Welcome back to The Deep Dive. Today we're getting
stuck into something really quite profound and
I think particularly relevant for those of us
in the medical field. Indeed. You know those
cases we sometimes hear about or maybe even encounter
the really perplexing spontaneous remissions,
where patients just seem to defy all the odds,
making these sudden, almost miraculous recoveries?
Yeah, those phenomena that challenge our conventional
understanding. The placebo effect is another
powerful example, isn't it? Absolutely. It really
makes you wonder. What if those events weren't
quite so spontaneous or mysterious after all?
What if our minds, our consciousness, actually
hold the keys to unlocking profound health, influencing
our very biology? That's the core question we're
exploring, isn't it? It is. Our deep dive today
is right at that fascinating intersection, neuroscience,
quantum physics, and personal transformation.
We're going to explore some, well, truly groundbreaking
insights into how our thoughts, our emotions,
our state of being aren't just side effects of
biology. But potentially powerful forces that
can reshape it. Exactly. Reshape our health,
our lives. And to help guide us through this,
well, quite intricate landscape, we're absolutely
delighted to have Professor Moimam with us, a
renowned expert in this very area. Thank you.
It's a real pleasure to be here. Our mission
today, really, is to try and understand the mechanics
behind personal change. What's the potential
for us to live more coherent, healthier, more
fulfilling lives, both for ourselves and perhaps
in how we approach our professional work? I think
this understanding holds immense implications,
especially as you say, for the medical community,
those right at the forefront of health and well
-being. It could genuinely revolutionize how
we think about patient care and even our own
vitality. It's a huge idea, though, and it really
does challenge how we've traditionally understood
reality, doesn't it? Fundamentally. Because for
centuries, our view was largely mechanistic.
You think of Descartes, Newton, this idea of
the universe as a kind of giant clockwork machine.
Mind and matter were seen as totally separate
things. And reality felt quite predetermined,
solid, predictable. Yes. But what's so fascinating
now is how modern science, particularly quantum
physics, has just completely shaken that foundation.
Could you maybe unpack that fundamental shift
for us? Absolutely. That traditional view, the
mechanistic one you describe, really saw matter
as solid, inert stuff. Independent. But the monumental
shift, arguably starting with Einstein and Ivesy,
showed something radically different. Energy
equals mass times the speed of light squared.
We all know the equation, but the implication.
The implication was profound. It demonstrated,
quite simply, that energy and matter aren't separate
at all. They're interconvertible. Two sides of
the same coin, if you will. Matter can become
energy. Energy can become matter. Which directly
contradicts that old Newtonian view. Completely.
It introduced a new understanding. Reality is
far more fluid, more interconnected than we ever
thought. Not just solid stuff. So, if matter
and energy are interchangeable, what does that
actually mean for something like an atom? We
all learned the model in school, didn't we? The
little solar system, solid bits whizzing around?
Precisely. Those old models, the toothpick and
styrofoam bowl constructions, perhaps. Yes. Figure
1a, as it were. Exactly. They're now completely
outdated. Quantum physics reveals something quite
astonishing. Atoms are almost entirely empty
space. Vast amounts of it. It's hard to get your
head around that scale. It is. Imagine an atom
expanded to the size of a huge football stadium.
The nucleus, where nearly all the mass is, would
be no bigger than a tiny pea right in the center.
It's not really solid. Fundamentally, no. It's
comprised of vast fields of energy. Vibrating
is incredibly complex frequency patterns. Information,
really. All matter is essentially more no -thing
pure energy than something particles, like shifting
from figure 1b towards 1c in conceptual terms.
So reality isn't fixed and predetermined. It's
more like potential energy patterns. That's a
great way to put it. It challenges that fixed
notion. Everything is in a constant state of
flux, vibrating. For those of us in medicine,
thinking about this shift is radical, moving
from just treating a broken physical part. To
understanding the energetic blueprint behind
it. Exactly. And that opens up entirely new avenues
for intervention, for healing. It reframes the
whole picture. That really does redefine solid.
OK, so if matter itself is this fluid, energetic
thing, this potential, what about consciousness?
our awareness, what happens when we as observers
interact with this quantum world. Because this
is where it gets, well, really interesting, doesn't
it? This is perhaps one of the most profound
and debated aspects, the observer effect. Right.
Tell us about that. Well, physicists discovered
that tiny subatomic particles, like electrons,
don't actually exist in a fixed state before
they're observed. They exist as waves of probability.
