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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:13,551 --> 00:01:14,987 - If we can get back to our essence, 2 00:01:15,031 --> 00:01:17,947 I think that's where we belong, that's home. 3 00:01:17,990 --> 00:01:20,558 You've had all these experiences in life 4 00:01:20,602 --> 00:01:22,256 and yet, there's one part of you 5 00:01:22,299 --> 00:01:23,561 that was there the whole time. 6 00:01:23,605 --> 00:01:25,563 That same essence, your same awareness, 7 00:01:25,607 --> 00:01:29,611 your same consciousness has been with you this whole time 8 00:01:29,654 --> 00:01:30,525 and it's with you now. 9 00:01:34,311 --> 00:01:35,834 We're still struggling and stumbling. 10 00:01:35,878 --> 00:01:37,184 Some people are dying in the process, 11 00:01:37,227 --> 00:01:39,664 some people are sick unnecessarily 12 00:01:39,708 --> 00:01:42,058 but eventually, we've gotta get there 13 00:01:42,102 --> 00:01:43,625 and we can change the paradigm. 14 00:01:43,668 --> 00:01:45,496 We can do it. 15 00:02:24,927 --> 00:02:27,712 - Stress, it's a word we hear every day. 16 00:02:27,756 --> 00:02:30,106 People are stressed out, work is stressful, 17 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:32,500 but what do we really know about stress? 18 00:02:32,543 --> 00:02:34,893 Before we can figure that out, let's take a quick travel 19 00:02:34,937 --> 00:02:38,158 back in time starting around 70,000 BC. 20 00:02:38,201 --> 00:02:40,638 Hunter-gatherers had to be on high alert in order 21 00:02:40,682 --> 00:02:43,293 to survive from other predators in their environment. 22 00:02:43,337 --> 00:02:46,078 Even though this seems like an extremely long time ago, 23 00:02:46,122 --> 00:02:48,037 we actually react to stress in the environment 24 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,865 just like these early people. 25 00:02:49,908 --> 00:02:52,476 Let's fast forward to early in the 17th century 26 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,739 to see French philosopher Rene Descartes 27 00:02:54,783 --> 00:02:57,612 who famously said, "I think, therefore I am." 28 00:02:57,655 --> 00:03:00,702 He is also responsible for the idea of mind-body dualism 29 00:03:00,745 --> 00:03:03,183 which some call the mind-body problem. 30 00:03:03,226 --> 00:03:05,576 He theorized that if the mind was a thinking thing 31 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:07,926 and the body was a non-thinking thing, 32 00:03:07,970 --> 00:03:10,146 that the mind could exist without the body 33 00:03:10,190 --> 00:03:12,540 but the body could not exist without the mind, 34 00:03:12,583 --> 00:03:14,672 which essentially declared them as separate. 35 00:03:14,716 --> 00:03:16,805 This paved the way for many schools of thought 36 00:03:16,848 --> 00:03:19,111 addressing this mind-body split. 37 00:03:19,155 --> 00:03:21,549 Several decades later, we hear the word stress 38 00:03:21,592 --> 00:03:24,247 used by English natural philosopher Robert Hooke 39 00:03:24,291 --> 00:03:25,857 in engineering terms. 40 00:03:25,901 --> 00:03:28,860 He was interested in how man-made structures such as bridges 41 00:03:28,904 --> 00:03:32,255 could be made to withstand heavy loads without collapsing. 42 00:03:32,299 --> 00:03:35,127 He created what he called the Law of Elasticity 43 00:03:35,171 --> 00:03:37,608 which demonstrated how something like a spring 44 00:03:37,652 --> 00:03:39,610 could withstand a certain amount of stress 45 00:03:39,654 --> 00:03:41,308 before it reached a breaking point. 46 00:03:41,351 --> 00:03:44,136 This machine-like analogy proved to be fertile ground 47 00:03:44,180 --> 00:03:47,879 for future explanations of how humans experience stress. 48 00:03:47,923 --> 00:03:50,273 His rival at the time, Sir Isaac Newton, 49 00:03:50,317 --> 00:03:52,623 would soon introduce his three Laws of Motion 50 00:03:52,667 --> 00:03:54,190 which would continue to point toward 51 00:03:54,234 --> 00:03:56,148 a mechanistic view of the body. 52 00:03:56,192 --> 00:03:58,107 He also held a grudge against Robert Hooke 53 00:03:58,150 --> 00:03:59,935 and is responsible for why you've probably 54 00:03:59,978 --> 00:04:01,197 never heard of him. 55 00:04:01,241 --> 00:04:03,852 And now to jump ahead to the mid-1800s. 56 00:04:03,895 --> 00:04:05,636 French physician Claude Bernard 57 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,073 introduced the idea that the internal environment 58 00:04:08,117 --> 00:04:11,294 of living organisms must remain fairly constant 59 00:04:11,338 --> 00:04:14,428 in response to changes in the external environment. 60 00:04:14,471 --> 00:04:16,778 Based on this work, in the early 1900s, 61 00:04:16,821 --> 00:04:19,868 American physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon 62 00:04:19,911 --> 00:04:22,958 coined the term Homeostasis to describe this neutral, 63 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:26,657 stable state that needed to exist for the body to survive. 64 00:04:26,701 --> 00:04:28,833 He also coined the term fight or flight, 65 00:04:28,877 --> 00:04:30,400 but we'll get back to that later. 66 00:04:30,444 --> 00:04:32,750 When it comes to our current understanding of stress, 67 00:04:32,794 --> 00:04:36,406 the man responsible is Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist 68 00:04:36,450 --> 00:04:40,105 Hans Selye, he is known for his work studying what he called 69 00:04:40,149 --> 00:04:41,890 General Adaptation Syndrome. 70 00:04:41,933 --> 00:04:44,762 He would later coin the term stress which is still used 71 00:04:44,806 --> 00:04:47,461 to explain aspects of the stress response. 72 00:04:47,504 --> 00:04:49,854 This response is directly responsible 73 00:04:49,898 --> 00:04:52,509 for helping the body return to homeostasis. 74 00:04:52,553 --> 00:04:54,598 Which brings us to today. 75 00:05:06,393 --> 00:05:07,916 - Most people, when they think of stress, 76 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:10,919 they think it's like they're stressed out in their mind, 77 00:05:10,962 --> 00:05:11,833 they're worrying about things, 78 00:05:11,876 --> 00:05:14,052 they're obsessing about things. 79 00:05:14,096 --> 00:05:17,534 The response part of the stress response 80 00:05:17,578 --> 00:05:21,016 is your body's response to that stress. 81 00:05:21,059 --> 00:05:22,496 So most of us walking around, 82 00:05:22,539 --> 00:05:24,062 we don't put two and two together. 83 00:05:24,106 --> 00:05:27,370 - When they layperson hears something like stress response, 84 00:05:27,414 --> 00:05:29,372 they know that stress, they think that stress 85 00:05:29,416 --> 00:05:30,939 is the cause of their problem. 86 00:05:30,982 --> 00:05:33,420 But we teach them that stress is actually an aggravating 87 00:05:33,463 --> 00:05:36,510 factor over whatever existing weakness they have. 88 00:05:36,553 --> 00:05:38,816 'Cause we're all stressed all the time. 89 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:40,470 One of the things we wanna take a look at 90 00:05:40,514 --> 00:05:42,516 is that people have physical stress, 91 00:05:42,559 --> 00:05:44,169 biochemical/nutritional stress 92 00:05:44,213 --> 00:05:45,910 and mental/emotional stress. 93 00:05:45,954 --> 00:05:47,390 People think, when they think of stress, 94 00:05:47,434 --> 00:05:49,523 it's whatever they're stressed out about at their job 95 00:05:49,566 --> 00:05:52,047 or their career or their family 96 00:05:52,090 --> 00:05:54,571 or whatever's going on in their life personally 97 00:05:54,615 --> 00:05:56,356 but stress takes many different forms. 98 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,880 So our goal is to make sure that they know is that 99 00:05:58,923 --> 00:06:00,795 all of these things are equally important, 100 00:06:00,838 --> 00:06:03,188 your mind and your body are the same thing. 101 00:06:03,232 --> 00:06:05,408 It's not some new age-y kind of statement. 102 00:06:05,452 --> 00:06:07,628 If you alter your mind, it's gonna alter your body. 103 00:06:07,671 --> 00:06:10,021 - If you can address a person's stress in their life, 104 00:06:10,065 --> 00:06:12,241 I feel like that should be number one 105 00:06:12,284 --> 00:06:14,852 because we know that mental stress will affect the body 106 00:06:14,896 --> 00:06:16,288 in a physical way. 107 00:06:16,332 --> 00:06:17,986 So many American's have gastro-intestinal issues, 108 00:06:18,029 --> 00:06:19,988 they have stomach issues, their digestion's not great, 109 00:06:20,031 --> 00:06:21,903 they bloat after they eat and yeah, 110 00:06:21,946 --> 00:06:23,861 there's a good portion of that that's from food 111 00:06:23,905 --> 00:06:26,255 but we also know that so much of our stress 112 00:06:26,298 --> 00:06:28,431 goes right to our digestive tract. 113 00:06:28,475 --> 00:06:30,912 And so I've found with many patients 114 00:06:30,955 --> 00:06:33,393 as I'm addressing their food but more importantly, 115 00:06:33,436 --> 00:06:35,917 it's also looking at what else is going on in their life. 116 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,963 And it's amazing how when they're able to digest more 117 00:06:39,007 --> 00:06:40,225 of what's going on in their life 118 00:06:40,269 --> 00:06:41,879 they're able to digest their food better 119 00:06:41,923 --> 00:06:44,665 and everything else in the whole system starts clearing up. 120 00:06:44,708 --> 00:06:46,797 - The person who has a heart attack today, 121 00:06:46,841 --> 00:06:48,973 were they healthy yesterday? 122 00:06:49,017 --> 00:06:51,759 Of course not, where they healthy last week or last month? 123 00:06:51,802 --> 00:06:52,934 Most likely not. 124 00:06:52,977 --> 00:06:54,457 But there was something that was going on 125 00:06:54,501 --> 00:06:57,721 that led to that crisis, that heart attack. 126 00:06:57,765 --> 00:07:00,376 The emotions work they same way, they accumulate, 127 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:02,900 they accumulate and then something goes wrong. 128 00:07:02,944 --> 00:07:04,641 - When somebody's under a lot of stress, 129 00:07:04,685 --> 00:07:07,949 at least emotional stress, a whole cascade of things 130 00:07:07,992 --> 00:07:11,387 can be going on, from neck problems to low back problems 131 00:07:11,431 --> 00:07:14,303 to stomach problems to anxiety to, 132 00:07:15,696 --> 00:07:18,960 I've seen people go through cyclical infections 133 00:07:19,003 --> 00:07:20,875 to you name it. 134 00:07:20,918 --> 00:07:25,923 Stress causes almost every condition out there. 135 00:07:27,708 --> 00:07:29,840 And if we can just take some of that emotional pressure 136 00:07:29,884 --> 00:07:32,887 off their system, at least the chemistry of that emotion, 137 00:07:32,930 --> 00:07:35,542 their body has a better chance to heal. 138 00:07:50,034 --> 00:07:52,646 - When we're struck by a stressor on a day 139 00:07:52,689 --> 00:07:56,911 that our system is already somewhat compromised, 140 00:07:56,954 --> 00:07:59,914 it's just like, it's really like adding, you know, 141 00:07:59,957 --> 00:08:03,439 one more little, teeny, tiny hair to the pile 142 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:06,529 and it just, everything just crumbles in that moment. 143 00:08:06,573 --> 00:08:09,967 And we're very adaptable and we're very, you know, 144 00:08:10,011 --> 00:08:12,056 our nervous systems are very intelligent. 145 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:15,320 And it figures out a way to kind of cope and get through 146 00:08:15,364 --> 00:08:16,931 but what we often end up doing is 147 00:08:16,974 --> 00:08:19,150 developing coping mechanisms that don't work 148 00:08:19,194 --> 00:08:21,022 when we get a little bit older. 149 00:08:21,065 --> 00:08:22,980 I often have patients come in and say, 150 00:08:23,024 --> 00:08:24,765 "Oh, I'm sabotaging myself, 151 00:08:24,808 --> 00:08:26,375 "I don't know why I'm doing this to myself." 152 00:08:26,418 --> 00:08:29,073 And they are beating themselves up 153 00:08:29,117 --> 00:08:31,380 because these patterns are coming into play 154 00:08:31,423 --> 00:08:32,860 but what they don't realize is that 155 00:08:32,903 --> 00:08:35,602 these patterns saved them as children. 156 00:08:35,645 --> 00:08:38,996 These patterns are survival skills that have just 157 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,302 gone a little wonky. 