102 Year Old Doctor Reveals 6 Secrets To Health & Happiness

my guest today has lived 102 years on this Earth she's a remarkable woman he said to be truly alive we must find the life force within ourselves and direct our energy towards it I mean that we all have it but something that we just just had not introduced ourselves to because we've been so busy looking outside and don't realize that inside the very core of our being is what keeps us happy Life by itself it can't do anything until love activates it cracks a shell and the energy comes out and the two become one it's like a sperm and an ovum a sperm by itself and home by itself can't do anything but when they connect life comes forth laughter with love is joy and happiness labor without love is some men or too many diapers I gotta go to work but it's really hard but labor with Love Is Bliss it's what makes you happy it's what makes the singer sing which makes the painter paint labor is there and you know it's there but when you approach it with the whole force of love it booms listening Without Love is empty sound but listening with love is understanding that might be the most profound and beautiful thing ever said on my show okay welcome back to the show everybody today's an honor for me uh today's all going to be about really wisdom and my my guest today uh has a hundred and two years worth of that wisdom yep my guest today has lived 102 years on this Earth she's a remarkable woman she's a mother I believe of six children uh-huh he is also a doctor she also met Gandhi and she has a book out that is just extraordinary called the well-lived life 102 year old doctor six secrets to health and happiness at every age so Dr Gladys McGarry welcome finally to my show I'm so happy to be here it's been my absolute honor to do this today with you so I have so many things I want to ask you so let's just get right into it let's do it 102 years worth of stuff to get out in an hour so here we go you said something you said if I could distill my life's work and you nailed it down here you said to be truly alive we must find the life force within ourselves and direct our energy towards it that sounds like an awful new age thing to say and I'm wondering what you meant by that when you said it I mean that we all have it so it's something that we just just have not introduced ourselves to because we've been so busy looking outside for our fix-its and the things that make us happy or whatever we think it has to be outside by ourselves and don't realize that inside the very core of our being is what keeps us happy as a matter of fact I just learned a while back that the Welsh when they get up in the morning and meet somebody they don't say good morning they say how's your weird really because the weird that they're talking about is this inner core of our being that is the the thing that really keeps us going our life force I call it the physician within but does that life force that really uh is the engine that keeps the thing going is that what you mean about the juice of life because you also by the way it's amazing I've not really heard anybody else use that term I've been using the term about getting the juice out of something or the juice of life now for probably 30 years is that what you mean by that I have as I was asking when I was reading your work I'm like oh my gosh the juice of life so is that connected to the life force or is it something okay no it's it's definitely connected to the life force because it's but juices are a lot you know if we don't have any juice we're just kind of uh full you know it's very sad well I think most people by maybe you would agree I shouldn't say most because that's a judgment but you you say that the juice has two main parts our individual Essence and then how we fit into the whole and if I think about our culture today I wonder how many people listening to this right now go you know I haven't tapped into my life force and I I don't get a lot of the juice out of life so could you elaborate on that are individual Essence what a beautiful way to say it and how we fit into the whole if we start paying attention to some of the things that make us happy that make us want to dance and sing that one makes sometimes just make you want to yell something has happened and you really don't like it very well it's okay to go about yourself and just holler sometimes you know sometimes we need to express ourselves in a way that we can understand it where we can understand what it is that that I'm trying to say to myself you know that this this either is really it's so good and I like it so well or it really makes me sad or it's however it's acting as uh however we're reacting whatever it is is our way of responding to life does that mean that you think that you know the full expression of your emotions matters meaning like I I've had this theory for a while that I don't even know that there are positive or negative emotions they're just our emotions and that sounds emotion yeah it's energy energy is energy and sometimes it's sometimes it just doesn't feel very good and sometimes it feels great but whatever it is if we can begin to say oh yes or no no no I I I and we back away from it it's something that guides us from within ourselves that allows us to know what is what we're responding to and how we're responding to it now glass how do you how do you figure that out how do you know why you're you know I'm a big believer in self-awareness yeah some of that just comes I think maybe with age because you've been around yourself a little bit longer you know I know more about myself at 52 right now than I certainly did at 22. yeah you pay you've been paying attention to it and a lot of times at 100 haven't been paying attention to it and still don't feel it you know how do you do that how do you pay more attention is it is it a little bit is it a little quiet time is it is this is it starting to take note of how you behave and what your patterns are how