Episode 145
If Not Low Serotonin, What’s Really Driving Depression? - The Demartini Show
A recent study by UCL has cited that there is no convincing evidence that low serotonin is responsible for depression. If not a chemical imbalance, then what's driving depression? Join Dr John Demartini for an in depth discussion about what's really going on in the mind of someone with "depression". Get ready for a new paradigm in mental wellbeing.
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We're basically stopping and taking a narrow view,
Speaker:and they're not looking at the holistic aspect of the human being and giving
Speaker:people their power back.
Speaker:This particular topic that I want to do today is initiated
Speaker:primarily because of a recent study that has come out,
Speaker:dealing with the idea of serotonin and biochemical imbalance in
Speaker:relationship to depression. You know,
Speaker:it's been for many years since the 1990s,
Speaker:sort of been promoted that a biochemical imbalance is the cause of my
Speaker:depression. And the question is,
Speaker:is what's really driving depression if the serotonin levels,
Speaker:aren't the only factor or not as much of a factor as they like to make it
Speaker:seem? The reason I've been saying that is because I've helped many,
Speaker:many people with depression over the years,
Speaker:over the decades,
Speaker:and suddenly they had enough dopamine or serotonin or norepinephrine
Speaker:in their brain after asking a series of questions and breaking down some of the
Speaker:delusions and unreleased expectations and fantasies that they were harboring.
Speaker:So I go, well, something's not, that must not be causal.
Speaker:And I've not been a firm believer in the biochemical model for all these years,
Speaker:because I've seen too many cases,
Speaker:hundreds of cases that resolved their depression without having
Speaker:to take any chemical.
Speaker:And and I know that the biochemical changes in the brain can
Speaker:occur by changes in ratios of perceptions and expectations,
Speaker:if a tiger jumped into a room, all of a sudden you're next to it,
Speaker:and you quickly did your biochemical analysis,
Speaker:you'd find imbalanced biochemistry,
Speaker:because you're perceiving a tiger about to eat you.
Speaker:So these things can change in 200 milliseconds.
Speaker:And so I'd like to go down the rabbit hole a bit on that and talk about
Speaker:depression for a second and why the biochemical model
Speaker:and you know, just because we,
Speaker:we've confused causal with correlated.
Speaker:To say that a biochemical is the only cause or the cause of these depressive
Speaker:states or these cyclic states
Speaker:is a little bit stretching it,
Speaker:maybe correlated or maybe not even correlated, in some cases.
Speaker:In fact, some have shown, I went to a conference in Toronto,
Speaker:a number of years ago, 2008 I believe,
Speaker:about thousand psychiatrists there and I just kind of joined them in and
Speaker:listened in,
Speaker:see if I could learn some things and I got a manual that they gave out at the
Speaker:door. And back then, now this is 12,
Speaker:14 years ago, they
Speaker:were saying that there's a decrease in effectiveness and not even greater
Speaker:than some placebo effects on these serotonin or
Speaker:selective serotonin uptake inhibitor chemistries that
Speaker:or norepinephrine uptake inhibitors, or dopamine uptake inhibitors,
Speaker:and they were not really getting the effects.
Speaker:And it was stated at this conference and I was amazed at how that was done and
Speaker:it wasn't widespread.
Speaker:And it's taken now 12 to 14 years for now this article to come up
Speaker:and actually make some sort of contribution and difference.
Speaker:So the question is, is what's really going on?
Speaker:So let me just share with you something that's going to shock you and I know I'm
Speaker:going to get some reaction from this because you're so programmed,
Speaker:most people are programmed, not you, necessarily each individual,
Speaker:but many people are anyway,
Speaker:programmed by the biochemical pharmaceutical model that
Speaker:you just automatically assumed that was true.
Speaker:I've not believed that all these years,
Speaker:because I've seen clinical evidence that points against it. But,
Speaker:what's interesting is, is, is depression really a condition?
Speaker:Ooh, that's a shocker because if you're depressed, you're thinking,
Speaker:well I've got to have it. See,
Speaker:we have a tendency to want to create a false attribution bias towards external
Speaker:circumstances because of the repercussions of what people think about us if
Speaker:we're down and we're not up up. The whole positive thinking movement says,
Speaker:you got to be up all the time, you got to be up,
Speaker:if not you're a failure or something. And that's just not so.
