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- 03:16 About Mark Laisure
- 07:39 The Life Changes Show
- 10:16 Feeding the Brain
- 12:52 Applied Kinesiology
- 22:35 Neurolinguistic Programming
- 25:18 Emotional Detoxification and Reprogramming the Self
- 34:08 Diet and Mental Health
- 38:02 Letting Go of Negative People
- 41:45 Dead Foods vs. Life Foods
- 45:05 Interconnetedness of Everything in the Universe
- 48:48 Being in Control of your Environment
- 50:07 SOS
- 53:36 Meditation
- 54:48 Use of Affirmations
- 56:19 Investing in Yourself
- 57:35 Achieving Life Balance
Wendy Myers: Hello. Welcome to the Live To 110 Podcast. My name is Wendy Myers. You can find me at myersdetox.com. You can find this video podcast on the corresponding blog post on the website and on the YouTube Channel, WendyLiveto110.
Today, we’re interviewing my friend, Mark Laisure. I love his name. He’s a great person. We’re going to be talking about how to feed your body and brain with positive thinking and how to change your thoughts and your energy levels and achieve your goals that you want.
Many times, negative thoughts and negative energy and negative people can really hold you back in a profound way from reaching your goals and from being your best self and reaching your higher purpose. So we’ve got a very deep show on the roster today. Stay tuned.
This show is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease or health condition and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please consult your healthcare practitioner before engaging in any treatment that we suggest on the show.
I’m so thrilled to announce finally. We have launched the Body Bio Rehab Program. By the time this podcast airs, you can find my new online health program at BodyBioRehab.com.
I wanted to create this program as just a very basic intro into the five pillars of health. And all the information that I’ve learned over the last few years in interviewing all the top experts in the world, I wanted to condense it into this amazing online program that we’ve been, for about six months, working on.
It talks about the diet that you should be eating, doing a 30-day Paleo reset just to get rid of a lot of foods that people are eating that they’re probably sensitive to, taking the right supplements, taking very basic supplements, including lots of minerals. Many people are not taking enough minerals or the right forms. So I tell you the basic supplements I think everybody should be taking.
I also talk about exercise and flexibility, cardio, high intensity interval training, flexibility, strength training. I talk about a lot of different aspects of exercise and how much you should be doing.
Also I talk about stress, how to reduce stress and stress relief techniques. That’s critically important to have a healthy body.
I also go into sleep and how to improve your sleep, many aspects of sleep, why it’s important and supplements you can take to improve your sleep. Many people need assistance to get a quality night sleep.
Then lastly I talk about detoxification, one of my very favorite subjects because I don’t believe people can be healthy unless they have a daily life-long detoxification plan. So I talk about all my favorite detox techniques and detox supplements, et cetera.
As you can see, it’s a very comprehensive program. So go check it out at BodyBioRehab.com.
Our guest, Mark Laisure has a very impressive resume. It’s going to take me a while to get through it.
He is the executive producer, co-founder and co-host of The Life Changes Show . It’s an amazing radio show that you can see at BBCRadio.com. His specialties include intuitive strategic guidance, NLP, which is neurolinguistic programming.
He’s a hypnotherapist. He has Hypnotherapy Certification and a Timeline Therapy Certification. I have no idea what that is, but it sounds really interesting.
Mark is also a venture strategist, inventor and award-winning entrepreneur. He has won an Emmy Award, R&D 100 Award, an NAB Award and a Business Week Product of the Year.
His primary focus has been on disruptive technologies, sustainable business solutions, conscious media and transformational events. Mark has been a guiding force behind several start-ups, take-overs and turn-arounds, most notably Inktomi Corporation acquired by Yahoo!, Teranex Video Processing and Mesh Networks acquired by Motorola.
Mark has devoted considerable effort towards a greater understanding of the psychology of transformation and global awareness of consciousness and healing. He has a general interest in promoting unity and new and cutting edge innovations, systems and culturally viable solutions, which advocate a harmonious, integrated lifestyle for all here at home on planet Earth.
Mark. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
Mark Laisure: Thank you for having me.
Wendy Myers: Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about how you got into health and doing your Life Changes Show?
Mark Laisure: Well, I was born. I think that’s where it starts. And I’m being cheeky, but yes, it’s also true. This has evolved as very much a life path for me.
My journey has lots of twists and turns along the way. It never really made sense until I began stepping into purpose. And stepping into purpose falls from a corporate perspective but more so from a personal perspective in terms of really owning how I see the world, how I view myself.
For anybody that knows me, I’m a little bit different. And then I’ve always been – I guess as a child, I was called overly sensitive. As an adult, I would say it’s very introspective.
I watch my own life as a TV show. And I really evaluate every choice, every mistake, every challenge, every success to see what I did to contribute to that, what I could have done differently, what I learned from it. I have now the tools to watch from that perspective as opposed to being hyper critical, overly self-critical.
When you’re younger, you’re maybe challenging yourself or being overly sensitive, things like that. As you grow older and especially the path that I have taken, it’s to really learn, to go inward, to read, to build on top of a psychology background. When I went down that path, I didn’t realize I’d end up where I am now. That all come together after a whole series of changes.
I started out as a child performer, singer, vocalist, band geek, saxophone for most of my childhood. I stopped that when I went out for sports and for all the reasons that many go through, the bullying, the lack of understanding, the wanting to be part of a different crowd. That led me though into a successful avenue. Sports took me all the way into college.
