Die Wissenschaft der Achtsamkeit für Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden | Dr. med. Antje Göttert | QS24

Good information is delivered like chrysanthemum. Are you also like chrysanthemum? Welcome, dear viewers, here in our format Naturmedizin. I have a book here and I have just opened the content magazine. It's about breathing, movement, chronically ill, gut, nutrition, family, faith, heart, imagination, now, sound, and, and, and. The whole alphabet goes through to Z like teeth. It's not all gold that shines. In this book, which is a total replica for many, many problems, there are approaches to the holistic point of view in the direction of solution. So where are the causes and how do you treat them? For me, a brilliant replica here from holistic medicine, totally what the QS24 wants to bring out as a TV station in the world. But this book was created by a specialist who has been on the road as a doctor for many decades and has continued to seek the best solution for the patients. And now she wrote a book and that's what I want to talk about today with the letter J, like now. And now she's here too and after the intro I'll show it to you. See you soon. Yes, here we are again and now I can also show you my guest. Now, Dr. Met Antje Göttert. Welcome, dear Antje. Good day, thank you very much. My intro is getting longer and longer, but what can I do? You wrote this thick ham, didn't you? Please, let's dive into the topic J, because the topic J, like now, is a very important point in medicine based on your experience. And I would like to ask you, the viewers, to be a little curious about what is hidden under this letter, what is packed into this book. The now is the challenge, that we are in the now, so to speak, with our attention, with our attention and perceive what is happening around us in this moment, what is happening around us in this moment, who is sitting opposite to us, how the person is sitting opposite to us. And as a doctor, this is the challenge, to be present, to really be there and with full attention to turn to the patient, to listen and perceive who is sitting opposite to me and then also to perceive what is coming from there, and to speak as information, but also as a mimic, as a gesture, as a question, how does the person look, how does he look, how does he sit, what is his posture, and so on and so on. Do you know me right now? Yes, for example. And often enough, we are distracted with our thoughts by a stress that we may have had before and maybe also some bureaucratic things that we just had to deal with, or technical problems, or whatever. And by making it clear to ourselves that life takes place in the now, then we are there and present. With the letter now, I read a great book 20 years ago by Eckhart Tolle. You have to read that, it's compulsory reading. I think that probably every viewer has already read it. It's just totally good. I just think it's crazy, I recently read how much we worry about the future and most people don't even notice. But how much energy do we let in? And that's not in the now. We worry at some point, and it doesn't come. To live in the now. That's the only moment when we can influence something. But we make life in the past or in the future, but not in the now. Thinking about the future also has a certain value. It's not like we shouldn't do it at all. We can think about it, okay, the day after tomorrow I have to do this action, or this conversation, and we can think for a moment, okay, how will it be, how should I prepare for it? In that moment it's also meaningful to think about the future. But what you just mentioned, to constantly worry about what everything could be, about negative things, about negative events, without being able to be sure that it even happens, we lose energy. Energy that we can use wonderfully in the here and now. Energy that we miss in the here and now, when we constantly waste it in the future. The same goes for the past. Of course, we can travel into the past forever and three days and think about what we went through, how bad it was for us, how badly we were treated, and so on. But it also makes sense in the moment when we want to dissolve something, when we want to look at something that is still burdening us and still blocking us, to dissolve it and to end this connection with it. This connection makes sense. Or when we don't remember beautiful things that happened in the past. That also makes sense. Then we are again in the imagination. And our brain takes these pictures and feelings from now on. Viktor Frankl also put great emphasis on this, he called it the full barn of the past, that we can also draw something positive out of it, that we can let it go well when we wake up to beautiful pictures, beautiful memories, to have a kind of joy from it, to increase our energy with it. A situation in which we are in the moment when we don't feel well, where we may be sick. Remember beautiful things and thus make a transformation in the now. Then it makes sense. But if we have a conversation or as a doctor have the patient in front of us or have a conversation with our friends, then it doesn't make much sense to wander around in the future or in the past, but quite the opposite. Then we should be present in the here and now and give full attention to our counterpart. I'm always practicing a little bit. You are so quickly in a hamster wheel of work and things that you should do. And then you have a person and you don't give him the time to listen to each other in the now, the most important thing that there is, to make a relationship to each other, to experience attention, but is already back at work. This is already a life exercise project. Yes. Indeed, a certain exercise is needed. John Kabat-Zinn has developed a program where the mindfulness is practiced through meditation and you first of all come to rest, come to yourself, come into relaxation and stop up there to let the wheel turn and to stir negative thoughts. And of course this is very, very helpful. The moment we practice and practice this regularly, we are also adjusting our autonomous nervous system. The autonomous nervous system is in us and functions automatically. It consists roughly