does one begin to do that it it I've I think that an individual thing so it's hard to say blanket but when you begin to pay attention to what makes you respond to something a person or or a poem or a song or or a flower you know sometimes a rose will just say oh you know that's great you know it's it's the awareness of how we respond to the inside and outside of ourselves then I'm part of a community I think so many people and by the way I have for many years and sometimes I regress but I kind of like an autopilot human being and so the same things generate the same responses from me no matter what the conditions of my life are sometimes I feel like I still find a way to get those same emotions and in the book you teach a way to do this and and you label it right with the five L's it's just sort of like a way to look at your life right like these five Bells could you I just I never even heard any of this before and I've read a lot of books and had hundreds of podcasts so this is really important everybody what she's about to say because it's kind of a way to actually measure or look at your life so what are the foundational L's what are those well I like how you use the word foundation because they kind of for me when I when I came across them I don't know how I came across when I came across them they kind of gave me some Foundation from which I could begin to talk about some of the things that I wanted to express either to myself or outside the five L's are all start with life the first one is life life by itself has it it can't do anything it's like a seed in a pyramid that's been there for five thousand years it's got all the energy of the universe within it but it can't do anything until love which would be in the form of water or sunlight or something love activates it cracks a shell and the energy comes out and the two become one it's like a sperm and all of them a sperm by itself by itself can't do anything but when they connect life comes forth that's that's what happens yes and when life comes forth then we begin to end involve ourselves we involve ourselves with life and as we do that then we go up to the third spell which is laughter laughter by itself is cruel it's mean it's it's can be hard and and you know and rough and rude but laughter with love is joy and happiness and labor is the fourth one labor without love is own men or too many diapers I gotta go to work it's just the right line you know it's really hard but labor with love is bliss it's what makes you happy it's not makes me happy so it makes the singer sing which makes a painter paint I mean it's that inner core within us labor is there I mean you know it's there but when you approach it with the whole force of love it blooms and the fifth one is listening listening without love is empty sound the clinging gong you know it's empty sound but listening with love is understanding oh my gosh so as we use these as kind of the five uh part of the foundation of what love is what life is all about it kind of has allows us place to put things where they belong in some kind of order I have to tell you um that might be the I'm I'm sorry I get a little emotional with that one that might be the most profound and beautiful thing ever said on my show ever ever um that takes my breath away [Music] I uh I mean it it's the foundation of life is love and to add to that life laughter labor and listening with love my gosh what a what a remarkable formula how beautifully said by the way I use the word bliss all the time also I feel like I have this long last lost friend that I'm meeting today thank you for that gift I'm curious if you went back all the way back and you could give the little girl some advice on her life you go about all the way back to I don't know the 12 year old Gladys and she was embarking upon this long life she's gonna live would there be any specific advice you would give her now that you've lived 102 years that I guess through you giving it to her you can give it to all of us was there something you would tell her that you would whisper to her about her life and her in particular that you would want her to know before she goes out into the world and lives this thing yeah definitely I tried to tell her that she's reading a kind of a nice person and she's not a dumbbell well when I until I started school life was wonderful we it didn't tense out in the jungle and my parents were doing the medical work and life you know I it for me life was just the way it was supposed to be and then I started school and I couldn't read or write the letters were all over the place the numbers were all over the place I just absolutely could not read or write oh my God are you dyslexic literally oh my gosh wow are you no I'm not but I'm sitting here talking to the mother of holistic medicine she becomes a medical doctor at a time where not very many women were doing that she writes a book and she's telling me she's dyslexic after she's lived this life I'm just sitting here going oh my gosh well you know I was so severely dyslexic that I've had to repeat first grade twice because a teacher labeled me the class dummy oh my gosh and so I was really I was fight I was a good fighter my second oldest brother taughted me how to I could punch people out and so people so I it was you know it was in fact I remember being you I said 12 years old being about that age 10 or 12. waking up one morning and saying to myself there's something wrong in this world Gladys you don't have a friend and then I said to myself and why don't you have a friend and I said well you know you punch people out if they say something and and that's that's not I don't think it's working [Laughter] and then I said and who do you know that doesn't do that and I realized it was my mother my mother was the kind of person if something happened and um she didn't like it or or something she would deal with it either with humor or just let it go and it was something that I and she had friends all over