I ended up in business from there. And so there’s a whole series of very direct twists and turns that really embody where I’m operating from now, which is embodied in the two words in the company, our show and the business that I build from, which is Life Changes.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Tell us about that radio show. I was very appreciative you asked me to be a guest on your very popular radio show. Can you tell us a little bit about that, about the genesis of beginning that show?
Mark Laisure: Thank you. The show has evolved over the past six years now. I was gifted the introductions of two beautiful people, Filippo Voltaggio and Dorothy Donahue.
At the time, I was pursuing some venture work around a general concept of conscious content. That was the idea of producing content like we’re doing right now that ultimately would use the grid for higher purpose. So it’s getting information out, exploring truths, asking questions, anything that’s socially impactful. Or it’s ultimately bringing you something positive to the humanity, to the planet.
I was already in that realm. And Filippo had an idea for a radio show, which is Life Changes with Filippo. We decided to team up. We have been doing both, the radio show and live events. And we’re now in a process of shifting from audio radio format into a more video-driven and live event format as we go forward.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I’ve known you for about 10 years. I was really surprised. I didn’t know that you’re doing this show, this amazing health show and that you’ve been doing it for so long.
But it’s a great show. I think it’s an amazing format. I saw you have an amazing lineup of guests in over 300 shows. Can you tell the audience where they can listen to your show?
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. Thank you for that. You were certainly one of our highlight guests, so we really enjoyed that conversation.
The show can be found at either domain LifeChangesNetwork.com or LifeChangesShow.com. It’s broadcast every Monday night at 7 PM live on the BBS Internet Radio Network, which is BBSRadio.com. But again, you can go to our domain too.
The live show is on Monday evenings, 7 PM Pacific. Or there is an archive with all of those past shows as we’ve embarked on this journey of sharing our journeys together and the journeys of our guests. And we’re really just sharing information, exploring topics and allowing our listeners to both interact with that as they go away from listening to the show, but also take away from it what might be right for them in their present moment of their growth and experiences.
Wendy Myers: Let’s talk a little bit about our subject today on the show, how to feed your brain. Can you talk a little bit about what in your opinion is the best way to feed your brain?
Mark Laisure: When I talk about or think about feeding our brains, that extends to the whole system, the brain, the body.
We’ll start with the brain. I think it’s because we – at least with middle class upbringing, Midwest south Cleveland, Ohio, I learned the basics of health. I learned the three food groups. I learned some of those things that were taught in that type of a system. But very meat and potatoes upbringing and not a lot of detail in a broader sense of who we are from a mind, body, spirit perspective.
The more that I got into various aspects of my work in the Sciences, I started coming across different disciplines, research papers or individuals that were doing bodies of research that started to overlap. And they looked at the power of thought and mind and how that affects our chemistry and then aspects that go above and beyond that when you start looking at quantum science and quantum healing, but this whole idea that we’re connected.
To just look at our system, our body, our brain, the way we function, our emotions from just a physical perspective of what we’re ingesting is only one component. And the more I learned, the more I started to understand that we are ingesting information, which is translated by the body in its chemistry all day long.
What I mean by translated as opposed to – we know that when we eat and we chew and that food turns into energy, that’s one translation. From this perspective, the translation might be “Are we watching things that are fearful or inspiring or life¬-affirming or life-challenging? Are they happy topics or sad topics?”
That is all taken into the chemistry of our programming, our thought process. And that contributes to how our brain monitors or reacts or establishes the way we’re being, the decisions we’re making or how we’re feeling from moment to moment.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit about your concept of Kinesiology? Can you tell the listeners a little bit about your thoughts on how that comes into feeding our brain?
Mark Laisure: Kinesiology, Applied Kinesiology has taken on some tensions, research and exploration by some very important researchers I feel. But it had been an accepted and it had grown into an accepted applied science mainly used by the chiropractors, but not used throughout the medical establishments from doctors to nurses, holistic practitioners, et cetera.
The basics of Applied Kinesiology have been that our body registers – our muscular structure will register strong. We can actually have a strong reaction to something that’s positive for us. And we can actually have a week reaction to a negative or something that’s not good for us.
So they’ve used it to identify organs that may not function or may not be functioning and then to identify mineral deficiencies or potentially allergies with things that are affecting the functioning of certain organs. That however goes above and beyond the physical nature of it into what is good or potentially not good for us in the way of thought all the way into things that we’re hearing, things that we’re reading, lyrics, frequencies.
It’s pretty hitting science, but I would point to two researchers that of course like anything that’s new – maybe controversial is too strong of a word, but of course they have proponents and opponents in terms of the type of research they’ve done. But it is sustained and there’s a big body of knowledge. And it’s now being corroborated by their scientists.
One of those is Dr. David Hawkins, who actually took the idea of Kinesiology and then in over 30 years across thousands of patients started to calibrate the strong versus weak response according to not only the physical structure, but according to the emotional spectrum from positive emotions down through negative emotions, from love to fear and everything in between. And then he started to look at the strong or weak response versus events in people’s lives, events out in everyday living, past events and then assigning those to a vibratory spectrum.
