 In my quest to figure out what was going on with my lifelong digestive problems and now seeing patients of my own something really jumped out to me about Solving the complexity that can come with treating not only chronic illness over years or decades But also treating complex illness where there are many many symptoms many problems and many patterns Where sometimes if you are the patient You can't tell the force from the trees and you don't know what's causing certain symptoms And honestly, you're not even really sure what makes the symptoms better or worse in this video I want to introduce the words of a very famous physician in Chinese medicine and how it can really help you heal yourself Hey, I'm Alex high and author of the health book master the day So I've included a really interesting case study below the first link is for this guy Lee Ching-yoon's four keys to living a long healthy life Supposedly he lived to be 256 years old which I do not believe but he was a very long-lived guy and his four Taoist principles can help anyone live a longer Healthier life, so you can check it out the first link below So there was this great Japanese physician named Yoshimatsu Toto and Yoshimatsu Toto was an expert in abdominal palpation of a certain lineage of formulas called Shang Han Lun formulas But he specialized in being a very skeptical Scientific guy when it came to systematically figuring out what caused disease and how to treat it with herbal formulas Now Yoshimatsu Toto had this one theory that I think is very very interesting He believed that for most patients There was one main toxin and if you figured out what that was you could treat that pattern I guess pathological pattern be a better term and if you treated that most of the symptoms would go away now clinically I find this to be really really true at least in my own health recovery process The main problem I had since childhood was digestive problems was Constipation even if I ate incredibly well exercised every day meditated. I was happy sometimes two three four five days And then later in my later 20s when I started to have this bout of really serious stress as an entrepreneur Then as a doctoral student I learned that I was having other problems starting to have indigestion Starting to get headaches for the first time in my whole life really bad insomnia that went on for on and off for years And I went through this whole wild goose chase chasing one rabbit that way one rabbit that way one goose that way Couldn't see the force for the trees completely disoriented and confused Many different doctors and physicians I saw all treating something different and it wasn't until I revisited Yoshimatsu Toto's idea What is the one big thing? What is the one main toxin or pattern in Chinese medicine? Which is really what it would be for me the main pattern wasn't the insomnia wasn't the psycho emotional stuff Wasn't these other things it was my digestion and a very specific problem And once I began to treat that very specific problem that was the root all these other branch patterns Started going away over time now clinically this tends to show up as Patients and we have one main clinical pattern even though there may be a lot of different things happening We tend to each have one or two, but primarily one main constitutional pattern that follows us throughout our life Maybe we're the person where when we're under stress we get diarrhea maybe the person where under stress we start getting anxiety or depression symptoms or we can sleep 15 hours a day or Something changes with our menstrual cycle. There's usually one core Thread and that thread ancient doctors called constitution and I share that because if you are going through Some kind of self healing process one of the best things you can ever do is focus on your main Constitutional pattern. What is the main thing the through line? Focus on the factors that heal that and many of the other diverse factors will go away as well So what it really means is maybe there are you know, you're taking a hundred supplements or realistically 30 or 40 Maybe that means to figure out. What are the three that are having the biggest impact or maybe this has broader applications to your life Where you've realized that you know what 90% of my stress. What is the main pattern? It's my financial life So guess what? I'm gonna spend the next three years I'm just gonna work hard on my financial life. Maybe the stress is coming from relationships and love So you decide I'm gonna dedicate twice as much time towards making sure I have abundant friends I'm in a great relationship and I put a lot of effort towards the person. I'm dating so that it stays great there's usually one main pattern for a lot of people and If you focus on that one main pattern the breakdown the problem the pathological state If you can focus on that usually the results in the other quadrants of your life will often heal themselves a lot like how someone who gets fit Develops discipline suddenly they start demonstrating those practices those character traits in other parts of their life So I hope that helps. This is kind of in our self healing series So to speak if you're working on healing something yourself, I hope this can help you It's something that's really really useful clinically now again before you go I've included that free case study down there below Li Qingyun's four keys to a long and healthy life His Taoist longevity principles check it out down there the first link in the description And then before you go check out the related videos right here