Tuesday Integrative Health Webinar
Tue, Sep 12, 2023 4:53PM • 1:55:04
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
stress, relax, relaxation, telling, feeling, happen, years, hear, work, place, people, mind, life, person, hypnosis, oxytocin, patients, good, body, chemicals
SPEAKERS
Bill Clearfield
01:27
Gotta Joe. Yep. Can you can you hear me? Fine? Okay, you got it. I made your co host right
01:38
you got it, because okay cool.
01:42
All right we’ll be right back.
04:17
So far
04:21
you know, I can’t hear you. Yeah, that’s that’s all so far. Okay. Well,
Bill Clearfield 04:27
one more we’ll have the basketball team
04:33
hopefully it’s the speaker
04:38
otherwise I have to get me where you right
04:51
so
04:56
I did want to let you know Dr. Clearfield how much I enjoyed your talk yesterday. Yeah, let me on two levels. So the one is I did a study for Mary Free Bed when I was in pre med. And I was so surprised this was in 90 to 92 and as you can tell I was a late bloomer. But anyway, anyway
Bill Clearfield 05:27
look at Dr. Dr. Burgess.
05:31
Anyway, but I, I, I had it was on patient outcomes and I noticed the the neuro psychiatric even though I wasn’t a physician at that time, just knowing people, you know, I could see the psychiatric illnesses. I could see the number of of suicides, and I can see that, you know, it was less just like more spidey sense and anything that this was not right. And when I would ask about the risky behavior, and the death by misadventures and the suicide they say, Well, this is a patient population that we deal with anyway. Yeah. Yeah, and that’s really not true. That wasn’t true from my histories on these people. I was going to the, to their past histories and these were many times they were you know, straight arrow people, you know, like that construction worker, you know, churchgoer family man who suddenly Stoli a dune buggy and broke his neck and died after his brain injury. You know, and the other thing was the connection with the PTSD. My husband has had PTSD for a number of years. He was in the Vietnam War, and he’s really doing quite well right now. But what are the things that it brought up was the association with closed head injury? Well, he was on a ship. He was an aircraft carrier guy. I don’t know what they call them, but he happened to see that somebody had left. They owe some heavy metal thing, right where that little boomerang thing that throws the the ship the the airplane off the ship. He ran over to get it. It hit it before it hit him. He was thrown 60 feet. He has a his piece were pushed into his sinuses. And he he was he had a closed head injury. And it was just a goodness within. It was very soon after that he began to have some serious issues and by the time he got home, he had some pretty full grown PTSD you know, so I really thought that association I thought, well, that’s interesting. So anyway, but thank you for the talk. I thought it was very good i i took copious notes so that I could throw throw my family and friends with them.
Bill Clearfield 08:09
It was it was actually up until two months ago a CME certified course and then it was decertified for no reason. So if you want the whole thing we you know we can get that to you also so so John last for Dr. Colossus group. I did. The first part of our TBI class
08:37
I was getting the invitations from Kalasa. I told him that today well
08:43
must be to be How come you’re not getting my invitation, man. I did send it to your text. But the other thing is that you need to change your phone to iPhone. Yeah, I still have Android man.
08:59
I don’t I don’t buy it. I’m not buying it. Hey, but I don’t know who Deborah Dell is. But I hope she does. Hi, Deborah. Hi.
09:11
Do you know that the youngsters they don’t recognize anybody has Android like if you have Android and you are at the age of 20 and 30s you will have difficulty to find a partner because they they just ignore the greens. Androids
09:34
don’t buy a doctor of Lhasa. Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. All I wanted to say is if you ever didn’t know what Bill has done, Dr. Clearfield has done with hormones head trauma, PTSD, physical balance. He’s the top guy in the world I know of and we need to package him more and more and get the information out there because we’re dealing with massive suicide, head trauma PTSD, we got 10 20 million people affected. And if we do Bill’s basic stuff, we could help enormously half of that crew so we need to get the message out there. And I hope you’ll join us in that effort.
10:15
So well.
Bill Clearfield 10:18
Dr. Gordon was actually on the line listening to it also. So you know, he’s my mentor. So well,
10:24
let me let me let me let me make sure clear here I mean, I can see Dr. Dr. Bill Clearfield, yes he’s a top of managing and preventing chronic disease using you know, all those supplements and peptides and he’s very innovative from cutting edge and I think you’re the first mangas in in mastering that. But it’s very important that we know the missing link and I think yesterday it just happened I started investigating it. And the reason is that you are increasing those happy molecules, which is the dopamine and serotonin and all those which we consider them as an antioxidant. And you are buffering redox and you are restoring the metabolism by all the things that you’re doing in a natural way with products that has that are compatible with our biology versus you know, using growth hormone peptides and all that something that’s you know, those versus the Big Pharma where they do the same thing you know, they’re trying to increase the happy molecule serotonin and dopamine and and all that. But they’re doing it with chemicals. That yes, they want to grease those heavy molecules. And, but the problem those chemicals are not compatible with our biology. And one of the things that they are that we have a problem with because they’re chemicals, we’re not able to make a belies there, or break down their catabolized or their metabolize the breaking down of those big pharma products, and they are toxic to our body. And most of the time, they inhibit the mitochondria. Once you have it, the mitochondria, you release all those free radicals and you generate free radicals that will lead to inflammation. And so, I think, you know, let’s say for example, if you use your attorney reuptake inhibitor, all those drugs that we know chemical ones, they will increase the serotonin so they will make those patients happy, but at the same time, they interfere with mitochondrial function. And when you leave here with mitochondrial function, you start leaking all those free radicals pathological level, and you generate inflammation. And those free radicals will inhibit the production of serotonin because you need to transport tryptophan to serotonin, that enzyme will be blocked by those free radicals. And so if you give them three reuptake inhibitor, and there is no serotonin because you already inhibit the enzyme that converts the tryptophan to serotonin, from those chemicals that the those are the serotonin reuptake inhibitors or chemical ones. So now those drugs are not going to work. And it’s going to cause more problems, because it will cause those inflammation of the brain and you will end up with depression and suicide attempt and all that the brain fog and all the crazy things and they need more and more drugs of the same time to try and to push and increase their turn and although those drugs are inhibiting the production of serotonin versus Dr. William Bill, he’s increasing serotonin with with peptides with those growth hormones. And with those supplements that he has, which I want to work with him so we can create a package of supplements that are specific disease. And those supplement does not interfere with the mitochondria. And so we don’t have the long side effect of chronic use of those chemical drugs which caused oxidative stress. Those supplement does not cause oxidative stress. And so most of the time, they would work for when you use it for long term. But when you use those big, big pharma products for long term definitely would not work because of the side effects due to the interference with the mitochondria and the biology of our body and using oxidative stress and inflammation with long term use. Of those drugs must have the big drug. Pharma drug does cause oxidative stress and inflammation with prolonged if we use all of the most of them. And if you are, you need to use them to get the kick sometimes we need then just try to use the natural antioxidant. And the best one that I know is an acetylcysteine will definitely help to kind of slow the process of of the side effects or minimize the side effects of those big pharma products. And that is the missing link. That I think Dr. William Bill needs to put it together with articles and just send it to the osteopathic society and say hey, this is your way and this is my way. This is your drugs and this is what I’m doing. We’re doing the same thing, but I have no side effects. And the reason you do have the side effects because all this big pharma products are not compatible with our biology. Is that make sense? Hopefully everybody here
15:42
Yeah. Your lesson I wanted to ask you about one thing when you were talking about SSRIs the feeling of that you have about a psilocybin use for in place of SSRIs because I think when SSRIs first came out, I didn’t understand what Selective Serotonin really meant. And from what I understand we’ve got a lot of different serotonin receptors and SSRIs only hit a few of them. I don’t know the exact nomenclature, but the one that’s called number two, whatever that is, is the one that they stay away from because they’re afraid they don’t know what that exactly does. But from what I understand and the research I’ve done that the psilocybin hits every serotonin receptor in a balanced form, and we don’t have the mitochondrial dysfunction, side effects. Do you have any thoughts on that?
