How Fear Impacts us with Dr Matt Lyon on The Healers Café with Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND

 

In this episode of The Healers Café, Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND, chats with Dr Matt Lyon, Chiropractor, acupuncture practitioner and a teacher of meditation

 

Highlights from today’s episode include:

Dr Matt (05:33):

I’ve Noticed a qualitative shift. I’m so curious what you think, how you feel…. I’ve noticed a qualitative shift in people’s nervous systems, We’re more on alert, more on guard, more, in that flexor reflex, afferent fight or flight sympathetic overdrive, you know, nor epinephrin fuelled fear state, we are just kind of….. In this, this ocean of fear and that’s changed, you know, that’s been an issue

Dr Matt (08:18):

i feel one of the big issues in our society is that people are sort of cutting down from here, like talking heads already disembodied……being disembodied and then asking people to wear masks and then believing or expecting that we’re going to become more. Heart-Centered. I mean, that’s a big leap.

Dr Matt (11:39):

I mean, no disrespect to any chiropractors who are watching this, but chiropractors who solely focused on pain or, Hey, nice to see, mrs. Jones, crack, crack, crack, pop, pop, pop, see you later. Those are the guys that are really struggling and they’re struggling for a few reasons.

Dr Matt (14:54):

I’ve seen the situations where people are just really struggling. And then I’ve seen this situation where people are really thriving and the more holistic and the more emotionally attuned people are and the better communicators there are. And they have effective systems that actually work with the whole person they’re doing really well.

Dr Manon (17:10):

The board standing up for for chiropractors saying, this is essential. We were as naturopathic doctors, also considered essential, but here’s the kicker. We were not allowed to talk about the immune system. We were not allowed to say our truth.

Dr Matt (28:25):

The vast majority of people in the United States either don’t have access to that, or don’t have economic access to that. And so we look at communities that are disproportionately affected, whereas a major conversation about how many dollars you have to buy foods that are healthy. And when it’s Kraft macaroni and cheese and processed grains and processed meats and Sugar Sugar Sugar huge amounts of obesity, hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes prediabetes, all of these predisposing conditions where you’ve got loads of cytokines, loads of inflammation, loads of emotional stress in the community because people in survival and all of a sudden now damn, and that’s to say that wealthy people aren’t affected, but it’s, it’s different. It’s very different.

About Dr Matt Lyon:

Dr. Matt is a chiropractor and acupuncture practitioner who owned and operated one of the largest chiropractic clinics of its kind in the world. His clinic had a 6-9 month waiting list where clients flew from around the world to participate in a wholly unique MindBody paradigm and practice of healing and wellness. He specialized in deeply energetic approach to alignment and balance called Network Spinal Analysis (as featured on the GoopLab special, episode 5 found on Netflix). He was also a master practitioner and facilitator of SomatoRespiratory Integration – a somatic breath and energy practice to up level the human nervous and energy system.

Dr. Matt Lyon has been teaching meditation to groups for 27 years. Dr. Matt began his deep study of meditation in 1992 with an initiation in traditional Japanese Zen meditation with a renowned Zen Master. After that, he studied with a monk and Christian meditation master in the tradition of Centering prayer. He has also been formally initiated and trained in Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness meditation, Transcendental Meditation, and Loving-Kindness meditation.

Dr. Matt also lived and trained at the US Olympic Training center as an athlete where he was trained in leading edge biofeedback, meditation, and visualization.

 

Dr. Matt has worked with and taught in over 20 corporations as a wellness and mindfulness consultant. At Duke Energy, the largest power utility in the United States, he rolled out a watershed 6 month meditation program for employees.

 

Dr. Matt also leads his own private retreats for small groups in the USA, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

 

He and his wife sold their clinic and relocated to Longmont, CO as they begin their next service adventure to the Colorado community. They are currently opening a healing center here in Longmont, CO.

Dr. Matt is an intuitive Energy strategist to some of the most influential thought leaders of our time and has worked directly with a number of prominent politicians, authors, influencers  and Hollywood actors.

