# 14 April 4 , 2011

I recently got an e-mail from a good friend of mine copywriter extraordinaire Donnie Bryant.

Donnie knows a thing or two about my theory of mindset immunity and how I’m always interested in what’ s happening in the field of human behavior.

When I first went to the link that he so kindly provided it was a bit of a shock at first. Had some Harvard psychologists usurped my discovery and are now basking in the all the glory of a major breakthrough in human behavior? Had I been totally scooped? Are they now about to crash through my front door any day with the muscle of the Thought Police to seize all my related documents?

Not likely.

False Alarm. I overestimated the size of what looked like a disastrous event. Seems I wasn’t alone either. In fact over-estimating the negative effects of the punch-ups that existence often throws at us was the main focus of the study that was being reported on.

The article entitled: “The Psychological Immune System” seemed to hit close to home for sure but as I read it I could see that their submarine dive into the ocean that is the human mind was on a fairly shallow curve.

The psych study, published almost twelve years ago in 1998, was comprised of a few Ivy League researchers from Harvard University. I won’t go into a lot of detail, you can read all about it here, but what I get from this article is that all they’ve done is merely observed that the phenomenon of an immune system for the mind seems to exist to ameliorate negative emotional effects coming off of negative happenings.

More Ink Please.

Maybe it was the just the reported focus of the study, I don’t know, but it seems to me that they could have made more of it than they did. After all, I’m only a graduate of a small art and design college, but when I realized that there had to be an immune system at work for the thinking I almost went through the roof with excitement.

This sounds like a good study make no mistake, but if there is indeed an immune system working to pull our thinking back to normal then it deserves more than a small study wouldn’t you say?

After all we have a boatload of people walking around with some severe mental problems. In the US alone there are the many millions who are caught up in the tsunami of clinical, bi-polar, and manic depression that is sweeping into our communities with more man-eating force every year. Predictions (made by other psychologists no doubt) are stating that by 2020 depression would become the 2nd most common health problem throughout the world.

If we have found a type of an immune system that can look after some of that I think we need to take a closer look at it righty away.

I didn’t go to Harvard. Nor did I attend any hall of higher learning at all save for that art school (does that even count?). But I think that the reason they stopped where they did in their investigation on the psychological immune system, as they call it, is the cold hard fact that it operates in the domain outside of our own reality.

It’s invisible. You can’t see it. Apparently that sets up a challenge that even researchers who study the invisible mind have a issue with. I guess some phenomenon’s are like that.

As I say I’m not a doctor. I was trained as a visual artist not a scientist. But like them I too have quite an intense interest in human behavior and I too have for years suspected that “mindset immunity” had to exist in some kind of organized way. But I wasn’t constrained by their meticulous scientific methods, nor did I have the need to fund expensive studies to come to the same conclusions. I just worked with people one at a time and observed what happened as they used my invention to link their head brain intellect to their gut brain energy.

What came out was a quick and easy immune response that left them almost breathless with wonder at what they could become. It’s hardly heavy therapy. I call it the H.E.R.O. eMachine. It only takes one day to complete.

Being a visual kind of guy has allowed me to create pictorial representations of the mechanisms for how something like this strange immunity might work. Or sometimes doesn’t work. It may not be hard science but there’s a few things that I include in my free live “Mindset Immunity Explained” webinars that I think even those Harvard types might find quite interesting.

A Serious Bias

Their study found that we humans have a serious bias for over-estimating the level with which we react to all the bad stuff that might happen to us. Is that such a revelation? When we were just kids didn’t each of our parents point that out when they warned us: Don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill?

I really love the guys and gals in the white coats. Don’t get me wrong. They always spend tons of time and money digging up cool findings that I can weave into interesting and fun blog posts.

More power to you.

PS: I could use more sharp eyes like Donnie’s. If you see something interesting on the web that’s relevant to human behavior or self-help please let me know about it either here in the comments section, in FaceBook, or on Twitter.  Of course, I’ll give you a big shout-out for your help. Thanks in advance.

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To do my job I have to write frequently about my theory of mindset immunity.

