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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast. George Norry with you,
Speaker 2: Eldon Taylor with us. We'll take calls with Elden next hour.
Speaker 2: Tell you a little bit more about that later, Eldon.
Speaker 2: I'm going to sound a little bit like I'm from
Speaker 2: the Beverly Hillbillies. But what do you mean by young ing?
Speaker 3: You know, George, I when I look at everything, I
Speaker 3: look at the expectation people have about aging, how it's
Speaker 3: sold to us in all of the ads that we
Speaker 3: see on TV and mirrored very often, and how people
Speaker 3: look and behave as they get older. We think of
Speaker 3: aging and we think, you know, cognitive difficulties, deficiencies develop,
Speaker 3: you know, bad joints, maybe knee replacements. Yeah, this whole
Speaker 3: list of images that come to mind when you speak
Speaker 3: of aging. The problem is, and and a bit of
Speaker 3: a digression here, we know that life expectancy recently has
Speaker 3: decreased in.
Speaker 2: America, which is unprecedented.
Speaker 3: That's right, and especially for a modern society such as
Speaker 3: our own, when it's extending in other societies like ours.
Speaker 3: So when you look at that, you have to ask why. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, I think the biggest reason is because our society,
Speaker 3: our medical institution, they do two things. They sell you sickness.
Speaker 3: I watched the Republican debate last night, Okay, uh.
Speaker 2: Not intriguing.
Speaker 3: By the way, three in four of the commercials were
Speaker 3: sickness commercials. Yes, you know, and I don't watch television typically,
Speaker 3: so I'm not accustomed to seeing. I mean, you just
Speaker 3: you are just overwhelmed by that healthcare system fixes illness,
Speaker 3: it doesn't teach us wellness. So it's all our entire
Speaker 3: system is about sickness. George, we need a word that
Speaker 3: reverses that. Instead of aging, we need young because we
Speaker 3: have solid evidence that is young. Not just stay young
Speaker 3: in mind, which is very helpful, that's important, but you
Speaker 3: can literally young your physiology. You can you literally can
Speaker 3: look younger, walk younger, stand taller, sit more erect, have
Speaker 3: more strength. You literally can reverse that aging process. So
Speaker 3: like goin the word, I mean, we just simply need
Speaker 3: the opposite of aging about young.
Speaker 4: And that's how I refer to it.
Speaker 2: Now, you say we're programmed to age.
Speaker 3: Explain that, Yeah, well, the programming happens when we're very young.
Speaker 3: In fact, it happens so still so consistently that I've
Speaker 3: got a son turning thirty this year and he doesn't
Speaker 3: even want to celebrate his birthday.
Speaker 4: It's horrible.
Speaker 3: He's over the hill at thirty.
Speaker 4: He's done with the perception.
Speaker 3: You think about how and where we get these perceptions.
Speaker 3: And again, we can go to the media. We are
Speaker 3: inundated with products that are designed to tell us we're
Speaker 3: going to get old. But there's a fix for us.
Speaker 3: You know, we can get some botox, or we can
Speaker 3: have a knee replacement, or we going to have, you know,
Speaker 3: skin graft.
Speaker 4: And when we.
Speaker 3: See older people were typically shown those people that have
Speaker 3: not aged well in the year two thousand, celebrating that year,
Speaker 3: turning the calendar nineteen ninety ninety two thousand New Year's Eve,
Speaker 3: I happened to catch a program on centenarians, people who
Speaker 3: had been around longer than the century. They were over
Speaker 3: one hundred years old, and and you know, this program
Speaker 3: focused on.
Speaker 4: The healthier ones.
Speaker 3: I saw one hundred year old men playing tennis and
Speaker 3: playing it hard and looking like they were maybe seventy
Speaker 3: at the most sixty.
Speaker 4: I would say at.
Speaker 2: That time, amazing, You keep busy.
Speaker 3: Don't is the healthy side of aging that's not presented
Speaker 3: to us.
Speaker 2: Not until you find one who's one hundred and six
Speaker 2: and then they illustrate him. But you're absolutely right. But
Speaker 2: I have found that you keep active, you stay younger,
Speaker 2: you keep your brain fresh.