Speaker:Every human being has periods of cycles of ups and downs in mild or
Speaker:moderate degrees. Euthymia is just very small ones.
Speaker:Cyclothymia is a little more moderate and you know,
Speaker:bipolar condition and manic and depressive states is more extreme.
Speaker:It's like a spectrum there.
Speaker:And I think most everybody has periods of highs and lows.
Speaker:They have mood swings as self-esteem swings revolving around their
Speaker:true self-worth, which is the center of those.
Speaker:And you have a homeostatic mechanism in the brain neurochemically and
Speaker:electronically to try to bring that into balance.
Speaker:And the question is what can throw those off? And I am absolutely certain,
Speaker:one thing that I've demonstrated over and over again is subjective
Speaker:biased interpretations of reality and unrealistic
Speaker:expectations that have been programmed into us by injected traditions and moral
Speaker:hypocrisies, et cetera, that lead to these things.
Speaker:So I'd like to discuss those.
Speaker:So I'm going to describe depression as a comparison of
Speaker:your current reality, which is balanced,
Speaker:even though you're conscious of one side and unconscious the other,
Speaker:a comparison of your current reality to an unrealistic
Speaker:expectation, fantasy or delusion about how life's supposed to be.
Speaker:Because I've had people who are depressed and I found out what they were
Speaker:comparing their life to about how it 'should' have happened,
Speaker:'supposed to' have happened, wished it would happened or whatever,
Speaker:found out what they thought it should be, found the downsides of what they were,
Speaker:because they were assuming all upsides, no downsides.
Speaker:And when I came up with the downsides about how they were comparing their life
Speaker:too, about how it should have been, all of a sudden they weren't depressed.
Speaker:I've seen this over and over again.
Speaker:Had recently in my Breakthrough Experience, my signature
Speaker:a lady who said, 'Well,
Speaker:my mother wasn't there when I was a child and I was abandoned.'
Speaker:And of course the psychologist, you know, had heyday with that and said,
Speaker:the reason why she's all screwed up in her life is because of that type of
Speaker:thing. It's a false causality.
Speaker:It's not because they were abandoned that's the cause.
Speaker:That's an event that occurs. But their perception,
Speaker:decisions and actions determine what happens out of that.
Speaker:If you have an expectation that your mommy's supposed to be there and they're
Speaker:not, then you can go, oh, they they're the cause of my problems.
Speaker:But the reality is, I asked this person; when your mother wasn't there,
Speaker:what specific trait, action,
Speaker:inactions did you perceive that you missed out on?
Speaker:And they started listing them. And I said, and at the moment,
Speaker:when your mom disappeared and was no longer there or wasn't there,
Speaker:who took it on? And they go, well, nobody. I said, look again.
Speaker:And then they realized that they became more resourceful and took on some of
Speaker:that or a mother's friend did,
Speaker:or an aunt or a big sister or a teacher or somebody else in their life took it
Speaker:on and they didn't see it. And all of a sudden they go, Hmm.
Speaker:Or they turned into because sort of a doll,
Speaker:an inanimate object became a doll that would talk to them and say the things
Speaker:that the mother was, that they wanted her mother to say.
Speaker:But we found out that the mind was become aware when I asked the right
Speaker:questions,
Speaker:because the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you
Speaker:ask,
Speaker:what was the new form and what was the benefit of the new form and what would've
Speaker:been the drawback if they had been there the way you fantasized.
Speaker:Cause you're assuming if they'd been there it'd been all positive or more
Speaker:positive than negative. But if I ask what's the downside if they were there,
Speaker:the mother was there and what's the benefit of these
Speaker:roles, once I level that, the anger's gone, the depression's gone.
Speaker:I call it the A B C D E F G H Is of
Speaker:negativity; anger and aggression, blame and betrayal, criticism, challenge,
Speaker:despair and depression, desire to escape and exit the situation,
Speaker:futility and frustration, grouchiness and grief, hatred and hurt, irritability,
Speaker:almost insanity, irrationality.
