 You might have recently gotten a scary diagnosis from your physician, or maybe you've been dealing with a chronic illness, and you haven't been getting any answers to your problems, any answers to any of your questions, any solutions to any of your problems. And like me, you've been through the ringer of the modern medical system. And you know, it's not exactly very good at treating chronic illness. Well, in this video, I want to leave you with just some thoughts, a very interesting old wise phrase, a one liner from one of our medical classics in Chinese medicine on how healing is always possible, no matter the stage of the illness or the kind of illness. So in this video, let's jump in and I want to share this with you now. Hey, I'm Alex Hein, author of the book, Master the Day. Now the first link in the description is actually a free download for five daily rituals that can help you add 10 years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. And it'll give you some of the core daily practices you can start trying out and investigating yourself. You'll also get a weekly email on my newsletter and how to use those practices to live better. So you can check out the first link in the description. So in one of our oldest medical classics, that's almost 2000 years old, there's a saying in the first chapter of the Lingxu that says, 言不可置者, 莫得其数也. And this saying 言不可置者 is just like saying or the person who says it cannot be treated or cured. Is someone who has not yet achieved or obtained or realized that level of skill. So this is this idea that I deeply believe and there's a lot of evidence throughout history that the person, whether it's an entrepreneur who says it cannot be done, well someone else is doing it or will do it, or the physician who says it cannot be cured is probably someone else on the planet who has cured it or has treated it. I mean, we look at a lot of the major illnesses today that were huge killers throughout history, tuberculosis, many other illnesses and diseases that we now vaccinate for. These were major, major, major killers throughout history. Even look at the crippling effects of polio. That's almost eradicated from the planet now. At one level in time and in history, these were very, very difficult or impossible to cure. And now many of them have been. So our major killers now today, I feel confident we will regain control over them and also new illnesses and new challenges will show up. But if you're dealing or struggling with chronic illness, there are a couple things to keep in mind. So the first thing is that healing is always possible at any stage. Now the most obvious example of this is spontaneous remission. Now I'm doing some work on studying spontaneous remissions, which is crazy because spontaneous remission has been shown in almost every kind of cancer at almost every level and stage. Now it's extremely rare. Some researchers have estimated it's a 1 in 100,000 rate, some less, some more, but the fact that it does occur regularly says that it can occur. So there are people of the most advanced cancers that have spontaneously remissed. We don't know how, we don't really know why, there are theories. But the fact that it has occurred suggests that it can and it will still occur. And how do you know if you're not the person with a very serious disease that it may not be you? It doesn't mean stop seeing your physician or your doctor, it doesn't mean any of that. It just means that entertain this is the treatment, this is what my doctor recommends, but entertain this idea that it is possible because it is possible. The second idea to think about is that sometimes the advice you're being given from your healthcare practitioner about what's treatable or what's possible is just not true. I mean, we all do the best we can, but sometimes when you go to another practitioner, you get another opinion. That's the value of seeking out a second or a third, a tertiary opinion because one would think if all these people we seek out for our health are all experts, they would all have the same evidence and opinions, but it's not really true. So sometimes what one person says is a death sentence or can't be treated or we don't know, we don't have options, I don't know what it is, can be resolved by going to see another practitioner and getting a second or a third opinion or even a person outside of the traditional sphere. And I want to reiterate that because my own journey has been, I was diagnosed with IBS when I was in my early 20s. I went through the general practitioner, dietitian, nutritionist, GI specialist. They were all great people, but no one gave me a single useful piece of advice. Not a single intervention they did gave me anything useful or did anything to resolve my symptoms or improve them in any way. And it was me saying, okay, what now scratching my head. And sure enough, a friend was seeing a Chinese medicine doctor that I saw and the very first herbal formula he gave me, I had the best results with my digestion and bowel movements of my whole life of 30 years. No one told me that Chinese medicine was an option. I thought it was some witchcraft voodoo stuff. Sometimes you have to look outside of, you have to have that lateral thinking. These are all the established ways of doing things. This is something that's coming out of left field or right field or something that's different. And sometimes that's what works. And to always maintain that possibility that there may be someone else out there that knows how to fix what I have, what is going on within me, to always maintain that possibility. So these are just some things to keep in mind when struggling with illness that who's to say what can be cured, what cannot be cured. Most physicians are looking at a dot on a line plotting the medium, just trying to see where that median, the average line is, the line of best fit. It's understandable, I mean, statistics are a real thing. But like a great book by the same title, every patient is a sample size of one, is an end of one. We're all extremely different, extremely unique. And also, of course, to go seek out other options if you aren't getting the answers from the person that you're seeing. And that advice could apply to medicine just as easily as it could to being an entrepreneur where everyone is telling you it won't work, but you have to be the one in a million that has that vision, like all the visionary entrepreneurs who never would have tried if they listened to the people around them. So just some thoughts today on the possibility of miraculous healing at any time, because it is possible. And of course, if you want, check out the first link in the description for a few exercises and Chinese medicine practices that can add years to your life. It's a free download, the first link in the description. You can also check out my last related videos there and there.