imagine the radiation
like bolts of lightning going...

[imitating lightning]

...and burning chunks
out of the tumor.

Again, tumor is getting smaller
and smaller, till it is gone.

[Elizabeth] Toward
the end of the treatment,
I was really weak.

So Dianne called, and said,
"Do you want to
have your session?"

And I said, "I don't think
I can make it."

I can't really get up,
I was just laying down a lot.

I couldn't really get up.

And so she came to visit me,

to give me a session,
and when she got there,

I was just shaking.

So she said, "I think
you are running a fever."

She gave me the thermometer,
and it was 103.5, so she said,

"We need to take you
to the hospital."

So she drove me to the hospital,
and it was going up
as we were driving.

I got to the emergency room

and they started giving
antibiotic bags,
one after another,

and nothing was working.

I just remember
I could hear my heart beat.

It was like,
I could hear water and air.

[imitates heartbeat]

Really loud.

The fever kept going up,
and I kind of thought,
"Wonder if this is it?"

When I woke up, my brother
was standing outside
the glass door

with the laptop
and he was telling me,

"They're praying for you."

They did a group prayer
on Facebook with
over a hundred people,

and right after that,
I kind of came out.

Doing good.

How could my prayer,
how could my meditation,

how could my loving thoughts

of gratitude and appreciation
possibly impact the healing

of another person
in the room with me,

or halfway around the world?

And the answer is that
we are deeply connected

through a phenomenon that is
known as entanglement.

Entanglement is
a term in physics,

that tells us once
something is unified,

once something
begins as a whole,

even though it is
separated physically,

by many miles, or light years,
is what they are finding
in the cosmos,

energetically, everything
is still connected.

Why is that important?

Because if we go back
far enough in time,

there was a point in time
when you, me, and the
Earth were all connected,

before what is called
the big bang.
The big release of energy.

When that happened,
physically particles began
to separate,

energetically, the particles
remained connected.

We are part of this Earth,

and we are part of one another.

And that empowers you and it
empowers me to participate

in the healing of our bodies
and those of our loved ones

in ways that science
is only beginning to understand.

[Gores] So, entanglement
explains scientifically,
how our prayers might work.

But there is a whole aspect
of faith and prayer

that can't be explained
through science.

People travel
all over the world
to holy sites

to receive energy
or faith healing.

Is it their unshakable belief
in God's power,

and therefore
the placebo effect that
is responsible for the healing?

Or is there an actual divine
energy that is causing
that transformation?

Either way, I'm fascinated
by the mystical.

And if faith healing works
for people,

why not respect
the possibility,
and keep an open mind?

Everybody take a nice breath...

So let me just tell you
a little bit about me.

Okay? 'Cause you might be
a little curious.

I was born into
a very religious family.

We were taught to pray, right?
We were taught to
ask God for help.

So what I learned
as a child was that,

if you ask God, and you trust
and you believe,

and then you get out of the way,

then anything's possible.

[man] I have a brain tumor
called meningioma.

And there is no cure for it,
so you're constantly wondering,

what's going on inside
your head, is it growing,

you have things like that,

and a little bit of fear,
because you don't know

if the thing is gonna explode
and grow faster.

[Wergin]
So please understand,
I'm not doing anything.

Please understand that
everything that you
will see happen

is coming from the divine.

There are no spirit guides,
or no entities.

I'm just grateful that
for whatever reason,

the divine has chosen me
to work through.

Let all that stuff go.
Let me have all of it. Every
last bit of it. Let me have it.

Shake your hands,
shake your hands.

New hairdo. Cool.

You doing okay, brother?

Mmm-hmm.

You came in here wanting
this whatever is going on
with you, to be gone.

I'm taking that as a...

I'm tingling. I'm vibrating.

[Wergin]
So, does he look different?

Wow!

[exhales deeply]

Nice work.

[man] My face was, like,
on fire, so to speak,

It was electrical current
and pulse,

but it went throughout
my whole body.

And when I stood up,
I was shaking.

But it was a good shake,
it was different.

I have never felt anything
like this in my life.

Whoo-wee! Holy shit!
Whoo-wee!