Speaker:Those are byproducts of our comparing our reality to fantasies
Speaker:and unrealistic expectations.
Speaker:Unrealistic expectations that mommy's supposed to be there at all the times and
Speaker:not ever missing, which is unrealistic, or be positive and never negative,
Speaker:which is unrealistic,
Speaker:or to read your mind and know what you want and always be there and do what you
Speaker:want, unrealistic. I can find 15 common,
Speaker:unrealistic expectations in most people that are depressed.
Speaker:They have an unrealistic expectation on themselves to live one sided;
Speaker:positive without negative, nice without mean, peaceful without warful,
Speaker:kind without cruel.
Speaker:Or an unrealistic expectation that they're supposed to be living in somebody
Speaker:else's values and be somebody they're not, inauthentic,
Speaker:which the brain doesn't allow.
Speaker:Or an unrealistic expectation on others to live in your values or others to live
Speaker:one sided or the world in general, collective consciousness,
Speaker:to be one sided and not have peace and war and not be supportive and challenging
Speaker:or praising and criticizing.
Speaker:Anytime you have unrealistic expectations on a monopoled expectation of one
Speaker:sidedness or something the world's supposed to live in your values or you're
Speaker:supposed to live in other people's values,
Speaker:instead of communicating what you value in terms of other people's value and
Speaker:them doing the same, you are going to have depression.
Speaker:And what they found is depression may not be an illness.
Speaker:I'm not even a believer that it's an illness.
Speaker:I believe that's a label that got a pharmaceutical industry to be able to sell
Speaker:drugs to people sometimes and psychologist,
Speaker:to be able to treat some sort of therapy at times.
Speaker:I believe that it's actually the brain doing its job to try to associate
Speaker:pain with fantasies and unrealistic expectations,
Speaker:to associate pain with pleasure. You know,
Speaker:if you want to change a conditional reflex and a behavior on something,
Speaker:you can take something that you think is really pleasureful and addicted and
Speaker:associate pains with it and withdraw that from being an addiction,
Speaker:or something you think is terrible and find the benefits of it and a cognitive
Speaker:reappraisal approach like that in cognition can change the seeking or
Speaker:avoidance responses,
Speaker:the impulses and instincts that run by our amygdala in our survival part of our
Speaker:brain. If we do that, we're going to be, you know, changing those perceptions.
Speaker:And I think depression is a feedback mechanism,
Speaker:a negative feedback system to try to let people know that they have unrealistic
Speaker:expectations, they're being inauthentic,
Speaker:and they're basically needing that to associate
Speaker:pain with the fantasies that they're holding onto to get them back into
Speaker:equilibrium.
Speaker:The reason being is because I go in and find out what their fantasies are and I
Speaker:have not seen one depressed case, not one,
Speaker:that didn't have unrealistic expectations and fantasies stored inside.
Speaker:You may not know how to ask them,
Speaker:I'm pretty good at asking the questions to bring it out,
Speaker:but once you see it there,
Speaker:they usually bring tears and have a catharsis and they realize, oh my God,
Speaker:no wonder I'm depressed, I've got something that's
Speaker:And if I go and crack the fantasy on that and find the benefits of actually
Speaker:what's occurring,
Speaker:because anytime you compare your current reality to a fantasy of how it 'should
Speaker:have been', 'would've been', 'could have been',
Speaker:you're not going to appreciate your life, because you're not, the way it is,
Speaker:is the way it is. And if you compare it to what it isn't,
Speaker:then you're basically not present with what is and not appreciating what is.
Speaker:So I go in there and crack the fantasy on there and all of a sudden the
Speaker:depression comes up because I'm breaking the addiction to a fantasy about how
Speaker:life's 'supposed to' be. And this is very important in people's lives,
Speaker:realize that they're, they're hoodwinked. You know,
Speaker:you're told in churches to be a morally one-sided, which is hypocritical,
Speaker:that you're not going to live by.
Speaker:No human being is nice without mean or kind without cruel or positive without
Speaker:negative all the time.
