Why placebo is your best friend & trauma release meditation

The Power of Placebo: Calmness, Healing & Inner Trust

I’m John Glanvill, author of The Calmness in Mind Process for Overcoming Anxiety, OCD and Depression.

I have called this video Placebo is your new best friend. And I would like to share how to practically use placebo to expand your calmness, optimism and trust. 

Plus, I will teach you one of the most potent meditation routines I know, enabling you to shift negative emotions (or trapped traumas) out of your body.

And though I’ve talked a lot about placebo, it’s my experience that only a few people consciously engage with (or even glimpse) its true power.

So, please allow me to drill down into more detail and explore examples of how you may benefit from this incredibly effective mindset that we were never taught how to exploit to our significant advantage.

If I were to describe what placebo means (to me), it would sound something like this:

It is the ability of the conscious mind to trick the unconscious mind into positively believing something is true or has happened (even if it is not true or hasn’t happened), whereby this thought (or action) initiates an internal transmission, be that biological, physical, chemical, emotional or energetic, which influences the body (as a whole system) to react in some positively, measurable manner.

Or if that conscious suggestion is negative, the same process is initiated, but with adverse outcomes – and in that scenario, we call it nocebo, the opposite of placebo, yet still as effective!

Now, I’m not interested in going into all the thousands of studies that prove placebo works – I’ll leave that down to your research, but I will tell you it is a fascinating topic, a game changer and something I use all day long with myself and those around me.

And the bottom line is (as nonsensical and illogical as it may seem) the effects of placebo-ing your mind and body can bring about changes between 20 to 50 per cent effective, depending on how that message is consciously delivered to your unconscious mind.

I’m asking you to trust me, don’t ask why it works; just accept that it does work (and apply it to your life) without having to go down the doubtful anxiety-driven rabbit hole of having to understand why something works before you take action, which of course, is a procrastination trap as I mentioned in video 31.

We’ve all seen a trusted hypnotist ‘suggest’ something to a person whose senses and bodily responses immediately respond as if those suggestions were true (like eating a potato but being told it was an onion), and they respond mentally and bodily to that suggestion.

One word for that reaction is hypnosis, and another is placebo! And it is so amazing and so powerful that it is almost unbelievable, though it’s true and totally provable that it works.

So, if the hypnotist can do something as profound as completely tricking a person’s brain and body – what if we could learn how to do the same thing to ourselves?

I think the reason placebo (or hypnosis) works is – simply because our senses are clumsy and easily fooled (as I detailed in video 17) – our senses are not the truth of anything; they are just signals our brain receives, then interprets into a guess of what might be happening to you.

Remember when I said that we are not looking out of our eyes, light is coming into our eyes, and an area at the back of our head creates a virtual reality image of what that light is reflected from?

That image is then revised for our preferences, beliefs and Reticular Activating System programmed preferences – and we foolishly think we are observing the truth of any situation – when it is just our detached, virtual reality, ego-driven, photo-shopped story of that situation.

Plus, our body automatically responds emotionally to what we see in the image behind our eyes, believing it to be true.

You could jump back and rewatch video 17 to remind yourself of how easy it is for our senses to be misled; at one level, we experience those deceptions every night because our dreams feel real though they are just films running on our mind screen. 

So if a trusted hypnotist tells a suggestible person, “you won’t be able to see that scar on your face anymore – and if the unconscious mind takes that suggestion onboard, it may stop adding that feature to the virtual reality image it creates in the brain. 

Therefore, as your mind is not obsessing about that scar and the RAS is giving it less relevance, its prominence within the virtual reality image the brain produces when you look in the mirror subsides, which may allow for an increase in your self-confidence. 

That’s why running a new conscious and loving story is so powerfully effective each time you see your reflection in the mirror, to overwrite old negative stories.

Equally, a trusted doctor might say, “well done, you’re healing nicely; there is nothing else to worry about.” Therefore, your unconscious mind might stop worrying regardless of the truth of his statement, yet influenced by the degree you believe him.