16:46
If there is anything that you have, that does increase the serotonin and not in any area of the brain selective area of the brain because increased serotonin can also decrease the growth hormone release. So you need to make sure those drugs that you’re giving are more natural product, okay, where it will cause increased serotonin in certain areas of the brain and not all areas, then yes, and especially if those drugs does not interfere with the mitochondria does not produce any toxic byproducts where the body is not used to it. Now our biology is not used to those big pharma product byproducts, and they cannot really get read from them. And most of the time, they are toxic because they are free radical generators. If you I don’t know the drug that you mentioned, I think we need to investigate and if you don’t see any mitochondrial dysfunction in it, then yeah, I mean, it will be good to use I mean, everything that Dr. William is mentioning everything that he sees all these things that you using sex hormones, progesterone, peptides that you use know that they are compatible, because those maktab peptides and amino acids eventually the body will break them down into amino acids and we consume them and we can recycle them. But those big recycle
Bill Clearfield 18:06
we, our speaker is here. So we’ll take this up, maybe later when he’s finished. So Dr. Miller it’s a pleasure to have you here and it’s an honor. I’m gonna let you introduce yourself. As you know, some of some of our group probably maybe is not familiar with you and your work. But Dr. Miller is considered the quote unquote father of my mind body medicine. And so I’m gonna let you take over from there.
18:41
Okay, are you able to hear me pretty well? hear you fine.
18:46
Okay, good.
18:49
Well, so today where I’d like to share with you some of the findings that I’ve had over the over the last 50 years or so, and okay, recording, but
Bill Clearfield 19:08
all right about that. So we usually put it on our website. If that’s okay with you. That’s fine. Okay.
19:15
And the process that I began using long ago called selective awareness, and what I’ve been able to learn I’d like to share with you how it might be useful to you. You know, back when I was in grade school, I didn’t behave very well in class. In fact, it was so bad that once and at one point I was kicked out of class so often, that I was assigned to simply report to the dean’s office every morning, just to stay there throughout the entire day. They told me this is going on my permanent record. So I suppose you all know this about me already. Well, I was only bored for a little while because I was fortunate in that I discovered that immediately adjacent to the bench I had to sit on all day where the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyle and a bookshelf and I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes and the way he thought and I like to, I’ve always thought of myself as being like an investigator like other kids, detective. So anyway, so I’ll start off with sharing with you an apocryphal story of my hero. It seems that once upon a time, Sherlock and Dr. Watson went camping and long after bedtime. When they perhaps two o’clock in the morning, Sherlock elbowed Watson and said, Look up, Mr. Watson, and tell me what you see. And Watson looked up and says, I see stars, stars everywhere against the black black sky and Holmes said yes, yes, and what does that tell you, Watson? He said, astronomically. It tells me that there are millions of galaxies and billions of stars teleologically it tells me that God is great and everywhere and we are small and insignificant. meteorologically, it tells me that tomorrow is probably going to be a nice clear day. Why? What does it tell you Sherlock? And Sherlock answered, Elementary, my dear Watson, someone stole our tent. So now use that little story as a metaphor for my experiences. I went through my training in medicine. And although I trained to one of the top schools Albert Einstein in New York, which is well known for respecting patients, different personal and spiritual needs, I was amazed at the lack of attention paid to patient thoughts. And feelings and expectations and personal sensitivities. Very seldom did they pay much attention to the phenomena such as these. So it was, on the other hand, to me as a young developing physician, it was evident that people susceptibility to illness and their speed of recovering from illness greatly dependent upon these factors, because I saw that it made a difference how I talked to people. It made a difference if a person had a rash if I didn’t shy away from it and put on gloves, but I touch the rash. And people would tell my gosh, he’s touching the rash. Maybe it’s not that not so bad. Well, if I was telling a person what they were going to need to do to heal up an injured knee. I put my hand on the knee, as I explained the positive things that were going to happen through the through the healing process. So as we know, Western medicine has done a great job of taking care of acute injuries, infections and emergencies. But right now, most of the illnesses that we see these days aren’t really lifestyle diseases of the 21st century. That was something I began to see there back in the 60s. And I’m gonna see if I can put some some images on the screen.
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If you go to the share screen there, and that should be your desktop. Yeah. And there you go.
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And so let’s see. Right, let me get through this.
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This is my title, I put in
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which is unlock the power of mind body healing, transformation through what I call selective awareness.
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And we’ll be talking about a set of mind tools for accessing the healing state. We’ll learn something about guiding your thoughts, imagery, and passion to heal the body, mind, emotion, spirit, and behavior. Have some experience of what a deeply relaxed state is, and learn something about how to access and use that power and to experience a new paradigm of thinking and healing and how to upgrade your mental operating system. So that it so that it favors right
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now medical research, see easy enough to find if you Google estimates that as many as 90% of illness and disease is stress related, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, heart disease, ulcers, obesity, type two diabetes, allergies, asthma and migraine headaches and so on. Center for Disease Control. It says their beliefs are that 83% of all deaths for adults between the ages of 21 and 65 are directly related to lifestyle. Now, a lot of us know these facts. Now but no one seemed to know that back in the 60s and 70s there was no proof that I had but I had a powerful intuition based on personal observation. As Henry Thoreau said, you don’t always need a scientific experiment. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong. Like when you find a trout in your milk in the morning so then time I began to see that a tremendous number of the problems that people have come down to how they think, what they believe their emotional reactions and their behaviors that many times headaches, backaches, ulcerative colitis, asthma, upset stomach, and so forth, are simply reflections of people’s emotions, which in turn, are the result of how they’re thinking which in turn comes from the algorithms they are using to process and try to deal with the challenges in their lives. But what I discovered back then, was that figuring out a way to make a clinical intervention was much more complicated than figuring out the etiology of the problems that people have. You find your percentage of success is pretty low. If you’re trying to get people to change by confronting them with the fact that their thoughts feelings and behaviors are the source of my illness. What do you mean telling me it’s all in my mind or something? No. So it’s very difficult to do that and if you try it too much, people stopped coming to see and they go to see somebody to give them a pill because they have much more faith in the pill fairy than they do in you. So my goal will be to share with you today, a set of mind tools that will help us be able to deal deal with that situation. So after I finished serving my time and in the US Army while protecting the west coast from Vietcong possible attackers, then toward the end of my service quite by accident, or maybe it was by divine guidance, I don’t know. Towards the end of the 1960s I discovered medical hypnosis. I saw that people could be operated on without anesthesia. I watched how panic a moods and despair could be changed in a very short period of time. How a hypnotic experience could melt away anger and anxiety. I listened to the chest of an asthmatic child and heard how the wheezes went away. As the child was given suggestions, so let them go away. I saw how normal saline could revive relieve a person’s anxiety. I could see how hypnosis could be used to relieve pain. And childbirth, how people’s desire for smoking and alcohol could vanish and on and on was astounding. And this happened because I haven’t had been stationed at Fort Ord down in Monterey, California. And there was a group of physicians there who were regularly practicing hypnotherapy in their offices. And they began to introduce me to these things. Now, of course not 100% effectiveness in every illness with with hypnosis, but there’s enough was there to amaze and startle. Me. And so I started to do research, and I was surprised to find that back in 1955, the American Medical Association had carefully studied medical hypnosis and concluded that it was very effective in many cases and that every doctor should have 50 hours of training in hypnosis. How could that be? I just gone to this really great medical school and nobody said anything about this wonderful tool that was available. And throughout my training, I saw people suffering, even though they were receiving the best medical and surgical treatment, but they were suffering because their humanity wasn’t being dealt with. So I went into practice with our Dr. Peter moot cane that was 1970 6970. Peter Mookie was one of the best and best known medical hypnotherapists on the West Coast. And although his practice was a primary care practice, in fact, he was an orthopedic surgeon. He was so well known that there was a continuous stream of phone calls from people who wanted to come in to have their mental, physical, emotional and behavioral illnesses dealt with through hypnotic procedures. So working with him, he actually did come and sit through his sessions with people and it was absolutely fascinating. And in he also took me down to Esalen Institute where he had been lecturing on hypnosis and hypnotherapy. And what an amazing place that was in 1970. That was really the, the place that the Eastern religions and philosophies really got a foothold in our country. And it’s the place that hot tubs were not not invented, but certainly certainly popularized. The teachings from the East were particularly fascinating to me because they were interested in letting go. And in emptiness, like the Tao Te Ching is a beautiful bunch of readings on in praise of, of emptiness and whereas every American knows that bigger is better and that getting in winning is better than losing and that you should cling to everything that you own. And then as the old bumper sticker from Silicon Valley said, He who dies with the most toys wins. On the other hand, he these people, they focused on surrender on letting go and being non attached. How opposite to our philosophy of move fast and break things. Amazing. And so here we are in the middle of this western culture filled with anxiety and insecurity, surrounded by TV commercials and airbrushing models and fast talking politicians, every one of them telling you that you’re not enough and you won’t be enough unless you buy their product or vote for their candidate or join their gang. In other words, armies of attention engineers are doing everything that they can to snatch your attention. They’ve only got three seconds to grab your attention and what grabs your attention. Better than something that says, Oh, you’re in trouble. Yeah, there is a there’s a conspiracy, breaking news. So they want you to feel anxious. They want you to feel afraid. They want you to be angry, ticked off and they want you to feel inadequate, because this is the key to their being able to gain profit from you to sell you their product, or to make you vote for their candidate or get to their charity. And of course by doing that, behaving in that way. I mean, you can’t do everything that everybody tells you the average city dweller is exposed to somewhere between 3005 1000 commercial messages every single day. But every message is telling you that you’re not enough. Every message is telling you that you should be anxious. And of course, with what we’ve seen in the last five or 10 years is it’s they’re just becoming better and better at doing it and we’re in the process of watching democracy become amazed just to fall apart in front of us. You know, the the authoritarian governments are gathering together a man you can see what’s going on what’s the matter, we can’t even get along. It used to be a day, a time and on one politician would say to another. I see what you’re saying and I see what what the basis of what you’re sharing is and you made some good points however, I kind of see things a little differently. And I wonder if you mind if I share with you when I say oh no of course sir. Go ahead and and I’d be happy to listen to it right? It’s not that way anymore. Now. I’m right. You’re an asshole. You’re a fool. You’re an idiot. And I have to listen to you.
