Society has taught you to identify so completely with your body that you believe you are only your physical form.
This fundamental misconception shapes everything about how you approach health and healing.
Let me be clear: You’re not the vehicle, you’re the driver.
You’re not a dumb machine that learned to think.
You’re a spiritual intelligence inhabiting a body.
This distinction changes everything about how we approach healing and wellness.
The Mechanistic Trap
Modern healthcare operates primarily from a mechanistic approach, treating the human body like a machine.
This works well for carburetors and watches.
But it fails miserably with living systems.
We need a vitalistic approach instead—one that recognizes the source of vitality is life force, spiritual intelligence, consciousness.
Most people have forgotten something crucial.
They’re actively taught to forget that there’s an intelligence that transformed two cells into four, then eight, then sixteen, on to trillions.
These cells differentiated and formed organs.
They created a perfect healthy baby that knows how to breathe, circulate blood, and continuously regenerate itself.
This intelligence didn’t leave you at birth.
It remains present until you leave your body.
Think about it: at every funeral, we hear “here lie the remains of Joe.”
The remains are the vehicle, the body.
Nobody says “here lies Joe, the essence” because we intuitively understand that the intelligence driving the vehicle has departed.
How Society Conditions Us To Forget
The conditioning to identify solely with our bodies happens on many fronts.
From childhood through adolescence, we develop a huge identity with appearance.
How do I look?
Am I too tall, too short, too thin, too fat?
These inner and outer judgments continuously drive us to focus on the body.
They leave less awareness that there’s an intelligence behind the system.
Society also perpetuates an unfortunate paradigm:
People are too ignorant to understand how their bodies work.
They must trust external experts.
This disempowers us.
When we don’t understand our bodies, we take them to healthcare providers who examine, diagnose, and treat.
Children scrape their knees and receive antiseptic and bandages.
They develop fevers and are given medication to reduce them.
Year after year, we learn that we need something from outside ourselves to get our bodies working properly when they’re “not working right” or “sick.”
This continuing pattern reduces or potentially eliminates any belief in our ability to heal ourselves.
We’re taught we need something from the outside.
Which simply isn’t true.
This is disempowerment at the highest level.
The Programming Years
Neuroscience teaches us something fascinating about child development.
Between ages 0 and 7, particularly from 2 to 7, children function primarily in a theta brainwave pattern.
They lack higher-level cognitive functions like:
- Planning
- Decision-making
- Critical thinking
Because of this theta state, children are essentially in hypnosis.
They absorb programming from family and culture about:
- Belief systems
- Judgments
- What’s good, bad, right, or wrong
If a child grows up in a typical family where parents treat their bodies with external remedies…
If they’ve forgotten they’re the source of their own healing…
They’ll teach their children the same.
The child learns early: when their body is “unhealthy,” they need something external to regain health.
This becomes learned behavior.
Though it’s not a fundamental truth.
Reconnecting With Your Driver
When helping someone reconnect with their “driver,” I meet them where they are.
I assess their current understanding before proceeding.
I often use simple metaphors:
If you’ve broken a bone and had it put in a cast, did the cast heal you?
No.
It simply kept things in place so your body could heal itself.
If you received stitches for a deep cut, did the stitches heal you?
No.
They just approximated the tissue so your body could heal.
Here’s another powerful example:
You can give a corpse the greatest organic nutrition, medicines, or supplements.
Nothing will happen.
The corpse has all the same body parts, organs, and nervous system.
But it lacks intelligence, life force, spiritual essence.
Without this, it cannot utilize any materials.
I remind people of everyday experiences of self-healing:
- When you cut yourself, the cut heals itself
- When you break a bone, the bone repairs itself
- Your body breaks down cells that need to be eliminated and rebuilds tissues, bones, and connecting tissues
It repairs itself without conscious direction.
The Power of Conscious Breathing
I teach specific breathing techniques because most people don’t realize they can intervene with conscious breathing.
When stressed, people slide into the fight-or-flight response.
This causes chaos in the body over time.
By learning to engage with their breathing in specific ways, they can:
- Reduce their pulse rate within minutes
- Lower blood pressure
- Bring their bodies back into balance
- Activate the parasympathetic nervous system
They have this control but don’t know it.
As human beings, we have the ability to breathe involuntarily or voluntarily.
Most people breathe involuntarily their entire lives.
Respiration happens automatically. They don’t need to think about it.
However, we can consciously intervene in our breath.
Most people don’t realize this.
By choosing to consciously breathe, we intervene in our body-mind-spirit experience.
There are thousands of breathing techniques for:
- Energizing the body
- Calming the body
- Entering meditative states
- Increasing healing power
Consider this:
The first thing we do when entering this world is inhale.
