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Question, do you want to heal old trauma and know that the world is a safe place? My guest today is Denise Colette Lamarot, whose quest for healing from her childhood trauma and addiction combined with her education in Western and Eastern medicine created the Colette Technique for Core Trauma Healing. The Colette Technique is a very quick solution to healing old trauma. Present-day trauma can be released at a fast rate with rapid results such as freedom from anxiety, addiction, suicidal thoughts, cutting, weight gain or loss, auto-immune illness, emotional well-being, physical problems and dislike of the self and one's life. Having found extraordinary results in her practice as a healer, Denise today offers private sessions as well as teaching and speaking about the Colette Technique. You can find out more. Go to healingswithdeneese.com. I do want to have men. I welcome Denise to the Dare to Dream show. It is so good to have you. Welcome, welcome. Thank you, pleasure to be here. Yeah, pleasure. So folks, we're gonna deep dive into some healing conversation and I just got to start because you and I both said, we should have been taping this, we should have been recording it and I loved this conversation. I think it's just a great jumping point to just be like deep diving right in the middle. So the conversation was to give everybody an overview about multitasking and you are mentioning your great multitasker and maybe it comes from being a single mom and that you have found that if one door doesn't open instead of bucking your head against it over and over, you find a different door, a different path.  Share with us, what was that? Well, it's called heron medicine.  If another way doesn't work, you'll go try another instead of banging your head against the same wall. And I think that that's very true for children of trauma, especially children of alcoholics, right? Because we're so used to one way not working and having to go try another because we were very much on our own, very much learned survival instinct at very young ages, the same way animals in the wild, the same way the beautiful heron does. As a matter of fact, speaking about animals in the wild and trauma, if you ever look at Dr. Peter Levine's work, he will almost always incorporate cougars, gazelles. He will almost always incorporate the example of how wild animals process trauma because he feels that if we as human beings could process trauma the way we're supposed to, we wouldn't have trauma, which really is the truth because trauma isn't the experience. Trauma isn't what happened. Trauma is the fact that we didn't get to process it. We didn't get to run it through. So let's look at a reaction.   So the reaction occurs, it doesn't get processed, it's stuck, there's your trauma. And it's stuck, it goes down to the part of the brain called the amygdala. Another one gets stuck, goes in. Another one gets stuck, goes in. And boom, boom, boom. You've got this whole pile of experiences that as Harvard says, developing child study in 2012, I'm from Harvard, the behavioral skills that you used as a child that you needed for survival can be detrimental to your physical, emotional, and relationship health as adults. Yeah, because what's the thing we wanna do as adults when we get in relationships, fight or flee? Because we didn't learn that communication, right? We know how to do the beginning of a relationship. We know how to do the fall in love. We know how to do the end. We know how to do the dramatic breakup. We know how to do the self-sabotage. But that middle part, we never learned as children of trauma. Yeah, totally, 100%. This is such an interesting conversation. And I have a piece to add to this. Her own medicine, Denise, fascinating when I was a professional actress and singer for most of my life. And into my adulthood, I hit a wall, but it was really clear something new was being asked of me, but I was clueless. And I actually had no idea for three years, but I just surrendered, tried different things. And in the interim, I took this really interesting career course at a university and went back just to take this class in which we were promised we would be tested personality-wise every which way from Sunday. I love that. When I was done with the testing, like everyone else in the class, I had a private meeting with this HR woman from university who went through all our test results. Now, here's the brilliance. This woman, I am telling you, this was a God shot. This was an angel from heaven. So I'm meeting with this woman, just expecting she's gonna give me very pedestrian feedback. And nothing was too shocking because I know I score incredibly high in creativity, et cetera. But here's the piece that it's way more interesting than what my test results were and what careers I should have been working in. They showed the same thing over and over and it all made sense. What she said to me is, you are extremely bright, but I can tell that you had extreme trauma growing up and you had a very difficult childhood. And I'm thinking, what that F? I just took career tests like this job or that job, this type of, I was so baffled. And she said, what I saw in your results was street savvy, this extreme adaptability, this ability to stand back and observe and know what's needed and how to be in order to survive. And you're so street smart that you wouldn't need to take a course. You could go into a job and figure it out on your feet. And I'm like, I felt so vulnerable when she was seeing all of that in me. And it was a huge piece for me to realize this is a gift. This is like a strange trauma gift. To have that ability. Absolutely, I don't know if you know all of my background, but as I said, I was a restaurant owner for 26 years and I was really struggling because I was very successful and yet I was suffering from anxiety and no self-esteem, child of trauma, but I didn't know about it back then. And I went off to search Eastern medicine because nothing in Western was helping me back then. And I got certified in everything. I'm a rakey master, shaman, psychic, medium, all those things, but only to try to get better, right? Not to use as a career. And one day behind my restaurant, my office, which was my liquor room and my food storage got struck by lightning and burned to the ground. And so I had to rebuild this building to be a liquor room in an office. And it was so gorgeous, it became a wellness center. No intentions. I have no background as a wellness center owner, but I'll tell you something. I figured it out.  