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About Dr. Manon Bolliger, ND:

 

Dr. Manon is a Naturopathic Doctor, the Founder of Bowen College, an International Speaker with an upcoming TEDx talk in Jan 2021, and the author of the Amazon best-selling books “What Patient’s Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask” and “A Healer in Every Household”.

 

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TRANSCRIPT

Dr Manon (00:01):

So welcome to the healers cafe. And today I have back with me, Dr. Matt Lion, he’s a chiropractor and acupuncture practitioner who owned and operated one of the largest chiropractic clinics of its kind in the world. And his clinic has a six to nine months waiting list, Clients fly from around the world to participate in a wholly unique mind, body paradigm, and practice of healing and wellness. I’m going to leave it at that right now, but I am really thrilled to talk to you about so many subjects, including going back to work in these times. So maybe let’s start with that and then I will explore the issues that are coming up.

Dr Matt (00:52):

Its good to be with you, first of all. And it’s great to be with your students and all the other great souls who will hear this talk. Tell me more what you’d like to talk about.

Dr Manon (01:06):

Well, I was thinking first of all, where do you live and how has going back to work impacted at your patients and all that? Because I know that looking at the best that I can from what’s happening in, even in Canada, in different places, we have different rules and different obligations to do different things. So I’m just curious, where, what is it like for you? What happens and how are people feeling about what’s going on?

Dr Matt (01:45):

Sure. So I live in a smaller ranching town North of Boulder, Colorado. So I’m about 30 minutes North of Boulder, Colorado going back, you know………., I was really blessed. I took 18 months off. I mean, normally I don’t, I’m not going to take time off. I love this work so much. I love this medicine so much. I’m always involved in learning and growing. I was excited to shift roles though, and, and move out of really busy practice, which included a lot of patients and a lot of management, and recreate myself, I love the term fascial restructuring or fascial reorganization. So I kind of went through that myself and March my wife, who’s a psychologist, a psychotherapist who does a lot of somatic based psychotherapy. So we worked together. We had a whole centre like we were about to sign the papers on a really beautiful place.

Dr Matt (02:54):

and then this, this bizarre experience of COVID-19 descended upon all, this whole world. And so we decided to be like, Whoa, let’s take a step back. So we actually, lived on a big ranch in New Mexico. So in the Southwest of the United States, beautiful ranch Mike, my daughter’s a great horse rider. And so we just sort of lived the ranch life for awhile. And we were like, let’s just, let’s get away from society for a little bit, but, you know I feel it’s so important to be in practice as an Emissary of healing, of hope, of kindness, of compassion and health. You know, we have a lot of conversation these days about sickness and COVID and death rates and mortality rates and contagion rates and where that’s, an important conversation. There’s another conversation that is sorely lacking, which is health, which is the internal state of health and the cultivation of health and the cultivation of wellness and the cultivation of resourcefulness and resilience and ease, and really what drives health when, what is the immune system and how does that relate to the musculoskeletal fascial system?

Dr Matt (04:20):

How does that relate to the energetic system, the biochemical systems? So all of that. So to answer your question a little bit more directly, I used to have a really busy practice where it was an interesting concept. I had a big open space, so everyone was treated and worked on in this open space. And I had six tables in a large waiting room and there was kind of this community. So I knew I didn’t want to go back to that. I think that’s a lovely practice model, but I wanted to spend, you know, 60, 30 to 90 minutes with clients. and the sort of the in depth nature of the work I do, where I integrate myofascial acupuncture, energy and functional medicine sort of is the approach I take right now. And and then I guess we could call somatic psychology. So I already had, in my mind, I wanted to change it up. So at least in the state of Colorado, because I see about one person per hour and I have a really cool old office with these giant windows, I just cracked the windows open and people that were able to just work that. So I see about one person every hour and new patients I spend about 90 minutes, two hours with, so it’s going OK.