Speaker 4: Is that great? That's absolutely right.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm in my office every morning around eight thirty,
Speaker 3: usually go home, work out my I've got a gym
Speaker 3: in my own home, so you usually, you know, head
Speaker 3: over to the house somewhere between four and five. But
Speaker 3: I'll put a full day in and I'm still reading
Speaker 3: the latest literature, creating new things. I mean, since that cardiac,
Speaker 3: I've written seven books done. I don't know how many
Speaker 3: videos and audio programs stay creative, stay involved, and the
Speaker 3: gratitude come back to that. You mentioned that several times.
Speaker 3: It is a magic bullet. In fact, I think it's
Speaker 3: so important that George, you know, in honor of you
Speaker 3: your show bringing me on to talk about this, anybody,
Speaker 3: all of our listeners can simply go to my website
Speaker 3: Olden Taylor dot com. There's a banner on that page
Speaker 3: that is in honor of George Nurray. They click on that,
Speaker 3: they can get their own free gratitude attitude program, download
Speaker 3: it and work with it. But I'll tell you what happens.
Speaker 3: When you have gratitude, you change the neurochemistry and the
Speaker 3: physiology of your own body. You know, you've heard me
Speaker 3: say this before. The body has basically like a government,
Speaker 3: analogous to a government, three systems, you know, the racun
Speaker 3: the immune and the autonomic nervous system, and two programs
Speaker 3: they run on They run on defense or they run
Speaker 3: on growth. If we have stress in our body, if
Speaker 3: if we're looking at life, it sucks and then you die.
Speaker 3: If we're oh, my goodness, another day. Oh do you
Speaker 3: know what's happening in the world. The interest rates are crazy.
Speaker 3: I can't afford to buy holes, you know, the poor
Speaker 3: Palestinians that you know, anything you want to pick. Where
Speaker 3: people are generally in their lives when you turn on
Speaker 3: the news, that is poison to you. If you look
Speaker 3: at life, on the other hand, with that positive attitude,
Speaker 3: that thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Here's a little trip. I start every morning with.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I put a big.
Speaker 4: Chest Shire smile on my mouth.
Speaker 3: What happens when you do that is you release indorphiends
Speaker 3: those endorphind's. Bay's a body that's the body's natural opiates,
Speaker 3: and the bodies says, oh, I do feel good, and
Speaker 3: to thank you. And it doesn't matter what you're saying
Speaker 3: to or who you're saying it to. The thank you
Speaker 3: set you up with a different expectation. It's a positive
Speaker 3: expectation that that's that's an immune booster that strengthens the
Speaker 3: autonomy and theandrolcan that for all intent and purposes, is
Speaker 3: a magic bullet to extending your life. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: another one that I do.
Speaker 4: That is very powerful about it. Laughter.
Speaker 3: Laughter has been shown in study after study to extend
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 1: Hu.
Speaker 4: Every morning, when I first.
Speaker 3: Come into my office, I find something funny. It might
Speaker 3: be a story, it might be a joke, it might
Speaker 3: be a meme, a picture or something. And that's what
Speaker 3: goes on my social networking pages first thing every day.
Speaker 3: It sets humor up.
Speaker 4: I laugh at it.
Speaker 3: And I think those people that follow me, they get
Speaker 3: it kick out of it too.
Speaker 2: Okay, what happens to people Eldon who wake up depressed,
Speaker 2: crime and upset every morning.
Speaker 3: Well, they they actually exacerbate the aging process. Worst of all,
Speaker 3: they reduce their immune system. The opposite of that is
Speaker 3: an immunology, if you will, an anecdote to aging and illness.
Speaker 3: The research shows clearly that depression will not just age you.
Speaker 3: It leads to disease early on, set heart failure, a
Speaker 3: host of conditions that are unhealthy. So the practical side
Speaker 3: of everything says we want to turn our life around.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what else, George. One of the.
Speaker 3: Things that I talk about in spirituality questioning spirituality is
Speaker 3: the pragmatic side of what you get out of being spiritual.
Speaker 3: And among those pragmatics is you'll live longer, you'll be happier,
Speaker 3: you'll be healthier, you'll be more likely to be monogamous,
Speaker 3: happy in your relationships. In other words, life will be better. Humor,
Speaker 3: gratitude forgiveness. Forgiveness is another big.
Speaker 4: One, George. You know when we ran that double.
Speaker 3: Blind study at the Utah State Prison on utilizing the
Speaker 3: Inner Talk technology to change the way the inmates talk
Speaker 3: to themselves. We went specifically after trying to create self responsibility, because.
Speaker 4: When you talk to these inmates, what you learned.
