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The true message of "The Way of Miracles"

is that my life and the lives of the people that I work with

represent a story that underscores the point that

people are more powerful, more capable,

of doing wonderful things and making miracles than

they're presently aware of.

The Buddha said, "as we think so we become."

So if you want to become a miracle maker,

you have to start thinking about yourself differently.

For the past 35 years, I've seen 60,000 appointments.

I started in my practice in 1982 with the notion

that I was going to be helping people lose weight.

I'm thinking simple basic nutrition 101.

Surprise, surprise, people started

coming in right away with problems

that I felt really badly about.

I felt so much compassion for so many of these people that

needed help.

So I decided I was going to give it a try.

As far as I knew, nutrition couldn't

do half of what I ultimately found out that it can do.

But it was a process of discovery one person at a time.

So my name is Kate.

I was 29 years old, when my husband

and I decided that it would be an ideal time

to start our family.

When it didn't happen immediately,

we sought help from doctors and became increasingly more

heartbroken and frustrated that we had not met with success.

At such a young age, I was told by doctors

that I had diminished ovarian reserve.

I asked for a referral and was connected

with a reproductive endocrinologist.

They discovered immediately that I had a thyroid issue.

That triggered something to me immediately.

I'm 29.

I'm not able to get pregnant, and I have thyroid issues.

Why is this?

The next layer of testing that I did

with the reproductive endocrinologist

revealed that I did not have the ovarian

reserve that a typical 29 or 30-year-old had.

And when I asked them about that,

I was told that it was bad luck, that I had just

drawn the short straw.

And that was the way that it was going to be,

and we could get over that through IVF treatments.

But that was simply the way that it was,

and perhaps that was a genetic component.

I went through many failed cycles at the first practice

that I worked with.

I will never forget the day that I wrote that my doctor said

that I was an anomaly.

I looked across from her at the table one day, and I said,

shouldn't I be pregnant by now?

And she said, absolutely.

The average person is pregnant by now.

That was crushing.

In addition to that, I had started

seeing an acupuncturist, because I was really

looking for any avenue of medicine that was

going to help me be successful.

That's how badly I wanted this family.

And she noticed that after my treatments,

I would get hives sometimes where the needles were.

And when I saw her again, she said,

I want you to try going gluten free,

because there is a link between skin rashes and hives,

and things like that in a gluten allergy.

Going gluten free, first of all, it eliminated my hives.

But second of all, my thyroid function came back normal.

That was when I was like, I need to pursue

this avenue of my health a little bit more seriously.

And that's when I connected with Mark.

The first time I met Mark, I joined him in his office,

and I filled out a questionnaire about the food that I eat.

I told him why I was there, and I was skeptical.

So I didn't give Mark a lot of information.

I wanted him to prove to me that he

knew what he was talking about.

To this day, I think the most remarkable experience that

I've ever had regarding epiphanies is the epiphany

of my compassion leading me to the idea of nonverbal

communication.

Opening up an energy field between my patients and myself,

that taught me everything I needed

to know about them and more.

So he muscle tested me.

He asked me a series of random questions.

Are you cold?

Which I knew was linked to my thyroid, but I didn't tell him

I had a thyroid issue.

He asked me if I sometimes got viral sores.

And then he showed me a diagram of my body

and said that my fertility issue was with my ovaries.

I hadn't said anything about that.

I told Mark I wanted to have a baby and I couldn't.

But I didn't tell him that the doctors had identified

that I had low ovarian reserve.

So from muscle testing me and asking me

three questions, that indicated to me he

knew exactly what was going on, my jaw

was practically on the floor.

There's so much going on in a human being,

so much going on that's nonverbal, and I'd feel that.

I'd sense that.

I'd perceive that at deeper sensory levels in my own being.

I was learning things that I didn't know I had access to.

But I opened up my heart, instinctually,

and got back their answers instinctually as well.

He told me that I had a retrovirus that was wreaking

havoc on my immune system.

He told me in that very moment what foods I could eat

and what foods I had to avoid.

And then he put me on a bunch of supplements.

He told me, don't do any treatments in the next three

months.

But give me six months, and I guarantee you

will be pregnant in six months.

So I went home and that day cleaned out the cupboards,

bought all the supplements, did my research.

I was nervous about taking all those supplements.

But in the research that I had done,

I learned that Mark was putting me

on things that my body needed, and should have been getting,

and just wasn't because of modern day food

and what we do to the food that we eat.

So I checked back in with Mark at the three month mark.

And he said, I think if you start a treatment now and go

about your treatment.

After three months on that diet, I had a completely different

response.

So prior to the diet and the supplements with Mark,

I was producing seven eggs that were

resulting in two embryos that could be transferred back

into me.

Three months later, I produced 17 eggs

that resulted in 10 viable embryos to work with in order

to achieve a pregnancy.

I'll never forget.

My doctor walked in the room too,

after those results had come out.

And he just looked at me, and he said, who are you?

I can't believe what has happened.

It did happen, and it happened right shy of the six month mark

that Mark had promised.

One of the things that Mark would do,

when my husband and I were meeting with him

is, he would actually call us mom and dad.

When you would leave a meeting with him,

you would say to yourself, he believes

this is going to happen to me.

And he keeps telling me that I need

to believe this is going to happen for me as well.

And that was transformational for us.

So there was the food, and there were the supplements.

But then there was also this piece

about just remaining positive and believing

that this would happen.

Probably the best visit I've had with Mark

was when I was able to bring my daughter in and meet Mark.

And he looked over at her, and she looked at him.

And she just let this ginormous smile out for Mark,

and it was just one of those really special moments for me.

And I think for Mark too.

He said to me, the baby that people said wouldn't exist

smiled back at me today.

Early on, when I first started off,

I was surprised to hear that so many patients were having such

a hard time with Western medicine.

I thought to myself, that doesn't sound like what

I was raised to understand.

And I expected this highly technological advanced system

of medicine to be consistently errorless,

and to be efficient, and to be capable, at least capable.

But for me, to find out that so many people were

being mismanaged and getting sicker

was an astounding reality for me.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought to myself, well, they have the technology.

They have the money.

They have the slickness, if you will.

I don't have any of those things,

but what I can make up for is compassion, concern, interest.

When I work with somebody, I'm just

positively determined to make sure it's going to happen.

So I had patients that are stacking me up with issues

that I was unfamiliar with.

They were miles over my head.

But it didn't stop me.

One of the most incredible things

that I stumbled on with whole systems medicine

was this interconnectedness.

There all these different energy zones

in the body, different acupuncture zones,

meridians, if you will.

And there are different ways to address

the imbalances of organ systems because

of the interconnectedness of energy.

In the Western world, we tend to think of those things

as all separate.

A kidney's a kidney.

A liver's a liver, but they're all actually

part of one electromagnetic family.

Within the context of Ayurvedic medicine,

food is one of the major forms of medicine.

These are 4,000 year old systems.

So they had 4,000 years to work out the knots.

How can you not embrace something that's

been that well-experienced?

Everything is energetic.

Everything.

We're energetic.

All our foods are energetic.

The reactions we have with our foods are energetic.

There's a system of energy here that says,

either the good things are going to happen,

or bad things are going to happen with energy.

So by eating a certain food, it supports your energy system.

You're feeding your wellness, your ease.

You're feeding your healthiness.

With negative foods, you're actually

feeding your disease, your sickness.

So I think it's important to realize

that virtually everything we think, everything we eat,

everything we drink, every sip, every bite, every encounter,

virtually everything we do is energetically

tied to this reality of universal chi, life force.

This idea that life force can be managed in order

to make life better, that's really

the basis, the foundation, of my work.

My name's Adilio.

About eight years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's.

My brother had it.

Yeah.

We saw his brother with the symptoms that he had,

and I noticed the similarities in my husband.

Our neighbor has Parkinson's.

My former boss had Parkinson's, all roughly a few years

maybe before you.

But their symptoms were a lot worse than yours.