Dr Matt (05:33):

I’ve Noticed a qualitative shift. I’m so curious what you think, how you feel…. I’ve noticed a qualitative shift in people’s nervous systems, We’re more on alert, more on guard, more, in that flexor reflex, afferent fight or flight sympathetic overdrive, you know, nor epinephrin fuelled fear state, we are just kind of….. In this, this ocean of fear and that’s changed, you know, that’s been an issue

Dr Manon (06:06):

I so agree. And if you look at it between, and we can talk about masks, you know, their validity or not, but that apart. Let’s just say that they are absolutely good if we’re covering ourselves this way, when we’re looking at each other, we can’t see each other smile. We don’t really, we’re not used to not reading another person. And when we’re walking down the street and I know because my my mother doesn’t wear one because she doesn’t, she’s elderly and she doesn’t want, she wants to get oxygen when she’s outside. Right. And so she’s saying, well, you know, if it’s my choice, because I have the right to live or die, I’m not sick. And I want to go outside this way and I wanna get my vitamin D and I want to get my oxygen. And people are like, shunning her, like this going around her. There’s so much reflex reaction. Like people move out of the way, mask or no mask it’s unbelievable. And the level of tension in people’s bodies is, palpable. Like you can actually feel it palpable.

Dr Matt (07:30):

I love what you say about the faces,I read so much from facial expression, both in terms of emotional affect, but jaw function, you know, cranial nerve function head position you know, I position it so critical for me. And that’s one of the first things I pick up on. So you’re right. I have to, I have to go into such a heart centered place and to really use that sixth sense of, of feeling and sensing beyond the five senses and really tuning in to where a person’s at, but hang, it’s hard with the masks Sometimes.

Dr Matt (08:18):

i feel one of the big issues in our society is that people are sort of cutting down from here, like talking heads already disembodied……being disembodied and then asking people to wear masks and then believing or expecting that we’re going to become more. Heart-Centered. I mean, that’s a big leap. I mean, it’s amazing as a health practitioner, I think that is the only choice we have. But as a society, I find that very difficult, but everything happens and there’s good to be seen and good to be drawn out of it. We’re asking of ourselves or of people to trust deeply and look at the eyes and really connect because people aren’t looking at each other anymore. It’s not just, it’s like by removing the face, it’s almost like people are not looking in the eyes either. So it’s really it’s quite a leap to talk about heart centred in this circumstance.

Dr Matt (09:38):

Yeah. That’s so true. I agree. I’ve noticed that a lot, the redirection of eye contact, we know the research, well, the research there, there is interesting studies looking at the effect of zoom on people’s mood, attention, and brain function. And so we live in these spaces. I know talking with you is so easy because I feel like I can connect to your heart. And I have such a context of relationship with you in person.

Dr Manon (10:14):

I think being on zoom, I have seen some meetings that I have on zoom. In some ways you can see people and feel closer, but if you don’t have a context, what, if it’s, it’s harder in some ways than in person where you’re used to judging all of the body language, because you’re only seeing a very small part, you know, on zoom, but given the body language that is outdoors and this hiding and shunning, naming and shaming and all of this really intense fear and anger kind of energy zoom feels like a haven. Like it’s the safe place, you know, it’s so funny kind of turnaround in our society. So like your colleagues that are possibly working as chiropractors and chiropractors, typically we’ll see more than one person in an hour and have different rooms and are set up this way. Can you speak to the impact that might have on them or what you’ve heard.

Dr Matt (11:39):

Sure, I’ve had a lot of exposure to that, I wanna pre-frame this, as I want this to be a really empowering message because I’ve seen a few scenarios play out, fascinatingly, my friends who work like I do. So really having maybe an integrative model and, I mean, no disrespect to any chiropractors who are watching this, but chiropractors who solely focused on pain or, Hey, nice to see, mrs. Jones, crack, crack, crack, pop, pop, pop, see you later. Those are the guys that are really struggling and they’re struggling for a few reasons. One people don’t want to go in, they don’t want to be exposed because in their mind I can live with my back pain or my shoulder pain, because they haven’t been properly educated. That pain is simply a message from your body that relates to your health, right?