But I have the same problem that I know a lot of other bloggers do.  It’s all about with coming up with ideas to write blog posts about.  I tend to edit myself too much. That inhibits my ability to just start. It can be debilitating. Then, just the other day, I came across the brilliant blogger Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.  She wrote a post about that very problem.

“Just write” she advised. “Don’t think.”

Now I’ve heard that before from other writing instructors but I escaped the message’s integrity to turn the advice into action. Until Elizabeth PW came up with her post. She said it so eloquently. So powerfully that, to me at lest, it just resonated in my bones.

So as of today I’m going to re-fire my resolve to become an accomplished writer (well ok maybe a dedicated blogger at least). I need to do it for me and for you too. If I don’t how will my gifts to the world be known?

In my work with the theory of mindset immunity it requires me to describe certain aspects of what was a mystery. A deep unknown. However because I was fortunate enough to break through the egg shell of this mystery along time ago I have always thought I would be able to at least open up the discussion about what it was that I’ve found.

But I was not a writer. I was not a psychologist.  I was not a lot of things. In fact I hated writing in high school. Couldn’t believe how anyone could sit down and write a whole book. I always thought that those who pursue a career as writers must be very special ( or weird) to withstand that kind of punishment. I’ve even heard that before one can describe themselves as a true writer they must write at least 10 books first.

Holy crap!

Now I sort of hope that’s not true but I decided to hedge my bets. From now on come hell or high water I’m going to take Elizabeth PW’s sage advice and write something every day.

I don’t know what will happen.

Maybe there will be some days when I produce pure crap but I now know that it’s just part of the process. I have a small laptop by my bedside and so I’m going to use that to do this work every day before I even get out of bed.

That’s a promise that I make to you and to myself.

Ok, now that I’ve set the law in the stone of my soul I will start today’s post with a little item I heard on the CBC morning radio show called the “Early Edition”. Once per week they have this medical doctor speak on some facet of his profession.

Today his story was about a few very small studies that have been carried out on the use of some drugs that first appeared on the scene in the 1960’s. I was a teen then, and while I wasn’t much into recreational drugs I was aware of them. Anyway the story today was that some psychologists were doing these studies by using small amounts of the drug that back in the day were known as magic mushrooms. They had some active chemical that produced hallucinations and, although I don’t know why anyone would want to get that pie-eyed,  some people back in the 60’s must have thought that hallucinating out of control was some kind of fun.

Anyway today we know more now about how the brain works. Turns out that brain cells talk to each other through chemicals called neurotransmitters. This class of chemicals can apparently be measured. One such chemical is serotonin and they found that depressed people have a low rate of serotonin activity.

It’s an oversimplification but they say that too much serotonin causes hallucinations and too little causes depression.

This is interesting to me because for a long time I’ve had people who have used my H.E.R.O. seminar say that they are no longer depressed. In fact after using the H.E.R.O. eMachine just once it really looked like depression was the first thing to disappear. Now I‘m not a psychologist nor am I even close to being one so I don’t advertise this result too loudly.

But now I’m wondering.

What if levels of serotonin were measured in H.E.R.O. participants who say they experienced depression.  What if, after they used H.E.R.O. these levels increased in a way that was natural and followed the natural balancing act that we see in the body’s mechanism that causes equilibrium. The state known as homeostasis?  What would that mean?

In depression it looks like the low activity of serotonin is like a form of death and indeed it probably feels like death to those who suffer from it. But what if I’ve stumbled upon a natural agent that safely speeds up serotonin activity (or slows it down if it’s overactive) without the side effects of  a drug that may be very addictive?

By the way that addictive thing was why the government banned these drugs back in the 60’s and put a halt on any further research into their effects in mental health. Especially since its usage spilled out into recreational street usage.

As I say, I’m not a doctor but what if a study carried out in a proper clinical setting found what I suspect to be real medical benefits from using a tool that is drugless and natural?

Are you a daring doctor operating in this field who would like to look into this? Will anyone come forward to fund research like this?  I have my doubts of course.  The idea that a simple workshop like H.E.R.O. could be used just once and get an effect like that is a real threat to those who promote and profit from the sale of manufactured drugs. It is after all big business.