Speaker:These are absolute moralities that are unobtainable and they're basically the
Speaker:pursuit. In the Buddhist tradition it said,
Speaker:the desire for that which is unobtainable, one sidedness,
Speaker:and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable, the other sidedness,
Speaker:is the source of human suffering. We live in a one sided world. No,
Speaker:that's not real. If I was to go to look in the mirror,
Speaker:I couldn't say I'm always positive and never negative or always kind and never
Speaker:cruel.
Speaker:I would look in there and I go sometimes I'm nice when you support my values,
Speaker:sometimes I'm mean when you challenge my values, I can be kind, cruel, giving,
Speaker:taking, generous, dingy, considerate, inconsiderate, you know, thoughtless,
Speaker:thoughtful, I could be positive, negative, peaceful, wrathful.
Speaker:I could be all pairs of opposites. I went through the Oxford dictionary many,
Speaker:37 years ago, and I found that I had all 4,628 traits.
Speaker:Gordon Allport also did that and found over 4,000 traits that human beings have.
Speaker:And nothing's missing in me.
Speaker:I use all those traits at different times to accomplish what I want.
Speaker:But if I have a fantasy that I'm supposed to be one sided or people are supposed
Speaker:to be one sided or always people supposed to be kind and peaceful and nice and
Speaker:everything else, life's not going to match that,
Speaker:I'm going to be depressed because it's not matching my fantasy.
Speaker:And if I hold on and I'm addicted and attracted and impulsively demanding that
Speaker:fantasy onto the world,
Speaker:the law of eristic escalation is going to come in and neutralize that with the
Speaker:opposite side. And I think the mind is doing that.
Speaker:And that's why I don't want to label depression a disease.
Speaker:That's what's so commonly done,
Speaker:but they label almost everything disease in order to put a diagnosis on it so
Speaker:doctors can communicate it and pharmaceutical companies
Speaker:it, what therapists can sell something for it.
Speaker:I'm not convinced that's the solution. I'm not convinced that's real.
Speaker:And I know some of you have been through major depressions and everything else,
Speaker:you're saying, I don't believe that, that guy's crazy or whatever. Well,
Speaker:I haven't had the opportunity to ask you the right questions and bring it out of
Speaker:your and make you aware of those delusions you might be holding onto.
Speaker:So you'll probably be upset with me when I say that.
Speaker:And that's perfectly understood.
Speaker:And that may be the very thing that's part of your depression,
Speaker:because if it doesn't match your reality. When you're down,
Speaker:when you're not living your life based on your highest values,
Speaker:you're not living by priority, you're not doing something meaningful,
Speaker:you're not doing something creative that inspires you,
Speaker:you're not having a job that's meaningful,
Speaker:you're not in a relationship that's meaningful,
Speaker:you're not having meaningful life, your blood, glucose,
Speaker:and oxygen goes into your amygdala.
Speaker:Your amygdala wants to avoid predator and seek prey,
Speaker:wants to avoid negative and seek positive. It's the animal survival mode.
Speaker:It's mass conscious herd instincts and impulses.
Speaker:And that's where most people are.
Speaker:They're wanting to avoid any challenge and seek everything easy.
Speaker:And immediate gratification cost life.
Speaker:And long-term vision that embraces both pains and pleasures and support and
Speaker:challenge and all pairs of opposites has already been proven to help maximize
Speaker:growth. You need prey and predator. You need support and challenge.
Speaker:You need both sides, praise and reprimand, to keep you authentic.
Speaker:If you get puffed up with praise and you start getting yourself up into pride,
Speaker:you then project your values onto other people and expect with imperatives,
Speaker:others to live in your values, which is futile and fatal in some cases.
Speaker:And if you minimize yourself, you'll be sacrificing yourself for others.
Speaker:We're not here to sacrifice others for us or us for others.
Speaker:We're here to learn how to be in sustainable fair
Speaker:equity and equanimity.
Speaker:And that comes from living by highest priority and living in your highest,
Speaker:you know, most inspiring mission for life. People that have a mission,
Speaker:people that are doing something meaningful,
Speaker:people that are inspired by their job,
Speaker:people that are inspired by their relationship, people,
Speaker:they don't have time for that, because they're in their forebrain,
Speaker:they're in the executive center, they're manageable, they're more objective,
Speaker:they're more reasonable, they're more aware of life in its fullness.
