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321: Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill: Your Symptoms Are Speaking: Are You Listening? · Resiliency Radio with Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD

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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Welcome to Resiliency Radio, your go to podcast for the most cutting edge insights integrative and functional medicine.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I'm your host, Dr. Jill and with each episode we dive into the heart of healing and personal transformation.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Today you are in for such a treat.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: We have the Dr. D Martini of the Secret and over 43 bestselling books, multiple seminars.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I'm sure if you've been in this healing space of psychology and healing where they meet, you have heard his name and if you haven't, you are in for such a treat today.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Just give us a call at 303-993-7910 or visit our website@jillcarnahan.com okay, let me introduce our guest.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Without further ado, Dr. John Demartini is a human behavioral specialist, polymath philosopher, international speaker and best selling author.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: He's a founder of Demartini Institute, author of 43 books and has featured been featured international documentaries including the Secret the Breakthrough Movie which has won 20 plus international film awards.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: His work has spanned human behavior, leadership and performance and influenced individuals and professionals worldwide.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: If you haven't heard of him, you must check him out.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: As the creator of demartini Method, he spent five decades developing a framework that bridges psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and physiology.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You are in for a treat today.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Let's welcome Dr. Demartini.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Dr. Demartini, it is an absolute delight to have you on Resiliency Radio.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I think that the topic today is maybe there's nothing of more relevance and power to human health and behavior in the work that you've done and the work that you've done over the many decades.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: We were just talking about how many books, just the paperbacks alone in the 40s and probably maybe hundreds of other documents and manuscripts and things that you've done.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So you've been prolifera narrative in this world.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I've certainly heard of you and come across you.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And today I want to introduce my audience to your work and your philosophy and especially your new program that's coming out.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: This new touring that you're doing on decoding the body's messages.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That's kind of our real topic today before we dive into that.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So guys, you are going to in for such a treat today.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I just already know it.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I want to know a little bit about the background of how did you go from a young child, wherever you grew up into finding your way into this work in the world?
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  Dr. John Demartini: I was born in Houston, Texas, 1950, so I'll be 72 in November.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I had a learning disability as a child and a speech impediment had to go to speech pathologist.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I was told in first grade I'll probably never be able to read, write, communicate, probably not go very far amount to much.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So I only made it through school with asking smart kids questions and that whatever they would tell me I would try to because I had problems learning reading I left school at a young age, early teens and became a street kid.
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  Dr. John Demartini: First Houston and Richmond, Texas, then out to Freeport to the beach because I wanted to surf.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And then I hitchhiked to California at 14 and then over to Hawaii at 15 and was a long haired hippie surfer on the north shore of Oahu.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I got to be in a couple surf movies back then.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And some magazines.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I nearly died at 17 surfing a very about a 40 foot wave.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And in the recovery of that I was led to a health food store and a yoga class.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I met Paul C. Bragg.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Bragg's amino acid guy?
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yes.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And he inspired me one night in an hour in a way that I can't describe other than he made me believe with his speech or I believed that someday maybe I could overcome my learning problems and become intelligent.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And that led me because I had health problems, nearly dying and because I wanted to learn health and philosophy became important.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I hitchhiked.
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  Dr. John Demartini: A few months later I hitchhiked well, went to the South Shore, flew to Honolulu, to LA and hitchhiked back to Texas to see my parents.
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  Dr. John Demartini: They encouraged me to take a ged.
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  Dr. John Demartini: High school equivalency.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I passed miraculously guessing, don't know how it happened, but I just guessed and I felt there was some sort of intervention on that one.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And tried to go back to school at a junior college because at GED you couldn't get into the university yet.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I failed.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I thought maybe this was just a fluke that I'd passed that test.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And when I failed, I was distraught.
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  Dr. John Demartini: My mom saw me laying on the floor in a fetal position crying because I thought I was going to now learn how to be intelligent.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And she said what happened?
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I said I failed.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And she said something that changed my life.
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  Dr. John Demartini: She said, whether you become a great teacher, healer and philosopher like you talk about in your dream, whether you go back and ride big waves on the North Shore or whether you return to the streets and panhandle as a street lit, you know, home kid, homeless kid.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Just want to let you know your father and I are going to love you no matter what.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I learned the power of love and healing in that moment.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And my hand went into a fist and I looked up and I saw the vision the night I met Paul Bragg.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I was standing in front of a large square with a million people and I was speaking.
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  Dr. John Demartini: It was sort of like a dissociative identity disorder at the time or something.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And came back to me, that vision.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I made a commitment.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I Said, I'm going to master this thing called reading, studying and learning.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I'm going to master this thing called teaching, healing and philosophy.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I'm going to do whatever it takes, travel whatever distance, pay whatever price to give my service of love across the planet.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I'm not going to let any human being stop me now, not even myself.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I went out and hugged my mom.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I went into the room, got a funk, and Wagnall's dictionary out.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I made a commitment to memorizing the dictionary, And I did 30 words a day.
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  Dr. John Demartini: My mom would test me on 30 words a day.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I would recite them and spell them and write them in a sentence and put the meaning to them and practice overcoming my dyslexia.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I memorized 30 words a day.
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  Dr. John Demartini: In two years.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I had 20,000 new words in my head.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I went from the bottom of the class to the top, and I.
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  Dr. John Demartini: People started asking me for information.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I started teaching at 18, and I been teaching for 53 and a half years and never stopped reading.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I read 31,000 books now.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I've just been devouring everything I can on anything to do with mastering life and healing and philosophy and science and anything I get my hands on, I'm devouring it.
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  Dr. John Demartini: But I also wanted to know the hidden order in apparent chaos.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I wanted, particularly in the field of psychology and physiology, I want to know anytime there's a pathological term, etiology unknown, I want to know why.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I wanted to know what was the psychology and the stress responses that were underlying these health conditions.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So I've been devouring psychosomatic stuff since way back then.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: All I can say is, wow.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And two things hit really close to home.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: One is my own mother was not diagnosed, but severely dyslexic as a child, told she could never read, and felt just like you, like she was stupid or dumb.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And what happened when I was in her womb, which I don't think is a coincidence, is my dad.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Just like your parents said, kathy, you can learn to read.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Let's just start slowly.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Anyone can learn to read.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And he believed in her and said, I love you no matter what, but I bet you anything.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And you know, she's in her.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Her 20s, mid to late 20s, when I'm in her womb and in.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: In the pregnancy, when I was in her womb, she learned to read.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: She learned, she loved to read.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And she kind of made a promise to the divine at the time that I want all my children to love, to learn and read.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And that leads to Me, who I grew up very similar to you.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: This insatiable curiosity, which I think is common to all people who have a gift to bring to the world.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: They.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: They ask the questions, why?
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And then the second thing is this love for learning, you clearly have that too, right?
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And anyone that I admire and respect and see doing great things in the world has that curiosity.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And in medicine, the same way, like discovering new ways to do things.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And that love of lifelong learning.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And you clearly had that somewhere in there.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: But I really love that you emphasized that moment when your parents are said, we'll love you no matter what, how much just like my father to my mother.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: How valuable is that in giving someone the juice to go out in the world and do what they were meant to do.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Because you and I, my mother, all that similar thing of a.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: There's somewhere in us that we know we have unconditional love from someone out there.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Is that a foundation of the work that you teach?
