Out of Options? Think Again

Hi, this is Dr. Daniels, and welcome to Healing with Dr. Daniels. This is the Sunday, October 17, 2021, edition, and today's topic is "Out of Options? Think Again." So today, I'm going to share with you what I do to get out of tough spots. And as always, think happens.

But first, we have the update on mom. As I said, this is October 17, so mom is getting ready for Thanksgiving. When you're 89, you have to have a little bit of lead time on this. So, mom has decided that she needs to get her house cleaned for Thanksgiving, and she is just planning, planning, planning away. Now, of course, she's 89, so the kids and grandkids do all the cooking, but she wants to have a nice clean house for them to come to. So, she's called my daughter, and my daughter is making arrangements for the cleaners to come and get everything in tip-top shape. And mom's just full steam ahead. So, she's doing great, and again, a recovery from comatose, sent home to die. And here we are.

Our next update is Vitality Capsules. So many people have asked, "What about sales on Vitality Capsules?" Right now, we don't have any plans for sales. There are no plans for sales on Vitality Capsules because, in the past, when we've had sales, we've been out of stock. And then what happens is it takes us months to get back into stock. So, they are available now. We have, let's see, let me get these labels right. We have extra strength and regular. Yay! This is the internal cleanser that is gentle enough for everyday use. So, go to vitalitycycles.com, and you can get your bottles of Vitality Capsules. You can also get your free report, "Candida Cleaner," on the health benefits of turpentine so you can decide if it's something you want to use in your life. It has personally saved me over $200,000 in health insurance payments, to say nothing of painful medical intervention. So, check it out and see what you think for yourself.

And then that leads us to, oops, I did not bring my water. Oh well. I tell you, some days are better than others. That leads us to taking turpentine, but we're not going to take turpentine because we can't take it without water. Oh, wait a minute. Do I have my—no, I don't have that either. Well, I guess that's a skip. We're going to skip turpentine today. But take turpentine, your bottle of turpentine, and white sugar—two major ingredients, easy peasy, and readily available everywhere. I shouldn't say everywhere. Some countries, they actually don't sell it. I went to the Philippines and spent a whole day going from hardware store to hardware store looking for turpentine. I could not find it. Maybe there was a communication problem. Maybe my English wasn't like their English, but I did have some Filipinos helping me out with the project, and I just could not find it. I did bring some with me to the Philippines and shared it with my host, who experienced immediate relief from her arthritis, so much so that she did a dance for us, and her family said she has not danced in years. So yeah, go to vitalitycycles.com and check out the "Candida Cleaner" report.

And also, I generally take or show you how to take Shilajit as well. As you can see, this bottle is well worn—it's going on a year old. And this little itty-bitty container is a year's supply of trace minerals. So you can see I'm halfway through it. So, I guess that's six months into that. And the dose is only 200 milligrams a day, which fits very nicely in that type of chopstick. And this provides you with the trace minerals your body needs. And why does your body need trace minerals? Because your body makes enzymes, and these enzymes can't be activated to their full effectiveness unless they have trace minerals. So, the trace minerals are known as cofactors. And what a trace mineral will do is go into an enzyme. It will be used by the enzyme, the enzyme will do its job, and when the enzyme expires, that trace mineral literally detaches and goes to another enzyme and helps it out. These are like amazing things, these trace minerals. Because many of us live in civilized situations with something called flush toilets, our minerals, trace minerals, leave our bodies, go into the toilet, down the stream, never to be seen again. Naturally, what's supposed to happen is the minerals go into our bodies, we use them, they leave via the feces, and we use those feces to fertilize plants, which we then eat, giving us back those minerals. Since that is not the food cycle that most people are living with, they are necessarily deficient in trace minerals just because of their lifestyle. And so, that is where the need for this comes from.

All right, so we've covered Vitality Capsules. We've covered turpentine. Oh, progress! So, I am still progressing. I'm getting lower and lower in my central splice—really excited about that. The key for me to my central splice has been the Copenhagen Planck. Yeah, sounds like torture, doesn't it? But actually, it's not. It's an exercise that strengthens the upper inner thigh muscles tremendously so that they can actually hold your full body weight. And this makes it possible to do the central splice or achieve them without going through excruciating pain because those muscles are strengthened, and they can support the process without pain. So, moving on with that and really making great progress. And when I figure out the technology, I can show pictures on the videos. So, hopefully, it would inspire more people. But it's really an amazing journey. So, I'm working with my IT crew to share with you these amazing results that I believe really anybody can do.

All right, that is, I believe, all of our basics. And that brings us to today's topic, which is "Out of Options? Think Again." So, the first time I had the perception of being limited in my choices was when I was 10 years old. I went to school, and I realized, I don't think this is a very good use of my time. And back then, Michael Jackson was an upcoming singing star. And I was like, man, does he go to school? He doesn't? Hmm. And so, we were told that he didn't go to school because he was such an amazing music star or talent. We weren't told that if he did go to school, he wouldn't be able to develop that talent. And then if I stopped going to school, what if I could find a talent I could, you know, develop? So, I continued in school. And the next time I realized that my options were extremely limited was when I had achieved the amazing accomplishment of being accepted to Harvard. And as I was going to class every day, day in, day out, doing my assignments, studying hard, I said, excuse me, the information that I'm learning every day does not seem to have any application to even the life I'm living at Harvard. And I don't imagine it would be relevant even after Harvard. And so, I sensed that my time was being spent in a futile endeavor. But again, I felt I didn't have options. I felt that going to Harvard was the best option. And then from there, I went on to medical school.

