The Science of Consciousness - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 11/6/24

years and years. But then at some point people started asking me, you know, what I was doing, and if I would teach them, and so I started teaching classes and then eventually I started my first hospital class, and that's that's where everything changed. That's when I realized that

mind body practices can well. According to doctor Herbert Benson at Harvard, they can prevent or treat between six ninety percent of the health issues that send us to the doctor, and that was backed up by a Kaiser study that found that about seventy percent of the health issues sending people their doctors were caused by stress.

And you know, it's like a lot of people sometimes in the classes, they think that mind body practices like meditation, tai chi chi, going yoga, mindfulness, they think that they're kind of, you know, esoteric, mystical Chinese and Indian things. But actually what they all do is they all bring the brainwaves into what's known as an alpha brainwave state,

and that's the most natural thing in the world. In fact, when we were children, we were in an alpha brainwave state, a meditative state up most of the time up to about age seven, and then that's when we started to lose touch without ability, and when we were young, that's when we healed much faster, and it's also when we

learned at an incredibly accelerated rate. And so what the Indians and the Chinese did through the development of yoga and taichi and chigong and things like this meditation, is that they created these really effective mind body sciences that help us regain that youthful ability that we had as children. So it's really just a real natural thing.

I got really sick. I had an intestinal block and I ended up having to go to Mexico for like emergency surgery because you know, like many small businesses, I couldn't afford health insurance. And so I went down to Mexico and I had the block removed, but they wanted me to stay down there for six months to do chemotherapy, and I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it financially, and you know, I mean, it just wasn't going to happen. And also I was so weak, you know, I was

so weak. I didn't know if I wanted to go through with that. And so I just came back home and I just poured myself into these minds body practices and I just got stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. And so today I'm almost sixty eight, and I think I'm about as strong as I've ever been in my whole life.

and he discovered chigong and it healed him. But then he started teaching it, and when he started teaching it, he stopped doing it himself. He was only teaching it. And that's what I did. I did exactly what my teacher warned me not to do. And so then after that happened, and I went through that and I came back from Mexico. I just dedicated myself to these things and it was transformative. I mean, it just it heals us on so many levels.

And so we actually do exercises in my classes where we just practiced just letting our eyes unfocused, where you're seeing everything but nothing in particular, and then it's an easy step from there to teach people how to just kind of let your mind on focus where you're present, you're feeling everything, but you're not focused on any one thing. And then that's when your brain weights start to go into that healing alpha wet state.

immune defense. And in fact, during the pandemic, there was a study and what they found was the frontline healthcare workers who had high T sale counts were much less likely to contract COVID than their co workers who had low T sale counts, and if they did contract it, they were much less likely to have severe symptoms from And that's just only you know that immune boosting, although that's a huge thing, especially today, you know, we should

be teaching kids how to do that. But also at the same time, it's making your brain larger and more effective. It's increasing bone mass and connective tissue. You know, it improves your hard health. It really virtually every every aspect

of our health is improved. And that's one of the amazing things because you know, like I've had doctors come to my class because they had hypertension, and while they were you know, literally curing their hypertension through the classes, they were also finding out that their coworkers thought that they were way easier to get along with, so it was, you know, it was improving their lives on multiple different levels.

And in fact, one of the physicians that was in one of my first hospital classes, he was so amazed because there were a bunch of doctors in there and they were getting off of hypertension meds. There was a surgeon that got off of chronic pain meds and she had limited mobility from a whiplash injury, and she gained full mobility, no more chronic pain or anything like that.

And he was so amazed seeing everything and the benefits that he was getting personally that he actually quit the er and he started his own naturopathic medicine practice that's still very successful all these years later.

corporation or a city. In a city, what they found there's been really large studies, and what they found is if they bring in an equivalent of one percent of a city's population of high level meditators, they reduced the crime rates significantly. In the Washington DC study where they collaborated with the Washington DC Police Statistics.