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No, I I mean, it was like it was that moment when? When our first black president is speaking in front of the Congress and someone yells out if you lie. I mean, that’s just the beginning. It’s gotten worse and worse. Well, that’s the world that we live in. And so of course, we’re filled with anxiety. Children are committing suicide. levels of depression are going up. I’m just ridiculous. Because it doesn’t look like we’re going to make it and nobody, me gradually people are becoming less and less interested. In religion. People don’t even believe anymore, except for those people who are very militant and insist upon changing the laws to make the rest of us behave in the way that’s right for their religion, but also this is splitting us apart. So here we have these people from the east with these other tools. And what these tools allow people to do is how to relax and I’ll say a little bit more what’s important about relaxing, and I don’t just mean okay is good to relax. I mean, discovering how to relax deeply and thoroughly because that’s where the magic begins. So what I did was I learned everything that I could from those different religions, and it was excellent and so there was an opportunity to to do some controlled and uncontrolled experiments with psilocybin with Lysergic acid that fo amide by the DMT, with with Adam or what they call ecstasy now and so forth. And it was fascinating. What we were able to discover in which is just gradually coming out to like now 45 years later, wow. And so what I did was I combined my learnings from all of these different studies and experiments and also the studies by by Dr. Yvonne Pavlov.
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And of course, what Pavlov did he
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by exposing a dog to a bell and a dish of food on several occasions pretty soon if you ring that bell the dog will act like it’s about to get food it will salivate it will begin to send blood into its stomach, it’ll wag its tails, its eyes eye. Its pupils will dilate and so forth. And however, if you just keep ringing the bell and you don’t give that dog food, that conditioned relax reflex will die away. So he also conditioned dogs to have an enormous amount of fear when he rang a bell because he shocked them when he rang the bell. And that was a way that he could, then you would negatively conditioned the dog and, but if you keep ringing the bell, it doesn’t self distinguish. Because the dog thinks it’s escaping from the pain that the bell makes it think that it’s feeling and it’s not, but you could decondition the dog by giving the dog a plate of food and then playing a recording of the bell very softly and making it louder and louder and louder and louder and pretty soon, I’m not at all in one setting. Of course, you’d have to do this in a number of different days. But pretty soon the dogs eating you can ring the bell at full volume and you see no signs of the running around screaming losing control of its bowels and bladder and so far it’s like it was gone. And then the next day you put them in you don’t feed them you just ring the bell. What does the dog do? Yeah, that’s right. It salivates is that’s wagging its tail? Because you have switched it over. I give you a quick example of of how that can rapidly happen. A woman came to see me because her company in San Francisco was moving from the ground floor up to the 17th floor of a building and she was extremely afraid of heights. She cannot even look out a window of a second floor apartment. The thought of moving up to the 17th floor just threw her into her into total panic. And she came to see me and using a simple technique or reframing technique I asked her unconscious mind. What was the purpose of her fear? And she said the purpose of her note, it said the purpose of her fear was to protect her. So I asked that part of itself what other behaviors could she find that would protect her as well or better than fear and she came up with the answer smiling. Okay, so I gave her tape to take home because when I started doing was recording the guided imagery that I did in the office, everybody would go home with a tape specifically designed to help them reprogram their minds. She did that. And she came back to see me a couple of weeks ago, a couple of weeks after that and said she’s feeling she’s feeling fine. And I said well tell me what happened. She said she went into the building she got on the elevator. And as the elevator started to move up, she felt that familiar fear beginning to come on. And so she smiled. And everybody else smiled back at her and her fear was gone. And that was it. One of my most favorite rapid cures. Well, I didn’t see her again for about three or four years. I was shopping in San Francisco for Christmas and Macy’s. And I ran into her she says Dr. Miller, I said, Oh, how’s everything going? I said how’s everything up on the 17th floor? She says Let me tell you guess what my new hobby is? I said know what you said rock climbing. We’re climbing. I’m half dome next weekend right now I’m not gonna climb Half Dome, but I’m not afraid of heights. Because once she got up to those heights, she saw what she had never seen in her whole 2324 years of life. Oh, beautiful things. Look at that height. What I’m saying is that we are programmed to see the world and to react in the world in certain ways. And it can be it’s something that can be changed and the basis of how to change it has to do with your having the ability to be relaxed, to be calm, to be present. And how you get there you can get there through through a guided imagery experience. You can get there through meditating. You can get there through deep prayer. You can get there through hypnosis or self hypnosis. You can get there to a certain degree by listening to certain kinds of music and so the important thing is to be able to get to that level of relaxation. So So before, before I go on talking about it, I want to take a moment and give you an opportunity to have some experience of what I’m talking about. And to what I would like to do is to offer you some thoughts, some suggestions as to what you might do. My experience is that if people follow these expressions, these suggestions that they begin to get some sense of what this state of mind is that I call the healing state. Or I sometimes think of as a reprogramming state for the deeper levels of the mind. I was a computer programmer before I went to medical school. So I could see right away how the mind operated in a way very analogous to a computer and what we really needed to do was to reprogram. So if you will listen and follow all of these suggestions. They’re very gentle and they have to do with your being at peace. So let your body be at rest in a comfortable position. Free from any constriction and free from having free for you having to hold on to anything
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and choose a point in the distance to let your eyes focus on. And as you let your eyes focus on that point in the distance, just take a deep breath in and as you let it out. Let it be a feeling of letting go.
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Just releasing and letting go.