It gets heavy, but the basic idea is that our bodies, our gut-feeling that knowing that we have inside is connected. When they say “a strong response,” that physical response is also part of our gut-feeling or knowing. When they say, “Go with your first gut,” that’s your body’s saying, “That’s good for me.”
Dr. Hawkins’ work simply stated that our body knows the difference between truth and the absence of truth. That could be the difference between holding sugar – or natural honey as a better example – versus aspartame or an artificial sweetener.
Your body will react strong if you’re casting or resisting in a muscle movement versus react weak to the chemical or something that’s not good for you, so then applying that to positive thinking and concepts.
Then the reason this is important – I will come back to the second research. But the reason this is so critically important is that as we are thinking, our body has a chemical reaction to those thoughts.
So not only are we seeing that muscular structure, but that is also correlating to the chemistry that we are creating our bodies, which then affect our energy levels, our moods, our ability to focus, our ability to hear ourselves, our ability to actually digest the good foods that you’re recommending to all your readers and listeners. It’s all tied together. It’s a larger way of looking at our total system, our total being.
Wendy Myers: A lot of practitioners also use that same muscle testing with supplements to find out which supplements their clients will react better to.
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. I think the idea is that if you really went under the surface – everybody always says, “Boy if I had a truth machine.” But your body, your heart, your knowingness really is a truth machine.
We pick and choose when we want to believe certain things. And you hear people say follow your heart or listen to your gut instinct. That is true across the board. The more that we can tap into our own knowing, our bodies respond to what is right and more importantly listen to it.
What we do is, “That’s all right. That cake is too good. I have to have another piece.” When you knew, “Maybe I’m taking in too much sugar or maybe I’ve had enough today,” whatever the case may be, we go against what we really know. So I think it really then comes down to discipline of listening to the responses that we’re getting across the board, like you’re saying, supplements, food, the thoughts to how you spend your day.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. Every time I make a decision that goes against my gut, later I regret it because you always know the right decision to make if you really tap into yourself and listen. I always regret going against that grid.
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. I think if you step back and you look at which decisions you’re not listening to yourself on, then you start to see the patterns.
I think that’s where the bigger healing comes from. It’s when you start to reveal the repetition of “Well, I did it again. I did it again.” That plays into addictions. It plays into the underlying emotional causes of what the addiction is masking.
So I think it really starts to play into various aspects of the fact that the answers are there that allow us to pursue a better way of being. Now the question is, “Are we disciplined enough to see them and honor that and move into establishing new habits, better habits?”
Wendy Myers: Yeah. That’s a lot of work because there are small steps every single day.
Mark Laisure: Small steps. Small steps. That goes back to feeding your brain.
The second researcher that is – there are many, many out there. But these I think are some low hanging fruit that people can get immediate impact by looking at some of what they’ve done. He’s Dr. Masaru Emoto who wrote a book called Messages From Water.
Wendy Myers: Yes.
Mark Laisure: And he got a lot more notoriety this year for passing. So it just works out there again in a big way because it has been so beneficial to so many.
Quantum science and new research is really validating a lot of these. But what he did was to harness or recognize the power of words and thought and intention and water and the correlations.
Whatever the percentage is, 70%, 80%, 60% or something, our bodies are water. Our brain is 90% water. When you start looking at his work and what it means in terms of – he would take words and put them on glasses of water. Or he would have groups that would set an intention and he would take a photo of the crystallization moment, the moment of freezing for a molecule of water under the influence of having this word attached to it or phrase or having a group or an intention set.
And you would look at the before and the after. The pictures and the body of science really speak for itself. The beauty, the natural structure that would happen in the water from positive words and affirmations, love and joy and gratitude and these things versus the disoriented or destructive structures of the water underneath words of hate or anger, even destructive phrases that were commanding someone to do something rather than suggesting collaboration. “Let’s do something together” versus “You need to do this for me or follow that order,” whatever the case may be.
So it really gets into the nuances of how water is affected by words, by intent. And then ultimately you start to look at what we are taking in on a daily basis, what words we are looking at.
To your point on where I started going to feeding the brain, I think the interesting part is we want things in our lives and we say we’re going to do something in a certain way, but yet we’re behaving differently in what we do all day long. “So I want to live a happy life,” someone might say. And at the same time, they’re listening to broken down cowboy songs all day or Adele or whatever other beautiful yet somewhat tragic sad songs that have to elicit state of sadness. That’s what it’s about, those are the emotions that it’s conjuring up.
When I say “Feed your brain,” you start to look at what you’re listening to, what you’re watching on TV, what you’re reading, what words are around in your daily basis, how you’re speaking to one another. There’s a direct response and there’s a direct effect on our beings and the beings of the people that are around us.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. That’s very, very powerful. I learned a lot about neurolinguistic programming from Tony Robbins when I was in my late teens, 19. And it was very, very powerful about how the thoughts that you think can have a profound effect on your entire life and relationship and decisions.
You have a background in neurolinguistic programming. Can you talk a little bit about that and how that profoundly affects our thinking and behavior?
Mark Laisure: It’s a science that I came to learn and got certified through Tad James Company. I guess it has been two years now since I got certifications.
I too, I guess a better part of two decades ago, started the Tony Robbins workshops as well. So it’s been around. And I read other books. And I’ve followed up other experts in the category like some of the early ones, Dale Carnegie and Zig Ziglar and this and that.
