How to Never Get Sick | 49 Minutes of Mind and Psychology Insights

What's up, Believe Nation? I started the Never Sick series because in January I got really, really sick and I vowed to myself I never want to get sick again. I used to have a belief system that told me that if anybody was around me, I was gonna get sick. If a co-worker or my employee was sick, I would tell them, "Stay home. You may have a minor cough, stay home. I don't want to be around you because I'm gonna get sick." And as a result, I got sick a lot. And so I created the Never Sick series because I wanted to gift myself and also gift you guys the ability to improve our immune systems and never get sick. The first video I did was on Wim Hof. You guys can check that out. It was about using breathing techniques and using the cold therapy to help you not get sick. I've been using that. I've also been using just my own belief system, and good news is 3 months later I still haven't gotten sick. We've been through a Canadian winter, crazy one with ups and down temperature. I've been traveling, been around sick children, and I haven't gotten sick yet. Fingers crossed. And I wanted to share a new video with you guys today about how how to use your mind to control your beliefs and control your illness and sicknesses. I haven't fully tested it on myself yet, but I'm going to be going through the process and I'd love to know what you guys think, if you're learning from it, if you're going to apply it, if you've tried it and gotten results to not get sick by using your belief system and psychology. And as always, guys, if you hear something that really resonates with you, please leave it down in the comments below, put quotes around it so other people can be inspired as well. And when you write it down, you're much more likely to lock it in as well. Enjoy!

Hey Gary, I'm sick today.

And I was just curious if you ever get sick.

Maybe you really are Bionic Man. If you do get sick, how do you handle that? How do you hustle when you're sick?

Really sick.

Ryan, first of all, I hope you feel better. Big shout out to Lizzie Vaynerchuk because in the last 11 years that I've been married, I have not been sick. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Lizzie tries to get me to wash my hands and the fact that I don't have a weird draft coming in like I had in my old apartment, which I think caught me a couple times. I mean, you're talking to an old-school Eastern European kid who actually thinks that getting sick and being sick is actually psychology. I think the brain is the most powerful tool. Like, I know the answer to this is not true, but I do feel like, I'd be lying if I didn't think there's some way that I'm stopping myself from getting sick. Like, in the same way that I used to be able to get myself sick to get out of school, and I don't mean like, Oh, my tummy hurts. I mean, in this weird, yeah, I'm going somewhere. I've never said this out loud. This is actually even scary to say out loud. I'm so convinced that the brain is this powerful, I used to be able to create a temperature. And I know that every logical person, including myself, I literally just said bullshit. But I saw it. I mean, and sure, sometimes I put it up to the lamp and that's how I did it, but there was a couple of times where I would just psych my, even right now, I just started doing it and my stomach turned a little bit. I'm not kidding. Guys, the brain is a sick thing. So I guess the answer to the final question is, you know, you don't hustle when you get sick. In the same way you don't hustle when you get sleep. You know, we've got that quote card that did really well, right? That quote where I'm like, "It's not what you do, you know, it's not how many hours you're awake, it's what you do within them." I'm thrilled to get 6 or 7 hours of sleep. I love when people think I'm a 3 or 4 hour guy. I'll take 8 every night because in those other 16, I will dominate your face. I love people who sleep 4 hours but like chill. And chilling is like just not doing something important for 40 minutes or like having a conversation on the trading floor for 30 minutes about the big game or what the fuck happened in the Oscars last night. Who gives a shit? Execute. And so, by the way, who gives a shit for me? I'm purely focused on my thing. Some people like 30 minutes of talking about the Oscars 'cause it breaks up their day. That's their rest. You do you. But let me say this. When you're sick or when you're sleeping, rest. Your body's telling you something. And so, Weirdly, maybe I was sick once in the last 11 years, and I was pumped. Let me just say that again, 'cause I don't know if everybody understood that. I weirdly wish I was sick one day this year. I would really enjoy the time off. I'd enjoy relaxing, and the kids come, you know, Misha comes home at 3, like it'd be fun. It'd be fun. But there's something subconsciously that's really trying to not allow me to do that. In a world where I take 100+ flights, where that place is like, I don't know, I've like, you know, remember how a couple episodes I said that the 20 to 30-year-old GaryVee is soft compared to me? That guy did get sick. Now I don't, and I do think it has a lot to do with my focus on it. So I do think you can out-hustle your sickness to some degree, but when you succumb to it, because at some level we all do, I think you need to just relax and enjoy it.

[Speaker:GARY] I was teaching in a medical school.

[Speaker:GARY] Yeah.