And then you started catching up to what

they were going through.

Where I used to work, there used to be a lot of walking.

I used to stumble over my feet, sometimes fall.

So he put me on Sinemet pills.

They helped a little bit but not much.

We'd all be walking along, a group of us,

and I'd turn around like, where's my husband?

And he'd be lagging behind.

I could see the effort in him trying to reach us,

and he couldn't.

And that's when I'm like, well, this is really not good.

And Doris, our close friend, knew Mark

from previous situations.

And she suggested we see him.

At first we were like, we're still

sticking with our physician.

He's got to do something right.

And it started just getting worse and worse.

I mean, the swallowing was the scariest part.

Yeah, swallowing, I couldn't swallow.

When he would be eating, he would always choke on his food.

And they kept saying, well, we'll try something different.

We'll try something different.

And it just wasn't working for you.

No, it wasn't.

That too made me make the decision to go see Mark.

I had my doubts, but...

Yeah.

I says, it's getting worse.

What can I lose?

Where your brother ended up, you didn't want that to happen

to you.

No.

I didn't.

He did kinesiology on him and told us exactly what he could

and could not eat.

Got those little tube things and tested me with stuff what I

can eat on my arm.

I was like, who is this guy?

I was like, this ain't gonna work.

No way.

It worked.

He told him, 21 days, you are going to see a difference.

We're both like, OK.

So he said, when we left that day,

I am determined to go and do what he said.

I'm like, OK.

We'll see.

When we got out of the office,

we went to get the supplements right away.

And I went out, bought the organics and all that he

needed.

He lost 30 pounds in those 21 days, and I'm like,

you are a different person.

His movements, everything, just it was like,

this is unbelievable.

So like they say, you are what you eat.

It's true.

Yeah.

It's like a miracle.

I think you have to be careful about the concept

of turning diseases into a bunch of labels purely

for the identification of a protocol that has a matching

pharmaceutical drug or two.

On the case of Adilio, viral inflammation

was causing the symptoms that were

mimicking symptoms of Parkinson's

neurodegeneratively.

Symptoms of the language of the body, the symptoms

lead you to the source.

Listening to the symptoms and not shutting them off,

in my opinion, is a much better idea.

When I go to my neurologists, they can't believe how well

I'm getting.

I walk two to three miles two times a week.

And it feels great.

Before, I couldn't do it, because I used to stumble over

my feet, sometimes fall.

Or even before, to tie my shoes, I'd

have a hard time making a bow, tying it,

every day for the longest time.

And now, no problem.

We're dealing with human beings that are like universes

unto themselves, complex, deep.

It's important that we understand

that to just give somebody a label is to disempower them.

I want to empower them by giving them answers.

So that they can take care of their own situation at home.

The way he's going now with how he's improved,

if he didn't do that, I don't know how much longer he would

be here.

With what he's doing now, he's going

to be around a lot longer.

What exists before the physician?

What exists is a body, primarily,

a body with some symptoms that need to be understood.

And this is such a small partial understanding

of what this human being is before the physician.

Helping medicine remember and come back to its roots

is to help heal current biomedical sciences

and the practice of medicine.

And these roots are the traditional home

medical systems.

They've been at it a lot longer, for millennia, typically.

And they had enough time to figure out

what a human being really is beyond the physical body.

Ancient civilizations have always talked about the power

of thought, for example, in affecting our consciousness

and affecting our health.

And through tools in psychoneuroimmunology

and neuroscience, we now know that our belief systems greatly

affect our health.

And that's actually influencing our endocrine system

and our central nervous system.

It's affecting the patterning of energy and information

in our bodies.

And that's why the way that we think, the way that we feel,

has such a powerful role in impacting our health.

Orthodox medicine looks to quiet the symptoms.

It's directed to the point of impact

of the disease, the discomfort, the pain, the suffering.

If somebody'd go to a traditional Western doctor

for a migraine headache, the doctor

would give them the medication that would actually

deaden the nerve endings.

So that you couldn't feel the inflammation in your head.

It's still there, but you can't feel it.

My way of dealing with that, holistically, would be to say,

let's find out if it's the liver that's causing the problem.

It could be a high concentration of indoles, and phenols,

and different chemistries in the liver

that's causing liver inflammation.

It's sending this message to the body, to the head,

in the form of pain called a headache.

And it could be a food allergy or a food sensitivity

to wheat, to dairy, to any one of a number of possibilities.

To me, the most important facet is

to understand the dynamics, the physics, if you will,

of the disease to get to the root of what's

causing the pain, the suffering, and to be

able to work systemically within the context of imbalances that

are existing in those systems.

I don't want to just shut the pain off.

You're not correcting the imbalance.

I mean, we could ask the question,

does the current medical system as it's commonly practiced

in the US foster...

Does it mirror the whole person in medicine?

Where a physician really has enough time

to query the person how they're doing,

their home life, their emotional life,

in addition to their physical life and symptoms, and we

just don't see enough of that.

My name is Michael, and I experienced sudden hearing

loss.

At first, I wasn't sure.

I really didn't know about the severity of it.

I didn't know if it was water in the year from swimming

at the beach.

Or I didn't know what it was and was subsequently diagnosed

with autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss.

That was what I was told.

Your immune system is out of whack.

Your immune system is attacking your body,

so we need to calm down your immune system.

Treatment was prescribed steroids.

And after a period of time, it seemed to work.

And then about, I'd say, four or five years later,

the hearing loss came back again.

I again was prescribed steroids, but this time it

wasn't working quite as well as the first time.

I called my doctor and said, hey, what's going on here?

When's this supposed to kick in?

How long is this supposed to take

till I get my hearing back?

And the response I got was, well, it's not coming back.

It might not come back.

It might actually get worse, and the goal of this treatment

is to help stabilize where you are

and try to keep it from getting worse as much as possible.

It's not going to cure you.

We actually don't know, but we have

a limited number of drugs, a limited number of options

to try.

The only way we know if any of this works is if you tell us.

And I'm thinking to myself, wait a minute.

Aren't you driving the bus?

The message was to learn to live with it

and manage it, hearing aids.

They talked to me about doing a cochlear implant.

And I actually got hearing aids.

Even with the hearing aids, hearing was still not great.

I was still having difficulty in conversations

talking to people.

If I'm having a meeting, talking with someone in a business

setting, sitting across the table,

I couldn't understand them.

I couldn't hear them.

It was not manageable.

And so I said to the doctor...

I call him up, said, look, this isn't working,

and we got to do something else.

I tried managing it.

And he said, sorry, there is nothing else.

And I just realized that it's time to change course.

You're not driving the bus anymore.

Give me the keys.

And that's when my first encounter happened with Mark.

As chance happened, Mark moved into my building.

And he was just two offices down from me.

I had heard about him from a number

of sources, people telling me their experience,

personal experience.

In that first meeting, we spent about an hour,

did his readings, energy readings, muscle testing.

He asked me questions, interviewed me.

Meanwhile, I'm sitting there with hearing aids

and listening as best that I can.

And then he says to me at the end of the hour,

here's the problem.

Your adrenal glands and your spleen, I think, it was.

That's the problem.

That's the root of your problem.

Here's how we're going to fix it,

and he prescribed a diet and certain supplements,

homeopathic approaches.

And he said, all right.

Well, listen, you can't eat X, Y, and Z.

And I guess it's easier to think of what I could eat,

because a lot of things were crossed off.

And he says, if you do this, here's

how long it's going to take.

Here's the result you can expect.

And when you come back here, you're

not going to be around those hearing aids.

And I said, wow, OK.

And I walked out of that office thinking to myself,

I'm driving the bus.

There's 600 different lymphatic filters in the main

body.

They filter germs, bacteria, viruses, allergens, endotoxins,

constantly filtering these poisons out of the body.

You want them to flow.

You want them to move.

Back to the idea of flow, if they back up,

things get problematic in the head, and the eyes, ears,

nose, and throat, et cetera.