Dr Matt (12:35):

So those guys are struggling and the people who were in high volume models that required a high degree of administration with multiple staff and a concurrent complexity of systems to support that. A lot of those guys are struggling because in Colorado is one of them in some States, there’s just a clamp down on what you can do. There’s just a clamp down on what you can do. Now, having said that I have noticed there’s a cadre of practitioners that I’m connected with that are wait-listed and busy because their emphasis is on health. It’s really unwellness. And so people get, Oh my gosh, the health of my fascia, the health of my fascia, as it relates to spinal cord pathways, which help brain balance and effect lymphatic flow and activate a number of different neural pathways and non neural information pathways, all of which are immune signalers, Whoa, I really need this, that, that I can actually get healthier and better now, so that I can co-evolve with this virus as best as I can, which is not to say that COVID-19 as a virus with sensitive people, it is, it can effect huge changes in multiple organ systems that as we know, can be very deadly

Dr Matt (14:05):

And we can’t leave health from that discussion. So the people in my profession, and I’ve noticed this with acupuncture is the people that are really helpful and understanding, and provoking and evoking a discussion around health, giving people really powerful treatments and tools so that they feel really empowered about their health. They’re like, Oh my God, you got to go see Dr. Jim, or you got to go see acupuncture or Susan, or you got to go see this lady. She, this Bowen therapy. I’m like, God, it’s so good. It’s like the best thing for me right now. I’ve also seen it. So these guys are very, very full and have even then translated being able to do zoom stuff. I personally don’t love doing consult via zoom. I do functional medicine consults via zoom. because I can look at lab work and I have some friends do that.

Dr Matt (14:54):

It’s not my favourite thing because I don’t like lab work separate from a person’s body and their body language. And then the emotional connection. There, I mentioned that there were three situations. I’ve seen the situations where people are just really struggling. And then I’ve seen this situation where people are really thriving and the more holistic and the more emotionally attuned people are and the better communicators there are. And they have effective systems that actually work with the whole person they’re doing really well. And then I’ve seen a bunch of other people you know, I’ll be direct here. I’ve seen some other folks that do some things that I don’t totally agree with and, you know, gosh, how do I, well, I think I’ve already, we’re on, we’re live recording. So I have to say, well that are very afraid of losing patients and they’re over marketing the value of their systems, which I don’t agree with.

Dr Matt (15:52):

And I don’t agree with that at all. And I don’t agree with people that are sort of, it’s not that I don’t think it’s important to have discussions with regulatory agencies. If I don’t agree with what they’re saying, you know, for a while in Colorado, we weren’t chiropractors, weren’t essential. Right? I’m so grateful that our association was like, Whoa, wait, hold up. We’re totally essential. You have hospitals that are shut down. You have people that can’t even get care. Like we help. We are a massive line of defense for you guys. Having said that I did, I didn’t like that. Some people are like beating the drum for their seminars and promoting live seminars with hundreds of people. And just trying to keep people from, you know, bailing out of their practices where people have pre committed to a year of care and paid five, $6,000 upfront. And I don’t like when doctors of any variety are fear based and sort of spinning a story about what they do that isn’t in fact validated by the evidence. That’s where I have a little bit of a rub with some of the higher volume chiropractic practices, doing some stuff that I just don’t think is super cool. But I think that the people who are really have a great message and really have a very true holistic, reliable evidence-based way to work with people they’re doing very, very well.

Dr Manon (17:10):

In Canada, I guess we don’t see that middle group that you’re talking about. I haven’t really seen that happen here. So which is it’s interesting that, and I was going to say for the holistic practitioners, it’s been very interesting. because when you mentioned, the board standing up for for chiropractors saying, this is essential. We were as naturopathic doctors, also considered essential, but here’s the kicker. We were not allowed to talk about the immune system. We were not allowed to say our truth.

Dr Matt (17:51):

The same thing in the States.

Dr Manon (17:54):

Oh my goodness. You know, here we have, society that is in fear and we know the physiological implications of fear on the immune system. We, know that it disregulates, we know what being in chronic stress mode does.it affects your sleep, And I think everyone listening probably does too, but it’s hugely impactful. And yet I remember putting out a, I guess it’s an add, but it’s like come to my webinar. i was doing a webinar for the public on boosting your immune system………..

Dr Matt (19:43):

You step out of that, it’s labeled as misinformation, That’s at least in the States it’s misinformation. So to talk about immune function, which is part and parcel of our work, whether you’re doing Bowen therapy or a seminar or event and or some chiropractic intervention, there are a number of studies just with chiropractic alone that talk about

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