Think of figure 1D. Waves of probability. So
they could be anywhere. In a sense, yes. They
exist potentially as everything and nothing simultaneously
everywhere and nowhere until... Didn't we look?
Until an observer focuses attention, tries to
measure or locate that electron. At that moment,
the wave of probability collapses into a definite
particle in a specific location. It's called
the collapse of the wave function. So our act
of observation, our consciousness itself, plays
a direct role in creating physical reality. That's,
well, it's mind -boggling. It is rather staggering,
isn't it? The implication is that if these fundamental
particles can exist in infinite possible states,
then we, as conscious observers, are potentially
capable of collapsing infinite possible realities
into existence. Including the realities we desire,
like health. Theoretically, yes. If your mind
can influence the appearance of an electron,
why not the appearance of any possibility? The
quantum field, in this view, already contains
the reality or you are healthy or you're... patient
has recovered. It's waiting for a conscious observer
to tune into it, to collapse it into experience.
That shifts the paradigm for patient care enormously.
Not just managing symptoms, but potentially co
-creating health possibilities. Precisely. And
there's fascinating, though perhaps controversial,
research suggesting this effect might even transcend
linear time. Dr. Leonard Levichy's study from
2000, for instance. It was a double -blind trial
with sepsis patients. Half were prayed for, half
weren't. The prayed -for group did significantly
better. Less fever, shorter stays. Standard intercessory
prayer study, you might think. Okay, but what
was the twist? The twist was when the prayers
were said. The prayers were for patients who
had been hospitalized four to ten years before
the experiment even took place. So praying for
people in the past. And it worked. The data suggested
it did. It points towards this nonlinear nature
of reality, where intention, thought, feeling
might affect events regardless of our usual concept
of time. It suggests the potential for healing
exists outside our standard temporal framework.
That's quite an astonishing thought. So okay,
if our observation, our consciousness can influence
reality, maybe even across time. What does this
mean for our everyday thoughts and feelings?
How do we actually talk to this quantum field,
especially when we're aiming for specific outcomes,
like health for ourselves or our patients? We
communicate primarily through our thoughts and
our feelings. It's a two -part signal, really.
OK, how does that work? Think of thoughts as
carrying an electrical charge. Brain impulses
are electrical signals. We measure them with
EEGs, don't we? Yes, standard practice. So those
thoughts, our intentions, are the electrical
signals we send out into the field. They're what
we want. But you said it's a two -part signal.
What's the other part? Feelings. Our feelings
carry a magnetic charge. They are what magnetically
draw experiences, events back to us. They complete
the circuit. So thoughts send the signal out.
Feelings draw the response back. In essence,
yes. Together, how you think and how you feel
creates your state of being. And that state of
being generates a unique electromagnetic signature
that influences the quantum field. Which means
it's the combination, the alignment of thought
and feeling that's truly powerful. It's not just
about thinking positive then. Precisely not.
That's a common misconception. The HeartMath
Institute did a remarkable study back in 2003
that illustrates this perfectly. What did they
find? They had subjects skilled in generating
heart coherence, strong, elevated emotions like
love, appreciation. They gave them vials of DNA.
When these subjects just generated the positive
emotions, nothing significant happened to the
DNA. The feeling alone wasn't enough. Okay. Then
a second group not only generated those heightened
emotions, but also held a clear intention of
thought to either wind or unwind the DNA strands.
And that group produced statistically significant
changes. They were able to wind or unwind the
DNA by as much as 25%. Critically, a third group
who only held the intention, the thought, without
the elevated emotion saw no change either. So
it really proves the point. Neither thought alone
nor feeling alone works. It has to be both aligned.
Unequivocally, the quantum field responds to
that coherent signal when thoughts and feelings
are aligned, broadcasting the same message. Which
means if your thoughts are saying, perhaps, I
want to be healthy, but your body, through its
memorized feelings, is screaming, I feel sick.
I feel defeated. You're sending a mixed signal,
like static on the radio. It's exactly like static.
Or think of incoherent light from a regular bulb
versus a focused laser beam. Figure 1F illustrates
this well. Coherent waves in phase, rhythmic,
are powerful. While incoherent, mixed signals
achieve nothing. Precisely. Which is why gratitude
is so vital in this process. And it's not just
an intellectual thank you. It's the feeling of
gratitude. It's feeling as though your desired
future has already happened. You have to embody
that emotion so completely that your body, which
understands feelings, believes the event has
already occurred. Your body needs to be emotionally
convinced that the future you want is happening
now. That shifts the internal state first. Interesting.
