Empowered Medicine: Harnessing the Infinite Laws of the Universe for Optimized Health

By Trip Goolsby MD and LeNae Goolsby JD

Empowered Medicine is medical motivational mindfulness. This book is written as a guideline to transformation for all those who may (or may not) recognize the role they can have in creating the health they truly desire, regardless of the health that they currently have.
Reading and using the exercises provided in this book will usher in enhanced abilities to focus on desired outcomes and the means to attain them. It will be a means by which we may all be empowered to not only achieve the health we desire but to activate our imaginations and beliefs to manifest the environment and trappings of that successful health image. It is an important affirmative, mindful, complementary step in the direction of self-realized health, healing, and well-being, harnessing empowered awareness to acquire the long-lasting quality of life and the healing of illness we all deserve.
Empowered Medicine is for those who are sick of being sick, who are ready to take their healthcare and their personal power back and to a level not previously perceived or experienced in the current mass production reactive medical model. Using a highly successful platform, Empowered Medicine provides the transformational mindfulness that it takes to push past previously held limiting perceptions of health and fitness in order to truly step into optimized health and longevity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 29, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504385374

Trip Goolsby MD

HENRY J. “TRIP” GOOLSBY, III, MD is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, and is a certified Elite Health/Age Management provider. For over thirty years, Dr. Trip has been setting the bar and leading the way in providing patient-centric healthcare. And, he continues to do so by being the forerunner in bringing a whole body, mind, and soul approach to health care services in Louisiana via Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center, a proactive, integrative medicine practice for complex internal and integrative medicine. Presently, patients from all over the globe seek Dr. Trip out for his expertise for precision integrative health optimization and longevity medicine. His approach to motivational and transformational mindfulness medicine empowers his patient-partners everyday enabling them to transcend limited perceptions of what was possible for their health. His progressive motivational approach not just transcends health, but also lives. For more information about Dr. Trip visit www.YourInfiniteHealth.com LeNae Goolsby is the Founder/Owner of www.LeNaeGoolsby.com, as well as the Practice Administrator/Director of New Business Development for Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center in Louisiana. She received her certificate from the Duke University Integrative Medicine Center Leadership Development Program in February 2017, and her law degree from Tulane University Law School in 2010. Somewhere in between Tulane and Duke she completed her universal laws-centric life coaching studies and honed her intuitive abilities. In addition to co-authoring Empowered Medicine, she is the author of Seven Sundays to Sweet Inner Serenity - How to cultivate the calm even in the midst of the crazy chaos, and her articles have been syndicated in various globally recognized media outlets. For more information about LeNae, visit www.LeNaeGoolsby.com.

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To the seekers of a better way to motivate and heal themselves of illness and disease. To the visionaries who are willing and able to see and achieve optimized health and longevity. To those brave patient-partners whom we have met along our journey who are willing to share the stories of their own personal journeys toward healing their health and their lives.

I do not believe—indeed I deem it a comic blunder to believe—that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and, where necessary, remedy it, but I do believe the exercise of reason is at all times necessary.

—Peter Medawar,

Nobel Prize winner and author of Advice to a Young Scientist.

CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1—The Infinite Law of Success in Health

Chapter 2—The Infinite Law of Thinking in Health

Chapter 3—The Infinite Law of the Empowered Perspective and Health

Chapter 4—The Infinite Law of Supply in Health

Chapter 5—The Infinite Law of Attraction in Health

Chapter 6—The Infinite Law of Receiving in Health

Chapter 7—The Infinite Law of Increase in Health

Chapter 8—The Infinite Law of Compensation in Health

Chapter 9—The Infinite Law of Allowance in Health

Chapter 10—The Infinite Law of Forgiveness in Health

Chapter 11—The Infinite Law of Sacrifice in Health

Chapter 12—The Infinite Law of Obedience in Health

Appendix

PREFACE

At the turn of the twentieth century, William James, godson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, stated, The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspect of their lives. In light of this and similar thoughts found in various writings throughout history, I wonder why it has taken us so long to incorporate mind-body approaches into the practice of traditional medicine. Use of prescription drugs dominates our current approach to treating illness, despite abundant evidence that behavioral modification may work just as well, and without causing unwanted side effects.