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  Dr. John Demartini: Now, I could go on for that for about a month.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So let me, let me begin on that.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 6th century or so BC believe that there was a hidden order in the apparent chaos, as I do.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And he also asked questions to uncover it.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And he coined the term logos, which was the reason, the pattern, the order, rational aspect of the universe.
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  Dr. John Demartini: You know, a scientist, even though there's a construct out there called randomness disorder, a scientist would not pursue trying to find a solution to the problems in the world or the mysteries and unsolve them and penetrate them had they not believed in some sort of inherent rational order in the universe.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And so this Heraclitus, when he was describing it, is this is that order.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I have believed that since 18, when I read the discourse on metaphysics by Leibniz.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And he said that no human being could improve upon the perfection there already is.
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  Dr. John Demartini: All they do is wake up to it.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yes.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And so I pursued.
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  Dr. John Demartini: How do I find a hidden order in the apparent chaos in the psychosomatics, psychology and physiology?
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  Dr. John Demartini: So I devoured it down.
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  Dr. John Demartini: At one time I studied the body down from the gross anatomy down to the quantum level.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I pretty well had it all mapped out in my head down to the cell and the histology and the cell organelles and the biomolecules and the quantum aspects of the atoms.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I mean, I broke it down because I wanted to find and ask questions to find this hidden order have I've actually found ways of doing it.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Disorder means missing information information theory.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And the order is reclaiming it, becoming aware of it.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And the quality of the questions we ask makes us wake up to it.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And when we are aware of it, we don't have an autonomic response that's dysregulated.
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  Dr. John Demartini: If we're conscious of the positives and unconscious of the negatives, we have a parasympathetic inhibition.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And if we have a conscious of the negatives and unconscious of the positive, we have a sympathetic excitation.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And then our EI ratios become imbalanced.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And our physiology demonstrates it psychologically and physiologically and neurotransmitter wise.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And if we balance those and see simultaneity of opposites, a unity of opposites.
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  Dr. John Demartini: That's what Heraclitus called the logos.
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  Dr. John Demartini: A unity of opposites, a simultaneity of complementary opposites.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And the law of contrast by Wilhelm Wundt, Hegel's synthesis of the dialectic.
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  Dr. John Demartini: If we actually do that, we literally can regulate and activate the objective state of the executive center and normalize physiology and have an autonomic regulation and neurotransmitters, neuroregulators, neurohormones, neuromodulators, they come into equilibrium and our physiology lets us know.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I really believe that the symptoms of our body, the physiological symptoms of our body and the psychological symptoms of our psyche are homeostatic feedback mechanisms to guide us to our most authentic state and our gamma.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Synchronicities in the brain and autonomic regulations of the brain.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Are confirmations of a moment of authenticity.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And love is a synthesis and synchronicity of all complementary opposites.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So love is still the greatest healer on the planet.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Because if in that moment there was an unconditional love, we all want to be loved for who we are in totality.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Our hero and our villain, our saint and our sinner.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Our polarities of all potentials.
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  Dr. John Demartini: We want to be loved for all of that.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And so in that moment, when my mom was in a state of unconditional love, you might say the state of unconditional love, a soul, if you will, transformation occurs.
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  Dr. John Demartini: The transformation from the entropy to negentropy, as Erwin Schrodinger described.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And we go from the disordered missing information to now fully conscious.
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  Dr. John Demartini: We're seeing and honored for both sides simultaneously.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I really believe that love is still the greatest healer.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I really believe that many of the diseases are regressions to earlier ontogenies and earlier phylogenies.
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  Dr. John Demartini: To try to wake us up from the high polarities and subjective interpretations of reality.
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  Dr. John Demartini: To guide us back to the center.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And that's why we sometimes end up with loved ones at our deathbed because we're trying to get us to love the things we've been storing up unloved, to try to wake us up, to give us a last ditch effort to try to bring wellness or wholeness or integration.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So I'm a firm believer in love and healing.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I really believe that the greatest healers, even Hippocrates, acknowledged that Asclepius, all the great healers understood that love is still the cornerstone.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And I learned many years ago in the healing arts there were six transcendental states that were involved in great healers.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Because I went traveled all over the world finding great healers, from cardiovascular surgeons like Denton Cooley and DeBakey and these people to anybody that was involved in the healing arts, whatever field.
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  Dr. John Demartini: I found that when they're grateful for what they're doing, love what they're doing, inspired by the vision of their skill and their talent and their destiny, inspired by the learning process, certain about their skills because they've mastered it and they're present, there's going to be some sort of a transformation going on because there's a magnetism of people drawn to that state of authenticity and it helps them resonate and spill over into their authenticity.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And that's part of the healing process.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Hey guys, Just a quick interruption to remind you, if you're looking for even more inspiration on your journey to healing, I recommend you grab a copy of my book, Unexpected Finding Resilience Through Functional Medicine, Science and Faith.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You can find that anywhere books are sold on Amazon or other stores.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You can also find readunexpected.com for more information reviews.
• 17:55
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And if you want a signed copy, you can grab it from my store, drjillhealth.com if you do want it signed, just put in the notes when you check out who you want it signed to and I will personally send you a signed copy of the book.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Book.
• 18:08
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Also, our movie Doctor Patient is now streaming on Amazon prime in multiple languages and subtitles.
• 18:14
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So please be sure and check that out again.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Just hopefully these are more tools to inspire you on your journey to healing.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Okay, let's get back to Dr. Demartini.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow, so much to unpack.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I'm going to try to repeat back what I hear you saying because what you just said was just a whole, you know, day of lectures in a few minutes and so profound.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: One of the things I hear you saying is that, and we're going to dive into this because this is your new topic, and I really want to hear what you have to say.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That symptoms are not random malfunctions, but they're meaningful feedback.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And if I hear you right, I remember again, just a personal experience back in medical training.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: It was brutal, and I suppressed pretty much all symptoms in order to survive.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I was in a very dissociated state for many years.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: During those four years of medical training, I developed aggressive cancer and then Crohn's disease.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I'm sure you can understand why some of that happened, because my body was like, hello, we're trying to give you some feedback here that this right now for you is a little too much.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You're.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You're working 36 hour shifts.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You're not sleeping, you're not eating properly, you're under incredible amount of psychological stress.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I wasn't hearing that because I was in the move forward, you know, very masculine energy without, let's just suppose, just shut up and behave because I got to do my work now, again, that led to diseases in my life that were transformational, and that totally shifted my ability to connect with the signals in my body.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Talk a little bit about that framework because again, I've learned this and I'm still learning of how the dissociation from our body signals leads to illness and how the listening and how you would frame it, of how these symptoms that we are experiencing, regardless of the ICD10 diagnosis.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Right.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Are just our body's way of alerting us to something that's imbalanced.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And you can say it more eloquently than I did, but I want to hear more about that specifically.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Well, it's been known for, I believe, at least 100 years, going back to Albert Crumb and Hans Selye on the construct of stress.
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  Dr. John Demartini: Yes, I define stress as the inability to adapt to a changing environment.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And the environment is constantly changing.
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  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Right.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And.
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  Dr. John Demartini: But then I asked, what exactly is stress?
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  Dr. John Demartini: Because many people dissociate and blame things on the outside and think stress is out there and it's something that happened and it's not right.
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  Dr. John Demartini: TH Holmes made a list of all the most common stressors.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And there's no doubt that going through those people without knowing how to process it would perceive it as stressful.
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  Dr. John Demartini: But stress is the perception of loss of something you seek or the perception of gain of that which you're trying to avoid.