the place I mean she everybody loved my mother she would everybody knew that she accepted them and life was good in fact um she was the kind of person I remember being as a 12 year old again sitting at our dining room table when my mother was going to have a tea party and her her fancy ladies were coming to tea this is in India up in the Himalayas okay so I hear my mother close the front door and said because I had my stuff all over the table and it was the master and my mother says to the ladies as they're coming through don't look straight ahead don't look to the right don't look to the left it goes straight ahead and they go marching through and into the Parlor and they have a wonderful tea party and I'm sitting there embarrassed because my mother did this but what a wonderful thing that happened but then something happened you know I the person's second grade were just terrible but third grade was different I had a teacher who saw something in me that the others had and so she appointed me class Governor I couldn't read or write but I could do other stuff and she saw that in me and so I was class governor and then I had the opportunity to present stuff that our class did to the whole student body and so so at one point we had a um play that was and it was the play was the the um what was it jumped on the frog jumped over the frog jumped over the pond and since I was the biggest one the classes I had an extra ear here I could jump over this pan of water that they had and I was really confident but I knew I could do this like a marching out on the stage and I look over into the audience and my two older brothers are sitting there and it just threw me off by steps enough that when I jumped over the Pod I landed in it not over it and my mother had made me this frog suit she dyed it green and all this so I'm standing there the green is fading and I'm in tears and I can't move and the audience is hysterical everybody's just laughing laughing and I can't move so the teacher comes takes me off the stage and and I go home totally humanly yet and we're sitting at the dinner table my brothers are telling my mother this just great thing you know it was just sister finally my mother says to them all right boys you've had your fun now what are we as a family going to do to help Glady so if this ever happens to her again people won't laugh at her they'll laugh with her and that has stayed with me throughout my life because there have been many I you know this dyslexia thing keeps keeps you off it's hard to keep right in the center of things you get off balance easily so I've stripped and tripped and fallen on stage and all always been able to pick it up and I'd have an audience in my hand before I ever said a thing and so it was one of these huge Life Learning experiences and another thing that was really really interesting when we started the American holistic Medical Association first of all it took us two years to decide how to spell it because we were looking for the word Health healing and holy because it was missing in medicine at that point was the spirit we had the mind of the body but we didn't have the spirit so but we got it in two years that we got it and so on but one day There Were Ten of us who were part of this group that started sitting around a table and six of us were severely dyslexic you're kidding me I'm not kidding and so we said to each other that's why we started this it must be because we in order to read I don't know how I learned to read you know I really don't I have no idea and they didn't some of them had some ideas which I didn't particularly agree with but you know it was that kind of thing but we decided that it was because we were looking for something Beyond yeah yeah reading light in your arithmetic yeah I have to say something there's so much to unpack there the first thing is when you go back to the 12 year old you a version of that advice is something I hope everybody in the audience gives themselves right which is first first part of it is hey you're a pretty good person and just that reminder you're a pretty good person yeah and and then the second piece of it is kind of the second part was give yourself a break yeah give yourself a break you know what you're a little bit better than you think you are yeah I got to tell you if I could go back to the 12 year old me I would tell me I would say you know what you're a good man you care about people you're kind and you're giving and you know what you're not so bad man all these things that you know are so bad about you those are actually the things then the third lesson is that this woman becomes an MD at the time you know she's the mother of holistic medicine number one but she ends up doing this at a time where this is just not something that very many women were doing at the time and she does this now to know that you were severely dyslexic and now to know that when you founded this group that the people around the table also shared what most people would think is this deficiency which ends up to be a gift because it probably caused you to work harder be more diligent and think Beyond as you were yeah and those are all the things in life we all think our limitations or what we think are our limitations these are the things that steal the juice from our life to go back to the Jews we think all this limitation I have is why I'm not going to do a work most humans lose the juice of their life because they're so familiar with their deficiencies and not their possibilities yeah not their possibilities and you say something she has in this book six profound principles for living and the first one is this is just you don't always hear a doctor say this but you said you are here for a reason and I'm curious why that was the first thing you listed of the six because if you don't get that where do you put the others hmm you know if if you don't realize that you really have a reason to be here to for me it's kind of like a huge jigsaw puzzle and