158 00:08:40,345 --> 00:08:42,739 - Where I find stress is a really big deal 159 00:08:42,783 --> 00:08:47,614 for a lot of people are their own internal thoughts. 160 00:08:47,657 --> 00:08:49,180 They beat themselves up. 161 00:08:49,224 --> 00:08:51,443 They don't think they're good enough. 162 00:08:51,487 --> 00:08:53,968 They feel like they have to be perfect. 163 00:08:54,011 --> 00:08:57,362 And every time they fail at something, 164 00:08:57,406 --> 00:08:59,060 they stress themselves out. 165 00:08:59,103 --> 00:09:02,585 And those are the stressors which oftentimes 166 00:09:02,629 --> 00:09:05,936 people don't think they're stressed about. 167 00:09:05,980 --> 00:09:09,026 So ask yourself this, if every time you do something wrong, 168 00:09:09,070 --> 00:09:10,462 do you beat yourself up? 169 00:09:10,506 --> 00:09:12,987 If you do that, you're stressing yourself out. 170 00:09:13,030 --> 00:09:16,730 So what we try and do is we help people recognize 171 00:09:16,773 --> 00:09:19,776 those things so that they can deal with them 172 00:09:19,820 --> 00:09:21,996 a little bit more effectively so that they don't 173 00:09:22,039 --> 00:09:24,172 actually stress themselves out internally. 174 00:09:24,215 --> 00:09:26,478 - Some people understand that there's something 175 00:09:26,522 --> 00:09:28,611 called a fight or flight syndrome. 176 00:09:28,655 --> 00:09:31,309 And in the fight or flight syndrome, 177 00:09:31,353 --> 00:09:33,529 that's looking at a part of the nervous system 178 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:35,618 called the autonomic nervous system. 179 00:09:35,662 --> 00:09:37,228 - The autonomic nervous system is 180 00:09:38,490 --> 00:09:40,971 a science-y way of talking about the 181 00:09:41,015 --> 00:09:42,843 part of the nervous system 182 00:09:42,886 --> 00:09:44,801 that isn't the central nervous system. 183 00:09:44,845 --> 00:09:46,324 So the central nervous system is the brain 184 00:09:46,368 --> 00:09:48,457 and the nerves that connect down. 185 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:52,200 The autonomic nervous system has two major branches, 186 00:09:52,243 --> 00:09:56,683 so to speak, sympathetic which we call fight or flight 187 00:09:56,726 --> 00:09:59,860 and the parasympathetic which we could call 188 00:09:59,903 --> 00:10:02,340 relaxation and restoration. 189 00:10:02,384 --> 00:10:04,995 When we're in that latter mode, 190 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:08,346 the relaxation/restoration mode of our nervous system, 191 00:10:08,390 --> 00:10:10,610 that's when healing occurs, 192 00:10:10,653 --> 00:10:14,091 that's when the body rejuvenates itself. 193 00:10:14,135 --> 00:10:17,007 When we're in the fight or flight mode, 194 00:10:17,051 --> 00:10:20,010 we're actually getting ready to ward off 195 00:10:20,054 --> 00:10:22,622 something threatening so 196 00:10:22,665 --> 00:10:25,581 we need that but we can't be in it all the time 197 00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,278 or it has negative health effects. 198 00:10:27,322 --> 00:10:30,151 - You might be driving in traffic and someone 199 00:10:30,194 --> 00:10:32,719 cuts in front of you, your life's not in danger 200 00:10:32,762 --> 00:10:35,199 but your body gives the same response. 201 00:10:35,243 --> 00:10:37,985 And that ties back into the stress response 202 00:10:38,028 --> 00:10:41,031 because when you go into that fight or flight 203 00:10:41,075 --> 00:10:45,209 state of being, your parasympathetic calming nervous system 204 00:10:45,253 --> 00:10:48,691 is turned off, that also turns off all your healing 205 00:10:48,735 --> 00:10:51,651 and resting and digesting portion of your body. 206 00:10:51,694 --> 00:10:54,001 - And if we don't find ways of breaking 207 00:10:54,044 --> 00:10:56,220 that fight or flight response then 208 00:10:56,264 --> 00:10:59,267 the symptoms you see of too much stress, 209 00:10:59,310 --> 00:11:03,053 poor digestion, can't sleep at night, make sense 210 00:11:03,097 --> 00:11:06,927 because you have this activated sympathetic nervous system 211 00:11:06,970 --> 00:11:10,147 that, that's what it's all about. 212 00:11:10,191 --> 00:11:11,714 - So it's kinda like, you know, 213 00:11:11,758 --> 00:11:15,370 if you have a Ferrari and you're going 140 miles per hour, 214 00:11:15,413 --> 00:11:17,154 I mean, that's what it's built for. 215 00:11:17,198 --> 00:11:20,462 But if it goes 140 miles per hour all day long, 216 00:11:20,505 --> 00:11:23,508 24/7 and you never stop and you never get a chance 217 00:11:23,552 --> 00:11:26,294 for it to be garaged and parked for it to rest, 218 00:11:26,337 --> 00:11:28,122 that can be damaging to the car. 219 00:11:28,165 --> 00:11:29,993 So that's much like our body as well 220 00:11:30,037 --> 00:11:33,127 if it's constantly in fight or flight and stress mode 221 00:11:33,170 --> 00:11:36,957 all the time then it can lead to early breakdown. 222 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,003 - We need to remember that stress is not up here. 223 00:11:40,874 --> 00:11:43,224 It's whole body. 224 00:11:43,267 --> 00:11:47,315 And that stress is a physiological phenomenon. 225 00:11:47,358 --> 00:11:50,622 And I often will use, with patients, the example of, 226 00:11:50,666 --> 00:11:53,713 okay, you know, stress is a physiological phenomenon 227 00:11:53,756 --> 00:11:56,498 that is not necessarily in your control. 228 00:11:56,541 --> 00:11:58,630 It's not about the rational response. 229 00:11:58,674 --> 00:12:01,459 So it's kind of like when you're driving down the road, 230 00:12:01,503 --> 00:12:04,071 okay, I look at my speedometer, my rational brain 231 00:12:04,114 --> 00:12:06,116 is in front of me and it says, "Okay, I'm going 55." 232 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,771 And then all of the sudden you see sirens 233 00:12:08,815 --> 00:12:10,338 in your rear-view mirror. 234 00:12:10,381 --> 00:12:11,905 And what happens? 235 00:12:11,948 --> 00:12:13,776 Patients always know, they say, "Oh, well, yeah, 236 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,952 "I grip the steering wheel, my heart starts to pound. 237 00:12:15,996 --> 00:12:18,259 "Sometimes I sweat, my tummy gets butterflies." 238 00:12:18,302 --> 00:12:21,218 And with that it's like exactly. 239 00:12:21,262 --> 00:12:23,090 That is the physiology of stress 240 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:25,875 because your rational brain looks at your speedometer 241 00:12:25,919 --> 00:12:27,747 and says, "Oh, I'm going 55." 242 00:12:27,790 --> 00:12:29,313 But you still see those sirens and think 243 00:12:29,357 --> 00:12:32,229 I'm in trouble, it's a threat. 244 00:12:32,273 --> 00:12:35,885 And it's a perceived threat, it's not necessarily real, 245 00:12:35,929 --> 00:12:37,191 it's the emotional reality. 246 00:12:37,234 --> 00:12:38,888 And then the police car goes right by you 247 00:12:38,932 --> 00:12:40,847 and you go okay. 248 00:12:40,890 --> 00:12:44,328 But you still feel the physiological effects of stress. 249 00:12:44,372 --> 00:12:47,549 The other part of that is that people 250 00:12:47,592 --> 00:12:51,248 are so used to that nowadays that it's normal. 251 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:12,182 - Neuroscientist and pharmacologist, Dr. Candace Pert 252 00:13:12,226 --> 00:13:14,358 made a breakthrough discovery in 1972 253 00:13:14,402 --> 00:13:16,534 when she discovered the opiate receptor. 254 00:13:16,578 --> 00:13:19,189 It was thought for any drug to work in your system, 255 00:13:19,233 --> 00:13:21,539 it had to first bind to receptors in your cells. 256 00:13:21,583 --> 00:13:23,715 But what made this discovery so exciting 257 00:13:23,759 --> 00:13:25,935 was that it meant that the receptor must be used 258 00:13:25,979 --> 00:13:27,719 for something created by the body, 259 00:13:27,763 --> 00:13:30,331 not just for external things like drugs. 260 00:13:30,374 --> 00:13:32,376 This led to the discovery of endorphins, 261 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:34,335 our body's very own morphine. 262 00:13:34,378 --> 00:13:36,380 These discoveries led to what she called 263 00:13:36,424 --> 00:13:38,382 the molecules of emotion. 264 00:13:38,426 --> 00:13:39,862 That when you have an emotion, 265 00:13:39,906 --> 00:13:41,995 it is the result of physical molecules 266 00:13:42,038 --> 00:13:44,998 known as neuropeptides being released into your body 267 00:13:45,041 --> 00:13:47,087 and attaching themselves to receptors 268 00:13:47,130 --> 00:13:49,829 in every cell of your body, which means that emotions 269 00:13:49,872 --> 00:13:52,440 are actually a physiological phenomenon, 270 00:13:52,483 --> 00:13:54,659 not a mental construct as we had thought. 271 00:13:54,703 --> 00:13:57,140 - Candace Pert, the famous researcher actually found 272 00:13:57,184 --> 00:14:01,231 that there were neuro-transmitter receptors in our gut. 273 00:14:01,275 --> 00:14:03,843 In fact, there's more neuro-transmitter receptors 274 00:14:03,886 --> 00:14:05,453 in our gut than there are in our brain. 275 00:14:05,496 --> 00:14:08,804 - She taught us that the mind is not just above the neck, 276 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:10,414 it's throughout the whole body. 277 00:14:10,458 --> 00:14:12,373 And that's true, there's intelligence 278 00:14:12,416 --> 00:14:13,896 in every cell of the body. 279 00:14:13,940 --> 00:14:16,681 - Emotions, really, as it turns out, are physiological 280 00:14:16,725 --> 00:14:20,381 phenomenon not necessarily psychological phenomenon. 281 00:14:20,424 --> 00:14:22,600 So kind of how we say it is that 282 00:14:22,644 --> 00:14:25,560 we use these words to explain how we feel, 283 00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:28,302 that we're stressed, that is going on in my life, 284 00:14:28,345 --> 00:14:30,434 to try and communicate to our conscious mind 285 00:14:30,478 --> 00:14:32,088 what we're experiencing. 286 00:14:32,132 --> 00:14:34,221 The reality is is that we all have these 287 00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:37,093 what we would call conditioned responses. 288 00:14:37,137 --> 00:14:39,791 - The concept of conditioning came from the observations 289 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:43,099 of Ivan Pavlov, he was a Russian Physiologist 290 00:14:43,143 --> 00:14:46,886 who conducted the famous dog studies in the late 1800s. 291 00:14:46,929 --> 00:14:49,410 While they weren't the most ethical of experiments, 292 00:14:49,453 --> 00:14:51,673 at least we were able to learn from them. 293 00:14:51,716 --> 00:14:53,370 Every time he would feed the dog, 294 00:14:53,414 --> 00:14:54,937 he would ring a bell. 295 00:14:54,981 --> 00:14:57,461 After doing this several times, he simply rang the bell 296 00:14:57,505 --> 00:14:59,246 without feeding the dog. 297 00:14:59,289 --> 00:15:00,900 Even though there wasn't any food, 298 00:15:00,943 --> 00:15:03,685 the dog still salivated as if food was coming. 299 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:06,470 This unconscious, physiological response 300 00:15:06,514 --> 00:15:08,733 is the result of conditioning. 301 00:15:08,777 --> 00:15:11,867 - Humans, we drool our whole life away, right? 302 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,000 We have these different metaphors that people use 303 00:15:14,043 --> 00:15:15,610 like he really pushed my buttons, 304 00:15:15,653 --> 00:15:17,829 she really knows how to pull my strings, 305 00:15:17,873 --> 00:15:20,049 they did it to me, all of this kind of stuff 306 00:15:20,093 --> 00:15:22,965 to really explain our experience of what's going on. 307 00:15:23,009 --> 00:15:26,577 But it's really just a conditioned response, you know? 308 00:15:26,621 --> 00:15:29,667 And what we like to leave everybody with knowing is that 309 00:15:29,711 --> 00:15:31,974 how it works is what you don't express in life 310 00:15:32,018 --> 00:15:35,282 you'll repress until it expresses as disease or dysfunction. 311 00:15:35,325 --> 00:15:36,587 It's kinda like Woody Allen used to say, 312 00:15:36,631 --> 00:15:38,415 "I never get angry, I just grow a tumor." 313 00:15:38,459 --> 00:15:40,156 Meaning, if I don't get my stuff out, 314 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,376 it stays in until it comes out as something ugly, 315 00:15:42,419 --> 00:15:45,074 either a behavior or a health condition. 