Dr. Emmett Miller grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant amid racism and violence, then became a doctor convinced the mind could prevent illness. He developed a technique that puts patients in a relaxed state to reprogram mental patterns sustaining disease, calling it a mental virtual reality of health. His work spread through the book Deep Healing and audio programs.
We have the ability, if we choose, to be in charge of our own life.
Patient, heal thyself. The mantra of an inspirational new film called Live Life and the culmination of a life's work for this man, renowned mind-body physician and my father, Dr. Emmett Miller.
The world is much more receptive to it now, and in truth, what I'm teaching has been taught since the beginning of recorded history.
35 years ago, this brash this young Carmel Valley doctor began a journey that would lead him to shake the very foundation of accepted medical practice. A pioneer with the audacity to believe that he could use the mind to heal the body.
My specialty has been to discover what are the relationships between mind, emotion, and body that lead to health.
Only you.
Born in 1942, the son of a minister and a social worker, Miller was raised here, Bedford-Stuyvesant, the mean streets of New York City. His early life was spent dodging bullets and the cruelties of racism.
Looked down the barrel of several guns. I've been beaten up, had my teeth knocked out the night before the college boards.
I was refused from some medical schools because of my color. I was not allowed to join any fraternities in college because of my color. I was never, throughout high school and college, ever invited to a single party that my white and Jewish friends were giving.
In 1967, Miller graduated from Albert Einstein Medical School in New York. He started a family practice in Carmel, California. That's when he began to notice something was wrong.
Every time I gave a person an injection of penicillin, one out of every 10,000 of them was gonna turn blue, lose consciousness, and fall to the floor because they'd be allergic to the medication. So If there's a way that I can teach this person to not become ill, then they don't have to endure the side effects of my medicine or surgery.
The treatment methodology Miller would develop was simple, if groundbreaking. Coax the patient into a relaxed receptive state and then systematically reprogram the mental software that was keeping the patient ill.
In effect, you're creating a virtual reality of the future that you want. That's the greatest secret, that by holding in your mind an image of what you really want, you sort of oil the pathway to get there.
Today, his methods are widely integrated by physicians and hospitals alike. His best-selling book, Deep Healing, has become the de facto Bible for mind-body medicine, and he even offers a complete line of audio CDs targeting everything from smoking cessation to peak performance. The movie Live Life is due out later this year. What joke were you about to make?
What joke were you about to make?
And how does he feel about being profiled by me? No, you can say it.
Sometimes being a father is like living under a microscope, isn't it?
I wouldn't know.