That's exactly what happened to Michael.

His hearing is backed up because of the fact that his lymphatic

was swollen with a lot of debris that wasn't being filtered,

because his spleen was weak.

Through an exposure to environmental mold,

the mold had entered my body and become fungal.

So what he was doing was cleaning that up.

It was an adjustment to the diet,

but it was very impactful.

Hearing started improving I would

say within a couple of weeks probably.

Now, then after three months, it was...

I had actually got rid of the hearing aids.

I didn't need them.

As a result of following Mark's protocol,

I now have 90% to 100% of my hearing back.

It is a maintenance as well.

It's not the quick pill that we're all

programmed to say, oh, you're one and done.

But it's easier.

It's a lot easier than you think.

It's actually very empowering.

It's a simple question.

Do you want to slave to your palate,

or do you want to be a master of your health?

And I think most people would choose the latter.

Basically, science was predicated on the science

of Isaac Newton's physics which recognized the world

or universe had two parts, a physical and an energetic

realm.

And that whatever was physical would

be affected by physical things, and energy not being physical

were not affected.

This led to the first separation in medicine of the separation

of mind from body.

Biology, in the West, in fact, since the 17th century,

has been modeled on the machine theory of life.

The heart's a pump.

The brain's like a computer.

The eyes are like a camera.

They're mechanisms and machines, but the mind's got nothing

to do with any of this.

In fact, according to the mechanistic theory of life,

the mind doesn't do anything at all.

It's a kind of illusion that hovers

around the physical activity of the brain.

But it doesn't really influence the brain,

because that's impossible in a mechanistic world view.

So when you think of mind and matter,

it's two different things, already you've broken simple

laws of physics, laws of conservation,

of energy and matter, laws of thermodynamics.

Lifting your hand has to be preceded by an intention.

The hand can only lift if the hand, and the intention,

and the source of the intention are the same entity.

If there are two different entities, the hand won't lift.

We have been steeped in an era of what we call materialism

in medicine and science.

So what does that mean?

It basically means that we have been fed a belief

system that we are separate, and that we are only physical,

and that consciousness arises from physical processes

such as brain function.

Western medicine is missing about half the equation

of reality, which is energy.

It's dealing in a material level.

That fundamental split is an illusion of the reality

of the whole person.

So in that sense, Western medicine

as it's currently practiced will never really

be able to address the totality of healing of a human being.

What does the word physical mean?

Well, it comes to the word physis

which is a Greek word which means nature.

In fact, at the time of Newton they called scientists, what

they call today scientists, they called

them natural philosophers.

So physics is really about nature.

Today though, it has degenerated into something that says,

well, it's material.

It's something that's concrete.

That's something that I can touch, et cetera.

And we know from physics that actually the touch that we have

or filling the boundary is an illusion,

in the sense that actually, it's just electromagnetic forces.

Atoms, which were supposed to be the smallest particle

in the universe when physics was being created,

turns out that they looked inside.

And they found there were smaller particles.

Oh my God.

There are electrons, protons, and neutrons.

So there are smaller physical things.

But then the revolution came in and say,

what are those small things made out of?

What's an electron or proton made out of?

And then they come down in some kind of metaphysical world

like quarks.

And I go, what does all this represent?

It turns out there is no physical structure

inside the so-called particles that create an atom.

The atom is an illusion of matter.

It's not real.

It's an energy vortex.

It's all like a nano tornado.

Einstein taught us E equals mc squared,

Nobel Prize for teaching us about the theory of relativity.

Energy and matter are interconvertible and

transferable.

Do we understand E is equaled to mc squared.

I said, well, on one side you have E, energy.

On the other side, you have M, matter.

So Einstein said, matter and energy

are equivalent to each other.

Are you going to call it matter, or are you

going to call it energy?

So maybe a better term is mass-energy, one word

rather than mass and energy.

In 1931, Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize

for teaching us that energy makes up 99.999% of reality.

We have our five sensory connection, our three

dimensional tendencies.

So we're only able to see, and perceive,

and connect with, and communicate about,

and understand what we see, and what we can touch,

and what we can feel.

We don't go beyond that.

So in modern quantum field theory,

the only reality is vibrations of energy.

Those vibrations of energy are called quanta.

They're called particles, condensed forms of energy.

Matter itself is made up of fields and energy.

Energy is what makes things move, act, have activity.

And fields are what give shape or form

to the way the energy is organized.

And if we take a step further,

it starts to clarify a much bigger picture that we are

electromagnetic beings.

We're energy beings, that everything is energy.

Diseases are energy.

Viruses are energy.

Bacterias are energy.

There is a process.

There is a dance that takes place between our energy

and the energies around us and within us.

When we lower our frequency, our energy, our verve, our life

force, we run the risk of lowering

our electromagnetic frequency into a range that harmonizes

with viruses that are capable of affecting

our neurological beingness.

Albert Einstein's very famous quote comes right here.

"The field is the sole governing agency of the particle."

Energy is the sole governing agency of matter.

Energy is the force that shapes matter.

We've excluded energy from all the sciences,

because they were Newtonian.

It doesn't mean Newtonian science is wrong.

It's just a small subset of a bigger

science called quantum physics.

And quantum physics is the energy universe

that we live in.

One thing that a number of healers say,

regardless of their healing tradition,

is they talk about information that is stored both within

the body and outside of the body.

The biofield is a set of interpenetrating

and interacting fields of energy and information

that guide our health.

So you have kinesiologists and energy healers

talking about how they can get information

about a person's history, their memory,

even their emotional state from informational fields

around the body.

What's the definition of field?

In physics, a simple definition?

Invisible moving forces that influence the physical world.

And I go, well, this is amazing, because ancient word spirit is

invisible moving forces that influence the physical world.

Quantum physics is giving us the insight

that spiritualists have always talked

about without a scientific foundation.

Now, there's a science of energy.

My name is Elizabeth.

I had breast cancer in 1996.

I went off on vacation, found something hard,

and basically, was filled with dread

immediately from my first encounter with that lump.

Within a couple of weeks, got the diagnosis,

yes, you have breast cancer.

There had to be chemo for six months

and radiation for three months.

Then I first had a lumpectomy.

And after the lumpectomy, in my heart, I felt that I was...

It was gone.

I felt like that's where I should end,

but I was very fearful.

I had two young girls, kindergarten, second grade.

So I began the chemo, dreading it,

feeling like it was just the wrong, wrong thing to do.

By the end of the six months, I was physically a wreck.

It really took a toll on me.

I felt so unwell in every way I can possibly describe.

And I had no energy.

I was nauseous.

I felt weak.

Eyelashes, eyebrows gone, hair, just

to see the impact all over my body physically

but inside of me, I just felt like I

was a walking dead person.

I had the life sucked out of me.

I tried to stay on track in my life for my girls.

So I would go in and help in the classroom as much as I could.

But I just remember sitting in those little chairs

in the kindergarten room and trying

to do something with a child and just like, oh my God.

Just trying to get through the process and be up for them

and be myself, but it was hard.

It was hard.

When the six months were up, my daughter in kindergarten

had a friend over for a playdate.

It was the very first time they played together.

I didn't know her.

I didn't know the mom.

But when her mom came to pick her up,

and she pulled out an appointment card

and handed it to me.

And she said, this man can help you.

I have an appointment with him next week,

but I cannot make it.

And if you were to try to see him,

it would be months down the road.

He has a long waiting list.

So here.

Take this.

Go see this man next week.

And I had no idea who it was, why I was going, but I went.

I just felt it was a strong message.

I needed to pursue this.

So when I went to that appointment, my very first time

meeting Mark, I can't even describe how different

that appointment was from any doctor's appointment I'd ever

experienced before.

It was just a whole different world

of talking about health, your body, disease, energy,

your spirit.

He just wove everything together versus just talking

about your body and what drugs we're going to put you on next.

There is a more meaningful experience that's taking place

just based on the talk, just based on the conversation.