Now, many of us, and I think this is especially
true in demanding professions like medicine,
often feel, well, stuck. caught in a repetitive
loop. Yes, seeing the same patterns play out
again and again. Exactly. Professionally, personally,
the same challenges, the same reactions seem
to crop up. What does this deep dive reveal about
why that happens? And more importantly, what
it takes to actually break free. This is a core
challenge and it's deeply rooted in our conditioning.
The key concept is that most people are conditioned
to think equal to their environment, their body,
and time. These are what we call the big three.
The big three, okay. Environment, body, time.
So starting with environment, you're saying our
external world dictates our internal state. We're
sort of prisoners of our surroundings. To a large
extent, yes. Our brain effectively becomes a
record of our past environment. Think about your
daily routine, the commute, the hospital, the
familiar faces, the specific problems you encounter.
Right. They trigger familiar thoughts, familiar
responses. Exactly. They activate the same neural
circuits day in, day out. This causes us to think
and react in familiar ways, all derived from
past memories wired into the brain. So if your
thoughts create your reality and you keep thinking
the same thoughts because your environment keeps
triggering them, you keep creating the same reality,
more of the same. Precisely. Your outer world,
its problems, conditions, circumstances, constantly
influences how you think and feel internally.
It's a feedback loop, like being swept along
by a current. To change, you have to somehow
think and act greater than those circumstances,
become independent of them. Okay, that's the
environment. What about the body? How does our
physiology trap us in these loops? Our bodies
are heavily involved, perhaps more subconsciously
than we realize. We operate based on a vast set
of memorized behaviors, thoughts, and emotional
reactions. They run like programs in the background.
Like habits we don't even notice. Exactly. And
this is why just thinking positive often fails.
Deep -seated negativity or limiting patterns
can reside chemically in the body. It becomes
accustomed to certain states. So the body has
its own memory of emotions. It does. By the time
we reach our mid -30s, something like 95 % of
who we are, our behaviors, attitudes, emotional
reactions, is subconscious programming. The body
literally becomes the mind in many ways running
on autopilot. Can you give an example? Think
about dialing a familiar phone number without
consciously thinking of the digits or your fingers
knowing a password or a combination lock. Your
body has memorized it through repetition. Right.
Muscle memory. Yes. But it applies to emotional
states too. This leaves our conscious mind, that
mere 5%, struggling against this massive 95 %
subconscious programming. When we try to consciously
change, maybe break a habit or react differently,
the body often resists. How does it resist? It
goes into a kind of internal chaos. It generates
internal chatter, doubts, fears. You're too tired.
This feels wrong. You can't do this. Is the body
craving its familiar chemical state, trying to
pull you back to the known self, even if that
self is unhappy or unhealthy? The servant, the
body, has become the master. And the conscious
mind, the master, is asleep at the wheel. In
a manner of speaking, yes. To make real change,
you have to get into that subconscious operating
system. Okay, that covers environment and body.
What about the third one? How does a relationship
with time keep us stuck? It often feels like
the past dictates the present. It very often
does. We live tethered to time in a limiting
way. Either we're dwelling in the past, replaying
old events, re -feeling old emotions, whether
good or bad. Like reliving a past trauma or failure.
Exactly. Or even reliving past successes in a
way that stops us moving forward. This conditions
the body to physiologically live in that familiar
past. Or, the alternative is we live in anticipation
of the future, but usually based on past fears.
Worrying about something that might happen based
on something bad that happened before. Precisely.
So you program your body to live in a predictable,
often stressful future now. Either way, your
energy, your focus, isn't truly in the present
moment the only place where creation can actually
happen. So to break free, we have to think and
feel greater than our circumstances, greater
than our memorized bodily feelings, and live
in a new line of time, not defined by past or
predictable future. That's the essence of it,
consciously choosing to create a future that
isn't just a rerun of the past. That's a powerful
framework. Let's delve a bit deeper into the
mechanics. How do these thoughts and feelings
get so ingrained neurochemically, this hamster
wheel of being ourselves? How does it actually
operate? It's a fascinating self -perpetuating
biochemical feedback loop. It's quite elegant,
in a way. Every single thought you have triggers
a very specific biochemical reaction in your
brain. Releasing specific chemicals. Yes. The
brain makes chemical messengers, neurotransmitters,
neuropeptides, hormones, which are sent instantly
to the body. The body receives these messages
and complies, creating a physiological state
that matches the thought. So the body starts
to feel what the brain is thinking. Exactly.
And then this is the crucial part of the loop.