[Wergin laughing]

Whoo-wee!

[exhales deeply]

Shit.

[breathing deeply]

[Wergin] This is why
I get up in the morning.

Right here.

I mean, all of you, but this is
like the perfect, like,
you see what's possible.

Oh, my God.

[Wergin] What do you notice
in your body so far?

I thought it would
be really hard to let go

because I don't know who I am
without being sick.

Yeah, well, and...

I feel like I've tried...
I'm trying to...

You're doing it, girl.

You're not trying, you're doing.
Big difference.

Let it go.

What she just said,
is like the bottom line.

With so many people.

They don't know
what it's going to be like,

what it would be like
to be well.

And it's scary.

So they don't go there.

People said,
"Well, I don't have faith."

But actually, everyone
has faith of some kind.

You either have faith
in possibility, or
you have faith that

that possibility doesn't exist.

And in a way, we have
more faith in the power
of cancer to kill us,

than we have faith
in the power of God,
in the power of miracles.

And the power
of infinite possibility.

The power of any force other
than what our eyes can see,

and our hands can touch,

to actually interrupt the power
and the trajectory of disease.

[Elizabeth] I had no idea,
what was coming,
you know.

I was just trying to prepare
myself for whatever answer
they gave me.

And Dianne took me
into the appointment,

and the oncologist said,

"Well, your scans
came back all clear."

[all]
No cancer!

[all laughing]

And I just started
crying and laughing
at the same time

and he said, "Yeah,
we must have misdiagnosed you."

What?

Yeah.

Well, I think because
he didn't think it could
be resolved so quickly.

It's a miracle.

A miracle.

The regimen always
was with everyone.

They said it'll be
a two year thing.

It'll be chemo first,
then chemo radiation,

then surgery, then more chemo.
And that would take two years.

And mine was gone in one round.

And even my oncologist,
who I thought was
the best I could find,

they'd say, "Wow. It's
amazing, all of your hair
hasn't come out.

What are you doing?
You look really good.

Your numbers are good
and stuff."

And I'm said,
"I'm doing wheatgrass."

And he said, "Okay, whatever."

And I said, "Do you not believe
in wheatgrass?"

And he said, "No, but if it
makes you feel better."

They gave me
two different types.

With one, my hair would have
come out completely.

But with the two, for sure,
it was a goner.

And then it never
all came out.

I still had a good two-thirds
of it at the end.

Love and all the time
in the world to enjoy it.

The best part for me was
that I was supported by
friends and family.

And I had spiritual therapists

that really helped me
work through all this stuff

and get rid of the fear
and the old hurts,

and wounds, and then,

allow me to return to
a really high state of healing.

If you perceive that people are
coming to help you and hold you,

and help you through
this process, and you feel
this outpouring of love,

they are actually
helping your body heal.

Because as soon
as you perceive that,

as soon as you believe that
people are sending you love,

you have this oxytocin response,

and oxytocin release has been
associated with increased
natural killer cells,

increased white cells,

the immune response
goes through the roof.

It's really important
to work with doctors that
treat you as a whole person

and surround yourself
with friends,

that inspire hope
and strength in you,

rather than add to your fear.

It's hard, though,

because, when I am sick
or in pain I feel vulnerable,

and I just want to crawl up
in a ball and be alone.

So how do we break out
of that downward
spiral of fear?

How do we transcend
the pain and shift to
a positive mindset?

So when a person shows up
in a doctor's office,

and they're given the diagnosis
of rheumatoid arthritis,

or MS, or cancer, diabetes.

Once they hear the diagnosis,

the common emotion
they experience
is either fear or sadness.

They can think positively
all they want,

they can say, "I'm going to
overcome this condition."

But if they are feeling fear,

that thought never makes it past
the brain stem into the body,

because it is not in alignment
with the body's emotional state.

You get that person to change
their emotional state

and get them
into a state of gratitude.

Why gratitude? Well,
we normally give thanks
when we get something.

But if you're giving thanks
in a state of gratitude,

your body is believing
it is receiving something

because the emotional
signature of gratitude
means it's already happened.

