Meditation is not just to meditate and then get up and return back
to the same person, flipping people off on the freeway and judging your partner.
That's going back to the old self. Meditation is to prime the brain
and body into a new state of being, right?
And then maintain that modified state of mind and body your entire day!
You got to be able to practice it with your eyes open, that no
condition, no circumstance in your environment,
no person,
no thing, no craving in the body,
no wrong choice,
you got to be able to sustain that state.
And if you can, get ready! Because there's going to be changes in
your outer world.
That's the law!
So, when we started studying people that were healing in this work, that
were diagnosed, a lot of them with immune-mediated
conditions, like autoimmune diseases. Yeah, autoimmune
diseases from cancer, to rheumatoid, to everything in between.
They noticed that when they started doing the meditations,
their well-being came back, but their blood values and their
markers never changed. And it occurred to them,
my God,
I have a great meditation.
I feel amazing.
But then, when I get up, I return back to the same worrying person.
Now, I gotta step it up.
I got to make the changes with my eyes open. And when they started
doing it with their eyes open, that's when we started seeing the blood
values and everything changing.
So, in our retreats, you can sit as it and get really good at it,
but then there's 4 types of meditation.
There's a seated, there's standing, there's a walking, and there's a
laying down.
And so, if you're going to become that person you want to become,
you better be able to practice doing it
with your eyes open.
S,o we teach people, 1.000, 1.500 people on a beach or in a park.
It's really cool to watch. Everybody open their
hearts, get in that elevated state, and move into a new state of being.
And then, let's open our eyes. And now, let's practice walking with our
eyes open as that person.
No different than rehearsing for a play and becoming
that person.
And if you do it enough times, and a person understands that if they
could really... How would I walk
if I could heal my body in an hour? Who am I going to leave behind here,
and who I'm going to walk as?
And a lot of people just hit it. And when they do, you see dramatic
changes in their health, because they're actually embodying the energy
of their future!
So, we practice seating, we practice standing and walking,
we practice laying down,
we practice it all ways, because we want the person to become that very
person in one week.
And if they do, our research shows there's
dramatic, dramatic biological markers that change. Not small amounts,
like thousands... What are you seeing?
Wow,
oh my God!
Just everything from methylated DNA to changes in
cytokines, the changes in immune markers, to suppression of ATP and
cancer cells,
to down-regulating genes for Alzheimer's. And we just see dramatic changes
in people's biology.
I'd like to simplify it for the average person,
regular people. And it's really simple.
I mean, your body is a protein-producing machine. And muscle cells
make muscle proteins, skin cells make skin
proteins that are called "collagen" and "elastin", stomach cells
make stomach proteins that are called "enzymes". And every cell in your body,
except red blood cells,
makes proteins. And proteins are responsible for structure - holding it
together, and function - physiology, how we work.
Its messengers, right?
But in order for a cell to make a protein, a gene has to be regulated.
So, they used to say genes create disease.
Well, you know this. Less than 1% of the people on the planet are born
with the genetic health condition.
Everything else is a lifestyle, it's behavior, it's stress.
So then, is it possible
then that
they say now genes don't create diseases.
It's the environment that signals the gene that creates disease.
Take two identical twins.
You watch one
dies at 54, the other one
lives to 83.
They don't even look like the same person but share the same genome.
Well, the environment was signaling
gene expression to make certain proteins. And the person develops a
different condition because it's an environment that does that.
But here's the problem.
If the environment signals the gene, the outer environment of the
cell is the inner environment of the body.
And what is that?
That's the emotions are chemical, physical, and emotional balance that
we have to maintain.
So, if a person's just constantly living in fear,
and even if the environment is wonderful and they're on vacation,
and they keep remembering an event or anticipating a future
and they're bringing up the emotion of anxiety and fear,
it makes sense
then that the person's signaling the gene outside of the outer
environment. Because they're making the emotion in their inner
environment and there's no difference.
And so, if that happens,
the constant effect by the hormones of stress down-regulate genes and
create disease. And if you can turn on that stress response just by
thinking about your problems, then your thoughts are literally going
to make you sick!
So, if your thoughts can make you sick, can your thoughts make you well?
And you cannot begin to see changes in a person's health until
they stopped regulating the same genes the same way, and they start
up-regulating new genes and down-regulating old genes!
And if they do that,
they start producing different enzymes, and different chemicals,
and different hormones and their body begins to scale in a different direction.
I'm a pragmatist.
You want to talk about quantum
superposition? To me,
if it has no effect on my life
I'm not interested.
But if it's a practical application, I'm interested
in the practical application.
I was going to say we have over 13.000 brain scans now.
We look at real-time brain scan.
I'm looking at your brain in one hour - an hour and ten minute
meditation, at certain moments
I'm watching what you're doing.
If you can actually change your brain waves. And if you can
sustain those changes, can you do it again and make
it a habit?