of two arms. One is the sympathic, that is, the one that gives gas, that lets us be active. And the parasympathetic, that is, the one that provides relaxation, rest and regeneration. And we need both. But often enough we are very, very stressed in everyday life. So we are very sympathic. And some of us have also used it in such a way that it does not stop at all. You are then in permanent sympathic, in permanent stress. Even at night, when you should actually regenerate, detoxify, rest, you are still in sympathic. And that definitely has disadvantages, if it goes on like this. In advance, the body can compensate for this, but if it lasts longer, then the body suffers. Then at some point it will get sick and burn out, so to speak. In this respect, if we notice that we are in permanent stress, in a permanent stress that is good, then it is important to pull the brake and say, stop, this is not how it works in the long run. And then such exercises help a lot. Breathing exercises. Starting with breathing, exactly. This is the instrument we always have with us. And when we are in stress, we breathe fast and flat. And there we can, although it is an autonomous system, but we can take influence by consciously breathing slowly and deeply. So really take the time, sit down, take a moment back and pay attention to our breathing. And we can do that in everyday life at any time. And we should do that when we have a stressful job, a stressful task. Take a moment out of us and present it to us. And of course we can do that in the evening when we want to come to rest. That we use the breathing to get down into the parasympathetic nervous system. We used to do measurements with sick people. We saw that they breathe 13 to 20 times per minute. But we also saw that below 13, so about 7 to 12, is actually the area where the parasympathetic nervous system can develop. And healing is only possible in the parasympathetic nervous system. And isn't that crazy that the whole topic we are discussing is not an issue in medicine? I don't know, there are 15,000 to 20,000 liters of air that burn 150 to 250 liters of oxygen per day. And that's not an issue. That was also one point that not only surprised me, but actually almost made me angry. That I never learned that in my studies. So it didn't occur to me. Or I overheard it. But I don't think I overheard it. Such an important point that healing takes place in the parasympathetic nervous system and nowhere else. Of course, we heal a little bit permanently. We try to regenerate and heal again and again. But the power is so much greater in the parasympathetic state. We should take care of that. We also made measurements and looked at the so-called oxygen consumption. We have 21% oxygen in the air and looked at how much the body burns and how much oxygen it exhales. So you can do mouth-to-mouth breathing. There is still something there. We saw that a cancer patient usually only burns about 2% oxygen. Then we did oxygen exercises. Breathing exercises or IHHT. This brought the patients to 3, 4, 5% consumption very quickly. You have to imagine that you have a fireplace and put 2% or 4% oxygen into it. The fire is something else. And people suddenly go up the stairs again. They have a light in their face again. As if the self-healing powers were activated through breathing. I find that fascinating. In Switzerland there is the Buteyko cleaning. Breathing therapies are even paid for by the health insurance. That's cool. Wonderful. I don't think that's the case in Germany. Yesterday someone wrote to me, Mr. Glock, but tell me, what would you do if you had cancer? Then I wrote an e-mail with 20 points of the things I was allowed to learn here at the station. But at the top was a psychotherapist and then a breathing therapist. Both are very, very important points. I just remembered a story. A Buddhist teacher told me in February this year. It's a Zen story. Someone went to this master who lived at a house by the lake and asked him, dear master, how can I get enlightenment? And then he said, quite simply, I take my teapot, walk through the forest, perceive the wonderful sounds of the birds, the forest, the sound under my feet. At the bottom of the lake I fill the teapot with water, enjoy the way back, the birds chirping, put the water on top, wait until it's hot and then I drink my tea. Then the other says, yes, but master, all good and right, but how do you get enlightenment? Yes, I go with the teapot through the forest to the lake. And I thought that story was so beautiful, because it actually shows that you only have to learn to live in the now. To perceive the present and to consciously shape it is the royal class. Exactly, and what you just described is also to perceive with all your senses. And of course that also means that we use all senses in a certain way, in schools, in services, in general. And in the right sense, so to speak. If we look at screens for hours, always at the same distance, and our eyes, I would almost say, abuse them, by always looking straight ahead and either having very fast sequences or actually having to look at boring things. That is actually an abuse of the eyes, I would say. How nice it would be to go out in the afternoon and go into the forest and confront the eyes with other things or give them other pictures and other distances and not just this. And the same with the hearing. We should pay attention to what we let in our ears, what quality it has, what volume it has. Can we still perceive the sounds, the sounds of nature? Do we give our mouth the opportunity to do so? And so it goes on with tasting, with smelling. We should make sure that we organize our lives in such a way that we actually use our senses, and use them in a diverse way. That is helpful for us to be in the now. You have no worries in this moment. You don't have a momentary concern for any disease. You are actually integrated in the whole, and actually already on the right path towards healing, because you have a positive imagination in the now, which actually makes you feel good. Yes, we are natural beings, so to speak, and not technical beings in that sense. That means, in the moment when we go into nature, when we let natural