316 00:15:45,118 --> 00:15:48,295 - Symptoms can show up in the form of like anxiety 317 00:15:48,338 --> 00:15:51,733 or depression and in modern days I think people 318 00:15:51,776 --> 00:15:54,388 are quick to try to take a pill. 319 00:15:54,431 --> 00:15:59,393 And maybe the drug helps, it's not to say that medication 320 00:15:59,436 --> 00:16:03,832 isn't good once in a while, but often it's just masking 321 00:16:03,875 --> 00:16:06,269 or covering up a symptom. 322 00:16:06,313 --> 00:16:08,358 And maybe it helps a person through a crisis, 323 00:16:08,402 --> 00:16:12,449 so it can be good, but if we can get to 324 00:16:12,493 --> 00:16:14,451 what is the underlying cause 325 00:16:14,495 --> 00:16:18,673 that keeps getting re-triggered, lives can change. 326 00:16:34,558 --> 00:16:36,604 - In Philadelphia, exciting new research 327 00:16:36,647 --> 00:16:39,520 is being done at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health 328 00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:43,393 at Jefferson University, one of the leaders in this field. 329 00:16:43,437 --> 00:16:45,221 - One of the critical pieces of what we were doing 330 00:16:45,265 --> 00:16:48,877 with our initial imaging study is to expose people to 331 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,793 the various traumas and stressors that have really created 332 00:16:51,836 --> 00:16:52,968 a problem for the person. 333 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,449 So they actually listen to an audio file 334 00:16:55,492 --> 00:16:58,321 of these very traumatic moments in their life 335 00:16:58,365 --> 00:17:00,671 and in particular we were looking at cancer patients 336 00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:03,283 who have struggled with cancer and usually have 337 00:17:03,326 --> 00:17:06,851 very traumatic part of either the diagnosis 338 00:17:06,895 --> 00:17:09,463 or the treatment that they just can't get rid of. 339 00:17:09,506 --> 00:17:13,075 - All of these people physiologically reacted 340 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,382 to thinking about that stressful event. 341 00:17:15,425 --> 00:17:19,647 Heart rate went up or galvanic skin response changed. 342 00:17:19,690 --> 00:17:22,258 And so what we had were people who were 343 00:17:22,302 --> 00:17:27,307 physiologically reactive and subjectively distressed 344 00:17:28,612 --> 00:17:30,745 by this event and it's been going on for a long time. 345 00:17:30,788 --> 00:17:33,269 - So what exactly was this study? 346 00:17:33,313 --> 00:17:35,489 Dr. Monti and his team created it as 347 00:17:35,532 --> 00:17:37,578 a randomized controlled trial. 348 00:17:37,621 --> 00:17:39,623 All of the participants had a distressing 349 00:17:39,667 --> 00:17:42,235 cancer-related memory that was associated 350 00:17:42,278 --> 00:17:44,454 with symptoms of traumatic stress. 351 00:17:44,498 --> 00:17:46,500 These symptoms had been intruding in their lives 352 00:17:46,543 --> 00:17:49,938 for at least six months, and for many of the participants, 353 00:17:49,981 --> 00:17:51,505 it had been years. 354 00:17:51,548 --> 00:17:53,115 Each one of them made a script 355 00:17:53,159 --> 00:17:55,944 explaining the traumatic events in their own words. 356 00:17:55,987 --> 00:17:57,641 That script was then read back to them 357 00:17:57,685 --> 00:17:59,817 while they were given a functional MRI 358 00:17:59,861 --> 00:18:02,690 to measure the levels of distress they were experiencing. 359 00:18:02,733 --> 00:18:05,214 Since this was a randomized controlled trial, 360 00:18:05,258 --> 00:18:08,087 the participants had been split up into two groups, 361 00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:12,221 one group received Neuro Emotional Technique, or NET, 362 00:18:12,265 --> 00:18:13,527 and the others were assigned 363 00:18:13,570 --> 00:18:15,659 to the Waitlist Control Condition. 364 00:18:15,703 --> 00:18:18,009 The results of those who received NET 365 00:18:18,053 --> 00:18:19,794 were dramatic, to say the least. 366 00:18:19,837 --> 00:18:22,405 But before we can go any further, we have to head over 367 00:18:22,449 --> 00:18:26,453 to Encinitas, California to meet Dr. Scott Walker. 368 00:18:47,952 --> 00:18:49,650 - Some of my patients weren't getting well. 369 00:18:49,693 --> 00:18:51,304 Some of 'em get well over time, 370 00:18:51,347 --> 00:18:52,609 some of 'em wouldn't get well. 371 00:18:52,653 --> 00:18:55,438 The people that didn't get results 372 00:18:55,482 --> 00:18:58,049 had a look of tension in their eyes. 373 00:18:58,093 --> 00:18:59,660 This is just something, I came from a town 374 00:18:59,703 --> 00:19:02,445 of 500 people and I'm so happy I came from a a small town 375 00:19:02,489 --> 00:19:05,361 because I can see people in different ways. 376 00:19:06,710 --> 00:19:09,539 And the people that seemed to be burdened, I think, 377 00:19:09,583 --> 00:19:10,845 were emotionally burdened. 378 00:19:10,888 --> 00:19:13,369 And they were the ones that had less results. 379 00:19:14,327 --> 00:19:18,505 And so I made up in my mind that 380 00:19:18,548 --> 00:19:19,984 maybe they were having emotional trouble, 381 00:19:20,028 --> 00:19:21,203 that's not a new thought, 382 00:19:21,247 --> 00:19:23,510 people have been thinking that people, 383 00:19:23,553 --> 00:19:26,991 emotional stress has effected the body for some time. 384 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:29,168 But I didn't know how to solve it. 385 00:19:29,211 --> 00:19:31,561 - But as it turned out, Dr. Walker went to a seminar 386 00:19:31,605 --> 00:19:33,607 where he met a chiropractor by the name of 387 00:19:33,650 --> 00:19:35,478 Dr. Jennifer Lamonica. 388 00:19:35,522 --> 00:19:37,785 He learned that she would give certain people an adjustment 389 00:19:37,828 --> 00:19:40,179 and soon after, when they would think about work, 390 00:19:40,222 --> 00:19:41,484 that their spine would be out of place 391 00:19:41,528 --> 00:19:43,225 before they even left the office. 392 00:19:43,269 --> 00:19:45,009 Hearing this reaffirmed his suspicion 393 00:19:45,053 --> 00:19:47,186 that there had to be something else going on. 394 00:19:47,229 --> 00:19:49,579 - The first patient on the next day that I was home, 395 00:19:49,623 --> 00:19:52,756 she had gone to work and gotten in an automobile accident. 396 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,020 Now I'm still, my mind is not in my compassionate heart, 397 00:19:56,064 --> 00:19:58,197 my mind is in my mind and I'm thinking, 398 00:19:59,546 --> 00:20:02,375 maybe she had fear in this accident. 399 00:20:02,418 --> 00:20:05,595 This is a chance I can work this hypothesis. 400 00:20:05,639 --> 00:20:07,771 And I said, "Oh, you were in an accident." 401 00:20:07,815 --> 00:20:11,166 I said, "Did you fear when you were in the accident?" 402 00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:12,298 And she said, "Yes." 403 00:20:12,341 --> 00:20:13,168 I said, "Oh!" 404 00:20:15,866 --> 00:20:18,086 I'm sure I didn't do that but that's the way I was thinking. 405 00:20:18,129 --> 00:20:21,002 - One of Dr. Scott's mentors, Dr. George Goodheart, 406 00:20:21,045 --> 00:20:23,265 correlated the primary muscles of the body with the 407 00:20:23,309 --> 00:20:26,747 major meridians used in traditional Chinese medicine. 408 00:20:26,790 --> 00:20:30,446 - So you have these meridians, they're kinda like channels 409 00:20:30,490 --> 00:20:34,145 or what I like to describe them as like freeways systems. 410 00:20:34,189 --> 00:20:36,060 So they run from different areas of the body, 411 00:20:36,104 --> 00:20:38,672 from your head to your toe, 412 00:20:38,715 --> 00:20:40,326 to your toes back to your trunk, 413 00:20:40,369 --> 00:20:41,762 to your trunk to the face. 414 00:20:41,805 --> 00:20:43,633 So they all travel across the body 415 00:20:43,677 --> 00:20:46,288 and they go even through the deeper layers of the organs. 416 00:20:46,332 --> 00:20:48,769 You know, the philosophy is that if there is a traffic jam 417 00:20:48,812 --> 00:20:51,424 or a blockage in any of those meridians, 418 00:20:51,467 --> 00:20:53,687 there's a disruption of the vital force of the body 419 00:20:53,730 --> 00:20:55,515 which is the chi, or the blood. 420 00:20:55,558 --> 00:20:57,168 - Even though traditional Chinese medicine 421 00:20:57,212 --> 00:20:59,867 has been using meridians for thousands of years, 422 00:20:59,910 --> 00:21:02,565 a recent discovery by Auburn University Professor 423 00:21:02,609 --> 00:21:05,655 Vitaly Vodyanoy is bringing more scientific attention 424 00:21:05,699 --> 00:21:07,135 to this system. 425 00:21:07,178 --> 00:21:08,832 - I didn't know all the meridians and all the emotions, 426 00:21:08,876 --> 00:21:10,617 but I knew fear and I knew kidneys. 427 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:12,836 I said, "What I want you to do is I want you to think about 428 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,839 "the fear that you had when you were in that accident." 429 00:21:15,883 --> 00:21:17,885 And she said, "Oh, okay." 430 00:21:17,928 --> 00:21:21,584 And so she did and I adjusted the sequences for 431 00:21:21,628 --> 00:21:24,195 the kidney, which is T1, T5 and T8. 432 00:21:24,239 --> 00:21:27,373 And then I said to her, I said, "How does that feel?" 433 00:21:27,416 --> 00:21:29,853 I wanted to see if I could get rid of fear. 434 00:21:29,897 --> 00:21:31,551 And she thought I meant how does her neck feel? 435 00:21:31,594 --> 00:21:33,074 Well, of course, you know. 436 00:21:33,117 --> 00:21:34,945 And she says, "Oh, how do I feel?" 437 00:21:34,989 --> 00:21:35,772 She goes... 438 00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:40,124 "Yeah, that feels better." 439 00:21:40,168 --> 00:21:41,952 And then I was ashamed because 440 00:21:41,996 --> 00:21:43,737 I wasn't thinking about her poor neck, 441 00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:45,869 I was thinking about this idea that I had 442 00:21:45,913 --> 00:21:47,871 and maybe I could get rid of the fear. 443 00:21:47,915 --> 00:21:50,221 And so I said, "Oh, oh, okay." 444 00:21:51,571 --> 00:21:53,181 "And how does the fear feel now?" 445 00:21:53,224 --> 00:21:56,793 She says, "Yeah, I don't feel any fear about it at all now." 446 00:21:58,012 --> 00:22:01,581 I said, "Yes." 447 00:22:01,624 --> 00:22:02,495 Yes. 448 00:22:02,538 --> 00:22:04,888 - Any symptom that we have, 449 00:22:04,932 --> 00:22:07,369 really, could have a stress component. 450 00:22:07,413 --> 00:22:10,329 And I think that's how we came to develop NET, 451 00:22:11,721 --> 00:22:14,550 Dr. Scott figured out that, as a chiropractor, 452 00:22:14,594 --> 00:22:17,597 he would help certain problems 453 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,949 and help spinal conditions or painful situations 454 00:22:21,992 --> 00:22:24,038 but there were those certain cases that didn't 455 00:22:24,081 --> 00:22:26,910 resolve all the way, so it could be a knee or a shoulder, 456 00:22:26,954 --> 00:22:31,872 a TMJ or a backache or a stomachache or anything 457 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:34,396 and, what, 80% would get fixed 458 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,746 but what about those 20 that didn't? 459 00:22:36,790 --> 00:22:38,835 - It's really a brilliant intervention. 460 00:22:38,879 --> 00:22:42,056 I don't know how Dr. Walker put it together, 461 00:22:42,099 --> 00:22:46,539 given that there was nothing like it at the time 462 00:22:46,582 --> 00:22:50,543 and he just somehow put together these different concepts. 463 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:53,763 It makes sense in hindsight how he put them together 464 00:22:53,807 --> 00:22:56,810 but it really required a special brain to do that. 465 00:22:56,853 --> 00:22:59,421 - I knew I was onto something, I knew, this is good. 466 00:22:59,465 --> 00:23:01,989 There is the placebo effect, you've gotta watch that. 467 00:23:02,032 --> 00:23:03,991 I do not want to encourage the placebo effect, 468 00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:06,907 I want to discourage the placebo effect. 469 00:23:06,950 --> 00:23:09,910 So I made a pact with myself. 