Or the degree you trust him rather than doubt him will be the degree that your unconscious mind will stop questioning everything, and your body might be tricked into new chemical behaviours influencing different biological responses.

This is why – how we consciously talk about ourselves to others (or to ourselves) does matter, as the unconscious mind will grab onto those ‘suggestions’ (regardless of their truth) and act out the subsequent stories they allude to, which will affect our chemistry, actions and memories.

And we are all suggestible – though those with more complex anxiety or OCD (currently) are more biased to believe the negative stories that their anxious (and doubting condition) suggests to their conscious mind (which we call nocebo) – rather than to use the conscious mind to suggest more positive (and trusting) stories to the reprogram the unconscious mind – which we call placebo! 

Both paths are twenty to fifty per cent effective in affecting the outcomes of the body but have hugely opposing emotional outcomes!

In many bank robbery films, the villains hack into the CCTV cameras and run a loop of film showing the bank vault door locked, so the security guards are tricked into feeling safe, whilst, in reality, they have blown the door open and are finally accessing all the hidden contents.

Well, this is exactly what we can consciously do to our own unconscious mind; we can deceive it with new audio messages, new visual perspectives, and by consciously controlling the body to behave in new ways, we can further trick the brain into rewiring itself.

This is what media organisations, governments, tv programs and advertising companies have been doing to us all our lives; that’s why they spend millions of pounds each year telling us the same thing over and over again and alienating anyone who opposes those messages.

Our brains were always (and continue to be) conditioned with the messages they wish us to believe are true because, with enough repetition, hypnosis or placebo (whatever label you wish to use), our unconscious brains do adopt those stories no matter how clever we are – unless we are working twice as hard to reprogram ourselves in other ways!

As Don Miguel Ruiz writes in his book, The Four Agreements – What is the dream you are dreaming for your life? And how are you making that dream (and living that dream) your art? As any other way means you’ll be living somebody else’s dream! 

These techniques are magnificently effective but seem to be dismissed by our intelligent, conscious minds because they are just too simple to be true and disregarded by science and medicine because they are not profitable.

Think about it – placebo is (provably) nearly as good as most medicines and better than others; it’s free and instantly available – yet our doctors weren’t trained to tell us about it!

And it works for so many different things; a gardener may placebo the plants in his greenhouse by altering the temperature or installing an automatic lighting system which simulates a more extended day of sunshine. The plants don’t know they have been tricked, yet they still respond to this new stimulus as if it was truly happening in nature.

A mother may placebo her child by saying that a deceased pet is now in doggy heaven and is happily playing with Grandma, who also lives there. The child may feel emotionally better, which infers that the stories in her mind have been adjusted and her internal chemistry revised to reflect those new thoughts. 

You’ve really got to get a handle on this – we ARE a giant reprogrammable chemistry set – and are you consciously doing all you can to adjust your unconscious thoughts and chemical processes to your placebo advantage?

Or are you unknowingly just defaulting to letting your old unconscious programs nocebo you into a victimised, out-of-control feeling of discomfort?

However, to really take all this information onboard, we need to bring in a new context for all this content. 

Is it possible for you to get your head around the concept that we are so addicted to our five senses (and believing them as our truth) that we are missing the glaringly obvious fact that all our senses and the brain, which interprets all that data, sit in the darkness of the inside of us ‘guessing’ what is happening outside of us and making decisions based on whatever stories our unconscious brain was programmed with!

This explains why we so often experience cognitive dissonance, meaning we are unconsciously compelled to do something (or believe something) from our intense programming – when consciously (or you might say energetically), it just doesn’t feel right.

And in those moments, your locus of control will kick in; if you have worked hard to make it internal (meaning, you trust yourself more than others) and if you’ve learned how to become courageous, you’ll then do what feels is right for you in that moment.

But if your locus of control is more external, you’ll do what others do or what authority tells you to do, even though you might sense something feels wrong.

I hope this makes some sense.

I think, in some ways, we humans may be compared to a robot, a drone or a military tank.

