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Dynamic Health interview questions for Matthew Stasior.
We are visiting today with Matthew Stasior, a professional speaker and healer who specializes in promoting good health through renewed hope and energy. Matthew graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. He was a Mastery Trainer for Anthony Robbins. Matthew is a Reiki Healer, a Cranio Sacral Therapist, , and the creator of a complete program of tools and information designed to encourage and support cancer patients. He is a 15 year member of the National Speakers Association, a member of the International Association of Health Care Professionals and a member of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. Matthew, welcome to Dynamic Health! 1. After reading about your impressive background in various fields, how did you focus on health? - Evidently my grandmother was very sick when my dad was young, and she decided she needed to educate herself so she could take care of her husband and her two young boys. This rubbed off on my Dad who became a doctor, an ophthalmic surgeon and which rubbed off on my siblings who are both MDs. - I remember in high school asking my Dad how I could have more energy at the end of football practice. We read the Yale Health newsletter which stated eating oatmeal stays in your system longer due to the leveling effect of blood sugar. It worked. My Dad is the biggest influence on my interest in health. He had the kids eating wheat germ and antioxidants before any knew what they were. He took me down to the now famous Cooper Institute for the treed mill test that my boyhood heroes from the Dallas Cowboys did. - At Harvard, I rowed crew so I had to be very conscious of what I ate to make weight. He gave me the Pritikin book and sent me to CA to go through Pritikin's 2 week program. 2. I must say I've not met a person with as much energy and passion that you have. You work at Microsoft in the 80s, can you tell us about that experience? - I moved to CA with no money, no car and no job. Within a very short time, mostly out of fear, I got a place to stay, got a car and landed a job at Microsoft after I received a rejection letter. At 23 I was managing people almost twice my age and was promoted to the youngest corporate account executive in the country. Back then, Microsoft was not like it is today. We were the underdogs. We had to fight for everything we got. I loved it. - Being with Bill Gates and Steve Balmer that early in the company's history was addicting. Everyone was so focused and excited. I think I was employee 2000 something. They now have over 50,000 employees. 3. I was impressed to discover your work with Anthony Robbins. Tell us a little about that. - After 6 years there, I worked with Tony Robbins because I thought he was the best at what he did. I saw amazing transformations in people. I wanted to be able to contribute to someone's life like that. - I believe we create everything in our lives either consciously or sub consciously so we can learn our lessons - To do this in our hectic lives, we need focus - If we focus on the bad things in our lives or our past, then that is what we feed our sub conscious and that is our reality, since our reality is our perception of reality (Voltaire taught us this 200 years ago) - To change our focus, we must learn to change our physiology, ie how we hold our body, and ask different questions - For example 4. Now, let's find out how you got into energy? - I think energy is the driver of all of this. Vince Lombardi said " fatigue makes cowards of us all" If you don't have to the energy to accomplish your goals or follow your passions or learn your lessons, then you will not. - To build on the great thinkers and motivators that came before me like Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale and Tony Robbins, I believe my contribution this time around is the topic of energy 5. It just occurred to me, Matthew, that our readers might enjoy hearing your definition of "energy." What is energy? How do you get more of it and can you create it on your own? - The ability to do work - I am talking about the energy we are made up of and its source - Live with Energy™ trademarked 6. I was fascinated to learn about your quest to collect amazing, real-life stories of healing in which you spent five years interviewing people and recording their experiences. From that, you said, came a "framework" of understanding that you call "Eight Healing Energies ™TM . Can you explain these and their benefits? - With the inspiration and encouragement of Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, I started to collect amazing, real-life stories of healing. For over 5 years, I collected stories; but I realized that the stories needed a framework, an easily understandable format. So I spent another year organizing them. Through meditation and prayer, I became aware of the eight energies or areas that can assist with your healing. I call them Eight Healing Energies™. The energies are eight gifts that you give to yourself to encourage and awaken your innate self-healing power. The eight energies are: - Love Energy - Prayer Energy - Thought Energy - Water Energy - Cleansing Energy - Nutrition Energy - Music Energy - Energy Healing Energy - The book is divided into eight sections, one for each type of energy. In the introduction to each section, I review the scientific studies relating to that gift. The introductions include information from over 7,000 studies. The prayer introduction summarizes over 1,000 studies on prayer alone. Each section moves from the scientific to the anecdotal where "miracle" healing stories are presented. Each story is written by the patient or close family member, not the