i'm a family medicine physician from tampa florida in my 20s all of a sudden havoc
came about i remember just studying for the boards for medical school and i woke up in the middle of
the night and my eye was just throbbing in a lot of pain and basically my roommate was freaking
out because i was screaming rushed me to the hospital they said i and everything got a little
fast after that but i they said i had uveitis which is an inflammation of the eye it's red
i thought it was pink eye but it was a red eye that they said you can go blind from it's a very
serious condition so they put me on steroids and i had a very severe case never been really sick
before so i've been blessed with that but all of a sudden this was freaking me out am i going to be
able to be a doctor am i going to be able to see so fast forward visualization joe's kind of work
learning about breathing and calming down because i know i was on fire my whole body was i probably
was very stressed out from medical school and then from that stress i also had severe arthritis in my
neck they put me on oral steroids because there was a point i was just becoming refractory i
wasn't responding to the treatments they said we can inject your eye with steroids and they told
me there was no treatment you're just gonna you know your vision may never fully come back and
there was literally a day i couldn't see out of my right eye when i was here at this meditation
now this is the second the third day when we did the walking meditation on wednesday
i remember because i had floaters and i was getting recurrent bouts of uveitis which my doctor
said we just never know when this will happen and there's pretty much no cure for this you'll always
have this the rest of your life and the floaters they said that'll never go away you'll always have
floaters so after the meditation on wednesday i woke up and i literally saw white dots and i
thought oh my god it's something more serious but i just said this what joe says go with it
i just take a breath i smile because i was just in bliss land after that walking meditation i
felt so calm and relieved so those white dots and then the floater i didn't see any floaters
and i was like this is so crazy and then the white dots started going away i called them
little snowflakes but it was just so beautiful and i just felt peace and my body started feeling
better with the severe arthritis my neck it would be very crunchy when i looked up
and now it's not crunching anymore so my i felt it almost like a little pop of release
during yesterday's meditation than today as well so the second walking meditation has been amazing
for me too my body just feels like the arthritic condition i have something known as hla b27 which
i'm not going to own but that was what was what i was diagnosed with and they said severe arthritis
you need surgery or you can be paralyzed and i was like i didn't want paralysis of course but i
i knew there had to be another way so also through the breathing the techniques and stuff
this is several years later now but no no surgery in my neck and no steroids or medications they put
me on a lot of narcotics and drugs so i'm just i feel so blessed now to learn more and more
about joe's work with the meditations because i meditated a little bit before but not the depth
and not with the intention so now i'm feeling focused with a future seeing myself healed
getting better and it's actually working able to move my neck without pain which i still had a lot
of like tightness in my neck which is amazing that it's not there i realized my vision is a
choice too what we see things and he taught from the beginning your your uh the stuff that you see
is whether you're a victim or you have pain and suffering that doesn't have to be you anymore you
can create a new identity you know break the habit of being you which i just finished is awesome
so the idea of becoming a new person really and our cells it makes sense on a cellular
level too because we're constantly repopulating cells you have trillions of cells and now all of
a sudden they're repopulating every you know four months our red blood cells we populate
why not create a new design in our head too of what we think about and i was like i could do that
and i did some nlp before that so about speech you know saying it i am this i am wealthy i am healthy
but that wasn't working as well for me now it's like ah if i'm a new person i can do new things
and have new experiences and that's incredible to me to and i want to share that with my patients i
think what kind of world if i have a patient who says i am anxious and then we actually
reframe their brain and teach them joe's work or get them in touch to come to the workshops
what can they start to become who can they emanate and you know how can they heal especially from
diagnoses where the doctors say i'm so sorry there's nothing more we can do for you and
i have had patients who told me they were sent home to die and i was like no we're
going to figure this out but now i have more resources for them which i'm excited about that
too