Well, now I was excited. Like, yay, medical school. Get out of medical school, and I can practice medicine, be a doctor, help people. I'm so excited. But in medical school, for the first time in my life, I heard these terms, "lesser of two evils," "a rock and a hard place." You know, it was crazy. I'm like, well, what do you mean? That sounds bizarre. I thought that the further I went, the more options there would be. What do you mean? Now we're talking about rocks and hard places and lesser of two evils. And I've given this a lot of thought. And we're going through a time in the world where a lot of people feel very stressed. They feel like they just don't have a lot of choices, and maybe things aren't going well. So, let's go back to where I think the problem started. I think the problem starts really in the mind with the way that we think about things.

For example, education K-12. We had this thing where there were tests. And I'm 64, so I'm old enough that things were done pretty archaically. Like, we actually had things like essay answers, where you had to write what you thought your answer was. Now, an essay answer generally involved you writing about 10 to 50 words of your choice as to what was the answer. Well, then the essays gave way to fill in the blank, where instead of writing, say, 50 words, now you wrote just one word—the word that you thought was the correct answer. And then that led to multiple choice. So, you would be given anywhere from three to five choices, and you picked which answer was the best answer. So, you can see as we go from writing 50 words to writing one word to not even selecting a word, to selecting among the options given, we're narrowing the amount of creativity the brain is allowed here.

So, multiple choice says you have got to pick from the options that are externally presented to you, and that's all there is. Then, even worse, we got to true and false. True or false? What about the third option, which is irrelevant? That was not given—true, false, irrelevant. The third option of irrelevant. So now, your judgment is suspended. You're not even allowed to decide if the question is relevant. And even the multiple choice, the option, you could say none of the above—they started giving that option. I guess there's too much mental anguish created by just giving options. But there's none of the above. But what about the other one, where you could just say, hey, wait, I've thought about this, and I think it's a different answer. Let me give you the answer.

And so, what's happened, though, in our K through 12, four years of college, maybe you're lucky enough to go to professional school or three years of that, five years, 10 years, whatever, our minds have literally been shut down and limited. And we've been so trained to limit ourselves to just the options presented. So, the option of none of the above or irrelevant is—you know, you don't get credit for that. You could drop out of school.

So, I think the answer to being out of options is, as I said, think again. Think again. Think differently. So, I want to just give you some things that I was confronted with.

In medical school, I constantly heard "lesser of two evils," "lesser of two evils." Well, it's a lesser of two evils. Well, just got to cut the leg off—that's a lesser of two evils. Whoa, wait a minute. And so, after about the 20th time I heard that expression, "lesser of two evils," I actually raised my hand and said, "Well, wait a minute, we're choosing from the lesser of two evils. When do we get to choose something good? Do we ever get to choose something good?" And I was greeted with a stern look. And so, again, in medicine, it's always a choice we're given.

I wondered, when do we get to choose between good and better? When you find that you're choosing between two bad choices, imagine better choices. Realize that everything that you've been offered might not be all there is. So, I'll give you an example. Let me see if I can find an example of a lesser of two evils.

So, when I finished medical school, I went to be a resident. And part of being a resident is you get these screening lab tests—kind of an employment physical kind of thing. So, I got these screening lab tests done, and they were not normal. They were clearly abnormal. And so, I asked the question, "Can I still keep the job even though I have these abnormal lab tests?" "Oh, yes, yes, yes." "Oh, okay. Are you recommending anything?" "Oh, well, you could get a liver biopsy because my liver enzymes are elevated. You could get a liver biopsy. Then we can check this and check that." I said, "Hmm." So, I take a look at this. And as I was deciding the lesser of two evils, I said, "Well, let me just do good. What would be good? Continuing on and working the job I had aspired to."

So, I stopped right there—no further investigation. Because why? I was able to do what I wanted to do with my life, which was not the evil of testing, testing, and retesting or doing a liver biopsy. And I decided that knowing and correcting the cause of the abnormal lab result would not advance my life. So, I ignored the abnormal results. I was age 26 at that time. I am now 64, and no, I do not check the lab results. Clearly, they were irrelevant. So, how did I know they were irrelevant? Actually, I didn't. But that was also irrelevant to know. What I did know, though, was that I was choosing between the lesser of two evils. If I did the biopsies they were recommending, then the recovery period would mean I wouldn't have the job I wanted, which was, of course, evil. Or I could get more and more and more tests done, which meant I would take time off from work to get the tests done, again, possibly lose my job—another evil. So, we have evil and evil. And I said, "No, no, no, we're not choosing either one of those." And this was basically the walk away, go live a good life option. By the way, that's always a good option.