light and our senses take over nature, we nourish ourselves with positive energies. We should be aware of this, and also use it, and enable our children to do so. I think it is important that this is an issue in schools, for example. That it is not just about learning something, or bringing technical devices and knowledge into it. It is about a healthy, vital and successful life. It is about more. It is also about recognizing who we are as humans, what we need as humans, and then giving ourselves these impulses. Creating opportunities for nature, for example. Every patient can be happy when they come to you, because they are picked up in a completely different way. They can have the greatest hope, or also the chance, or also the certainty, to become healthy again, if you have an accompanying person who has as much knowledge as you do. My heart just opens up. Now I am talking to a doctor about spirituality, because it simply belongs together. You told me in another program that you were talking about breathing, about connected breathing, and that you reach ecstasy. How does this breathing work, the connected breathing? Well, you first come into a state of relaxation, of peace. This happens, for example, when I go somewhere in peace, into a beautiful atmosphere, and I start to breathe deeply and slowly, and I breathe down from my head, from my mind, let's say, into my heart. And the moment I am there, I start to breathe connected. That means I breathe in and out quickly, in and out, in and out, and that for an hour. Doesn't that make you dizzy? Yes. As a doctor, I know that when I hyperventilate, that's what they call it, when you breathe too quickly, that you get into a tetanus, into a cramp. And when I decided, I was still with Stan Kroff and his wife, Brigitte Kroff, that was the first time, to breathe connected to Stan Kroff, I thought, how is that going to be? If I hyperventilate here, I'll get tetanus, and what then? But I knew that it had been done for decades, and I thought, if it had been done successfully for decades, it would somehow work. So, I had full confidence that it would work, and with Stan Kroff, Brigitte Kroff, it was like having a sitter. You lay down, you did this connected breathing with loud music. Stan Kroff has loud music with him. And the sitter sort of took care of you, I'd say. And I was told beforehand, it will pass, it will go away again. And I had a little help, we had agreed beforehand, that when I gave my hand, it would press a little, and it worked. And I came into another state of consciousness through breathing, which can only be described as very, very bright, and full of here and now, so to speak, in that moment. Everything else did not exist in principle. You were fully in this state, in this bright state, and nothing else was important to me. I suspect that a lot of hormones, happiness hormones, endorphins are released in this phase. I tried it another way, not this, I tried to go to Wim Hof, and I always thought, well, if you don't have to breathe for two minutes, then you'll die. You learn that. Two minutes without breathing. I trained that, and after about an hour you are able not to breathe for up to four minutes. I thought, that's impossible. But the first breath after four minutes, when the brain is supplied with oxygen again, you hear a mosquito buzzing. Sorry. You hear everything. You are in a room. That is a feeling of happiness. Indescribable. I can imagine that this is also the case. It may last a minute or so, and then it may last longer. I also felt that with Stan Grof. And I have now breathed for the last year with Christina Kessler. It is different there. It is quieter and not as spectacular as breathing with a holotrope. But this kind of breathing really appealed to me. There, too, you breathe for an hour, but with different settings. It could be lying down and with music. It could also be sitting. It could be walking with open eyes. We also did breathing by the sea. I was standing in the water, already on the shore, so to speak. Or breathing while hiking, while walking, up a mountain. And every time there were different experiences, different experiences. And if you can get involved in it, it is a great transformation and a development that is simply wonderful. You can only say that. You really come to yourself and also feel the connection to everything that is. What is also so exciting about breathing is that we could detoxify the whole body with really good breathing. A therapist once explained to me that even if you eat Pommes frites for breakfast and Hamburger for lunch, if you breathe properly, you get all the acid out of the body. Yes, that's fantastic. Breathing is actually the easiest way to regulate the acid base balance. But you have to see that every disease comes from the acid. We have the greatest treasure to counteract this disease and do not use it. Yes. So it is a fantastic tool. And this slow and deep breathing, if we make ourselves aware of it, then we really have a very, very valuable tool, so to speak, always with us. And back to the topic, in principle, always a tool that brings us back to the here and now. Exactly. And brings us out of the stress, out of the hamster wheel, back to the moment it's about. Finding life in the now, instead of tomorrow and yesterday, but now. Exactly. Thank you very much. Dr. Mette Antje Göttert, that was for you, dear viewers. The doctor who has dealt with holistic medicine and has written a book about where and now. We have now thematized this a bit and of course we will also thematize other letters. And if you like this kind of show and also go to the heart, as I personally do, then take a look again in three weeks. Then I will be happy to produce the next show with our guest, publish it and give it to you. And if you can't wait, then there is only one book, simply put it in the library, in your own bookshelf. And whenever there is a need for a man or a woman, just pull out the book, open the right letters and see how an experienced doctor sees, with her decades of experience in holistic medicine, which aspects we could include in our cure. Yes, it was a pleasure for me to make this show for you. See you next time and goodbye!