470 00:23:10,998 --> 00:23:12,695 No more Mr. Nice Guy. 471 00:23:12,739 --> 00:23:14,480 And I had this patient come in one day, she said, 472 00:23:14,523 --> 00:23:16,873 "You did that emotional thing about this miscarried baby 473 00:23:16,917 --> 00:23:19,485 "that I had, I feel so relieved, 474 00:23:19,528 --> 00:23:22,792 "it was such a cloud over my head that I lost this baby." 475 00:23:22,836 --> 00:23:23,924 And I said, 476 00:23:25,926 --> 00:23:28,189 "Well," I was trying to write my notes 477 00:23:28,232 --> 00:23:31,018 and she reached over and I don't know what kind of shirt 478 00:23:31,061 --> 00:23:32,802 I had on but she grabbed me. 479 00:23:32,846 --> 00:23:37,459 And she put her face in mine, "I said you helped me!" 480 00:23:38,591 --> 00:23:39,853 And there I was, 481 00:23:39,896 --> 00:23:42,290 I couldn't write, I was nose-to-nose with her. 482 00:23:43,465 --> 00:23:44,597 And she said very forcefully, she said, 483 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,250 "I said you helped me!" 484 00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:49,558 And I thought, my God, what have I become? 485 00:23:53,301 --> 00:23:55,390 That I can't celebrate my patient's win? 486 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:57,392 That I can't celebrate her joy with her? 487 00:23:58,349 --> 00:23:59,655 What's happened to me? 488 00:23:59,699 --> 00:24:01,396 I said, I'm gonna leave the research 489 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,224 for the researchers, that's it. 490 00:24:19,414 --> 00:24:21,851 - Later, with the help of fellow practitioners, 491 00:24:21,895 --> 00:24:24,854 Dr. Scott created The ONE Research Foundation, 492 00:24:24,898 --> 00:24:27,944 they have privately funded over 30 research studies to date 493 00:24:27,988 --> 00:24:29,816 which brings us back to the present. 494 00:24:29,859 --> 00:24:32,079 Meet one of the participants in this study, 495 00:24:32,122 --> 00:24:33,863 Dr. Jim Buckley. 496 00:24:33,907 --> 00:24:37,563 - And in 2014, I got a diagnosis 497 00:24:37,606 --> 00:24:40,522 of non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma. 498 00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:44,526 And it really took me by surprise, I was shocked 499 00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:47,442 that I had come down with something like this. 500 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:49,052 I mean, I'm a healthcare practitioner, 501 00:24:49,096 --> 00:24:51,054 I'm not supposed to get sick. 502 00:24:51,098 --> 00:24:54,101 But I did and... 503 00:24:55,885 --> 00:24:58,061 I think I was spending so much time taking care 504 00:24:58,105 --> 00:24:59,149 of everybody else that I kinda 505 00:24:59,193 --> 00:25:01,456 let myself fall by the wayside. 506 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:03,676 Conventional cancer therapy was not anything 507 00:25:03,719 --> 00:25:07,897 that I ever thought I would use just because I 508 00:25:09,203 --> 00:25:11,510 had strong feelings that that was not the way to go 509 00:25:11,553 --> 00:25:13,163 in terms of getting healthy again. 510 00:25:14,861 --> 00:25:18,212 But as it turned out, the tumor that I had in my abdomen 511 00:25:18,255 --> 00:25:19,735 was about as big as a football 512 00:25:19,779 --> 00:25:23,130 and it was pushing on my kidney and my intestines 513 00:25:23,173 --> 00:25:25,306 and it was really starting to cause me 514 00:25:25,349 --> 00:25:27,917 an awful lot of trouble so I ended up 515 00:25:27,961 --> 00:25:29,310 doing what I said I would never do 516 00:25:29,353 --> 00:25:31,834 and getting chemotherapy. 517 00:25:32,792 --> 00:25:33,575 And 518 00:25:34,881 --> 00:25:37,666 during the process of that I found out that 519 00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:41,670 The ONE Foundation was doing a research project on 520 00:25:43,629 --> 00:25:47,154 the emotional effect of hearing that you have cancer 521 00:25:47,197 --> 00:25:50,113 and I was in that boat now. 522 00:25:50,157 --> 00:25:52,028 First they kinda questioned me about 523 00:25:52,072 --> 00:25:56,685 what was the biggest impact of hearing that you had cancer? 524 00:25:58,165 --> 00:25:59,296 How did that impact your life 525 00:25:59,340 --> 00:26:01,821 and what was the hardest thing about it? 526 00:26:01,864 --> 00:26:04,519 And I had to go down and list 527 00:26:04,563 --> 00:26:06,477 what was the most difficult for me. 528 00:26:06,521 --> 00:26:09,785 What came up was the hardest to leave my wife and daughters, 529 00:26:09,829 --> 00:26:12,135 feeling like I hadn't finished the work 530 00:26:12,179 --> 00:26:15,008 that I was here to do and felt as though 531 00:26:15,051 --> 00:26:16,313 I was leaving them in the lurch 532 00:26:16,357 --> 00:26:18,489 and felt a lot of responsibility 533 00:26:18,533 --> 00:26:23,103 in terms of how I kinda had fallen down on my self care 534 00:26:23,146 --> 00:26:25,540 and was, as a result, you know, 535 00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:29,979 potentially could lose my life and closeness with them. 536 00:26:50,043 --> 00:26:52,436 - One of the things that I heard over and over again 537 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,177 from participants in the study 538 00:26:54,221 --> 00:26:57,267 was that these distressing memories and experiences 539 00:26:57,311 --> 00:27:00,662 would intrude or impact on positive experiences 540 00:27:00,706 --> 00:27:04,405 in the present day when they least expected it. 541 00:27:04,448 --> 00:27:07,103 So they might be chopping lettuce in their kitchen 542 00:27:07,147 --> 00:27:11,934 and be suddenly reminded or flooded with feelings of 543 00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:15,198 how stressful it was to be sick 544 00:27:15,242 --> 00:27:19,507 or what it was like to be retching over the garbage can 545 00:27:19,550 --> 00:27:22,249 in their kitchen all those years ago. 546 00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:24,338 So just being in the kitchen again 547 00:27:24,381 --> 00:27:27,080 reminded them of that earlier stress. 548 00:27:27,123 --> 00:27:29,778 - The passage of time wasn't making it go away. 549 00:27:29,822 --> 00:27:34,348 By the way, that's kind of an old conception that 550 00:27:34,391 --> 00:27:36,045 we found is incorrect, you know, 551 00:27:36,089 --> 00:27:38,439 time really doesn't heal all wounds 552 00:27:38,482 --> 00:27:41,442 because emotional wounds are in the part of the brain 553 00:27:41,485 --> 00:27:43,183 where there is no sense of time. 554 00:27:43,226 --> 00:27:45,707 - Sometimes things happen early in life 555 00:27:45,751 --> 00:27:47,753 where we are in a dangerous situation 556 00:27:47,796 --> 00:27:51,757 or something is perceived to be awful happening. 557 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,498 And the body is unable to extinguish that response 558 00:27:54,542 --> 00:27:56,022 on an unconscious level. 559 00:27:56,065 --> 00:27:59,329 Years later, we find out that that buried stress, 560 00:27:59,373 --> 00:28:02,376 those buried feelings that have never gone away 561 00:28:02,419 --> 00:28:05,292 are still being triggered in any situation 562 00:28:05,335 --> 00:28:07,990 that looks the same, sounds the same, 563 00:28:08,034 --> 00:28:11,211 smells the same, feels the same can trigger that 564 00:28:11,254 --> 00:28:14,475 on an unconscious level and bring the feelings back 565 00:28:14,518 --> 00:28:16,259 even though it's a different situation. 566 00:28:16,303 --> 00:28:17,826 - So whatever happened to you at seven, 567 00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:20,829 your subconscious still thinks it's happening right now. 568 00:28:20,873 --> 00:28:22,744 And even as a practitioner, once I learned that, 569 00:28:22,788 --> 00:28:25,573 it took me a long time to wrap my mind around that 570 00:28:25,616 --> 00:28:27,227 but it's the truth. 571 00:28:27,270 --> 00:28:32,058 - It's not gee, now it feels like I was then, it is then. 572 00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:34,887 There is no linear time in that place 573 00:28:34,930 --> 00:28:39,239 so it is exactly that moment that they're feeling 574 00:28:39,282 --> 00:28:43,939 and it's replicated just as if it's happening right now. 575 00:28:43,983 --> 00:28:46,507 - What we were able to observe in the brain 576 00:28:46,550 --> 00:28:50,990 is where the distress was being registered in the brain 577 00:28:51,033 --> 00:28:54,689 when they listened to a script of the traumatic event. 578 00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:57,344 And that script has been going on for a long time. 579 00:28:57,387 --> 00:29:01,609 Again, I emphasize that because 580 00:29:01,652 --> 00:29:05,308 it isn't a matter of time healing this particular wound, 581 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:09,356 the time has been going by and going by and going by 582 00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:12,794 and the period of time of the study was quite short. 583 00:29:12,838 --> 00:29:14,404 - All of the participants in the study 584 00:29:14,448 --> 00:29:18,278 who received NET were given treatment over several weeks 585 00:29:18,321 --> 00:29:21,498 and some of them had their sessions all in one day. 586 00:29:21,542 --> 00:29:23,283 The findings were then published 587 00:29:23,326 --> 00:29:25,720 in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 588 00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,722 - The main finding that we really had 589 00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:30,464 was that these areas of the limbic system, 590 00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:33,293 particularly the, what's called the parahippocampus, 591 00:29:33,336 --> 00:29:35,948 which is very involved in our sort of traumatic memories 592 00:29:35,991 --> 00:29:39,212 and emotional, our negative emotional responses, 593 00:29:39,255 --> 00:29:43,085 this was an area that was far more active initially 594 00:29:43,129 --> 00:29:46,132 and then after undergoing the NET program, 595 00:29:46,175 --> 00:29:48,917 suddenly didn't really react very much. 596 00:29:48,961 --> 00:29:52,181 - It just wasn't there anymore for most of those patients. 597 00:29:52,225 --> 00:29:54,967 In fact, everybody had some response 598 00:29:55,010 --> 00:29:58,405 where there was far less to no activation 599 00:29:58,448 --> 00:30:01,103 of those areas in the limbic brain, 600 00:30:01,147 --> 00:30:03,323 particularly the parahippocampal area 601 00:30:03,366 --> 00:30:08,067 which is where distressing memories sit. 602 00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:10,634 The activation was virtually gone. 603 00:30:10,678 --> 00:30:13,942 - So there was a 50% increase in the neuron density 604 00:30:13,986 --> 00:30:17,685 between the amygdala and the frontal lobe. 605 00:30:17,728 --> 00:30:20,427 Now the frontal lobe is the front part of the brain 606 00:30:20,470 --> 00:30:24,170 and that's responsible for long-term planning, 607 00:30:24,213 --> 00:30:27,042 thinking, complex reasoning. 608 00:30:27,086 --> 00:30:28,827 That's the part of the brain that says, 609 00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:31,568 "Everything's gonna be okay, I shouldn't be stressed 610 00:30:31,612 --> 00:30:34,267 "about this, this is nothing to worry about." 611 00:30:34,310 --> 00:30:36,486 And my clients in and the participants in the study 612 00:30:36,530 --> 00:30:39,141 will say all the time, "I say all the right things to myself 613 00:30:39,185 --> 00:30:40,795 "but it just doesn't matter." 614 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:43,798 And that's exactly true because the message 615 00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:46,845 isn't getting through to the emotional brain. 616 00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:49,151 - And we also know from this study 617 00:30:49,195 --> 00:30:52,372 that every time a really distressing event 618 00:30:52,415 --> 00:30:55,375 gets reactivated or there's a reminder of it, 619 00:30:55,418 --> 00:30:57,551 that your nervous system reacts. 620 00:30:57,594 --> 00:31:00,467 So when we looked at the biofeedback, 621 00:31:00,510 --> 00:31:03,949 we know that the autonomic nervous system gets involved. 