So knowledge has been here and yet we haven’t used it. The whole idea is that our subconscious mind and our conscious mind in collective is a basic program. Everything that we take on that we ingest in terms of what we’re seeing, in terms of what we’re reading and learning becomes part of our program.
The idea of neurolinguistic programming is that words and thoughts affect ourselves and affect others very specifically. And entrainment in terms of the repetition of what we’re hearing is very effective.
The corporate world knows this. The political world knows this. There’s a lot of science that’s used in how products are sold to people and why all of a sudden, you have this compelling, this need or desire for product that you never needed or wanted before and probably don’t really have a need for, but suddenly you think that you have to have it. It’s because of the way that words are used to embed our consciousness to create a reference point or a program that then feeds back in our actions, whether it’s buying a product or eating a certain food or that.
That’s what neurolinguistic programming in essence is. It’s recognizing and knowing how to program the brain through the use of words and marketing and repetition.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I know. Our mutual friend, Susan Lahey is the queen of positive thinking. She’s been on the podcast before and she’s a motivation speaker.
Mark Laisure: She’s fantastic.
Wendy Myers: She’s always talking about right words. Yes, right. Yes, 60 times on a piece of paper. And she’s worked really hard to train her brain to think positively all the time.
Wendy Myers: Something that I do too to try to reprogram myself is to do EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques to try to tap away the negative energy and the meditation to emotionally detox , so to speak.
There are also different techniques. Can you talk about some that you like to use to help to emotionally detox, so to speak, and reprogram yourself?
Mark Laisure: I can. I want to mention real quick since you brought on Susan. It’s a perfect example because we’re all on a journey and we’ve known each other for a long time.
She’s a perfect example. Her family is a perfect example of putting the actions to practice. I mean that’s a family that really walks their talk. They walk their love. They have embodied those habits and those practices that she started years ago to employ. So it’s a perfect example. She’s a great example of doing that.
I have become very, very critical of what I’m ingesting on a daily basis. So people spend a lot of time and energy on whether or not they’re going to be on a certain diet or whether they’re eating raw or whether they’re eating carbs or sugars.
I’d put just as much time and energy now into what I’m seeing and hearing and reading at even a subconscious level, so to the same point that Susan does with her “Yes, I have affirmations creatively placed throughout the household and in my office.”
I’m very careful now. Even if I love some of the older music, I’m very careful on what I listen to en masse. If I’m listening to the same songs over and over, I don’t go back to some of the same songs even though I might want to go for a walk down the memory lane. If it has a message that isn’t taking me to a higher level or isn’t lifting me up or isn’t good for whoever is around me, then I’m trying not to take that in.
One of the best things I ever did was getting rid of cable TV. And thank god with the Internet because you could still watch and you’re not disconnected from the world. You can still get news. But I don’t have the negative affirmations of mainstream news in my face.
I used to walk into the office and flip on CNN and flip on CNBC. I have two TVs, running one with volume off so I could get all the information. Well all the information was mostly negative or distractionary.
Wendy Myers: Yeah, I agree. I used to do the same thing. Now I’m blissfully ignorant because I don’t want to know that negativities all over the world. I get my news from friends telling me bad things that happen. And I’m happy.
Mark Laisure: Exactly. So you can keep up on current events once it gets to a place. But you realize, you don’t really need to follow that trial for six months. You don’t need to follow a bullying situation and whatever. As important as those may be in their individual spaces, there’s also a good going around that we could be following and what we focus on expanse.
So in terms of feeding your brain, you’re feeding your brain, you’re feeding your soul and you’re feeding and affirming your way of doing things. So it’s about building good habits.
Like I said, it goes back to how honest are we with ourselves. You say, “Well. That’s not a big deal. I used to watch that when I was a kid. I used to eat that when I was a kid.” And then those are the same people that are complaining about that this isn’t in their life or they’re having these challenges and they’re not looking at where maybe the two have set a ceiling.
Sometimes we don’t even realize – I like to use the old school radio for example where you would dial in music and sometimes you could hear the music. But it wasn’t tuned all the way in. So maybe you’re getting basics of the percussion and you can hear some horns. But you’re not getting all the strings because they’re [faint].
If you tuned it more, then all of a sudden, wow, the fullness of the music. It could be the same thing. I believe it’s the same thing with our bodies.
The more the wrong chemicals were creating, the more out of tune we are and the less we are getting the entire orchestration that we have access to if we’re in peak, optimized performance. So sometimes I think we just don’t even realize how good it could be because we’re stuck in certain habits.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. I think it’s also very important to be responsible energetically where say if I’m in a bad mood or whatnot, I try to be very careful not to be mean with the cashier or the waitress, whoever it is, my husband.
That negativity reverberates to the next person that they’re mean to or irritable with and to the next person. It creates this wave that reverberates throughout the universe, the negativity that you put out there. I think that’s important to think about too.
Mark Laisure: The proverbial [kicking] the cat?
Wendy Myers: Yeah.
Mark Laisure: But it’s a great example. It’s a great discussion. There’s now a whole new body.
Lynne McTaggart has some great books. She’s a researcher that looks in the Field Science and the idea of our auric field with our light body. What’s going on outside of our body is a big component now that we’re starting to learn more about and actually getting better.