Oddly, but realistically, illness is a huge business so I won’t hold my breath waiting for any action on this.  I really only wanted to write a blog post today after all not save the world.

More Power to you.

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When you start anything new you are usually drawn to it (+). That’s because you’re looking at the great possibilities for all the goodness that you envision. It’s all part of the packaging of the new and different.

But then, after a while, the difficulties and problems start to arise as you try to grasp the newness and gain control of it. If it’s a new business you’re starting for example, it can be really fun in the beginning until customers start demanding better service and supplier’s want their accounts paid up.

It can get so bad that you might want to run away (-) and hide.

I know what it’s like.  I’ve started many small businesses that failed miserably. But I couldn’t run away (-) from the worst one because it was in farming and there were livestock involved who had to be milked every day. I had to ride that one right till the day they came in trucks and picked up all of our goats and sent them to the processor. That was a big (-) I can tell you.

Existence is filled with these things (-). Few and far between are the (+) it seems. Especially these days.

But I found a way to change that and it helped a lot of people with the (-) in their lives. But I had to stay with the process of learning about the newness I called H.E.R.O. well enough to be able to articulate its story.

Glad I did too. So will you because there could be a pile of (-) heading your way and this can make you strong enough to turn a lot of the (-) into (+).

And that, my friend, is  going to keep you from moving away from things that might be good for you to moving closer to them.

More power to you.

David

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Crumple zones help

Crumple zones work by managing crash energy, absorbing it within the outer sections of the vehicle, rather than being directly transmitted to the occupants, while also preventing intrusion into or deformation of the passenger cabin. This better protects car occupants against injury.

-From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I love the idea of crumple zones.  They have saved a lot of lives in car accidents since they were introduced by Mercedes-Benz in the 1950’s.

But I have a new use of the term. What if a type of crumple zone was available for the human thinking so that when some negative experience happens in their lives people can feel less injury?

Believe it or not that is the function of my life’s work in developing a way to better utilize an unknown human ability: To be aware of  and to enhance the effectiveness of a hidden immune system for the thinking.

Sounds crazy doesn’t it?

I’ll admit it may sound like a science fiction story. But all you have to do is recall the last time you had what you believe is a really serious negative experience in your life. For a few individuals, especially successful entrepreneurs for example, they tend to get over such a thing fairly quickly but a whole lot of the rest of us don’t.

Like a divorce for example.

I know of someone, I’ll call “June” who is about to go through a tremendous devastation in her life. She has three young children. Her husband of four years has turned out to be bit of a brute. She is seeking a way to file for divorce while, at the same time, keeping control of how the children will be cared for. He’s living in the family home’s basement.

Meanwhile she keeps at her regular job. This situation has been going on for months. I don’t think she sleeps that well at night.

Then there’s a guy I’ll call “Ernie”.

Two and a half years ago he had an injury at work. He hasn’t worked ever since and, although he has a couple of kids from two failed marriages (one a teen and the other a very cute four year-old), he decided to move into his parents’ house where he still remains. He is getting medical treatment for his injury and is awaiting a doctor’s permission to get back to work. The real problem is he’s not getting that much younger and he doesn’t have much confidence in himself to try to get into something other than construction.

Not a situation that is high on the happiness scale.

Interestingly, these two examples of life’s troubles do create stress but haven’t devastated these people completely.  At least not yet.

They remain doing some things they love although it’s a struggle every day to make real change for a more meaningful life.

In my opinion they are both in the proverbial rut. They could be there for a long time.

What I’m getting to is that troubles in life generally are considered normal. We usually resolve our troubles, at least to some extent, although usually it takes a lot of time and often betterment is only at a minimal level.

For far too many this tends to take away the enjoyment of life in general.

Interestingly though we humans must have some sort of natural ability to continue to get by even when a difficult time persists. The problem is though it often takes a very long time before the negative effects become somewhat resolved or the stress from them somewhat eased.

In my own life I’ve come to realize that this is very much similar to the body’s ability to repair itself from disease or infection.