622 00:31:03,992 --> 00:31:07,996 And when the autonomic nervous systems gets hyper activated, 623 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,651 that has a negative effect on health outcomes, 624 00:31:10,694 --> 00:31:13,045 quality of life across the board, 625 00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:15,569 creates too much inflammation in the system and so on. 626 00:31:15,612 --> 00:31:18,311 - We talk about sort of the brain normalizing itself 627 00:31:18,354 --> 00:31:20,313 and in many ways that is reflected 628 00:31:20,356 --> 00:31:21,880 in what these scans looked at, 629 00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:24,621 that instead of having this overreaction 630 00:31:24,665 --> 00:31:26,928 in these limbic areas of the brain, 631 00:31:26,972 --> 00:31:28,756 the brain basically said, "Okay, you know, 632 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:31,280 "it's just one of my memories now and it's not 633 00:31:31,324 --> 00:31:33,413 "a traumatic memory, I don't have these 634 00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:35,241 "horrible feelings that come up." 635 00:31:35,284 --> 00:31:37,460 And it's reflected in what the brain looked like. 636 00:31:37,504 --> 00:31:40,463 - I was even surprised that base-line mood, 637 00:31:40,507 --> 00:31:42,857 base-line anxiety, all of those things changed. 638 00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:45,816 Like when you think about it, the person's overall 639 00:31:45,860 --> 00:31:49,516 quality of life was changed. 640 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:52,301 From three to five sessions of an intervention. 641 00:31:52,345 --> 00:31:53,824 That's pretty dramatic. 642 00:31:53,868 --> 00:31:56,958 - I can tell you that I felt 643 00:31:57,002 --> 00:32:00,222 physically different after 644 00:32:02,311 --> 00:32:03,922 receiving the treatment. 645 00:32:03,965 --> 00:32:06,620 I had had a bunch of different treatments 646 00:32:08,578 --> 00:32:11,755 during my attempts to treat the disease 647 00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:15,542 but I really felt as though after that treatment, 648 00:32:15,585 --> 00:32:18,240 I really took a turn towards healing 649 00:32:18,284 --> 00:32:21,940 and it was physically evident. 650 00:32:21,983 --> 00:32:23,898 That's just an example of how... 651 00:32:26,596 --> 00:32:30,861 All the work that I'd been doing for all those years... 652 00:32:34,213 --> 00:32:37,129 To help other people could actually 653 00:32:38,565 --> 00:32:39,827 help me too. 654 00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:42,351 It just, it reached me in another way that 655 00:32:44,614 --> 00:32:46,007 it had never reached me before. 656 00:32:46,051 --> 00:32:51,056 Like how impactful and how important this work is. 657 00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:55,799 I know in my heart that this treatment really helped to 658 00:32:55,843 --> 00:32:59,325 shift how I healed. 659 00:32:59,368 --> 00:33:01,762 It just felt like I can heal this now 660 00:33:01,805 --> 00:33:04,373 where before I didn't, 661 00:33:04,417 --> 00:33:06,332 I may have thought that, 662 00:33:06,375 --> 00:33:08,595 but I didn't feel that in my body. 663 00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:11,206 You can have all the positive affirmations you want 664 00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:14,122 and intend for different things to happen 665 00:33:14,166 --> 00:33:17,778 and that's all cognitive, that's all your brain talking. 666 00:33:17,821 --> 00:33:22,174 But this was distinctly different in that 667 00:33:22,217 --> 00:33:24,393 it was in my gut that I felt different, 668 00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:25,786 it wasn't just a thought, 669 00:33:25,829 --> 00:33:28,310 it was I feel like I can heal this. 670 00:33:49,679 --> 00:33:52,552 - There is an emotional component that happens 671 00:33:52,595 --> 00:33:55,076 from being sick for long periods of time 672 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,209 or struggling with physical illness. 673 00:33:57,252 --> 00:34:00,516 Or watching someone you love face a physical illness. 674 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,476 We're not floating heads, there is a combination 675 00:34:03,519 --> 00:34:07,610 that happens where the mind and the body work together 676 00:34:07,654 --> 00:34:10,091 and so when you have a physical illness, 677 00:34:10,135 --> 00:34:11,614 there is emotional component. 678 00:34:11,658 --> 00:34:14,139 And when you're facing emotional stress like depression 679 00:34:14,182 --> 00:34:16,793 or anxiety, there's a physical component to it 680 00:34:16,837 --> 00:34:19,057 and that both of those need to be treated. 681 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:23,670 - Sometimes people don't know and they need that tool of NET 682 00:34:24,845 --> 00:34:28,936 that utilizes not just what's in the conscious brain 683 00:34:28,979 --> 00:34:32,461 but what physiology is doing that actually helps us 684 00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:36,161 to get at what's a little bit less than conscious. 685 00:34:36,204 --> 00:34:40,078 - But because NET uses several unique components, 686 00:34:40,121 --> 00:34:43,646 first being the muscle testing which allows the body 687 00:34:43,690 --> 00:34:46,649 to become its own biofeedback instrument. 688 00:34:46,693 --> 00:34:48,912 The body then guides the treatment 689 00:34:48,956 --> 00:34:52,699 by using the muscle testing, it precisely and correctly 690 00:34:52,742 --> 00:34:55,789 identifies what these periods of distress are. 691 00:34:55,832 --> 00:34:58,574 - And what we're really doing with the muscle test 692 00:34:58,618 --> 00:35:02,926 is we're posing a concept and then seeing if their body, 693 00:35:02,970 --> 00:35:06,843 the patient's body, has a physiological response. 694 00:35:06,887 --> 00:35:09,455 We're not measuring true and false, 695 00:35:09,498 --> 00:35:13,154 we're only measuring the person's personal 696 00:35:13,198 --> 00:35:15,113 reaction to it. 697 00:35:15,156 --> 00:35:17,593 So it's kind of like, I over-simplified, 698 00:35:17,637 --> 00:35:20,901 would be the amoeba moving toward a bit of food 699 00:35:20,944 --> 00:35:24,687 or away from a bit of poison that's in the Petri dish. 700 00:35:24,731 --> 00:35:27,342 And that's what we're measuring with the muscle test. 701 00:35:27,386 --> 00:35:31,172 - The experience of NET is far different 702 00:35:31,216 --> 00:35:34,393 than what somebody observing it can know. 703 00:35:56,937 --> 00:35:58,678 - We're run so much by our subconscious, 704 00:35:58,721 --> 00:36:01,376 at least 80%, probably 99.9%, 705 00:36:01,420 --> 00:36:03,291 we're run by our subconscious minds. 706 00:36:03,335 --> 00:36:05,641 And therefore we're kind of victim 707 00:36:05,685 --> 00:36:06,903 to those subconscious minds. 708 00:36:06,947 --> 00:36:08,688 - Because our subconscious mind is running 709 00:36:08,731 --> 00:36:10,820 so much of the show, it can be difficult 710 00:36:10,864 --> 00:36:12,692 to break out of our conditioning. 711 00:36:12,735 --> 00:36:15,651 Dr. Scott explains that a Neuro Emotional Complex, 712 00:36:15,695 --> 00:36:19,568 or NEC, is when an emotion gets stuck in the body. 713 00:36:19,612 --> 00:36:22,919 - In the NEC, we're shedding the old perceptions, 714 00:36:22,963 --> 00:36:25,270 we're shedding the feelings that went with them. 715 00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:26,923 And usually the NEC, of course, has something 716 00:36:26,967 --> 00:36:30,579 that is perceived by us to be non-survival oriented, 717 00:36:30,623 --> 00:36:33,669 it's counter survival, that's the way we perceive it. 718 00:36:33,713 --> 00:36:36,629 And so we're shedding that. 719 00:36:36,672 --> 00:36:39,240 - So most of the time what happens is when people 720 00:36:39,284 --> 00:36:43,853 come into my office, they've had this issue for so long 721 00:36:43,897 --> 00:36:46,552 that they start to mistake the problem 722 00:36:46,595 --> 00:36:49,511 that they're having as 723 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:51,209 it actually being them. 724 00:36:52,384 --> 00:36:56,779 So instead of them having anxiety, 725 00:36:56,823 --> 00:37:00,696 they feel anxious and then they start to attribute that 726 00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:03,351 to them just being an anxious person, 727 00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:05,266 it becomes part of their identity. 728 00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,834 It's that feeling of hopelessness 729 00:37:07,877 --> 00:37:10,402 that's so corrosive, I think. 730 00:37:10,445 --> 00:37:12,665 And the idea 731 00:37:12,708 --> 00:37:14,014 for people, 732 00:37:14,057 --> 00:37:17,191 the idea that there's some hope out there 733 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,846 that they could actually get to the heart 734 00:37:19,889 --> 00:37:22,544 of why this is actually happening 735 00:37:22,588 --> 00:37:24,720 over and over again in their life 736 00:37:24,764 --> 00:37:29,769 and even return to the place where it becomes something, 737 00:37:31,118 --> 00:37:32,685 a condition that they have rather than who they are, 738 00:37:32,728 --> 00:37:34,817 that's a great start, okay? 739 00:37:34,861 --> 00:37:36,993 And then move on from there. 740 00:37:37,037 --> 00:37:39,692 - People often ask me, "Well, that event doesn't seem 741 00:37:39,735 --> 00:37:41,781 "like it was so traumatic or anything like that, 742 00:37:41,824 --> 00:37:43,739 "so why did that come up?" 743 00:37:43,783 --> 00:37:47,221 But I think that we are just so bombarded with 744 00:37:47,265 --> 00:37:50,311 processed foods and sugar and, 745 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:53,314 you know, lack of sleep and the news 746 00:37:53,358 --> 00:37:55,447 and everything that we're exposed to 747 00:37:55,490 --> 00:37:57,927 that our brain gets overloaded, 748 00:37:57,971 --> 00:37:59,625 our nervous system gets overloaded 749 00:37:59,668 --> 00:38:01,540 with the emotions it's trying to process 750 00:38:01,583 --> 00:38:04,282 so something that seems somewhat insignificant 751 00:38:04,325 --> 00:38:07,328 may have hit us on a day that our system was weak 752 00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:09,852 and it just didn't know what to do with it. 753 00:38:09,896 --> 00:38:12,420 - When one person, years and years later, 754 00:38:12,464 --> 00:38:14,901 is still suffering from the death of a parent. 755 00:38:16,119 --> 00:38:17,991 And then another person, years and years later, 756 00:38:18,034 --> 00:38:20,776 is suffering because they didn't get ice cream 757 00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,649 at a birthday party, it doesn't matter. 758 00:38:23,692 --> 00:38:24,824 It doesn't matter. 759 00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:26,086 The person who lost a parent might've 760 00:38:26,129 --> 00:38:28,044 actually adapted better than the kid 761 00:38:28,088 --> 00:38:29,698 who didn't get ice cream at a birthday party. 762 00:38:29,742 --> 00:38:32,832 - Emotions have no logic, they're just emotions. 763 00:38:32,875 --> 00:38:35,835 If they were logical, we'd all figure our stuff out 764 00:38:35,878 --> 00:38:37,880 and no one would ever have a health issue 765 00:38:37,924 --> 00:38:40,448 or need to see a doctor or therapist for any reason 766 00:38:40,492 --> 00:38:42,363 'cause we would just think about it, go huh, 767 00:38:42,407 --> 00:38:43,538 and then we'd be fine. 768 00:38:43,582 --> 00:38:44,887 Doesn't really work like that. 769 00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:48,761 - The memory stores things, often inaccurately 770 00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:52,417 as to what really happened, 'cause it's not about that. 771 00:38:52,460 --> 00:38:56,116 And what it can do is it can put associated memories 772 00:38:56,159 --> 00:38:59,859 together so that when you recount something 773 00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:02,905 or retell a story, you had pieces that really 774 00:39:02,949 --> 00:39:06,561 didn't even happen just by the way our memory stores stuff. 775 00:39:06,605 --> 00:39:09,782 And it doesn't matter that it's logically correct 776 00:39:09,825 --> 00:39:13,786 or that they're overly emotional or underly emotional. 