And before you know it, healers and gurus were coming from all over the world, but I figured it out. And that's what we do. That's heroin medicine and that's children of trauma. You know, also it's very interesting you speaking about the relationship piece. And it is very painful, isn't it? For a child of trauma who's already experienced difficult, aberrant relationships and probably the one thing they long for, most of them, not everyone, but most of them, myself included, you just want love. You just want like a healthy, sustainable relationship. And yet something else manifests over and over again. Can you talk about that? Absolutely. Let me tell you why on a number of scales. First of all, why do you long for love so much?  Now, endorphin chemical is the love of the mother. That's the original endorphin chemical. If we're not getting that, my mother was an alcoholic and I was the last of four children. I was not planned. We're not getting that. That's never gonna develop the way it's supposed to. So we're walking around as young children longing for love already. So it's ingrained in us prior to the age of five that we're not lovable because that's the way we're gonna absorb it. The brain of a child from womb to five only has an unconscious brain. So we absorb everything is true. So if somebody's not loving me, it's not, oh gee, my mother's having a bad day. It's, I'm not lovable.  And his mother calls the pediatrician and says, can you come and see Gabor? He won't stop crying. And the pediatrician says, I will, but I just have to tell you all my Jewish babies are crying. But what do Jewish babies know about Hitler, right? What do they know about genocide? Nothing, but they pick up my mother. If my mother's not safe, I'm not safe. If my mother's not happy, I'm not good enough. And that's that. So we've born at the young age, this emptiness, or we feel at the young age, this emptiness for love. And all we ever wanna do is fill it. And if we're children of trauma, chances are, we're not getting it filled for a really, really long time. So then why do we get in the dysfunctional relationships? Well, one, we'll settle for a morsel of love over abandonment any day, right? We'll do anything to not be abandoned. But here's an important thing. The line between love and pain gets skewed because the same person who's causing the pain is the same person I need the love from. And I can't, as a child, go without the love. So I will suppress that pain and accept any kind of pain to have love. And so we get in these dysfunctional relationships thinking they're right, but really what they are is just familiar. And or, I'm so used to that kind of pain, I can handle it. The other pain of actually trusting you, the other pain of actually taking a chance on a relationship with somebody who might not work out because he's so different from somebody we've ever been with before. No way, we don't know that pain, no way. We like our pain just the way we know it, right? So, and then those skills, as the Harvard study says, those skills that we used, like, oh my gosh, self-sabotage, runaway, freeze, fawn, fawn is when I'll fawn all over you to get you to like me. All those skills that we used will become detrimental to us in an adult relationship because they're not healthy. They weren't healthy in a child relationship, they were just survival skills. Talk about the Colette technique. Tell me, what is that like? How is that used and how do you even suss out someone's trauma in order to energetically help heal it?  I, as I said, I went and studied Eastern medicine all over the place and got certified in everything and I was still a mess and I was trying to get, by this point I had become an alcoholic. I was trying to get sober. I found that Chardonnay could give me self-esteem and Chardonnay could give me take away my anxiety and Chardonnay could make me work even harder. So I became an alcoholic and here I am actually still owning a wellness center, owning a restaurant, being the toast of the town and relapsing and being in a 12-step program.  Okay, good thought. And I went off to India and I came back from India and I realized that I was missing something. So I sold everything and I went off in search of Western medicine and I actually had an opportunity to meet Dr. Gabor Maté who is this massive, amazing trauma addiction doctor in Canada and I studied with him whenever he came to America and I began to study everybody. I began to study the brain and the neurobiological system and trauma and trauma and addiction and addiction and addiction and I fell in love. But what I could see was how I could create a technique that could help people heal from these experiences fast, right, by using a mixture of Eastern and Western medicine and two reasons why this was important to me. One, I had already spent gazillions of dollars trying to get better and it had not worked. I had already spent years in therapy and with healings and it had not worked. And two, I wanted to find a way that it would scientifically make sense because I'm a child of trauma, I don't trust.  