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We Are All Connected and Need Each Other To Heal | Andrew Langberg | TEDxRutgersPrep


in 1998 I was 27 years old
and I was in the best physical shape of
my life I completed a marathon I did a
hundred and twelve mile bike ride across
the desert in Arizona I completed many
biathlon and triathlons I would go to
gym and spent about an hour day lifting
enormous amounts of weight but the
problem was I was in a constant state of
pain I couldn’t turn my head to the
right for eight years with chronic neck
strain I would come home from work every
day and I would hang myself from the
closet door with a home traction unit
just trying to relieve some tension I
couldn’t open a bottle of water due to
chronically inflamed elbows from doing
Olympic style weightlifting I couldn’t
wash my hair I had a lot more back then
and due to chronically impinged
shoulders I wouldn’t leave the house
every day without ankle braces because I
had non functioning ligaments in my in
my ankles and would you believe I was
representing the healthy I was a
personal trainer and all the trainers
that work with me were hurting all the
clients were hurting it seemed like I
was surrounded with suffering and I
recently gave a talk at a university and
I asked everyone in attendance can you
all raise your hand if you have some
kind of a coeur pain right now I was
completely shocked when every single
person raised their hand these were
college students Rep it was a it was
representing the healthy they were they
were fitness majors again completely
shocked my suffering and all the
suffering that was surrounded me has led
me on this incredible journey that
taught me how complicated the mind and
the body really are and perhaps we
haven’t even scratched the surface to
understanding our true biology so today
I would actually like to share with you
my method my process and my results
after over 16 years of doing this work
and maybe performing to over 25,000
sessions I know how reactivation behaves
I see every day how it helps people heal
I see every day how it helps alleviate
aches and pains I see every day how it
enhances performance most importantly I
see every single day how it can help
alleviate suffering now the only thing I
can’t tell you is exactly how it works I
know this is what I do all day I have no
idea how it works not true I’ve been
researching and researching and trying
to come up with answers and I do have my
own theories and I have put those
theories out there too many brilliant
minds and many top scientists and many
medical doctors and I still have no
concrete proof of exactly what happens
so perhaps the best answer I received is
that perhaps this work is operating
under rules of science that have not yet
been discovered and since nobody was
really helping me I just had to help
myself know I’m really really good at
puzzles and I knew that if I just put
the pieces out in front of me that I
could figure this out it was on this
road that reactivation was was born so I
would actually like to offer two case
studies the first is a 26 year old
tennis player who came to me about three
years ago with severe left hip pain he
limped into my office and told me how he
had to walk off the court during his
last match he was diagnosed with
tendinitis and bursitis and told he
needs to rest I stretch and just it will
heal after a week it wasn’t healing so
he heard about what I did and flew in to
see me and after one session one session
he took one day of rest and he went on
to play the US Open the following week
and get to the quarterfinals his best
finish ever his name is Tomas Berdych he
was I think at the time number six
tennis player in the world he is
definitely a believer my second case
study I would like to share
is a 45 year old radiology technician
who for the last 20 years has struggled
with severe severe neck pain she has to
wear a 12-pound led apron on her
shoulders to work and she works eight to
twelve hour shifts wearing this it took
its toll she has she was diagnosed with
severe herniated discs she has something
called thoracic outlet where she lost
and a pinched nerve where she lost
feeling down an arm and over that time
she had over 40 procedures done to help
relieve some of this pain she had two
major surgeries that where they they
fused discs they they fused vertebrae
they removed discs and they actually cut
out two muscles in her neck she lived on
opioid medication for all of 18 years of
this this took more than one session but
after about five sessions she was
pain-free and she still works that same
job and to this day Jen as long as Jen
gets her monthly session she is
completely off her opioid medication so
I can stand up here all day and I can
tell you story after story but talking
is one thing and doing is another so I
would actually like to do a
demonstration and show you all what what
this is about and I’d like to bring up
Charles who volunteered earlier who has
never been on my table he has no idea
what’s about to happen don’t worry I
won’t hurt you okay chose so Charles can
you lay down here face up and just put
your head here how old are you so chops
any aches or pains or problems a
perfectly healthy 16 year old no
problems and I love when this comes in
my office because this is very rare so
this is a two-part system our bodies
know how to talk and I’ve developed a
language that I can talk to this body
Charles can be completely asleep and his
body will still be talking to me and I
would like to all show you this and show
you how it works so if I ask a question
can you hold us up don’t we push this
down hold does that feel very strong
very strong super strong good let’s try
this one I’m gonna change the question
you ready hold can’t do it
try it one more time hold it’s not that
this is weaker his body is talking and
again when I ask a question and this is
all has to do with the questions in my
head now I did write a book on this
there it’s it’s only for my students I
have about 5,000 questions that I can
ask a body what I’m looking for
dysfunctions in the body I’m looking for
weaknesses in the body what these
weaknesses are we’re not really sure but
they do show themselves in pain they
show themselves in tightness just bend
this knee here let me just see if
there’s any kind of asymmetry just relax
for a second nothing’s gonna hurt mmm
does that feel okay and how about that
it’s pretty good let me try this side so
does that feel okay and how about that
so does that hurt at all mmm-hmm
