So I'm from Canada I've lived here in Dubai for
11 and a half years. And I've been following Dr. Joe. I saw him the first time in "What the bleep do we know?"
2004 which resonated with me and
I didn't get into the work till about
5 years ago. I did start to read his books,
but the meditation was 5 years ago, and then it was the last 2 years that I've just been really dedicated
I've done other meditations. I have a martial arts background, so I have my Taoist meditation, but once I started to do Dr. Joe's...
It's just the more and more I did it, and I saw the testimonials of everyone
who are experiencing such great healing, it really inspired me to really focus on the meditation and I
came here to focus on my eyes. I have chronic dry eyes which affect my vision. My vision gets worse.
It's been really bad for the last 6 years, and
I have tinnitus in my left ear that came about a year ago
I don't know where it came from, and it was getting worse.
Explain the symptoms of tinnitus for those people who don't understand what it is. Tinnitus is ringing in the ear.
So, you know when you go to a concert, and you leave, you go home
but you still feel this ringing in your head. You don't know where it's coming from,
that's what it is. Continuous ringing that I hear, and it can be quite frustrating.
Not when I work
because there's always noise, but once it gets quiet and I'm trying to study, because I'm studying right now as well as I work.
It's very distracting. Then when I try to go to sleep.
It's bzzzzz... ringing ringing... And the last six months. It's just been
really really bad.
And I also have an issue with my
iliofemoral ligament, which is your hip ligament
It's the strongest ligament in the body and when it's weak, it's not fun.
It's been affecting me. Affects my workouts. I have to be very careful
I had to stop rock climbing for a while because I didn't have the strength.
Even getting up from sleeping at night going to the bathroom all of a sudden
I feel like an old lady. And I'm like, "Give me a break."
I'm only in my early 40s for goodness sakes. This is not age. This is, you know. There's something wrong with my pelvis.
I've had treatments, it got better.
Then last week it came again and I'm like, "Okay, that's it. This is getting ridiculous."
But my intention coming to this event was to heal my eyes.
So we did my favorite meditation the other day, which was space-time time-space. I felt like a child again. I was so excited.
Got into it. Sat up. The first bars of the music was right into it. I was gone. I was into the cosmos.
Didn't feel my body, my body right away went to sleep.
And I had such an amazing time in there. I was seeing all these different patterns,
I was seeing light everywhere. And as I heard Dr. Joe say, "You can come lie down now.", I was like, "Oh wait,
I'm not ready to come back. I like it out there."
So I came back into my body, but I thought that something was different in my body
but I didn't know what it was, and the first few meditations that we did
I found that I wasn't comfortable lying down on the floor. And I love Shavasana. It's my favorite yoga pose
but I just wasn't feeling it until we did that meditation.
I was lying there and all of a sudden I was just so relaxed and my body was like, "What is this?"
This is different.
But I didn't realize what it was until I opened my eyes and I'm sitting up and I'm walking. And I'm like, "Wait, wait...
I don't hear ringing."
And that night I went to sleep. And just before I fell asleep, I'm like, it's dead quiet.
I usually listen to some binomial
music or something rain because I need that white noise to filter out that ringing. I didn't need it. It was absolutely quiet.
I fell asleep.
And then yesterday, because I wasn't paying attention as I was working out, and after I was walking around,
you know with my friends here, I'm like, "Wait a minute.
What's going on?"
I can do that again with no issue.
And what I realized while I'm, yes, I want to heal my body
but I was focusing only on my eyes. And yes, I have other issues, but I thought I'll deal with that later.
So I'm not paying attention to them
but as I'm not paying attention to them, then they're like, oh, let's see if she noticed that we heal
Nice.
Now.
Lawrence where are you? Lawrence come up here.
Now this is where things start getting weird.
Hello everyone.
I'm a South African and I've been living in Dubai for 13 years.
And yesterday
I came in here struggling with this whole meditation thing.
I love it!
That means he's doing it right.
He's coming up against himself.
And I've met some amazing people that are helping me on to get over some of the things that I've been struggling with.
Yesterday, through a series of synchronous events, I ended up
sitting next to Raven.
And I'd taken inspiration from her story the night before where she shared it with our group and Molka that she had
the tinnitus in her ears had disappeared.
I've had tinnitus in my left ear for 11 years.
I used the same binaural, the same tapes that I listened to to get rid of the ringing in my ears at night.
I battled to sleep.
I sat next to Raven yesterday. We'd never spoken, but I had taken inspiration from her story.
