Ralph Zuranski Is a Pioneer In Health and Brain Integration Research

Wish number one would be to live to two hundred years so I could make a much bigger difference. Wish number two would be to have my family live as long as I did so I could enjoy them. Wish number three is to have an unlimited number of wishes.

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There is only one solution and that is, “Do your part by being the best you can be.”

Rather than looking at the problem as outside of yourself, look at what part of that problem do you own. Then do something about it from your own perspective rather then complaining or whining about it.

Start with yourself! Start at point A. Know where you are. Acknowledge where you are.

If you’re noticing that problem, there is a part of that problem in you. If you’re fighting prejudice, fighting racism, there is a part of that in you.

You don’t know where that is but it’s in you somewhere or it’s in your family. Otherwise you wouldn’t recognize it.

So, first do your best to remedy and solve that problem and then you can start on others. If you come out squeaky clean first and you demonstrate greatness instead of just talking about it or complaining about it you will be a lot more effective.

Ralph Zuranski; So you think the things we dislike the most are difficulties that we are facing within our own selves?

Alex Mandossian: Yes, I think we have it within us and we have to overcome it. That’s why we are facing those things. It’s a projection; you know when someone complains, like “I don’t trust that person.”

That person who is making that claim does not trust themselves in some way because otherwise that would have never come into their consciousness. It is within them.

I firmly believe that to be true. It has been proven psychologically to be true, both at a spiritual and physical level. So, I would firmly, firmly not only believe but acknowledge that if you dislike someone find out what part of that person is in you.

You dislike yourself as a result of that. We’re connected. If you have a problem with something or someone, find out what part of that is in you before you start solving the problem outside of you. If you do that and if everyone did that, wouldn’t the world become a better place?

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I think I demonstrated to you heroism, a certain level of greatness, which instead of just talking about it I demonstrated it to you. You’ve taken pictures of me over the years. You’ve read my materials. You’ve purchased my materials. Ee’ve gotten to know each other over time. You have seen a certain level of consistency and predictability and I think that that got you to trust me as I trust you to regard each other as heroes. Is that true?

Ralph Zuranski; Well, absolutely that is true, but you forgot about generosity.

That does help, but the challenge with generosity is usually conditional. You know, you give, give and give. Now, I’m speaking on my behalf, and then when I don’t get back I say “Darn it! He is not recognizing me.” Okay, so that is where humility comes in.

You give, give, and give. I don’t sense that you expect something in return. This interview took a long time to initiate, probably over a year, and it was canceled at least three or four times because of my schedule. But, you patiently gave, gave, and gave. Now, I am trying to hit one out of the park for you.

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For parents to be a good example, that is the single greatest thing they could do! In other words, don’t give reprimands if you’re guilty of the same thing that you’re reprimanding.

It happens all the time. If a child is misbehaving because they are throwing a temper tantrum and a parent gets upset about that, yet that same parent throws a temper tantrum when their spouse comes home late or if they don’t have date night or whatever else, it is wrong but it happens all the time. We are all hypocrites in our pleasures, sometimes. So the best way for a parent to do their part is to be a good example. As a parent that is what I have found.

A parting thought….

The only parting thought is this, “Greatness and heroism is to be demonstrated. It is not to be talked about. It is admired most when it is demonstrated.

So, if you demonstrate greatness, then you will make a difference and that is what I attempt to do. I try to demonstrate as much greatness as possible.

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By conducting interviews like this and speaking my mind. I don’t typically part the curtain as much as I have or leave myself as vulnerable as I have during this call.

This is just as much for me as it is for any one else listening. I hope I have touched someone. If I am touching you and you’re listening right now, I hope that you nod, “Yes” and if we’ve created any feelings of joy or love, I hope you are nodding “Yes” as well. So, I think those are the ways we make a difference.

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Well, its only as good as the people who are recognizing me. You recognize me as such and that makes me feel good. So it feels very good.

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I think most heroes don’t. I think there is an anonymous mother somewhere who is not getting the recognition that she deserves.

I think there is a politician who is honest and who has always been on the straight and narrow who has not received recognition. I think there is a governor out there or a mayor who hasn’t been recognized.