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  Dr. John Demartini: So the amygdala assigns valency to the hippocampus and stores this valency in spatial and temporal format, direction, distance, location, et cetera.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And temporal format memory or imagination and stores it in the hippocampus as an episodic memory with those content and context and details.
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  Dr. John Demartini: And they set up responses back to the hypothalamus and to the cortex.
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  Dr. John Demartini: The cortex is trying to calm it down and moderate it, but it sends up autonomic signals and hypothalamus symbols, signals, and it causes a seeking or avoidance response, an impulse to seek or an avoidance response to prey and predator.
• 21:59
  Dr. John Demartini: And so all of our stress is a prey predator game ultimately inside our brain, down in the subcortical amygdala, the nuclei and what's interesting in the perihepocampal and the entorhinal conflict, they all add details to it, but it's a response.
• 22:16
  Dr. John Demartini: And the more we're in a prey predator, the more we create subjective bias, false positives and false negative interpretations.
• 22:26
  Dr. John Demartini: Because in order to capture the prey, we have to accelerate and accentuate the positives to run faster than the prey in order to capture it.
• 22:34
  Dr. John Demartini: So we have to distort our perceptions in order to capture prey for fear of starvation.
• 22:40
  Dr. John Demartini: And we had to distort our perceptions of predator with exaggerated negatives in order to escape the predator.
• 22:50
  Dr. John Demartini: So these subjective distortions that the amygdala induces spill over into autonomic and epigenetic expressions at the cell level, at the receptors, the primary messengers and second messengers, and you know, the phosphatase and kinase pathways and the whole thing.
• 23:10
  Dr. John Demartini: So we distort our perceptions to survive, as Kahneman and Nobel prize win had called it.
• 23:17
  Dr. John Demartini: Systems 1 Thinking and fast alert responses.
• 23:21
  Dr. John Demartini: We're distorting things and we're generalizing things.
• 23:25
  Dr. John Demartini: My mother was never there for me.
• 23:27
  Dr. John Demartini: My father was always mean, always no.
• 23:31
  Dr. John Demartini: But at this one moment, yes.
• 23:34
  Dr. John Demartini: So we've gone from specific to generalization and distortion.
• 23:39
  Dr. John Demartini: And these are stored in the hippocampus as memories, trying to be neutralized to get into long term memory, but are stored there and they just keep reverberating circles because anything that we're infatuated or resentful to occupies space and time in our mind and runs our consciousness and gives us insomnia, which is a, a symptom of the intrusive thoughts that are stored there.
• 24:01
  Dr. John Demartini: And as long as they're doing, they're creating reverberating circuits that keep us in a chronic stress condition and a chronic inflammation.
• 24:08
  Dr. John Demartini: Inflammation is a perception.
• 24:10
  Dr. John Demartini: The anger that occurs from the perception of loss of something you're seeking and the frustration of not being able to escape Something we're trying to avoid.
• 24:17
  Dr. John Demartini: That inflammatory response, that pro inflammatory cytokine and the anti inflammatory cytokine ratios are affecting primitive immune responses for cells to be able to respond.
• 24:30
  Dr. John Demartini: And these are underlying some of our illnesses.
• 24:34
  Dr. John Demartini: So unless we know how to ask questions to become cognizant of both sides, the prey and predator, the support and the challenge, the positive and negatives and get the EI ratios back into balance, we're leading ourselves right down the alley of creating symptomatology.
• 24:49
  Dr. John Demartini: The symptomatology is letting us know what we haven't loved and giving us an opportunity to see both sides.
• 24:55
  Dr. John Demartini: But we're choosing to be caught in moral hypocrisies and imposing our moral constructs onto things as good and bad.
• 25:02
  Dr. John Demartini: Instead of that, there's just an experience, an event, a neutral event until we've labeled it.
• 25:07
  Dr. John Demartini: Those are the reasons why we've got these underlying issues.
• 25:10
  Dr. John Demartini: And the chronic sympathetic response causes an increased heart rate, an increased blood pressure, an increased platelet count, an increased lipid count.
• 25:20
  Dr. John Demartini: Lipid, it increases blood sugar.
• 25:23
  Dr. John Demartini: So diabetes and hypertension of a chronic storage like that is completely understandable.
• 25:28
  Dr. John Demartini: And we see the neurotransmitters, the osteocalcin, the neurotransmitters all accelerating there.
• 25:35
  Dr. John Demartini: We can see those neurotransmitters chronically stored up in there.
• 25:39
  Dr. John Demartini: We now have a biochemical imbalance.
• 25:41
  Dr. John Demartini: We don't.
• 25:42
  Dr. John Demartini: We have a psychological balance storing those things and keeping those things perpetuated.
• 25:47
  Dr. John Demartini: And we are so used to a palliative approach instead of a deeper or curative understanding that because most people aren't going to want to take the time to resolve it, they're not going to take the time to learn and self reflect and take on accountability.
• 26:02
  Dr. John Demartini: Because there's such a use of blaming things on the outside and looking for heroes on the outside to save them instead of looking within and having self reflective awareness about the magnificence of the universe that we're in.
• 26:14
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow.
• 26:15
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So I have so many follow up questions to that.
• 26:17
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: One is, and we'll go through these, but for you listening, I want to definitely talk about why our society is so much really symptom suppression, you know, physicians, it's, and why that is harmful.
• 26:28
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And then I also want to talk about someone's hearing us and hearing what you have to say and saying this resonates.
• 26:33
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Dr. Demartini, where do I begin to excavate my own thought processes?
• 26:38
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Let's first just touch on how our society and MD like me included, maybe Worst of the perpetrators have created this culture of suppression of the very thing that is going to give us that relevant information.
• 26:51
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Let's talk about that first and then we'll talk about where people can go to start to this process.
• 26:58
  Dr. John Demartini: There's a conflict of interest in almost every business, right?
• 27:03
  Dr. John Demartini: You're trying to find an altruistic service and you're trying to get a narcissistic reward.
• 27:11
  Dr. John Demartini: And if you try to get something for nothing, you eventually get humbled because the people don't want to do business with you after a while, if you try to give something for nothing, you don't want to do business because you're not getting rewarded enough.
• 27:21
  Dr. John Demartini: So nature is forcing you to find sustainable fair exchange and authenticity.
• 27:26
  Dr. John Demartini: Because when we exaggerate ourselves narcissistically or minimize ourselves altruistically, we're inauthentic and we're not in love, we're in judgment of ourselves and other people.
• 27:35
  Dr. John Demartini: So I believe that the symptomatology is trying to guide us back to authenticity ultimately and trying to get us into fair exchange, sustainable fair exchange, equanimity and equity.
• 27:47
  Dr. John Demartini: So our approach is in conflict because we want to grow our business as a doctor and serve as many people as we can, but we also want to serve them and make it amenable to them and feasible for them.
• 28:02
  Dr. John Demartini: And we call it success when you do well.
• 28:07
  Dr. John Demartini: But then you're looking at, how do I do that most effectively and efficiently, et cetera.
• 28:11
  Dr. John Demartini: So I think because most people don't want to take accountability and because we're told moral hypocrisies about how we're supposed to be all the time, and we beat ourselves up and we think and we're into blame and credit and we dissociate and we're all externally oriented, that we look for the hero out there to rescue us from the white coat, from the evil spirit.
• 28:33
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, even medicine, if you go in and study the serpent on the staff, you find out it goes back to taking out evil spirits with Trefani operations and giving potions and things for spirits.