[Speaker:GARY] And I was teaching the concept about genes, and everyone of course has heard about genes, and they believe that genes control their lives, you know, so, running in my family is diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer, whatever it is, and they say, oh my goodness, I'm a recipient of such genes and this is gonna be my life. And this is a belief of victimization, a victimization of heredity. It's running in my heredity and I'm gonna get these genes and I can't control it. There's a new biology that switches this whole thing around because it reveals that genes don't control our lives. It's our perceptions and our response to the environment. It's the environment that influence the genes. Well, the relevance about that is since we can change our perceptions and we can change our environment, then we're not victims, we're actually masters. But we have to know that. We have to really come from an understanding that we are creating our lives, because if your belief is you're a victim, uh, it's belief is translated into biology. You become a victim if that's what you believe. Yes, sir. So you kind of prove scientifically and biologically that the proof of that, that, that we in fact are in control of our genes, that our genes aren't controlling our lives. Can you give us a brief sort of bird's-eye view of how you proved that, Bruce? Yeah, it's a wonderful simple experiment. About 47 years ago I was cloning stem cells. Now about 47 years ago there's only a handful of us in the whole world even knew what a stem cell is. A stem cell is an embryonic cell in your body, and the reason why we have all these embryonic cells is because cells have a life and they die, and if we can't replace the cells then it won't be very long before all our cells die and then we're gone. So a stem cell is a multipotential embryonic cell. Here's what works. Simple. I get one stem cell, put it in a dish by itself, and it divides every 10 hours. So first 1, and then 2, 4, 8, 16, and the cells keep going. After a week, I've got 50,000 cells in the petri dish. But here's the most important point: they all came from one parent, so they're 50,000 genetically identical cells. Okay, now here's the experiment. Yeah, I take that community and I break them up into 3 different petri dishes, and I change the environment of a little bit in each dish. Now, cells are like fish, they live in a fluid, so I create like an aquarium with all the things they need to live in it. That's called the environment. And I change the composition of the environment a little bit in each dish, okay? What happens is in dish 1, I get muscle cells. In dish 2, I end up with a different environment, get bone cells. In dish 3, yet a different environment, I end up with fat cells. Well, the whole point was this: what controls the fate of the cells? And you say, well, genetics.

I go, no, no.

They were all genetically the same. Yes. So the fate of the cell wasn't determined by the genetics, it was determined by the environment.

Okay?

And so the information in the environment is really what's involved with selecting our genes. So people say, well, okay, that's really nice, you got cells in a plastic dish, what the heck does it have to do with me? And I go, well, here's the fun part. You look in the mirror, Ty, you look, you see this handsome guy looking back, you say, that's Ty, that's me, and I'm a single human being, a single organism. I go, A slight misperception for this reason. You are not a single entity. You are made out of 50 trillion cells. The cells are the living entity. You, by actual biological definition, you're a community. So you're a community of 50 trillion cells. And so the fun part is you're a skin-covered petri dish with 50 trillion cells inside. And you have an environment, a culture medium, and it's called blood. And the chemical composition of the blood determines the fate of the cells. That's what happened in my plastic dish. So to a cell, does it make a difference if it's in the plastic dish or the skin dish? No, it's still going to read the environment. So I say, ah, then the blood is the culture medium and the composition of the blood controls the genetics. And then I go, yeah, now here's the cool part. I say, but as I showed in the Petri dish, if I change the composition of the culture medium, I change the fate of the cells. So I say, well, Who or what controls the chemical composition of my blood? So we go up to the next level. I say the brain is the chemist. The brain is what releases the chemistry in the blood. And then you go one more step. You say, but what chemicals should the brain release into the blood? I go next level up, the mind. What do you perceive? What do you see? What are you looking for? So I say, for a given person, I say, here we are. I stand here, I open up my eyes and I see someone I love. Well, my mind perceives love and translates that through the brain into chemistry such as dopamine, the pleasure chemical, oxytocin, the bonding chemical, vasopressin, attractiveness, growth hormone, which enhances the growth of the cells. So when a person sees love, experiences love, the brain releases a cocktail of these wonderful chemicals. And, and think about it, when people are in love, they glow.

Yes.

They're healthy. They have so much energy. I said, where'd they get that from? The culture medium, okay? But I said, look, same person opens their eyes, instead of seeing someone they love, they see someone that, something that scares them. I say, do you release these same chemicals in love?

And I go, no, no.

When I perceive the world as threatening, or I'm living in fear, I release stress hormones, and I release hormones that control my immune system, inflammatory agents, these things that get me ready for for fight or flight. And I go, well, here's the interesting part. As I said, the fate of the cells is based on the chemistry. If I take the chemicals released by the brain in love and put into a plastic dish with cells, yeah, the cells grow beautifully. And I say, okay, wait, what about the chemicals that come out of a brain of someone in fear? I take those chemicals, put that in the culture dish, the cells stop growing, and, uh, and they get into protection. Protection's close yourself down. So the idea is this, when you're in growth, you're open to the world and you say, come on, bring it on. But when fear or something comes in there, you close it down. And the chemistry of the fear is what shuts down the cells. Fear kills basically what it's all about. So basically it says this, we always talk about mind-body and those strict fundamental scientists go, oh, mind-body works on blah, blah, blah. And I go, it's not a mystery. It's simple. The mind is an interpretation of the world. It causes the brain to release chemistry that matches the interpretation to coordinate 50 trillion cells to live in that world. It's your emotions, it's your perceptions, it's your beliefs. These are the sources of the chemicals that end up controlling the genes. This is a new science, it's called epigenetics. Because epigenetics is a revolution of all of our understanding of science for a very simple reason. When I was a professor in a medical school, in school, we were teaching the concept of genetics. And genetics, most everybody knows, yes, we have genes and the genes control our traits, and that we get the genes from our parents, and so therefore the traits that are running in our family are passed down to us. And sometimes it's a good thing and sometimes a bad thing. You know, you got diseases running in your family, last thing you want to know, geez, everybody in my family got cancer, it's like, am I going to be next?

I got the genes.