So, when you are confronted with the lesser of two evils, decide to do good. And that's an important thing. And you can never—I think you can never go wrong. When you are confronted with the lesser of two evils, say, "Oh, I am not doing evil. What's good here? Let me see if I can do some good." Now, what about multiple choice? Multiple choice is an interesting situation. So, with multiple choice, basically, you're given a bunch of options, and that would be your rock and a hard place. Maybe you need to pause and think of more options.

So, rock and a hard place—I looked this up—it's described as two equally bad options. And I would say whenever you're between a rock and a hard place, again, we're back to the lesser of two evils. Bad is, well, still bad. So, there's two ways to look at this: one, don't pick either one, or two, take a closer look—one of these options may actually be pretty darn good. So, I'll give you an example of a case when I was between a rock and a hard place. As many of you know, I live in a foreign country, speak a foreign language, which I'm trying to learn but haven't picked up perfectly yet. What happened was my husband, God rest his soul, woke up one day and told me he felt very bad and needed to go to the hospital. He had terrible, terrible pain and felt like he was going to die. He needed to go to the hospital.

Well, I had gotten up earlier, and I was on my way out the door to go to an outing with the church ladies. And I had, you know, anticipated this outing for at least two months. I was really looking forward to this, you know, kind of day out, passy out with the ladies. Now, I realized that my command of Spanish was not enough to help him, even if we did go to the hospital. And besides, I didn't even know where the hospital was. So, I could miss out on the outing—uh, not a good option. That would be one hard place that I looked forward to for weeks, or I could abandon my husband, and he would die. Now, those are two pretty, uh, you know, rock and a hard place type options.

And whenever you're presented with these two options, I say, if you're between a rock and a hard place, you've got to go up. You've just got to go up. And which way is that? That means really kind of neither option. So, what did I do? Well, I mixed up an herbal blend for my husband. I said, "Here, honey, just two glasses. You drink this one now and see how you feel in 15 minutes. And if you feel like it, you can drink the second one. And I'm going out with the ladies. I'll probably be back in about six hours." He's like—you can see the expression of horror and abandonment on his face. So, out I went to pass you out with the ladies. And I came back home to find my husband up and at them, walking around the house, thinking of more projects, more fix-it projects that he could do. He loves doing those projects. So, what happened here was when presented with the rock and a hard place, I took the third option, which is no, honey, we're not going to go to the hospital. No, I'm not going to miss my day with the ladies. We're going to do something else. And there we have it.

And here's another example of a way out of it. When you have two options that are just going to drive you crazy—either one is just going to be devastating—hey, ask a stranger. One thing about strangers—they don't know you, they don't know anything about you, and so they're not going to have the same limitations or perspective on this rock and a hard place situation.

So, I was sitting at a restaurant with my daughter. We're in this foreign land, and everything was very strange to us. And she had decided that she was bored, she didn't like it, and she wanted to leave. She wanted to go back to the United States. I was not going back to the United States. And so, I felt that for her to go back to the United States would mean that I was a failure as a mother—a very bad option. For her to stay would drive me absolutely crazy, destroy my quality of life, and interfere with me trying to get back on my feet financially because she was getting more negative by the minute.

So, we're at this restaurant, and a stranger sitting there with his wife looks at me and says, "Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear." "Really?" He says, "Can I offer you some advice?" I said, "Oh my God, absolutely." So, he told me the story of his children, and this was his second wife, and he had his first wife, and he had children. And, of course, he got married, and his children were very unhappy, and they said they didn't want to live with him and his second wife. And he said, "Well, you know what? You got a point there. I picked her; you didn't." And he sent the kids off to boarding school, and everybody—him and his second wife and the kids—lived happily ever after. And so, he said, "So why don't you just let her go back? Just let her go." And I was like, "Oh, amazing."

Now, of course, I didn't have any boarding school money, but that wasn't the point. The point was I could actually let her go back to the United States. She would be happier. I would be happier. It didn't mean that I was a failure as a mother, and neither one of us actually had to be miserable. And so, this rock and a hard place was actually a perception. And letting her go back, I could do that in a spirit of happiness, joy, love, and wishing her the best. Or, of course, I could do that in the spirit of anger. So, you know, she and I decided that she really would be happier going back. I said, "Okay, great. Where do you want to go? I'll send you, give you a ticket there, pick your city." And so, she then got to work picking where she wanted to go. And that's where she went. And she was happy, and I was happy.

So, whenever you're between a rock and a hard place, write down what you think your two options are. Maybe those two options are not all there is, or maybe one of those options actually is not as bad as what you think it is. It may actually be a very good option. And so, any situation, by the way, has at least five possible actions or choices. And if you can't think of any, like I said, ask a stranger. So, a rock and a hard place, lesser of two evils, feeling trapped, out of options, is actually, in many cases, an illusion. The answer, in all cases, is simply creativity.

That is the way to handle being out of options. Just think again. We don't have time for questions. I'm so sorry, but as always, think happens, and we'll see if we can get those questions next time.