doctor or healer. This is intentionally done so you can relate to and feel the person's own story. LOVE - A Ph.D. friend of mine wrote her doctoral thesis on the relationship between emotions and cancer and found that 90% of patients with cancer experience the emotion ANGER. This begs the chicken-and-egg question - which came first? Do cancer patients get angry, or do angry people get cancer? I believe in many cases the anger actually comes first. The emotional energy body is affected by the anger, which eventually shows up in the physical energy body in the form of cancer. She concluded that to counteract anger, you must embrace LOVE. - Love and Heart Disease Yale researchers studying coronary angiography patients found that those who felt most loved had considerably less artery blockage. - A similar study of women in Sweden found that emotional intimacy was associated with lower degrees of artery blockage. PRAYER - I have reviewed over 1000 scientific studies on prayer, and the results are impressive. Prayer actually affects reality - it's been proven - I recently attended the Harvard Medical Schools annual conference on Spirituality and Medicine, 12,000 studies on spirituality and prayer - 90% believe in God, 70% believe prayer helps, and a study should those who engaged in spiritual practice lived 7 years longer - Prayer is a way to communicate with God. Meditation is a way God communicates with you. - In one famous series of experiments, published by J. Barry in The Journal of Parapsychology (1968), mold was cultured in agar dishes, then stressed by an alcohol rinse that damaged the colonies without killing them. Some were prayed for, some weren't. The ones that were prayed for did better! Mold does not have a psychological component. It doesn't feel better because someone is praying for it. It is an extremely simple organism that lives in order to reproduce and further its species. Yet when humans pray for the well being of the organism, its survival rate increases. NUTRITION - I found that over 4500 studies since 1922 have linked diet to cancer. Recently, I attended the 10th annual American Institute for Cancer Research seminar with my Dad The AIC estimates that one-third of all cancer deaths are caused by poor diets. - AIC recommends the "CRON" diet: Calorie Restricted Optimal Nutrition - Nutrition: eat less calories, calorie restricted diet, 1/3 less calories allow earthworms to live 50% longer and mice 35% longer national institute of Aging George Roth - Dr Barry Sear of the Zone Diet "the only proven way to reverse aging is to restrict calories. No one disagrees with that, this has been demonstrated over the last 60 years." - This makes total sense because when we eat one of the by products are oxidants, that look for stray electrons to become stable, this is why we take anti-oxidants, to give the oxidants the electrons they need to become stable without harming cells and dna - The AIC estimates that one-third of all cancer deaths are caused by poor diets. One-third! This means that changing people's eating habits could prevent 3-4 million cases of cancer a year. Dr. T Campbell of Cornell University actually theorizes that 80-90% of cancers could be prevented or delayed through nutrition! - I have reviewed over 100 scientific studies on prayer, and the results are impressive. Prayer actually affects reality - it's been proven! 7. Matthew, you have recently started a foundation called, the Heal with Energy Foundation. How did this come to fruition and what is it all about? - I wanted a way to reach out to people - I wanted a vehicle for people to help either through volunteering or giving money - I mostly encourage you to take responsibility for your own healing! This book is a reference book of people who took responsibility of their healing journey. They didn't rely solely on their doctor or some "miracle pill." Some loved themselves more, others drank more water, and others went to energy healers. What they specifically did is less important than the fact that they did not give up hope. They took responsibility and they took action. They hoped, they believed, and they were healed. Robert Schuller preaches, "In the presence of hope, faith is born. In the presence of faith, love becomes a possibility. In the presence of love, miracles happen!" 8. I mentioned in your introduction that you are a reiki master? I have to confess that I have no idea what that is? What is reiki and how do you get to be a master? - reiki is a form of energy healing - everyone can do it like being a runner, there are levels of the gift and the gift takes practice 9. I understand you have personally worked with a number of billionaires, people like Bill Gates and Steve Balmer from Microsoft, and David Wetherel from CMGI and also Mike Milken on his health and cancer initiatives. What was it like to work with them and how was their energy? - they are full of energy - they have the focus and passion to accomplish great things - energy is contagious, we love it like a drug, the adrenaline energy rush, so people naturally gravitate to people with powerful energies, good or bad - Bill Gates sexual energy 10. Do you have any closing comments for our readers, Matthew? - The major theme of the Book of Hope is for you to take responsibility for your healing, find the right therapy for you and most importantly be at peace. Prayer can help. - We are here to learn our lessons and to help others - My major teaching is that you create everything! 11. Today we've been visiting with Matthew Stasior, professional speaker, healer and founder of the Heal with Energy Foundation. It's been a real pleasure, Matthew. - The pleasure is mine, May you "Live with Energy"™ |
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