And I sat next to her and we
In the in the buddy sessions I was talking to somebody else, and I never even spoke to her.
We just greeted each other and "How are you doing?"
Now, it was a coincidence that he was sitting next to Raven.
And there's another lady that sat on my other side, on my left side
Lisa
and she's been to 6 of Dr. Joe's retreats
and I
I connected with her and we spoke quite a bit yesterday.
And she was sitting on my other side and Raven on this side. I was like a hamburger.
Spiritual hamburger.
I was struggling. And the first meditation yesterday was fantastic.
Walking out in that park was the best morning I've had in Dubai in 13 years.
Here's something else. I've been terrified to get on a stage for the last 2 years.
So I'm sitting there. And I'm a wriggler. And I'm struggling. And my back is killing me.
Wait a second. Wait a second. Let's just, let's just check our audience.
How many people have been there? You know, where your body's just... So I'm not alone.
I want you to listen because I've learned this in the last few months
in watching people come up to the edge where they want to quit, they want to go home,
they want to leave, they don't think it works. It's not for them. They're gonna go back to
crystals and colonics or whatever, you know. They're gonna just do their own thing, you know. And break away, you know.
And they have every reason to give up. And they just go one more time. And they think they're doing it wrong,
but that's the edge of the known right there. That's when their brain is
disconnecting all its circuitry. It's when genes are in between up-regulation and down-regulation.
The body's in this kind of 'between worlds' state. And you can't think, you can't figure it out, the brain's not working, nothing's working
because everything that you do that you know how to do, isn't working. You know what I mean when I say that?
And then all of a sudden you just kind of finally let go,
relax,
surrender, and just do it one more time. And you don't even care if it's gonna work or not.
You don't even care. You're just gonna do it just for the sake of doing it, instead of doing it and then...
Doing it again...
Just do it, and don't even care what happens. And you just go all-in one more time.
And that's a very very important moment.
So go ahead...
So I sit down and I'm wriggling around, and I'm struggling, and I'm thinking, "What the hell is this all about?"
And I'm closing my eyes and I'm trying to get back into it...
Could find something. And I opened my eyes and I looked at the stage.
And I sense that Lisa next to me is connecting and I think, "I want a bit of that."
And I close my eyes
and I felt the energy coming from her.
Then we finished the whole exercise and I felt fantastic.
I then said goodbye to my buddy. I got in... I met another lady outside.
and I asked if I could share, if we could share a cab because I live on the other side of Dubai.
Got in the car,
same person.
Halfway up Sheikh Zayed Road...
It's about 10 k's away...
I suddenly realized that
there was no ringing in my ear.
Now, I want this to be a teaching tool for you.
Because on my own personal journey
I know that when my body is agitated,
when it's restless,
when it doesn't want to sit still,
when it's doing whatever it does...
I've done this long enough to know that
this is a very important moment. This is kind of
tempering the savage beast,
the body that's undisciplined.
And just like when you're training any animal, or a stallion is a great example,
just before it finally lets go
it'll always just rebel as hard as it can one last time to see if it's going to make a difference.
And then it realizes it's not gonna make a difference, and just finally this innate
release takes place and all of a sudden they're tame, or there's something's changed in them.
And in this situation with Lawrence,
he has been meditating,
he's been doing the work for a long time and many people in this work come to these week-long events
and they're surprised that something comes up like this. And that's exactly what needs to come up
for them to heal. This happened numerous times.
This is the body making one last effort in the war.
And the hardest battle of every war is the last battle. That's when it's over.
And so the body does whatever it can...
Whether he reached the edge of his emotional belief of the known,
whether he stepped into a footprint in consciousness, a morphogenic field
that was already created in the energy field of Raven, whether it was the synchronicity of him sitting in that place,
whether it was his meditation in the morning that he loved so much
that he was so connected to, or whether it was the alignment of all those things
to a greater order,
he experienced the truth
by letting go completely. And I want you to know that
what creates the miraculous is stepping outside the known and disentangling from those programs.
And when you come up against it, I want you to remember this story.
I want you to remember the people who just go in one more time. Just go a little further,
go a little bit more, make one more effort
because that's when they step out of the known and stop doing it their way.
That's surrender.
That's complete surrender trusting in something greater.
You let go all the way, and just like those beautiful people that catch you
in the surrender activity, the divine is all around you.
You're the fish in water asking for a drink. When you finally let go,
you let go of all the barriers, all the things that keep you separate from it.
And it's that fully letting go of what you know that puts you in the unknown,
and it's just a matter of preparation.
It is a matter of going one step further.