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Think of this as a moment to relax. You’re not going to be interrupted. And so you can allow yourself to rest become aware of the fact that at this moment in time, there’s no other place that you need to go. There’s nothing else that you need to do. And there’s no problem that you have to solve at this moment in time. And therefore you can give yourself permission to relax to let go of all unnecessary stress and tension to allow your mind and body to come into harmony and to awaken and strengthen your own inner healing powers. Take another deep breath in and as you let it out. Allow your eyelids to close and behind your closed eyelids let your eyes roll gently upward. So the dry eyelids become very very relaxed. And behind your soft warm eyelids. Imagine you can see the hair on the back of your forehead, the word relax or an image or symbol that represents relaxation to you. And as you allow your eyelids to relax all the way down to the point they feel like they just don’t want to open it all heavy and peacefully relaxed. And when you feel your eyelids so relaxed that you can test them and feel their heaviness and imagine they’re so heavy they just don’t want to open it all and as you test your eyes it’s like that feeling of relaxation from your eyelids flow throughout the rest of your body. Imagine relaxation flowing like ripples out of your eyelids through your scalp through all the muscles of your face. Relaxation flowing out with like ripples from a stone thrown into the quiet still surface of a mountain pod. Ripples of relaxation flowing from your eyelids into your forehead and over your scalp. Relaxing every muscle in your scalp ripples flowing through all the muscles of your face muscles around your mouth gently relaxing. As it does you may notice your upper and lower teeth gently drift apart a little bit and let the relaxation flow down through your neck, your shoulders. Almost as if you can imagine yourself standing beneath a gentle waterfall of warm relaxation flowing over your head. Relaxing your scowl a soft shimmering shower Oh sweet relaxation flowing through your forehead through all the muscles of your face. Down through your shoulders and your arms and your elbows, your forearms and wrists and hands all the way down to your fingers and as you feel that relaxation, reach your fingertips, feel the heaviness, the warmth, the tingling of the relaxation as it reaches your fingertips. And as you feel it Take another deep breath and draw the relaxation up through your arms into your chest. And as you let it out, release all tension from your chest and back and let the air do the breathing for you. Nothing to do, just relaxing and enjoying the rising falling of your chest. The rising and falling of your abdomen. A gentle massage to all your internal organs. your lower back relaxing peace and calm flowing through your muscles all the way down through your thighs and your knees, your legs and your ankles. And your feet right out through the tips of your toes. And as each breath effortlessly leaves think to yourselves the words it breathes me.
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It breathes me
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after each breathing out, let yourself sink down into that little pause after you breathe out and before the next breath comes in. This is the quietest time of all for all your mind and body. And it exists there between the out breath in the in breath. Always. No matter where you are, no matter what’s happening around you. If you choose to. You can pause focus your breath in this way. Focus on your breath in this way. And then allow yourself to be guided into this pause
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and now let’s use your imagination a little bit and imagine that your body feels very light and peaceful as if you’re floating there floating gently on a magic carpet of relaxation, floating gently through time and space to a very pleasant experience. Perhaps one of those happiest moments in your life. One of those holy moments, maybe the moment you first saw your newborn child or maybe at a time when you had a particularly wonderful vacation or a certain time in a certain place in the world. That you love. Maybe you were sitting on the beach on a mountaintop and a beautiful garden. Or maybe you were there with someone you love deeply or someone who loved you deeply. Let yourself float to this special place. picture it in your mind’s eye as if you can look around and see the colors and shapes. Maybe they’re blurry at first but in your imagination. Allow them to become more clear and maybe hear the sounds around you in this beautiful place. Feel the texture of anything that you’re touching. If you don’t come up with a place that you’ve been to just make one up, could be a fantasy place. But go there. Be there. Let yourself be in it and any time any unnecessary thoughts come along. Imagine that unnecessary thought is like words written on a blackboard in your mind’s eye. And remember that relaxation in your eyelids and as you gently testify it’s imagine you’re drawing a wet eraser across your mental Blackboard, erasing the unnecessary thought and sending another wave of soothing relaxation flowing throughout your body. Right now through the palms of your hands down and out through the soles of your feet. Good. Let your body absorb the love and the peace and the serenity of this moment. Feel the joy and the wholeness and focus on that place in your body. Where you feel it the most clearly. Relaxation of peace, the wholeness of health. Allow it as you do squeeze two of your fingers together that you can use as a signal so that anytime you wish to come back to this place in this feeling, you may do so by simply relaxing and squeezing these two fingers together and picturing this scene
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now in a moment, I’m going to ask you to take a deep breath and to let it out and as you do to gently allow your awareness to return back to the place where your body is comfortably resting.
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Take a deep breath in and as you let it out.
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allow your eyes to slowly open with soft vision so you can just enjoy the colors and shapes that you see and think wide awake. feeling fresh
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and clear. Good.
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Now this is just a very brief experiential introduction. Some of you may have found yourself becoming profoundly relaxed. Others may have held on to tensions. You may have allowed your thoughts to wander into the past or the future to compare or judge to evaluate or criticize. However, if you’re truly liked to have those kinds of experiences that I want to speak of, you’ll find you’re much more successful if you’ve given yourself an opportunity to learn the techniques such as this just by practicing. If it wasn’t easy for you. It’s not easy for you to first time you sit down to play a scale on a piano. But if you practice it a little bit, you can learn to do it. And then the same way. Of course when you learn to play the scale on the piano. It’s not your muscles that are learning, right. It’s your nervous system. And that’s what we’re talking about training here. And I’m sure that you’re aware of the studies that have indicated when people have a month of training, let’s say in simple mindfulness meditation, which is really similar to the one that we just did. You can see the tracks running from their prefrontal cortex down to their amygdala down to their hippocampus you know tracks caring about gamma amino butyric acid producing relaxation and you can see it on an fMRI. So and let me say if you an easy way to learn this is for you to have a voice to follow. One of the products that I’ve created and I’ve been creating these products since 1972. This one’s called Creating your island of peace. The best known recording for reducing stress in the world at this point is letting go of stress. There’s four different experiences for relieving stress. That’s myself playing together with Stephen Halpern. And there’s another one called writing your own script which is more focused on some of the processes that I’ll be sharing with you in a few moments. All of these can be found@shop.dr miller.com. And just as you can go to my website, which is Dr. miller.com. The website that’s there at the moment is about 15 years old, so it’s pretty ancient. However, I’m going to be replacing it in about two or three weeks and it’s going to be a much more complete website including the so much more of my recent work. So you can take a look at it now. But I encourage you to go back in a little while and look at that I think it’ll be be really be worthwhile.
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So one of the things that I became aware of and started working a lot with is stress this is back in there. Again, back in the 1970s most people didn’t even know the word stress and even those who knew what it was in, knew, knew the word didn’t really know what it was. And people today still don’t understand stress. Most important thing that I tried to teach people is that stress is not something that happens to you. Stress is something that you do with what happens to you a very, very important point because stress is a reaction of your body and your mind your nervous system, the nonspecific reaction to a perceived demand. It’s initiated by the limbic system, the unconscious part of your mind that lives in your paleo cortex. Why? So I call it your monkey mind because it’s set up just like a monkey brain. It’s also called system one. By Daniel Kahneman, if you haven’t read it, you should he won. He won a Nobel Prize for this. It’s called fast thinking and slow thinking. Beautiful, wonderful book. But at any rate, of course, the word stress, unfortunate word, stress, it shouldn’t be called stress, because stress already has a definition. You put stress on an element of a bridge. So stress is something that’s exerted by the outside whereas stress in a human being is not from the outside, it is from the inside. And what he discovered back in 1936 was in working with animals, no matter what. The animals were sick with no matter what caused their death. When he examined their organs. He found a familiar pattern, GI bleeding, enlarged adrenals shrunken thymus and others, he went to the professors and say, Hey, here’s a syndrome, which nobody seems to know anything about. And they said we’re not interested in it because it does not help us make a diagnosis, and so it’s useless. And so Sally’s work was discarded back then. So it didn’t stop him. He went on ahead and developed. A theory is called a general adaptation syndrome. And this is when an animal in a particularly a mammal, is there’s they’re alarmed. And so there’s immediate things that happen. And there’s the alarm phase. Then there’s a resistance phase. And the animal’s body is trying to figure out how to solve the problem. Once it figures out how to solve the problem, then it’s able to go through the recovery phase. This kind of a stress reaction is very useful where we grew up 100,000 years ago. It is finite stresses, stressors that are finite and short lived. Like let’s say you’re being attacked by saber toothed tiger or let’s say a tree is about to fall on you or a landslide or a flood. Okay, it’s you’ve got a few seconds to escape or fight. And if you don’t, then you’re finished. The demand is from an easily identified source. If you hear that, hear that lion roaring at you. You know where it’s at, you know where the stressor is. It is very present. You’re not being stressed by what happened yesterday and you’re not worried about what happens tomorrow, not 100,000 years ago. And these kinds of stressors can be resolved by analyzing and responding physically to the current situation. And what really happens if you ever had that experience where you almost died and you didn’t like you hit the ice and your cargo spinning into the other lane of the freeway and spins and spins and you’re hanging on for dear life and this finally comes to a stop and you realize you’re still alive. What do you do? You go
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you relax, and relax it and you have a period of increased relaxation. All animals demonstrate this too, because stress is a two phase operation. The first is the activation phase. And the second is a reactive is the recovery phase. Just like all the organs that I mean you breathe in and then you let it go. You know your heart constricts. And then it relaxes. It’s meant to relax like that. I mean, if you tried to convert somebody, you know, try shocking them during that little space there be around the T wave while it’s recovering. You’re thrown into a fatal arrhythmia, because we’re designed to have that you see that you have hunger and then your hunger satisfy. There’s sexual stimulation and reactivity. And then what then for a little while, you can’t do anything anymore. There’s a refractory phase. And so this is very natural in many areas of, of our bodies, and in particular it is that way for stress.