The body sends confirming signals back up to
the brain reporting, yep, I'm feeling the way
you're thinking. Think of figure 3C. Which reinforces
the initial thought. Precisely. It creates this
continuous cycle. You feel what you think, and
then you think what you feel. So a single negative
thought. maybe even an unconscious one, can rapidly
cascade into a full -blown physical and emotional
state like a domino effect. Absolutely. Take
an angry thought. The brain releases stress chemicals,
the body responds, heart rate increases, muscles
tense, maybe you feel hot. Then the body signals
back, I'm angry. The brain receives this, monitors
the chemical feedback, and generates more angry
thoughts. And the cycle escalates. Irritation
becomes rage. Very quickly. And you get profound
physiological changes. Pounding head, tight muscles,
high blood pressure. Your feelings are now driving
your thinking. Your body is effectively controlling
your mind. It becomes incredibly hard to consciously
break that loop. And for us in medicine, that
loop can easily be amplified by the constant
stress, can't it? Leading to chronic states that
get really deeply ingrained. without a doubt,
it becomes the default setting. You mentioned
earlier that by our mid -30s about 95 % of our
identity is subconscious programming. How does
this concept, the body as a subconscious mind,
really lock us in and prevent lasting change?
It explains why sheer willpower often isn't enough.
The body becomes the subconscious mind because
it has memorized behaviors, attitudes, emotional
reactions through endless repetition. Until it
knows them better than the conscious mind does.
Exactly. That's what a habit is. If 95 % of who
you are by 35 is this set of involuntary programs,
memorized reactions, it means that for most of
our day we're effectively unconscious. We might
seem awake, but we're running on autopilot. Driven
by these deep programs. Yes. Which makes change
incredibly difficult. That conscious 5 % is fighting
against a deeply entrenched 95 % subconscious
program. As I mentioned, when you try to break
that internal chemical order, the body resists.
It creates that internal chatter, those doubts
and fears trying to pull you back to its familiar
chemical fix. The servant has become the master.
That's a good way to put it. The conscious mind,
the former master, has gone to sleep. To truly
make lasting changes, you have to get beyond
the analytical mind into that subconscious operating
system where the programs reside. Okay, now this
next point feels particularly relevant for us
as medical professionals. We're often taught,
or at least implicitly assumed, that our health,
our predispositions are largely set by our genes.
But what does the cutting edge science of epigenetics
tell us about our actual ability to influence
our genetic expression? To maybe rewrite our
health destiny? This is a truly revolutionary
area. The old idea, genetic determinism, that
genes are destiny, that they solely cause disease,
is largely being overturned. It's not that simple.
Far from it. We now know that less than 5 % of
all diseases are actually caused by single gene
disorders, things like Tay -Sachs or Huntington's
disease. The vast majority, perhaps 95 % or more,
are multifactorial. meaning lifestyle, environment,
stress play a huge role. A huge role. And this
brings us to epigenetics, literally meaning above
genetics. It's the study of how the environment,
and that includes our internal environment of
thoughts and emotions, controls gene activity.
It signals the gene from outside the cell. So
it fundamentally shows our genetic destiny isn't
fixed. It's responsive, fluid. Absolutely. The
epigenetic paradigm empowers us. It suggests
we have incredible free will to influence our
own gene activity to modify our genetic destiny.
How? How do we signal our genes differently?
By changing our internal state. Our thoughts,
feelings, behaviors, emotional reactions, making
healthier lifestyle choices is part of it, of
course. But even more powerfully, reducing chronic
stress, cultivating elevated emotions, these
things send new signals to our cells. And the
cells respond. They respond by expressing new
proteins. This alters the cell's function and
behavior. without changing the underlying DNA
blueprint itself. The code stays the same, but
how it's read, how it's expressed, changes dramatically.
We can, quite literally, signal our genes to
rewrite our future health. Can we see this in
action? Is there a concrete example of our emotional
state directly impacting gene expression? There's
a compelling study from Japan that demonstrated
this quite clearly. They looked at type 2 diabetic
patients, all insulin dependent. What did they
do? They established baseline fasting blood sugar.
Then, one group watched a comedy show for an
hour. The control group watched a dull lecture.
Afterwards, they all had a meal. And the results?
The lecture group had the typical significant
rise in blood sugar needing insulin, but the
group that had laughed heartily for an hour.
Their blood sugar rose by only about half that
amount. Just from laughing? Yes. But here's the
really astonishing part. They examined their
gene sequences. The diabetics who laughed had
altered 23 different gene expressions related
to blood sugar regulation. Wow. Simply by changing
their state of mind through laughter. Exactly.
