- Hi, this is Marisa Peer,
and I created an amazing therapy called RTT,
Rapid Transformational Therapy.
And I want to talk to you today about something
that people search for all the time,
how to get better when you are sick.
It's a very important subject
because you probably know we have a painkiller epidemic,
and people are getting sicker and sicker
and looking for more painkillers to make them better.
So, I'm going to tell you today how to get better
when you're sick,
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don't use the word sick.
The way you feel about everything by now
is down to two things,
the pictures you make in your head
and the words you say to yourself.
Now I'm English.
I love America.
I love America, when I first moved here,
I was very surprised if I'm sick you know,
I'm sick and I go, 'No, you're not sick,
you just got a little cold',
they go, 'Oh, you're sick?'
I go, 'no, not sick, I've just got a slight headache'.
But the word sick sends a very powerful message to the mind.
Your mind is always listening to the words you use
and when it hears the words it decides how you feel.
Here's an example.
'I'm starving hungry', mind goes,
'ah, you're starving, hungry.
That's not good,
let me make you eat three times
as much as you normally eat,
because you just told me you're starving'.
When you go, 'I've got this crippling headache.
I'm dying of pain' and when you use very,
very powerful descriptive words like that,
you are forced to turn into the words
that you describe
and one of the best things you can do is stop
saying 'I'm so sick, I'm really sick'
and say the truth.
'I have a cold it's inconvenient
and it's kind of annoying.
That colds passing, and I'm weak, I've got a headache
and that's frustrating
that, I drink a lot of water, maybe take a little pain med,
maybe even just rub a bit of peppermint oil',
some people will say 'I'm exhausted',
no, you're not exhausted, you're just tired.
Maybe dehydrated, 'I'm shattered,
I'm dying of fatigue'.
We use these incredibly powerful words
to describe really very simple everyday events
and I learned that,
when I came to America with my little girl
and my friend who was American would go 'Oh, she's sick.
She's really sick'.
I go 'no, she's not really sick.
A little stomach ache,
she's got a little bit of a cold, a little bit of a fever
and it will pass'.
So the first thing we need to do is to dumb down
the way you describe an illness.
A cold is a cold, a headache is a headache,
a stomach ache is a stomach ache.
The great thing about a cold as you know,
it will all be over in seven days.
The first two days are the worst and then it gets better.
You know with a headache is
that they don't last forever.
Eating some food, drinking some water, hydrating, resting,
they go away.
So the first thing is to say 'this will pass,
this is temporary.
It's a little niggle, it's a little inconvenient,
It's a slight thing', but never go, 'oh my God,
It's agony, it's killing me.
The pain is making me go insane'.
I had an experience when I was in hospital
and I'd had some surgery and the nurse came in
and I swear she had a bag of pills
that big and she went "that's for the pain",
and I'm like, "well, I'm not in pain"
and she said "you need to take it", I said "no."
But if you take pills all the time,
and by the way,
there are no side effects, there are only effects,
the effects of taking pills
will actually cause your liver
to be so backed up with medication
that you actually get more headaches.
If you eat terrible food and take antacids,
your digestion never learns how to digest properly.
If you take sleeping pills all the time,
your body forgets the normal sleep cycle.
So I absolutely agree if you're in pain,
you can take a pill or two.
I don't agree
that you should be taking pills every day
because they don't work.
So here's what you do.
First of all, you stop using those words
and secondly, you talk to your body,
you go 'Hey, body
I command you and compel you and program you
and direct you to work perfectly,
and probably exactly the way nature wants you to'.
Every cell in your body eavesdrops on your language.
They listen to your thinking, when you go,
now how many women friends have gone to the bathroom and
thought 'Oh, I didn't even know I've got my period.
There's the proof.
And now I've got the cramp,
Now I've got this stomachache',
because when we have proof that we're ill,
we kind of look for something to prove it.
I also learned with colds
that I can say to my mind,
'I want you to speed that cold up,
I want it to be out of my system in two days',
and it actually works.
So you have to participate in your wellness.
Many people go 'Hey, Doctor,
here's my illness, can you fix it?'
And the answer is, 'not really, I can medicate you
but you can participate in your wellness',
so many issues that we have
are actually down to dehydration,
terrible diet and not sleeping enough.
That sounds so simple, it's because it is.
You are what you eat.
Sleep is nature's restorer.
And hydration is super important,
how many people go, 'I never drink water.
I have four cans of coke in the morning or I drink loads
and loads of coffee'.