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And so this was fine because you only had stresses, you know, maybe one every few days or so. And in between you’re pretty relaxed. You’re not worried about anything. And so what happens is over time, some days are stressful. And other days are relaxed stress, relax, but there’s a kind of stability a kind of a moving homeostasis inside of you. And so that nothing is building up inside. And this form of reacting to the environment is just wonderful. It works fine. But now, let’s come up to the 20 of 21st century. It’s a different kind of stress here. I mean, cavemen didn’t have computers 21st century stress. Our stresses are social stressors, demands and challenges. They’re not helped, but hindered by tension, anger, anxiety, resentment, jealousy. And the toxic stress chemicals that are exuded this these chemicals, so we say your cortisol corticoids your cortisol and the other chemicals that are going on in there. Their basic job is to dissolve the organs of your body and turn them into glucose so that you can fight or flight like hell, for 10 or 20 or 30 seconds, maybe a minute or two in a rare case, but that’s it. Not something that’s continuing to bang on you all day. Every day the phone’s ringing, you’ve got faxes, you’ve got instant message, you’ve got emails, people are yelling at you from here from there, the pop up ads are in your face constantly keeping you that way. So what does it do it injures your organs and I’m of course I’m speaking as a as a scientist. I’ve been studying this for 50 years and you can find out the proof for all of this. I’m not gonna waste your time by giving you the you know my sources, you can find them easier now. That shortens your telomeres, stress and then fight illness. Students that are under stress are far more likely to get the flu when flu season comes around, for instance, and they’re slower to recover. And the stresses that we have this builds up inside of us because we’re never getting a chance to go.
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And so this continued chemical stress or stress or stress or leads us to want to escape. Right? And how do we escape in ways that often are deleterious alcohol, drugs, we become emotionally withdrawn. We become addicted to various things. Sometimes we become bullies, we turn to violence, we turn to drinking, we turn to over eating up all of these things, which, of course, don’t solve the problem. They create, in fact the problems that is making us wealthy by giving them pills to try to hide their symptoms from them. And then the most important thing of all, to me is that when we’re in these stressful states and feelings like like, anger, anxiety, fear, grief, jealousy, irritation, frustration, all of these are responses of the limbic system and that what we are experiencing is a kind of post hypnotic stress disorder on a nationwide basis now. Now we call it complex PTSD, but it’s the same thing. Well, all of these and when you want to know whether your stress look at what your feelings are, that’s a pretty good indication. But all of these emotions and all of stress tends to inhibit your prefrontal cortex, right? It inhibits your prefrontal cortex. And in so doing, it prevents you from being able to contemplate wisely prevents you from drawing on your wisdom and your spiritual resources. It blocks strategy and planning. Those things can’t happen because this is like you’re dead in three minutes. You know, you’ve got to it’s not like, you don’t want to look and say, Oh, look at that. Tigers beautiful eyes. Oh my god. Saber toothed Tigers have blue eyes. Were out. Have you ever heard this? You’re finished. So you’re not there to think and yet the problems that we’re confronted with require that we’re able to be wise, be able to think and to strategize and to draw on our resources, including our social resources. And, and so somebody calls and you you want you let the deal fall through. And it just seemed like a really good idea to smash your $1,000 cell phone into the stone fireplace. What did I do? That’s what I mean by not having your wisest behavior available. To you. So this kind of type have to stress that we feel it’s not something happening in the moment. Its future oriented. It’s intangible. It’s not a tiger we can fight with. It’s a social challenge. Not a physical challenge. There is no clear response. You can’t punch your boss in the nose as much as you might like to. And it accumulates within us. And as it accumulates within us. We get above a symptom threshold and we begin to have symptoms. You start feeling tension or body’s neck aches. We have a headache, familiar pain in the neck. We feel anger, we have insomnia, frustration, allergies, infections, and it goes on and on and on and on. And as these symptoms come up then of course, that’s what we go to send we go to the pill ferry to get the pill to help that symptom go away. So there we are in our stressed out place. being distracted by this that the other thing quick look over here. Look, look over there. Now so our way out of it. It’s about the power of now. What is causing our stress is when we believe there’s a conflict. Let’s say I wanted to take the family out for a beautiful picnic today. That was going to be wonderful. It’s our only time we’re going to get to do with this whole month. And what happens when you know it, it’s raining, it’s raining and sleep. That’s the end of it. Then we get upset by that. Because what’s happening is what we want to happen and what is happening is different. These two ideas being in the mind at the same time cause cognitive dissonance that cognitive dissonance is experienced as a conflict. There’s a conflict between these two ideas. Well, the monkey mind the limbic system says conflict. Oh, I know how to deal with conflict. Okay, let’s pump some cortisone. Hey, we need more adrenaline up here. And we’re off and running. So when you think about the negative feelings that come up, it’s virtually always associated with your thinking about the past or the future. If you simply come into the present moment, so that your mind is focused on what you are experiencing right now at this place. You’ll find that you can relax because you’re in a safe place and breathing feels really kind of good every new breath it was like ah each breath out is a release how wonderful it is. And if you open your eyes, you see colors and you see shapes and so a thought comes along and you say that A thought is like a whiff of smoke. You don’t have to think that and when your prefrontal cortex is working if prefrontal cortex is your the executive level of your mind, it is capable of telling you what to ignore. And so you ignore unnecessary thoughts. You can come down to being at peace, no matter how upset you were. You have the possibility as long as you’re not physically in danger of being injured in the next five minutes. You can come to that place of complete peace. And when you come to that place of complete peace, then and only then can you come up with a wisest possible solution to whatever is triggering or was triggering the stressful feeling within you.