The driver of a modern tank doesn’t look out of a window; he drives by watching a screen whose images come from many external cameras.

And the body of that tank has thousands of sensors which feed gigabytes of data into the hardware of the main computer, so its software (or you might say its programming) can then make (unconscious) and lighting fast decisions (based on the ‘rules’ of that program).

But the conscious part of the tank driver – whilst he’s observing all the data might feel that something is wrong out there, but the cameras, the sensors and all the programs that analyse that data might say everything is fine, and in accordance with the rules it was programmed with.

Now, in that situation, there is not much the tank driver can do; if the software says to blow up that building even though it is next to a hospital, he might be reprimanded for not following those rules or not doing as he was told. 

And there’s no way he can reprogram that computer, so the next time a similar situation arose, he would experience that uncomfortable cognitive dissonance again, but each time he would become better at suppressing it. 

Which might be good for the army but not necessarily good for his emotional well-being or mental health.

Can you see though, quite a similar thing is happening to us? Our unconscious mind believes what we see, hear, and think to be true.

We are not looking out of our eyes! – We are seeing what the conditioned brain wants us to see – which is a virtual reality image (biased by our beliefs) displayed in the back of our heads! 

Reality is quite a variable and subjective experience that we all interpret differently. A simple example is the glass-half-empty person, which we may describe as an individual using a nocebo mental health model and continually receiving the appropriate negative (and exhausting) feelings concordant with those thoughts.

Or the glass-half-full person who’s naturally placebo-ing themselves, seeing the positive possibilities in each moment and responding with more happy (and motivational) emotions to those more optimistic stories.

And it gets even more unbelievable (though true) because clinical trials show that a placebo still works, even if you consciously know that you are being placebo-ed!

Most people say, “that’s ridiculous”; how can I trick my own mind? Surely it knows when I am lying? 

Well, (mostly) it doesn’t know!

And this is why (unlike that tank driver), if we have unconscious programs running that don’t serve us well, we can consciously overwrite them with the repetition of new, more positive stories, even if they aren’t true!

Your conscious and unconscious minds are on separate systems (as I discussed in video 2). Your unconscious mind is not overly listening too hard because it is busy running all the automated programs that it thinks will keep you safe (even if they are outdated or silly) and obviously need updating.

Both systems function differently, they interpret information differently, and for the most part, the unconscious mind blindly believes what is suggested by your conscious mind. 

I hope I can open your eyes to the fact that conscious pessimism, doubt, negativity and worry will (ultimately) affect your biology undesirably – and conscious optimism, trust, positivity, and gratitude will affect your biology more favourably – regardless of the truth in either case.

This is seen very clearly in those with health anxiety, who worry themselves into exhaustion which diminishes their immune system and leaves them vulnerable to the very things they fear. 

If this is you, I would urge you to practice consciously using positive placebo statements such as;

I trust my body.

I won’t catch that cold that is going around.

(And, if you do catch that cold), you say this cold will be gone in 24 hours.

If a friend asks how you are, you’ll say, “I’m well, thank you!”

I will walk daily and eat healthily, as my health is important to me.

These new tablets the doctor gave me are 200% more effective than the old ones!

And I don’t mean saying these things once or twice; I am suggesting – how can these positive, exaggerated and optimistic placeboes become your new full-time conscious internal dialogue?

These days I would never entertain a negative unconscious thought without running two or three more positive conscious ones over them.

Such as, I’m so lucky; things work out well for me; they’ll choose me first; I am a wonderful person; nature has big plans for me.

Seriously though, to live your life any other way will be disregarding the laws of common sense.

The battle you have is not just within yourself; remember, the goal of the media, governments, corporations and tv programs is to program common sense thinking out of you, so you’ll remain fearful, will accept being told what to do and remain a loyal product consumer, and is that what you want?

Can you acknowledge that finding calmness is a conscious inside job that will take a lot of effort and repetition, knowing that, all the while, your anxiety will be trying to sabotage you from taking action at every step of the journey?

OK then, let’s discuss self-sabotage. Perhaps another way of seeing this is – that your unconscious anxious mind (or OCD) is a fearful dictator who wishes to control you. 