777 00:39:13,829 --> 00:39:17,572 If the body's having a physiological reaction, 778 00:39:17,616 --> 00:39:20,314 we can help connect the different piece parts 779 00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:23,099 and let the body come to closure with that thing. 780 00:39:23,143 --> 00:39:25,798 - When we do muscle testing we get the body's feedback 781 00:39:25,841 --> 00:39:27,974 and we use that to help the body heal. 782 00:39:28,017 --> 00:39:31,934 So logic and reason oftentimes are not involved 783 00:39:31,978 --> 00:39:33,762 when we're doing NET, we're just finding out 784 00:39:33,806 --> 00:39:35,373 where the body is stuck. 785 00:39:35,416 --> 00:39:38,419 And sometimes there's no way that we would logically 786 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:41,074 ever figure it out unless we use muscle testing. 787 00:39:49,256 --> 00:39:51,519 - Upon further analysis of the data, 788 00:39:51,563 --> 00:39:54,304 the team at Jefferson noticed some very interesting changes 789 00:39:54,348 --> 00:39:55,915 regarding the cerebellum. 790 00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:59,353 This led to the publishing of their second paper in 2017. 791 00:40:00,659 --> 00:40:01,921 - It's kind of traditionally been taught 792 00:40:01,964 --> 00:40:03,966 that the cerebellum is primarily involved 793 00:40:04,010 --> 00:40:06,447 in the coordination of our motor activity so when it comes 794 00:40:06,491 --> 00:40:08,710 to emotions, it's not that relevant, 795 00:40:08,754 --> 00:40:10,930 it's not really helping us with anything. 796 00:40:10,973 --> 00:40:12,888 It's really just helping us to move our hands 797 00:40:12,932 --> 00:40:15,891 and to move our legs and to do that in a coordinated fashion 798 00:40:15,935 --> 00:40:19,199 but a growing number of research studies, 799 00:40:19,242 --> 00:40:22,028 as we came to find as we started to look at it, 800 00:40:22,071 --> 00:40:23,246 we started to see well, gee, 801 00:40:23,290 --> 00:40:24,900 there's some interesting studies that show 802 00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:27,425 that when the cerebellum is activated that has something 803 00:40:27,468 --> 00:40:31,254 to do with the laying down of traumatic memories. 804 00:40:31,298 --> 00:40:34,519 - According to a scientific paper published in 2015 805 00:40:34,562 --> 00:40:38,044 titled "The Emotional Cerebellum", imaging experts revealed, 806 00:40:38,087 --> 00:40:40,960 "The cerebellum is activated during mental recall 807 00:40:41,003 --> 00:40:42,831 "of emotional personal episodes 808 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:44,746 "and during the learning of a conditioned 809 00:40:44,790 --> 00:40:48,184 "or unconditioned association involving emotions." 810 00:40:48,228 --> 00:40:50,186 - Even though the cerebellum is relatively small, 811 00:40:50,230 --> 00:40:52,232 it's just kind of these little balls 812 00:40:52,275 --> 00:40:55,148 in the back of the brain, it has five times 813 00:40:55,191 --> 00:40:57,672 the number of neurons as the rest of the brain combined. 814 00:40:57,716 --> 00:40:59,413 And then we started to realize, well, 815 00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:01,067 you know, this is all starting to make some sense. 816 00:41:01,110 --> 00:41:04,592 If this part of the brain normally is involved 817 00:41:04,636 --> 00:41:07,508 in the coordination of motor function, maybe it's also 818 00:41:07,552 --> 00:41:10,859 involved in the coordination of emotional function. 819 00:41:10,903 --> 00:41:14,080 And if that's the case, then perhaps what we're seeing 820 00:41:14,123 --> 00:41:16,169 is that as a result of going through the 821 00:41:16,212 --> 00:41:18,519 Neuro Emotional Technique and the various elements 822 00:41:18,563 --> 00:41:21,000 that are involved in it, that we are having 823 00:41:21,043 --> 00:41:23,916 a direct impact on how that cerebellum 824 00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:27,267 is able to regulate the emotional, or help in the regulation 825 00:41:27,310 --> 00:41:29,051 of these emotional centers of the brain. 826 00:41:29,095 --> 00:41:33,403 - This is one of the reasons to get up and go to work 827 00:41:33,447 --> 00:41:36,537 as a medical researcher because 828 00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:40,236 you don't get to see these kinds of results every day. 829 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,109 - But it also opens up the door even more 830 00:41:43,152 --> 00:41:45,328 in terms of the field of cognitive neuroscience 831 00:41:45,372 --> 00:41:48,114 and emotions and psychiatry and psychology 832 00:41:48,157 --> 00:41:51,247 because it helps us to understand that the cerebellum 833 00:41:51,291 --> 00:41:54,207 may be a very critical area of our brain 834 00:41:54,250 --> 00:41:58,037 that is very much related to our emotional selves 835 00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,909 and not just how our body moves 836 00:42:00,953 --> 00:42:03,346 but how our body is moved emotionally. 837 00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:05,435 - Even the people on my team who knew nothing about NET, 838 00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:08,047 they're just analyzing, you know, 839 00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:12,486 doing the quantitative analysis of the MRIs pre and post 840 00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,009 are like, "What is this? 841 00:42:14,053 --> 00:42:16,534 "What was this intervention, what's going on here?" 842 00:42:16,577 --> 00:42:20,233 Everybody was just really 843 00:42:20,276 --> 00:42:23,018 thrilled and so happy for the patients. 844 00:42:23,062 --> 00:42:25,368 And of course, that's what it's really about. 845 00:42:25,412 --> 00:42:27,283 - Even though the study was focused on people 846 00:42:27,327 --> 00:42:30,156 with traumatic stress from cancer, the traumatic stress 847 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:32,811 of going to war is an equally important issue. 848 00:42:32,854 --> 00:42:34,726 On his third deployment to Afghanistan, 849 00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:37,076 United States Marine Corps Corporal 850 00:42:37,119 --> 00:42:39,731 Rory Hamill sustained serious injuries. 851 00:42:39,774 --> 00:42:43,691 - It was February 13th, 2011, it's almost seven years now. 852 00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:47,869 Took the minesweeper off my point man's back 853 00:42:47,913 --> 00:42:51,177 after he received some information 854 00:42:51,220 --> 00:42:53,222 that there was an improvised explosive device 855 00:42:53,266 --> 00:42:56,095 on a compound by our location. 856 00:42:56,138 --> 00:42:56,878 And 857 00:42:58,314 --> 00:43:00,621 we got about three quarters of the compound swept 858 00:43:00,665 --> 00:43:04,625 and as I was nearing the end of my search, 859 00:43:04,669 --> 00:43:07,106 I stepped on a little metallic pressure plate 860 00:43:08,324 --> 00:43:11,414 which detonated homemade explosives five feet behind me 861 00:43:11,458 --> 00:43:14,504 to the right and the explosion and the blast force 862 00:43:14,548 --> 00:43:16,506 came from my right side, 863 00:43:16,550 --> 00:43:18,726 sheared my right leg off instantly, 864 00:43:18,770 --> 00:43:20,249 clipped the back of my left leg. 865 00:43:20,293 --> 00:43:21,990 Flew 10 feet in the air, 866 00:43:22,034 --> 00:43:23,688 hit the ground on the back of my head. 867 00:43:23,731 --> 00:43:27,822 My Marines saved my life, they instantly rushed right in. 868 00:43:27,866 --> 00:43:29,998 There could have been a secondary IED in there 869 00:43:30,042 --> 00:43:31,347 but they didn't care. 870 00:43:31,391 --> 00:43:34,133 They dragged me out of the blast zone, 871 00:43:34,176 --> 00:43:36,614 worked on me, stopped the bleeding, stabilized me. 872 00:43:38,093 --> 00:43:42,010 Unfortunately, on the helicopter to the shock trauma unit, 873 00:43:42,054 --> 00:43:43,838 I flat lined for two minutes 874 00:43:43,882 --> 00:43:45,840 and I was resuscitated, worked on 875 00:43:47,102 --> 00:43:49,627 and began the long journey home. 876 00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:51,716 Took about a week for me to get home 877 00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:54,893 'cause they need to keep you stable when they put you 878 00:43:54,936 --> 00:43:57,156 on a plane and I wasn't quite stable enough 879 00:43:57,199 --> 00:43:59,680 but eventually I made it back to Washington, D.C. 880 00:43:59,724 --> 00:44:01,943 where I began my rehab. 881 00:44:15,957 --> 00:44:19,134 It's very common with amputees, we get phantom limb pain. 882 00:44:19,178 --> 00:44:23,573 That's where your body is firing of synapses and trying 883 00:44:23,617 --> 00:44:27,186 to remap, you know, where the nerves are and it realized 884 00:44:27,229 --> 00:44:29,579 that there was a huge chunk of nerves missing. 885 00:44:29,623 --> 00:44:34,628 But that can translate into phantom pain, phantom sensation. 886 00:44:36,151 --> 00:44:38,240 And one of the things that we worked on at the office was 887 00:44:39,154 --> 00:44:42,897 we tried using a mirror, it helped out a lot. 888 00:44:42,941 --> 00:44:45,291 In a sense, it kind of tricked my brain. 889 00:44:45,334 --> 00:44:47,380 I'm looking at this, I have my left leg 890 00:44:47,423 --> 00:44:50,731 and I'm looking at it and in my brain it made sense 891 00:44:50,775 --> 00:44:52,472 and it helped, you know, 892 00:44:52,515 --> 00:44:54,909 with a combination of the actual treatment 893 00:44:54,953 --> 00:44:59,131 it helped get a lot of that stress away from my body. 894 00:44:59,174 --> 00:45:02,221 And the phantom pains and sensations became, 895 00:45:02,264 --> 00:45:05,093 you know, very less frequent. 896 00:45:05,137 --> 00:45:08,793 Obviously I still have challenges every single day. 897 00:45:08,836 --> 00:45:13,449 It's very, very hard and over the past almost seven years 898 00:45:13,493 --> 00:45:17,192 I have a gotten a lot mentally and physically stronger 899 00:45:17,236 --> 00:45:20,108 but NET has been an integral part of that. 900 00:45:20,152 --> 00:45:24,286 What I feel, what I've seen with NET is it's, 901 00:45:24,330 --> 00:45:27,768 it really is a mind/body type of therapy. 902 00:45:27,812 --> 00:45:31,163 And I can personally attest to normally, you know, 903 00:45:31,206 --> 00:45:33,774 if you have a physical thing, go to a physical doctor. 904 00:45:33,818 --> 00:45:36,603 You have a mental thing, you go to a mental doctor. 905 00:45:36,646 --> 00:45:39,954 With NET, it hits both of those at the same time. 906 00:45:39,998 --> 00:45:43,479 And I really, really feel that's why there was such a huge, 907 00:45:44,872 --> 00:45:46,787 you know, wave of emotion released initially 908 00:45:46,831 --> 00:45:49,703 and all the subsequent appointments afterwards. 909 00:45:49,747 --> 00:45:52,793 The doctor didn't tell me that I was going to be cured 910 00:45:52,837 --> 00:45:55,622 of my ailments or anything like that, it wasn't, 911 00:45:57,145 --> 00:45:59,626 but he did tell me that it would help stabilize my body 912 00:45:59,669 --> 00:46:02,934 and help me get back to a sense of normalcy 913 00:46:02,977 --> 00:46:06,285 in my everyday life, which it did, hands down, immediately. 914 00:46:07,721 --> 00:46:10,550 And it only got better with the next few sessions 915 00:46:10,593 --> 00:46:12,465 and, you know, subsequently after. 916 00:46:15,163 --> 00:46:17,818 It helped me a lot. 917 00:46:17,862 --> 00:46:19,733 It helped me out of a dark place. 918 00:46:21,213 --> 00:46:23,781 You know, that with the help of family and friends as well, 919 00:46:23,824 --> 00:46:26,784 it's just, it was an amazing supplement to, 920 00:46:28,263 --> 00:46:31,440 to my regimen, to everything that I needed. 921 00:46:42,887 --> 00:46:44,627 - When the doctor's ego is there, 922 00:46:44,671 --> 00:46:47,935 it reduces the capacity for healing in the patient. 923 00:46:47,979 --> 00:46:51,286 Too often we get an idea, a preconceived idea about 924 00:46:51,330 --> 00:46:52,592 what's going on with the patient. 