Speaker:They have mindfulness instead of half-fulness.
Speaker:When you infatuate with something you're conscious of the upside,
Speaker:unconscious of the downside, you're blind, and you now have a fantasy about it.
Speaker:And now when you're resentful to something you're conscious of the downside,
Speaker:unconscious of the upside, and now you have a fantasy to escape it.
Speaker:First you have a fantasy to seek it. Then you have a fantasy to escape it.
Speaker:And you have a nightmare having lost it and having a nightmare of being around
Speaker:it. And these polarities, these absolute polarities of perception,
Speaker:are what's involved in these depressive states and manic states.
Speaker:And I saw an article recently about the idea you can separate the two.
Speaker:I haven't found them separated.
Speaker:I know how to ask the right question and show where the mania is in their
Speaker:depression, where their fantasy and unrealistic
Speaker:It's usually unconscious. Sometimes it goes back and forth,
Speaker:but once you identify, you can see the source of it.
Speaker:And then the depression doesn't seem like a mystery.
Speaker:It seems like it's actually got a motive and it's got a mechanism to try to
Speaker:break our addiction to things that are unrealistic.
Speaker:So I'm not a believer that this is a biochemical imbalance "cause".
Speaker:that may be associated with it. We've not found, not just serotonin,
Speaker:now it's the most common one, all those, you know, those,
Speaker:those drugs that they've used for depression,
Speaker:almost all of them are serotonin inhibitor,
Speaker:uptake inhibitors and they're also norepinephrine and dopamine ones,
Speaker:but there's also other chemistries. In fact,
Speaker:you won't be able to find almost any chemistry in the brain that's not
Speaker:associated with these feelings and moods.
Speaker:You're going to find out that glutamine and glutamate,
Speaker:and also GABA Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid,
Speaker:both of these transmitters and N-Acetylaspartate,
Speaker:all these transmitters in the brain are all going around and
Speaker:fluctuating constantly. If you're infatuated with somebody,
Speaker:your impulse is to go after it.
Speaker:But your executive function in the forebrain is trying to set up a balance of
Speaker:glutamate and GABA to try to bring that back into balance,
Speaker:so you're not impulsively running your life.
Speaker:It normalizes and balances out the impulse and instincts that are normally
Speaker:distracting you in your life.
Speaker:The same thing if you're resentful to something and frightened of something,
Speaker:it tries to calm it down. So if we go in there,
Speaker:we're going to find biochemical imbalances. If you do a blood test,
Speaker:you're going to find glutamate and you're going to find GABA imbalances,
Speaker:and you're going to find serotonin imbalances,
Speaker:and you're going to find dopamine imbalances. But again, that's not causal.
Speaker:That's just mean that anytime you're perturbing your perceptions,
Speaker:these things are going off. I guarantee,
Speaker:if somebody was to come in there with a tiger and they were to do a door open
Speaker:and a tiger jumped in.
Speaker:If I was to do your blood chemistry right before it jumped in,
Speaker:you'd have one set. In 200th of a millisecond, the second you see the tiger,
Speaker:your perceptions changes the neurochemistry.
Speaker:And all of a sudden your dopamine goes down, serotonin goes down,
Speaker:norepinephrine might go up, your cortisol will go up, you
Speaker:would have a testosterone go up, your estrogen would go down,
Speaker:your enkephalin endorphins would go down, your substance P would go up,
Speaker:all these chemistries,
Speaker:glutamate and GABA would go into action to try to bring those back into balance
Speaker:intuitively. So you would go in there and you'd say, okay,
Speaker:you got a biochemical imbalance, there's the cause.
Speaker:That's a false attribution bias to deficiency of chemistry inside a human
Speaker:psyche when the homeostasis of the brain is profound.
Speaker:No pharmaceutical company can compete with the homeostasis of the human brain.
Speaker:They can assist,
Speaker:but that's only because we're not taking the time to find out what's going on
Speaker:inside the human being, what's going on in their psychology,
Speaker:and what's going on in their sometimes genetics, or epigenetics.