• 28:43
  Dr. John Demartini: So even its origin is still an external Nightean school of Greece idea.
• 28:48
  Dr. John Demartini: It's all external out there.
• 28:50
  Dr. John Demartini: So with that said, it's not easy to sell accountability to people.
• 28:56
  Dr. John Demartini: It's easier to sell palliative care.
• 29:00
  Dr. John Demartini: And sometimes we're so involved in that we've lost sight of what our potential is as a healing individual, the self healing.
• 29:11
  Dr. John Demartini: Now, the majority of people are very grateful for some sort of palliative care.
• 29:15
  Dr. John Demartini: And I think that's absolutely essential.
• 29:18
  Dr. John Demartini: But at the same time, there are a few that migrate through the evolutionary process of their consciousness to a point where they go, I'm a self accountable individual and they would like to be educated.
• 29:29
  Dr. John Demartini: And doctor also means educator.
• 29:31
  Dr. John Demartini: So I think that it's.
• 29:32
  Dr. John Demartini: I used to have patients that didn't really want to know, they just wanted me to fix them.
• 29:36
  Dr. John Demartini: And I had ones that are starting to know and then there's ones that really know and others that don't really want to get fixed.
• 29:42
  Dr. John Demartini: They want to know why they're there.
• 29:44
  Dr. John Demartini: And so I used to differentiate those and give different levels of education to those that were receptive so they could become self sufficient.
• 29:53
  Dr. John Demartini: And I found a way of trying to find a balance between me doing well in education to patients and those that were just wanted palliative care.
• 30:01
  Dr. John Demartini: And I delegated most of the palliative care to my doctors that worked for me so I could get on to where I felt I wanted to play.
• 30:07
  Dr. John Demartini: And so I think there's a whole scale of awareness and conscious awareness that's within the health profession.
• 30:14
  Dr. John Demartini: Even in medicine and every other health profession, I believe that it's there.
• 30:18
  Dr. John Demartini: And some people choose to play at different levels and get in the paradox.
• 30:23
  Dr. John Demartini: But palliative care is an absolutely essential component.
• 30:26
  Dr. John Demartini: But I do believe that the real doctor deep inside wants to inform and have quality patients that want to learn, grow so they're not redundantly doing the same thing over and over again and watching the progression and degeneration of the people.
• 30:39
  Dr. John Demartini: I think in their heart they want that.
• 30:41
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That makes a lot of sense.
• 30:44
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And any great physician that I've met has this ability to hold space and create this safe and loving environment for that patient to start to explore, right.
• 30:52
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And, and what you can do.
• 30:53
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Because I feel it too.
• 30:54
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Every day I go into the clinic and I have a lot of patients that are very resistant to, you know, maybe the deeper issues that we're talking about here.
• 31:01
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: But if I can just be patient and love them exactly where they are and create this safety and that space for them to think about and explore and maybe ask some questions that get some them on that path.
• 31:11
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And then like you said, everybody's different.
• 31:13
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So I'm assessing like you did, each patient, their readiness to change and how much do they want?
• 31:18
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And do they, how much power do they want?
• 31:19
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Because they have all the power.
• 31:21
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I'm just there.
• 31:23
  Dr. John Demartini: When I was 21, going on 22, I had the opportunity to work at Texas Heart institute and also St. Luke's and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas.
• 31:38
  Dr. John Demartini: And one of my jobs at Central Service as a 22 year old was delivering the surgery schedules to the cardiovascular surgeons.
• 31:47
  Dr. John Demartini: And this is Debayke and Cooley and their team at the Texas Heart Institute.
• 31:52
  Dr. John Demartini: And it was really interesting as I got to befriend them because I'm delivering a schedule.
• 31:56
  Dr. John Demartini: And I started talking to them and I asked, is there any way I can come and watch you in the domes above it, watch the surgeries?
• 32:04
  Dr. John Demartini: And so I got to watch Dr. Denton, Cooley and DeBaker.
• 32:07
  Dr. John Demartini: But mainly Cooley do his magic.
• 32:11
  Dr. John Demartini: He's a tall, kind of a lanky guy, really lovely guy, really amazing guy.
• 32:15
  Dr. John Demartini: Fit and healthy till his 90s.
• 32:18
  Dr. John Demartini: But he had 12 disciples.
• 32:20
  Dr. John Demartini: Pardon me for using those terms, but he had 12 disciples wearing white coats that were around him, following him around, wherever he went.
• 32:27
  Dr. John Demartini: When he did his rounds in the afternoon, he would go and do these 12 disciples would come.
• 32:35
  Dr. John Demartini: And they're just 12 interns and specialists, but I'm calling.
• 32:40
  Dr. John Demartini: And I watched him do the surgery.
• 32:42
  Dr. John Demartini: But much of the time he didn't do all the surgery.
• 32:45
  Dr. John Demartini: He had them do it.
• 32:46
  Dr. John Demartini: But he was pointing and directing and delegating and guiding a very precise little baby infant that needed surgery.
• 32:54
  Dr. John Demartini: He did, but most of it was done by the team.
• 32:58
  Dr. John Demartini: But when he did his rounds, the patients didn't know that, you know, they thought it was him.
• 33:02
  Dr. John Demartini: And so he was an iconic figure, and that was part of the healing process.
• 33:07
  Dr. John Demartini: And I watched him.
• 33:09
  Dr. John Demartini: I actually got to go rounds with him.
• 33:10
  Dr. John Demartini: And I watched him do something that most cardiologists, I don't think, got to really grasp.
• 33:18
  Dr. John Demartini: The really great ones, I think, knew.
• 33:20
  Dr. John Demartini: But he would go in there and grab the hands of the recovering patients and hold their hands.
• 33:27
  Dr. John Demartini: And the disciples were there right around him with notepads, taking notes.
• 33:32
  Dr. John Demartini: Sometimes they were just making funny jokes to the next person, but it didn't look like that.
• 33:37
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yeah.
• 33:38
  Dr. John Demartini: But he would hold their hands and he said, Mrs. Jones, I just want to let you know your surgery was an absolute success.
• 33:48
  Dr. John Demartini: Soon you're going to be able to hold your grandbabies.
• 33:50
  Dr. John Demartini: You're going to be working the garden.
• 33:52
  Dr. John Demartini: And he would get a history of what was most important in their life and communicate in what was most important to their life.
• 34:00
  Dr. John Demartini: And he wouldn't leave that room until they got a tear of gratitude.
• 34:06
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow.
• 34:07
  Dr. John Demartini: Because he knew that his procedures were part of that.
• 34:11
  Dr. John Demartini: That was his mastery.
• 34:12
  Dr. John Demartini: But he also knew that the internal psyche, if they are now feeling like, yes, that part of the healing too.
• 34:21
  Dr. John Demartini: And I watched him and I learned a lot about healing from watching him.
• 34:25
  Dr. John Demartini: And he would make sure that they had tears of gratitude.
• 34:28
  Dr. John Demartini: And of course, the disciples are nodding their heads.
• 34:31
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yes.
• 34:34
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't think it was really staged.
• 34:37
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: No.
• 34:37
  Dr. John Demartini: It was just respect and mastery.
• 34:42
  Dr. John Demartini: And I believe that Denton Cooley knew the psychology of healing in addition to his mastery of his cardiovascular skills.
• 34:49
  Dr. John Demartini: I really believed that watching him, because I watched some other cardiologists, it wasn't magnetism.