925 00:46:52,635 --> 00:46:54,463 And how could we possibly do that? 926 00:46:54,507 --> 00:46:56,465 Because we've only lived our own life. 927 00:46:56,509 --> 00:46:59,077 We haven't lived that person's life. 928 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,862 We don't know what's going on with them at all. 929 00:47:01,906 --> 00:47:05,823 And so, well known by the psychologist is 930 00:47:06,736 --> 00:47:07,912 people project, 931 00:47:07,955 --> 00:47:10,915 people project their loves and their hatreds. 932 00:47:10,958 --> 00:47:14,396 - As a practitioner, you can't allow your stuff to interfere 933 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,399 and as humans, it's very easy for that to happen. 934 00:47:17,443 --> 00:47:20,359 We even have seminars that they're designed 935 00:47:20,402 --> 00:47:22,317 to address the practitioner's needs 936 00:47:22,361 --> 00:47:25,320 so that we don't have those needs getting in the way 937 00:47:25,364 --> 00:47:27,279 of the therapeutic relationship. 938 00:47:42,816 --> 00:47:44,949 - There are numerous seminars every year 939 00:47:44,992 --> 00:47:48,300 allowing practitioners to learn and improve their technique. 940 00:47:48,343 --> 00:47:51,433 As of 2018, there are more than 10,000 practitioners 941 00:47:51,477 --> 00:47:53,087 in over 30 countries. 942 00:48:02,836 --> 00:48:05,273 - Whether they're small distressing events 943 00:48:05,317 --> 00:48:08,494 that just aren't resolving themselves well 944 00:48:08,537 --> 00:48:12,106 or the big, big ones, they all affect us. 945 00:48:12,150 --> 00:48:13,760 And they affect our quality of life, 946 00:48:13,803 --> 00:48:16,937 they affect how we're functioning, how we're feeling 947 00:48:16,981 --> 00:48:18,547 and whether or not we're thriving in the world 948 00:48:18,591 --> 00:48:20,201 the way we want to be. 949 00:48:20,245 --> 00:48:23,901 - And where, 30 years ago, it was different thinking, 950 00:48:23,944 --> 00:48:28,470 I think the whole face of healthcare is changing 951 00:48:28,514 --> 00:48:30,646 and people are more open now 952 00:48:30,690 --> 00:48:33,388 that what you think could affect how you heal. 953 00:48:33,432 --> 00:48:36,130 What you eat, how you exercise, 954 00:48:36,174 --> 00:48:37,740 meditation, 955 00:48:37,784 --> 00:48:39,829 yoga, all that kind of stuff. 956 00:48:39,873 --> 00:48:44,138 And NET's just a tool but I think it's a perfect time for it 957 00:48:44,182 --> 00:48:47,794 because I think the consciousness of people in general 958 00:48:47,837 --> 00:48:50,449 is real open that maybe I have something 959 00:48:50,492 --> 00:48:53,104 to do with my health condition. 960 00:48:53,147 --> 00:48:57,238 And if we can help unlock what was stuck in there 961 00:48:57,282 --> 00:49:00,415 then all those other things they're doing as well 962 00:49:00,459 --> 00:49:01,677 work better too. 963 00:49:01,721 --> 00:49:04,289 - It pays it forward in so many different ways 964 00:49:04,332 --> 00:49:07,988 because if one person can be less stressed 965 00:49:08,032 --> 00:49:09,990 when they go home to their family, 966 00:49:10,034 --> 00:49:13,428 when they, you know, go into work, when they are 967 00:49:13,472 --> 00:49:16,431 on the phone as a customer service representative, 968 00:49:16,475 --> 00:49:18,477 then all of the sudden we have a better world 969 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,566 cascading, cascading, cascading. 970 00:49:20,609 --> 00:49:22,960 - This is a really good time in history to be there. 971 00:49:23,003 --> 00:49:25,875 It was so wonderful in the very beginning 972 00:49:25,919 --> 00:49:27,138 because we didn't know where we were going 973 00:49:27,181 --> 00:49:28,530 or what we were doing or if it was gonna work 974 00:49:28,574 --> 00:49:30,750 or if it wasn't gonna work but right now we feel 975 00:49:30,793 --> 00:49:34,493 very confident that every single research study 976 00:49:34,536 --> 00:49:37,409 that we done, every single condition 977 00:49:37,452 --> 00:49:40,368 that we've thrown this as has been improved. 978 00:49:40,412 --> 00:49:43,023 We haven't found anything that it hasn't improved. 979 00:49:43,067 --> 00:49:44,459 We don't know where the limits are. 980 00:49:44,503 --> 00:49:47,201 - It would be nice if it was a mechanistic world 981 00:49:47,245 --> 00:49:49,377 and we just tightened a bolt here and there 982 00:49:49,421 --> 00:49:54,382 and then it worked but that's not, we're way more than 983 00:49:54,426 --> 00:49:57,907 a piece of machinery and I don't think we've begun 984 00:49:57,951 --> 00:50:01,389 to touch on the energy of what runs the body 985 00:50:01,433 --> 00:50:04,610 or even, dare I say, the spiritual piece. 986 00:50:04,653 --> 00:50:07,526 - I never wanted it to go into a spiritual direction 987 00:50:07,569 --> 00:50:10,050 but really, I don't know how you can stop it 988 00:50:10,094 --> 00:50:12,574 when you start analyzing what's going on in this world. 989 00:50:12,618 --> 00:50:16,404 - I think the other interesting piece about this is 990 00:50:16,448 --> 00:50:20,582 healing, healing is so interesting to me in that 991 00:50:20,626 --> 00:50:24,630 we put on these layers and layers and layers of protection 992 00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:26,327 of things that happened to us. 993 00:50:26,371 --> 00:50:28,460 And then a person will come in with a problem 994 00:50:28,503 --> 00:50:30,592 and we'll start peeling off the layers 995 00:50:30,636 --> 00:50:35,032 but what's totally interesting to me is the issue 996 00:50:35,075 --> 00:50:39,427 won't come up until the body's ready to deal with it. 997 00:50:39,471 --> 00:50:43,518 And I know, personally, I lost my mother 998 00:50:43,562 --> 00:50:45,607 when I was six years old. 999 00:50:45,651 --> 00:50:47,914 And, I'm sure, you know, I've had issues 1000 00:50:47,957 --> 00:50:51,352 and over the years we've done a bunch of NET 1001 00:50:51,396 --> 00:50:54,921 and would often go back to me being a six year old, 1002 00:50:54,964 --> 00:50:57,445 of course, which is when my mother died 1003 00:50:57,489 --> 00:51:02,624 and we would check the concept of my mother dying, 1004 00:51:03,277 --> 00:51:04,713 committing suicide, 1005 00:51:04,757 --> 00:51:07,890 and it wasn't there, for almost five years, 1006 00:51:07,934 --> 00:51:09,196 it would be something else. 1007 00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:11,633 It'd be that I had to go stay with my aunt 1008 00:51:11,677 --> 00:51:14,158 or that it was my father was so upset 1009 00:51:14,201 --> 00:51:15,811 or this or that. 1010 00:51:15,855 --> 00:51:19,424 And then, interestingly, five years into it, 1011 00:51:19,467 --> 00:51:22,427 on a Mother's Day, believe it or not, 1012 00:51:22,470 --> 00:51:26,170 I had an issue come up, goes back to age six 1013 00:51:26,213 --> 00:51:30,609 and this time I was ready to deal with the death 1014 00:51:30,652 --> 00:51:32,741 and suicide of my mother. 1015 00:51:32,785 --> 00:51:36,615 So I think that is so wonderful 1016 00:51:36,658 --> 00:51:38,225 and it gives a level 1017 00:51:38,269 --> 00:51:41,489 of safety to realize an issue's not gonna come up 1018 00:51:41,533 --> 00:51:43,491 until you're ready to deal with it. 1019 00:51:43,535 --> 00:51:46,277 - Probably the most interesting thing that happens, 1020 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,671 that has happened for me as a practitioner is that, 1021 00:51:49,715 --> 00:51:52,196 person comes in, maybe for migraines 1022 00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,720 and you start doing NET on them for the migraines 1023 00:51:54,763 --> 00:51:57,549 and then they start to tell you the other things 1024 00:51:57,592 --> 00:51:58,680 that are getting better in their life, 1025 00:51:58,724 --> 00:51:59,855 their relationships are better, 1026 00:51:59,899 --> 00:52:01,596 they're happier, they're sleeping better. 1027 00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,077 And you didn't even take care of those things. 1028 00:52:04,121 --> 00:52:07,559 Which, again, just illustrates the amazing healing power 1029 00:52:07,602 --> 00:52:09,256 of the body if you give it a chance. 1030 00:52:09,300 --> 00:52:11,215 If you take some of these stress factors, 1031 00:52:11,258 --> 00:52:15,044 you reduce that load that the body is carrying, 1032 00:52:15,088 --> 00:52:16,916 the sky is the limit as to what it can heal. 1033 00:52:16,959 --> 00:52:21,355 - The one thing that we really are hoping people become 1034 00:52:21,399 --> 00:52:24,750 is to become more comfortable in their own skin 1035 00:52:24,793 --> 00:52:27,535 because if we're comfortable in our own skin, 1036 00:52:27,579 --> 00:52:29,755 things are a little bit less stressful in life. 1037 00:52:29,798 --> 00:52:31,757 We're able to handle things better, 1038 00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:33,933 we love ourself more. 1039 00:52:33,976 --> 00:52:38,981 And with that, there's nothing that money or anything else 1040 00:52:40,461 --> 00:52:43,595 can buy except that peace of mind with yourself. 1041 00:52:43,638 --> 00:52:46,206 - Imagine how the world could be 1042 00:52:46,250 --> 00:52:48,904 if we could actually become more aware of our stress 1043 00:52:48,948 --> 00:52:51,864 and its impact on not only our own body and ourselves 1044 00:52:51,907 --> 00:52:53,213 but those around us. 1045 00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:55,737 And be able to hold a space of acceptance 1046 00:52:55,781 --> 00:52:59,219 and allow each of us to reach our full potential 1047 00:52:59,263 --> 00:53:01,265 and be true, authentic selves. 1048 00:53:01,308 --> 00:53:04,703 - I wish that more people were aware of this work. 1049 00:53:04,746 --> 00:53:09,447 Because the miracles that we as practitioners get to see 1050 00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:12,406 every day... 1051 00:53:12,450 --> 00:53:15,583 Are amazing and people don't even realize, 1052 00:53:15,627 --> 00:53:17,629 there's so many people out there in this world 1053 00:53:17,672 --> 00:53:20,109 that don't even realize it's a possibility. 1054 00:53:20,153 --> 00:53:22,808 - As a result, as a side effect, a wonderful side effect 1055 00:53:22,851 --> 00:53:25,985 from doing NET, I started to practice yoga 1056 00:53:26,028 --> 00:53:29,902 and meditation understanding and teaching 1057 00:53:29,945 --> 00:53:32,644 this idea that your mind 1058 00:53:33,906 --> 00:53:37,997 is very powerful and it can help you or harm you 1059 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,781 and it's always your choice. 1060 00:53:39,825 --> 00:53:42,262 - I mean, I would probably be, I would probably be 1061 00:53:42,306 --> 00:53:44,482 an emotional wreck. 1062 00:53:44,525 --> 00:53:48,660 If I never had NET, I would probably be a mess, honestly. 1063 00:53:49,661 --> 00:53:51,837 And I used to be, I used to be like, 1064 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:53,839 my emotions would just go up and down 1065 00:53:53,882 --> 00:53:57,234 and a lot of that stuff also correlates with your diet. 1066 00:53:57,277 --> 00:54:00,715 So just learning about that stuff was a game changer for me. 1067 00:54:00,759 --> 00:54:02,413 But 1068 00:54:02,456 --> 00:54:05,329 it's helped so much in every way. 1069 00:54:05,372 --> 00:54:09,507 - Comments through your life are stored up in your body 1070 00:54:09,550 --> 00:54:11,117 and it's bringing that emotion out 1071 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,860 and to attack that emotion, almost, and release it 1072 00:54:14,903 --> 00:54:18,603 and diffuse it from your body is, 1073 00:54:18,646 --> 00:54:20,431 it's the biggest freedom. 1074 00:54:33,922 --> 00:54:36,447 - We want people to prosper, we want them to be better, 1075 00:54:36,490 --> 00:54:39,493 we want them to be healed and we can change the paradigm. 1076 00:54:39,537 --> 00:54:40,886 We can do it. 1077 00:54:41,887 --> 00:54:43,758 I thought, 1078 00:54:43,802 --> 00:54:47,022 just 20 years ago, I thought that 1079 00:54:47,066 --> 00:54:49,155 those of us that believed in the power 1080 00:54:49,198 --> 00:54:51,853 that made the body, that's in the body can heal the body, 1081 00:54:51,897 --> 00:54:54,073 and that the body was natural healing 1082 00:54:54,116 --> 00:54:57,685 and that's what works and nobody was listening to us, 1083 00:54:57,729 --> 00:55:00,035 again, you know, what's new? 1084 00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:02,473 And I just thought, yeah, I'll just be one of the dinosaurs, 1085 00:55:02,516 --> 00:55:05,563 I'm gonna die off, but what I'm gonna do while I'm alive, 1086 00:55:05,606 --> 00:55:07,391 I'm gonna keep this principle 1087 00:55:07,434 --> 00:55:10,089 that natural healthcare works. 