Their positive emotions had effectively turned
on genetic variations that helped their bodies
regulate blood sugar more effectively naturally.
That's truly remarkable, the immediate, tangible
power of our internal state on something as fundamental
as blood sugar. It is. And think about anecdotes,
hair turning gray overnight from extreme stress.
That's another dramatic, though extreme example
of sudden genetic alteration triggered by emotion.
So the implication for healing is huge. Stress
chemicals push us towards illness. Disregulate
genes. But by consciously changing our internal
state thoughts, feelings, reactions, we send
new coherent signals. We can overcome those negative
environmental effects on gene expression. We
signal new genes in new ways. Which has profound
implications for how we might empower patients,
doesn't it? To become active participants in
their own healing beyond just the standard treatments.
It absolutely does. It shifts the focus towards
managing the inner environment as much as the
outer. Now, thinking about our own lives as medical
professionals, they can be incredibly demanding,
stressful environments. How does this constant
pressure impact our capacity for change, our
physical health, based on these insights? And
crucially, how does this framework differentiate
between living in survival mode versus creation
mode? This distinction is critical. Living in
survival mode is our default response to stress.
Real threats, imagined threats, replayed past
traumas. It activates the sympathetic nervous
system, the fight or flight response. Mobilizing
energy for immediate action. Precisely. Yeah.
But the problem with humans is our sophisticated
neocortex allows us to turn on that stress response
just by thought alone. We can re -experience
past upsets or worry about future scenarios,
keeping the response switched on chronically.
Even when there's no actual tiger chasing us.
Exactly. And this constant state of emergency
taxes the entire system relentlessly. So if all
our energy is constantly being funneled towards
dealing with these perceived external threats,
what happens to internal processes like healing
and maintenance? It sounds like there's nothing
left. It's very much like that. A zero -sum game
for energy. When you're constantly diverting
resources to fight or flee energy to muscles,
heightened senses, analytical thinking for crisis
mode, your internal housekeeping gets neglected.
So the immune system, digestion, endocrine balance,
they all get deprioritized. They do. There's
simply not enough energy left for long -term
building, repair and regeneration. This maladaptive
state literally pushes us towards disease. It
makes us sick because the body's resources are
perpetually allocated to external emergencies
rather than internal balance. And emotionally,
what does survival mode feel like? It grounds
us in those lower frequency emotions. Anger,
fear, suffering, shame, guilt, judgment. These
emotions make us feel more physical, denser.
We become materialists, focused only on what
our senses detect, obsessed with the big three.
Body, environment, time. We feel separate. disconnected
from any sense of greater intelligence or possibility.
And that constant jolt of stress chemicals, you
mentioned it, can become addictive. Yes. That
rush of energy, like a strong coffee, can become
biochemically addictive. The body gets used to
functioning under stress, making it hard to step
out of that limited state. OK, so that's survival.
What about creation mode? What's the energetic
and biological shift there? Creation mode is
the opposite. It's about consciously cultivating
and living in elevated emotions. Love. Joy, gratitude,
compassion, wholeness. These are associated with
higher frequencies, more energy. So moving up
the emotional scale as it were. When we consciously
decide to release those lower frequency survival
emotions that have kept us bound, the energy
tied up in them gets liberated. Freeing up resources.
Yes. And that energy naturally ascends towards
a higher level of consciousness, closer to possibility,
to what you might call universal intelligence.
This state is inherently selfless. It's not driven
by the ego's needs or external circumstances.
So you stop trying to force outcomes. You do.
You trust in a future you've already visited
and felt in your mind and body. It's a state
of knowingness, connection. You relax into the
unfolding, knowing your internal state is aligned
with your desired reality. Your body's energy
is then fully available for health, repair, and
optimal function. You move from struggle to effortless
creation. That's a profound difference. Now,
something many people experience, perhaps especially
in demanding roles, is presenting a certain image
while feeling quite differently inside. This
deep dive talks about the gap. What is that exactly
and why is closing it so crucial for real transformation?
The gap is this duality most of us live with.
It's the difference between how we appear, the
persona, the identity we project, the ideal self
we want others to see. You can imagine that as
one hand held out. The public face. Yes. and
who we really are, how we genuinely feel when
the distractions stop, our familiar, often hidden
emotions, the parts we conceal. That's the other
hand, perhaps hidden behind our back. And what
widens this gap? Memorized, addictive emotional
states, guilt, shame, anger, fear, anxiety, judgment,
unworthiness. The more these hidden emotions
dominate our inner landscape, the bigger the
disparity between the outer persona and the inner
reality. Maintaining that facade takes enormous
energy. It sounds exhausting, like wearing a
mask all the time. What are the consequences
of living with this gap long term, besides the
emotional toll? It often leads to this constant
striving, this busyness, to fill an inner void
with external things. People, especially maybe
in midlife, try to distract themselves. New purchases,
holidays, new relationships, cosmetic surgery.