So the minute you come in, you're

feeling that you're being addressed

at a deeper level in ways that you don't even

address yourself, perhaps.

He taught me things that I just had no idea were a part

of wellness, like your pH.

It's often too acidic, and that's the environment

in which cancer cells thrive.

And disease in general, cancer included,

is an obligate anaerobe.

That means it doesn't like oxygen. Disease can't live when

there's oxygen. But by the same token,

sickness manifests quite readily where there's not an alkalinity

and not a lot of oxygen. Sugar produces a very strong acidosis

in the body.

Sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar.

I've been a sugarholic since I was a child.

So that just made so much sense.

He sent off a hair analysis.

And that yielded a lot of information

about what was going on in my body in that moment

and what we needed to do to bring ratios back into balance.

And in that appointment, I just learned so very much.

That was the beginning of my feeling empowered,

like I have a role in being well here.

So we worked on my diet, worked through supplements and food

to get me healthy again, make me feel like myself again.

And I trusted everything he said.

I took everything he said.

And within a few weeks' time, our family

was going off on a ski weekend with another family, our best

friends.

I was going with them, but I was just

going to be staying in the lodge not skiing, obviously.

Because I had no strength, or energy, or the wherewithal

anywhere in my body to do that.

But when we got there, the first morning,

everyone was going off to ski.

And I thought, it's gorgeous out there.

I actually feel pretty good.

Maybe I'll try this.

So I got some skis, went out on the Bunny Slope,

and I just took off.

I just... I said, I've got to go.

I've got to try this.

I think I can do it, and I did.

And I literally was going down this hill singing

and crying, which I'm going to do now,

just filled with joy because I was back.

I was back.

It took a few weeks.

That's all it took.

Eating properly, eating the right foods,

taking the supplements, that brought me back to life

in no time.

It felt like a true miracle.

It truly did.

Healing is you breaking through the walls

of limitation.

It's building confidence.

It's building determination.

It's reaching beyond your grasp.

It's breaking through the thresholds that are binding you

unconditionally.

Every now and then people ask me,

when they learned I had breast cancer, how long has it been?

And I'd do the math, and it just amazes me.

It's now been 22 years.

There are all kinds of aspects of the biofield that we

already know about and that we measure.

So for example, we can place electrodes in our head

or on our heart.

And we get these electromagnetic readouts.

Right?

From EKG and EEG, and those tell us

about our clinical condition, our heart health,

and our brain.

So those are aspects of the biofield.

We can even study the biofield of cells.

We can look at electromagnetic readouts of the cells.

And we can look and see how using electromagnetic energies

affect cellular health.

That's pretty well-known and studied,

and it's really a booming area in regenerative medicine,

for example.

When we put electrodes across the body,

which is done in hundreds of thousands of times every day

in doctors' offices, you're measuring current flow.

And whenever we have a current flow,

you create a magnetic field.

Every time the heart beats, it also

produces an electromagnetic field.

The heart's the largest source of rhythmic electrical energy

in the body.

So the heart's magnetic field can

be measured with today's equipment

about three feet from the body, where we've actually

proven and published now in peer review journals

that the magnetic field of the heart

is carrying emotional information.

We currently have about 75% accuracy

knowing what the person's feeling,

whether they're conscious of it or not.

We are energy beings.

And the biofield is the energy field of our bodies.

And it's an organizing field.

I believe that all of the chemistry and physiology

of the body is controlled ultimately by the biofield.

But still, the consciousness or the mind

is the master of the biofield.

And the biofield we see as a bridge

between the mind and the body.

Your energy field has the consciousness.

It thinks.

It feels.

It's part of your living force.

We're designed to react energetically to everything.

It's part of our neuromuscular defense system.

So again, if you're sitting at home relaxing

and you hear a shot go off in the neighborhood,

you're going to jump.

That's part of your neuromuscular defense

system trying to protect you.

Our bodies are designed to react not just

to those circumstances in those fashions but everything.

If I have you raise up your arm, and I calibrate you,

and I say, look, if you hear negative images,

negative thoughts, your arm is going to be weak.

If I give you positive images, love, happiness,

you're going to get strong.

In the same way, we can actually call out foods, wheat, dairy,

and get you to react and respond.

You line up 100 people.

They're going have different positives

and different negatives.

That's the beauty of everybody's energy field,

because you are a conscious, living, dynamic awareness.

You and I are fields of living awareness.

We're tapping into that field of living awareness

with intention.

That's how we find out what's going on with the body.

We tap in energetically, find out what kind of systems

are breaking down, and how we can build them back up

and balance them.

If somebody gets a migraine headache or a stomachache,

they're not thinking about energy.

They're thinking about their physical properties.

My head hurts.

Your head, to you, is something material and physical.

But I challenge people to think that when you get into the why,

why does your head hurt?

You start to move into energy.

So your headache might happen, because you ate a food that's

causing an inflammation.

That's the transference of energy.

So again, 72% of all disease is inflammatory,

but 99.99% of all activity is energetic.

Inflammation is happening at an energetic level.

My name is Elena.

In 2009, I started getting headaches.

My vision started getting worse.

And I went to see a doctor.

After the MRI, she said, well, there is bad news.

You have meningioma, a brain tumor the size of walnut

in your head.

And after I went to see a specialist, he said,

there's nothing we can do besides surgery.

There's two types of surgery.

One, they go through your nose.

And the other one, they open your skull.

And since my tumor was too big, they

couldn't remove it from the nose.

They had to open my skull.

The surgery was done.

They think it was perfect.

My vision came back after I was totally completely blind

and I started seeing again.

I was very happy.

I was very happy for a year.

And about a year and then my symptoms start coming back.

I went to see a doctor again, and he did MRI.

And he said, well, there is bad news.

Tumor come back most of the time.

And it started growing again.

I ask, why?

What is the reason?

Why is it coming back?

Why is it growing again?

And he said, nobody knows.

And at that point, I said, no.

It's not coming back.

It's not growing.

I'm not going through a second surgery again.

And I start looking for some other ways.

And a friend of mine recommended me to see Dr. Mincolla.

And at that point, I was ready for anything just not

to go through surgery again.

My first appointment with Dr. Mincolla

was surprising for me, actually.

He put his finger over right here

and then started pushing my hand down and asking questions

like, wheat?

Sugar?

Dairy?

And every time my hand fell down,

it meant that I can't eat particular food.

In order to avoid surgery, I need to change my diet

and go strictly with everything that Dr. Mincolla told me.

I would have to come every month,

so he can adjust my diet through muscle testing

and change some supplements.

We all have a genetic map when we're conceived.

And there's mutations on our genetic maps, potentials

and possibilities for disease that can manifest in accordance

with our hereditary patterning.

But these can't express unless there

is something to trigger them.

Things like sugar and allergies, like wheat allergies,

end up driving up the arachidonic acid levels, which

drive up the leukotrienes, and the Cox-2 Hormones.

Many diseases follow this pathway of inflammation.

My headaches started disappearing,

and I started feeling better.

Everything came back to a normal life.

And after about two years, I went

to see my doctor to do MRI.

He did MRI, and he said, listen, I don't know what you're doing

but keep doing it.

Your tumor is shrinking.

It looks great, and he got very excited with my results.

I've been tumor-free for nine years now,

and I keep following diet.

Sometimes, I cheat a little bit.

But in general, I follow Dr. Mincolla's recommendations.

The diet works.

Supplements, I think, this is a miracle, the food, energy.

It's incredible to know that with changing diet,

you can shrink tumor and feel great again.

Coming from a physical point of view, which is physics,

of course, quantum physics, we quickly get to the point

of what is the mind?

And how does the mind interact with matter,

what is called matter?

And what is the nature of reality?

So these are deep questions, but they really comes down to what,

in fact, any human being experiences,

which is our own mind.

So when we talk about health, a lot of times,

particularly in the West, we really

mean health of the physical body.

However, as the ancient Greeks first said,

you can't have a healthy body without a healthy mind.

There's two little words, internal and external.