I believe part of the reason for this is that physicians are trained to prescribe treatments based on peer-reviewed studies that demonstrate positive outcomes with the use of certain medications. Although researchers and participants in the studies are presumed to have no impact on the outcome of the studies, this presumption is in error, and this error is known to have existed since the early twentieth century.

When we see positive results with the use of a placebo or inexplicable positive outcomes with health-related affirmations, we must admit there is a mind-over-health connection that is manifesting itself in the form of unexplainable outcomes.

Is it possible that the inexplicable positive outcomes attributed to a placebo are related to our error of interpretation of the data, an error of interpretation of the true effect? Could not the positive outcomes result from the participants’ anticipated outcomes—the mind-body effect? I believe our health and well-being are actually being forced to respond to our beliefs and desires by virtue of what we think, or expect our health to be, the result of a mechanism of our own volition. This is also, all biological behavior being equal, the explanation for many of the significant differences in outcomes for people, despite having similar disease stages in cancer. I have observed these same differential responses in both my oncology and integrative medicine patients with chronic disease processes over the years.

Is it simply a lack of knowledge of our ability to contribute to the happy end result that is slowing down our ability to move into a quantum medical outcome? I would say, yes. I would also say that the existence of an understandable systematic approach, one that provides us with a simplified means of motivated and empowered behavior adjustment, will significantly improve our outcomes. As Gregg Braden, author of The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, stated, The act of us simply looking at our world—projecting the feelings and beliefs that we have as we focus our awareness on the particles that the universe is made of—changes those particles as we are looking.

Before moving on, I would like to tell you more about myself. In the fall of 1975, I started to pursue my dream of becoming a physician. Unlike most, I began by acquiring French as a second language. I did this because my family expatriated to Belgium in the service of an international petroleum corporation when I started college two years earlier; the advantages of being considered a Belgian national for the purposes of education benefits could not be ignored. After successfully completing my studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, I completed my internship in internal medicine and residency training at the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, and a fellowship in oncology and hematology at Roswell Park Memorial Institute and the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Along the way, through my professional endeavors, I was blessed with meeting the love of my life, LeNae. We met through a mutual acquaintance at a restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in early 1998. The meeting was quite brief, and I recall thinking that a young woman of such incredible beauty could not possibly be attracted by a nerdy geek such as myself. My inner child helped me escape from the scene after brief social pleasantries, in which all abilities to speak the English language coherently left the scene more rapidly than my motorcycle, which followed shortly thereafter. My social awkwardness notwithstanding, LeNae salvaged the encounter when she called my practice the following day. Uncharacteristically so, the gatekeepers transferred her call back to me.

She didn’t even give me a chance to ask her out. I suspect she preferred not to distract me from my professional obligations and preempted what would have surely been another embarrassing moment for me by asking me if I might like to go to dinner sometime to continue the scintillating conversation we had engaged in the day before. She reminds me, to my continued embarrassment, that my response was an astonished guffaw, followed by a really fast, Yes, I’d love to!

Five years of dating later, and an equally clumsy proposal to LeNae produced marriage and a number of marvelous perspectives and outcomes in my life. These miracles are the origin of a multitude of awakenings and enlightenments that contributed to the origin of this book and the methods I use to inspire, empower, and enhance the acquisition of significantly improved health outcomes for my patients.

The first enlightenment, and quite frankly one I thought was not going to happen during my life for numerous reasons, was the conception of our son, Henry IV; not that the biology and the chemistry weren’t there, by any means. I’d maintained the limiting belief that being a good father and the demands that I imposed upon myself to provide best outcomes for my patients were incompatible. I stopped believing this on the eve of my fiftieth birthday, and Hayden Granger (aka Huckleberry) followed less than four years later.