At the same time, your conscious mind is like a clever Detective who wishes to overthrow that dictatorship so that neutrality and balance may be restored.

Therefore, one smart strategy is for the Detective to imagine he’s the dictator to explore how that dictator thinks, where his energy comes from and the strategies he may use to fight for his existence.

That way, the detective may second guess and remove the perceived power the tyrant has before ousting him completely.

As I’ve said before, the modus operandi of anxiety or OCD is to run ‘what if’ stories about things that could go wrong in the future to instil doubt (and the need for reassurance) or proof of security.

Then to overlay more stories about your limitations which causes anxiety to cleverly sabotage you into making you retreat from life – which it thinks is a safe strategy.

Then because you feel out of control, you’ll try to manage the small things around you to try and regain a sense of command, not realising that this is just a control and procrastination trap.

Plus, anxiety and depression are energetic thought forms which feed from the fear generated in the body. 

Therefore, as the detective, you’ll be considering how to recognise these self-sabotaging patterns; you’ll be considering ways to starve the anxiety’s source of fuel, which is emotional overwhelm, and you’ll start using placebo to overwrite the constant negative catastrophising stories.

Ultimately becoming a placebo expert is simple; you consciously say things like;

What a lovely day! (No matter how the day is).

I am so happy to be alive. I’m such a lucky person.

I have so much untapped potential, and I am excited to apply this to my life.

The world’s problems are not mine.

I am looking forward to changing my situation; I wonder what I can do today to positively help myself.

I will love those around me for who they are, not who I wish they were.

I love it when it rains, and each season is unique in its own way.

Nothing will stop me from trying new things.

I will positively trick my body into releasing happy (rather than stress) chemicals as I am giant chemistry set!

I’m so lucky to have this chance on Earth with all its challenges which help me to grow emotionally. (Pause)

You can see what I am doing?

Now, it doesn’t matter if these statements are not true; all you need to do is begin optimistically believing they could be possible.

Obviously, there are limits to this positive placebo method; if you are bald and are saying your hair will grow back, or if you haven’t learned a new skill and are saying I can do that – these are unrealistic and unlikely to be adopted by your unconscious mind.

But there is a powerful placebo middle ground, like saying I love my baldness, or I will lovingly accept myself as I am, or I am looking forward to learning how to program software, or I deserve to find calmness – these are positively affirmational and with repetition do rewire the mind.

It took me ages to adopt this type of inner dialogue as initially I thought it was silly – but I was wrong! (Pause).

Breath-work and trauma release meditation 

Now, then, in the second part of this video, I would like to share a couple of powerful meditation perspectives. 

Have you ever spent some time in a sensory deprivation flotation tank? Where you lay in a bath of (body temperature) salt water (which makes you float), and then the lid is closed so you become ensconced in silent darkness.

 And you lay there, relaxing, with all your senses in a state of redundancy, as there is nothing to see, hear, feel or do.

Now, for those people who are OK with letting go of control and trying new things, they’ll discover that in this relaxing environment, their brains will slow down from the fast-thinking brain waves of alpha and beta down to the slower theta brain waves more associated with meditation – or the period just before sleep which is perfect for relaxation, rejuvenation, a silent mind screen, problem-solving and creativity.

However, some anxious people might struggle to even get into a floatation tank and have the lid closed because their hyper-sensitive brains and hyper-controlling egos will start running fearful stories which induce strong negative emotions, which influence that person to avoid such a situation. 

Though (ironically) that situation may be the best training ground for them to reprogram those fears and responses away! 

And if you really think about it, they are only lying in a foot of water, and they can easily open the lid if they wish! 

Can you see that this is the type of self-sabotage that anxiety brings on, and it just doesn’t pass any common-sense analysis?

So, I am encouraging you to learn how to desensitise your fearful brain and body by placing less attention on your clumsy (and trickable) senses and learn how to just be (in any moment) and just accept what is.