a little bit right there so that’s about
as far as he has yeah I’ll see that like
he’s got about 45 degrees of motion in
his hip and there’s a little bit of pain
doesn’t go any more but when I go on
this side he probably has about
almost 90 degrees of motion and a pain
no pain at all so that tells me
something it tells me there’s a problem
I don’t really know what the problem is
yet but I can start asking questions
again when I start asking questions I
will get answers so Charles can you hold
this leg right here don’t only move it
towards this one you ready
hold does that feel okay again this is
not about strength I have 300-pound
linemen on my table and I can sometimes
push them over with one pinky just
because their body’s talking you’re
ready hold that’s pretty good try this
side don’t let me go here to here you
ready hold you want try that again
you ready hold not happening no traumas
could be completely as
sleeeeep and his body will still do that
again we’re not sure who’s answering but
something’s answering and that’s telling
me something so when he can’t do that
that tells me right away again based on
my question that this problem comes from
the nervous system level the nervous
system level to me controls how
everything works in this body so let’s
go a little deeper
can you hold us here is that okay turn
your head to the right
and hold your other right how’s that
feel good turn your head to the left and
hold nothing you wanna try that again
hold nothing nothing so when he can’t do
that that tells me something every
single position has nothing to do with
the position Charles is not really weak
every time he turns to the left he’s
gonna collapse what that tells me is
that when he turns to the left I have a
correlation with every single position
every single position that I put his
body in to me correlates with some kind
of weakness
so when he can’t do that hold us here
again turn no way
head straight just your eyes look over
here very strong eyes over here now head
straight just eyes over here Oh
tilt your head back so there’s a pattern
developing here raise your head up hold
again all questions in my head
his body’s talking if I touch something
with my fingers it just helps me change
the question if I touch here hold tight
pretty strong if I touch here down it
goes no way so when Charles can’t do
this again
let’s correct it that the first part is
finding the weaknesses the really cool
part is fixing them so I have my ways of
correcting things and again this is
about a connection right now between
Charles and me this is what kind of what
makes people scratch their head because
honestly this is not about the points
that I’m touching I could be doing this
entire thing through his foot through
his wrist through his leg it doesn’t
really matter that what I’m doing is I
created a means so that I could teach
this so all of these points are
somehow connecting us and hopefully
hopefully gonna make Charles heal and
we’re gonna see a whole bigger
difference in his leg
so really importantly this work is not
about me I’m not a guru I’m not a healer
I’ve just developed and uncovered
something that has the ability to
connect us all and help us heal no
matter what our differences that this
work is absolutely 100 percent
reproducible I have taught this since
2006 and my students can get the exact
same results that I get okay Charles
let’s try that again
hold this here does I feel okay yes okay
turn your head this way and hold pretty
strong you sure
good heads eyes here pretty strong till
your head back pretty strong and if I
touch strong strong so that’s all to me
working properly but watch what happens
so this leg was not very strong before
don’t we move this from here to here
again you ready hold how does that feel
really strong good now that’s kind of
cool but doesn’t mean a whole lot what I
say means a whole lot is that he only
had about 45 degrees of motion here and
just relax how does that feel now it any
pain no can I go a little more so to me
now we’re even so he just gained about
another 40 degrees of motion in his leg
without me ever touching the leg pretty
cool now so do you play any sports I
play baseball baseball the most
important muscle in baseball he’s gonna
have to hold his arm over his head to
throw can you hold this here don’t let
me lift it up you got it not happening
you want to try it again hold no way so
one more thing I want to show you how we
are all connected and how we can
actually make each other strong you know
what can I have the three you three come
up for a sec please just stand over here
and I want you to hold hands close to
Charles head right here really close
right here it’s perfect right here all
hold hands this one right here I’m just
going to put this position right here
okay now hold this here again just hold
that thought hold here can’t do it I
want you to touch Charles’s head right
here now send him some really healing
thoughts you ready
hold this here how’s that feel now you
might try it again
hold very strong it is it is let go now
try it weak again we can connect
thank you so when that week
that’s week again that tells me
something this needs to be corrected so
in a typical session we go head to toe
literally head to toe every single thing
relates that again I could work on
something in Charles let’s try it again
hold here strong very strong
yes very strong one more thing squeeze
the pink in your thumb get rid of these
three right there hold can’t do it try
again no way try this one
pinky and thumb no way no I can’t do it
just to show you it has nothing to do
with the points this is not about
hitting a certain spot in our body this
is about the thought in my head it’s
about the intention and a connection
that we now have so we’re gonna correct
that through his foot okay you ready
hold how’s that feel now and try this
one hold really strong perfect Thank You
Charleston come on up so I appreciate it
my wish I’m sorry
cracker Charles my wish is not to get
results I do that every day in my office
my wish is to be able to better
understand the the science behind this
and maybe from the wider audience that’s
going to see this some guidance may be
forthcoming already medicine and science
are starting to take notice and
hopefully at some point soon we can get
this studied and get this published so
that this work can be out there and we
can help heal the world thank you
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you
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