When somebody has a bunch of problems like headaches,

rheumatoid arthritis, stomachaches,

whatever the case may be, we want

to know if the lion's share of those problems,

if most of those problems are being caused by something

internal or external.

Internal is spirit, emotion, thought.

External is cells, tissues, organs, the body.

So we want to make sure we have a distinction here.

We know the difference between the internal self

and the external self.

Our culture has programmed us to think of ourselves

and associate and identify with ourselves from the perspective

of physiological.

The idea of external, as I would call it, it's cellular.

We don't spend a whole lot of time going internally,

the relating to the concept of self

from an internal perspective.

We don't understand emotional IQ or emotions.

We don't understand spirit very well.

We don't understand so many very powerful, powerful, components

of self that have a great deal to do with disease and healing.

And one of the key messages of "The Way of Miracles"

is that people have a very powerful internal self.

People have a very powerful spirit.

People have very powerful emotional self,

a very powerful mental self.

These unseen invisible extra sensory components

of self that exist beyond the parameters of the five senses

are the missing link to human greatness.

So there's two types of medicine, prevention,

intervention.

When it comes to acute disease, trauma, accidents,

interventive medicine is essential.

When it comes to chronic disease,

chronic ailments, the expression of genetic weaknesses,

et cetera, that's where holistic medicine shines.

Every disease has a causal route, every disease.

Inflammation is going to push the buttons.

Stress and tension's going to push the buttons.

Trauma is going to push the buttons.

Any of those circumstances, they're

capable of triggering a lot of those genetic realities.

Most people have been programmed with a belief about

genetics.

And in that science, we talk about something

called genetic control, that the genes control

our physical traits.

But then we also went on to say that genes

control our behaviors and emotions as well.

And that leads to an understanding

that we are victims of our heredity.

Whatever is running in my family,

I can anticipate that I shall likely express that as well.

In contrast, there's a revolution.

And the Scientific Revolution is based on a science called

epigenetics.

"Epi" means above.

And I say, what's the above?

I said, well, the environment.

But then all of a sudden, I say, yes,

but between the environment and ourselves is a mind.

And so the mind not just reads the environment,

but it also provides an interpretation

of that environment based on our programming and learning

experiences.

Epigenetics can change the readout of the genes

based on the signals from the environment.

I can create over 3,000 different protein molecules

from the same blueprint based on epigenetic control mechanisms.

Since it's based on the environment and our perception

of the environment, those are things that we can control.

Genetics gave us the belief we were victims of heredity.

And epigenetics turns the table, because epigenetics says,

we are masters of our genetic control.

Because we can control our perceptions,

and we can control our environment.

About 50 years ago, the field of psychoneuroimmunology

didn't even exist.

Because in Western science, we didn't even

believe that our mind and our emotions

could affect our physical health.

But that has changed dramatically.

And over the last 50 years, we've

not only learned that the brain is

connected to the immune system and the hormonal system.

But our emotions affect us deeply.

More often than not, the root of disease is energetic.

It's emotional imbalances that cause physical sickness.

It's grief.

It's anxiety.

It's unresolved.

So emotion that's unresolved puts us

in a stressed chemistry state that

triggers the psychosomatic response bridging

from immaterial to material.

The mind and the body are one thing.

They're one field of energy.

And there's more chemistry that's produced in your brain

than there is in the downtown pharmacy.

As we think, so does our body go.

The nervous system is perception,

reading the environment.

But the mind is an interpretation

of the perception.

When the brain interprets through the mind

that this is a stress, it's usually

time to engage what is called fight or flight.

I got to get out of here.

I've got to save my life, or I got to engage.

I got to do something.

I say, that engagement involves arms and legs.

When we're at rest and at peace, the blood flow

is principally into the viscera and into the head, where

we nourish the organs that keep us healthy,

maintain our bodies, and just watchdog of how

the system is working.

Stress hormones cause the blood vessels

in the gut to squeeze shut.

That pushes the blood to the outside.

So it shuts off maintenance of the body.

The immune system is one of the most energy using systems

in the body, when it's working.

Stress hormones shut down the immune system

to conserve energy.

So we can use that energy for fight or flight

from the exterior threat.

And then there's the last one, which I always call insult

to injury, because the blood vessels

in the forebrain conscious area squeeze shut.

That pushes the blood to the hindbrain

which is reaction, reflex, no thinking, response.

And so the three effects of the stress hormone

shutting down the growth the maintenance,

shutting down the immune system, and it shuts down intelligence.

Because thinking is too slow in an emergency response.

In today's world, stress is 24/7, 365.

We were never physiologically designed

to have that interference with growth

and the immune system and intelligence

for long periods of time.

So now, it turns out up to 90% of illness

on this planet is directly connected to stress.

All the while, while we're being raised and we're moving

through our earlier period in life,

there's a soul that's observing silently all of our life

process.

We touch upon it from time to time.

We get closer and then further away.

The challenge is to lock into it,

to identify with it as source, as true self.

We have a conscious mind that processes 2,000

bits of information per second.

We have a subconscious mind the process is 400 billion bits

of information per second.

The conscious mind is in the moment

and thinking about life, solving problems.

The subconscious remembers everything.

You could take a drive from here to New York.

You look at a license plate.

You look at a tree in the distance, that's stored forever

in your subconscious mind.

Super conscious is entirely different.

It's referred to spiritually as the Atman or the Brahman.

It's higher thought.

It's elevated thought.

It's the limitless thought.

To attain that higher consciousness

is, ironically, a matter of doing less not doing more.

We can develop and become aware of super consciousness

through a lot of meditation, prayer, going within ourselves,

operating at a deeper level beyond our mundane level

of consciousness.

Most of us live in beta brainwave states, stress,

stress, stress.

Stress can be dealt with in a variety of different ways.

One of the most important ways is deep meditation.

Meditation, prayer, yoga, dance,

there are a number of different ways.

But really, the key is simply to drop into an awareness

of the subtle.

In every moment, letting our minds quiet

and really allowing ourselves to feel deeply in our bodies.

You start to quiet the mind through meditation.

You move into the meditative state which is alpha.

And things start to slow down.

When things slow down, possibilities open up.

You start to move closer and closer

in the super conscious realm by calming

our nervous system at a deep, deep level

by cultivating peace.

Cultivating peace means you don't embrace negativity.

You don't get stuck on it.

You move past it.

It's a question of whether you're controlling your mind

or your mind is controlling you.

My name is Elizabeth.

I, basically, just grew up a really sick kid.

I was in and out of Children's Hospital multiple times

per week for periods of time growing up,

always had a cold, or some sort of virus, or a flu,

or scarlet fever, or mono.

I had prediabetes or was prediabetic, hypoglycemic.

When I was 18, I was a freshman in college.

I woke up one morning with debilitating pain,

like truly debilitating.

I went to the ER then and, eventually,

after lots of tests, found out that I had pancreatitis.

Doctors were not sure why at first.

They did more tests and tried to figure it out.

And eventually, they found out that I had an atypical form

of cystic fibrosis.

I just read a lot of stuff about typical cystic fibrosis

and how life expectancy can be very young, mid-30s, younger.

That was just, I would say, a tough time in general

starting to think about these things so young

and wondering what was going to happen in the future.

Another doctor that was really significant during this time

was my GI.

I remember one of the first questions I asked him

after I got diagnosed.

Will I still be able to study abroad?

Is this still possible?

And I was all excited, and he paused.

And I remember he looked down at me,

and he was like, we'll try our hardest to get you over there.

I just realized this is serious.

My mom made an appointment for me

with Dr. Mincolla who was recommended to her by a family

friend of ours.

My mom and I came prepared with my massive file.

And I remember being like, do you want to see my blood work?

And he was like, no, I don't need any of that.

Elizabeth was a little bit of two different issues converged.

Her pancreatitis, of course, had a lot to do with carbohydrates,

starches, sugars, processed foods.