One relatively safe way to desensitise yourself is to wander around a shopping mall or large grocery store wearing noise-cancelling headphones.

As you go about your business in silence (because your hearing is muted), it’s amazing to observe what happens, and you soon discover how hyper-sensitive your sense of hearing may be, even during times it’s not required.

Because, so what if you can’t hear the tannoy announcement? So what if somebody is calling you and you don’t hear them? So what if you don’t overhear other people’s conversations? So what if you can’t hear somebody creep up on you – as you don’t need this default level of hyper-awareness because you are in a relatively safe place?

Therefore, experiencing this new discomfort through having that sense temporarily disabled will create a wonderful new training opportunity for you to see how ridiculously overprogrammed your protective ego is and how to surrender (and accept) the resulting bodily discomfort until that sense recalibrates to the setting normal, for a calm trusting person, rather than what’s normal for a fearful doubting person.

As you continually expose yourself to this new way of being, it becomes more and more comfortable as your senses change from being externally focussed to internally accepting, and this is ERP (or placebo) in action. It starts off awkward but becomes easier and easier with brave repetition.

Plus, (if you repeatedly do this) you’ll soon discover that if a situation did arise – you become naturally aware of it through intuition – which we might define as the energy field of the danger being sensed by your energy field, which warns you to pay attention – which you’ll be more able to sense as your awareness is now focussed inwards not outwards.

Or, perhaps, you’ll go shopping but purposely leave your phone at home to desensitise your brain from its constant distraction or conditioned beliefs that the phone keeps you safe somehow – we humans were OK for 300,000 years without phones!

I’ve been on retreats and done exercises where you wear a blindfold, and a second person walks alongside you holding your elbow, and calmly explains the terrain so you know what to do in each moment as you traverse a mixture of busy streets and unpredictable nature for a few miles.

My experience of doing this was quite profound. Initially, I was holding on to that other person; I felt silly walking through a town wearing a blindfold, and I was nervous about harming myself.

But as I continued to expose myself to these exercises and kept a positive (placebo type) conscious inner dialogue like, I can do this; blind people do this every day; I will remain calm – and words like that.

And as I relinquished my controlling nature and fully trusted my companion to keep me safe, I discovered I could let go of their arm and walk naturally. 

I would imagine that a person watching us would assume that my blindfold was see-through as my walking was 95% normal, with just a tiny stumble (or hesitation) here or there.

And from this new perspective – I slowly became aware that I am part of nature and that I had an underused sense within me that could energetically sense (to some small degree) that which was around me.

Animals have those senses; we see them all the time, like when a dog barks, and then a minute later, a person appears; I think ours are just swamped by our hyper-sensitive initial five senses.

And I am urging you to become a calmer and less distractable person by letting go of control and trusting a little more, just to see what will happen.

OK then, let me expand on this a little further by introducing you to feedback loops. 

I believe that one of the reasons that we humans have been so successful is our adaptability, creativity and problem-solving skills.

This basically means we doggedly try new things until we find a solution which most other creatures don’t.

We’ve all seen insects trying to fly through a glass window; they keep flying at it and bashing into it until they exhaust themselves. Whereas a forward-thinking human will soon see he’ll need to try a different approach by opening the window, smashing the glass or finding another exit. 

I think it works like this; the human would be trying something, and then the feedback from that action would be recognised by the brain as either working or not working; therefore, he would continue with what was working or try something different if it wasn’t working.

So, this instinctual feedback loop ensured he became of enhanced value to himself and remained open to trying new things; therefore, he learned to trust himself more, and the more he trusted himself, the bigger the new challenges he could attempt to overcome.

I think feedback loops are one of nature’s coolest systems and are a very common sense way to view life.

But can you see how, typically, anxious people have limited that element of what is a natural ability and the very aspect of themselves which would enable them to thrive?

Rather than using that feedback loop to try new things, to see what happens and then adjust to suit – they resist change. Fear change. And remain stuck in the same old limiting and exhausting behaviours. 

They have forgotten how to use that wonderful skill of trying new things and accepting that discomfort to expand their skillset and, thus, facilitate the courage to engage with life more fully.