As the number of meditators increased in Washington, d c. The crime rates corresponding correspondingly descended. So the violent crime rates correspondingly descended. And this has been replicated in many studies. They did a study in forty eight cities and they brought the violent crime rates down in all forty eight of these study and the effect lasted for five years after the study wasd So we could be saving so

much money. And I actually I actually taught Taichian meditation at Folsome prison many years ago, and I thought that I was going to be introducing the prisoners to mind body practice. But when I got there, I found out that they had already had a Taichi cha program, which is a kind of a tai Chi Chi gung meditative program, and they'd already had it for two years. And what they one of the inmates had looked at the prison statistics over that period of time, and he was like

an assistant teacher. He was really dedicated to the program. And he said that the violent incident rates had decreased, not only for the meditating group, but for the entire prison. And you see this replicated in appadacta prison in Mexico. They had one of the most violent presidents incidents in modern Mexican prison in history. And they talked the whole prison how to meditate all of them, the warden, inmates, the guards, everybody, and they haven't had a violent incident

rate since that happened. Why does it work, Well, you know, it goes right to the core of everything, and the core of everything is consciousness. And you know, and quantum physicists said the same thing, the early quantum physicists that discovered, you know, the energetic nature of the universe and the nature of the universe. Yeah, they said, consciousness is behind everything.

And we see that in the research. In fact, there was research at Princeton Engineering and Omily's Research Laboratory, and what they found was that people's consciousness could actually physically affect physical reality.

just made of energy. But what's interesting and amazing is these ancient Chinese and Indian researchers they understood that, they understood that we're made of energy and that this energy field that we are, this consciousness that we are, it can get tangled up and nodded, you know, from unmanaged collecting,

you know, too much unmanaged stress. But then they also realize that through a combination of visualization and breathing exercises you know, that make up these meditative practices, that we could actually relax this consciousness or this energy field that we are, and then everything starts to function at a much higher rate. And you see it expressed in all kinds of ways, you know, because I've been teaching in

hospital settings for thirty five years. Like for example, just recently, one of my students, they had put her on a medication and I don't know what it was treating, but the side effect of it was that it would diminish bone mass, and so they were monitoring her bone mass very very closely, and her doctor was amazed because during that time she was actually increasing her bone mass, so instead of losing it, she was actually increasing her bone mass.

And her doctor said, what are you doing? You know, how is this possible? And she said, well, I've been doing Taichi and she vung in meditation through the hospital program because they teached through the University of Kansas Hospital, and I want to tell your listeners about this in a little bit because the classes are free. But anyway, he was stunned and he said, you know what, he said,

you should you should tell people about this. And I started laughing when she told me, because doctors, doctors should be telling people about this. And all the doctors that were in my classes years ago that got healed from this, they all we all thought that, you know, thirty five years later, because it's been about thirty five years since that happened. We all thought that every doctor in the world would be writing mind Body right at the top

of every prescription pad. But they don't. And it's because our health system is just pharmaceutical driven.

second Edition or the Gospel of Science second Edition. It just came out in audible just in the last couple of weeks, and so it's so easy to listen to it while you're driving. It'll change your life. It changed my life, you know, doing all these being thrown into all this science and throwing myself back into the mind body practices. But uh, I'm sorry, I kind of watched track of what you had just asked for.

little bit. But Uh, one of the things that uh science has discovered is that when we really enjoy, you know, just the simple things in our lives, when we stop and smell the roses, when we enjoy the feeling of our body, when we're doing yoga, tai chi or chielong. Yeah, these mindfulness practices, they call it gratitude consciousness and gratitude. When we're in a state of gratitude consciousness, it's profoundly healing.

In fact, it's so powerful that they can actually see molecular changes in the heart and the brain when we go into those states. So you have that gratitude consciousness, you know, and you know, all the major religions told us to be grateful. And then the other thing is faith. There was a study, a twenty year study with thousands of people, and what they found was that the greatest indicator for the people's future health and well being was

their vision of their future health and well being. And so all the major religions profits that founded them, they all emphasized how important it was to have faith. And so if you look at this science, you start to realize that if we have faith that everything's going to be okay, it tends to be okay. That's what the science shows.