So that's our belief system that we've been teaching, that genes control us. That makes us victims, as I said, because we didn't pick the genes as far as we know. We can't change the genes, so whatever they are, they make us. And so people walk around going, oh, my life is, you know, not so good, I got these genes. Epi means above. So when I say epigenetic control, I'm literally saying control above the genes. It's the environment that controls it. Well, that includes not just the real environment, but our perception of the environment, because you could live in the healthiest of environments, But if you perceive it to be a threatening world, then it's— your cells receive the perception. They don't read the direct world. Genetic control, you're a victim because the genes control you. Epigenetics is a revolution because it says, look, if the environment or my perception controls genes, I'm the one that can change my perception.

I'm the one that can change my environment.

So all of a sudden, I'm not locked in. I am free to change the way I live in the world, which in turn comes back and changes the genetic readout. And this is really what's so profoundly important. For example, a lot of people talk about the placebo effect.

Yes.

And they say, well, what's a placebo effect? Well, this pill is going to cure you. It's the greatest new science in the world. And I believe that, and I take the pill and I get better. And then they tell me it was just a sugar pill. So then the truth is, well, what healed me? Well, it wasn't the sugar pill. It was the belief in the pill. So everyone says, oh yeah, placebo effect, that's how you have this wonderful thought and you get better. And I say, yeah, but here's the problem. We've only talked about the placebo effect. There's another thing called the nocebo effect. The nocebo effect is what is the consequence of a negative thought? And it turns out it's equally powerful in controlling your biology and your genetics as is a powerful, as a placebo positive thought.

Yeah.

So we talk about, oh yeah, placebo, good thoughts create good health and good life. And then I say, yeah, and a bad thought, a negative thought, a nocebo effect can actually kill you. It can cause a disease. If you believe you're gonna get this cancer because everyone says you're gonna get this cancer, and then your perception is sending cancer thoughts into your body, the chemistry that comes from the thoughts to the brain to the body is a chemistry that doesn't support health, but it'll actually lead to your own death. So all of a sudden it's the power of your perceptions, positive or negative, that override your genetics. Well, this is most amazing because all of a sudden you look around and you say, but look at all those wonderful happy people. And look, they're not only just happy, they're also healthy.

Yes.

And the fact is, yes, they're sending in a chemistry that the cells will really thrive with.

In this world, it is true that people want immediate action. That's the world we live in, immediate gratification. So if I'm sick, I want something immediately to handle the issue.

And of course we look to the world of drugs for, for this understanding.

But the problem with this is that there are more effective ways of healing. Now the problem with the energy healing is that it really involves consciousness, mind, and our ability to change our belief systems.

Well, this takes a little bit more work than popping a pill.

And in fact, I'll just give my own particular case. I remember years ago when I was getting off on this, out of my conventional medical academic background and coming into this world, and I faced a stressful situation where I got pneumonia. And I started to realize at some point, I said, "Okay, I'm going to sit here and grab a hold of this with my conscious and my spirit and get my immune system all pumped up and work on this." And I started to realize that the bacteria were dividing faster than my ability to control the bacteria. And so it came a realistic moment. It said, yes, I know I can possibly control this, but the effort that it's going to take is going to take a little bit more time than the drug. So I actually went and bought the penicillin.

And the significance is when you need it, you need it at that moment.

But the issue is, had I not been stressed, had I taken care of my health a little bit better, I would not have come to that precipice where I was forced into taking the drugs. And so the reality is that in switching from a drug-based reality into an energy medicine spirit-based reality, we have to go through a learning curve and learn how to take control of our thoughts, our mind, and, uh, control the biology that we were given. When we do that, then it's far better than the drug world for a very simple reason. There are no side effects. And so basically it says that if you start healing with spirit-based spirit and energy that you get an unencumbered healing process as compared to dealing with drugs and then dealing with the myriad side effects that are listed on all the packages. So it says, both work, but one is far superior to the other. And yet I wouldn't throw out the medication because when it's necessary, it's necessary. But it's just a little warning to you when your symptoms start going up. It says, pay attention to the symptoms. Because the symptoms are really informing you that you're not living in harmony or in health and that the body is telling you this. And so rather than shutting off the symptoms with a drug, it's really important for us to take on a learning role and say, I am creating this situation and I can uncreate this situation without the use of drugs.

So the genes— and we're going to talk some science tonight, but it's not going to be that difficult, so bear with me on it. Because I, again, I don't want to leave black boxes in here, empty spaces where you have to have devotion.

I'm going to show you the connection.

Uh, the genes, the DNA molecules, are found in the cell, in the individual cell, in a structure called the nucleus. So almost all people have seen a cell with a nucleus in it, and virtually all the genes are in the nucleus. As it says right here in this paper, which is in a recent issue of Science— this is one of the most prestigious journals in the world— today, it says here in the first sentence on this article, which was dealing with the whole issue dedicated to the role of the nucleus, first sentence: "The nucleus is the command center of the cell." This is conventional belief, that the nucleus is the command center because in the nucleus are the genes, and the genes control you, so the nucleus represents that source of control for the cell. Well, the command center of the cell would be tantamount to the brain. As I used to teach in medical school to the medical students, the cells— and this is an image of a cell, just a cartoon image of a cell— the cells make us up. We have approximately 50 to 75 trillion cells that make our body. Interesting point I used to teach them is this: there is no new function in your entire human body that's not already present in every cell. Every cell has a respiratory system, a digestive system, an excretory system, an endocrine an integumentary system, a nervous system, a reproductive system, an immune system. Basically what I'm trying to tell you is this: that the cell and the human are structural functional counterparts of each other. Whatever's in the cell is in the human. Whatever's in the human is in the cell. So when I talk about the brain of the cell, or the brain of the human, as that element that controls the command center of the human body, when I come over here and just read what we just read off the Science journal that said the nucleus is the command center of the cell. This is because all the DNA is in here. Then we get the assumption that the nucleus is the brain of the cell, which is what you anticipate if it's the command center. Well, that's an interesting concept for this reason. I'll ask you a simple question, and the question is this: if I take the brain out of any living organism, what is the immediate and necessary consequence of that action?