For the last four years I’ve had to deal with Graves disease.  It’s an auto-immune dis-function. Hypothyroidism they call it.  The body appears to be on a course of speeding up digestion of every available body cell.  I was starting to get really thin and weak.

I refused the prescribed medical treatment and instead I got on to some high quality natural supplements  and now, three years later, everything seems fine again.

My doctor was somewhat amazed that I recovered to a point that I now have absolutely no symptoms at all despite refusing his prescription.

Interestingly I was never all that emotionally downtrodden even though this disease, I was told in no uncertain terms, could be fatal without medical help.

Could the fact that I had done H.E.R.O. myself years ago allowed me to resist the negative aspirations of a serious disease? Could the increased speed of my mindset immunity actually assist my physical turnaround?

I think it must have.

The human immune system in most of us has an amazing capability. It utilizes a tremendous ability to operate with unparalleled intelligence. It can set to work on overcoming a certain invader almost instantly the minute it is recognized.

I think you can think of it as an amazing crumple zone for physical health (although in my case for a few years at least it seemed to have reversed itself during my Graves disease experience).

But there’s a problem when it comes to the thinking mindset in many adults.

Immunity, if it exists in the realm of the thinking mindset at all, does not seem to be working at the same speed in this realm as it does in the physical.

Even when a person has the benefit of the usual programs in personal development or professional therapy a return to a somewhat natural emotional wellness can take months or sometimes years and the cost is hugely expensive.

Over the last ten years I’ve come perfect a new tool that assists a type of human immunity. Not the one that acts on the physical of course (I’m not a doctor) but the one that acts on the ethereal. It seems to enable mindset immunity to speed up by a huge percentage and to therefor create a new advantage in one’s gain of their personal development.

In January 2010 I will publicly launch this new tool to all those in North America.

As of now I’m seeking 25 serious people who would like to experience this new phenomenon in their own life. No need to explain to me what your problem is either. I’m not a counselor and we don’t need to get into it to resolve the problem anyway. You’ll be doing that on your own automatically after H.E.R.O. has been completed.

It will be done on-line from wherever your have your computer situated in North America.

My system only looks at how your success history has been done in your past. One day is all it takes and, because benefits seem to be permanent, repeat attempts to use this new tool are not needed nor will they allowed.

To apply for a free mindset immunity experience through the use of H.E.R.O. leave me a comment or send me an email and I’ll get back to you.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – W. B . Yeats.

He knew the names of all 250 bones in the human body and all the muscles too.

My father was medical man, an osteopathic physician, and this stuff was his stock in trade. He’d studied at the Kirksville College of Osteopathy in Kirksville Missouri class of 1934. As one of only two osteopaths in the city of Ottawa he had a busy practice. Every day brought a full slate of patients and on occasion he would have various stressed-out politicians lying down on his treatment table. Even the country’s 10^th prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie King (October 23, 1935, to November 15, 1948) would find respite from his physical pains in my dad’s very capable therapeutic hands.

He was a well known and respected practitioner in our city.  Although he never said anything to me about it I had a hard time meeting what I imagined were his hopes for me.

My early days in high school were not what I’d call the best. I found the standard arts and sciences curriculum boring and overly detailed. My eyes would glaze over especially during math class. My mind would wonder worsening my already poor grasp of the french language taught by a teacher whom, it was glaringly obvious, had never spoken much french outside of the school room.

It was the 60′s and the Beatles were big. That at least that got me excited about playing the drums in band class and, if I could, I’d get there early before the class began to jam for a few minutes with another kid who played the sax. The only other subjects that interested me at all were art class and English literature.

But those two couldn’t save me come the final exams in June. In the end it was determined that I would have to repeat grade nine again the following year. Even that proved fruitless though. After going through the motions for another ten months I was found to have again missed the mark. My average grade that year was 49.9%. Once more not quite good enough for a promotion to grade 10.

It was strongly suggested that I should not return to that school but that I could get into grade ten if I agreed to attend classes in September at an all-boys technical school in another part of town.