We have the science to monitor better. We have more empirical research. We have some groups that are doing great studies in this area. The Institute for Noetic Science up in Northern California for 35 to 40 years has been doing studies around what is happening in the exchange of energy that’s going on.
So when you talk about being careful to not give that out, this to me has been ultimate to feeding our brains and how we relate to the entire community. I wish I would have had this information as a child.
But we are senders and receivers of information. Our heart actually sends and receives to an exponent 10 plus times as much information as our brains do. And it does it more quickly. So going back to that point of the strong response and our knowingness, we’re also sending out that vibration.
Oftentimes somebody can walk into the room, having a bad day and brought that bad day into the room for everybody else to share. And not a word was exchanged just because they walked in with that vibration and that energy.
What they don’t realize is they just flipped the anger switch on to that room with 20 people that they’re now in. And if anybody else is having a bad day and a wrong thing is said, then suddenly boom, there’s an argument or it raises that anger vibration rather than having it left behind and bringing in a peaceful state and potentially flipping the anger switch off on everyone. But we rally back and forth.
If I can just a second I’ll give you one example because I started playing with this at a conscious level. It’s part of owning it ourselves, being a cause for our own world. What are we doing to contribute to the situation?
One time, I was having a challenging day. This was during the market crash back in 2009. I’ve gone through some challenging times. I went into a bank and I needed to get a check cashed. They wanted to hold the check and they…
Wendy Myers: You flipped out.
Mark Laisure: Well, I was on the precipice of flipping out. And the teller was clearly not having a good day either.
Wendy Myers: Yes.
Mark Laisure: So I went to this whole mental dialog. And I did get to the state of anger. I was already there. I was in entrainment with him. I was in an exchange of frustrated energy.
As he walked away, having said there was nothing that I could do, I said, “You know what? I’m going to change state. I’m going this situation the opportunity for a different outcome.” And I sent him love in my mind.
I changed my energy. I sent him love. I said, “Okay. I understand you’re doing your job. This is my situation. It’s okay.” He turned around and walked back and said, “Clear the whole thing. Have a great day.”
Wendy Myers: Wow.
Mark Laisure: It was a complete shift. The only thing that I did was go in and address my energy and take control of what I could control, which is myself. I think that was a big lesson.
Now I try to practice that on a daily basis. Or I recognize when I’m not doing good at it how I’ve contributed to the situations. Or I do it with my son, watching what’s going on and how we’re affecting and how he may be having a bad day.
Rather than going, “You’re not behaving,” I realized I’ve been a little frustrated or I’m stressed about work or whatever the case may be. I can dial it back. And then suddenly it unfolds and the way he’s behaving.
Being at cause for our state, our energetic state as well as what we’re putting into our bodies affects everything around us.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. I think people really need to take responsibility of that. I think there are a lot of people that really feel victims to their emotions and victim to their bodies and whatnot.
We do have a tremendous amount of control over our emotional states, but we just need tools. Can you talk about some of your ideas about how we monitor our daily intake and diet as it relates to mental activity?
Mark Laisure: I think the tool is awareness. I think you have to do an assessment first of your home and your surroundings. You have to realize what you’re dealing with and you have to look at your habits.
What happens when you go to a dietician or a doctor or even if you’re getting information on allergies, they ask you to take a diary or what you’re eating for a period of time so that they can then assess how many burgers, how many this, how many that, what your calories. And then you can say, “Oh. Wow. Here’s a problem. You’re doing too much of this. You’re not enough of that.”
I think it’s the same way at a very rudimentary level. So it doesn’t have to have – you don’t have to go out and do tons of research. What you do is actually say how much TV I’m watching, what shows I’m watching, what songs I’m listening to, what kind of music. Is it angry? Is it happy?
I like to joke around. I was talking to a friend the other night how when you’re in love and everything is great and you’re more up to turn on that Air Supply album. Yeah, we talked a little bit about that. But you get the gist of that.
And then on the other side is you’re angry and you’re more up to listen to an aggressive music like Pearl Jam or Metallica or whatever your case may be. And people don’t realize that there is a resonance with these kinds of things. So I think awareness and cataloging, identifying how you’re spending your day.
Then you can start to say, “Wow. I really get it. When I’m looking at it from this perspective, I can realize that I’m watching this kind of movies, which are either angry or sad and that coupled with the songs.”
So you start looking at the books you’re reading. The idea of escaping and then you’re escaping into a sad story. You become that sad story.
This is where I think it’s interesting. We have a habit of taking certain knowledge as truth in one area yet not applying it to other areas. The one that comes to mind is running track.
You’ve seen studies now. I think a lot of TV shows, science shows talk about how when athletes are engaged in mental race, the body has the same bio feedbacks signs that they actually physically run the race. It’s the same way in anything else that we’re doing.
If you’re engaged in listening to a sad song, you are now creating the sadness, chemicals and bio feedback in your body. If you want more of that, continue to ingest more of that. It’s the same thing if you’re putting your body.
So I think the first thing is the basics of awareness, cataloging and then looking at where you can simply reduce it a little bit. Turn the TV off a little bit. Walk around. But what are you replacing?
The idea is then just mapping that time into something that is alignment with where you want to be or how you want to feel. So if you have to have the TV time, then great. Just maybe it’s a comedy. Find something that – a lot of people that have healed themselves. It doesn’t have to be the most holistic programming, but it could be making you laugh. That in itself creates a more positive chemical state.