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So of course what we’re looking at is we have this reptilian brain, which is basically instinctual stuff heart rate breathing, body temperature balance. The oldest part of the brain central nervous system, then a bit higher. We have our limbic brain and the Paleo mammalian cortex what I call a monkey brain because it’s it is it’s like having a monkey inside of us. You ever think about it? When you get angry? It’s not because you’ve decided hey, I think I really get angry today. When you’re feeling anxious. It’s not you say Hmm, I think what will probably help me with my speeches if I get anxious today. It’s not like that. You don’t choose your feelings. Your emotions are chosen by your monkey mind. And it’s chosen because the way you are conceptualizing the world is that you see a conflict. Whereas if you can see the world differently, what I learned from from Gandhi was Gandhi said the ally that you must always seek is the part of your adversary that knows what is right. Kind of think twice on that the allied to must always seek is the part of your adversary that knows what is right. So when you’re in a disagreement with somebody, you don’t want to fight him. You don’t want to run from them. You want to think to yourself, Where is the goodness in this person that I that I can relate to in some way? That’s a whole different way of doing it. Okay, and then part of that part of that limbic system is your little tiny walnut, almond shaped amygdala and your hippocampus where all your immediate memories are are processed your amygdala is basically the fear center of your brain, you quiet the amygdala then you don’t have those emotions happening for you. And then above the limbic system is our neocortex. That’s where we do our higher thinking that’s the higher mind. And the highest of the higher mind is the prefrontal cortex, by the executive part of your cortex. It’s the brains brain. It’s where the executive functions are focusing attention. Predicting the consequences of one’s actions, anticipating events in the environment, impulse control, managing emotional reactions, screening out distractions. The way to use the brain properly is that information should be flowing up from lower centers up toward higher centers. The higher centers should be sending guidance and control down over the lower centers, because as you go up in the levels of this whole archy there are qualities that emerged that are not present at other places within like the ability to think about the future in the past. Your monkey mind doesn’t have future and past. It’s all right now. It’s all right now, so when the soldier dives underneath the couch because he hears a a car backfire going off. He’s not sitting in the middle of the city with with cars backfiring, he’s back in that trench again. Because a monkey mind that’s it? No, that’s how they saw they get stuck. Well, of course. What what it is that my work has been was to use what we have which is neuroplasticity. People are just starting to talk about this and delayed maybe the last 1015 years. Right, maybe 20. But it was clear and obvious to me in the work that I did for many years back then, and it still is there now and lots more. Lots more, lots more proof of it. Yeah. And I would say also that that serious health challenges. I mean, yes, most of the things that you know that you’re working with if you’re getting headaches or stomach aches or diarrhea or or irritable bowel syndrome on and on and on. But sometimes you have to you deal with severe problems. i One afternoon, this was back in the 70s I got a call and in the facts from a local physician who told me that he was seeing a young woman who had severe ulcerative colitis. And after several years it had reached an extreme point her weight was down to less than 70 pounds. She was severely malnourished, continuous diarrhea, and the only thing that he had to offer her was to completely remove her colon. But because of her young age, he was really didn’t want to do this to this to this young woman who looks like an escapee from one of Hitler’s camps. So he had heard something of my success in working with psychophysiological medicine. He requested that I come to see her in the hospital and these photographs are pictures of her as I found her in the hospital. I saw her I think 12 or 15 times and I use the selective awareness exploration that I’ll share more with you in a few moments and there she is about two or three months later. Happy and active and almost completely free of any kind of bowel symptoms. I spoke to her last 30 years later, and she still has not had a recurrence. Of the ulcerative colitis she had before and is living a healthy life. So it has very, very powerful changes can take place using the tools that I’m sharing with you now this is what I have. I got rid of my medical practice. After about five years it was clear what I wanted to do. So I sold my X ray machine and all of the gadgets that I had, and this is what I’ve been doing since 1974 specifically working with people and because nobody else was doing and I’ve been exploring and managing to say 20 or 30 years out in front of the crowd. They’re starting to use this in fact all of the major training centers are using deep relaxation, they’re using meditation, they’re using guided imagery, they’re using the same cognitive restructuring techniques. So what the basic approach that I used with with this young woman
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was the
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selective awareness exploration in which we really examined what’s going on inside. Before while I was in high school. I used to repair radios. Now let’s say you have a radio and there’s a hum coming out of the speaker. You go in with a signal tracer. And you examine right at the beginning of before it’s coming in the speaker, you hear the hum. Then you go back to the stage between the demodulator and the audio amp. And let’s say you still hear the hum that means that the hum must have come in before that. So you go back to that spot that spot between your intermediate frequency filter and your demodulator. And let’s say you still hear it there. And that’s you go back to position four between the mixer and the if amplifier filter and you don’t hear it then you know that that hum has originated between number of steps three and four. Well, I figured why not do the same thing with human beings. So if a person comes in with a symptom, you know, be a physical, mental, emotional or behavioral, whatever it might be some recurring chronic, and I’m not talking about people who fall off a ladder. But what I will do is I will first go back to
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the I have a
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person go back, Sam want to go back to some time in the last few weeks that you had this reaction and tell me what’s going on. And then I’ll say go back to last month, going back to some time last year. And finally go back to childhood and if possible, back to the very first time in your life that you’ve ever had that experience. And then I desensitize and rescript
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their behavior following
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following that, and then I give them recordings to practice with at home. So I’ll tell you a brief case history of Clara. Clara came in complaining of ongoing feelings of anxiety GI distress, frequent headaches, irritable bowel syndrome. She had these feelings as far back as she could remember in my office, once she was in a satisfactory state of relaxation and we had identified a safe place for her. I asked her deep remind to guide her back to a few minutes before one of her more recent events. And in that scene, her teenage son was threatening to quit school and take a low paying job. And sitting there in my office. She had a recrudescence of those feelings inside of her. I guided her to relax and the feelings went away. Next I suggested she go back a year or two to another time. And this time it had to do with a threat her of her being laid off from work due to the pandemic. And again she had the same symptoms. I helped her quiet those symptoms and we went back to a few more events and every one of them fit that same pattern. Finally I requested of her deeper mind that she go back to one minute before the very first time in her life. She’d ever had this reaction in these feelings. In this scene she was seated with her family around the dinner table just finished eating a huge delicious dinner and suddenly, an argument breaks out between her parents. She had never seen anything like this but they were furious. And the iron rose to the point their father threatened to divorce the mother and he got up and stomped out of the house. Clara became aware of enormous feelings of anxiety they are in my office as she relived them. Okay, what happened in the real event, the ongoing digestion of her dinner was interrupted by the stress reactions shunting the blood away from her digestive organs, leaving them cramped and painful. In her mind. She feared that her life was over. She felt extremely frightened. And a typical of what happens when this sort of situation occurs in early childhood. There’s a kind of split that happens in the psyche, in which one part of the person Clara is so overwhelmed with irreconcilable feelings and intense terror that the conscious intent attention switches. It focuses on the pain that she’s feeling. And she suppresses awareness of this intolerable situation. There’s a kind of splitting that takes place. Instead, she decides that she’s going to clean off the table and she’s going to do a spectacular job of washing the dishes. And she’s going to take care of everything around the house so perfectly that her parents will definitely not separate and she is a very good girl. Parents turn out not to separate and something in her says yeah, this is because I clean up after everybody. And that’s what she’s always been but whenever she’s confronted with a situation that in some way bears some similarity to that originally invent event, then those symptoms come back to her as we went back through each of her symptoms, and she would feel them and I would say okay, let them go. Now let’s go back to the next memory. Feel the feeling let it go feel a feeling let it go by the time we get back to the sensitizing event. We have control over those feelings and he or she is able to and what people often will do will come up with memories that they’ve never had before. And and those memories have been at the source of what their problems were. Well, from this point on. I now guide her back through my ad she’s back there. I tell her as an adult. If you saw this happening to a young girl, what would you tell her if you could whisper in her ear? She’d say Well, I’d say look, this is your parents problem. They’re upset. You’re going to be okay. And it’s going to be all right. And then I tell her, go back and become the little girl again and imagine you can hear your own voice telling you those things. And I have her relive that extremely painful memory which she ever reacted so strongly to. But she handles it calmly and then I have her go through all the other memories. That we had seen and reprogram her behavior. I then ask her to look forward into the future. And imagine the kind of situation that might have caused that problem in the past for her but to visualize herself