Trying to feel different by changing something
outside. Exactly. Trying something new externally
to feel better internally. But when the novelty
fades, the emptiness remains. Because the underlying
emotional state hasn't been addressed, they revert
to who they really are. Technology is a huge
factor here too. It offers instant chemical changes.
Quick dopamine hits from social media, streaming,
gaming, we get temporary relief, altering our
internal state via external means. But it fosters
dependence on outside stimuli, widens the gap
further and can lead to all sorts of addictive
behaviors. Gambling, overeating, screen addiction.
We rely on the external to change the internal,
never healing the root cause. So true happiness
isn't about those fleeting pleasures. Not in
this context. True. Lasting contentment comes
from within. from closing that gap. How do we
begin to do that? How do we close the gap and
break free from these emotional addictions and
superficial fixes? It sounds like quite deep
work. Closing the gap requires transparency,
authenticity. How you appear aligns fully with
who you are inside. It means consciously confronting
and then unmemorizing those self -limiting emotions
that have become part of your identity. Unmemorizing
them. How? By becoming aware of them, observing
them without judgment, and consciously choosing
not to be defined by them anymore. Disassociating
from those old patterns. When you consciously
surrender these emotions, let them go, it releases
a huge amount of energy that was previously locked
up, maintaining the facade and suppressing the
feelings. And that released energy? It restores
a natural state of joy, wholeness. authenticity.
It's like a burden lifted. A memory without the
emotional charge attached to it simply becomes
wisdom. It no longer runs your life. This liberation
of energy feels like an upliftment, an inspiration.
You can finally just be your true self. That
sounds incredibly liberating, but also challenging,
especially for busy professionals with years
of ingrained patterns. How do we practically
start this process? Unlearning these old programs,
cultivating a new self, is there a roadmap? The
most effective way we found is through a structured
process often involving meditation. It's not
just about wishful thinking. It's about actively
using the capabilities of our brain, particularly
the frontal lobe. The CEO of the brain. Exactly.
It has two key functions crucial for this kind
of change. OK, what are they? Firstly, the frontal
lobe is essential for inhibiting the old self.
This is the unlearning part. Through metacognition,
that ability to observe your own thoughts, behaviors,
emotions as if from the outside. Self awareness.
Yes. Your frontal lobe can essentially turn down
the volume on those old unwanted neural networks.
You consciously stop the automatic firing related
to the old personality. You notice the urge to
react in the old way and you consciously inhibit
it. You stop the thought, the action, the emotion.
So you're pruning away the old neurological connections
by not using them. Precisely. You literally begin
to lose your mind. The old limited one. It's
a deliberate choice not to be that old self anymore.
OK. That's unlearning. What's the second function?
The second is creating a new mind. The learning
process. Once you've made space by enabling the
old, the frontal lobe helps build the new. It
gets activated powerfully by open -ended questions.
Like what? Questions like, what would it be like
to be truly compassionate? Or what's a better
way for me to be in this situation? Or how would
my undeal self respond right now? These questions
force the brain to fire in new sequences, make
new connections, build new neurological pathways.
And this is where mental rehearsal comes in.
Exactly. By repeatedly imagining and, crucially,
feeling yourself as this new, desired self, making
that internal experience more real than your
external environment, you mind yourself. You
install the new software, effectively changing
your brain and consequently your life. First,
Unlearn, then learn. Makes sense. You also mentioned
a progression involving three brains thinking,
doing, being. Can you elaborate on how they work
together in this transformation thinking figure
6b2 here? Certainly. These three brains represent
stages in embodying change. First is the neocortex,
the thinking brain. This is where we acquire
knowledge, learn facts and concepts, what we
call semantic memories. So reading a book about
kindness, understanding it intellectually. Precisely.
Knowledge is the precursor. Next comes the limbic
brain, the emotional or chemical brain. This
is where experience happens. When you apply that
knowledge, you actually perform a kind act. You
genuinely feel gratitude. The limbic brain processes
it, generates the corresponding emotion, and
starts creating associative memories. Connecting
the idea to the feeling, conditioning the body.