Speaker 3: Was they displaced the responsibility. They blamed everything on somebody else.
Speaker 3: That's what happens to a lot of people. You don't
Speaker 3: have to be a criminal to realize that life sucks
Speaker 3: because you're allowing it to suck. It's not because somebody
Speaker 3: did something to you. It's how you responded to the stimuli.
Speaker 3: You could respond differently and have a better life as
Speaker 3: a result.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: So in that study at the Utah State Prison, we
Speaker 3: incorporated three messages. I forgive myself, I forgive.
Speaker 4: All others, I am forgiven.
Speaker 3: When I first proposed this custo, there was some feedback
Speaker 3: from custodio people that they didn't think that was maybe
Speaker 3: the best idea. Maybe they'd, you know, actually we go
Speaker 3: out and recommit if they forgave, they had a clean sight.
Speaker 3: But that didn't happen. What happens when you do that
Speaker 3: is you eliminate your ability to blame.
Speaker 4: There's nobody to blame.
Speaker 3: Now, you take responsibility yourself, and that's actually really empowering.
Speaker 3: So that's step in forgiveness empowers an individual, and that too,
Speaker 3: becomes one of those ways that we reframe this dialogue.
Speaker 3: We have this self talk. We have this set of
Speaker 3: beliefs that it's inside the head that's so automatic in
Speaker 3: order to gain free will in order to gain happiness
Speaker 3: in the free wills and other issue. Hey, look when
Speaker 3: you look at all of the data today, it's pretty overwhelming. Libit,
Speaker 3: with its multicranial which you and I have talked about
Speaker 3: before back in the fifties, said there's no such thing
Speaker 3: as free will. We have activity in the unconscious before
Speaker 3: there is a conscious decision to move. Haines comes along
Speaker 3: and he uses functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI, and he
Speaker 3: discovers that these technicians can determine what you're going to
Speaker 3: do within six to ten seconds before you consciously make
Speaker 3: the decision.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 3: All right, Libbit's looking at hundreds of millions of neurons,
Speaker 3: Haines quite a few, a fraction of that. But now
Speaker 3: Fried has done some work using electrodes in the brain
Speaker 3: and he's looking at single neurons, and the single neurons
Speaker 3: are giving us correlation. That data is said that whatever
Speaker 3: you're going to do, that decision is made in your
Speaker 3: mind before you're consciously aware of it, up to ten
Speaker 3: seconds in advance. We run on an automatic robot. This
Speaker 3: automaticity that's coming out of our mind. That automaticity is
Speaker 3: something we have to discover if we have any free will,
Speaker 3: it's an illusion.
Speaker 2: How important is happiness to the scheme of things?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, happiness is absolutely of essence.
Speaker 3: These things that we're talking about are all designed to
Speaker 3: produce happiness. If I'm not happy, I am going to
Speaker 3: be on that scale that you spoke about, you know, depression, nervousness, anxiety, stress,
Speaker 3: general unhappiness and and and again those that's the opposite
Speaker 3: of where we want to be if we want to
Speaker 3: live a long, healthy life.
Speaker 2: Interesting, is there any science that backs any of this up?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know there's a lot of it. In fact,
Speaker 4: I told you about Langer study.
Speaker 3: There's a series of studies study that was conducted at
Speaker 3: Harvard University using a flight simulator two groups of people.
Speaker 3: A group put on flight suits and pretended to be
Speaker 3: air force pilots well guiding a simulated flight. Then they
Speaker 3: performed better in vision tests afterwards compared to the group
Speaker 3: that was in a broken simulator and just pretending to
Speaker 3: fly a plane. Another study out of Harvard, in this
Speaker 3: articular group, healthy subjects watch videos of people coughing and sneezing.
Speaker 3: Here come back to what I said about selling sickness
Speaker 3: and TV ads. Yeah, all right, these people that watch
Speaker 3: this video were told to just pretend that they had
Speaker 3: goals when this was done. The study was done for
Speaker 3: those in the test group reported they had cold symptoms,
Speaker 3: compared to ten percent that was in a control group
Speaker 3: just told to pretend without this video, and what's most important,
Speaker 3: using their saliva. They had elevated immune system response. So
Speaker 3: it wasn't just yeah, I have this cold symptom. I
Speaker 3: think because I've been pretending to have it. It was
Speaker 3: indeed an elevated response in the body, a no cebo effect.
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