Once again, this is ERP in action – or we might call it placebo or feedback loops (or whatever you want to call it). This is what makes us humans special! 

And as they say, ‘use that skill, or lose that skill’. It’s up to you, nobody else!

Remember, this course is about self-responsibility, self-accountability and courageous growth towards calmness through action. 

So, if we are going to step out bravely to reprogram THE brain and retrain THE body’s cellular responses to be less hypersensitive, then we may require to update our perspectives and explore a more advanced process.

In recent videos, I’ve been nudging you towards considering yourself – not as a standalone unit but as an integrated atomic energy form that is part of another smart and highly integrated, energetic environment, which we may call nature, the quantum field or the Godliverse. 

Because this new point of view may help explain why conventional medical treatments for anxiety (and depression) are limited, as they focus on treating the symptoms and not necessarily addressing the underlying causes.

In video 40, I told you about the toroidal field of energy that surrounds our body, which can be increased through our breathing and our intention. 

 And as we increase the vibration of that energy field, trapped trauma and stuck emotions often get dislodged and are provoked to vent out of the body with (or without) our conscious awareness.  

We can’t see that stuck energy as it’s invisible, like the energy in an electrical cable, wifi signals or radiation from the Sun, but it’s no less real. 

It’s my experience that we have (lesser-used) senses which detect that field of energy (if we spend time developing them), which I define as intuition or a sixth sense or a hunch.

These are the senses which connect us to nature’s energetic attractor fields, as we see when birds navigate and beasts migrate (as one) and with repeatable accuracy.

I know this is kind of woo-woo stuff. But.

If you can remain sceptical and peek behind that (initial knee-jerk response), you’ll see that there may be rational answers to many of our complex questions.

Do you remember when I said there are three levels from which you may observe a problem? The perspective, the context and finally, the content of that issue – and right now, I am attempting to you pull right back, and I’m asking you to consider a new perspective.

I attempted to describe this in video 42, but how can I use words to explain that which is inexplicable or doesn’t follow our engrained concept of physics, like quantum phenomena allowing matter to be in two places at the same time or the behaviour of an atom being altered via the intention of an observer?

So, the next time you are emotionally triggered or stuck in a prolonged emotion of sadness, anger, procrastination or fear – I’d like you to engage yourself in this following technique. 

Don’t analyse it, and don’t let your anxiety sabotage you by it thinking you need more proof. Please, just take action and do it! 

Sit down in a place where you won’t be disturbed.

Close your eyes, take a few calming breaths, and orientate your awareness to scan your body (and the field around you) for where you feel that emotion, be it a pain, a heaviness, a gnawing sensation or an unwanted vibration in your energetic field.

 Now, it took me a long time to hone this skill of observing the matter of my body, as well as the energetic vibration in which all that matter resides, because, in the beginning, I couldn’t feel it, so I just imagined it was there.

I did this by developing the capacity to keep my conscious focus and awareness (out of all the issues, stories and reactions) and simply on scanning the body and its field to sense where these energetic agitations were located.

You might find it helpful to rewatch video 9 to refamiliarise yourself with my metaphor of the atomic energy battery that you are looking to discharge and recognise those charges are stored all over the body in various clusters.

So, as you sit there with your eyes closed, scanning your body for any pain, blockages or sensations. You stay out of the mind’s stories; you’re not looking for answers; all you are doing is calmly investigating where these energetic, emotional disruptions might reside.

And if you can’t find any, this is just your unconscious Dictator sabotaging you as it doesn’t want to be ousted!

Therefore, consciously switch perspectives and become the Detective, and keep bringing your attention back to scanning your body, and you’ll find them soon enough.

Then keep your attention on the one with the largest pain (or the biggest sensation), and for a minute or two, just be with it, observe it, but don’t do anything with it.

What you’ll notice is that it fluctuates; it moves a little; it’s like a separate field of energy agitating within your body’s main field of energy.