• 34:55
  Dr. John Demartini: You didn't just go, wow, I gotta watch this guy.
• 34:58
  Dr. John Demartini: He had a real skill.
• 35:00
  Dr. John Demartini: He was grateful for them, grateful for the opportunity to do what he did.
• 35:05
  Dr. John Demartini: He loved what he did.
• 35:06
  Dr. John Demartini: He did it every day.
• 35:07
  Dr. John Demartini: He was in there by 7 in the morning until sometimes 1 and 3.
• 35:12
  Dr. John Demartini: He was inspired by what the field was doing and the research in the field.
• 35:17
  Dr. John Demartini: He was inspired to learn.
• 35:19
  Dr. John Demartini: He was enthusiastic.
• 35:21
  Dr. John Demartini: I didn't see him on.
• 35:22
  Dr. John Demartini: He worked out every day.
• 35:23
  Dr. John Demartini: He jogged every day.
• 35:24
  Dr. John Demartini: And he was enthusiastic.
• 35:26
  Dr. John Demartini: He was certain about his skills.
• 35:27
  Dr. John Demartini: He was one of the most knowledgeable.
• 35:29
  Dr. John Demartini: And he was present, like unbelievably present with his patients.
• 35:32
  Dr. John Demartini: And when he was working and it was showing.
• 35:35
  Dr. John Demartini: And I distilled down those six transcendental states of great healers I found common to all the great hearers I've seen, whether they be a podiatrist or a chiropractor or cardiologist or any functional medicine, whatever it is.
• 35:50
  Dr. John Demartini: And that was part of the healing because that has a way of spilling over into the field of the other person and synchronizing the heart and the physiology and the pacemaking of the suprachiasmic nucleus, the pacemaking system and correlate physiological responses.
• 36:10
  Dr. John Demartini: So I believe that's part of it.
• 36:12
  Dr. John Demartini: That's why love is still one of the greatest healers.
• 36:14
  Dr. John Demartini: Love and gratitude.
• 36:15
  Dr. John Demartini: I wrote a book, Count your Blessings like Healing Power of Gratitude and Love, many years ago.
• 36:18
  Dr. John Demartini: And I really believe that's part of the healing process.
• 36:22
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Oh, I couldn't agree more.
• 36:23
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And you so eloquently put into words what anyone who's really in that and loves what they're doing already kind of knows.
• 36:29
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: But they may not have their articulation to say how you said.
• 36:32
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: How does what I heard in there is this word called hope, which is kind of ambiguous, obviously love.
• 36:38
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: How.
• 36:38
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: But how does just transferring.
• 36:40
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I always say, you know, sometimes maybe you can borrow my belief that you're going to be well or like.
• 36:44
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: It's almost like a transference from the healer that.
• 36:47
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That knows.
• 36:48
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I always have this very humility this very humble perception that I don't know the outcomes.
• 36:54
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Right.
• 36:55
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: But I always believe that anything is possible.
• 36:57
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And if I can take that and be in that place, like you said before, of dichotomy, where there is hope in anything's possible, that miracles and healing, even when we don't expect it, are possible, and also transferring that to them, but also maintaining realistic, you know, realism, I think that's so important.
• 37:14
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: How does that faith, belief, hope transfer to the patient affect their health?
• 37:18
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And how does that foundation affect someone who's wanting to heal?
• 37:22
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Because I think if we somewhere believe we're not going to get well, or we don't trust the healer, that's a big deal to the outcome.
• 37:29
  Dr. John Demartini: Absolutely.
• 37:30
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, when somebody's about to go to cancer treatment, if they believe nutrition and natural approach versus medicine, if they go to medicine, they're going to be working against it unless they have a reframe.
• 37:46
  Dr. John Demartini: And if they go into and they think medicine and don't even think about natural approach, you kind of go that way.
• 37:51
  Dr. John Demartini: Unless they have a reframe.
• 37:53
  Dr. John Demartini: That is a big part of it.
• 37:55
  Dr. John Demartini: The placebo and nocebo effect has been known for.
• 37:58
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, I got to share a funny story ahead of a guy that came into my office that he was really constipated.
• 38:06
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, days, we're like two weeks.
• 38:10
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, it was insane.
• 38:12
  Dr. John Demartini: And he didn't have any fiber.
• 38:13
  Dr. John Demartini: He was just eating heavy foods that were no fiber.
• 38:17
  Dr. John Demartini: And I told him that I had.
• 38:20
  Dr. John Demartini: He said, can you help me?
• 38:21
  Dr. John Demartini: And I said, I can.
• 38:23
  Dr. John Demartini: And I said, but I'm concerned that if what I do, you won't make it to the truck.
• 38:29
  Dr. John Demartini: He drives a truck.
• 38:30
  Dr. John Demartini: You won't make it to the truck in time.
• 38:32
  Dr. John Demartini: You're going to fall over yourself.
• 38:34
  Dr. John Demartini: And I psyched him up and got his whole system going.
• 38:39
  Dr. John Demartini: And I had my assistant hold the door outdoors.
• 38:44
  Dr. John Demartini: I had him have the engine running and the car running to set the stage.
• 38:48
  Dr. John Demartini: I had another nurse open by the door of the room where I was working, and I gave him this procedure and I did this thing.
• 38:55
  Dr. John Demartini: I said, now run.
• 38:56
  Dr. John Demartini: You are not going to make it.
• 38:57
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, Psyched him up.
• 39:01
  Dr. John Demartini: Wow.
• 39:04
  Dr. John Demartini: So excuse the expression, but that's how powerful suggestions are, et cetera.
• 39:12
  Dr. John Demartini: And you can.
• 39:13
  Dr. John Demartini: I used to have patients that if they're not better by Friday, we're sending them out for surgery, you know, and they would.
• 39:21
  Dr. John Demartini: They didn't want to go surgery because I'm telling the surgical procedures got a probably 60% probability of success, you know, and they go and they get.
• 39:29
  Dr. John Demartini: Well, so placebo, nocebo.
• 39:34
  Dr. John Demartini: In Scientific American many years ago, there's an article on it saying that it was 33% of the healing process.
• 39:39
  Dr. John Demartini: And so I don't want to negate those tools.
• 39:44
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't want to depend only that.
• 39:46
  Dr. John Demartini: That's foolish.
• 39:48
  Dr. John Demartini: But I want to use every skill and every tool I can to assist people in maximizing their awareness and potential.
• 39:56
  Dr. John Demartini: And nocebo and placebo are absolutely essential tools.
• 39:59
  Dr. John Demartini: And I think doctors know that.
• 40:01
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, I had patients that would come in there that had a surgical scar on the back of their neck that looked like they had laminectomy, and they had a history of a laminectomy.
• 40:10
  Dr. John Demartini: But I looked at the radiographs.
• 40:12
  Dr. John Demartini: The lamina were intact.
• 40:14
  Dr. John Demartini: There was no laminectomy.
• 40:15
  Dr. John Demartini: There was somebody who cut their skin open and sewed it back up.
• 40:18
  Dr. John Demartini: And because they believed, I guess there was psychology behind it.
• 40:22
  Dr. John Demartini: And there's one guy who said, you mean I've never had a laminectomy?
• 40:25
  Dr. John Demartini: I said, no, you don't have a laminectomy.
• 40:26
  Dr. John Demartini: Well, I'll sue that guy.
• 40:27
  Dr. John Demartini: I said, no, thank the guy.
