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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.