Dr. Clint Rogers is currently CEO of Wisdom of the World Wellness, LLC. Below is the full transcript of the TEDx Talk he gave at TEDxWilmington titled: Ancient Secrets of a Master Healer: Deeper Healing Solutions.
TEDx Talk Transcript:
It is so fun to be at TEDx.
All right. So I want your participation in this talk, because I believe that the things that we’re going to share together now may end up changing your life and maybe even save it one day.
So first, how many of you have ever noticed that you only really start to value things in your life when you’re faced with them being gone?
There’s a funny quote that says:
“Most of us use our lives spending money we don’t have, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t even like.”
So What is Wisdom?
One definition, as a University researcher and current CEO of an organization called Wisdom of the World, I’ve seen a lot of definitions of wisdom. One that I really like is this:
“Wisdom is learning to value the things you have while you have them.”
So most of my life I haven’t done this. I’ve wanted things that I don’t have, or wanted to be someone that I’m not. So there’s a lot of suffering.
Then I met this master healer from the Himalayas who initially I was very skeptical of but he introduced me to an ancient science that totally transformed my capacity to value my life and the things in it.
I want to share with you three experiences early on with him, I think, can benefit you. And then with three questions I want you to answer that I think can change your life forever.
So first, experience.
How many of you have had an experience where you’ve been with someone that you love and they’ve been struggling with some challenge or problem, some pain; you wanted to help them and you didn’t know how?
So for me, that was my dad. I remember the day that he called me on the phone and said he needed to meet in his office. I knew something was wrong.
When I went to his office, I sat in the chair in front of his desk. And he sat in the chair to the side looking at the floor in silence for what seemed like a long time.
Finally when he lifted his eyes, he looked at me and said, “Clint, I haven’t told your mother and I haven’t told your brothers or sisters. But I don’t even know if I’m going to live through this week. And I just want someone to know where the loose ends are so your mother doesn’t have to worry about it.”
I remember that feeling like life punched me in the gut. Anything else that was important just faded away.
And I said, “What’s happening?”
He told me that he had been seeing four very competent caring doctors on twelve medications. But that two of them said we don’t know what else to do to help you.
Basically in desperation I told him that through Wisdom of the World, I had met this master healer from the Himalayas that claims that just from touching your posts, I don’t know how it works, that he can know what’s happening in your body and then what’s wrong and how to help you.
That his name is Dr. Pankaj Naram. He’s helped people like Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, that the secrets — the ancient healing secrets are recorded on these Sanskrit Scrolls in ancient texts have been passed down master to student for thousands of years. Each of the Masters living well over a hundred.
Well I might as well have been speaking a foreign language because my dad did not look interested. And I don’t blame him; it was so outside my own realm of reality that I didn’t see how this was possible.
But I was desperate. So I pushed the issue. I said for Father’s Day, I’m flying you to see this master healer. My dad forced a smile for me and said well at least it can’t hurt.
Well I remember when he got off the plane, he was walking in so much pain he had to have someone on each side carrying him. We got to the location. At the time Dr. Naram was traveling around Europe and U.S. and Canada. It was packed full of people more than 50, 60 people already there and we’re seeing people go in and out in minutes.
My dad’s looking at his list of medications and saying I can’t even read it in that amount of time: why are we here?
And I remember when his name was called watching him very slowly walk, hunched over in pain, suffering and go in the door and it shut behind him. I waited very anxiously on the other side.
When the door opened again minutes later, I saw him walking straighter and he had different look in his eyes.
I said, “Dad, what happened?”
He said, “I don’t know how to explain it. I didn’t tell him anything but he just felt my wrist and in seconds he started telling me what my problem was.” He says “even if my four doctors were in the same room which never happens, I don’t think they could have described as accurately what’s happening in my body and my mind and my emotions.”
Well after this initial experience with my dad, I became very interested and what is this ancient science?
I began studying and I came across during this time a brilliant German professor – professor from Germany by the name of Dr. Ludwig Max Fischer who spent years of his life studying distinctions between Western medicine and lots of these forms of ancient healing.
Just one of the points he shares is that in the West we often focus on everything like it’s a fight. We want to fight cancer, fight bacteria. We want to kill the pain. He says, but in the ancient healing they look at things in terms of balance and purification.
The way Doctor Naram explained it to me is this.
He says, “In your body is a microcosm of the macrocosm — all the elements that exist in nature also exist in you. So when he feels your post, he knows the vata or wind energy, pitta or fire energy and kapha or water and earth energy, based on which one jumps the strongest and the pattern of the jump and he knows where’s the imbalance, where’s the blocks and then can predict with astounding accuracy, the problems that you’re facing physically, mentally and emotionally.
Well, my dad — then they have six instruments basically in this ancient science how to help you remove the blocks and rebalance your system.
One of them is just knowing what to eat and what not to eat.
Second is, because it’s a deep healing, it’s not superficial, pushing down symptoms. Sometimes it requires discipline and patience and a lifestyle change.
Third is home remedies from your own kitchen or herbs from the earth — panchakarma or hasta Karma. If you haven’t heard of it look it up on Google.