There is a prime minister who has saved lives in his country or her country who hasn’t gotten recognition. The reason we don’t know who they are is because they have not received recognition. They are leaders from behind. They are heroes from behind. They are anonymous and that’s how we started this interview.

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They are good role models. Young people need good role models. It’s no question to me why adults pick paths of destruction. It starts with their parents, by what they observe.

If not their parents, then it is what they see in school. It is nobody’s fault. It is what they observe. When a child observes something, I firmly believe they accept it as true.

They don’t have the mental apparatus to judge it, “Is this good or bad?” or “Is this true or false?” They just accept it. They buy it.

Let’s say for example, you’re in the basement of your home and your watching your father cut some wood for a cub scout race. You know they have these little derbies where they have these blocks of wood and you make cars out of them and then the fastest car wins.

You put a little weight on the wooden car and it goes down the little chute, I forget what they call them. So, lets say your watching your father with a hacksaw cut off some wood. Then suddenly the hacksaw slips and digs into his thigh and his thigh starts bleeding.

Then, you as a child, male or female, it doesn’t matter, you say “Dad doesn’t that hurt?” And dad says “Yes it does, yes it did hurt.” And you say “Well why aren’t you crying?” and he says “Because men don’t cry.”

Now, he may not have meant anything from that, however, you may buy it for the rest of your life that men don’t cry. If you’re a woman, you find a man to marry who never cries.

If you’re a man, you never cry for the rest of your life because men don’t cry because you looked up to that man who said it. And that man meant nothing by that when he said it, but the bottom line is, you bought in to it.

So, haphazardly we get stimuli from others and from situations. Role models can shatter those things. I mean, why do people go to therapy? They go to therapy to undo or un-ring the bell that was rung in childhood.

Something happened between ages three to seven. I know for a fact, and this has been done over and over again. The greatest producers, the top producers of the world, whether its Stephen Spielberg, Opera Winfrey or Tiger Woods, any top producer, pick one, it doesn’t matter, but they produce results.

In their lives between the ages of three and seven, and this is documented, they had some adult figure, could have been a step-father, father, mother, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother, some parental figure gave them blind encouragement.

So they came up to them and said “Hey I want to be a fireman.” And then that person said,” You know honey, you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.”

So, they took that piece of evidence. After let’s say the kid grows up to be twelve and says “Mom, when I grow up I want to be a stripper.” So, at that point you can say “Honey, maybe you ought to consider something else. How about waiting tables?”

So, after they get to a certain age it is okay to change the encouragement and lead them down a path that’s a little more supportive. But, between the ages of three to seven, blind encouragement is a good thing.

I believe so. If I ask my son Gabriel (Brianna is not old enough, but she would say the same thing) “Gabriel, you can do anything you want right?” and he says, “Yep” and I ask him, “What do you have to do?” he says “Just put my mind to it.”

So I have like programmed him to know that he can do anything he wants if he just puts his mind to it. Alright? Now if he says he wants to be a bungee cord instructor at age twelve I’m going to say, “Gabriel, I think it’s a great profession but, can we look at something else?”

So, I think between ages four to seven or three to seven are critical. People just take those ages for granted sometimes because were living life. I have been lucky enough to be a teacher and a parent at the same time. It is giving me the ability to look at how my kids are growing up and what kind of impact I can have on them, to be a hero to them.

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I think they are heroes long before they are labeled as such. I think it starts by knowing you’re a hero to yourself.

Mother Theresa was a hero long before she got any acknowledgement. She helped a lot people, assisted them to transform their lives from adversity to at least living and breathing.

That was her mission. So it wasn’t a matter of curing diseases. It was a matter of less disease ridden children and people in that part of the world.

So I think you’ve got to be a hero to yourself first, and then you can be acknowledged as a hero to others.

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Well, there’s an old adage, and I think it comes from the Arabic traditions, “Happy is he who can laugh at himself, he will never cease to be amused.” I think humor is huge. I think you can laugh your way out of sickness. I know, and I have read, I think Norman Cousins laughed himself or humored himself out of cancer.

People have lived longer because of humor. I think it sends these neurological electronic impulses through your body and your nervous system that things are good and there is hope.

I think it causes people to live longer so, I think, based on that, if you buy into that, it plays a huge role.

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