 One of the most interesting aspects of practicing medicine is that sometimes you do the thing that's proven to work for this condition, but it doesn't work. And then that person with that condition may go to see all the specialists that there are in the field during this era of history, and nothing works. But then they go to some very far out alternative practitioner or practice or technique and something miraculous happens. Now even though this is not a very common occurrence, in this video I want to share what I think is one of the most important healing questions I've learned to have a lot of respect for. Because sometimes when nothing else works, this does. Hey it's Alex Hain, author of the health book Master of the Day. So I've included the first link below this video is for a free pdf on 5 daily habits you can do to add 10 years to your life. You're based off of this historical Chinese guy named Li Qingyun who had these five Daoist practices heated daily who supposedly live over 100. So you can check it out in the first link in the description. Now one thing that I'm very very interested in both having been a patient and been a practitioner now is that there's this idea that all of us ultimately are healing ourselves. Right? The patient is also the physician because it's ultimately the body and nature and it is the point of nature to be able to heal and regenerate itself. Right? I mean we've made it thus far through evolution and we're built tough. We can take a lot of damage and still surprisingly live. But we've all heard a story of someone who was told that they were going to go home rest because they're going to die. There's you have an unusual cancer, it's very aggressive and it's a later stage and it's very very serious. But that person finally for the first time in their life was like well if I'm going to die that I'm going to do all the things that excited me that I never ended up doing. I'm going to do all my dreams, I'm going to travel all the places, I'm going to date whoever I want or end my marriage, I'm going to go after my greatest passions and then they lived. And these kind of stories although rare are really really intriguing to me because both in my long journey as a patient trying to figure out my own health problems as well as seeing patients it's made me really really trust the intuition of the patient. Now the psyche or the spirit of the person whatever you want to call that psycho emotional life it often knows what it needs. Now this is kind of a crazy assumption because technically we're colored by our impressions of seeing a physician where our opinion doesn't matter at all like what we think is good for us the physician regularly does not agree with right because they are the expert they know what to do they are the healer or the medical provider but sometimes it doesn't work actually frequently it doesn't work including the alternatives. Now the psyche often knows what it needs if that person is really honest and very brave they trust their gut they're not talked out of it by authority figures in their life and they'll learn that they often had some kind of inner compass telling them what they needed to do to heal you know even for me in the time my quote burnout years near the tail end of it I was having really severe insomnia that was morphing into looking like a clinical anxiety clinical depression picture and over a period of about half a year I tested more than 50 variables just to sleep just to have these symptoms go away and I had never stopped exercising or cooking healthy daily none of that it was just stress but I felt like at that time I had no stress it was the stress of the previous year but nothing I tried and went away I was doing all these other things that were giving me marginal or tiny returns and one night I sat down frustrated basically on the verge of tears and I was like well what else is there I've exhausted my options and I was just sitting there looking out the window and I was like well if I could have a genie snap my fingers get anything that I thought I needed to recover what would it be and it thought I need to be like around family or close friends and I didn't have a lot at that time that year I would be around like dogs and pets and the outdoors so I'd be around people during the day but I could spend time in the woods or out in nature at night and then plenty of free time still to work on what I wanted so for me I tried 50 interventions in a six month period thousands of dollars but you know what worked I flew home and stayed with my family for three months and with that family unit with the pets with the trees and the beautiful nature in New England within a week I started sleeping well and within a month almost all the symptoms had gone away that I've been battling for almost a year with marginal change this deeply impacted me because I was going down a dangerous road and I was an action taker I wasn't sitting there passively but I sat down and ignored all the logical variables that were supposed to work that were clinically supposed to work and listened to what I thought I needed and that's what I needed and I find that's to be more often true than not true so I want to challenge you to ask yourself what is your gut saying you really need to feel well because you could have broken down my visit home into all these individual biomedical factors well you had social support and social ties you had dogs which are proven to make you happier and nature which brings down your nervous system but I was walking in the woods every day where I was living before and I didn't feel like I had no friends in other words it was more of like this kind of intuitive just salt a big picture feeling about what I needed to feel well and you may be feeling that about the job you're in where you live whether or not you're going after your dream or fulfilling your potential or who you married to or you're dating what is that feeling saying because that can frequently be more effective than any medical intervention that you're treated with so I hope this little healing question helps I think it's very very important now again check out the first link below this video which is for those five daily Taoist practices that can help you add years to your life check it out first link below this video and then I have two related videos right here on this topic