It's not gonna work for me. And I had tried everything and it is 2022, you know? It's 2020, we need to know why now. Why did that work? How did that work? So I created this technique, the Colette technique where we're able to override the conscious brain because that's just what's in the center of all this trauma. It's just right in the front of it. And all the traumas in the unconscious brain and we react from the conscious brain, 5% of our day and from the unconscious part of our brain, 95% of the day. So if we can sort of just pop over the conscious brain which is gonna say, I don't wanna heal or I'm not ready or I'm fine but anybody that's gonna come to me isn't gonna be saying that, then we can get you into a state of neuro relaxation, a little state of relaxation with energy work, right? Just a few minutes, you've done sessions with me, maybe two, three minutes before we can then actually go back to the experience where the blockage occurred, whatever it is we're working on. Let's say I'm working on an inability to bring in abundance, an inability to bring in money or an inability to bring in a job.  Well, you think you're gonna come out into adulthood and try different things? No, absolutely not. You're gonna take a job that keeps you safe, that might be boring, that might be dull, you're gonna do the same thing in a marriage, right?  And so it's all these survival skills that we got that turn out in the end, as Harvard says, to not work any longer.   Trauma's gonna hold itself in the body. So what's a bad knee? Pride and ego, if you follow Louise Hay, which I do, pride and ego. I have a terrible left knee, okay? Of course I do, because I had pride and ego that I could get on the treadmill, no matter how much my knee hurt or do that class, because I was superwoman, right? So I ripped my knee apart, pride and ego. So psoriasis, asthma, Epstein bar, Lyme, all autoimmune disease. So let's talk about that for a second. Good, because of the list, I just wanna maybe iterate to people the list of what you can work on. And the one that I had in my brain was autoimmune, where, you know, no accident. But just so people have the overview, Denise deals with anxiety, addiction, suicidal thoughts, cutting, weight gain or loss, autoimmune system illness, emotional wellbeing, physical problems, general overall dislike of the self and one's life. Okay, so autoimmune, I'm very interested in that. The idea that out of nowhere, the body attacks itself. Right. And that there is no cure, right? What a great setup for somebody to feel powerless. And right, and to have things go wrong that are so debilitating and be in a position of being a victim. Like I already get a whole of that. So let's look at how it happened and how we fix it. So if you are a child of trauma, let's use this as an example. Let's say you're in the forest and a bear comes at you.  It's gonna send energy to your heart.   And if you fell and broke your ankle, you'd still be able to get up and run, right?  That's adrenaline.  Yeah. You are gonna activate in that cortisol level, in that survival mode, in those adrenal glands every minute of the day for the rest of your life. So what's it like? Debt, it's like you're in your driveway. You put your car in neutral and your floor in the gas. Something in that engine, guys, is gonna break. And by the way, I was just listening to an expert in anti-aging, like a world-renowned fellow. And we've all heard how important it is to not be stressed out and do yoga and meditation. But he was taking it to a whole nother level with regenerative medicine versus it's too late. And so chronic stress, like what you're talking about is also debilitating on so many other physical levels that will eventually manifest. At the very least, it will end our lives early. It does cut off years, just like smoking. Oh yeah, because it burns out the immune system. Absolutely. So if you've got your car in neutral and you're flooring the gas, something in the engine's gonna break. So we'll take out the carburetor and we'll put it in a new carburetor. We'll take out the hip, we'll put in a new hip. What I wanna know and what I do in the collect technique is I wanna know why your foot's on the gas pedal to begin with and I wanna take it off, right? And then we have the opportunity to rebuild the immune system. Now let me ask you, Denise, if somebody, because you mentioned about going back to the core source of something that happened, what happens if you're doing a session with somebody and however it is that you bring somebody back and say, you know, what was the event? What if they, it's like nothing, they're blank, they don't know. It happens sometimes, absolutely. And fascinatingly enough, because of my Eastern background, I'm able to see the trauma.  Well, sure enough, that was her house in South Africa, right? So I'm able to, now I don't think there's any magic in me. I just believe that her unconscious is open into the quantum field. And since I'm sitting across from her doing a healing, I'm picking up exactly what it is that needs to be released. That's not remote viewing, that's actually psychic ability? I don't know that that is, I mean, you could call that psychic. I would prefer not to because it's not, psychic to me feels like somebody's predicting the future and I don't feel that I predict the future. I'm just able to take them back to the trauma. I'm able to pick it up. I'm able to be able to say, I see you in a room with four chairs and one of the chairs is a giraffe chair. Do you know where I am? Yes, that's my bedroom when I was a kid. I think it's just overriding their consciousness and being able to see into the unconscious because it's so ready to come out. So if we look at quantum physics, right? Or the quantum field, we're all connected in that. So the same way with the pineal gland activated, right? You think about Mary and all of a sudden Mary calls you. So her unconscious, she may be blocking these memories with her conscious brain, but it's still there. She's still reacting from it and it's ready to heal. So it's probably right up at the surface. So then it just pops out for me. I'm able to see it. I'm able to describe it. And I'm telling you, I am able to describe it. Like it's not, I'm in a room with two beds. The carpet is green, the lamp is purple. Well, no, I can speak to that because we, one of our sessions, you brought up my kitchen that I grew up in. And so out of that entire house, it was very relevant. And there's a reason why it was relevant. I mean, first of all, you didn't