At that time, my interest in health optimization reached its peak. I started investigating peer-reviewed new age therapeutic methods that could minimize the ravages of time on our physical bodies and perpetuate a dynamic health span.

This study led me to acquire additional certifications, which I incorporated into my oncology practice. The successes experienced by my oncology patients were quite impressive and gratifying, so I began expanding my integrative medicine practice, using the techniques and data I had gathered. This was quite fortunate, as discord was brewing in the wings of my medical partnership. Putting my family above my affiliated nursing staff and colleagues caused conflict and provided a catalyst for change. This priority shift and awakened purpose also provided insight into the transformational and motivational components in this book.

My transformation and understanding came more from the personal effort and struggle that was the result of my lifetime change. I became endowed with the perspective necessary to see a body of motivational and transformational literature that has been the source of success for thousands—possibly millions—of individuals all over the world, and for millennia.

Although these transformational success methods were not previously specifically used in the setting of disease management, it occurred to me that the major chronic illnesses (those most effectively reversed by an optimized integrative approach, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, depression, anxiety, among others) were a ripe field for an empowerment approach that could motivate and assist in the transformation of lifestyle attitudes and habits that were the result of misinformation and/or limiting beliefs about our health.

In my mind’s eye, I envision a type of motivational medicine, a transformational mindfulness, to enhance and empower those who are discouraged or defeated by conventional medicine. Or, quite frankly, for those who are so accustomed to the current mode of mass production reactive healthcare delivery that they don’t even know that they are, themselves, the source of creation of a better health. I see how this approach may serve to enhance treatments and increase the likelihood of an empowered mind-body response.

Almost as though I had spoken the words aloud, LeNae enrolled in a number of intuitive-empowerment training programs. I naturally became curious and began reading a number of the authors whose titles are familiar to those seeking answers in the domain of personal development and intuitive empowerment. These references led to my attending lectures and reading other authors. I gained a historical, philosophical, and religious review that reached back into pre-antiquity and encompassed a number of spiritual, religious, and metaphysical viewpoints. These methods dovetail quite easily with those of therapeutic imaging and biological feedback, as well as the other contemplative and mindfulness modalities. They likewise are the source of this empowered approach that, in my hands, and at this writing, anecdotally is generating virtually unheard levels of compliance and enthusiasm for personal health and well-being transformation.

By traveling on this avenue, I collided with a number of the new thought, personal success, and mindfulness authors (Allen, Shinn, Hill, Proctor, Emerson, Byrne, Dyer, Chopra, Dagher, Braden, Massaro, Canfield, Ziglar, and others). After LeNae took an online study course on the work of Raymond Holliwell, offered by Bob Proctor and Mary Morrissey, LeNae and I decided to write this book.

How can we best learn about and embrace the changes necessary to succeed in improving or eliminating detrimental habits? What can we reasonably expect to achieve when implementing a motivational behavior modification program? I see the use of the universal laws as a means of mindful, transformational motivation bring about and improve adherence to change. The principles of these laws have been used in diverse cultures over the millennia to captivate and motivate humanity. Some name three universal laws. Others name twelve, and some, as many as twenty. These laws include the law of attraction, which states that our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies that attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies, and positive energies attract positives energies. In this book, I have identified twelve universal laws that relate to achieving optimal health, one for each chapter.

The universal laws have a substantial foundation in all of our cultures, religions, and backgrounds, dating far back into antiquity. In Christianity, for example, there is the principle of sowing and reaping—people reap what they sow, so it’s wise to sow positive things. These motivational and lifeward principles are espoused by psychological, neuropsychological, and motivational leaders of our times. They are used to help those who are aware of the need, in many domains, to make change. Change is necessary to rid ourselves of bad habits we have acquired that cause us to have many of the