I think that her atypical cystic fibrosis

is more correlated with a lot of the stress that she was under,

as well as her diet, which had to be

largely an anti-inflammatory diet as well.

He gave me a list of foods.

And he said, basically, eat these foods

and don't eat these foods.

Because these foods react well to your body,

and these foods don't right now.

The things he was telling me to cut out

were things like wheat, gluten, dairy, soy, corn, yeast,

vinegar, nuts, seeds.

Yeah.

We walked out, I think, unsure if I was really

going to stick to his protocol and if it was really

going to work.

And then oddly enough, I woke up the next morning

with pancreatitis and had to go to the hospital.

I realized in a big way that I have a pretty high level

of responsibility when it comes to my health

and decided to follow Dr. Mincolla's recommendations

to a T. Once I got a ways into following the protocol,

realizing that I could get healthy and was getting healthy

and was healthy, it really made me realize that I and we have

the capacity to heal ourselves.

I was like, why is not everybody shouting this

from the rooftops?

All this time, my body was trying to talk to me.

It was almost like it spoke a language

that I didn't understand.

It suddenly opened up all of this space

to explore other things.

Like, how can I become even healthier?

And how can I not only make my body healthy, but how

can I make sure my mind and my spirit are healthy?

We worked spiritually with her quite a bit,

trying to get her to understand that she didn't have to carry

her stress in a daily nervous system that was piqued.

A lot of people just don't edit their stress.

They carry it.

And I think that we talked to her a lot

about changing her whole chemistry

at an emotional and a mental level as well

and not accepting that stress.

Eventually, a couple of years later, really,

I did look back and realize I'm living the way that I was told

I wouldn't be able to live.

I think that moment happened while I was studying abroad.

You could say, maybe proving my GI doctor wrong

who seemed to not have a lot of faith in the possibility of me

going over there.

The biggest thing that this whole journey

has given me and seeing Dr. Mincolla

has given me is a new relationship with myself

and the way that I interact with myself.

There is some level, I believe, of the divine in all of us.

I think we're here to recognize that in each other.

Emptiness, clarity, openness, flow is the direction we need

to start operating our minds in and to understand that we can

apply it to making miracles.

Miracles are exceptional.

They're extraordinary.

In order to produce extraordinary possibilities,

we need to use our extraordinary machinery.

There's nothing more powerful than the super conscious mind.

Regeneration is inherent in all life.

And this enables the ability to recover from diseases, wounds,

and injuries.

We have it, of course.

In wound healing, you get a cut or a scratch,

and it heals itself.

The skin heals up.

The human body is actually not a thing but a process.

And it's a process of recycling.

The blood is being regenerated all the time.

And the intestinal lining and the skin

is continually being replaced.

So this ability to heal and regenerate

is just intrinsic to the very nature of life.

Humans were healing and regenerating

and recovering from diseases long before doctors

came along or even shamans.

In fact, everything that is alive on the planet today

has had ancestors that have survived

for several billion years.

Otherwise, none of us would be here.

So we rely on this intrinsic healing capacity of the body.

And the healing capacity is influenced

by nutrition, the environment.

It's also influenced by emotional and mental factors.

Your consciousness is translating your experiences

into chemistry.

And that chemistry could be chemistry

that supports health or chemistry that

supports protection.

So we find ourselves in a mutual exclusive situation.

Am I in growth, or am I in protection?

I say, well then, it's based where your thoughts are.

We've been very interested in the phenomenon of gratitude,

particularly in our cardiac patients.

It's really been remarkable, in the sense of the literal power

when you help a person activate and engage

in some of these foundational...

I consider them attributes of the soul itself...

And bring it more as a daily activity, and practice,

and perception in their life.

They change spiritually, get healthier,

and depressed mood reduces.

Their fatigue level reduces.

We've done a lot of blood work on these patients looking

at traditional biomarkers of cardiac function.

These go down dramatically, which normally doesn't happen.

But for example, we had a group of patients randomized

keeping a gratitude journal.

And we asked them every day, please

write down two or three things that you're grateful for.

At the end of those eight weeks, the patients

who had been assigned to gratitude journaling

had about a 24% reduction in the inflammatory load

as we measured it.

And the patients who continued as usual care,

they either stayed the way they were,

or they got a little bit worse over those two month period.

So this is very powerful.

When we're feeling things like compassion, love,

gratitude, kindness, we naturally go into more heart

coherence, which is, if you look at it on the graph,

it's a sine wave looking rhythm.

But to have that rhythmic pattern

means a lot of beneficial things had to go on inside of our body

for that to occur.

It's reflecting not only increased synchronization

within the different parts of our brain

and nervous system but synchronization

between our blood pressure rhythms,

our heart rhythms, our respiratory rhythms.

The heart and brain, they get measurably more synchronized.

So it's we now know many hundreds of studies

later that this is an optimal state.

When you're feeling frustrated, or anxious, or overwhelmed,

or these types of feelings, the heart's rhythm,

the pattern of it becomes very chaotic looking.

So that is literally reflecting a lack of synchronized activity

within the brain and nervous system.

And I think that's why a lot of people

call them negative emotions.

And when people are depressed,

and that's a common feature typically of cardiac disease,

depression itself tends to be a phenomenon of contraction

in the world.

People feel more and more isolated.

But gratitude as a practice is an opening.

It's a willingness and a reopening out

to the world around them.

And that's what the patients would report.

While we talked about what fear does,

releasing the stress hormones into the system that readjust

the physiology of the body, we also have to recognize that

love also releases chemistry but totally different chemistry

than fear.

Love releases wonderful chemicals

such as dopamine, pleasure.

We release vasopressin.

That makes the partners attractive to each other.

So that holds that bond.

The bonding is from oxytocin released

in love, which says, connect with this source of love.

And growth hormone, and that name

is, obviously, it causes a growth and maintenance

of the system.

Because love is the chemistry of health.

Stress is the chemistry of protection.

So I say, well then, I'm changing the environment inside

based on the consciousness.

The fundamental common element has to do with

connectivity.

The average person lives a life of perceived separation

from other people in their environment, from the world

itself.

And I think since that is a fundamental illusion,

the presence of that illusion in the person's psyche

is always a bit of a strain and a stress as the time goes on.

The mind is not the brain.

The brain is a biological form that lives inside your skull.

It's like a heart, a liver, a kidney, and a gallbladder.

But the mind is a very different property.

It's an infinite property.

I always like to say that the brain is somewhere.

The mind is everywhere.

We have an understanding of consciousness,

which is controlling our biology, is in our head.

We put wires on a person's head.

It's called electroencephalograph.

I'm reading brain function.

I say, yeah, but where is it?

It's inside the head.

And electrical activity is conducted to the skin.

That's where the electrodes pick it up.

There's a new device called magnetoencephalograph, not.

EEG, MEG.

And this is mind blowing.

The probe doesn't touch the body at all.

The probe is out here.

And they're reading the consciousness activity

of your brain.

Stop.

The point is this.

Your thoughts are not contained in your head.

You are broadcasting your thoughts into the field.

Many of us have had experiences of being around

someone, where we left feeling really charged up

or the opposite.

We felt drained.

My emotions actually go beyond my skin.

They affect others.

My thoughts actually affect the field of energy around me

and can affect others.

When we're in the heart coherent state, loving,

compassionate, and kind states, there are several studies that

are now showing that that actually has a lifting effect

on the others within our field.

So our nervous systems seem to be exquisitely tuned

to the magnetic fields produced by other people.

Everything made out of energy is interconnected,

because energy has no barriers.

That means everything in the universe

is part of the same energy.

And that means no separation.

Ancient medical systems were based on spiritual traditions

that understood the interconnection between spirit,

Earth, the elements, our bodies, and our emotions.

They are all connected.

Now, this may seem really like, how does that work?

But basically, they had worked out these systems really well.

And what we experience as pain, depression,

is really due to a lack of harmony

within ourselves and our environment.

Right?

So it's really based on a different cosmology.