Can you make it a skill?
Can you repeat it enough times that you can do it more automatically?
So, I'm watching the words, we are watching the words that I'm saying.
I'm not studying any tradition, any ancient scriptures.
I think that the moment you start talking
religion, or tradition, or scriptures, or spirituality, you're going to divide an audience
I think science creates community!
And so, what we do is we look, we've actually created... When you see a person
move into love or gratitude, and you see what that does to the brain in
an instant, it informs the brain to be creative! When you see that and
you see this dance between the two, and you turn around and you look
at that person and they got this big smile on their face, they're
so in love with the moment, they don't want it to end.
And there are very strong biological changes.
So, we're looking at scans of hearts and brains,
we're looking at collective scans of people, just to see if we can
demystify the process.
I don't want to shut an audience off with word.
I want to create new words that are science-based.
So, the meditations that we teach all have meaning behind what we're
doing, because we've studied the scans and studied the effects.
And we have certain
intentions of why we're doing it.
Whether we want to signal new genes, whether we want to
create more brain coherence, more heart coherence.
We want to create coherence between the brain and the heart.
I mean, what is it that we want to do?
So, we have different meditations for different intentions really.
Consciousness is awareness!
The moment you become aware of possibilities that you are unaware of,
now they exist!
And that means that other people can step into those footprints.
Not just as a possibility, but witnessing the possibility
in front of them is truth. Because the person who's standing on the stage,
who's talking about how their stage 4 cancer went into remission, and
there's no metastasis in any bone pet scan, and you can see it before
and after,
I'm looking at the audience and everybody is leaning in.
You know why?
Because they're looking at the truth!
They're staring truth right in the face! And they can't deny it!
And that person isn't telling a glamorous story.
They're going to tell you the real facts of what happened to them and
it's going to be relatable.
And so, we have really compelling evidence in our scientific studies.
And we have really compelling evidence in our testimonies
of students in this work. And evidence is the loudest voice
and that's what's going to make a difference.
So, the moment you start becoming conscious
of those unconscious thoughts, the moment you become aware of
your automatic habits and behaviors, the moment
you can notice that this is actually guilt that you're feeling,
or sadness, or pain,
the moment
you can become conscious and familiar with those states of mind and body,
if you keep becoming familiar with it, if you keep
becoming conscious of it,
you won't go unconscious!
So sitting in a meditation to know thyself,
most people all of a sudden - here comes the barrage of thoughts.
Here come the propensities and habits, and here comes the emotions.
The body's saying: You normally complain at this time.
What are you doing
sitting with your eyes closed?
Let's think of a reason why you can complain. And the body starts
influencing the mind.
So, if you break it down for a
person to understand, how many times do we have to
forget until we start remembering and keep remembering and stop
forgetting?
That's the process of change!
So then, you put a person in meditation, and they hear that voice,
they hear that chatter, they want to get up and go to the bathroom,
they want to check their cell phone,
they want to feel angry, and instead of getting up and saying: I can't
meditate, they're coming to the end of the known.
So, they want to go back to what's known, right?
If you teach the person what to do and you show them that
on the other side of that is freedom, on the other side of that is joy,
you got to become so conscious. And it takes a lot of awareness,
it takes a lot of energy to sit with yourself long enough to disentangle
from those programs.
Now, we now know that it's a formula. That if you follow a formula, you
will actually start pruning circuitry,
you'll stop the conditioning process and move the body out of the past. And it
starts liberating energy. And that's energy to heal with, that's
energy to create a new life.
That's energy to digest again.
The body is no longer living in survival, living in emergency.
And the majority of people's emotions then tend to be derived from
the hormones of stress.
And so, we started realizing that the arousal of the stress
hormones, that the rush of the chemistry is actually tapping the
body's resources. And the stronger
the emotions
we feel towards any problem or person in our life,
the more we pay attention to them. And if where you place your
attention is where you place your
energy, then you're giving your power away to that person or problem!
And if a person can learn to sit in the fire and say: It's not my boss,
it's not my ex,
it's not my job,
it's not the pandemic,
it's me! That this emotion isn't serving me, because this emotion is the
exact emotion that's pushing the genetic buttons that's creating disease.
Okay, if I can keep practicing lowering the volume to that emotion,
I'll keep taking my attention off that person or problem, and in a
sense the body starts moving back where? Into the present moment.
It starts getting relaxed in the unknown.
So, we started teaching people the process. And by a person
overcoming their past, not to trauma, just the emotion,
they just have to work on breaking that conditioning process. Because
if you keep doing it over and over again, a habit is when the body
becomes the mind.
Now the servant,
now the body's influencing the mind.
So, if you teach a person then how to break that conditioning process, the body
starts moving into the present moment.
It's no longer in the same environmental condition. And then all of a
sudden, we start to see some pretty dramatic changes in people's health!