Death.

Absolutely, it's going to die. So what happens if I go to the cell and take the nucleus out of the cell? Well, if the nucleus is the brain of the cell, by definition the cell is going to die. Here's the reality: I remove the brain from any organism and the organism dies. But if I go to the nucleus and remove the nucleus from the cell, the cell is totally unaffected by it. A cell can live for 2 or more months with no genes in it. In it at all. And it's not just sitting there. It's doing everything it was doing before we took the nucleus out. It's moving around. It's communicating with other cells.

It's eating.

It's growing. It's able to eliminate waste and build up its structure. It recognizes toxins and moves away from them. It recognizes food and moves toward that. Basically, what am I telling you? I take all the genes out of the cell and I alter the behavior behavior in no way. Meaning this: by definition, the nucleus cannot be the controlling center of the cell because the cell still has control with no nucleus. Well, wait! I took all the genes out and the cell still has behavior! The bottom line is that the genes do not control biology. This is a mistake. This is an assumption. It was made years and years ago. It was never proven scientifically. But it just seems so correct that we bought the story. And in fact, the cosmic joke just hit us not very long ago with the outcome of the Human Genome Project. Why was it a joke? And I'll tell you this: if the mechanism worked according to the way it's written in the textbooks, that the genes control biology, then there's a requirement that there have— has to be at least 120,000 genes to make a human. When the Human Genome Project's results were turned in, it turned out that there were only less than 35,000 genes. Over 90,000 genes are not present, which means this: it's not that the genes are absent, our belief system was wrong. The genes do not control biology like we thought. So the Human Genome Project really pulls the rug out because they thought they were going to get the blueprint of how to make a human with all all of these genes, and it turns out there are not that many genes. Two-thirds of the genes are missing, meaning we have to now understand a new way of looking at biology. Interestingly enough, though, the new understanding actually started to come out in the last 10 years. So everything I'm going to talk to you about tonight is science within the last 10 years. And the interesting part about it is this: it takes at least 10 or 15 years for science to take a fact from its first inception exception to get it out into the public so that the people can understand it. So anything in a textbook, for example, is at least 10 or 15 years old. So what you're going to hear tonight is the future textbook. You're going to know the science that has just been released in the last 10 years.

I had the pleasure, of course, talking to audiences everywhere and tell them about this new biology, this great biology, which ultimately says, no, you're not controlled by your genes, you're controlled by your mind, and ultimately you're programmed, and your subconscious mind really controls you, and it's been programmed by others. And I say, wow, isn't that, you know, great to understand all this stuff? And the audience thought it was all the way great up until the very end. And then to get to the very end, I say, yep, and you're controlled by the programs in the subconscious mind.

And people would say, well, great, Dr. Lipton, you know, beliefs run our life and we need to change those. Excuse me, but how do we change those? And he would say, well, I'm out of time now, I gotta go, that's not my field.

I don't know, I'm just a biology guy, I know how it works, I don't know how to change it.

This one time I was sitting in the audience listening to his presentation because I was next up, and he finishes, same thing happened. Dr. Lipton, how do you change those beliefs? You know, well, I gotta go, you know, I've got— so he's headed out the door, boy, as fast as he can go.

Gosh, you know, I wish I had a great answer for that. And as I was thinking that I hear behind me the next speaker, and he says, "Well, I'm going to show you how to make those changes that Bruce was talking about." And I thought, "I'm gonna— I gotta watch this." And you can almost hear the skid marks, you know, you could hear the sound of his shoes going, "Eee!" All these years I'm talking about this, like, this guy's gonna show me how to make those changes? He asked for some people in the audience who, you know, anybody want to make the changes in their in their life. Of course, almost everybody in the audience raises their hand, and I saw this one woman raise her hand, put it up and then pull it down, put it up and pull it down.

If any— if you know anybody who's afraid of public speaking, it's a terrifying sort of thing to them. It's not just a little thing. It's rated next to death, I think. If I have to get up and speak in public, it'll be the worst thing that ever happened to me.

So everybody looked at this woman and She turned beet red, couldn't say her name, couldn't even say her name. He had to go out into the audience and sit down in the chair next to her and have a private conversation to find out her name.

So this woman volunteered to come up because I just simply said, look, if there's somebody that has something going on in their lives that limits them in some serious way and they would like to change that, I'm happy to facilitate it here and now.

Meanwhile, I have to tell you the truth, I'm sitting there thinking, I mean, this guy is pretty ballsy. The concept that he's going to call somebody up in front of the room and change their life, and it's like, that, you know, wow. You know, you got to have a lot of confidence to say that, or it's going to be a bad show.