Just being aware and then replacing is one of the healthiest starting points to reprogram how you’re creating your day.
Wendy Myers: I think it’s also important to be aware of and replace some of your friends. This is something that I’ve had to do.
I have a couple of long term friends that I just love and they had been in my life. It’s almost like a bad habit. And I very meant to care for them, but they are so negative.
“I hate my bus. I hate my friends. My boyfriend is a jerk,” just on and on and on. These are people that just drain my energy. Every time that I was with them, I just felt very drained afterwards, drained with energy.
Can you talk a little bit about how we need to potentially replace some of our friends?
Mark Laisure: You just brought up a really important point, that energy drain. The flip side of that is – I’m sure you have a lot of beautiful people. Like this conversation right now, I feel energized from here. It’s a positive exchange.
Everybody has had these experiences where there are certain friends that they just love talking to them. Every time they’re done, they feel more inspired or ideas start to flow and the blood starts pumping.
Then there are other friends where “Okay, we shared. I care for them. I heard their sad story. I got to listen to that over and over.” Or they see it in themselves how every time they go with that person, they dump their stuff. And that exchange starts to go by forward.
Then the other person feels like they need to dump in response. “Oh yeah, I know what you’re talking about. Here’s my bad story. And that’s that one.” And then you’re creating a self-fulfilling type of a situation.
I think it’s a really important point to again have awareness. Assess who you’re spending your time with, what their state of mind and being, how much you’re investing in your daily basis in people that you don’t even realize that they’ve invested hours of the day or potentially days of the week, repeating bad stories, gossips, jealousies, angers, whatever the case may be.
The simple fact is you have to make the tough decision to say, “It’s not serving.” And be willing to step away from that.
You may potentially lose that friendship because they may be addicted to that exchange. They may not be in a place to be able to release the behavior. But it’s about being at cause with your own situation and realizing that in order to go to the next level, you got to surround yourself with the kind of people that are in the space that you want to be in. It’s really important, what you mentioned.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. For me, I felt really, really guilty letting go of these friends. I was like, “Oh, I’m being a bad friend. If I’m a good person, I should be there for them and listen to their problems.”
But at a certain point, I think you have to look out for number one and care for yourself because no one else is going to do that for you. They can be very difficult to let g, even the spouse or a family member that is just draining or attacking you.
Mark Laisure: Looking after number one is key. It really comes down to self-love. It’s funny how, because of programming, because of social stigmas of guilt and shame and being a good friend and what is the definition of a good friend, we’re better friends to other people than we are ourselves.
Wendy Myers: Yeah.
Mark Laisure: During some of my hardest times. I had one of my close friends tell me. He says, “You know Mark? There’s a reason why if a plane is going into crisis and the masks drop. Put the mask on yourself first then you can help those around you.”
That’s it. I mean energetically just like you’re talking about, you end up giving all your oxygen away to that friend that needed the attention, and you’re left there drained, no oxygen and unable to help yourself. So are you being a good friend to yourself first? Are you loving yourself first?
That means curating the food you’re eating, the people you’re interacting with and the other content that you’re ingesting out on daily basis.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. I find that when people start eating healthier food and they start taking minerals that their body desperately needs to function, when people are on my Mineral Power Program, I had this over and over again.
People develop this physical and mental strength and become much more aware of themselves and their surroundings and get in touch with themselves. And they leave their jobs or leave their spouse because they have been able to lift themselves up to a better place with food and proper nutrition.
Wendy Myers: Can you talk a little bit about how food helps us to do that and the difference between dead and life food?
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. You mentioned minerals. We’re just beginning to understand the technologies that are in crystals. They’re actually starting to refer crystals as living things. These are growing bodies of energy.
There’s so much going on that we’re not even aware of, without having to get scientific about it, the simple fact of living versus dead food.
The marketing machine has pushed us or guided the greater populace away from fresh vegetables and fruits and organics. Of course that wave is finally coming back in because people like you are doing great work out there. But growing up, you would have been more inclined to grab a bag of chips or something friend or processed or bleach or starch as opposed to something that was grown or could potentially just came off the tree or out of the ground.
The other component of this, why it’s so important, not only is the mineral content and the vitamin content, but it’s the energy that’s the light. And it really plays into that quantum discussion. You hear the spiritual people say, “You are the light.” Well, there is light in everything.
Now we have science that’s starting to feed back the truth in the bio photonic measurements, the light measurement that is our body. We give off light. Vegetables give off light. Anything that is alive has energy around it, has a field, has an aura.
When you’re taking those foods, you’re not only taking the physical nutrient and beginning that process, but you are also ingesting the electrical content, the light content, the energy at a greater level. So the more aliveness you take in, the more alive you feel. Whereas the flipside, the more of these dead products, the more you’re actually gumming up the system.
For the auto enthusiasts out there, I compare it too. We put so much time and energy in making sure the fuel is just right and the oil is just right. And we got to clean it out because if there’s a little bit of gunk, it won’t work well.
And they’re the same people that are munching on everything, getting their hands on and taking that into their engine and their system and not giving themselves an opportunity to function at optimal speeds or optimal clarity, whatever the case may be.
But taking in living foods before you even get into the complexities of which ones I think is the basic. There’s a lot that we don’t know. There’s a lot in the idea of the living organisms and the energy that comes from it.