we were each a piece in that jigsaw puzzle and if you've ever had a thousand piece jigsaw puzzle and got it all done and you couldn't find that last piece it drives you crazy you know we all are that important to the oh the hole is not complete if we don't recognize ourselves as as whole my youngest son who isn't a ophthalmologist in Flagstaff came down we were talking one time and he says you know there's a guy up and buying stuff he doesn't like me he says I don't understand that I like me [Laughter] yeah yeah that means you did your job right that's what that means because that's not that's not true for most people by the way guys I'll just give you a couple of the other ones two is all life needs to move third love is medicine and Fort this is a big one if you could speak to it because I think so many people feel alone oh yeah four you are never truly alone absolutely absolutely if you just take the time to to really look at that you aren't there's always some life moving around you and it's it's it's the whole process of life even if you know during the during the pandemic and so on people who are feeling alone one of the reasons they were feeling alone was because they had never had this experience before of being isolated like that and for a lot of people it was a soul Awakening whereas prior to that they may have felt like they didn't fit into a community or something but the community was always there you know and they they always had something that they could reach out to whether they wanted to or not but one of the things that the pandemic did was to give people the awareness yes because they needed each other yes yes and here's another great thing that I think is really interesting I have a friend who's a Visionary and a psychic in Virginia Beach Rosalie she I was talking to she and I were talking one time about um manifesting something or other that we were trying to manifest and she said you know I think that there's another word that we really need to use she says that's amethysting what does that mean it says we manifest things and we think that we have to manifest things but where is the feminine aspect of this we need to FEMA Fest so as we talked about it we realized that manifesting is like Climbing Jacob's Ladder you you get into first grade and then you you know you climb the ladder and you get up the where that's manifesting but FEMA festing is like a spiral you can be on the fifth level but and you know what's going on down the second level women know that you know you can be uh have a baby in one arm trying to do dishes and another to take care of the one on the floor the um difference in the feminine energy and the masculine energy which we need both in fact I had the reason we started talking about this is I had a dream I had this dream where I woke up there was a huge crash and I woke up and I looked and I was in the high Himalayas in that Valley and on the one side there was a young woman just lying there almost dead just barely breathing and on the other side the left side there was a man in the armor doing the same thing and I heard the voice saying this energy these in these two have been doing this eons it's time they did this by the way if you were listening she did her fist together and then put her hands together come together is what she said yeah and I realized when I began thinking about it that the the girl was on the left on the right side which is the masculine side and the man was on the left side all in armor and everything and they were been for eons fighting and so that's when it came up with this FEMA Fest and manifest well it's about to go to millions of people right now so now I can already see the hats and the t-shirts and all this stuff that happens with a pregnancy the egg and the sperm come together and life happens they're an egg by itself is you know what's it going to do sperm by itself what it's going to do but when they get together life happens so good and that's manifestation so pregnancies are feminifesting I have to tell you I'm sitting here is going uh I don't do very many shows like this where I go I want to listen to this one back right away I knew this would be good today but I didn't know it would be I I knew your depth I didn't know you're this deep and after you've lived a little bit you have a tremendous appreciation for the things Gladys is talking about and you said something there I don't want to skip over you said I spend time with my dreams what do you mean by that I'm just curious is that something you've done all your life or well I didn't uh yeah you know we used to talk about our dreams when we were kids and all that and my mother didn't discourage us but as I do you think they have meaning Gladys oh wow yes I in fact guidance and and all of that in fact I I really didn't understand that I had a voice until I was 93. now that didn't mean that I wasn't choosing my voice but I didn't really uh respect it until I was 93. I'm still help me this is true and because I I was dyslexic if I was a dummy you you know you don't realize how some of these uh ambiguous pains happened to you when you're younger little and you you know you're the damaged one you know I was forever asking somebody else to validate it until I had this dream I was watching nine-year-old Gladys okay and we were in the in the tents in the jungles where we had grown up and in our family on Sunday mornings we were not supposed to say anything but hymns or bhajans and as this nine-year-old smart alec I thought that was the stupidest thing and I wanted to sing whatever I wanted to sing and so I saw myself pulling the tab tent flat back and looking out to see my little brother wasn't there because he tattled on me and then I'd had you know so I had to get out and he wasn't there so as fast as I could I ran and I climbed up my the mango tree that was out there and I'm sitting up at the top and I'm singing oh man I'm singing the caterpillar song or any old thing that came into my head