1088 00:55:24,843 --> 00:55:26,366 - So much of our cultural narrative 1089 00:55:26,410 --> 00:55:28,325 revolves around the stresses of life 1090 00:55:28,368 --> 00:55:30,239 and it can make us feel powerless. 1091 00:55:30,283 --> 00:55:32,720 Struggles with anxiety, depression and chronic 1092 00:55:32,764 --> 00:55:35,897 health problems are becoming more and more common. 1093 00:55:35,941 --> 00:55:37,290 Every one of us has been through 1094 00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:38,813 traumatic events in our life 1095 00:55:38,857 --> 00:55:41,076 and it's something that should bring us together more 1096 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:42,948 instead of disconnecting us. 1097 00:55:42,991 --> 00:55:44,950 There are little to no treatment options 1098 00:55:44,993 --> 00:55:47,082 for people suffering from traumatic stress. 1099 00:55:47,126 --> 00:55:49,346 If you're not diagnosed with PTSD 1100 00:55:49,389 --> 00:55:51,609 or any other major traumatic condition, 1101 00:55:51,652 --> 00:55:53,741 it can seem confusing on how to get help. 1102 00:55:53,785 --> 00:55:56,222 These findings are about more than NET, 1103 00:55:56,265 --> 00:55:58,616 it's about helping our society to become more aware 1104 00:55:58,659 --> 00:56:01,880 of our emotions and how much they actually affect our life 1105 00:56:01,923 --> 00:56:03,360 and the people around us. 1106 00:56:03,403 --> 00:56:05,884 The mind and the body are intimately connected 1107 00:56:05,927 --> 00:56:07,581 and the more we can embrace that, 1108 00:56:07,625 --> 00:56:09,409 the more we can take control of our health 1109 00:56:09,453 --> 00:56:12,412 and ultimately take control of our lives. 1110 00:56:19,550 --> 00:56:21,639 - Part of why brain imaging is so valuable 1111 00:56:21,682 --> 00:56:24,642 is that it shows the physiological basis of things 1112 00:56:24,685 --> 00:56:27,819 and we always sort of joke about how, 1113 00:56:27,862 --> 00:56:29,560 you know, you could parade 100 people 1114 00:56:29,603 --> 00:56:31,997 in front of a group of scientists 1115 00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,739 and they all say, "This made me feel a lot better." 1116 00:56:34,782 --> 00:56:36,697 But if you throw up one brain scan picture and you say, 1117 00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:38,220 well, this is what their brain looked like initially 1118 00:56:38,264 --> 00:56:40,048 and this is what their brain looked like afterwards, 1119 00:56:40,092 --> 00:56:42,224 they say, "Oh, okay, something happened. 1120 00:56:42,268 --> 00:56:44,313 "I get it, I understand it." 1121 00:56:44,357 --> 00:56:47,099 Because the subjective experiences that people describe, 1122 00:56:47,142 --> 00:56:49,144 you never really know and, of course, 1123 00:56:49,188 --> 00:56:53,148 in a very cynical world, every advertisement, 1124 00:56:53,192 --> 00:56:55,673 every group is trying to make their product, 1125 00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:57,979 their approach, their ideas sound great 1126 00:56:58,023 --> 00:56:59,981 so of course there's a million testimonials 1127 00:57:00,025 --> 00:57:02,462 and every testimonial always says this was great, 1128 00:57:02,506 --> 00:57:03,942 it changed my life, I feel fabulous. 1129 00:57:03,985 --> 00:57:06,945 So that's one thing but to have actual data 1130 00:57:06,988 --> 00:57:10,165 and to be able to do in a controlled trial, 1131 00:57:10,209 --> 00:57:11,993 a randomized controlled trial, and to be able 1132 00:57:12,037 --> 00:57:13,908 to sort of see what's happening 1133 00:57:13,952 --> 00:57:16,911 and then more specifically to show the physiological effect, 1134 00:57:16,955 --> 00:57:19,610 that shows that there's something else that's going on. 1135 00:57:19,653 --> 00:57:22,264 I mean, a person could say to me, 1136 00:57:22,308 --> 00:57:24,963 "I'm not having a response to it." 1137 00:57:25,006 --> 00:57:26,878 But you don't know exactly what they're feeling 1138 00:57:26,921 --> 00:57:29,446 on the inside and I'm not in the scanner with them 1139 00:57:29,489 --> 00:57:31,796 so they could still be in tears and just fighting it 1140 00:57:31,839 --> 00:57:33,841 back better and saying, "No, I feel fine." 1141 00:57:33,885 --> 00:57:36,975 But they wouldn't be able to change the brain that way. 1142 00:57:37,018 --> 00:57:40,500 - Even though it's obvious that, 1143 00:57:40,544 --> 00:57:42,633 you know, mind and body are one. 1144 00:57:42,676 --> 00:57:44,939 We used to talk about a mind/body connection 1145 00:57:44,983 --> 00:57:46,550 like, I don't know, maybe there was a rope 1146 00:57:46,593 --> 00:57:48,813 or a chain connecting them or something. 1147 00:57:48,856 --> 00:57:52,512 And, you know, there was even a debate about 1148 00:57:52,556 --> 00:57:55,559 whether or not there was a connection prior to that. 1149 00:57:55,602 --> 00:57:59,214 We now know that they're the flip side of the same coin, 1150 00:57:59,258 --> 00:58:03,305 that there is a physiology 1151 00:58:03,349 --> 00:58:07,484 and a biology to things that we experience mentally 1152 00:58:07,527 --> 00:58:11,096 and emotionally and this study elucidates that, 1153 00:58:11,139 --> 00:58:14,099 you know, beautifully between both papers 1154 00:58:14,142 --> 00:58:16,623 and the effects that a distressing event has 1155 00:58:16,667 --> 00:58:19,017 on the brain and the rest of physiology 1156 00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:21,410 including the autonomic nervous system 1157 00:58:21,454 --> 00:58:24,718 as well as subjective ways that people feel. 1158 00:58:24,762 --> 00:58:28,113 And that when that distressing event 1159 00:58:28,156 --> 00:58:32,247 gets neutralized to a large extent, 1160 00:58:33,205 --> 00:58:34,859 that all of those things change. 1161 00:58:34,902 --> 00:58:38,036 That the brain changes, that the rest of physiology changes, 1162 00:58:38,079 --> 00:58:42,562 that subjective feelings of stress and distress all change, 1163 00:58:42,606 --> 00:58:44,346 quality of life change. 1164 00:58:44,390 --> 00:58:48,437 So it's, mind and body in that regard are one. 1165 00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:51,919 - I think that this data is very important 1166 00:58:51,963 --> 00:58:54,748 in providing more knowledge about the mechanism 1167 00:58:54,792 --> 00:58:56,620 of action of the Neuro Emotional Technique. 1168 00:58:56,663 --> 00:58:59,971 It helps us to understand better what it's doing, 1169 00:59:00,014 --> 00:59:02,713 how it has an impact on different parts of the brain 1170 00:59:02,756 --> 00:59:04,149 and how it helps the person 1171 00:59:04,192 --> 00:59:06,673 to regulate their emotional responses. 1172 00:59:06,717 --> 00:59:09,502 Now, you know, there could be some other very interesting 1173 00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:11,809 aspects because the cerebellum is involved 1174 00:59:11,852 --> 00:59:14,289 in our body's movement and our motor function. 1175 00:59:14,333 --> 00:59:16,596 It appears that it also helps to regulate 1176 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,512 our autonomic nervous system which was another part 1177 00:59:19,556 --> 00:59:23,037 of this study that showed that not only do we change 1178 00:59:23,081 --> 00:59:26,780 the way a person's brain is reacting to the emotional trauma 1179 00:59:26,824 --> 00:59:29,087 but we change the way the body reacts as well. 1180 00:59:29,130 --> 00:59:32,046 And the cerebellum, apparently, is able to regulate 1181 00:59:32,090 --> 00:59:34,222 the autonomic nervous system in terms of 1182 00:59:34,266 --> 00:59:37,008 regulating heart rate and blood pressure which were also 1183 00:59:37,051 --> 00:59:39,097 measures that we were looking at in this study. 1184 00:59:39,140 --> 00:59:41,186 And, again, what we were showing was 1185 00:59:41,229 --> 00:59:43,405 was that after the Neuro Emotional Technique, 1186 00:59:43,449 --> 00:59:46,626 people's heart rate responses to the traumatic stimuli 1187 00:59:46,670 --> 00:59:49,629 were much more normalized, they didn't have that kind of 1188 00:59:49,673 --> 00:59:52,371 over reactivity that we had seen 1189 00:59:52,414 --> 00:59:55,635 before going through the Neuro Emotional Technique. 1190 00:59:55,679 --> 00:59:58,856 So I think that this really opens up an ability 1191 00:59:58,899 --> 01:00:02,294 to understand more and more what the mechanism of action is 1192 01:00:02,337 --> 01:00:04,165 of the Neuro Emotional Technique. 1193 01:00:04,209 --> 01:00:07,255 It tells us a lot about what we may be able to learn 1194 01:00:07,299 --> 01:00:10,389 in terms of just traumatic memories and 1195 01:00:10,432 --> 01:00:14,567 strong negative emotions, how they play out in the brain, 1196 01:00:14,611 --> 01:00:17,004 what areas of the brain seem to be involved in them 1197 01:00:17,048 --> 01:00:20,138 and provides us a target for future studies. 1198 01:00:20,181 --> 01:00:24,664 - Initially I do not like the term alternative healthcare. 1199 01:00:24,708 --> 01:00:27,188 Bugs me, because this is not alternative healthcare, 1200 01:00:27,232 --> 01:00:30,844 in fact, this is almost more traditional 1201 01:00:30,888 --> 01:00:33,891 than any other type of healthcare that we have. 1202 01:00:33,934 --> 01:00:36,502 Because really, it's saying, okay, 1203 01:00:36,545 --> 01:00:38,504 you've got what it takes to heal, 1204 01:00:38,547 --> 01:00:42,247 let's unleash, let's unlock, let's help your body to heal. 1205 01:00:42,290 --> 01:00:47,078 - If we start looking at the body as mind as well, 1206 01:00:47,121 --> 01:00:48,688 it's not just the mind that's in your head, 1207 01:00:48,732 --> 01:00:51,386 it's also the mind that's down here in your gut 1208 01:00:51,430 --> 01:00:55,173 that is just as much at play 1209 01:00:55,216 --> 01:00:58,698 in terms of creating your health as the brain in your head. 1210 01:00:58,742 --> 01:01:02,093 - We look at the body as perfect the way it is 1211 01:01:02,136 --> 01:01:05,139 and if there is a symptom that's expressing, 1212 01:01:05,183 --> 01:01:07,489 it's because the body needs something, 1213 01:01:07,533 --> 01:01:10,536 it needs attention in that area. 1214 01:01:10,579 --> 01:01:13,713 - And emotions definitely are not logical, 1215 01:01:13,757 --> 01:01:17,195 they're not rational, emotions are non rational, 1216 01:01:17,238 --> 01:01:19,240 they're not irrational but they're non rational, 1217 01:01:19,284 --> 01:01:20,372 they just are what they are. 1218 01:01:20,415 --> 01:01:22,243 Most of the universe is non rational, 1219 01:01:22,287 --> 01:01:25,159 most of the universe is not working on a rational plane. 1220 01:01:25,203 --> 01:01:28,641 Most of the universe is just what it is. 1221 01:01:28,685 --> 01:01:31,296 Human beings, apparently, have been given reason 1222 01:01:31,339 --> 01:01:33,124 and we can work with our reason 1223 01:01:33,167 --> 01:01:35,039 to make life better for ourselves. 1224 01:01:35,082 --> 01:01:37,128 But we can't rely 100% on reason, 1225 01:01:37,171 --> 01:01:40,044 we have to understand that we're more than reason. 1226 01:01:40,087 --> 01:01:42,002 The body heals itself. 1227 01:01:42,046 --> 01:01:46,224 And NET kinda facilitates that and 1228 01:01:46,267 --> 01:01:47,312 kind of makes it 1229 01:01:48,617 --> 01:01:50,489 easier to do. 1230 01:01:50,532 --> 01:01:52,230 And it's just a process. 1231 01:01:54,623 --> 01:01:55,929 Through virtue of this process, 1232 01:01:55,973 --> 01:01:58,323 it allows that which heals to come forth 1233 01:01:58,366 --> 01:02:00,542 and get the healing done. 1234 01:02:00,586 --> 01:02:02,849 You know, they say, "Oh, you helped me so much." 1235 01:02:02,893 --> 01:02:05,112 And yeah, I tried to help you all right but 1236 01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:08,159 your body healed itself. 1237 01:02:08,202 --> 01:02:10,378 I just want to remind you of that. 1238 01:02:10,422 --> 01:02:12,859 So that we can get that consciousness going out there 1239 01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:15,340 and start making that part of the conversation. 102576

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