From a biofield point of view, the biofield

is basically giving us information

about our sense of harmony with ourselves and our environment.

So when acupuncturists talk about stuck energy,

or an energy healer says, you've got

energy stuck in a particular chakra

or a meridian, what they're talking about

is an imbalance in the system that needs

to be moving towards harmony.

And so the more we pay attention to these subtle aspects

of being, the energetic feelings that we get from everything

around us, from our emotions, our thoughts,

our interactions, the more we're realizing we're not separate.

My name is Diane, and I've been a patient of Mark Mincolla

for 36 years.

One of the main issues that we addressed during those 36 years

was my being an addict.

I gave up alcohol when I was 26.

And I went on to bigger and better things,

thinking nothing.

I didn't even think I was an addict, really.

And I'm in the music business.

So in the '70s, cocaine was it.

It was great to have it.

I was powerful.

I could give it to everybody and celebrate.

And I was told that it was not an addictive drug.

That's not true.

And for the next eight years after I started,

it was pretty much a living hell.

I functioned.

I worked.

I did all the things you do, but spiritually, I

was just getting broken down.

I was going to a therapist.

I was very messed up.

And I didn't feel well physically.

And he said, there's only one person I know for you to go to.

And I was so desperate I didn't care who it

was at that moment I thought.

And then I walked into his office.

And I left saying, I'm not going back there.

He's just not a good fit for me.

He's too arrogant.

So I'm back to therapy.

And I progressively got worse, mentally, physically,

spiritually.

And the physical aspect was getting horrible.

And the therapist said, I can't help you

if you don't want to see Mark Mincolla.

You got to go.

And I walked in.

And I told him I didn't like him.

I told him I thought he was arrogant

but that I was desperate.

And I needed someone to help me, and I sat there with my arms

like this the whole time in fighting mode.

And he looked at me at one point,

and he said, I'm here for you forever,

whatever, doesn't matter.

You can be whoever, because I said,

I'm not giving up cocaine.

He said, that's OK.

That's OK.

I'm here for you, and that was it.

So when a patient like Diane comes in and sees me,

I just made it my number one obligation not to go to her

spirit but to go to my soul.

Because if I go to your spirit, I'm going to go down with you.

Part of the reason energy is contagious is

because you're coming from a place that's not source.

So the person that's with you is not in source.

Guess what?

You're not going to be in source.

So by the same token, Diane comes in.

She's in broken-spirited mode.

I'm not going there.

I'm going to my soul.

I'm going to ground both of us.

There's a contagion there that's more powerful.

When I went there, I strictly went there for physical

purposes I thought.

But there's something about him.

When you walk in his office, he knows who you are,

not your mind, not your story.

He knows the essence of your being,

and right away the healing starts.

I was living thinking, well, I came from messed up background.

I blamed it on everybody.

And I didn't know what the root of it was.

So self contempt is something that's been programmed

in our lives.

We tend to feel shame, doubt.

We tend to feel negative feelings about the concept

of self being deserving.

I would say, I want you to picture yourself as a child.

Go home and search through all your photographs.

Find yourself as a five-year-old kid, a six-year-old kid.

And look at that picture that five or six-year-old,

and there's two things I wanted to look for,

deservedness and innocence.

After years and years of living in this world,

we tend to lose the innocence.

We tend to lose the sense of deservedness.

We associate our deservedness with our innocence.

So can we associate deservedness with the loss of innocence?

That's extremely important.

And we forgive ourselves for growing up.

To really overcome dis-ease, we have

to be willing to embrace and forgive ourselves

for being adults and to love ourselves at a core level,

not at an ego level.

We don't want to love ourselves conditionally.

And I'm not talking about loving yourself

because you won the lottery.

I'm talking about having a core love of that child that

was five and six years old that's

still living in your heart.

He would do that work on me to go in and really nurture

myself.

So I was able to reflect on the kindness that I do have,

the tenderness, the love.

And all he wanted me to do was, instead of putting it

all on the outside, was to take it in and put it on the inside.

I got off the cocaine, didn't drink.

But sugar was the essence of an addiction

that, again, I was a little kid.

I'm three years old.

I had a tooth pulled.

They gave me a lollipop.

I did something else.

I fell down.

A doctor gave me ice cream.

So for me, sugar was nurturing.

It was loving, and little did I know what

it was really doing to me also.

I was getting progressively sick again and just

filled with mucus, to a point where

I thought I had pneumonia.

It was horrible, and I lived like that.

And I thought I was dying.

And he kept saying, Diane, you've

got to give up the sugar.

You've got to give it up.

Addiction is compensation for hurt.

I have a hole in my heart that doesn't heal.

Addiction takes sugar, love, money,

whatever from the outside and attempts

to patch up that hole in the heart, which lasts

for a short period of time.

To heal the heart from the inside out

is to occupy your own heart with your consciousness,

to venture and journey into your own heart, to admit the pain,

to acknowledge the pain, to confront the pain,

to feel the pain all the way through.

That pain transformed things in me,

where I have been reconnecting with letting go of the fight.

Some people can be addicted to substances.

They can be addicted to behaviors.

I think control is one of the most powerful addictions

that I see every day.

One of most powerful healing agents

is when people finally get clear about the fact

that, by letting go, they support flow and not

resistance.

I would cry a lot.

I would feel, and I didn't even want to feel.

I certainly didn't want to cry in an office like that.

But that's his magic.

That's one of his magics that he can just penetrate the heart.

And eventually, I had a very profound spiritual experience.

It just hit me between the eyeballs to get on my knees

and ask God for help.

And I gave up sugar.

I haven't had sugar, other than some fruit,

in eight or 10 years, which is a miracle.

I knew I could go somewhere where somebody unconditionally

cared about me and was willing to hold the space until I

caught up with it.

If I didn't have Mark Mincolla in my life,

and I just went to a psychiatrist, a regular one,

or I went to a regular doctor...

Not putting them down.

Everybody has their purpose, but in my life,

I don't think I'd be here today.

We misidentify with a persona, a mask.

The actors in ancient Greek drama, or tragedy, or comedy,

they were wearing masks.

As an actor, we wear a mask.

Let me propose that, as human beings,

we are aware what is known as human nature.

It's a mask.

When you take it off, that mask, what is behind?

We're programmed in this culture and in the Western

world to believe that self is a personality with an ego.

And self is all about value that has

to do with performance at a certain level, I guess I'd say.

And having a doctoral degree in health,

all these things make me more attractive to myself.

But if I don't have those things,

or if I lose those things, then I'm

certainly not worth my own love, and attention, and care.

And I'm not feeling loving.

I'm not feeling complete.

I'm not feeling whole.

So I think it starts with a re-identification of self,

not as an ego, not as a personality,

not as a cellular being but as a soul.

It's much easier to love a soul than it is an ego.

A lot of people that I counsel get in their own way

and don't really know it.

They're not totally aware of it, but there's

a lack of faith in self.

There's a lack of love in self, a lack of belief in self,

a lack of willingness to accept power.

It kind of intimidates people.

Little old me having power?

I don't know if I trust that.

I don't know if I deserve that.

The fundamental thing that, really,

all healers say that really is the common denominator of what

healing is, it's not about curing.

It's not about ridding ourselves of something

that we don't want.

It's turning towards that which causes us suffering and holding

it in a space of love.

And what they're doing is helping

us open to that space of love.

And fundamentally, it's for us to love ourselves.

Because everything in the outside world

is a reflection of our inside world.

Healing in part on the level of the mind is to be able

to have a deeper understanding of the expansiveness of our own

nature.

There's a field of what's called transpersonal psychology, which

endeavors to understand the different features and times

when that phenomenon can occur.

If a person has this belief that they are their thoughts

or some specifics of their environment,

and something happens, whether it's a beautiful sunset,

for example, where they just go a little bit

beyond that current identity they believe themselves to be.

And they find there's something.

They're a little bigger, or they encompass more

than they thought.

That's a transpersonal phenomenon as it's called.