• 40:29
  Dr. John Demartini: You would have had more problems if you'd had a laminectomy than what you got.
• 40:33
  Dr. John Demartini: You got eight years of function out of that placebo effect.
• 40:37
  Dr. John Demartini: So don't negate it.
• 40:39
  Dr. John Demartini: Be grateful.
• 40:40
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Oh, that's.
• 40:41
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That's amazing.
• 40:41
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I love the story of the man because it is so powerful, what we suggest.
• 40:45
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And that's why, like, it's.
• 40:47
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: It's, I think, making sure that we are not someone who takes away that hope because they can do with it whatever they want.
• 40:56
  Dr. John Demartini: It's giving them.
• 40:57
  Dr. John Demartini: Sometimes we give them the probability to cover our butt.
• 41:00
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Right, Right.
• 41:02
  Dr. John Demartini: And we give them the data of what the average person does who may not be aware.
• 41:08
  Dr. John Demartini: I think we need to not curtail that.
• 41:11
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Correct.
• 41:12
  Dr. John Demartini: And always leave there.
• 41:13
  Dr. John Demartini: The option is, I really do not know the limits of physiology, no matter how much aware I am, no matter how much I've got probability.
• 41:20
  Dr. John Demartini: And even though probability says you got a 60% probability of this, I don't want to, because the probability is only an average.
• 41:29
  Dr. John Demartini: It's not what's possible.
• 41:30
  Dr. John Demartini: Because some people actually have transformations.
• 41:32
  Dr. John Demartini: So I don't want to limit you, but I do want you to be informed.
• 41:35
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yeah.
• 41:35
  Dr. John Demartini: And I really believe.
• 41:37
  Dr. John Demartini: Because I had a guy that was in a.
• 41:40
  Dr. John Demartini: A surfing accident and was a quadriplegic that came into my office, and he was head.
• 41:48
  Dr. John Demartini: Was.
• 41:48
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, he was wired to this wheelchair.
• 41:51
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean.
• 41:51
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, his neck and thing was wired and he was just strapped in the wheelchair and he was not able to do anything function other than move his head a little bit.
• 41:58
  Dr. John Demartini: And you know, I mean, he was down and he was a surfer and he was a big name surfer and he's no longer going to be able to do what he loves doing.
• 42:08
  Dr. John Demartini: And I remember getting on my knees in front of him and looking up to him.
• 42:13
  Dr. John Demartini: I said, I have no idea of what the.
• 42:16
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, I know what you've been told.
• 42:18
  Dr. John Demartini: You will never ever surf, you'll never be able to move, you'll be invalid kind of.
• 42:22
  Dr. John Demartini: I know all the stats, but I just don't know what the limits of the human psyche and physiology are.
• 42:27
  Dr. John Demartini: So I.
• 42:28
  Dr. John Demartini: But I do know that if you don't have any belief whatsoever in it's over.
• 42:33
  Dr. John Demartini: But if you do have a potential, not an unrealistic expectation, but a real potential to do something and come up and say, this is what's happened.
• 42:40
  Dr. John Demartini: How do I use it to my greatest advantage?
• 42:42
  Dr. John Demartini: Something can happen.
• 42:43
  Dr. John Demartini: Well, this boy, his name is Jesse Billauer, took a quadriplegic position and figured out how to engineer a surfboard that would automatically flip back up.
• 42:56
  Dr. John Demartini: He found out a way of making sure that somebody would go out there and push him into the wave.
• 43:01
  Dr. John Demartini: And he ended up in stepping into Liquid, which is a surf movie, surfing big waves as a quadriplegic.
• 43:10
  Dr. John Demartini: And he worked with Superman, the guy that was Superman.
• 43:14
  Dr. John Demartini: And they worked and created a foundation and he designed and engineered a vehicle that he could drive in with this condition, from his wheelchair into this condition.
• 43:24
  Dr. John Demartini: And he ended up figuring out how to get from his vehicle to the beach and get pushed into the way.
• 43:30
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, it was amazing what he did.
• 43:32
  Dr. John Demartini: And he surfed again and was an absolute tear jerking inspiration to millions of people because of that decision that he made in the transformation.
• 43:42
  Dr. John Demartini: It's not what happens to us, it's what we decide to do with it.
• 43:45
  Dr. John Demartini: So I just don't know what the limitations of healing are.
• 43:48
  Dr. John Demartini: I really don't.
• 43:49
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't want to completely be irrational.
• 43:53
  Dr. John Demartini: I had a guy that came into my who was in a car crash in New York and was in hospital for six months in the recovery process and was finally transported back to Houston.
• 44:04
  Dr. John Demartini: And he came into the office with his girlfriend and he was the same thing.
• 44:08
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, he was quadriplegic.
• 44:10
  Dr. John Demartini: He could move his eyes and his head up just a bit and that kind of thing.
• 44:13
  Dr. John Demartini: And they had to wire back his spine.
• 44:17
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, it was just a mess.
• 44:19
  Dr. John Demartini: And that Guy walked with a cane and they said he would never walk, he would never do any function.
• 44:25
  Dr. John Demartini: And I remember the day I did a particular maneuver on him and he started to feel his feet.
• 44:29
  Dr. John Demartini: He says, I can feel pain.
• 44:31
  Dr. John Demartini: It's one of the greatest moments of my experience of this.
• 44:34
  Dr. John Demartini: And he gradually was able to walk with a cane.
• 44:37
  Dr. John Demartini: And they said he'd never walk and dance and do things because he was a dancer and a performer in New York.
• 44:44
  Dr. John Demartini: He never got to perform again.
• 44:45
  Dr. John Demartini: But he got to educate other people on performance, which was his love too.
• 44:50
  Dr. John Demartini: And he got to walk with a cane.
• 44:52
  Dr. John Demartini: And they said nothing will ever happen.
• 44:54
  Dr. John Demartini: So there are cases that are just mind blowing.
• 44:57
  Dr. John Demartini: And I realize that every doctor has those cases.
• 45:00
  Dr. John Demartini: And it's wise never to forget those cases as possibilities for the healing process.
• 45:06
  Dr. John Demartini: I really believe that's an important component.
• 45:08
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I couldn't agree more.
• 45:09
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I really love that you don't throw.
• 45:11
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I mean, some healers out there are all into the miracles that can happen, which is amazing and true, but they forget the reality.
• 45:17
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And then some are so steeped in reality that they crush the hope of that person sitting in front of them.
• 45:22
  Dr. John Demartini: You go too extreme both ways, but that's nature.
• 45:27
  Dr. John Demartini: That's what Aristotle said.
• 45:28
  Dr. John Demartini: The vices were the excess and deficiencies, and the golden mean was the mean between the pairs of opposites, the unity of opposites.
• 45:36
  Dr. John Demartini: So that's what love is, it's the unity of opposites.
• 45:39
  Dr. John Demartini: So I think that's why love is so great in healing.
• 45:41
  Dr. John Demartini: It's maximum growth and development occurs at the border of support and challenge.
• 45:45
  Dr. John Demartini: Positive, negative, you know, sympathetic, parasympathetic, EI ratios.
• 45:50
  Dr. John Demartini: So we're designed to have the grail.
• 45:55
  Dr. John Demartini: Yes, to find the grail, if you will.
• 45:59
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That makes so much sense.
• 46:00
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I've heard the definition of love and I've come to adopt this myself.
• 46:03
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Unconditional love is the.