just describe the kitchen, but you described the fact that the kitchen was connected to a back door, which was pretty important for me growing up. Right. And because I used to have these flying dreams growing up, and in them I would wake up and literally my house was my house. It was completely lucid. I would walk through the kitchen, walk. We had a little sort of indoor, outdoor patio out into the back, out into my backyard, out to the big oak tree where I climbed it and then let go and flew. And so there's also something about that freedom that escape. That was a safe, really safe place for me. I mean, I was in a whole area. So I know this because you described it. I knew exactly where you were. Yeah, you were on the same page. So I know your gift in that way. And so for people who have autoimmune, they've got this flood of cortisol. It's continuing to go because it's like a record groove, right? They even into their adulthood, they're still functioning this way. How do they extricate themselves from this experience and create something healthy? When you go back and heal these traumatic experiences, you automatically remove trauma from the cellular memory, right? Now, instantly the brain refills with higher energy because that's what the brain does, right? If you cut your leg right now, the brain's going to say, everybody, let's send inflammation to the cut to heal it. That's exact same thing when you take out trauma. The brain's going to replace it with something that's healing, something of a higher vibration, right? Higher energy. You feel it when it goes through your body. Do you remember in our session, you can feel it go through your body. When you do that, you make a new program in the brain. You make what we call a new synoptic connection in the brain. So think about how, do you remember we used to have the desktop laptops? Sure. The desktop computers. You used to go to Staples and you would buy Windows and it was hardware and you would install it and it would become software, right? So that's what we're kind of doing now. We're uninstalling Windows and we're putting in a new program. And when you do that, when you take out, and it's not that you're just taking it out and then all of that, all of that gets out of our hands. That's why we use the feed, that's why we do that. But this is why we're doing it with the thought forms, we're literally going back and doing the healing. Let's use something extreme as an example, OK? Let's use sexual abuse as an example. If somebody's sexually abusing the person, let's use a girl for an example. A young girl is being sexually abused. of the unconscious brain, hopefully in her mind never to be seen again, right? But if we go back there, she's always going to be triggered by anybody that looks like that. She's always going to be triggered by anybody that acts like that. She's always going to be triggered by some sort of a sexual fear. She's certainly not going to trust if it was a father and uncle or brother or something like that, right? So if we can take her back and take her back to the experience for just a second and do something, and I'm just generalizing here, do something like kick that guy off me, punch him in the face at the age of 13, right?  She's going to feel her power back, right? And she's no longer going to have that fear because she's going to make a new synoptic connection in the brain because we redid the way it happened. We processed the trauma.  I'll tell you something. I had so many emotions, vast loneliness, severe anxiety, panic disorder, addictions, self-hatred, all these things. I don't have them anymore, and I can't even find them. When I go to try to look for them, I can't even find them.  But the real self-hatred is gone. Is there a difference between trauma and PTSD, and if so, what is the difference? I don't really think that there is. Post-traumatic stress disorder is basically the same thing. Some people will say when they talk about PTSD that they're talking about one certain experience, right? But it isn't. It's generally happened numerous times. So in my own personal opinion, I think they're basically the same thing. Post-traumatic stress disorder, you know? Hidden trauma. Just a different word for it. Yeah, the self-hate part you talked about is pretty big and it's pretty sad, right? Because so many people are so gifted and beautiful and extraordinary and all that, but they don't see that. How is that unearthed? Because that's a big program. Wow. But imagine where it came from.  In the way you behave. And the thing is we don't need to hear it a million times for it to affect us. A number of them are good enough. And so you get that, right? And when you're told often enough that you mess things up, you know, even let's take a simple situation where daddy is a businessman, but daddy is a bit cranky when he gets home from work. Daddy has a couple of drinks when he gets home from work. He's not an alcoholic. I'm just saying, you know, works really hard and mommy is always afraid that daddy's going to blow up, right? Don't do anything when daddy gets home. Don't do anything with daddy gets home. And then if daddy gets home and blows up, you're to blame. You did everything wrong. You did everything wrong, right? Or for somebody like me. I mean, if my mother said one more time, I have no idea how I had a fourth child. I never wanted one, right? And my siblings told me I was adopted. And my siblings told me they hated me. My siblings told me I smelled. My father certainly didn't want a fourth child. He was a workaholic. And so what happens then is you've got to use some sort of coping skill to get through your pain because you're not getting long. The endorphin chemical has to get filled in the brain somehow. So I'll go for food because I can't become an addict yet. And I eat and I become fat.  And then you take that with you into adulthood.  