handling it with a plum with calm as those the easiest thing in the world. And then I give her a tape to take home. And now it’s not a tape but I send something home and she downloads it. It’s about a 10 minute 10 to 15 minute experience that does all of that rescripting and she used to practice that two or three times a day. And that’s basically what brings about the all of the amazing changes that have given me a very successful and very joyful life. And I’ll just mention if you’re interested, my book, The first book I published 1973 called selective awareness, the new science of mind body medicine and which no one would publish it. Of course, back then nobody would publish there would be like having somebody publish something on psilocybin therapy. That’s ridiculous. But I published it and made it available throughout the country because my goal was to change medicine as it had been practiced. I had no money a poor student coming in now poor X poor veteran. But people got their hands on it and it’s full. I give all the definitely how to do things. I have scripts that you can read and so and a lot of people many, many people worked with it and kind of set the wheels in motion for for what we now see as being a medicine of mind, body, motion and spirit. The other things that you’ll find on the website creating your island of peace and the love meditation, letting go of stress, it’s the most popular ball victory over COVID Which I’ve gotten really good results back reports from people and then that this whole series of programs how to avoid and you know how to prepare your body to fight off COVID And then once you haven’t, how to activate your immune system and also how to deactivate it in case you have something like a cytokine storm. And it’s really useful just about any kind of viral disease then there’s changed the channel on pain for different techniques, teaching a person to take care of their own pain. We could have saved a lot of opioid deaths with that healing journey was one of the first that I made was the general healing process to awaken your possibility of self healing. Tao once I had put about 30 years into studying the field of deep healing, I wrote this the classic book that I wrote called deep healing. And again is gives many cases and also self applied guidance at the end of end of each chapter. It’s not Well, it’s a fun book to read. It’s slow going because there’s a lot of information there. And then
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I also
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have been very interested in the fact that exactly the same processes that can heal individuals can heal groups and families who I worked with. And I do a lot of work now online. This way I can see people throughout the world. I work primarily by means of by means of zoom. And but it’s basically the same thing. Helping people learn how to use their mind, teach them these Mind Tools. And back in 2009 I self published this book, which is our culture on the couch Seven Steps to global healing. And I put forth a theory at that time was that we were thinking in the wrong paradigm that we were developing a polarity and that if we did not change our way of thinking that that polarity was going to threaten our very existence as as a nation and as a planet and I guess being able to say I told you so is at least that’s a little bit of a constellation. The imagery on healing our planet is just a way of attuning ourselves to the kinds of thinking that can help us heal our planet and and it is up to us nobody’s gonna do it. It’s up to every single one of us. And there’s a way for that to happen. Healing from cancer has proven to be very effective. We opened the very first cancer center back in the mid 70s where we actually got together with people who had cancer and taught them to be able to say cancer and show them techniques by which they could do lots of things and I have it’s also a video on cancer in which I have maybe a dozen people who had death a diagnosis who had come to our cancer center and they’re alive telling their story and living happily happy lives 15 years later. So and there’s also if you go to if you go to what’s your Amazon Prime, there’s a vide there’s a video that you can watch. It’s called Live life. And then after about six or seven of my patients are featured in that movie. And you get you get a chance to actually see
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how people
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have dealt with it and what they experienced from going through these kinds of therapy. And so and there’s also videos like this one that how to the power of your mind to manage stress and heal your body. Because you’re in practice, I’d advise you try sharing these with people. This huge list. Any of them will work because they all have relaxation, and each particular one shows how to apply the deep relaxation technique to ameliorate the symptoms and the source
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of people have. Okay
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I should have made it shorter. Sorry, if I had to rush through it, but you can always go back and look at it because it’ll be online. Right?
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Right. You did just fine. Oh, thank you.
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What a treat. Thank you very much. Yeah.
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So if you have any questions, I’m here.
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I’m was there any in the chat?
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I got a question while you’re looking. Have because you’ve been around a long time. I’m putting this in perspective. And when you were treating patients I was flying jets. So you go way back in time. Oh, and I was wondering, have you dealt much with the cranial therapy and osteopathy or the primary respiratory mechanism?
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No, I haven’t. But one of my students developed something called EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing kind of worked with quite a number of veterans as she was as she was perfecting this. We would we were working in in at at the VA Center in Menlo Park where I was living at that point. And that that’s been my main contribution back in that direction. What kind of jets were you fly?
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Oh gosh. Just to train our jets t 38. Then flew tactical C 130s. All right. And then I got busted up and wound up recovering going to medical school, right. That was my karma. So it was one of the best times in my life that led me to osteopathy and that’s why I asked that question. There’s the osteopathic cranial rhythmic impulse or primary respiratory mechanism they call it is one of the ways of getting to a street getting to a relaxed state and going to the relaxed state so you can feel the rhythm, right. So anyway, just curious about that. Because you’re talking about a lot a long time stuff you’ve been doing. You’re just so far ahead of the crowd.
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Yeah. Well, when I was in, when I was in college, Dean called me into his office and I figured Oh god, I’ve been busted for you know, I smuggled a piano into our room and we used to cook we used to do all this them. And it wasn’t none of that at all. He called me because he wanted to share the results of my vocational guidance test, which he said he had never done in his 20 years but he had to share mine because everything I was completely interested in or had no interest in and just in terms of, of what I was going to be probably going to be satisfied with. And, and the three top things he said I should look at because I was headed to be a mathematician or a physicist or something like that. Yeah, that’s where my interest was, but was a YMCA physical director, a minister, you know, or or an osteopath. And I had come out of the inner city to do was run a community center. I couldn’t be a minister because I didn’t believe in God. I figured that would be a problem. And I didn’t know what an osteopath was. So I went to medical school, but if someone had told me I would have gone up
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here for this is this is the osteopathic crown. We’re so we’re so much the osteopathic crowd. We are we are reviled and attacked, but that’s okay. We’re cool with it. We’re talking about the same things you’re talking about. You’re talking about it in deep terms, spiritual terms, spiritual language. So we’re doing the same thing and I’m glad.
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Yes, well, we can. We can thank Mr. Flexner for all of that. And Mr. Rockefeller, you know, it’s like they just framed everything that didn’t. That wasn’t based upon petroleum products basically. So it’s a shame what they did. set us back so far. And like I said, I think this what’s what’s screwing up the world is that we have close our eyes to these things.
1:39:43
I’m going to check your site and see what you’ve suggested the saving us because you’re, you’re aware of how bad it’s become. And so and so have we and some of this is basic science. And that’s where Dr. Clearfield comes in. He’s just like you said, what’s going on with the mind? Bill says what’s going on with the hormones and the biochemistry and we need to listen to both?
1:40:06
Yes, yes, absolutely. Wonderful.
Bill Clearfield 1:40:11
Together, John. Well, yeah, there’s a couple of questions. I’m not sure. One of the first one here is what is your opinion of acupuncture is an anti stress technique. If you have any opinion,
1:40:24
acupuncture seems to work in quite a number of cases. I I’ve seen it work. I’ve seen it not work. But I’ve seen it work enough that it’s more more than placebo in my experience.
Bill Clearfield 1:40:41
I’ve done acupuncture for more than 30 years. So and again, I’m going to agree you know sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. We try to sort of cherry pick the patients that after all this time, we’ll you know, we have good success with so you can always pop my shin Mang anytime you want to know what that is. That means spirits gate, right, right. A lot of great, great class and attaboys and things like that. One question here is which book or video do you recommend to learn that your methods so that we can teach our patients
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so that you can teach, teach your patients, our patients?
Bill Clearfield 1:41:30
Any of you any of your books that would at least get us on the on the
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I think the the deep healing, deep healing Okay, the feeling is a deep healing is is playing deep healing and letting go of stress and writing your own script. Those are the those are the audios writing your own script is really is really done on the fashion that person can actually do their own selective awareness, exploration and rescript patterns in their lives.
Bill Clearfield 1:42:05
Not that’s the one that seems to resonate with me John, I don’t know about you.
1:42:12
And and I asked for the book if you don’t like to read. I also read it to you so there’s a there’s there’s a performed version of it out there so you can listen while you’re driving to work.
Bill Clearfield 1:42:26
Any thoughts on devices Bluetooth, Bluetooth, bass that helped promote parasympathetic states.
1:42:37
Bluetooth based.