If we don’t inhale, we don’t survive birth.
When life ends, the last thing we do is exhale.
That’s the power of breath.
The Power of Conscious Languaging
One of my most influential teachers taught me 40 years ago:
“Thoughts are things.”
As a beginning student, he would often remind me, “Lou, be mindful, your thoughts betray you.”
Like most humans, I was speaking in ways that unconsciously worked against me in many aspects of my life.
The words that come out of our mouths represent our belief systems.
Neuroscience shows that 95% of these beliefs reside in the subconscious mind.
We think we’re creating our lives with our conscious mind.
But that’s only 5%.
The other 95% drives our life through programming that many people aren’t even aware of.
It was instilled at such a young age.
When a practitioner gives you a diagnosis, that label becomes imprinted on you.
“You have diabetes, asthma, fibromyalgia.”
Then you start claiming it: “I have diabetes.”
The two most powerful words you can say to yourself are “I am” and “I have” is a derivative.
You’re actually claiming the condition.
You’re making healing resolution nearly impossible while simultaneously taking ownership of this state of imbalance or dis-ease.
When people use phrases like “I can’t,” which means “impossible,” they’re reinforcing limiting beliefs that aren’t true.
“I can’t get well” reinforces the limitation.
Though it’s not reality.
Transformations Through Consciousness Shifts
I’ve witnessed countless transformations when people shift their consciousness.
Starting with my own journey.
I grew up in an allopathic household where my mother was the director of nurses.
Two sisters worked in major metropolitan hospitals.
That was my family’s belief system: healing as an external experience.
As I changed those beliefs…
As I learned to trust myself…
As I remembered I was the driver not just the vehicle…
As I changed my word choices…
My belief system and actions transformed.
I’ve healed from physical injuries including:
- A broken leg
- A broken pelvis
- A broken spine
All without external interventions.
No pain pills, no surgeries.
Just natural methods combined with my internal understanding that I was the source of my healing.
I’ve healed completely from emotional wounds, psychological wounds, and traumas without external remedies.
I haven’t utilized the allopathic system in over 40 years.
Frank’s Story
One client, whom I’ll call Frank for confidentiality, had a team of 12 professionals when I met him:
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Naturopaths
All working simultaneously to help him recover from:
- Chronic insomnia (he hadn’t slept through the night in over a year)
- Depression requiring medication
- Skin issues
- Pain from physical injuries including broken ribs and ankle
He was in serious crisis and ill health.
After explaining what was possible through my work, he agreed to work together.
Within five days, he was sleeping through the night.
Within two weeks, he was off all medications.
His allergies and respiratory issues cleared up.
His pain disappeared and mobility improved.
We used conscious languaging, conscious breathing, and taught him to rewrite the stories running in his subconscious mind while upgrading his nervous system.
Two months later, he was completely transformed:
Sleeping well, exercising, and living without limitations.
Sonia’s Story
Another client, “Sonia,” was under the care of medical practitioners, naturopaths, and counselors when I met her.
She could only function four hours daily before completely losing energy.
As a corporate executive transitioning to coaching, she couldn’t hike, dance, or practice martial arts as she had for years.
After just five days of work together, she returned to:
- Training martial arts
- Dancing
- Running
- Having energy to fulfill a complete day as long as she wanted
Addressing Skepticism
To skeptics who dismiss the idea that consciousness influences physical healing, I simply say:
Remove life force, consciousness, or spiritual intelligence from the body.
Then try to heal that physical body.
At that point, it’s called a corpse.
No practitioner in any field can revitalize a corpse.
Even within the acknowledged medical paradigm, the majority of diseases are caused by distress.
While “stress” has been given a negative connotation, we must be accurate and distinguish between:
- Eustress (good stress)
- Distress
Distress comes from lifestyle and mental states that cause disarray in the body.
It triggers fight-or-flight responses for too long, causing the body to break down.
If the mind causes this breakdown, it can also rebalance it.
Rewriting Your Script
One profound way to identify and rewrite limiting beliefs is through conscious languaging.
This teaches people to pay attention to their words.
Words represent belief systems from the subconscious mind.
Over time, they can intervene and upgrade word choices.
Rewriting subconscious programming.
Upgrading beliefs to improve their lives.
Most people focus on what they don’t want while hoping to get what they do want:
- “I don’t want another bad relationship.”
- “I want to be out of debt.”
- “I’m tired of being scared.”
We focus on what we don’t want but expect something different in return.
It doesn’t work that way.
Whatever we focus on expands.
Where attention goes, energy flows.