Yes. You move from knowing about kindness to
feeling kindness. This chemically teaches the
body what the mind has intellectually understood.
Finally, there's the cerebellum, the seat of
habits and skills. The habitual brain. Right.
When you repeat an action or a state of being
enough times combining knowledge, instruction,
focus, attention, repetition, it becomes second
nature, an implicit nondeclarative memory. You're
no longer consciously thinking about it or even
doing it deliberately. You were simply being
it. Like learning to drive. Initially, it's all
conscious effort. Then eventually, you are a
driver. It's automatic. Mastery, in this context
of personal transformation, is when your internal
chemical state, your chosen state of being, is
so deeply ingrained, so familiar through practice,
that it's stronger than any external trigger
or circumstance. You can reproduce that state
at will. So you embody the new self unconsciously.
That's the goal. That is the goal, to make it
your default state. That journey from conscious
effort to automatic being is fascinating. Now
meditation is presented as a key tool. How does
it work neurologically to help us get beyond
that analytical mind into the subconscious operating
system you mentioned, where these permanent shifts
happen, thinking figure 8i? Meditation's core
purpose in this context is precisely that, to
bypass the analytical mind and gain access to
the subconscious to make lasting changes. How
does it achieve that neurologically? Through
changing brain waves, referencing figures 8b,
8c, 8j. Yes, it's largely about shifting brainwave
patterns. Our normal waking state is dominated
by beta brainwaves. That's conscious analytical
thought processing the external world. But often,
especially under stress, we're in high beta.
Which is chaotic over -focus. Exactly, like trying
to solve a complex problem with alarms blaring.
You can't easily process new information, think
creatively, or change. Trying to analyze your
problems while in high beta just makes it worse,
creating higher and higher frequency beta waves.
You're stuck analyzing the past or fearing the
future. So how does meditation help us shift
out of that stuck beta state? By intentionally
reducing sensory input. closing your eyes, focusing
inward, perhaps on your breath. This gives the
neocortex, the thinking brain, less external
data to analyze. The analytical mind naturally
begins to quiet down. And the brain waves change.
Yes. You typically shift from beta into alpha
waves. Alpha is often seen as the bridge state,
where the inner world starts to become more real
than the outer world. You're more relaxed, less
analytical, more receptive. A state where imagination
feels more vivid. Exactly. It's where you can
effectively plant seeds for new possibilities,
visualize new realities within yourself. With
more practice, you can move even deeper into
theta waves. Theta, what happens there? Theta
is more trance -like. You're deeply connected
to your internal world, the realm of the subconscious.
Children operate largely in theta, which is why
they're like sponges for information and suggestion
their analytical filter isn't fully formed. In
theta, you can access and reprogram those deep
-seated beliefs and patterns because the analytical
guard at the gate relaxed. So the goal of meditation
is to guide yourself through these states, beta
to alpha to theta. Yes, to consciously move into
these slower brainwave states. This process helps
create brain coherence figure 8k, where different
parts of the brain start working in synchrony,
in harmony, like an orchestra playing together
beautifully instead of chaotically. And what
are the benefits of achieving this brain coherence?
How does it lead to tangible results, even spontaneous
healing, like you mentioned earlier? A coherent
brain sends a coherent, synchronized signal throughout
the body. This helps organize all the body systems
into homeostasis, that state of optimal balance
and function. Cardiovascular, immune, digestive,
endocrine systems all start working together
more harmoniously. And the energy aspect. Crucially,
the huge amount of energy that was previously
being consumed by the stress response in survival
mode is now liberated. It becomes available for
growth, repair, creation, and healing. Which
could explain spontaneous changes. It could certainly
contribute. Remember Jose's warts. 10 persistent
viral warts vanishing overnight after his first
meditation. That's incredible. He shifted his
mind from disorder to order, from incoherence
to coherence. The intelligence within his body
responded by restoring order physically. It suggests
that when the mind is coherent, the body can
follow suit, sometimes dramatically. It's not
magic, it's physiology responding to a change
in energetic signaling. These concepts are incredibly
powerful. But moving beyond anecdotes, do we
have examples of ordinary people applying these
principles consistently to create extraordinary
lasting changes. We've heard the theory. How
does it play out? Absolutely. There are many
compelling examples. Take Monique, a therapist
from Montreal. She describes herself as living
most of her adult life in a state of lack. Not
enough money, time, energy, financial struggles,
issues with child support, rising rent. A familiar
story for many. Indeed. During a meditation,
she had this powerful realization that she had
completely memorized a woe -is -me personality
rooted in this feeling of lack. She decided,
with real conviction, to change that personality
entirely. To become someone else internally.