Then, marma — understanding what are the subtle energy points in the body that when you press them remove blocks and help rebalance the system.
Well my dad disciplined himself, changed his diet, took herbs we never heard of before.
Six months later, we were sitting in the same chairs. He told me now he had a very big problem.
I said what this time. He says I don’t know what to do with all these meditations.
In six months, he’d gone from 12 medications to one. No more diabetes, cholesterol, blood pressure, no more CPAP machine, sleeping pills, he had so much – no pain in his whole body, so much energy he wanted to complete his 30 plus years of work and writing a book on how to help kids make good choices.
Remember that night, just kneeling next to my bed, thank you God.
So when I went to this master healer, the second experience I want to share with you — I went to thank him. I said I feel like you’ve given me a gift worth more than any amount of money. More people should know this ancient science exists. They may not choose it but they should know it’s a choice.
He laughed. He said you know I need help but not from you.
I said why not. He said your mind is way too crowded.
So he advised me to do two things. One of them was go for a period of silence. So for you here or watching this video, what’s the longest period of time you’ve gone since you were born until now without talking. Maybe a couple hours, half a day, whole day. He made me go for ten days of silence. One of the most difficult things I’ve ever done, and also one of the most rewarding.
First time in my life, I started to see who I was.
Second, I saw so many things I was doing that I thought were important were just games invented by other people. I have a PhD but I saw university was just invented, then you play this game, you get this degree.
Money is imaginary, was just invented. Also, countries — when you look from space at the earth there’s no line between Canada and the US or Pakistan and India. The concept I’m a citizen was just invented.
So in the silence I thought all the games were playing on earth, what else can we invent now that’s healthier for ourselves and this planet.
I went to this master healer and I said I thought I came for healing for my dad. I didn’t know how much I needed. And he let me start traveling with him. For the last seven years I’ve been with him in more than 150 cities all over the world, started documenting stories like my father, now more than 4500 and what they did.
In the process I became exposed to what is this ancient science. I forgot to show the picture of my dad. That’s very important.
Dr. Naram told me that in this ancient science, everything is a medicine or poison depending on how you use it. Early on in my traveling I had a headache so bad at the clinic in India. He saw 350 people that day. My headache was getting worse. I was feeling worse.
So I came to him; he knew instantly my imbalance was kapha. He says your medicine is onion rings. I was surprised. He explained no, everything’s a medicine or poison depending on how you use it. Even water is a medicine for more than 180 things and a poison for 18. Your life’s work can be a medicine or poison depending if it’s aligned with your purpose.
He says onion rings — don’t use every day like a lifestyle. But now in your imbalance for this kind of a headache based on principles you don’t yet understand it’s your medicine.
Well I was shocked. My headache just — it was growing intensity all day, melted away. I was full of so much energy after that. In an open-hearted enthusiasm I came to him and I said how did that work?
He smiled, he looked at me he said, “You know, Clint, when I was younger, I was a lot like you.”
I say, “Really, how?”
He said “I was also messed up and confused.” He told me that his master gave him three questions that helped him give a lot of clarity and purpose to his life. He said the ancient science of Siddha Veda isn’t just about how to regain health or maintain health; it’s about how to use your health wisely while you have it.
He said his master — according to his master, 95% of people on the planet don’t even know what they want. That Siddha Veda is the ancient art and science of discovering what you want and achieving it physically, mentally or emotionally.
So these three questions I want to share with you, he said, first of all you want to press this Marma point on your right hand right finger six times, it helps remove mental blocks and open up your subconscious.
Then ask these questions. First, if you knew you couldn’t fail, you knew you were going to succeed at whatever you did, what would you do or be?
Second, if you knew you had $100 million in the bank, what would you do or be?
And third, if you knew you only had six months left to live, what would you do or be?
He said these questions can bring so much clarity and not only that but deep healing.
My challenge to you is find out your answers to those questions. I even encourage you to write them on a sheet of paper.
I made this one the same size as a hundred dollar bill but whatever your currency is I would make it the same size as your money, put it wherever your money is. And remember that your answers that these three questions are worth more than any amount of money, that instead of spending our money on things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like, why not spend our time, which is the most valuable thing that we have with people that we love and doing things that matter.
So in summary, I hope you remember this experience of my father. I hope you remember this definition of wisdom, to value the things that you have while you have them.
I hope you spend more time in silence asking who are you, why are you even doing what you’re doing.
And third, perhaps the most important thing that you can do for yourself and those that you love is ask these three questions. Share them with others. Give them that gift of asking these questions too.
If the answers don’t come right away press that marma point, it helps remove blocks and open your subconscious ask the questions until you find those answers. Write them down, review them every day.
And I believe that as more of us do this we can like Doctor Naram and this ancient science see seemingly impossible things become possible, that your life can be filled with true wisdom. And that together we can help create this world to be a healthier and happier place.
Disclaimer: This talk contains several assertions about Ayurveda and ancient healing that are not supported by the scientific community. While some viewers might find advice provided in this talk to be helpful as a complementary approach, please do not look to this talk for medical advice.