And I have to work on that. I have to work on it all the time. But that's how it happens. You know, it's not like one person says one thing to you and you get self-hate. It's compounded. It's not that one relationship in your life is tricky and you fail at others. It's it gets compounded, right? And then it becomes absolutely it has to be you. That's how it's absorbed. We have to really look at the way the brain reacts. Again, remembering wound to five, only unconscious. So we absorbed everything is truth. Six to nine becomes analytical. And so that's when we start to question the tooth fairy. And then let's look at a little, let's look at, I think, one of the most important things, the somatic experience. Okay. So what is a somatic experience? A somatic experience is when a traumatic experience happens as an adult that triggers a traumatic experience that I'm aware of or not aware of when I was a child. And my body goes back to the exact same physical, mental and emotional way that it felt when it was a child. So there's another burnout for the immune system, right? But here's, so here's what happened. I was doing a, I was doing a speaking engagement. This is the best way to describe it. I was doing a speaking engagement someplace and I went downstairs to use the bathroom and all these women were sort of crowded around this woman who was crying and she was saying that she was sick and she was really, really nauseous. And I said, I was just asking what happened. And then she was like, I don't feel well. And they were like, she doesn't feel well. But one of the women said to me, her boyfriend just broke up with her. So I said, do you mind if everybody was kind of doing Reiki around her and stuff? I said, do you mind if I take a crack at it? And so I was able to take her back to her kitchen. I don't think she, no, she didn't remember, but I said to her, your mother, she's incredibly slender.  Yes. And she said yes. And I said, what happened when you were three years old with your father? He left Bingo. Her father left them when he was three, she was three years old. Her boyfriend now leaves her. She goes back into the same nauseous, somatic crying experience that she went into when she was three, when her father originally abandoned it, because probably she wasn't allowed to process it then. Either one, the mother was trying to be wonderful and kind and make it seem like life was okay. Or the mother herself was falling apart in the bathroom. So the girl wasn't going to try to have her issues brought up, right? So either way, there's the somatic experience that comes into adulthood. Totally. It makes me wonder, while I'm listening to you, Denise, about right now 2020, 2021 and beyond with COVID, with the isolation, with the lockdowns, the disconnects, the huge alteration in life, what is going to happen to people going forward individually and collectively? What kind of changes are going to happen? I mean, I can actually think of a lot of great changes that are possible because some families that are healthy are spending more time together. So there's more connection, more love, more involvement with the kids. And that's really positive. Some relationships that are good. You're also more generative right now because they're getting to spend more time traveling less. So there's positives, but there's also a lot of people going through anxiety. And no matter what, good, bad, or indifferent, I know for sure, because I'm in touch with enough people that I am hearing people going through some very significant changes, completely different, every one of them. But on the Richter scale, pretty big. Yeah. Yeah. And when you're not able to connect in person, it's making it exponential, the isolation and going through it. So talk about what is this right now? What do you foresee this is going to create going forward? Well, you've got a number of things going on. First of all, I love that you bring up the isolation because it's the number one thing for addicts and alcoholics, because we can isolate and we can drink and we can drug and nobody's going to find us. So drug overdose deaths, absolutely astronomical right now, suicide is up 400%, 400%, anxiety, depression, absolutely through the roof, right? So when COVID first hit, we all went into survival mode. We all went and got 800 rolls of toilet paper and all the food we could possibly get.  I kept going to the grocery store and going to the grocery store because children of trauma, we trained for this, you know, the world's going to end. This is our everyday. This is nothing for us. So we trained. But what's happened now is really interesting because it's gone on too long. We never know who's telling the truth. We don't know if there's a plan. We don't know if it's ever going to end and the key is we're trapped. Have no fight or flea ability. Right? We can't fight with anybody and we can't go anywhere. So that's childhood. You're right back in your childhood traumas. So it's really important today for everybody, I just did a video on this this morning as a matter of fact, for everybody to be honest and admit that they are messy and that they feel awful and that they are scared because they are being human beings. And we need to be our most humanness right now. We have got to share with each other our struggles because it is only in that love and that community and that communication that we're going to emotionally and mentally get each other through this because you have to look at this as a vast scale in America of all ages. I mean, what about the kids that aren't going to recess? Now if you asked me a question about an iPad a year ago, I would say to you, I'm going to be really fascinated to find out what the results of an iPad are 20 years from now with children because iPads are an addiction. They're an escape for kids and you will find the more violent the home, the more unstable the home, the more the iPad use and sometimes the more of the violent the game. But these days, what other option does anybody have? Right? And so the coping skills become necessary for survival. So what about the no recess, the no school, the no friendship? I worry more about the younger kids and how they're going to get through it. So I'm hoping my prayer is that we're going to