in 1996 i was in the marine corps in okinawa japan cliff diving and i pin dropped off a
cliff at 150 feet into the ocean and i broke the tip of my spine off of my the pelvic floor
and ever since then i've been in severe discomfort hard to bend over hard to move
around i used to have to hook the mattress with my foot just to pull myself out of bed every morning
and i came across dr joe um maybe towards the beginning of
2020 i would say and just started listening to see what was going on you know just different videos
listening to him when i would do my meditations and i wanted to know if it was for real so
i came to an event here in denver in july and maybe three days into the event i started
noticing that my back wasn't bothering me and then i saw people getting out of wheelchairs
and then my back just completely stopped bothering me like there was no discomfort sitting i had a
back brace when i came in i just stopped wearing it it was sitting up straight in my chair like
on the way home in the airplane like there was just no discomfort at all i drove across country
three and a half days my back never bothered me one time and so then i start like he does
in in in the things you know he'll explain something and then he says tell the person
next to you because if you can explain it then you know it right so i started telling people
and then i got this weird idea that i'm going to buy a bunch of his cds and i'm going to invite
my friends if you want to do the meditation do it with me and so i had this app on my phone where i
would play it and then other friends i have a friend in argentina so she started joining me
and three weeks into her doing the meditations with me she told me that she had cysts and stuff
on her uterus and she was in february the doctor was going to remove part of her organs and this
that near thing and she said no i'm not doing that and prior to her joining me in the meditation
she had gone to the doctor and they did their measurements and tests or whatever
and two week two maybe two or three weeks into the meditation she said that she had another doctor's
visit and the cysts were shrinking so it took me a step further and i have another friend iliana who
had a heart transplant and went into the icu with a bowel obstruction and i got the nurse in the icu
to allow me to hook up to her phone and do the same thing and we used dr joe's
meditation tuning into health and i did it in my living room while she was doing it in the ic
and i started to get sick and i stepped out of the meditation went to the bathroom i thought i
was going to throw up nothing happened i went back i got back into the meditation and then when the
meditation was over i was talking to ileana on the telephone and then she started throwing up
the following morning she was scheduled to have the bowel obstruction removed and
when she went in the following morning and the doctors did the surgery there
was no bowel obstruction and now i'm here it's the follow-up retreat
and i've been doing these things for her and the doctors in the icu union hour they have
no idea why she's getting better and she wasn't able to talk she wasn't able to complete sentences
and she called me two nights ago while i was here at one o'clock in the morning
yelling and screaming she was sad and upset and which is understandable with her state but
she was making complete sentences she was vocalizing she was talking
out loud which she wasn't able to do for two weeks and so it's becoming like this
like i came here for myself in the beginning
and when i was coming to this one i was coming for myself but then she ended up my friend
ended up in the ic unit so now it was more i was here for her and
it's kind of like there's really no really way to explain what's transpiring right i'm not a
doctor or anything i have no idea all i know is that it's happening and but it's happening on
they don't even know who dr joe is right they just did the meditation because i said hey do
the meditation you know and i didn't even really know who he was i just did the meditations and
one of the issues that i had with my back was when i would relax
my upper torso would turn 30 degrees off center because my lower vertebrae l4 and l4
5 were twisted from the impact in the ocean and now like there is no twist
like i used to have to hold all of my muscles to keep me square and it's just gone but there was no
moment there was no you know like there was it it just happened you know and
it's it's you're doing it you know like i'm doing it however
like that whatever that intelligence is that's happening right like it's
it it would have been different if a doctor fixed me but the doctor didn't fix me
i did somehow doing absolutely nothing but some breathing and laying on the floor and
touching this space that he guides you and suggests that you try to reach and then the
fact that just sharing a meditation with somebody like my friend cora with this she's in argentina
we never even like we never even looked at each other we're never in the same room
you know she just did the meditations with me twice a day every day for
about a month so from the end of july to the end of october my back doesn't hurt anymore a woman's
bowel obstruction just doesn't exist anymore and cysts on some woman's uterus are just shrinking
just from sitting in a chair following joe's steps and touching god i guess or the whatever you want
to call it you know and now i walk around and i can feel like when i'm just sitting
around like i can feel this tingling always on the outside of my body it's constantly there
and i was like oh that's what they mean when they say you're being hugged by god
and so it's like all day long i'm just always being hugged by this
nothing whatever it is you know and the fact that you can feel it
makes it real you know like if you didn't feel you just thought you were feeling right it's not
it's not like oh i think i'm feeling this or it's not like my imagine like i'm i
feel it you know like when i go into my meditation it's like all sound like
there's like these convulsions and like i can feel like this energy
like and then when i really just let go and center into it i'm very present but there's this
all around me and it's not like i haven't meditated before it's not like i haven't done
breath work before but i never understood why i was doing it and i didn't understand
the idea of going in to the nothing and becoming nothing you know and
you know you're in your meditation or whatever and you're doing your thing but
all of the times before where i would be doing my meditations like i wasn't going into the nothing
i'm just doing these meditations and what i recognized was if i can feel like i'm into nothing
then my being isn't being infected by my environment
because there's nothing there so everything is going to reset
like i know i was in the nothing because when he says come back to me you know it's like i'm
being pulled out of some place but i know i wasn't woken up from being asleep if that makes sense so
and that's where it it connected for me whatever happened with my back
happened because i reset myself because i stayed in the nothing long enough for that to happen