Speaker:And epigenetics is even more profound than genetics today.
Speaker:What's going on is we're finding out that epigenetic induced changes in
Speaker:physiology are because of our perceptions of our environment.
Speaker:If we perceive something supporting it,
Speaker:our parasympathetic nervous system comes on.
Speaker:We end up getting an acetylation getting in there,
Speaker:create different protein transmitters that are being secreted from cells.
Speaker:And so neurons secrete a different cell if you're supported in your mind.
Speaker:And then you get the reverse of that and you get a methylation and an epigenetic
Speaker:methylation if you get challenged and you get a different set of transcriptions
Speaker:and proteins that are now secreted from the cell wall.
Speaker:So we're basically stopping and taking a narrowed view,
Speaker:and not looking at the holistic aspect of the human being and giving people
Speaker:their power back.
Speaker:I'm interested in helping people have their power back by teaching them how to
Speaker:manage their state. You know, if we was a lot,
Speaker:if we have a completely balanced perspective, we don't
Speaker:We're not infatuated or resentful. We're not elated or depressed.
Speaker:We're not proud or shame. We're centered. We're authentic. We're empowered.
Speaker:The second you infatuate with somebody, you minimize yourself relative to them,
Speaker:and that's a disempowerment.
Speaker:Second you exaggerate yourself to somebody and resent them,
Speaker:you're too proud to admit what you see in them inside you, a disempowered state.
Speaker:Anytime you're not authentic, you're disempowered. Anytime you do,
Speaker:you create symptoms in your physiology and psychology,
Speaker:which is a feedback system, a homeostatic feedback system,
Speaker:to get you back to being who you are.
Speaker:The magnificence of who you are is far greater than any of those volatilities
Speaker:and vicissitudes. And the addiction to one sidedness, feeling good all the time,
Speaker:is the very source of some of the depressions we have.
Speaker:So I'm not here promoting that false attribution bias that we got a deficiency
Speaker:of drugs on the, in our life.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that we have power and control over our physiology. We have,
Speaker:but we're not educated. And it's just like anything else. I was reading,
Speaker:or watching a video this morning when I was doing my workout.
Speaker:And it was on a parasite down in Africa.
Speaker:And it was basically a parasitic worm, a nematode worm that was there.
Speaker:And it was interesting,
Speaker:the people were getting it from a water hole that was sacred by ancestors for
Speaker:many generations.
Speaker:And so they would go in there thinking that that would cure them.
Speaker:And that was the very source of them. So there was a lack of education.
Speaker:And so they've had to go in there. In fact,
Speaker:Jimmy Carter had to go down there and educate them on this with a team and let
Speaker:them know that that's, that that sacred hole is not what they think.
it's the source of their illnesses that they've got,
Speaker:which is causing blindness by the time they're 20 years old.
Speaker:And what was really interesting is the education finally woke them up and made
Speaker:them now aware and it's almost eradicated the disease because of education.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that if people were educated about how their physiology,
Speaker:psychology, expectations, unrealistic expectations, fantasies,
Speaker:were impacting their chemistry and how their perceptions were impacting their
Speaker:chemistry, if they were really educated on that,
Speaker:and they knew how to take control by living by priority and having a tool which
Speaker:I developed called the Demartini Method to help people stabilize their emotions,
Speaker:they wouldn't have to be having a deficiency of drugs.
Speaker:And I'm not saying that that doesn't have a place because in some extreme cases,
Speaker:it may be a blessing. But that's not the first line of defense,
Speaker:that's not the first choice in my opinion, that's a secondary,
Speaker:a tertiary choice.
Speaker:I believe that you want to take accountability and be
Speaker:and take command of your life and find the order that's in your so-called chaos.
Speaker:The disorder is perception. It means missing information.
Speaker:It means you're unconscious.
Speaker:You're not asking the right questions and you're having false expectations about
Speaker:how life's supposed to be.
Speaker:Give yourself permission to take command of your life and learn how to master
Speaker:your own objectives. You know I teach the Breakthrough Experience every,
Speaker:just about every weekend, most weekends out of the year.
