Chapter 1, The Wake Up Call

Neil Cannon

Published Jul 10, 2023

Chapter 1. The Wake-Up Call

I have decided to pre-release some sections of my upcoming book, The Vitality Code. This is the opening section. I hope this harnesses your attention and that you can see the value of what is to follow. I'd love your comments..

The Wake Up Call

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy,

a quickening that is translated through you into action,

and because there is only one of you in all of time,

this expression is unique.”

— Martha Graham

We are living in revolutionary times, as it is increasingly evident that we humans have more power to heal ourselves than we have ever known. We are also more immune and resilient to anything than we have ever been allowed to believe. Not just that, but we hold what most would refer to as “superpowers” that enable us to do far more than we can imagine.

My desire is to inspire in you new ways to approach your health that will help you to reverse engineer any symptoms, boost your immunity, and have an abundance of Life Force energy and Vitality in every area of your life.

Success leaves clues. People around the world are reversing so-called “incurable” illnesses and “genetic” diseases without medical intervention, that the media rarely covers. One has to look for them or be told about them through word of mouth. My intent is to unearth, organize and simplify for you, these ground-breaking health clues.

Everyone in my network of holistic health professionals has received a “wake-up call” that caused an inflection point in their lives and a diversion from their path. In every case this wake-up call led to a positive outcome and a new and truly exciting journey thereon. Honestly, I never planned to work in the health field. My career-passion was always in real estate development!

A wake-up call put me on a whole new life path and opened up more doors than I could ever have imagined,without having received it. What I have found is that wake-up calls jolt you so hard out of your existing thinking and beliefs, that you begin to question everything. And I do mean — everything.

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”

— Albert Einstein

My own suffering revealed opportunities that, prior to “the call," were out of sight. They didn’t even exist. A friend recently said to me that he considers vanity as the gateway to consciousness. I thought about it and decided to mostly agree, and made an adjustment; I consider sickness as a gateway to consciousness. When we receive the wake-up call, and truly hear it, it inspires radical action and change and an up-level of awareness and consciousness. Many hear it, others do not. It is often received, yet ignored.

So what was my wake-up call?

I suffered from eczema for 30 years, starting at a very early age of around 4. My mum would put white gloves on me when I went to bed to stop me scratching in my sleep. I wore them until my early teenage years. Often, I’d wake up with holes in bloody gloves. I’d be teased by my friends at school for the eczema on my arms and behind my knees and on my hands and neck.

Some people grow out of it. I did not. It got noticeably worse during times of stress, such as during exam times, particularly around the ages of 16 and 18 (when I was dating girls), when it spread to my back and over most of my body. Whenever I went to the doctor, I’d always be prescribed the same treatments — steroid creams (that have left pigmentations on my skin), harmful prescription moisturizers (with toxic ingredients like parabens), and, for the worst times, antibiotics to ward off infection. Antibiotics harm your gut microbiome. Some functional medicine doctors state that it can take a year to recover gut health. I refer to your gut as the body’s engine. It’s where energy is created in the metabolization process. These short-term solutions can be harmful to the engine of the body and in my case the eczema returned after treatment ended.

I continued to suffer from eczema throughout my twenties. I´ll never forget walking into the office in my late twenties when I saw a friend in the corridor who exclaimed, “Woah! What’s happened to your face?!” I had scratched my face during the night and I sheepishly joked that I’d been attacked by a wild animal.

You might be thinking, “Well, I guess you started to research eczema so you could get rid of it.” Not quite. It wasn’t until I witnessed my father suffer a life-altering stroke, which shook him and our entire family, that my own recovery began. My intuition told me his stroke was avoidable. I couldn’t explain where this innate “knowing” came from, but I was certain of it.

My new quest was investigating the cause of my father’s stroke. I correlated that the underlying causes of his asthma, high blood pressure, and stroke, were also behind my eczema. I then took action to naturally get rid of the chronic underlying cause, to make the symptom “eczema” disappear. I cannot say I’m cured of eczema since eczema is a symptom of an underlying cause, and if the underlying cause returns, it’s likely eczema will return.

For some, one massive wake-up call will create a diversion in their lives. It transpires that my father's stroke was my first wake up call. Multiple wake-up calls inspired me to think very differently about the world of Western Medicine and connected systems I will explore in this book. I believe understanding the origins of modern medical systems will reveal what has kept you from a fundamental understanding of the human body, and perhaps your own healing and Vitality.

My previous book, The Vitality Secret (2016), revealed that chronic inflammation is the underlying cause of almost every chronic illness that exists today. Since 2015, I’ve helped my clients reverse a variety of symptomsof chronic inflammation, including, but not limited to, eczema, acne, rosacea, IBS, pre-diabetes, type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis, gout, migraines, obesity, low testosterone in men, chronic pain, brain fog, and depression.

The Western world has become increasingly toxic, leading us into a pandemic of sickness or, more accurately, a pandemic of chronic inflammation. Not only does chronic inflammation underlie virtually every chronic illness, aka pre-existing conditions and comorbidities, it accelerates the aging process. It has aptly been dubbed inflammaging.