• 46:05
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Creating the space for the optimal transformation for another human being.
• 46:09
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So that like holding space, creating space, and like holding, supporting, loving and lifting.
• 46:16
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So that really resonates.
• 46:17
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I can hear a lot of people listening, asking, you know, I have, I treat a lot of people with mold related illness.
• 46:22
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: We have environmental toxicity.
• 46:23
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: All these externals, right, you've talked about this, all these things that the body's afraid of and their immune system is giving them evidence to them that they're reactive or they're super sensitive.
• 46:34
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: All of this for that patient sitting out there listening to us.
• 46:38
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Where do they start, Dr. Demartini?
• 46:40
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Where would they begin with exploring this?
• 46:42
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Would it be in A journaling?
• 46:43
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Would it be a prayer?
• 46:44
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Meditation?
• 46:44
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Would it be seeking a healer?
• 46:46
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Where would you suggest that someone start to explore their underlying neurological pinnings of what is making them in that space of feeling so reacted to the world?
• 46:58
  Dr. John Demartini: The chronic stress response syndrome, as they sometimes call it, sirs.
• 47:04
  Dr. John Demartini: Each individual has a set of priorities, a set of values, things that are most to least important in their life.
• 47:12
  Dr. John Demartini: I've been Studying values around 48 years, axiology and because I asked the question, why do some people walk or talk?
• 47:21
  Dr. John Demartini: Some people limp their life, why do some people do what they say and others don't?
• 47:24
  Dr. John Demartini: Why do some people flourish, others flounder.
• 47:27
  Dr. John Demartini: And it's their inner drive, the intrinsic or extrinsic motivators that they have in their life.
• 47:33
  Dr. John Demartini: So this hierarchy of values that each individual has, which is fingerprint specific or retinal pattern specific, the highest value they have is intrinsic and it's spontaneously acted upon.
• 47:46
  Dr. John Demartini: There are spontaneous action potentials in the medial prefrontal cortex and there's mitochondria that go up in numbers and expression.
• 47:52
  Dr. John Demartini: When you're living according to what you value most, the thing that's most inspiring, meaningful and fulfilling, and when you're doing lower priority things primarily because you're envying other people, imitating other people, trying to be inauthentic and being second at being somebody else and injecting their values and trying to scatter yourself with chronic fatigue kind of feelings, when you're doing lower priority things, you get symptoms.
• 48:15
  Dr. John Demartini: When you go back to higher priority things, you get more objective, more reason, you get to see the hidden order you get to do.
• 48:21
  Dr. John Demartini: The wellness quotient goes up.
• 48:24
  Dr. John Demartini: You could call IT systems 2.
• 48:26
  Dr. John Demartini: Thinking is way more profound than systems 1 thinking that way except in moments of survival.
• 48:31
  Dr. John Demartini: So if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you, that you spontaneously love doing, like my case, it's teach research and write.
• 48:41
  Dr. John Demartini: I teach research right every single day of my life.
• 48:43
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, literally 365 days a year, and I travel.
• 48:47
  Dr. John Demartini: My core competence is that I delegate everything else.
• 48:50
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't do anything else.
• 48:51
  Dr. John Demartini: But that's.
• 48:52
  Dr. John Demartini: And if a person gives themselves permission to prioritize their life, prioritize what they're doing, prioritize what they're feeding their mind, prioritize what they're thinking, prioritize how they fill their space, how they spend their time, what they feed themselves, what they educate themselves with, the higher the prioritization, the higher the order they'll have in their life.
• 49:16
  Dr. John Demartini: And that is one of the key things they can do to help him in healing.
• 49:19
  Dr. John Demartini: Because anytime they're being and by the way the highest value our ontological identity revolves around, our teleological purpose revolves around and our epistemological area of expertise is maximized in that area.
• 49:31
  Dr. John Demartini: If we follow what's priority, we maximize our wellness quotient because our amygdala is no longer valent and it's brought back into governance by the executive center.
• 49:43
  Dr. John Demartini: And so if we can prioritize our life, that's one.
• 49:48
  Dr. John Demartini: If we then prioritize what we eat and prioritize our surroundings and prioritize things and educate ourselves on things that have been known to be more productive and more health conscious.
• 50:00
  Dr. John Demartini: I just don't know what the limits of the healing process are.
• 50:03
  Dr. John Demartini: Paul Bragg said there were seven doctors when I was 17 years old.
• 50:07
  Dr. John Demartini: He said there were seven doctors.
• 50:10
  Dr. John Demartini: The doctor of breathing breathe utonically in a one to one ratio like the yogis.
• 50:17
  Dr. John Demartini: Because as your breath wanders, so does your mind.
• 50:19
  Dr. John Demartini: As your mind wanders, so does your breath.
• 50:20
  Dr. John Demartini: As your mind wanders and deviates from me.
• 50:22
  Dr. John Demartini: And it creates symptomatology to let you know it, to try to guide you back.
• 50:26
  Dr. John Demartini: So breathing was one, water was another.
• 50:29
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't drink anything but water.
• 50:31
  Dr. John Demartini: Vegetable juices really and maybe fruit juice occasionally.
• 50:35
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't drink coffee and tea.
• 50:37
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't do stimulants or anything.
• 50:38
  Dr. John Demartini: I just a water guy, you know, it's a universal solvent and many people are dehydrated or drinking all kind of drinks that are not necessarily conducive towards wellness.
• 50:48
  Dr. John Demartini: And our body requires hydrogen and oh and H dissociations and associations, dehydrogenase, hydrogenase, enzymes in order to make water do our thing.
• 50:59
  Dr. John Demartini: Water is important.
• 51:00
  Dr. John Demartini: And then Another one is Dr. Rest.
• 51:03
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, we need rest now.
• 51:05
  Dr. John Demartini: I slept on four hours a day for 35 years.
• 51:08
  Dr. John Demartini: I sleep a little longer now.
• 51:09
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't know if everybody needs seven or eight hours.
• 51:11
  Dr. John Demartini: Like some research points.
• 51:13
  Dr. John Demartini: I would go nuts if I did that long.
• 51:15
  Dr. John Demartini: But I certainly don't have a lack of energy.
• 51:17
  Dr. John Demartini: But you know, listen to your body and if you need sleep, rest.
• 51:23
  Dr. John Demartini: And the reason why we don't rest and have insomnia is because of all the infatuations and resentments and all the impulses and instincts that distract our mind.
• 51:32
  Dr. John Demartini: But if we know how to balance our mind and prioritize our actions and be more objective, we have more sleep, better sleep, higher quality sleep.
• 51:38
  Dr. John Demartini: So doctor Rest and then there's doctor Food, you know, ask yourself Are you eating foods that increase the probability of wellness or are you eating stuff that's not.
• 51:49
  Dr. John Demartini: I mean, it's just common sense.
• 51:51
  Dr. John Demartini: And then there's also Dr.
• 51:53
  Dr. John Demartini: Mind, you know, where you have, you know, what is your attitude?
• 51:58
  Dr. John Demartini: If you have gratitude and love in your life, you're going to do far less stress responses and less physiological disturbances than if you have ingratitude.
• 52:09
  Dr. John Demartini: And you're constantly wanting to change you relative to others relative to you.
• 52:13
  Dr. John Demartini: And you're constantly under stress.
• 52:15
  Dr. John Demartini: So that's essential.
• 52:17
  Dr. John Demartini: And then, of course, there's also sunshine.