Wendy Myers: What is the relevance to our brains and bodies beyond what we understand at the physical level, the energy and growth and et cetera?
Mark Laisure: We are sender and receivers of information. And we are all connected. What does that mean in terms of “we are all connected?” And it goes into field science.
Field science is in terms of our connection to not only each other, but the universe as a whole and that butterfly effect that you were talking about earlier. When you do something, it goes out there. It touches the atoms that are in the air that are around you. And then you touch more atoms and they touch and they convey out into the universe. All of these are affecting.
The chemicals state that we create is altering our overall vibration, whether we’re happy or sad, whether we’re vibrant or way down energetically. They are all component of our overall vibration and therefore affecting everybody around us.
You’ve seen people walk into a room that are down and heavy and having a bad day. They don’t have to be super angry. Not only did they bring that into the room, but people can entrain to that. All of a sudden, you’ve dragged the energy of the whole room down.
Flip side, when Susan Lahey walks into the room, suddenly everybody’s up.
Wendy Myers: Boom.
Mark Laisure: Exactly.
Wendy Myers: That’s why she’s a motivational speaker.
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. It’s a brilliant example of how that attitude is contagious. It’s contagious not only like I said to the people in that room, but in the entire collective.
Remember the trains, the city trains that have the two wires above. That’s where it’s drawing the power. Think of it this way. Our brains, our spinal cords, our pineal gland, which we weren’t taught about in Anatomy classes as kids, which recognizes frequency at a spectrum beyond what we see, all of these functioning as a whole is a two-way radio of vibration that interacts with the world around us.
It’s interesting. Some of the same studies that Dr. Emoto and some other scientists were doing, one of them was the monitoring of either plants or rice, then positive affirmations, negative affirmations and neglect.
What was interesting is the positive affirmations, the plants that grew the tallest or the rice, the healthiest, the longest. The negative affirmations, you would expect obviously rotted more quickly or the plants didn’t grow as high. But the worst of the two was neglect, meaning just being ignored.
That’s the important part. It’s to realize that there is connectivity among all things and all systems and so what we’re constantly putting on a vibration. And that vibration is being reflected back to us in the events that we’re interacting with it, that we’re creating in our life or the people that we’re attracting.
It circles back and re-affirms what you were saying in terms of the friends that you have, the food you’re ingesting. You can almost play it as a game and start to look at how massively it will affect your life. And all you’re doing is really just turning up the volume on your way of being in order to attract more positivity in your life rather than complaining about things that you’re continuing to do the same things.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. I love the example you gave about the plants that were neglected were not doing so high.
My uncle who’s passed away now, he was trying to break the world’s record for growing the tallest tomato plants. He treated them organically. One thing he did was he talked to the plants every day. I thought it was nuts, but it makes sense now because he would talk to them and sing to them and give them good energy.
He was a very spiritual person. But unfortunately, I don’t think he talked to them enough because they only got 18 feet and the world record was 32 feet.
Mark Laisure: Wow! Eighteen feet, he’s still a champion in my book.
Wendy Myers: Yeah. He tried.
Mark Laisure: Eighteen inches I think might be the maximum of anything I’ve ever grown. I don’t have the green thumb, but I do understand it. That’s probably because I was never around enough to talk or sing to them.
But yeah, most great gardeners and people that grow their food absolutely do exchange energy with the plants or flowers that they’re care-taking for. It’s the same way with our animals.
The more we pay attention and own that inner activity, that attention, the more we realize that it truly is impactful and something that we could be doing more or be more in control of our environment and we’re in control of what’s going on every day.
Wendy Myers: I’ve been listening to your Life Changes Show. You talk a lot about an idea called SOS. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Mark Laisure: We’ve touched on various components of SOS through this conversation. Yeah, it’s a term that I coined a while back when I started to understand what is now somewhat more common, but this idea that we are programmed beings, that our brains function like a computer program that’s connected to a larger main frame of information.
Then I started thinking, “Well. Wow. Okay, if you have someone that grew up in rural Mississippi and someone that grew up in Siberia or the Middle East and they had only access to the influences that they had in that area and the culture and the input and the shows and the local behaviors, how could they know anything different?”
With every hug, every startle from birth and say before, but if you take that blueprint of every moment of activities aligned with the code that goes into programming, our operating system, then I coined the idea of looking at yourself operating system, which is where SOS comes from. It’s the idea that everybody has a very unique program.
Some can be as different as Windows and Mac. And it just won’t run. They won’t see eye-to-eye. They won’t run the same program when you look at that from the perspective of where did the programming come from and you look at your parents or care takers if they are raised by their grandparents or brothers or sisters and what were their influences or what were their belief systems at the time.
I had Ginger Laisure, version 1936 with a certain Catholic background and there are these certain things, which are going to give me a very different programming than someone that had Shirley whatever, version 1950 or whatever the case may be. Those are very different. You can actually break down the programming basis for how we behave.
What it does is when you start to look at this base of programming, it takes the ego out of it and you start to have compassion for someone. We want to be quick – we as a society want to be a very quick to call people something, a racist or this or that or how could they do this. But when you step back from the ego of it and you start to have compassion for looking at what their story might be or where they had their influences, then you can start to not only understand and have compassion for how they got where they are, but then maybe have an opportunity to where you can serve up more awareness to that community of that person and then potentially change the program and its worldview. It really is about altering the program.