It was depressing and demoralizing. The message that all this was sending me was abundantly clear: I was a failure pure and simple. My report card had said so in the glaring clarity of its red ink. I had proven once and for all my unworthiness to warrant another attempt at standard academics. I also felt a deep sense of banishment by being sent to a school where I would now have to mingle with boys whom I believed to be troublesome and raw in demeanor, rough, rowdy, and redneck. I saw myself – quite wrongly I realized later – as somehow higher on the social ladder than they.  I guess I had more to learn than just school work.

To my surprise, after a few months into it I actually started to enjoy the classes in the technical school and I did do well enough. I liked the feel of working with tools my hands. But I wanted something more limitless. I had heard about a new specialized art course which was being conducted at another school in yet another part of town, and it was co-ed.

My dad was able to get the transfer arranged but in order to get into the art course I would have to agree to start in at the grade ten level again. After all, the argument went; it was only a four-year course. Starting in at a higher grade meant that I would simply miss too much. Despite that the choice was an easy one to make. I agreed and things got better for me after that. At least I was able to again become interested in learning in a classroom setting. I could experiment with being creative while using my hands and my imagination.

I did finally graduate out from high school with respectable marks in art and design. But it had taken me all of six years to do it; a fairly unremarkable achievement to be sure.

Sometimes the educational system can judge us to feel like failures.

Fortunately for me I was able to seek out alternatives. Something I’ve been doing my whole life.

Seeking newness is what lights my fire.

How about you?

..More power to you all.

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“A merry heart goes all the day. Your sad tires in a mile-a.”

William Shakespeare made that observation about the connection between the mental state and the rate at which we are able to function some 400 years ago.

I guess things don’t change much do they? Happiness, it seems, gives us more energy, while sadness makes us feel warn out.

Who knew?

Almost all of us who have any experience with the ups and down of life that’s who. Had a rough day at work? You get home and all you want to do is crash in front of the boob tube, gobble up something quick and down some suds. What channel is the Simpson’s on again?

In contrast you may have had a great day (lucky dog!). The supervisor commented on how effective your suggestions have been and has sent off a memo to that effect to those who matter. You get home and you’re ready to party. You feel like the day passed so quickly it’s like you’ve gone through some sort of time warp or something. You stay up late talking to anybody who wants to listen.

In humans it is clear that whatever the intellect is seeing that is what it becomes. Looking at all the troubles in your world as well as the world around you? Get ready for a bout of depression. Concentrate on all the abundance and beauty in the world and you’re in nirvana (unless you’re busy driving down the freeway of course).

But here’s the problem and it’s a huge one. It’s an un-controlable up and down existence. If the condition of your state (both physical and ethereal) is dictated by what you’re looking at any given time, then that fact alone exposes a vulnerability that could have severe consequences for your health and your ability to function in the world. You simply can’t ignore all the things coming at you and deal with them at the same time.

In his book “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind” Dr Deepak Chopra details studies done that associate an increase in the decline in a steroid known as DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) with the stress one encounters in life. DHEA is thought to enhance neuron health in the brain and is in natural decline as one’s age progresses. Experiments with subjects who practice TM (Transcendental Meditation) regularly have shown some improvement in the level of DHEA retention. TM, it seems, has some real merit. It’s true that thoughts do create biology.

This study is somewhat interesting to me since my work with H.E.R.O. over the years has demonstrated that it is at least 10 times more powerful that TM. I believe that’s because, as mentioned above, you end up feeling  like that which you are observing.  With H.E.R.O. graduates it is simply because the results of it creates a solid confidence and happiness that appear to stay active without much reinforcement despite continued stress-producing life experience.

Distress then can be dealt with more logically when one is in a state where more intrinsic intelligence is available to speed problem solving by making better choices quicker.

Can You Help Me?

The  beneficial results that I’ve been seeing with H.E.R.O. , over all the years I’ve been working with clients who have completed it, have been strictly anecdotal and so I’d like to take it a step up.

If anyone reading this has (or knows of anyone) who has access to the methods and means to do a controlled study into how H.E.R.O. might affect DEHA levels (and therefore better brain health and lower stress effects through what I now call “Positive Immunity”) I would be very open to talking with them.

Please let me know in the comment box below this post or click on the “Contact us” tab for other options.

Thanks in advance to all who can help.

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