Bill Clearfield 1:42:39
I’m just reading the question Dr. Nereo you still hear
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Bluetooth
Bill Clearfield 1:42:52
I guess not okay. He just want to
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there’s a wearable device. It’s literally like a band aid put it on your head and it generates electromagnetic and some electro therapy low currency and it’s yes, it’s remote. They can be controlled. I used to work with them for changing the neuroplasticity of the brain and reading it but I have something to say here. I mean, I think if you go back to Dr. John, he just said it. And I just want to confirm it and remind everybody that Dr. William Bill is restoring the homeostasis using natural products, biologically competitive, compatible products, whether it’s peptides or hormones or or polyphenols and and all the good stuff that he does, right. And what you’re doing you’re doing cognitive therapy, and you’re taking advantage of training the frontal lobe, then give them the instructions and relieves the stress and events of the past and all that by cognitive therapy, call it and biofeedback and you’re able to increase oxytocin and the happy molecules saying like what Dr. William is doing, though, his peptides and poly phenols and things at six hormones. He’s increasing those happy molecules which are antioxidant and anti inflammatory and it helps to definitely decrease the stress and inflammation and restoring the homeostasis. So you’re using the frontal lobe and and the power of the oxytocin because oxytocin is we I think I have a very big lecture on it just helps to restore the homeostasis of the body in every aspect of your chemistry in your body, especially oxytocin. So I think that’s what you’re doing is
1:44:43
I’m an oxytocin fan. It’s, it’s when I’ll, I’ll do a psych, you know, gamma amino butyric acid and oxytocin, especially oxytocin is is it’s an amazing thing. And it’s, you know, been trained out of people, unfortunately. So anything that can help us with that is great. Well,
1:45:07
that’s what you’re doing. You’re actually treating people through the cognitive therapy to increase the happy molecule including oxytocin, and those happy molecules, dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, all those good stuff. It helps to and the parasympathetic, it helps to decrease the inflammation and you’re treating psychosomatic disease, and it’s not placebo effect. It’s a real effect. I mean, sometimes a patient has pain and you just tell them hey, you know, I’m giving you a medication that’s gonna help you relieve your pain. And it’s just normal saline and just by telling him that the expectation all that stuff you increasing is oxytocin, his body and and people will think it’s a placebo effect, but it’s a real changing in chemistry of the body with your psychotherapy, cognitive therapy and very good you have this kind of that voice and it’s you need to scale really to it’s not that anybody can do it. To have that kind of calming and charm and charisma, and people trust you confident you cannot just be anybody talking and thinking you can treat patients using psychosomatic, you really have to have that. That the things that you are equipped with throughout your 30 years. It involves many things. It’s not just saying words that you’re saying because if I repeat the things that you say to the patient, it’s not going to be as you’re saying it. So I congratulate you for your journey.
1:46:32
Well, thank you very much.
Bill Clearfield 1:46:36
Are you are you prescribing a lot of oxytocin? Dr.
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Miller? Not No Not, not, not the chemical just helping people induce its flow? Right. You know, by going back to your when you delivered your child and women, I think you can really boost that boost the oxytocin just by reliving that experience, again and again, or any deep loving experience or even to a certain degree spiritual experience is epiphanies in a person’s life. When a person relives this scene in with clarity, the brain actually emulates the exactly the state that it was in at the time those things happen. And therefore it calls forth the same chemicals that were never called forth at that time. And when it’s oxytocin, it’s oxytocin. That’s my beliefs. I haven’t haven’t been able to sample their bloodstream yet. But maybe that’ll happen. Oh, it’s difficult
Bill Clearfield 1:47:43
to you know, we used to do urine, urine 24 hour urine collections to try to get some sort of sample and there was only one place in North Carolina that sort of did it and I haven’t done it in a long, you know, haven’t run them. Would the opposite be the same effect? Would you wait I mean, if we could get it get a measurement, would it be diminished and someone who had a you know a severe PTSD syndrome?
1:48:09
Yeah. Because the the name of the whole oxytocin healing life.
1:48:21
It’s all about
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what I call love with a capital L. The urge to merge the tendency to get together with those who are in harmony that you’re resonating with to become more whether it’s two people getting married or family clinging together. When you have PTSD, a person’s pretty shut down. They want to avoid being one with anything because they don’t want to be one with that bullet that may be coming across the ramparts next. So they you know, they can’t trust their wife. They can’t trust a little kids, for that matter, but so there’s no so it’s really the opposite. Of being able to trust in Trust being such a big
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piece of love.
1:49:19
Okay, great. All right.
Bill Clearfield 1:49:25
I’m not sure where to take it from there.
1:49:29
Well, well,
Bill Clearfield 1:49:31
I can’t thank you enough for being with us. And this was a real treat. I know for myself and everybody that was on here. Oh, great. And please, please stay in touch. I hope you’ll allow us to put you on are you on our mailing list? We’re here every Tuesday. coming up in October, which is just a couple of weeks away. We’ll be three years we’ve been here every Tuesday. Excellent. Excellent. And and you know, and you know what our reward was for that. Right, Josh? So, I just a couple of housekeeping items. I’m trying to find a venue. The timeframe is, like forgot was, you know, Christmas time. So what we’re talking about is we’re trying to put together a quick little live and online in person conference. We haven’t done one in over a year. And it’s probably time so we’re looking in the Reno area because just because it’s easier for us here, but we’ll do it online also. So we don’t leave anybody out. anybody’s got a venue near that near where they are, let me know. You know, apparently is a popular place for Christmas party. So we’re running into a little bit of that. anybody who’d like to participate Dr. Miller, please let us know. And again, we can do it online. So you don’t you don’t have to leave home. And we’re looking for a CME partner. And that’s a whole nother story. So next week, Dr. alasa, you still hear relief Dr. Haas is going to be telling us about ivermectin and probiotics. So as a as a as an adjunct for the work that he’s doing. And the week after that, I don’t have anybody yet, so if anybody’s got something they like to present, please let me know. I may or may not go and visit the grandkids next Friday. And like the last time I was there, I may or may not be on next week, so we will make sure that everything’s running smoothly, though. John,
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you got anything for us? Everything’s beautiful. House 1000 Medical School. Everything’s beautiful. All good. No complaints. Okay.
Bill Clearfield 1:51:53
And anybody else have any comments or questions? Thank you so much, Dr. Miller. If you’re still here, thank you, and if you’re not so again, thank you. We have a we had a real treat tonight. If you go look at his website. And did you find it John? I think it’s it miller.com I think that’s
1:52:12
what Yeah, I did a lot of good information on it. And
Bill Clearfield 1:52:17
always, you know, videos, and he, you know, he’s been a pioneer for a million in one years. So, you know, so you know, we’re still a small group, but we bring you all the good stuff through. Okay, anybody else have any comments questions? And, if not, we’ll say I’m going to say good night. Davis, you can hang on for just a second. I
1:52:48
want to ask you something. If I can find you here are the jority go.
Bill Clearfield 1:52:55
Okay, okay. Anybody else have any comments or questions? We’ll say Good. Night, and I’ll see you next week.
1:53:09
Say hello to Silvia for me.
1:53:11
Yeah, and Okay, everybody, can I right? Hey, Dave, are you are you available in two weeks to present?
1:53:22
In two weeks?
Bill Clearfield 1:53:23
Yeah. The 26th You could do that.
1:53:26
Let me see. When he’s six Yeah, I should be able to do that.
Bill Clearfield 1:53:35
Is that That’s too close. Like, you know, we can make it another time but
1:53:41
what would you what do you what would you like to hear about? I want
1:53:47
to do the EMF, your EMF stuff and
Bill Clearfield 1:53:52
and even the
1:53:56
Jensen Okay, okay. That should take an hour away.
1:54:01
Yeah, yeah, I can combine those two. Okay.
Bill Clearfield 1:54:05
You got anything? No, I mean, you know, I mean, you know what to do?
1:54:07
The only thing you know, maybe they would like to know a little bit about what’s happening now with exosomes stem cells. And
1:54:15
you can do that.
1:54:19
Yeah, we put together a clinical study that’s kind of in process. It’s not a clinical sites of clinical assessment, where we’re combining those together that PMF for managing and saying and the exosomes and life extension blood test three of them. I could touch on that. That’s what we want to
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know. Okay.
1:54:48
Very good. Thank you so much, six. Okay, I’ll prepare. Thanks.
Bill Clearfield 1:54:51
All right. Okay. All right, everybody. Thank you so much. This will be up on the website as soon as I can. render it now. Okay, and thank you so much. We’ll see you again next year.
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Bye.