Now, the reason it fluctuates is because it wants to get your attention; if it didn’t fluctuate, your body would just habituate to that sensation, and you’d not feel it.

Let me give you an example – if a person places their hand on your shoulder and keeps it still, you’d soon forget it was there, but if they were to keep stroking you, your awareness is continually being pulled back to that sensation.

So, metaphorically, this is what those parasitic energetic emotions do; they fluctuate as they either feed from your emotional despair (or) inform you they are now ready to become vented because you have now grown enough to handle life differently, so they are no longer (unconsciously) necessary to keep you safe by restricting your life.

Remember, as I have said all along, trapped potential energy ready to escape as kinetic energy – should you be able to create the optimum condition for this transformation to happen.

Those energy forms vent out (back into nature) like a safety valve during a pressure relief blowout, and your frequency rises in their absence, and they are forced to find new (lower-vibration) hosts to (parasitically) feed from instead of you! 

And that is not your problem (NMP) because that’s just how the universe seems to operate atomically and quantumly.

And as you expand your usefulness to nature by being able to handle discomfort, nature then begins to use your utility and sends you more powerful opportunities because like goes to like – and all energy is connected and continuously communicating.

And though I believe this to be true (and have experienced it to be true), even if it’s not, what a wonderfully optimistic and helpful way to placebo yourself and to live life from.

OK, let’s get back to our meditation.

So, you keep your awareness on that sensation and silently observe what it does for a minute or two. 

Then (whilst still not looking for answers), you consider what that emotion feels like. Is it anger, frustration, boredom, regret, shame, guilt, disappointment, envy, jealousy, fear or something else? 

Stay out of the stories and attempt to keep a clear mind-screen, as you be with, and accept that sensation as it fluctuates, and whilst you consider what that emotion may be – though, you don’t need an answer.

It’s as if you were in a museum (the museum of the antiquities of your mind), and you’re just detachedly observing what comes and goes – just become fascinated by what is – rather than analysing anything.

And in these surreal inner moments of still focus, powerful realisations may appear on the mind screen – long-forgotten events or a new perspective on current situations – and all you do is stay focused and observe them.

Like observing a painting in a museum – and just letting the mind see it from this way or that way and allowing it to evoke memories and dreams on the mind screen as your formless (and still) observer simply watches.

Then, begin to increase your breath. Slowly breathe in until your lungs are full, then slowly breathe out (through slightly pursed lips) until your lungs are completely empty (whilst still keeping your awareness on that sensation). 

Let me show you; let’s say the sensation was in my hand. – 

Now, because mastering where you consciously choose to place (and keep) your awareness is a learnable skill, it’s possible to practice having your focus in more than one place.

So, now, as we expand this meditation, keep one aspect of your awareness focused on the sensation and allow another aspect of your awareness to imagine that as you breathe in, your toroidal energy field becomes energised and begins to rotate.

As you breathe in, it is drawn up through your feet, up through the inside of your torso and out of the top of your head.

Then, as you expel that breath – you imagine it moving outside of you, around and down to your feet, until the next inhale, where it is pulled back up from your feet again. 

And you repeat, and repeat and repeat, whilst keeping your attention on your emotional sensation (or pain) and imagining your toroidal field expanding as it pulls energy from nature’s freely available Zero Point Field – which entwines with your breath, allowing you to increase your vibratory frequency. 

Eventually, be that five minutes or twenty minutes, you’ll discover the emotion that you had kept your awareness on will begin to slowly evaporate as it becomes integrated (and dissipated) by the movement of the increased energy you are causing to generate around yourself.

Stored potential energy escapes as kinetic energy via the agitation of atoms, thus transforming it from one location to another – from within you – to out of you – and back into nature, leaving you less dense and vibrating at a higher frequency.

And you don’t need to know what escaped; it was just stuck energy, crap from your past, and you can be glad it’s gone without ever having to know what it was or why it was there!

Then you stop the breath work, sit quietly and rescan your body, looking for any other pains, emotions or sensations – then rinse and repeat on those sensations.