Anyway, she was willing to come up, so I spent about 10 minutes facilitating a psyché process with her.

And he took his arm off her shoulder, and all of a sudden she was giving a lecture. She was walking up and down the stage talking about stories of her childhood and all this kind of stuff. And everybody in the audience, including me, were just like—

She just was on a rant. I mean, she was— she felt so completely different and comfortable. Eventually she's walking up and down the stage telling these people where she's from and what she's doing and what her plans are and all these things about her life. And I finally had to say, look, you know, my time's not up here and I gotta finish up.

You can't be talking anymore.

"Can you go sit down, please?" And I thought about that and I saw that and it was just— but the whole amazing thing was here's a person's life that changed in 10 minutes and it was the most profound thing I ever saw.

And it was really funny because Bruce talked to her, skeptical scientist that he is and should be, he talked to her and said, "So what happened? What was the deal about that?

How do you feel?" She says, "Well, I don't know what happened." I feel completely different.

I'm comfortable with everybody in the room and I can get up and talk some more. So he said, well, yeah, maybe that's just a fluke, probably just a trick. So next year she comes back to the conference. We're both there and he immediately goes up to her and says, so what happened with the deal about—

are you still afraid?

She says, no, I went home. I live in Florida and I started a Toastmasters group and I'm winning awards.

And I then started to talk with Rob and about stuff and said maybe we should work together. It was a few years, but we finally did it.

So that was the beginning of this really wonderful relationship, friendship, and also a professional link as well.

And it has been the most rewarding of my presentations because I'm with a group of people that come in with one way of life. I give them a scientific foundation to give justification for this, what looks like magic, but it's not magic when you understand the science. And then Rob goes through the training program, and after the 4 days that we're together, these people walk out, they're different people. It's like, God, that is some of the most rewarding experiences in life, to see people empower themselves to go back into the world and recover the control over their lives and create lives that are abundantly happy and fun and beautiful.

Let me give you an overview of the process that I use. And this is basically the components of it. Think of it that way. To get the job done in terms of speeding up change. And literally it can happen in just a few minutes. Establishing communication with the subconscious is step 1. I was never taught that in graduate school. In fact, I don't think they mentioned the subconscious except talking about Freud. And Freud, pshh, I mean, if you listen to Freud, the subconscious is a place nobody wants to go. I mean, talk about a deep, dark abyss of repressed sexual desire. You know the term Freudian slip? You know what that is? That's when you say one thing but you mean your mother? That would be a Freudian slip. So nobody wants to go there because they've made it a horrible place to go. But the fact is, it's no more horrible than your hard drive. You go to your hard drive all the time if you open your computer and you get documents out of there and stuff. That's energy. So we're going to be communicating with the hard drive here. You're going to pretest the desired belief statement. That's a very important thing to find out if your subconscious believes it or not. Like, Juliana was very kind to come up here and give her attention to this process. And I had her say something that was pretty nonthreatening, you know, "My name is Juliana." But what if I had said something like, had her say something like, "I love myself unconditionally," or, "I trust that I am a wonderful person," or anything that she would desire to be and to know about herself. Then all of a sudden the rubber meets the road. Now you're finding out from your subconscious mind, do you agree with that statement or do you not? You may have done tons of therapy. You may have been saying affirmations and meditated for 25 years. I tell you, surprise, surprise, you know, you'll say something you think is true and you do believe it consciously, consciously, but your subconscious mind never got the message. And that's the part that really needs to get it in order to have behavioral change last. That's why so much change tends to be temporary and made out of lots of willpower. All right. So we've got pretest the statement, get permission and commitment to change the belief using a PSYCH-K® Balance. Balance processes that I use, I call them balances because essentially what they do is, is they create a balanced identification or perception of the left and right hemisphere of the brain at the same time for the new belief. And by doing that, using this whole brain integration process stuff, you can reduce the resistance to internalizing new belief very quickly without all that effort and struggle. And the permission and commitment thing is really important. I, I've noticed in conferences I've attended for energy psychology, as an example, many of the processes make huge assumptions that if you have something that looks like it needs to be fixed, It actually represents something that's broken. I don't know about you, but a lot of times whatever you call broken is a messenger. You know, that message is there to— that pain or difficulty or whatever you call dysfunction is there to teach you something. And you kill the messenger. So I found that it's much wiser to find out from the subconscious, "Is it even a good idea to do what you're talking about consciously?" before you do it. Saves you a lot of grief later on and you don't have to get the proverbial 2x4 returning to get your attention because you managed to get a symptom to go away. This isn't about treating symptoms. It's about the cause of the symptoms. And then we'll do a balance, which is the process for change using whole brain integration of some kind or another, different, different varieties of that. We'll post-test the belief statement because it gives you a physical muscle response that's going to be different than in the beginning. So you have an objective way to measure a subjective change. You don't just say, Well, how do you feel? Well, fine, you know.

You look good.