Epiphany #1: All Illness Is a Result of a Root Cause

Your body’s ability to heal is greater than you have ever been allowed to believe.

Have you ever thought to yourself, “If they can do it, I can do it”? I take this approach whenever I hear about anyone reversing one of Western Medicine’s “incurable” conditions. People are reversing cancer without a single medical intervention, while others perish with treatments that are known to cause cancer. And people are in remission from Crohn's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, endometriosis, gastroparesis (paralysis of the stomach), lupus and Lyme — without medical intervention. Others with these illnesses take a cocktail of drugs and degenerate slowly, believing they can do nothing about their decline, because they’ve been given a diagnosis and prognosis by a medical professional.

Some hear about accounts of reversing the illness from which they’re suffering, but don’t explore further since their doctor is not familiar with such success, and findings are not supported in clinical trials with hundreds of people. New methods are not “science” and therefore unworthy of any further attention.

I invite you to suspend all disbelief and consider: If they can do it, I can do it. I’ve spoken about these healing stories on my podcast, which I was inspired to launch when at Burning Man, where I met a wonderful human and friend, Kerri Van Arsdale, who told me of her tremendous success in reversing Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Our interview blew my mind. After this, I began meeting (or attracting) people who had reversed a wide variety of “incurable” illnesses, and I continued to research their tools for success.

Someone who receives a prognosis of cancer from an oncologist, about having X months to live, may do no research beyond the opinion of one form of medicine. They accept it, and often perish. For her book “Radical Remission,” Dr. Kelly Turner interviewed 100 people who radically reversed Stage 4 cancer without a single medical intervention. She asked each what they believed was the cause of their cancer. It's interesting looking at readers’ comments on Amazon. Some did not like that question. A number of cancer survivors reported, “Cancer saved my life,” and some even say that they would never change it — because of the doors that opened up for them. Isn’t that profound?

Suffering from eczema for thirty years and witnessing my father’s stroke opened up doors for me. In a roundabout way, I realized that my father’s stroke was my first wake-up call. Prior to that, eczema was an annoying, incurable “genetic disease.” My dad’s stroke led to “Epiphany #1” — that behind every illness or symptom is an underlying cause, under which are one or more root causes. This knowledge enabled me to heal myself, and assist others in healing themselves of eczema and many other symptoms of inflammation.

Vitality Secret #1: Get to the cause(s), heal your body

I now view eczema as a gift, like a warning like on the car dashboard, telling me my body is out of balance and requires attention. Without the warning light (symptom), my body would be degenerating without my knowing, and I’d likely never be on this incredible path discovering my superhuman abilities and our potential as humans.

For example, I would never know that we can reverse engineer any illness by understanding principles of the body electric. Or that we can heal our bodies with thought and emotion. Or how we can tap into a quantum world to enable rapid healing and even influence our world outside of our physical bodies by understanding energy. That is the exciting part to all of this! It’s almost like a reward!

Many people with eczema take steroid creams, use harmful prescription moisturizers, and consume endless rounds of antibiotics, unknowingly causing more and more harm to their bodies. They might reach the age of 60 having suffered their whole lives. And then for some unknown reason they might sit an ayahuasca ceremony and have some kind of an epiphany, or even what feels like an “awakening,” that inspires them to make some radical changes in their life. This enables them to heal from within and eradicate the illness or symptoms. (I’m not suggesting you sit in an ayahuasca ceremony, it was just an example of what can and does often take place.) When you address what is causing your illness, and replenish your body with its essential cell fuels, the body can heal itself. It is always healing and striving for balance – for homeostasis.

I had another “Aha! moment” or epiphany in 2015. This was a tough year for me. I lost three friends to cancer. Similar to my intuition around my father’s stroke, I intuited that none of my three friends had to die, and that cancer was not what we are told that it is. If strokes and heart disease are avoidable, and every chronic illness (including cancer) is a result of chronic inflammation, and chronic inflammation is reversible, surely it would make sense that cancer is also a symptom of chronic inflammation, and thus, reversible?

I embarked upon another investigation. I was furious, and saddened. But what came out of it was freeing. It reminds me of the famous quote:

“The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off.” — Gloria Steinem.

For me, the latter part of that is an understatement. Discovering the truth (or what I consider to be the truth) put me into a rage because I had lost three friends. Having said that, I would like to say that I used this energy for good to fuel my passion behind sharing this valuable information with the world. I created a lot of content, and did my best to do it from a place of love, to not fear-monger and be solution-oriented. I discovered that people all over the world are reversing advanced and often “terminal” cancers, with no medical intervention. The human body is a magnificently designed, self-healing machine. Why don't we all know this? The loss of three friends in 2015 led me to Epiphany #2.

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On 17 July, I will be releasing the online program to help people implement the teachings of The Vitality Code, incorporating The Physical, Mental, Emotional and Energetic Pillars of Vitality. And on 1 August (unless delayed for reasons I cannot predict), The Vitality Code will be published. Did you enjoy this?

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Chapter 1, The Wake Up Call

Neil Cannon