come out of this soon. You know that this September time we'll see what happens when everybody gets to school and everything's going to change pretty soon. I hope because the effects are really childhood trauma being triggered as Max and people are really fried. So we're here in Connecticut and a week ago we had a hurricane and a tornado on top of everything else. People snapped. Yeah. And people really snapped. Totally. That was it. There was just not one more thing we could take. Not one more road closure, not one more, because it was locked down again. No power, you know, no toilets, no television. It was just boom. So people are really at their breaking point. I think it's important that we really, as I said, we communicate that with each other. We say, you know, our basic response is how are you doing? I'm fine. How are you? Don't say that today. Feel free to say I'm a mess today. Call somebody and say I'm really struggling. My anxiety is going through the roof and talk through with that person because we need to express and always remember that's the key to trauma. Did it get processed? Did I get to express it? Did I get to say, Mom, that wasn't fair? No. So if I can say to you and you can say to me today, Deb, I hate this, right? This is really bothering me. My son lives in California. I want to go visit my son, yet I've got to come home and quarantine for 14 days. And until a couple weeks ago, I couldn't even go visit my son. I want to be able to say those things so that I don't just pretend that everything's okay because pretending everything's okay is what got us into the trauma back up to begin with. Cool. All right. So speaking up, being real, having connections with people who can be there for us, listen and just, you know, chat through what's really going on, reaching out when we need to, not using the word fine, but using real words that we're going through. Denise, are there other practices that you might recommend or suggest that people can use right now during these long periods of stress or anxiety or not knowing this uncertainty? Absolutely.  So for me to say, I'll make sure you meditate every day is a little crazy, but I do meditate every day. But I'll tell you, sometimes it's only five, 10 minutes and most times it's only five, 10 minutes. How do you meditate? Can may I ask you what is your, I'm going to show you guys something and put that okay. Five minutes is better than no minutes. 10 minutes is better than five minutes. And that's good enough because what happens down is for those few minutes, we put ourselves either in lotus or with your feet on the ground, the base of the spine and everything now is nice and straight, even just for those few minutes. So I'm going to teach you guys a little trick. The pineal gland sits in the middle of the brain. It's got these little antennae, but it needs the fluid to come up to activate the antennae, right? The fluid sits in the base of the spine. So when you talk about Kundalini awakening and Kundalini yoga, it's activating the fluid from the base of the spine up the spine into the pineal gland. Okay. So first of all, just getting in this position is going to be good enough. And remember, if you do this for 10 to 14 days, the brain will start to come on board. The first couple of days you do it, the brain's going to want to have lunch, the brain's going to need to go to the bathroom, it's going to need to drink a water, just try to sit through it, right?  Now you're in a state of receivership. And then just try to sort of breathe in energy from above, light, energy, whatever you want to call it, and bring it down the body, letting it go right out that base of the spine and focus on that. And then bring it in to the base of the spine, letting it go up and exhale up. Just do a couple of those is good enough to get you started because I know that a lot of your listeners out there are a lot of like my clients and nobody's going to do more than five or 10 minutes. So I'm not going to ask you to, I'm going to pick the most powerful stuff I can get you to do and get you to do it. Yeah. If you look at my website, you're going to find that there's a bunch of videos on trauma and addiction and relationships, but there's also by the time this airs, there's a master class up and also self healings, self healings on abundance, self healings on relationships, self healings on trauma that will only be 10 minutes long.  There's some good stuff that you can get on, but grab something that's only going to be five or 10 minutes, right? Because you're not going to want to sit for more than that. If you can, isn't that even more wonderful?  And I just, I love his work because it, it literally works for me. He's got a voice and a technique that it puts me out. So a lot of times I'll sit down just to listen to one of his recordings and I'll pass, pass out, which is honestly beautiful for me. Is that just as wonderful? Wonderful. Yeah. I do Michael Sealy sometimes before. Exactly. They work together a lot. It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. And it works. And you wake up feeling better. Whatever it is you can do that's going to help you calm. At this time of COVID, when COVID first hit, I got so lazy, right? Because the gyms were closed and here in Connecticut, it was cold and it was rainy. And then all of a sudden about, I don't know, a month in or so, I was like, okay, this is not going well. But I literally got a trainer to come to my house, my friend, with a friend of mine, and we share it, you know, because I know how much the physical exercise is important to me too. Why? Again, because there's that endorphin chemical going into the opiate receptors. So everything is going into to make you feel better. Getting out, exercising, getting fresh air. But it's triggering everybody's traumas. It is. And unresolved pieces. There's people I know careers are up. There's people I know relationships are up. There's people I know who have been through a, you know, terrible breakup. There's people I know who moved to another country and all of a sudden they're