Dispenza describes his work with special forces veterans — people who had exhausted conventional trauma treatments — and explains why learning to regulate the internal state through meditation produces transformations that therapy alone often cannot.
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I mean just the the special ops, the Navy Seals, the Green Berets and the veterans that we've worked with up until this point um uh these these type of transformations are are not small. These are very large transformations that take take place in these individuals. These are the people that, you know, do the talk therapy and they do the group counseling and they do the Iawaska and they do the plant medicine and they do the, you know, the hit training and they do all that stuff, but there they still have difficulty living their life. And this work is really about how you function in your life. It's really about how well you function. And so they we've discovered and these and I have so many great stories. I mean these these are people that are really had a lot of difficulty. They come up against themselves immediately uh when they do a week-long event and and they struggle a whole lot in the beginning and some of them never even heard of us, right? And they're just like, I don't even know what I'm doing here. Like, what is all this stuff? And and they're they're they're broken. And if you can get them to just hang in there past that point and you just help them to just commit to staying because they're lighting a match in a dark place and they got to learn how to self-regulate and change, you know, those strong memories and and uh and emotions. When they when when you tell a special ops person, if you can open your heart, it's going to reset the baseline for trauma in your brain. They will be like, "Okay, I'm going to do I'm going to okay, I'm just going to do that." They told me I you can say any word. We're totally cool with everything. We just can't. The word surrender just doesn't work for us. So, you're going to have to find another Don't even say that. We don't go there. Like, it's never never we going to give that one up ever. What's the other word? You know, so we tell them to relax into it, you know. And so, the transformations though that we see in these individuals, as Heml said in his last talk, I've seen it also. They look like they're completely different people. And we've had the opportunity to video uh some of them, you know, and and you ask them what the weak meant to them, you know, and you see these very fit, strong young men get super emotional and they say, almost all of them, I got my life back, man. I got my marriage back. I got my family back. I'm back. You know, I feel I feel like a completely different person. I threw away the the prescription bottle in my, you know, in my top drawer that I was saving for the time I was going to, you know, take my life. They were the changes are literally dramatic and and and we're we're curious about trauma. We're curious about PTSD. Toby is like well published PTSD guy. And there are, as Heml said, there are physical anatomical changes that take place in the brain and there's physiological changes that take place in the body. And yet somehow when they start conditioning the body differently, these people have dramatic transformations and and they can look back at their past and there's no charge any longer and and that's when they're free. We're having conversations right now with University of California, San Diego, the the the chair of department of anesthesiology Ruth and and Heml. you know, we're looking at, you know, bringing this mindbody concept into medical schools. Why is that important? It's so important because if the if the medical student is exposed to the information that there's a strong correlation between the mind and the body and they go on to be a brain surgeon or an oncologist or a plastic surgeon whatever and they have a patient who has a health condition and the person says I want to I want to see if I can do my part in this and see if I can change and if I can change I can heal I'm going to do some meditation. Instead of the doctor collapsing their wave function and saying, "That's dumb. You're never going to heal." They'll say, "You know what? I saw the data when I was in medical school. I I saw I saw it. Yeah, it's entirely possible. I'll support you in that." That's a whole different interaction. That's what we're looking for. And last point, because of the data, because of the data, the conversations that we are having with researchers and scientists and physicians are not the conversations we were having 5 years ago. There's absolutely no doubt about it. It's a completely different conversation. And when we show the data to scientists, when we show them the data, they fall out of their chair because seven days is almost it's miraculous. and and we had NASA approach us and basically say, "Wow, you know, we're interested in, you know, what what the effects of, you know, that space environment does to our biology. Uh, this is very interesting, these epigenetic changes." And and it was a great conversation and we we presented to them. It was fun.