All right, see you next week. It's not that. You know before you leave the interaction whether that belief resides in your subconscious or not. So there's a way to know it for sure. And then celebrate the change, and that's my favorite part. So we'll be doing that. I want you to take a look at some of these messages. What I did was I distilled some of the key messages that over the years of doing psychotherapy I found that many people internalize from their childhood. You'll never amount to anything. You're worthless. You're not smart enough. No matter how hard you try, it's never good enough. Money's hard to come by and hard to keep. You don't deserve to succeed. No one will ever love you. And Bruce's favorite: You're gonna get cancer because it's genetic. This one at the bottom, of course, you can make generic, which is you're gonna get whatever disease you're predisposed to because it's going to get passed along in your family. So it doesn't— I'm just putting it out there to let you know that it doesn't matter what disease you put in this category of cancer, it's the same notion that I'm helpless and the situation is hopeless. I'm just going to get what I'm getting passed along. So these may be some of the messages that you got. And the question is, What if you could change them? What if you could have anything on this list? What if anything on this list could be true for you? What I'm gonna ask next is, I'm gonna ask somebody else to come back up to the stage and I'm going to facilitate a process first of all to discover whether the belief that seems desirable to you is currently true in your subconscious and if it isn't then I'm gonna facilitate a process to make it so. It'll take just a few minutes to do that and so what I'd like you to do is just read down this list, and if one of these beliefs calls to you and just says, "Boy, I want that." It may not be true right now. I'm not sure, but I'd be willing to come up here to make sure. Would you like— you have one? Okay. Come on up.

I deserve happiness and success in my life.

I deserve happiness and success. And your name is?

Karen.

Karen. Okay, Karen, I'm gonna have you come over here, please. Like about so. And I'm gonna have you put your arm out. We're gonna do a little muscle test. Testing together. Can I have you turn this way just a bit? Thank you. With your chin parallel to the ground, your eyes focused down and open, I'm going to press down on your arm. I want you to be strong if you can. You ready? Be strong. Okay. So we're going to do what we did initially to establish communication because I can't yet— I haven't gotten a weak signal, so I don't know what that's like in Karen's system. So I want you to say out loud, "My name is Karen." My name is Karen. Be strong, Karen. Good. Say, "My name is Frank." Be a guy named Frank.

My name is Frank.

Strong Frank. Okay, can you feel a difference in that? Okay. I'm not pressing hard. I don't want to press hard. I'm not trying to make this dramatic. I'm just trying to press hard enough that she can tell when the muscle locks in place and when it unlocks. So we're getting a very clear signal here. Just for fun, I want you to do in your mind silently repeat the word "yes." Hear that over and over in your head. And be strong as I press. Okay. Repeat the word "no" over and over. And again, be strong as I press. Good. You feel the difference?

Yeah.

Pretty— yeah. Big difference. Okay. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna make this a little juicier now. We're gonna have Karen actually say her desired statement out loud. We're gonna test it against what the subconscious mind currently has residing in there as a set of beliefs and see if she has any beliefs that support that. She may actually not believe it consciously. It's possible she could already believe it subconsciously, and we don't know that until we test. So if you'll put your arm out again, I'm gonna have you say your statement out loud, which is, "I deserve happiness and success in my life." Look down and say that like you mean it.

Okay. I deserve happiness and success in my life.

And be real strong. Oh, nice try. Please God, make it work. That's about wanting it with all your heart and soul but not having the program to support it. And that's what I mean. You know, you think, "Oh, geez, I've tried and I want that and I'm really desirous and I'm all lined up." And your subconscious says, "Sorry, you know, no software for that one." All right. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to demonstrate a change process. And this is different than teaching it, so please forgive me in terms of not being able to have the time to explain each little detail. That's why it's a 2-day workshop. I can't make that into this hour or so that we have together. But I'm going to facilitate this with her by going through the protocol, generic protocol I showed you, and we'll see what happens. So if you'll put your arm out for a minute, please. First of all, we're going to get permission and commitment. We've already tested the statement. We know that you're weak to the statement. The goal is to get her to be strong to the statement. Right now she tests weak, although she's really wanting to be strong. And I can understand that. All right. So I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. You don't have to repeat any of this out loud. Just listen. And then I'm going to muscle test for yes and no responses and so on. Okay?

All right.

It's safe and appropriate for Karen to balance for this goal now. So be strong, Karen.

Good.