In Conscious Languaging, I teach people to focus on what they do want.
By shifting focus to what they want, that focus brings forth what they’re after.
It naturally removes what they don’t want.
If they want better relationships, they focus on better relationships.
They become someone who can live in healthier relationships.
Our lives reflect our dominant thinking.
Look at aspects of your life you’re not happy with.
That’s a representation of limiting beliefs you may not realize you have.
You keep generating these experiences because of programming in your subconscious mind.
Using these tools and processes, you’ll recognize that you’ve created these experiences.
Even though they’re not what you wanted.
Because of limiting beliefs in your subconscious.
The power comes when you realize:
You can write your own script.
You can rewrite subconscious programming to create different outcomes.
Rather than repeating unwanted experiences.
The Role of External Help
I never suggest people avoid seeking assistance.
That’s what I offer: assistance.
The key is not turning over the power of your healing to someone else.
Seek support and assistance.
But understand that healing is up to you.
The person you seek assistance from should help you reconnect with your capacity to heal.
Not take control of your healing process.
I didn’t understand how my body worked until I spent decades studying anatomy and physiology at high levels.
The average person doesn’t understand their body either.
But they’ve been taught to turn their healing over to someone else.
That’s inappropriate.
We should guide people to remember that healing is up to them.
Then guide them in achieving it.
The medical profession excels at crisis care.
If someone’s in a life-or-death situation from a gunshot wound or traumatic car accident, they should absolutely seek appropriate medical care.
But we should also ask:
How did you get into a state of illness?
Instead of just labeling conditions and treating effects, we should assess origins.
Was the source:
- Emotional?
- Mental?
- Chemical?
- Physical?
What caused the imbalance?
The body’s natural state is health and well-being.
When we lose that state, we’ve done something to cause it.
That’s not blame.
It’s a reality check.
When we learn what took us away from well-being, we can reverse engineer the process and regain health.
A New Perspective on Chronic Conditions
“Chronic” simply means long-standing.
“Condition” refers to some labeled disease state.
In my world, it’s a “dis-ease” state.
Meaning we’ve lost homeostasis or normal healthy well-being.
What caused this loss?
Medicine has a term called “allostatic load” referring to the cumulative burden on the body’s physiological systems due to prolonged stress or other life events.
Conventional medicine often considers something “incurable” because they’ve tried to cure it with their available tools.
Primarily pharmaceuticals or surgery.
And failed.
That doesn’t mean healing is impossible.
It means medicine has reached its limitations.
If chronic illness stems from an unhealthy long-term relationship that generates illness…
And that relationship is never addressed…
Nothing will improve regardless of treatment.
The same applies to working in a job you despise but stay in for the paycheck or health insurance.
While that environment tears you down more than builds you up.
Until these root causes are addressed, no treatment will create lasting improvement.
Consider the medical term “spontaneous remission.”
Meaning “it went away and we don’t know how.”
This happens because there’s a force at work that conventional healthcare doesn’t acknowledge:
Life force, innate intelligence, consciousness, spirituality.
The Power of Immersion
Learning transformation is like learning a foreign language.
You can study textbooks or listen to tapes for a year and still struggle with fluency.
However, if you immerse yourself in a country where only that language is spoken…
You’ll learn exponentially faster.
That’s the concept behind our immersion experiences at our sanctuary property.
When groups come, we immerse them in new paradigms and provide:
- Tools
- Skill sets
- Mindsets
To understand:
- How their bodies work
- The power of their thoughts
- How they’re creating their current reality
Then we give them new tools to create the reality they want to experience.
Whether in health, wealth, or relationships.
By immersing in this environment, people experience true transformation.
During immersions, we guide participants through processes that remove trauma from their:
- Physical bodies
- Physiology
- Minds
We give them tools to get in the driver’s seat.
We empower them to take ownership of their lives.
Transcending from victim consciousness to victor consciousness.
They learn to stop letting other people, places, or things write their life scripts.
And instead write their own.
By the end of the immersion, they’ve already experienced transformation.
They leave fundamentally different than when they arrived.
The ongoing support helps them continue living into this new life they’ve stepped into.
Remember: You Are Not the Vehicle. You Are the Driver.
When you recognize this truth and begin living from it, everything changes.
Your innate healing intelligence activates.
Your consciousness expands.
You reclaim the power that was always yours.
The journey begins with a single realization:
You are not your body.
You are the consciousness that gives it life.
And it’s time to take the wheel.
If you’d prefer a conversation about your specific situation and whether this approach might be right for you, you’re welcome to schedule a consultation.
Remember, this is about more than just solving a health crisis. It’s about recognizing an opportunity for transformation that most never see.