feeling this, you know, where's my stuff? Where's my dog? Where's my people? And, and all across the board, I see a lot of people. For me, it was in the beginning. I was a mess in the beginning because I had so much happen at once. My goodness, it was overwhelming. And I found my way through. I just did a lot of trauma work, frankly, and showed up to feel the feelings. And now I'm benefiting on the other side. But I have a lot of very respectable people in my life who are now visiting their own traumas. So I like what you're talking about, because there's an element of routine. And I always say that discipline creates freedom. Absolutely. Right? If we know. A lot of gene sets like that. Discipline, your transformation. That's discipline. Yeah, around food, around the body and how we care for it, around the meditation or hypnosis or whatever you choose, working with Denise, etc. All these things are huge. And by the way, speaking of working with Denise, I have to say that's a big deal. Like I feel like doing energy work right now, this level of healing work, it's almost a bizarre perverse gift that some things in our face this deeply, because it's forcing stuff to come up. There's nowhere to run. If there's nowhere to run, I feel like the best gift is deal with it. Because your trauma being presented. Yeah, because it's trauma work. And it's never going to go away until you heal it. It's never going to go away unless you process it. It's going to stay buried in there.  And you see it. And if you look around and you look at hoarding and addiction and depression and all these things are an inability to do your trauma work. And everybody's got trauma.  Trauma can be what didn't happen. Trauma can be a perfectly trying hard couple, working couple that are trying to put food on the table and they're both working two jobs and the kids are left home with a latch key. And what are the kids absorb? Loneliness. Nobody loves me. I'm on my own, right? But the parents weren't traumatizing the children. They didn't mean to do anything. They were doing the best they could. But those are the things. If you know what I always say is if you find yourself repeating the same behavior over and over again, there's a trauma.  It's triggered your trauma, right? Because stuff's going to happen to us and we're going to react. And if we react on a scale of one to 10 around a five, two and eight, okay, that's fine. But if we're up here, you know, no, Einstein says no conflict can be resolved from the same vibration in which it was created, the same consciousness in which it was created, right? If we don't change the consciousness, we're never going to change the conflict. Yeah. And I don't want to be unhappy. I was unhappy long enough. I don't want to be an addiction. And I'll tell you another thing that I don't know, because I don't have a Harvard study behind this. But if it is true that we reincarnate until we learn these lessons, I don't want to come back and do that childhood again. So I worked really hard to have done my trauma work. And that was how I created this work. There was a period, well, I created this work because of my own, my own need for it. And when I couldn't find the deep enough help that I needed, I created my own. But there was a time where I could not unblock what the ages one to four, I just, I couldn't, they were total blackout years. Because that's what happens when there's too much trauma. The brain suppresses the memory, the experience, the emotion.  So it will tend to suppress things in the surrounding areas. So that's why you'll have blackout years. But an important thing to remember, IE immune system, we see scientifically, you begin to suppress your emotions, your beliefs, you automatically suppress the immune system at the same time. You're weakening the immune system by shoving your emotions down. But going back to those blackout years, so I had these blackout years and I just, I couldn't find anything that could help me. And I wanted to go and try psychedelics, ayahuasca or something along that line. And every time I booked it and paid for it, my youngest son would fly home from California. So I knew that I couldn't go do ayahuasca for a weekend, right? So I realized that the universe was telling me, this is, no. And when I was finally able to use my technique, the Kulat technique to heal my own blackout years, I understood why. Because I realized that the universe was teaching me, if I had to use another technique to do it, well, then I would never believe 100% in mine. And that every time I'd have a client, if I felt like I couldn't get there, I'd always think I'd need to send them somewhere else.  Got it. We're getting here to the end. So I'm going to end this with two fast-ish questions. My first curiosity is about all these great people that you studied with. You spent years traveling to study with Dr. Gabor, workshops with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Peter Levine, Louise Hay, Dr. Vandekul. Are there any stories or memory reference points of how these mentors influenced your life? Yeah. Oh my God. Dr. Mateo, I would say, would be the number one. I actually have a picture in my room of me on stage with a microphone and Dr. Mateo. I do not believe I was invited up on that stage. I think he asked for a volunteer and I was supposed to stay in my seat, but I was so excited. I had an opportunity to have lunch with Dr. Mateo and a few other people. And I've also had some private conversations that were either accidental or able for me to have with him and talk to him about my work and have him so casually be able to say, oh, you're overriding the conscious brain. That's how you can see all that because I couldn't get really anybody to explain that to me. You know, why is it that I could do that? And in addition to that, explain to me how I could that that I can feel, and I think you and I have done this, I'm able to say, okay, well, your left shoulder is really bothering me.  