This reminds me of a viral video that’s been out lately. It’s a self-professed redneck who goes in and calling out racism and how he used to be a racist and he’s no longer a racist. He really is so intelligent and so well-spoken.
And he couldn’t sound more and be more redneck in the way he comes from. But yet his very evolved way of “We got to put a stop to this. We got to be accountable. We can change the way we treat others” comes through. There’s a perfect version of reprogramming. It didn’t come with the same wrapper that it may have been seemed to have come in initially.
Wendy Myers: Are there some exercise that people can do to increase their positive thoughts and create an ideal impact on their body?
Mark Laisure: Yes. A lot of it is through repetition. But you’re hearing a lot more I think the idea, the very notion of meditation has come through for starters.
So the idea of shutting down the mind is the first start, getting control of the chatter and oftentimes the negative thinking which is just continuing to affirm some of the things that you don’t necessarily want or the changes or challenges or fears or hesitation.
So it’s the idea of bringing that under control, which used to be an Eastern thing. It’s now obviously becoming much more accepted and put into practice across the mainstream culture, the Western culture. But that leads to all sorts of other positive results in our body chemistry, in our balance, therefore our uptake and utilization of the foods that we’re eating and the nutrients.
But once you get control of your mind, the next thing again is what you’re putting into it. So it’s the use of affirmations, being very specific with what you want in your life, for your family, for yourself. And write that out and then repeating that, whether it’s through mantras, whether you’re doing meditation, whether it’s having it written there so you’re seeing it oftentimes throughout the day.
And therefore you’re getting positive reinforcement by just viewing it, maybe putting affirmations in the office or on your computer. Some people do it in the mirror, in the bathroom. There are places that you’re often going and then your conscious mind sees it or even if you’re not necessarily paying attention, your subconscious mind is taking that in.
So every one those of things, every one of those hits that you see that, that you repeat it, that you have it played to you in your ears at night or through meditation, exercises. Those are ways of reprogramming the brain building new habits.
They’re just like advertisements where they use repetitions in selling you the stuff over and over. You’re selling yourself on the things that you really want or selling yourself on a more positive way of self-loving or looking at yourself as opposed to maybe how you’ve been doing it before.
Wendy Myers: Mark, thank you so much for all of that amazing insights and all that information. I know that the listeners are going to get a lot of benefit from doing all these exercises that you suggested. I think it’s so, so important.
Wendy Myers: I think a lot of people don’t want to take the time to do these things. I find myself, “Oh, I’m too busy. I have so much to do.” But I have to take the time to meditate. I force myself to take quiet time for myself and just stay calm.
When you’re really, really stressed out, it’s very hard I think to change your thinking. I think it’s very easy to get stuck and stressed out in negative vibration. So it is very important for people to take time to do that.
Mark Laisure: Well, taking time. Thank you for having me on. I’ve really enjoyed the discussion.
The one thing I would say validating your point is again we are willing or we take time to do other things and then we say we’re too busy. And yet we’re asking for change in our lives.
So be willing to invest in yourself. The investment in change, the investment in changing your habits and building new and better habits is as important as an investment you’re making in the market or in a new home or a new car.
If you’re too busy for exercise, then how can you change your way of being and therefore create a better life? So you need to be able to invest in that hour on the gym or on the hiking trail or in these types of practices.
Wendy Myers: I have a question I like to ask to all my guests. Can you give me your opinion of what you think is the most pressing health issue in the world today?
Mark Laisure: The most pressing health issue I think is – it falls under the banner that we’ve been touching on. It would be mental health. But I think it goes down to something more specific, which is balance.
I think getting to a mental state and living in a mental state of balance as opposed to the contrary of that, which is where that word dis-ease comes from. Disease is in essence “out of balance.” It will manifest somewhere in the organs or in your body or throughout.
The most pressing issue is really being able to achieve balance because I think it affects all of those areas that you’re trying to attack or you may be combating at an individual level.
I know people are still taking multiple drugs for different small issues and thinking, “Well, I can fix this with this. I can fix it with that.” Whereas at the end of the day, if they’re in balance, that will bring everything into alignment and they can let go of a lot of the targeting from a pharmaceutical levels or other aspects.
Wendy Myers: Can you tell the listeners where they can find you and learn more about your Life Changes Show?
Mark Laisure: Absolutely. The Life Changes Show is at LifeChangesNetwork.com or LifeChangesShow.com. We are on Facebook at the Life Changes Show and Twitter, LifeChangesShow.
Again, it’s hosted by Filippo Voltaggio and co-hosted by me. We hope you join us on Monday nights at 7 PM, Pacific or go to our website for the archive. There are great many shows there that may answer some of the questions you’re looking to achieve answers to.
Wendy Myers: Mark, thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. I’m happy that we finally did our show together.
Mark Laisure: Me too. Thank you for having me and for all the great work you’re doing. I really, really enjoyed the newsletter and listening to your podcast. It’s awesome.
Wendy Myers: Thank you. Thank you so much. And listeners, go to my website, myersdetox.com if you want to learn more about natural healing and detoxification.
And my Mineral Power Program, you can find that at MineralPower.com. Again, thank you so much for listening to the Live To 110 Podcast.