[Braden] So the more that
we can feel the feeling,

as if our healing
has already occurred,

giving thanks for that healing
already being present,

that is the trigger for our
bodies to grow the nerve cells

to make the connections
to trigger the brain chemistry

to reflect that healing.

We have this
advanced nervous system,

that we regulate
through the choices we make

in our lives.

But what we think, what we feel,
what we believe,

and specifically, the emotions
that we choose to respond

to what life brings
to our doorstep.

[Eva] You know I've been trying
not to take the steroids,

so I went through a small
break-out last month,

which I thought was good,

and then it was just dormant,
like it never really went away.

And then all of a sudden
it exploded over the weekend.

So I have these massive boils,

and then I have it
all over my chest.

Oh! Oh my God!

Yeah.
So, that's like...

This is like, when it's almost
full blown, it's not quite.

So if you have something
residing in you,

say you have
Epstein-Barr virus,

say you have one
of the shingles viruses,
stress can trigger it.

Mold can trigger it.

Someone breaking your trust
can trigger it.

Problems at work
can trigger it.

Being fired from your job,
everything can trigger it.

But there has to be something
in there to trigger.

The key is knowing
what the real cause is,

so you can live life
like a normal person,

and have things go wrong,

and not go down because of it.

Okay, so my little
flower blossoms
are turning into big dahlias.

They are starting to merge
together and get really huge,

and extremely painful and hot.

Constantly burning up
and then getting the chills.

Powered through today...

They immediately called
some doctors and
put me in isolation,

'cause they didn't know
if it was contagious.

Viral, what was
going on, infectious...

I got severe abdominal pains,

and this is getting so painful
and intense.

So they called
all these specialists
and ran all these tests,

and everything came back
basically normal.

As I got out, they gave me
just really heavy doses
of steroids to knock it out

because they could see
that it wasn't getting
better on its own.

And my dermatologist was
concerned about me
taking steroids

after to initially knock out

the break out, so she gave me
a prescription of Dapsone,

which is an antibiotic,
and I didn't realize

the strength of the antibiotic
until I went to the pharmacist.

He stopped me at the counter
and said,

"Do you know this is a really
heavy dose of antibiotic
that you are taking?"

So that's where I'm at.

Do I have to pick my poison.
Do I band-aid it with steroids

or do I take this
heavy antibiotic, indefinitely.

Being in LA and going to
some of the best doctors
in their field,

and probably seeing half a dozen
to a dozen doctors now,

nobody can figure it out.

They give me drugs
for all these different things
that they think it may be,

but, I mean,
that's kind of the process
with Western medicine.

It is very difficult,
because it's just, let's
just throw everything at it,

which one Velcros the best.

Do you think that
if alternative doctors
were covered by insurance,

you might go more often, or...

They might seem more credible?

Definitely, because
I know with steroids,
it's very easy.

Five dollars, I get it,
I'm better.

If I could get access
to these vitamins and
to these alternative doctors,

at those nominal costs,

then I probably would
go much more often.

I believe in naturopaths
and all that,

doing everything
that is alternative,

I just can't seen to dedicate
myself, I don't know why.

Maybe I'm just
emotionally stunted

to do or open myself up to that

or they're is just something
that is blocking me,

because it seems achievable,

and in my condition,
I should be able to,
but for some reason, I can't.

[Gores] Eva made me realize
how much courage
and sometimes cost

it takes to commit to
a holistic path of healing.

As a society, we've been
conditioned to believe

that conventional doctors
know best and that
convenience is key.

For me though, it's
either pay now or pay later.

And I really fear the long
term effects the steroids
will have on Eva's body.

But I truly understand
her struggle.

So all I can do is
continue to support her
in any way I can,

and pray she finds
an answer soon.

It's around your third
anniversary of
being cancer-free.

Some fear comes up
around this time of the year.

Because you've heard stories.

Oh, so many.

When I first went back to work,

everyone would say,
"Oh, great to have you back."

And then say, "My so-and-so
had cancer." And then,

"Oh they were great,
they did the chemo,

and they had no cancer
for two years.

Then two and a half years
later, they are
all covered with cancer,

they died months later."

So many stories like that.

So I've been dreading
this PET scan.