• 52:22
  Dr. John Demartini: There's a great article in Scientific American on how important the sun is in the wellness quotient.
• 52:27
  Dr. John Demartini: 15 Minutes in the morning and 15 minutes while you're doing the sun salute in the morning or evening or something, those are really essential.
• 52:34
  Dr. John Demartini: Not the uv, you know, the UV abs, but the farther into the spectrum where you're seeing the sun, we all know to look at the sunrise and sunset, it's always healing, you know, you would just know it.
• 52:45
  Dr. John Demartini: And being in nature, in green nature and walking in hills and breathing and getting, you know, oxygen from the plants and everything else, these are all just common sense things that Paul Bragg tried to teach me, the seven Doctors, he called him, and being inspired.
• 53:00
  Dr. John Demartini: If you're not doing what you love and loving what you do and doing a career that's meaningful, you're going to have illness.
• 53:06
  Dr. John Demartini: But if you put all those doctors together, this is things that everybody can do.
• 53:11
  Dr. John Demartini: But we sometimes don't take and prioritize and value ourself enough to do it.
• 53:15
  Dr. John Demartini: But, you know, people say, well, Dr. Demartini, that's easier for you.
• 53:19
  Dr. John Demartini: You're independently wealthy.
• 53:20
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, you can delegate all that.
• 53:22
  Dr. John Demartini: I didn't become wealthy and then learn to delegate.
• 53:25
  Dr. John Demartini: I delegated, which has made me wealthy.
• 53:28
  Dr. John Demartini: Because if you're not filling your day with what inspires you and you're not helping other people by delegating to people that are doing what they love doing, if you help them get what they want, they help you get what you want.
• 53:38
  Dr. John Demartini: And you both now increase your wellness quotient.
• 53:41
  Dr. John Demartini: Robert Ornstein in the Healing Brain did a beautiful job in talking about how important it is to interact with people and prioritize the people that you're around and making sure that you do what you can to be of service to them and receive the gratitude back.
• 53:53
  Dr. John Demartini: So those are all parts of the healing process.
• 53:55
  Dr. John Demartini: And I think anybody can do that.
• 53:58
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't think it's, you know, doesn't cost anything to actually Be well, it costs not to be.
• 54:04
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow, I love that and I love kind of ending and wrapping up in this vein because what you just gave is not only super practical for every single person out there listening, but they don't need a physician, they don't need to outsource their healing to someone else's expertise.
• 54:17
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: They can actually start today with some very practical and truth founded.
• 54:22
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Interestingly, the big hot word lately is longevity.
• 54:26
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Right.
• 54:26
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Longevity research and all this.
• 54:28
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And I think you've just nailed it on the true longevity comes from these doctors versus peptides and exosomes and all the fancy tools that we have out there.
• 54:37
  Dr. John Demartini: We are sometimes new gimmicks for the year.
• 54:39
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Yeah, exactly.
• 54:41
  Dr. John Demartini: Paul Bragg was a longevitist.
• 54:43
  Dr. John Demartini: I don't know how long I'm going to live.
• 54:45
  Dr. John Demartini: I'm 72 almost and I got more energy than most.
• 54:48
  Dr. John Demartini: I went surfing yesterday.
• 54:49
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Amazing.
• 54:52
  Dr. John Demartini: I went surfing yesterday in Kauai and I'm still doing my stuff.
• 54:55
  Dr. John Demartini: And I really believe if you do what you love and love what you do, that's a big factor.
• 55:02
  Dr. John Demartini: And when you know, when you're in your executive center and you're doing something you love doing, the blood glucose and oxygen goes into that medial prefrontal cortex which governs that amygdala.
• 55:11
  Dr. John Demartini: And you're not into the compulsive, immediate gratifying, impulsive, you know, addictive behavior responses.
• 55:17
  Dr. John Demartini: The immediate gratification, long term vision.
• 55:20
  Dr. John Demartini: Every time.
• 55:21
  Dr. John Demartini: We live by priority, our long term vision to expand our space and time horizons and it adds to our telomeres.
• 55:26
  Dr. John Demartini: We live in a telencephalon, we have telomeres and we awaken our telos as Aristotle described.
• 55:32
  Dr. John Demartini: And we have teleological purpose in life.
• 55:35
  Dr. John Demartini: To me, that's what leaves our legacy.
• 55:39
  Dr. John Demartini: When your innermost dominant thought is a service beyond your own life, you actually increase the probability of longevity because you have something meaningful to pursue.
• 55:49
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Wow, this is amazing.
• 55:51
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Every bit of this full of pearls.
• 55:53
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: You're now touring with your signature seminar, Decoding the body's messages, which is a lot of what we talked about.
• 55:59
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Where can people find out more and what do you have to offer?
• 56:01
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: If someone wants to come to a seminar or follow you or buy a book, where can they get more information?
• 56:07
  Dr. John Demartini: Well, they go to drdemartini.com they can just go and browse that.
• 56:11
  Dr. John Demartini: There's media, there's products, there's seminars, all kinds of stuff.
• 56:16
  Dr. John Demartini: I have something for everybody, almost every price.
• 56:18
  Dr. John Demartini: You know, you get a book, you get free stuff online, you get a book or you get a CD or whatever or online thing or you can come to a live seminar, whatever you want.
• 56:27
  Dr. John Demartini: But I am doing, decoding your body's message and what I did is I wrote about a thousand page textbook on about a thousand conditions.
• 56:36
  Dr. John Demartini: I took basically a medicine textbook and I added, I put classical medicine in there.
• 56:40
  Dr. John Demartini: I put in naturopathic and chiropractic and psychology and I put a whole bunch of things in there so people could hit it from every angle that they wanted to.
• 56:49
  Dr. John Demartini: And you know, I'm just working on that concept, updating additions on that.
• 56:53
  Dr. John Demartini: And so I do that every so often.
• 56:55
  Dr. John Demartini: I do that program.
• 56:55
  Dr. John Demartini: I've been teaching it a long time.
• 56:57
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Amazing.
• 56:58
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I have had so much fun talking to you today and I'm really grateful for you and the work that you've been continue to put out for all of these decades.
• 57:07
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So thank you for that and I hope you have many more decades of success and of bringing this to the world.
• 57:14
  Dr. John Demartini: Thank you.
• 57:14
  Dr. John Demartini: Thank you for lovely questions and your smile and your awareness of the power that made the body is what heals the body.
• 57:22
  Dr. John Demartini: Because I think it's an inside job as much as it is just the outside world.
• 57:25
  Dr. John Demartini: But we need both.
• 57:26
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: That's true.
• 57:26
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: We do.
• 57:27
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Hey guys, Hope you enjoyed that amazing interview with Dr. Demartini.
• 57:31
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: It was an honor to have him on the show with his decades of experience on psychology, physiology and human behavior and healing.
• 57:39
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Just a wealth of knowledge.
• 57:40
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
• 57:42
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• 57:53
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Also, feel free to share this with a loved one who needs inspiration.
• 57:57
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: I feel like the way we approach our illness and symptoms is just such a powerful motivator in change and optimal healing.
• 58:05
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And Dr. Demartini gave us some really practical tips on how to do that.
• 58:10
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• 58:21
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• 58:26
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• 58:38
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: And as you know, we have a new episode out every week.
• 58:40
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: So I will see you again next week with a new episode of Resiliency Radio.
• 58:46
  Dr. Jill Carnahan, MD: Until then, be well.