and just having the best time and every so often I look over my right shoulder and Jesus is up in the tree with me and Jesus is laughing and I look at him and I say Jesus loves the little children right and he's laughing he says yes and so I go back to my singing and then I get to doubting it you know and I think you better check again so I look back and I say I'm still a little children right and he says yes so I go back to my singing and I wake up and I wake up singing and laughing and it was a Sunday morning here oh my gosh so it tied all this in and at that point I said Gladys you have a voice you have to start claiming it oh my gosh Gladys it's true that's amazing the idea that when we're little these wounds stay with us until we're 93 or Beyond uh is an absolute fact the idea that you listen to your dreams what a lesson for everybody here and this idea that you find your voice at 93 is absolutely extraordinary and by the way thank God you did because I wouldn't be with you here today if you didn't find that voice yeah well it was important to me when I realized what I realized was that every time I had deflected what I had said to somebody else I was denying what I said my gosh Gladys there's millions of people right now that are crying I can promise you going that's me I need someone's validation I need their approval I need I need permission in my life and not everybody Gladys is going to be as blessed and as fortunate as you to be here for the 93 years and to the 102 years so they better figure it out right now listening to your wisdom that they don't need validation or permission and they have a voice because they may not get a chance to figure that out in the 93rd year that's absolutely true you need to you know we are I am me you are you and there isn't anybody else in between us except the whole world you know so it's it's we're there and we bump up with each other and find each other and I couldn't begin to do this if my son didn't do the technical you know we're totally dependent on each other let me tell you my eldest son um is a retired orthopedic surgeon but when he finished his uh surgery he was came through Phoenix and he was going down to Del Rio Texas to start his practice and he says mom you know I'm I'm real worried he said I have all this training and everything and I'm going out into the world I'm going to have people's lives in my hands I don't know if I can handle that and I said well Carl if you think that you're the one that does the healing you have a right to be scared but if you can understand that you have this amazing training with orthopedic surgeon that you have gotten and you've spent all of this time doing you need to keep that and keep doing it and then turn the healing of it over to the physician within the patient because you can do everything that you do but if the patient doesn't accept it and doesn't do what you are telling them or work with you with it and you haven't even accepted the fact that that they can do that there's a there's a gap so in a whole process of healing we all need if in the field of medicine we all need to respect the physician within the patient as our colleague I I think glass I uh I'm sitting here thinking I wish I was giving us a seminar and a speech with you because I don't I think I know what you mean too and it's not just it's the field of medicine it's the field of Life yes there's this there's this physician within us now for me that's that's God living within us but whatever sir and I know you believe that too that that that that that's the Healer that's the one where you you can do everything you can and you just separate from the outcome and just let things happen the way that they're naturally supposed to happen in life and too many people I think sometimes it's actually an ego actually even you may think there's humility involved you think you're you control everything there's got to be an element in your life where you do your part and you actually say this number five in the book is everything's your teacher and I want you to talk about it but for me maybe about 15 years ago I I stopped trying to control every outcome I stopped looking at everything as a win or a loss and I started to look at myself more as a learner and more is a curious person that didn't mean I don't want to produce a result I'm driven I'm ambitious but I when I started to position myself as this license experience and and the things in my life I'm going to learn from now you flip it and talk about everything is your teacher so I want you to share that wisdom as well if you're stuck in a place and for for whatever reason and you don't understand that this is here for a reason in fact that's what's happened to the field of medicine we think see I was I went through medical school during the War I started World War II World War II I started in uh in September and the war started in December so all those years and it was all about uh trying to get rid of an enemy and the the two enemies that were so huge were the enemies that were we were fighting against but in the field of Medicine when I got out of the out of the medical school we still had two enemies and those enemies were disease and pain and so those were we're still trying to do that eliminate the disease and pain I'm so committed to having in this world a loving birth place where babies can be born in a loving in environment not something that's just trying to kill pain because when I was in medical school we were doing Twilight sleep my first two sons I delivered with Twilight sleep and I didn't know I had a son until 24 hours later because all the pain was taken away every not all the pain just everything was taken away it was completely gone and the baby had to be delivered with forceps so I was really good at that I could I could delete you know deliver a a baby with after coming had no and I've tried I've realized now that what we did with that whole process of taking away the pain is we've taken away