But if you do one nice thing for your body,
it will do so many nice things back for you.
If you start the day and the first thing I'm going to do,
is drink water.
I don't love it, I love coffee,
but I'm going to drink water first.
And what happens is that, something called the 10 Principle
Way if you do something every day,
within 10 days, you want to drink more water,
eat better food, ask yourself a question.
What will it cost me to eat like this?
What's it going to cost me to do that?
We are cavemen we're designed to eat less and sleep more
Because of electricity,
guess what we do now, we eat more, we sleep less.
We can stay up all night on the computer or I'll,
just watch another episode.
I did that the other day,
I was watching a program,
so good I just watched one more episode
and I had to say 'look, stop it'.
Say to your body,
'body, I command you, compel you, direct you,
and instruct you to heal yourself'.
The body is a healing machine.
If you cut your hand right now here,
it will heal it will make fibre
and it will start to scab over,
you don't have to do anything.
If you cut your hand you'll notice
that area gets very hot.
Because the healing intelligence of your mind is so smart.
It heats up that area, to kill off infections.
It sends the right parts of you to fight infection.
We'll get a temperature when we're sick,
cause we're fighting infection,
and you can help your body,
by saying 'hey body go ahead and fight that infection.
Go ahead and defeat that cold virus.
Go ahead and make my head feel comfortable,
my stomach feel comfortable'.
And if you have any little injury,
just say 'this will pass, my body is healing'.
And here's one other thing to say,
I don't want you to say the word sick.
I know it's part of the vocabulary
but change it to mildly uncomfortable
and then, stop talking about illness.
I always say to my body all the time you are doing wellness,
my body is a wellness creating machine.
When you say, 'I'm so sick, I'm really not well,
I'm feeling so unwell today'.
You actually maximize and intensify the senses.
If you were feeling ill and someone ran out and went,
'hey, you just won the lottery.
You just won $10 million'.
I think you would jump at it and go 'oh my God,
that's amazing.
Who can I call?
I just feel so good'.
I know when I was a single parent I read some studies
that said single parents don't get ill very much,
because they can't.
There is no one to look after that baby
and I remember one day when I had a headache,
and I was driving to get daughter from school,
and I was actually throwing up into a towel
all the way there and all the way back.
But I had to go and get her, I didn't have anyone else
and I didn't get ill much because I couldn't.
When you don't feel 100% , here's the choice,
rationalize why you feel so bad,
'I knew I'd get sick.
I was out in the rain, my sinuses are playing up,
it's killing me.
I can't even breathe properly' or talk yourself out of it.
'Yeah, I would need a little something
but hey, a night of sleep and it will all be fine'
and it will be fine.
So choose to do wellness.
It is a choice, choose to be responsible
for your health.
You know what the word responsible means?
Responsibility means an ability to respond.
If you are Response-ABLE, well you are able to respond
to your bodies need for you to look after it,
and if you look after it,
it will look after you so much better.
You see you want
that body to look after you
for another 50 years or 60 years or 30 years.
You have one body.
You expect so much of that body, it's going to do so much
for you to live a long time.
There's another saying I love that says
'for the first 40 years you get the body you were given,
the next 40 you get the body you deserve'.
If you want to live longer,
look after your body, respect it.
Pay attention to your health,
be response-ABLE, it doesn't mean you can never eat cake
or drink wine, as long as you put good stuff in.
That's more important than taking the bad stuff out
and remember the 10 principle.
If you eat an olive every day
for 10 days drink water every day for 10 days.
Take the sugar out of your coffee it doesn't feel right
and after 10 days it actually feels normal.
So if you like this,
you know other people who would really benefit
from not doing illness not going 'Oh, it's killing me
and dying here',
I want you to like, subscribe, share, comment,
and even better, I'd love you to tell me, 'Hey Marisa,
I like that content.
Could you do something
for migraines or the menopause
or stuttering' because I love giving you what you want.
You know I recently was working at a major hospital
and they said 'you know 70% of the people coming to A&E,
we can't really fix them
because they have real physical symptoms
but they are caused by the mind'.
If you say, 'I'd do anything to get out of that event,
I do anything not to have to go.
What I would give for a week in bed,
just lying around' then you get the flu
without knowing it.
You told your body you wanted that.
Talk to yourself better.
My body is doing wellness, my body is super efficient.
I look after my body, here's to your health and wellness
and making your body a super efficient,
wellness producing machine.
It's a choice and you can choose to do that,
I did it, changed my life.
I'd love it to change yours
and please let me know when it does.
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