If you are challenged with an illness, the story you perpetuate about your life and your illness is especially important because it could be a key factor in why you have become sick and why you’re not recovering. Or conversely, why you’re doing so well!

We also discuss how to make yourself immune from the negative stories others have about you and your illness that don’t serve you.

This is a long video – 25 minutes and 44 seconds – but it’s still shorter than a sitcom, it could change your life, and all this with no commercials!

We’re still working hard to get something ready for you that I think you’ll like a lot. But in the meantime stick around because we’ve got more videos coming and a really awesome free audio a la Devon that I know you’ll find very useful.

But first, watch this!

In my own healing journey, fear has definitely been my primary foe. Fortunately for me, my dear friend Devon White is a professional consultant who helps people reset to what is commonly called their “Flow” state, a position of deep health, mental clarity and top performance, and he has helped me tremendously since my diagnosis in 2007.

So, I thought he’d be the perfect person to talk with about how to dissolve fear when it comes up, which is the topic of the video interview below. This is an issue that could be discussed for days and this is just barely scratching the surface, but it’s definitely a good place to start what I consider to be a very crucial aspect of healing any illness.

Devon and I have been working closely together on creating tools that will enable simple but profound changes in the way a person engages illness. For him it’s about optimizing performance and for me it’s about healing illness and resetting into our best states.

Together we’ve come up with some special things for you, the first of which will be available soon. But right now I want to share this video with you, so here it is:

Devon and I are going to continue discussing some other core issues of healing so I can share them with you. I’m really excited about the next one, where we’ll talk about the story you tell yourself about your illness and why this is so important, and how to reframe the negative stories about your health that we are so often barraged with.

To find out more about Devon, go here: The Human Operating System.

I hope you enjoy it and please share your thoughts in the comments section below!

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When all was said and done, the interview was 1 hour and 43 minutes and overflowing with tons of info on CCSVI, stem cell treatment, the root causes of MS (and why Marc questions whether it’s an autoimmune disease at all), our wack health care system and why we need to remember that we’re not seen as patients, but as consumers, Marc’s opinions on the Disease Modifying Drugs,  advice on choosing a neurologist, and why it’s essential to be an informed, knowledgeable patient.

And that’s all before we got to the personal stuff! Marc spoke in his usual candid and insightful fashion on life in a wheelchair, how MS has changed him, the challenges he faces living with MS, and how he manages to live in the moment despite MS “sucking big fat hairy monkey balls” (I think that’s how he put it).

If you missed the interview and you want a peak, or you just want an audio clip you can keep to kick your ass whenever you start to get down, here’s a particularly inspirational excerpt from our interview:

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If you want more Wheelchair Kamikaze (and why wouldn’t you?) the website is:

http://www.wheelchairkamikaze.com/

If you’d like to listen to the entire interview, it’s available along with all the other interviews in the series as a digital download. For more info on that, go here.

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Prof. George Jelinek

If you weren’t able to make it on the live call last Thursday (the first in the MS Voices Interview Series), below is an excerpt from my 1 hr and 27 minute interview with Prof. Jelinek. In the excerpt, he discusses the flaws in the scientific studies which “prove” the effectiveness of the interferon drugs. As is Jelinek’s style, he explains complex science in easy-to-follow layman’s terms, so that it’s accessible for everyone.

This excerpt is just a small portion of what was an information-PACKED and very inspirational interview. I personally learned a lot and found it incredibly valuable. But more than anything, what remains Jelinek’s unique and powerful position in this community is that he is absolutely a man of science and doesn’t believe or endorse anything that hasn’t been adequately proven in well-executed scientific study. And based on the science that has been done, he firmly believes that MS can be not just managed but overcome.

As he says, “For those just diagnosed with MS, there is every reason to hope for a long and healthy life. For those with disability, there is the real potential to slow or completely stop the progression of the illness.”

Listen here:

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If you’d like to purchase Jelinek’s book, which I highly recommend, you can find the links to do so here:

http://www.overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org/Book/

The website is:

http://www.overcomingmultiplesclerosis.org

And if you missed the interview, want to hear it again, or you’re simply unable to attend at the time of the live interviews, the entire series is available for digital download. You can get more info on that here.

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We spoke for an hour and a half about his candid views on Multiple Sclerosis, the medical system, and healing. Here’s a little teaser from the interview.

He was explaining how the beliefs we hold today about doctors and illness were for the most part downloaded from our families and our environment before the age of six, and how those beliefs can interfere with our ability to heal ourselves today:

We begin to acquire in the first six years [of childhood] that when it comes to health, you are not the professional. That when it comes to health, the official understanding and belief system is going to be given to you by the doctor. So what that means is when you’re a child, the first thing you learn in your mind is “If the doctor says this, then it’s true.”

There’s no question in there that says, “Go to the doctor and then question what the doctor says.” It just says no, “Go to the doctor.” So the relevance is whatever the doctor says becomes a true belief for you, and if the doctor says something positive that would be the equivalent of a placebo effect and if the doctor says something negative that is the equivalent of the nocebo effect.

Now we’re back to today’s moment. And I say okay, what does a doctor say about MS? Whooh! Well! All of a sudden, first thing is “it’s chronic, it’s genetic, you can’t do anything about it, here’s how it’s gonna unfold…”

Well what does that mean? You have just been printed out a future! And your mind’s going to take that future, from the professional, and manifest that reality. Unless you disconnect from that and offer yourself a different reality.

So how do you offer yourself a different reality? Ah, well, I’m going to leave that for you to discover in the actual interview. If you want to hear it, just enter your name and email in the box to the right with the red arrow. It’s completely free and I guarantee it will rock your world. If you already have access to my interview archive, just go back there and you’ll see the update.

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If you want to understand the science behind how your thoughts effect your body, Bruce Lipton’s The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miraclesis the book to read. I am working on getting an interview with Dr. Lipton, but in the meantime, this two-part video interview does a great job of explaining the basics.