And also, I don't like
the radiation,
but you have to do it.

I actually was manifesting
a lot of pain in my body.

And then you can't tell
whether it is from
the radiation damage,

or what's going on, but...

It got to the point,
where I thought for sure,
it was coming back.

What seems very clear to me

is that my body
wants to be healthy,

our bodies want to be healthy,

but it is the head, that's just
the fear, and this, and whatever

that wants to...

It's just like a racket
you're running on
yourself, kind of,

and how to let go of that?

What is your one take-away
message that you want to
share with everybody?

Well, I would say that
the most powerful moment,

the one where I had
the largest epiphany,

was towards the end
of the chemo and radiation.

I was really weak,

and I told my brother,
I just wanted to
go to the beach,

and I wanted to
be in the sun, so...

He carried me,
and laid me in the grass.

And then he went
out on the beach,

and I was just lying there,
looking at everybody.

And I was watching people
roller blade, and bicycle,

and walk with each other
and laugh,

and I just wished
I could have told
each of those people,

"You are so fortunate."

It occurred to me that
this life is as beautiful
or as terrible as you make it.

And we have so much beauty
and opportunity around us.

I just wish I could let you
all know what
an amazing gift it is,

to be alive.

[Moorjani] Focus on life.

Focus on something that
brings you joy.

Focus on love.

Focus on your loved ones.

And spend every day doing things
that make you feel good.

What I usually tell people
who have been told
they are in remission,

I say, "Think of the word
'remission' as actually meaning,

'remember my mission.'

So now it is time for you
to go and remember
your mission."

[Gores]
Disease can be complicated,
painful and scary.

I don't claim to
have all the answers.

But on this journey,
I have learned that
the human body

is capable of
miraculous things.

It is an intelligent system,

deeply connected to our minds
and the world around us,

and brilliantly designed
to self regulate and heal.

By detoxing our environment,

the air we breathe,
the food we eat,

the water we drink,
and the products we use,

we support the healing process.

And as we go
beyond the physical,

and improve our inner
environment, our thoughts,
beliefs and emotions,

we can shift our lives
and help in powerful ways.

And it's all about faith.

Whether it's faith in God,
faith in medicine,

faith in our body's
ability to heal

or a combination of all three.

If we believe it,
we can achieve it.

We live in a world
of infinite possibility.

Choose and focus
on the possibility
that you want.

Don't get sucked into the fear
of what you don't want.

We have the power to heal.

[music playing]

If I could get people to realize
how precious they are.

They are an expression of life.

There is no other you out there.

That's one in eight billion,
that's pretty special.

But I guarantee you,

most people don't give
themselves that kind of
love and care.

That would be
a wonderful pre-cursor
to healing.

The better we know ourselves,
the better equipped we are

to heal our bodies,

to heal our emotions.

To heal the inner experience
that allows us

to love to the deepest degree
in the outer world.

Educate yourself
about your mind-body connection,

because your mind exerts an
extraordinarily powerful effect

and impact on your body.

Twenty-four hours a day,
365 days a year.

Every day, I meet someone
who beat incredible odds

and turned around
Stage 4 cancer.

Healing can really
happen at any time.

Even when you are
at "death's door."

And ultimately go beyond
your fear of death

because death happens to an
experience, not to you.

It is my expectation that this
will become more
and more compelling

to more and more people
as we all grow together

into a different kind of
medicine.

Rather than this being something
that you just read in a book,

or you watch in a documentary,

put it into action.

Fall down, get back up,
fall down, get back up.

Reach out to other people.
Ask them their stories.

Don't ever give up.

Your body loves you.
It loves you unconditionally,

and it's not letting you down.

Have patience
and have compassion.
Take one day at a time.

You're gonna get there.
Doesn't matter how long
you have been sick,

you can heal, and
always remember that,
and never forget it.

I speak the word,

knowing that from
this moment on,
everything is working together

for our individual and
collective good

and that we claim
our wholeness right now.

We claim our health right now.

We claim our vitality
and our vigor

and the power to rejuvenate
and regenerate right now.

Something wonderful
is happening.

And we? We let it be.

Now, and forever,
and so it is.