And so many realms of healing, I believe,

attempt to induce these effects.

We need to understand that we're capable of tapping

into an inner self.

It's a higher self emanating from the soul

self, a higher self more than capable of performing miracles.

What is that invisible, formless,

infinite entity that knows itself as the experience that

we call the visible or the material?

What is that?

And do you know it?

Do you know who or what you are?

At the ego level, there's separation.

There's compartmentalization.

It's a super conscious higher level, the Atman level,

the Brahman level.

There's only one.

There's no more than one.

Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness from

the fragmented mind to the whole mind and finding out that

you're a timeless being having a time bound experience.

And the "Bhagavad Gita" talks about the soul that is

impervious.

The arrows can't pierce it.

The swords can't pierce it.

A spirit can be broken.

The heart can be broken.

Body can be broken.

The mind can be broken.

The soul can't be broken.

For four years, we planned this documentary.

And to my mind, we were thinking in terms

of bringing patients in that have

gone through remarkable miraculous recoveries.

I never dreamed for a minute that I'd

be involved in that process.

Unexpectedly, I contracted Lyme disease.

And lo and behold, it just pulled the legs out

from under me.

I lost my balance.

I started to have tremors.

I lost my strength.

The pain was just indescribable.

And it was so difficult for me to contend with,

because it seemed to get worse, and worse, and worse,

and worse.

And it was worsening for four years.

So one night, I fell, hit my head.

And I was on the floor for 14 hours unable to move.

I was paralyzed.

To be isolated in your own mind not knowing to what extent

you're paralyzed has a way of just isolating you

within your own soul.

There's talk about meditation being a process, where

you get into your core self in the form of pure consciousness,

awareness not thought.

When I say, my soul self, I landed in this place

of pure awareness.

I just wasn't able to think in that place which

is exactly what I needed.

There's a point at which we make a decision to live or die.

It's where we can cross over the line.

I'm convinced that our spirits can commit us

to the other side.

And at that point, I had to walk to the end

of my life in my mind and see who I was and what I wanted.

So I had to make a decision as to whether I

was willful about living or willful

about not living anymore.

I went to the edge of that cliff, and I came back.

And I finally was rescued off the floor.

There was a 10 day period where I was

unable to walk, unable to move.

I had to be carried to the bathroom,

because I didn't know that I'd ever get my walking back.

I never knew that I'd get my strength back.

I thought I was permanently, perhaps, permanently paralyzed.

And that's a hell to live through, not knowing.

So I finally had gone to the hospital

and spent four days in a hospital

and then a week in a rehab.

They weren't sure that I was going

to be able to walk either.

Their determination was I wasn't going to get better.

I was going to stay the same or get worse progressively.

My first week in the rehab hospital, I was in the gym

every day walking with walkers, doing

the exercises I was given.

And they were shocked at how much time I spent there

and how hard I pushed.

I was determined to create my healing,

to energetically impose the most powerful energy

that I could to heal.

To me, everything is energy.

Energy is about frequency.

It's about vibration.

In the truest sense, I believe that disease

begins with dis-ease.

The dis-ease in my life started long

before the symptoms of Lyme disease.

And dis-ease begins with a certain level

of self ignorance.

There's a place deep within that has to be connected with,

that keeps us well, that keeps us from being dis-eased.

And I found that place on the bathroom floor

after about 14 hours.

Embracing miracles automatically insinuates

that you have to embrace the difficulty, the sickness,

the stress, the thing that brought you

to a potential miracle.

Holism is always happening, where

I was exposed to both sides of the universal process, yin

and yang, dark and light, pain and joy.

We need to embrace the whole, and make a decision

to embrace wholeness as it is, not as we'd like it to be.

Part of my miracle recovery is all

about being unified between mind and body, coming from the soul

and merging all parts of self and unity.

I don't do anything against myself anymore.

Everything has to happen in flow.

There's a certain level of BS that we go through

in this world.

I had a lot less of that going on.

Consciousness interacts with everything,

because consciousness is everything.

Because its very nature used to create.

We fall into the trap, our own trap.

It is our own trap.

I want to emphasize that.

People say, no, it's not my trap.

You know?

Somebody created for me.

My parents created.

OK.

Maybe somebody created for you.

But now, who are you?

You're repeating the trap of somebody,

and ultimately, it is your own trap.

You are trapped by your own mind.

The baseline of our embracing of a reality,

at a cultural level, comes from our downloading,

our programming.

I'm not strong enough to make a miracle.

I'm not powerful enough to make a miracle.

Somebody else can make miracles.

I can't.

The Buddha can do that.

Jesus can do that.

Muhammad can do that.

I can't do that.

That's a mistake.

That's a big mistake.

Making a miracle is a possibility,

but it begins with seeing it.

It begins with accepting the possibility of being very real.

One of the aspects of that formless, nonlocal,

infinite being is that it can modify itself as intention.

So intention is inherent in consciousness.

So as a culture, we're at a place.

We've arrived at this place, where we desperately

need to think in terms of possibilities,

infinite possibilities, if you will.

We need to think in terms of reformatting

our ethos in a way that is not skeptical or doubtful

but rather, expectancy orientated.

We're the creators of miracles.

I think, it's not a matter of waiting for miracles anymore.

It's a matter of rolling up our sleeves

and taking up the creatorship of miracles.

Consciousness is creating our life experiences.

And biology now demonstrates it at the level of our experiences

are manifest by this nervous system, which

are broadcasting it into the field,

affecting what's going on outside,

affecting what's going on on the inside.

Change your thoughts, you change your biology.

Change your thoughts, you change the world you live in.

Sickness, illness, disease, long term fights,

long term stress, that produces really negative walls

of energy.

And they get thicker every day.

They don't go away.

You're just sucking it up, showing up

for another day of life.

And it's another day of unhappiness.

People have such thick blocked energy fields

to convince them that they have the power, and the potential,

and the likelihood, the certainty even,

of healing, of breaking through the threshold,

putting a slit in this wall, and splitting it apart, and walking

through it.

Yeah.

I can't cross the threshold, because I

don't have enough money.

I don't have enough money to get divorced.

I don't have enough money to buy health food, organic food.

I don't have enough money, strength, and time in my life.

I'm too old, blah, blah, blah, blah.

There's never an excuse, and there's never

anything in the way, in your way, but you.

And to take that step to say, I'm

breaking through, no ifs, ands, or buts, no conditions.

No conditions.

We're going to wait until it's sunny for this to happen.

We're doing it right now.

We're trying to help bring medicine back to its roots

and medical roots prior to the advent of what we call

the biomedical model in the West or allopathic medicine.

We're trying to cultivate the understanding of the importance

of those elements of the whole person

and to bring them into the practice fully of medicine.

And the importance of the emotions,

the importance of the psyche, the importance of recognizing

the spiritual nature that can say,

consciousness in nature of the person.

That is when healing can occur.

East is east, and west is west.

We've learned about material life here,

and they learned about energetic life over there.

I think it's time we bridge the two

and actually started to make a wholeness out it.

And I think it's all about the holism of life, not

the compartmentalism.

When we move from the model of pathogenesis, OK?

The study of disease and getting rid of disease to a model

of salutogenesis, a model of healing and harmony,

where we recognize there's a disharmony within us.

So instead of trying to get rid of our pain,

or get rid of our depression, or our anxiety,

we're actually looking towards it.

And we're saying, what's here?

Can I hold this space for a minute

and allow what needs to come up to come up?

So that it can transform into the next step.

And that's where harmony is restored.

And that's how healing really is happening.

Healing is a unique process.

And I want to say that healers are everywhere.

There's a healer in everybody.

There's a healer within all of us.

So to address each other from a deeper place,

to address our own lives from a different place

is the way to heal the planet.

You, you are the love of thousands.

You are the love of thousands.

Oh, Nana, remember more each day who you've always been.

Songs of resilience come coursing through your veins.

You're held alive in this very moment.

I carry the fragrance of your memory.