the power from our very women and we talk about having to be delivered of our babies we don't have to be delivered of our babies women need to birth their babies and I have to constantly I'm so many years I talked about delivering babies we deliver pizzas and we deliver speeches we don't deliver babies women birth their own babies but we're there to support them and help them and work with them and be part of the world that the baby comes into I was just thinking about really good friend of mine is doing a home birth she just decided to do a home yeah in a loving environment and you know a lot of people actually believe the birthing experience affects the emotional well-being of the child as well absolutely I also think about people out there that want to birth their dreams and the fact that you know there's a necessity for pain to go through that dream your dream's not delivered to you you birth your dream and there's going to be pain involved and it's part of the experience of birthing your life and birthing your dream is the pain and the I the notion that you just remove all of the pain removes the experience because when you get to the other side of your life and you do write that book that you finally write or you make that dream happen it's some of the pain and the discomfort and the learning that you went through that makes it so worthwhile and if you stripped out all the pain and all the learning and all the experience it's just the result instead of the the journey the experience I'm so fascinated by you I I um I want to ask you a question if you don't mind this is probably a bit intrusive but I do and I'm only 52. do you think a baby well I by the way I feel so good to have somebody that's 50 years older than me on my show because you really most of the time I'm the oldest guy on my show but I I wonder if you think about the end of your body in this life do you think about those things if you do what are your thoughts about them do you Spirit do you want to run full speed towards it do you never think about it or it is thinking about that give you some of that juice in life to live and be present for today yes at last no because uh my sister well I've had experience with death that is so um inspiring that I don't you know like okay I'll tell you you my sister she was two years older than me and uh she wasn't a fighter she was a peacemaker in our family she was a little child and you know uh she was that always throughout her whole life she was so she was 98 when she was when she passed over and um she'd been healthy and well until she got the flu and then she just didn't get over it and so um just as she was her youngest son and his wife were with her as she made the translation and she was lying in bed and started singing and she started singing uh hymns and bhajans which are Indian hymns and as she started first her voice was weak but it got stronger as she kept singing and every so often she'd say and Aya is here now Aya was our well she was like our second mother she was this Indian woman she was uh totally illiterate and everything but she was the one that in Co encompassed us and love and all that you know my mother was busy with her practice but I was always there well Aya taught us how to play the Indian Tula the dumb two-sided drum but she tried to teach me but I wouldn't sit still long enough but she taught Margaret and so she's Margaret saying Aya is here and in my mind I can see them moving over to whatever their the scope of Heaven is that they're moving into singing and drumming as they go you know and to me what could be more beautiful than that my gosh and and you know the other times when I've watched people make the transition and and they've communicated with me from the other side and you know there's stories that go on I I don't think you see I know that the baby in the uterus knows what the mother's doing I mean as as a unit a pregnant woman and a baby are one unit and it's not until the baby takes it so that we're feminifesting okay so it's not until the baby takes its first breath that it becomes a separate unit it's that moving into its own person and taking taking that first life-giving breath that this is it its own you know it the mother didn't have to give it to it it had to find that life force and become not an it but a real baby I had my last two uh babies at home and when I came to Phoenix we created the Baby Buggy program so that we could we had a way in which if there was some thing something that needed to have one or the other or transported or something we had the equipment we could transport and it was as a matter of fact it created communities because it was this huge van with a historic painted blue and the store painted on the side and when when I or the Midwife went to the house we would park this baby buggy outside and so the whole neighborhood knew what was going on in that house you know this baby's coming so it was like it brought the neighborhood together you uh I'm thinking about I'm just watching you right now I'm thinking she could be doing whatever she wants right now right and and so could I and yet you're investing and spending energy on other human beings and of all the things in your book that made me well not of all one of the things I can't even pick one and I can't even pick one out of today so what we're gonna finish this I'm gonna tell everybody at the dinner I'm going to tonight about our conversation they're going to ask me to pick one thing and I can't and nobody that's listening to show can pick one thing it's too profound but you say in number six in the book spend your energy wildly and a lot of people think I don't know rest take it easy you'll live longer if you do that and a lot of people kind of hit me like why are you so engaged in your life you know and I don't know that I've ever answered it very well but I almost feel like you gave me permission what do you you don't you have a 10-year plan and you're 102 years old right right