Speaker:In the process of doing it I have people depressed, I mean, it comes in,
Speaker:they come in almost every week,
Speaker:depression and bipolar condition and dissociative
Speaker:and abandonment issues and attention deficit. They got all these labels on it.
Speaker:And the second they all of a sudden learn how to stabilize their perceptions,
Speaker:asking new questions,
Speaker:hold themselves accountable on how to perceive differently,
Speaker:which I call the Demartini Method,
Speaker:and learn how values play a role in our behavior,
Speaker:and how to prioritize their life and take command of their life,
Speaker:and all of a sudden start being more objective and more realistic in
Speaker:expectations, the report is, my depression's lifted,
Speaker:I stopped. I never told people to stop their drug.
Speaker:They just stop them because they don't feel they're needing them anymore.
Speaker:They're back on track again, they're inspired by their life again.
Speaker:Our natural mechanism to be inspired.
Speaker:But if we're trying to live in other people's values or trying to get others to
Speaker:live in our values or setting up fantasies of one sidedness and have unrealistic
Speaker:expectations
Speaker:and we're down in our amygdala where we're avoiding pain and seeking pleasure
Speaker:and trying to be one sided,
Speaker:we're automatically going to be living to eat instead of eating to live,
Speaker:we're not going to be feeding our mind quality nutrition.
Speaker:We're probably not going to have realistic expectations and objectives that are
Speaker:meaningful and inspiring.
Speaker:And if the people actually go after and prioritize their life and start doing
Speaker:the method and neutralizing it and learn how to ask the right questions,
Speaker:because that liberates them from a lot of baggage.
Speaker:Because anything you're infatuated or resent,
Speaker:anything you're proud or shamed of,
Speaker:is going to be occupying your mind and your tendency when it's not fulfilling is
Speaker:to that emptiness is going to want you to look for a quick fix and a one-sided
Speaker:world, which leads to depression.
Speaker:That's why you find the amygdala's involved in that,
Speaker:dopamine and norepinephrine. And these chemistries are there,
Speaker:but that's not again, the cause, that's the side effect.
Speaker:The side effect of not being in command of your life.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer that you have the ability to govern your life and you can
Speaker:transcend that state. I'm a firm believer that you can,
Speaker:if you ask the right questions,
Speaker:become cognitive aware of things objectively and have balanced orientation.
Speaker:You're not going to have a balanced chemistry with an imbalanced mind.
Speaker:You're not going to have a balanced physiology with an imbalanced mind.
Speaker:You're not going to have a balanced mind with imbalanced perceptions.
Speaker:And you're not going to have a balanced perception unless you know how to ask
Speaker:the questions to equilibrate the mind from your initial perception,
Speaker:that are usually subjectively biased and in a sense,
Speaker:causing these emotional reactions.
Speaker:I'm a firm believer you have the power to do it.
Speaker:I've been dedicated the last 50 years of my life,
Speaker:trying to help people master their life and empower their life.
Speaker:I'm not looking for a false attribution biases,
Speaker:it's a cause by this and this is the solution. You know,
Speaker:you have a biochemical imbalance. Why? And you need this drug. No,
Speaker:that's not the solution. And they finally put a,
Speaker:they've had actually references on this.
Speaker:I can show you references that go back further.
Speaker:But finally one really hit the market this last few weeks here,
Speaker:dealing with the biochemical model,
Speaker:and most doctors are probably going to just keep quiet about that.
Speaker:But the reality is you want to make sure that you find a way of taking command
Speaker:of your life again.
Speaker:That's why I tell people to come to the Breakthrough Experience so I can teach
Speaker:them how to do that. So I can help them ask new questions,
Speaker:help them see things objectively,
Speaker:help them set goals that are reasonable and really meaningful and inspiring to
Speaker:them. So they're not in their amygdala.
Speaker:They're not down into their bipolar states.
Speaker:They're in that objective state where they're setting goals that are truly
Speaker:meaningful and they're learning how to love and have intimacy with people that
Speaker:they appreciate,
Speaker:instead of false expectations on themselves and other
Speaker:pedestals or pits, instead of putting them in your heart.
