
Open The Door To Our Infinite Healing Potential

Founder, Amitabha Medical Clinic
Open The Door To Our Infinite Healing Potential
Isaac Eliaz, MD, MS, LAc
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Introduction to Mind-Body Medicine 0:00
Hello to you all. My name is Dr. Isaac Eliaz, and I'm the co-host of the Cancer Breakthroughs Summit. Today, I would like to talk to you briefly about Mind-Body Medicine. But opening the door to our infinite healing potential, the importance of Mind-Body Medicine, and our mind in the cancer in the cancer journey is well established scientifically now. Multiple papers showing that gratitude, acts of kindness, acts of love and compassion that all benefit our health and well-being. But it's especially critical and challenging in cancer.
And this is what I want to focus today on why it is so important, why it is challenging, and how to overcome it. If we look at the cancer cell compared to a normal set. A cancer cell is a cell in perpetual survival mode at any cost it wants to survive,
Cancer Cell Survival and the Survival Paradox 1:14
it wants to divide, it wants to conquer. But this quality of survival is actually present in each one of our tens of trillions of cells. What is the difference that a normal cell understands and function with this understanding that its survival is part of a survival of a community and it has a role if it comes to the body to serve and when its time is comes. He just dissolves away through apoptosis, allowing for a new cell to take its place. Really, one beautiful image is like a single bee in a bee hive with a bee, with the survival of the colony is not dependent on one bee.
It depends. It's dependent on the survival of the whole colony. And the bee serves the colony in different roles. Cancer cell. Forgot that this part of a community. It lost its sense in a commitment of mutual support. And it will. Its survival is so intense. The more aggressive it is, the more intense it becomes at any cost. Because eventually it's going. If it's successful, it kills the host and kill itself. And this is really the survival paradox. It hits us outmost extreme. And if you're interested in this concept, you can read more in my book, The Survival Paradox.
So going back to the cancers in the cancer cell, really from a functioning point of view is no longer a part of the body. It's no longer a part of the body metabolically, immunologically.
Normal Cells, Community, and the Heart 3:08
It creates an isolation around it, grow its growth, and does everything it can to bypass the body's defense system, the immune system, the surveillance system, etc. It doesn't care about the environment around it. Our challenge from a mind body point of view, from visualizing the cancer dissolving or trying to transform the cancer cell into a normal thing, is to penetrate this isolation, this separation, this boundary, and by using mind body medicine to connect with the cancer cell with our mind in order to create a change in the cell.
That's the challenge. But it's also the dramatic potential. What is the weakness of the cancer cell that we always look for? Weaknesses. The weakness of the cancer cell is that it used to be enormous and it has the capacity to reverse its metabolism into a normal metabolism. If we look at the qualities of mind, body medicine, of gratitude, of loving kindness, of acts, of kindness, the all try to rekindle our sense of self-focus and enhance the sense of community understanding that we are all in this journey together.
So a normal cell actually function, as I mentioned, within the survival paradigm. What do I mean? Each cell has a boundary. It decides what it takes in what it wants, and you decide what it takes out through its membrane, through receptors on the membrane, cell receptors that are responding to the environment outside, when it's peaceful, when it's safe. The cell is functioning with a normal metabolism, very efficient, with no byproducts, understanding that it has shared values with the community around it that will support the cell and the cell will support the community.
It is also affected by toxins in the area. That's why detoxification is so important and it is affected by our genetics and even more by our epigenetics, by traumatic and defective event that happened to us in this life and to our ancestors. And within it, the cell, just like any other cell, will not take what it's toxic to the cell and will not keep what it's toxic to the center. It will take what it wants as part of nourishment and survival and will push out what it doesn't want. And that's universal to every cell.
And every organ in the body in some organs will damage themselves and cause damage to the whole body because they adhere to this principle. There is one organ that is fundamentally different. The emperor of the body. According to Chinese medicine, the Queen of our beehive.
Open Heart Medicine and Healing Potential 6:22
And it is our heart. Just like a beehive serves and depends on its queen. The body serves and depends on our heart is we know if the heart stops, we are dead within seconds. So why is the heart so different? Because while every cell in the body, every organ in the body wants to take clean blood, the heart thrives and needs to take all the dirty blood from every organism body that the heart is an innate quality of acceptance without any judgment. It accept anything from every organ. It doesn't say I'm going to take dirty venous blood only from the liver, but not from the brain and not from the kidneys.
It takes it from everywhere with open arms. That's a fundamental shift in the physiology. It's that each of us have. We are wired like this, but it also has profound psychological and psycho spiritual connotations and effects on our mind. Because we is being driven by survival, by our ego, our reactive wind, through the sense of danger when something bad is coming our way and the reactivity creates struggle, creates negative emotions like anger, like fear, it create the struggle that creates inflammation when we run away and it creates fibrosis in organ dysfunctional.
But the heart does it different. It accepts with an open heart. The heart connects with the universe through the breathing, through the lungs, and the universe is infinite. It can handle all of us with all our traumas, all our illnesses. And there we have the amazing exchange within the lungs. And now clean blood comes to the heart. The heart was able to transform what every organ in every cell didn't want into nourishment that it now offers to all the body without discrimination. The odor, the main artery that comes out of the heart, is a rigid artery, and as such, it gives blood everywhere without discrimination.
And that's a basic quality of the heart. And only after the heart gives blood, it relaxes and nourishes itself through the coronary arteries. This is how selfless is the heart. These principles and this understanding holds within them a profound potential for healing. The heart shifts us, as we said, from reactive, from struggle that is self-focused to responsiveness to an open heart. And when we connect to the healing journey of an open heart to open heart medicine, it will deliver this message, this quality to every cell in the body.
So once we have this understanding, the journey is to develop these qualities on a meditative level, on their mind, body level, on a spiritual level, and then to be able to deliver them to the target tissue, to the cancer, to melt the boundaries of the cancer. And the how does it in three ways physiologically by providing clean blood. So the more we detoxify physically, the cleaner our blood, the better air we breathe, the better water we drink, the more harmonious our environment, the better quality and nourishment.
On the second level, the quality of the heart from an energetic point of view from effects, the quality of its electromagnetic field and the electromagnetic field, there's a lot of research about it actually reaches every cell in the body all the time. And this is why the heart is constantly attempting to heal us, and our journey is to connect with it. And in the deepest and most subtle level, the heart has the ability to point to us that everything is changing all the time. Because the one truth it is independent of a belief system is it?
Is it. Everything is changeable, everything is impermanent ness thing has solid, unchanging nature in the expression of this quality, in the heart, in our body is infinite love and compassion. And when we connect with this quality, it is like melting ice with the warmth of love and compassion. Melting ice which is hard, which is solid, which is separate from the other piece of ice into water, which is flowing everywhere and is connected everywhere. And with when everything is over, when everything is flowing, and when everything is flowing, when we connect with the changeability of everything, naturally everything is possible.
This is why not everyone will be a miracle girl, but anyone can be a miracle. And this is what open heart medicine is about. And that's the journey, the true, profound journey of Mind-Body Medicine, into which we can add different methods for four different people. So I hope this introduction is useful and it helps to have the opportunity in the future to work with you. More on in a retreat setting in a face to face setting and guy doing this journey.
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