The recent Two Days of Truth Summit held here at Polyface with guest speakers Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Sina McCullough, and herbalist Amy Fewell had lots of gold nuggets.  The theme focused on what science got wrong and what to do about it.

            Many aha! moments challenged our thinking and I would have to say I’m still not sure about some things but the most valuable part of the summit was being immersed in both fellowship and information that challenged orthodoxy.  This was the third summit and we are rebranding it for next year to BEYOND LABELS.  That makes it consistent with the book Sina and I wrote together and the weekly podcast both of us do.  We felt like Two Days of Truth might sound too arrogant, like a finger pointing “I’m right, you’re wrong” persona, which is not what we want to portray.

            Next year’s BEYOND LABELS summit will be June 14-15 and Sina is adding a full-blown children’s program.  Stay tuned.  

            My two big takeaway’s from this year’s summit are, first, “belief determines technique.”  What a profound idea.  For example, if cancer is runaway cellular growth, like rogue growth, you tend toward a certain technique to deal with it.  But if cancer is a mass of garbage indicating your body can’t get rid of garbage fast enough, then you would adopt a different technique.  

            In the first instance, you’d figure out how to kill the growth.  In the second instance, you’d try to figure out what’s blocking the garbage truck.  It could be resentment, fear, or hatred.  That’s quite different than chemo. 

            I see this every day on the farm.  If I believe weeds are an uninvited invasive devil that needs to be killed or exterminated, I’ll adopt one technique.  But if I believe weeds are symptomatic of my management and will express themselves when I’m doing a poor job, then I’ll respond to them with a completely different technique.

            Since the summit, the more I’ve meditated on this profound idea that “belief determines technique” I’ve seen it in every phase of life.  Education, investment.  I challenge you to think about different techniques and see how right on this little phrase is.  If I believe food and life are fundamentally mechanical, I’ll promote one production technique.  If I believe food and life are fundamentally biological and relational, I’ll promote a totally different kind of technique.

            The second big takeway was this:  “physical is always downstream from emotional.”  In other words, physical manifests emotional situations.  This is why forgiveness, repentance, love, gratefulness, mirth and other positive emotions contribute dramatically to health.  People nursing fear, vengeance, unfairness, hatred, and victimhood set themselves up for physical illness at some point.

            Dr. Cowan told a story about a man with stage 4 cancer who had two months to live.  At 6ft., 3 in. he weighed 117 pounds and was bed-bound, unable to walk.  With nothing to lose, he decided to make a goal and practice gratefulness.  On a card, he wrote “In 6 months I’ll weigh 172  pounds and run a 5K race.”  He began verbalizing gratitude for everything:  his spouse, kids, flowers, clouds, police, Democrats, Republicans, bacon, Monsanto, Communists, Capitalists, fire—everything.  In 6 months to the day, he weighed 172 pounds and ran a 5K race.  Physical is downstream from emotions.  Powerful, profound truth.

            My co-author, Dr. Sina, who was planning her funeral at 34 and unable to get off the floor, says her healing breakthrough was when she forgave her father for not meeting all of her expectations.  Folks, this is powerful stuff.  If you’ll recall my recipe for getting and staying well during 2020, my last ingredient was “write down all the people you’re mad it and forgive them.”

            For those of you who couldn’t attend, for the next month we are offering a free month of BEYOND LABELS PODCAST to those who purchase this year's summit.by clicking here: https://www.drsinamccullough.com/2023

            If you could get rid of one negative emotion, what would it be?