Yes. To intend to be and feel like a woman who
lived with an abundance of energy, time, money.
She created a clear vision for this new self.
So she wasn't just thinking about abundance,
she was actively trying to be abundant, shifting
her whole state. Precisely. She started living
from that perspective, feeling the emotions of
abundance before it showed up externally. Weeks
later, a client mentioned the French lottery.
Later, while filling her car, on a sudden impulse,
the kind of impulse the new Monique might have,
trusting possibility she bought a ticket. The
old Monique would have dismissed it as irresponsible.
She forgot about it until her husband came rushing
in telling her she'd won. Not millions, but exactly
$53 ,000, which just happened to be the precise
amount needed to clear all her outstanding debts.
Wow. That's incredibly specific. It beautifully
illustrates the principle. A new personality
creates a new personal reality. And the quantum
field often delivers in ways we can't predict,
but which are perfectly resonant with our coherent
signal. Her new internal state aligned her actions,
and the field responded. That's a fantastic example
of manifesting something tangible. What about
profound health transformations, especially in
challenging cases? Consider Bill, a 57 -year
-old roofing contractor with recurrent malignant
melanoma. Multiple surgeries, radiation, chemo,
but it kept returning. A very difficult situation.
Very. During a deep meditation, Bill had a breakthrough.
He realized he'd been trapped in deep -seated
resentment for over 30 years, feeling he'd always
had to give up his dream being a musician for
others. He had so thoroughly memorized this bitterness,
this emotional pattern. That his body was literally
living in that chemical past, contributing to
the illness. That was his insight, yes. That
the sustained negative emotion was perhaps even
signaling the genes that supported the cancer's
persistence. So in his daily meditations, he
consciously worked on unmemorizing that bitterness,
releasing the emotional charge. And replacing
it with what? He actively envisioned himself
healthy. He cultivated profound gratitude, feeling
as if the healing had already happened. He managed
to change his internal state to be greater than
his physical condition, feeling the joy of health
before it was physically real. And the outcome?
Shortly after returning home from a workshop,
the tumor on his calf just fell off. Within a
week, tests showed he was cancer -free, and he
remained so. By firing his brain differently,
cultivating elevated emotions, he changed biologically.
He signaled new genes in new ways. The cancer,
in essence, couldn't survive in his new internal
environment, his new coherent self. That's a
powerful testament to the connection between
releasing bound emotional energy and physical
healing. It really is. It shows how unmemorizing
the past can directly impact the present biology.
And finally, are there examples of people sustaining
this shift, maintaining high coherence even amidst
external chaos? That seems key, especially for
those in high -stress professions. Absolutely.
The University of Wisconsin's study on experienced
Buddhist monks and super meditators is a classic
example. What do they find? These monks could
generate incredibly coherent brainwave patterns,
especially gamma waves associated with states
like loving -kindness and compassion during meditation.
But what was truly remarkable was that they could
maintain these coherent patterns even after meditation.
while going about tasks in the noisy, distracting
external world. So their internal state wasn't
dependent on quiet or ideal circumstances? Exactly.
They demonstrated a mastery of their internal
state, independent of external chaos. They weren't
reacting to the environment they were creating
from within. Their inner coherence remains stable.
This is really the ultimate goal, isn't it? To
embody a state where your internal world is consistently
greater than your external world. Precisely.
allowing you to navigate challenges from a place
of inner peace, resilience, and creative power.
It is achievable. What incredible insights we've
explored today. Just to try and summarize, it
seems profoundly clear that our mind and body
are absolutely inseparable. They're intricately
linked. A unified system. Yes. And by consciously
changing our thoughts, our feelings, our overall
state of being, we really can influence our health,
maybe even our genetic expression, and potentially
manifest desired realities. It shifts us from
feeling like victims of circumstance to becoming
conscious creators of our lives. It's incredibly
empowering, suggesting we can impact our own
well -being and perhaps guide our patients in
ways we're only just beginning to fully appreciate.
It opens up a whole new dimension to health and
healing. We really hope this deep dive has sparked
some new ways of thinking for you, especially
for those of you navigating the complexities
of medicine and your own demanding lives. Hopefully
some practical insights, too. Indeed. If you
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that. And finally, just a thought to leave you
with. If your brain and body truly don't distinguish
between a vividly imagined and felt experience
and a real one, what powerful new realities might
you begin to create starting today simply by
cultivating the feelings of your desired future
right here in the present moment?