Speaker:If you want to put people in your heart,
Speaker:you want to be more meaningful and have a more meaningful life,
Speaker:you want to be more inspired,
Speaker:you want to learn how to self-govern your behavior,
Speaker:you want to learn how to transcend the labels of these false attribution
Speaker:biases and not be so volatile and run by the external world,
Speaker:then please come to the Breakthrough Experience. The way you master your mind
Speaker:so you can master your life.
Speaker:I've got proven personal development tools in there. The Demartin Method,
Speaker:which I've used now for years,
Speaker:I've been working on it for 50 years on how to dissolve that and something you
Speaker:can use the rest of your life on your own at home with your loved ones.
Speaker:It's a tool you can use.
Speaker:And also how to set goals and how to set objectives that are congruent with high
Speaker:values, where you have high probability of achieving them.
Speaker:So you live with meaningfulness and priority and purpose in life.
Speaker:And this is what happens to people that are depressed when they don't have a
Speaker:purposeful job, they don't have a purposeful life,
Speaker:they don't have a purpose relationship.
Speaker:There's a science on how to reclaim that.
Speaker:And that's what I want to teach you in the Breakthrough Experience,
Speaker:there's seven major, there's actually more than seven proven tools in there.
Speaker:There's just a wealth of information on how to help you master your life.
Speaker:So if you're interested in mastering your life and transcending this illusion of
Speaker:depression and getting past the external world causing you these
Speaker:imbalances, then come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I'm absolutely certain you can come there and actually change your dynamic if
Speaker:you do. Because if you take command and you listen to principles and apply the
Speaker:principles, you're going to see the effects.
Speaker:You're going to watch the transformation right there on the spot.
Speaker:Not someday if you theory, it's right there,
Speaker:you get to experience it if you follow the instructions and do it exactly as I'm
Speaker:instructing in the process, it's quite impressive. If you do,
Speaker:your life's going to have a shift and the trajectory of your life can change.
Speaker:And your chemistries, you can take command of your chemistries.
Speaker:Every time you change the ratios of your perceptions,
Speaker:you're changing your chemistries. Let me show you how to do that.
Speaker:Let me show you how to ask the right questions because the questions you ask,
Speaker:determines what you're conscious of. And if you're fully conscious,
Speaker:you balance your chemistry. If you're unconscious of things,
Speaker:you've got an imbalanced chemistry.
Speaker:And I know that you can balance it and you have the power to do that.
Speaker:So I want to show you how to do that.
Speaker:And I want you to come to the Breakthrough Experience so I can help you master
Speaker:your life. Even if you're not depressed,
Speaker:maybe you know somebody who is depressed, but what you learn there,
Speaker:you can help them or yourself, transform your life.
Speaker:So I know that I do every week, I do this little 30 minute presentation,
Speaker:but thank you for joining me. Come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:I promise you you'll get something out of it you won't get anywhere else.
Speaker:And you're going to learn some really amazing physiology, psychology, neurology,
Speaker:you're going to learn endocrinology.
Speaker:You're going to learn a lot of stuff there that's going to mind blow you.
Speaker:And I know, I've asked people at the end of the program every week,
Speaker:how many of you learned something this weekend you could have gone your whole
Speaker:life and not learn? Every hand goes up week after week after week.
Speaker:So if you've enjoyed these little presentations also,
Speaker:please tell people about these 30 minute presentations I do every week.
Speaker:Because sometimes, I've heard from people that, you know, just boom,
Speaker:it was right on time for what they were facing and it rang true to them.
Speaker:And so just please let that be spread. Let people know about it.
Speaker:If you know somebody that's depressed or whatever,
Speaker:so at least they know there's an option out there.
Speaker:Instead of just living on drugs, there's side effects of drugs,
Speaker:it affects people long term,
Speaker:and you need to read the physician's desk reference if you're going to take
Speaker:them. I say, instead of that, take command of your life.
Speaker:Stop the false attribution biases, take command, take accountability.
Speaker:You have the power to change your chemistries and you
Speaker:difference in your life. Come to the Breakthrough Experience.
Speaker:Let me show you how to master your mind and master your life. Until next week.