you actually have a 10-year plan 102 and a half and a half grandkids my great-grandkids say that so I can say it to 102 and a half yeah what's this notion of spend your energy wildly well you know you if you try to save it it doesn't work and a lot of times when we uh tell a patient you know you you have such and such and you really need to go home and rest yeah they think that you are saying you have to go home and do nothing but to go home and rest is to do something going home for a rest is actually a prescription for you to do something you go home and you rest then you're not just doing nothing you're you're allowing your energy to do what it needs to do which is sort of refocus itself and do whatever it needs to do but it's not putting it in a bank and then having to go and pull it out again or something like that it's something that that has to be allowed to be something yes and so to to be rusty is a very good thing if that's what you're supposed to be doing but if you have like I have a patient not too long ago who was retired from the work that she'd been doing and she'd been resting and she had lost all of her juice that she thought she was saving yes yes yes yes reconnect her with her juice oh my gosh you're just unbelievably awesome like you're just unbelievably awesome you are I um okay I got two more things for you I I tell you what I would love to have you come back on would you come back on again uh-huh okay I would love that we'll do we there's just too many things I want to ask you but two things you met Gandhi at one point in your life correct what did you learn from Gandhi if anything well it was one of the uh experiences that you don't forget okay we were the family was in the process on a train going from uh the rotiki down to Bombay to get on the boat and come to the States because every seven and a half years my parents had a furlough and so I was on the train and we the train started slowing down because there was a huge crowd but there are always crowds around in India you know but there was this whole crowd and they were chanting and saying something and I saw up ahead of them that this man with just a small man with a large latte which is this cap and his Puti which is the the whole thing that he wears around loincloth and he's walking along and um comes right about outside of my window just not not out outside in my light a vision and Stoops down and a little girl is handing him a flower and when he's picked he hands takes the flower from the little girl he looks up and looks straight into my eyes now nobody can tell me he didn't do it nobody can tell me what happened but I knew at that time there was something there and so I can I can still conjure up that look you know it was it was just sometimes a newborn baby can look at you like that there's sometimes there's there's a connection with you and another person that is there and um and that's what happened so well you know I I took it in and and 30 years later when India's partition happened and the Hindus were killing the mama hounds you know there was such awful stuff my parents and my brother Carl who was a a physician had a little mobile unit that they were traveling around to the camps where the people were having and and my dad and mother were working with Gandhi talking to the people about from the stage about trying to get some kind of movement of life that would he helped to heal this whole thing and um so they they became friends and I was in uh college at the time so you know I was here in the States but that my parents were out there working with Gandhi and when they uh at one point Gandhi gave my mother a a a kashmiri shawl which I have here in my house and my dad apparently put a blanket because they respected each other so much that it was one of those things that I still connect with the time that I had connected with Gandhi at when I was 10 years old I think what you're saying there too is that by the way this is an experience I'll never forget and I think what you mean by that is that there's an energy when you meet certain people and that that's what life really is you talk so much about energy the way that we use it the way we give it to other people and I think everybody one of the lessons today is just to be conscious of energy Consciousness you're always making people feel something so take take be intentional about what those things are and you're always making yourself feel something absolutely yeah and you're when you're aware of it it really is a teacher when you become aware of what this what you're doing no matter whether it's a present well not I'm almost no matter whether it's good or bad but that's not that I don't mean that I mean energy is energy yep and and whatever it is it is it's beautifully said I I don't know I don't know I I uh I didn't know that this was going to affect me as much as it did today and it really really did it touches me too I'm deeply moved by you and your work and uh I'm speaking for millions of people I just want to say thank you thank you for finding your voice at 93. yeah thank you for having that dream thank you for listening to that dream and thank you for what you do and thank you for allowing me just to say it to talk about it I'm quite grateful this is one of those experiences I will never forget and so I uh I can't wait for the world to hear this so everybody make sure that you get Dr Gladys McGarry's book The well-lived Life 102 year old doctor six secrets to health happiness at every age all right everybody God bless you while you're getting it grab the power of one more ed mylett's book I hear that's pretty good too and share this episode with as many people as you can who just want to live a better life and want to learn from someone who's got unbelievable wisdom God bless you everybody [Music] thank you

Channel: Ed Mylett

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Length: 54min 28sec (3268 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 18 2023