 Sometimes you might burst into tears or suddenly feel the need to grieve for a person (or relationship) from the past, or some other emotions may suddenly pop up from nowhere.

 If this happens, smile to yourself, let that emotion come up and allow it to become entwined in your breath, then dissipated from your field as you refrain from revisiting those old stories by keeping your awareness solely the sensation and your rotating energetic toroidal field.

Now, occasionally, your body may want to shake or twitch as sometimes these trapped energies might be pretty large and have quite a lot of stored energy that needs releasing.

If this happens, or if you are a person who experiences unrequested body ticks, twitches, chronic fatigue or has a feeling that there is something huge inside that needs to explode out and may hurt you (which it won’t) – I’d like you to consider the following concept deeply.

It’s my experience that, from the perspective of these stuck energies (that wish to remain inside you as they feed from your despair), they have learned a subtle trick for their self-preservation and survival.

When you try to remove them by raising your frequency, rather than fully releasing out of your body, they partially vent, but not out to nature, but by using some of that energy (releasing some of that pressure) by energising your body, by making it twitch, shake or flail around.

Yes, you will have released a tiny bit of energy, but it was burnt off by your body movements rather than ejecting the whole energetic trauma out of your body in one go.

I hope you can understand what I am trying to say, as this is really important, especially for people who have struggled with chronic fatigue for many years. 

So, though very difficult, this is what you need to do to turn the tables on their sneaky tactics.

We stop them from partially venting by NOT moving our bodies.

 As best we can, we consciously attempt to keep our body relaxed and very still, yet continue to increase our energetic vibration through our breath up to a frequency they can’t handle.

Those energy forms will then be forced into an all-or-nothing response which facilitates their full release out of your system via becoming entwined with your breath, involuntary crying and sobbing, vomiting, burping, shouting or sneezing – all of which are fast energy release mechanisms and though they may be noisy and messy – they do fully escape, and you’ll be fine.

However, if this is you don’t do this alone, find a professional to help you, or (at least, with a trusted friend) place cushions around the floor and move furniture out of the way – or make sure you are in a location like a beach (or the middle of a field) where you can sit safely, and any noise you make won’t startle others.

There is a magnificent film called The Work by the McLeary brothers from 2017. It documents an intense group therapy session among prisoners who were guided to release their childhood trapped trauma and let it come up and vent out of themselves.

I would definitely urge you to watch it and to consider that the meditation I am teaching here is aiming to achieve the same outcome, though through a more gentle path.

 Sometimes the emotions fade away; other times, you may have a big emotional discharge, but all I need for you to learn is – how to keep your awareness on the emotion, to keep breathing and to allow whatever emotion, no matter how scary, to come up and out of you while you keep your body calm, relaxed and stationary.

As you repeatedly do this, you’ll be further enhancing your ability to keep your awareness away from the minds thoughts, plus it will retrain your cells to become comfortable with emotional discomfort.

It is my experience that removing these stuck energies or trapped traumas is the missing link in recovery from complex anxiety and depression. And though our conventional doctors aren’t taught about this, wise healers in every country are well aware (and have been for millennia) of these fundamental laws of health.

Some of you will feel comfortable with me using language like this, whilst others might say, “show me the proof.” 

As I have said before, I am the proof, I have been through this many times, and it did change me profoundly, but this is only my subjective experience.

Plus, how can science prove something non-linear and for which we don’t yet have the technology to create measuring devices? For example, we know that in space, dark matter and dark energy seem to be real, but science doesn’t know what they are or how to measure them!

I wasted many years fighting concepts like this, and it was only when I decided to stop looking for proof and took action that I subjectively (and beneficially) discovered them to be true and effective.

As you try this meditation, common areas where you’ll find these stuck energies are in your hands, throat, back, stomach, hips, and any places where you might have had physical trauma or metaphoric trauma, like in the womb after a miscarriage or in your throat, if as a child, you couldn’t vocalise your fears or ask for what you needed.

 OK then, good luck with this, don’t let your dictator sabotage you from doing this placebo and breathwork – and I’ll get working on the next video.