We get a nice strong response indicating yes. All parts of the system are ready, willing, and able to balance for this goal using a new direction balance. So be strong if you can. Good. All right. Her subconscious mind just agreed to one of the several psyche patterns. You might be asking yourself, "How could she know what that is?" Well, I'm not asking her conscious mind. Turns out I'm asking her subconscious mind. And the real magic of this is lots of information is shared subconsciously that you're not aware of at all. Every time you walk into a room, especially if you're as close as I am to her right now, much, much information at the 4 billion bit processing level is being exchanged between between us. So if I know what a new direction balance is, turns out I do, I muscle test her and her subconscious mind can actually give me a response to that because it can access my hard drive. It's very interesting about this stuff because I did it in foreign languages just to prove this to myself. What a trip. I got muscle tested in Mandarin Chinese and my subconscious mind knew what this person was saying. All the muscle responses were correct for the questions that she was asking. So it gets really interesting. In a hurry. All right. So here we go. We've gotten as far as doing the actual change process. I'm going to require a chair for this. So if you'll hold on right here, I'm going to grab one. What we're going to do next is we're going to utilize some of this left-right brain integration technology I spoke about. We're going to set up a system so that Karen's mind can maximize her perception, left and right brain at the same time, while she internalizes this new belief. This is different than just saying affirmations. and I'll explain a little bit about that while she's going through the process. To determine the best way for her to achieve this left-right brain integration, we're going to use her physical body because it's an electrical system. If she crosses her ankle one over the other, her electrical field actually changes. I don't know if you know that, but when you cross your ankles or your legs, you're really changing your whole— the field in your entire body. Same with your wrist. Any place you can cross the midline of your body makes a different electrical circuit, just like a circuit board. So watch what happens. If you put your arm out like so, please, and cross one ankle over the other, doesn't matter which one, looking down again with your eyes, I'm gonna press down. You see if you can be strong. Okay, switch your ankles the opposite way. Let's see if it makes any difference when I test. And be strong now. Woo, you see the difference? Go back this other way. Apparently there is a clear preference here. Be strong. She's real strong when she crosses right ankle over left. And remember, this is all in relationship to this goal. This is not a general thing now. We're into a belief change piece. That's the target, and her subconscious mind is telling us, "Hey, this is the way I need to be configured optimally to get this belief to be true." So while your ankles are in the position that caused the strength, I want you to do the following with your wrists. Put one on top of the other straight out in front of you like so. I'm gonna press down on both of them, and I want you to be strong if you can. Strong now? Okay, switch them the other way. Let's see if it makes any difference. Strong now? You tell me which one feels stronger. Go back to the other way. You strong now? Okay, and back the other way. Be strong. Yeah, this way does, doesn't it? Like so? Yeah. We're getting a clearer signal. I just had to test a couple times because the difference is fairly subtle. So what you do with your hands now is just go ahead and interlace them like this. You can rest them in your lap. Here's what I want you to do, and then I'm going to have a little chat with the group while you're doing it. I'm going to have you close your eyes in a little while, and I'm going to have you be able to silently just repeat the statement. I'll give it to you, and then you're just going to repeat it gently over and over in your mind. And what I want you to do is I want you to actually invite any resistance to the idea, any other ideas like— your statement is, "I deserve happiness and success in my life." If you've got any other voices in there that say, "No, you don't. You never did. You never will." All that stuff. Rather than try to push them away or make them go away, I actually want you to invite them in. Say, "Okay, come on, come on, come on, come on." Because it's an educational process. You're going to be saying this statement to this resistance until the resistance just disappears. So until you feel either a mental, emotional, or physical change, keep your eyes closed and keep saying the statement to yourself. When you feel that shift, I want you to open your eyes and we'll do the next part of the process. Deal? And I'll amuse everybody out here while you do this. So I want you to close your eyes, silently begin to say the statement, "I deserve happiness and success in my life." And while Karen is doing that, I wanted to make a couple of comments about what's going on. We've configured her body not according to my guess or my judgment about what she needs, but her subconscious mind, which knows how that belief is blocked. It knows exactly what software needs to be rewritten to make it so, and it's in the process of doing so right now. It's different than meditation because most meditation is single-focused and all other ideas must go away. You notice the instruction I gave her wasn't to do that. It was to say the statement and invite these other ideas in. It's not prayer because you're not actually You're not really asking for intercession in some way. Come, please help me. It's not that kind of thing. You're just affirming this belief over and over. It's not visualization. It's not positive thinking. It's simply affirming a statement to be true, educating the parts that are in resistance, and doing it through the filters of Whole Brain Integration. While in this posture, she can't think of the downside of this the way she used to. Left and right brain now are working simultaneously, and they're perceiving this goal in a brand new way that she hasn't been able to every time she's thought about it in a normal sitting posture or just in her normal life. So it's really interrupting the cycle of over-identifying with the left or the right hemisphere of the brain which kept her stuck. As soon as this comes into a whole brain integrated perception, the belief's hers and we will— and we'll test it out. Okay? So you keep— keep at it until you can feel something change and then you just let me know and I'll keep talking to all these people about this. So it's usually this process, I'd say on average takes about 2 to 5 minutes for most beliefs to change. Small price to pay for something you've had all your life that's been arresting your life and keeping it from being in that ecstasy, the picture that we saw, and really promoting a lot more of the protection and the scream energy to your life. So it can shift, it does shift, and it's not about me doing something. It's about her. In fact, all of PSYCH-K® is really about very little about the facilitator and a whole bunch about the innate wisdom and the divinity within each of us. It's activating that and moving it into a specific area of intention and giving the tools to the subconscious mind to do the job that it's, it is capable of doing with the proper instruction for doing it. Sometimes When the change is taking place, this is another interesting aspect of this process, is that it's not particularly visual. You don't have to visualize anything. If you're not a good visualizer, you don't have to make a picture in your head to make things come true. If you're, you tend to be more auditory, you make sounds in your head, you talk to yourself in your head, you can, you'll go there. However the belief is wired in that needs to be changed, that's what she's going to get internally. So sometimes you'll Sometimes you get pictures, sometimes you get sounds, sometimes it's just your body, your feeling. You'll feel the body change. You'll feel the muscles tense and then release. Happens differently for each person and different with each belief. Okay, she seems to think something's going on here, so we'll check this out. So unhook your ankles and your wrists. Unhook these guys. Put your fingertips together like so.

All right.

Just hold them there. This is equivalent to the save command. If you think about what she was just doing in a computer metaphor, she was editing the documents kept her from believing she deserves this life that's going to work, then we're saving this to the hard drive. We're making it a permanent document in her subconscious mind so that it won't just go away. It's the same thing as you always save your work before you turn your computer off, you know, so it's there when you get it next time. Same idea. So you can let go of that. Put your arm out to your side. I'm just going to test to see if— where we are with the process right now. This is a sort of intermediate deal. So just listen. This process is complete, so be strong If you can, good. You get a nice strong response. You can stand back up, please. I'm going to move the chair here. We're at a place where her subconscious just reported to me, I've had enough of that. I got it, thank you. So we're going to verify and see if that's really true. So I'm going to press a lot harder than I've been pressing just to make sure if this is true that there's no doubt it is. I want you to say out loud, I deserve happiness and success in my life. Looking down, say it like you mean it.

I deserve happiness and success in my life.

And be strong. Yeah, if I let go, she brings like a springboard. Nice going.

Thank you.

Good for you.

So hang in there for just a minute. So I'm just wondering if, Karen, would you mind saying a little bit about what was going on while you were sitting down there?

Well, I started saying all the things, you know, "No, you don't," "Everybody's going to be jealous of you," "You have to feel guilty," and then all of a sudden it was like, "Wait a minute." God wants everybody to be happy and successful in their life. And if God wants everybody to be happy and successful in their life, God wants you to be happy and successful in your life.

Bingo.

And when I went through that process, it just, you know, it was very logically based. If this, then that, you know.

So did you tend to hear— was that a conversation going on in your head more than anything else?

But then as soon as I realized that, I felt like Just kind of like a lifting, like a happiness type of thing.

Well, I think that I deserve happiness and success. Might have something to do with the feeling getting to come in for a change. She went from the scream to the ecstasy pretty quickly right there. Thank you very much. Enjoy the change. Okay. Thank you for volunteering. Okay. So what'd that take? Maybe 5 minutes while I was trying to keep you distracted so she had some— I mean, under the— consider the circumstances. This is the worst possible place, you know, on a stage with people in an audience doing belief change work, and it works anyway. Imagine if you had the privacy of your own home and one other person to work with and you didn't have an audience the whole time, how simple things are. It's just been remarkable, my experience in the change work. When this work came in, and I say came in because I didn't sit down and analytically develop PSYCH-K. It really was one of those born out of a moment of terrible frustration with graduate school training and other things I tried. All of a sudden, entire patterns of change were just downloaded in my computer. I went in my house literally and typed the information into a computer and said, "Okay, that's interesting. I wonder what that's about." And then I just read off the sheets and learn to work that way. It was very interesting. This was 14 years ago. So I was very skeptical, didn't believe in muscle testing because I'd never experienced it, didn't believe in these patterns until I could experience them myself. And when I saw the really miraculous changes that were taking place in short periods of time physically, emotionally, spiritually for people, I finally just said, "Okay, you know, thank you and I'll do it." So it's— you find your path and you Stay with it because it works. And it's my joy to get to share this information with you. It's like Bruce and I bond because he's bumping the envelope of biology. I'm doing the same with psychology. We've been looking in the wrong place for the changes for a lot of years, and it's time to wake up and do it completely differently.

You know, people are busy getting all these diseases and all these sicknesses these days, and I say largely we're so out of whack, out of resonant vibration, out of harmony with nature, that we're living an artificial life in a natural environment. And to the extent that we can come back into harmony with the natural environment, our bodies will come back into harmony with health. Even in the Health and Wellness program in PSYCH-K, which addresses mostly physiological type problems and triggers the doctor within, the sort of mind part of us that can trigger the self-healing response. Healing comes from inside us this way. And as Bruce Lipton would say, you know, We— our health is a function of epigenetic signals, signals above our genes that are given to our cells to operate in a certain way and trigger biochemical responses that are immune-enhancing instead of immune-suppressing. And that's what the Health and Wellness program is all about. So, you know, to use your mind as a part of a medical intervention— I'm not saying don't go to a doctor. You go to a doctor when it's appropriate to go to a doctor. Of course you do. But I'm saying that in the mainstream medical community, Very seldom does the medical community see the mind as another physician that they can call on to help in the healing process. And I'm saying it's so, so forgotten, you know, in our culture and so critical to ancient cultures. That's why I study the ancient cultures so much, is to find out what they know that we've forgotten about the nature of things. They treat whole people. They don't treat just symptoms. And we're so symptom-oriented because we're so left-brain-oriented because we're so reductionistically oriented and separate from each other and everything, that we've forgotten who we are. We are interconnected. We are interconnected to the environment. The environment we live in, whether you live in a city or, or in a forest, we're all part of that environment. And what you think and what you believe has a profound effect on your health, on your well-being, on your happiness, and on other people around you.

Thank you guys so much for watching.

I hope you enjoyed.

I'd love to know what did you think? Do you buy into it? Are you going to test it out? Are you going to try it? Have you already done something around it? Have you seen results or not? I'd love to know what you think. The first thing I did after I watched these videos when we were doing the research is I got Alex and I tested the arm thing, and it seemed to work on him. So it was a good early, early test. So I'd love to know, what did you guys think? Do you think this is a bunch of BS? Do you think this is actually applicable, helpful? Have you tried it? I'd love to know your thoughts. Share it down in the comments below. Also, if there's somebody else that you anybody you think we should profile or look into or research around the Never Sick theme, somebody who can help you stay always healthy that you've learned from, I'd love for you to share that person in the comments as well. So maybe we'll do a video on them and their thoughts in the future. Thank you guys so much for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is.

Much love.

I'll see you soon.