And I'm able to say, okay, well, left shirt and shoulder is carrying too many burdens of the female. Let's go there. That's that's where the trauma is held. But I could listen to Dr. Mateo speak all day long and have I find him brilliant. And I think that trauma Dr. Vincent Felitti, who I heard speak, he was the founder of the ACE studies, one of the founders of the ACE studies that were done in 1998, which were kind of the landmark first studies on trauma. When he said to us, I never heard the word trauma in medical school. Wow. Yeah. And that was amazing. Physical, mental, emotional. I mean, that's amazing. Amazing. So I would say, you know, I've had a great many teachers. I've been blessed to have a great many teachers. I've been blessed to study with Eastern Medicine gurus and brilliant brain doctors. I've just been lucky. But what draws you, Deb, right? What draws you? I mean, that's my addiction. I could I could research all day long, tell me more.  I'll follow what's what's the next thing I relate to that. Because I want to know more and more and more and the more I learned, the more I can bring to my clients. Yeah. Yeah. Pain is a great motivator too, which is, you know, another positive thing, right? You're probably more open than most people to healing, which is a beautiful thing. Bless you for that. It's not the easiest road, but it is a really it's a road that pays back in dividends. So what about Dear to Dream? What are you next Dear to Dream? What are your future dreams and goals, Denise? My future dreams and goals are so right out there. I really want to get this work out there. And I don't want to get this work out there in a selfish way. If I want to be popular or I want to I want to have fame, it's just amazing. Well, you have a lot of clients. I mean, when you say, so I do, I want to be able to I want to speak.  And my goal would be certainly four or 500 people travel around and be able to do that. And then COVID hit. So I'm hoping that that will come back. I am teaching a master class. So that'll go up on my website pretty soon. And I do want to write a book at some point. But that seems to get shelved more than anything. But teaching is really is really my dream. And Dear to Dream guys, because every dream that I've dared to dream has come true. You know, you just if your passion is there. And if you just are hair and medicine, what a great way to end this to find out more about her go to healings with Denise.com. Actually, my website is Denise Collette.com. Okay, and that spell that for everybody. D N I S E C O L E T T E.com. Beautiful.  But I think that's been down for a while. Okay, Denise Collette.com. Yeah, coming on the show. This has been amazing. It's been my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me and having me. And I end this show with this quote from Claire Cook. If plan a doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters 204. If you're in Japan, you can subscribe to the Dare to Dream show. And if you like the podcast, you can watch us on YouTube at youtube.com slash Debbie dashing her next week. Dr. Sue mortar is back for her fourth or fifth time. I am so excited to have her fact. She talks about the breathing that Denise mentioned, which she calls channel breathing. And Dr. Sue mortar brings science and spirituality through her energy codes and energy medicine. She's an absolutely brilliant woman. And dare to dream. Please don't just dare to dream dare to make all your dreams your reality. I'm a certified coach. And my expertise is visibility and media. I help you write a page, turn a book. I help you take your book to a guaranteed international bestseller. 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Someone sent me this article from an American newspaper called The National Informer. It's dated to June 1974 and the headline reads Salesman divorces gonad-grainning wife. The gonads are your testes. The story is about a woman called Janice Burke, 34 years old, and her husband Gerald Burke, who's 36. And Janice has just complained to him that the last few times that they've had sex has been particularly unsatisfactory. But Gerald has smiled happily and completely agreed with her and said yes but have you noticed that on the days that I'm bad in bed sales figures have been particularly brilliant. Janice had said yes she had seen that but she failed to get the connection and Gerald had then explained. Often I've had a female customer who has wanted more than just the product if you know what I mean and so I have had to take care of her as well and after that I just do not have the energy left to come and satisfy you properly as well. But I figured that I was finally making decent money for both of us and so you would understand this. Janice however had been absolutely furious understandably and a huge fight had followed.  And so the article says last Thursday Gerald Burke filed for divorce. His petition said my wife is literally effing us into acute poverty. He told officials I am so tired that I cannot make a convincing pitch and consequently our income has plummeted completely. I had to get rid of her otherwise I would not be able to pay my bills. I'm lost for words.


India is facing its worst water crisis ever. Media channels across the world reported that by 2030, India's per capita water availability will be down to 1140 cubic metres. It was 5177 cubic metres in 1951. Reports also speculate that by the next year, 21 major cities in India will be out of groundwater. They will experience day zero. An interesting point is that what we are facing right now is not a drought. News reports of floods and overflowing water bodies point to the fact that rainfall this year has at various points been even above average. But by the end of this monsoon, the water crisis will still be looming over our heads. Mainstream media channels will have you believe that the water crisis is only a result of the over-exploitation of groundwater, poor monsoons, urbanisation and even overpopulation. This gives the impression that everyone is equally to blame. But is that the case? Let's take the example of Shimla. Shimla has been facing an acute water shortage for decades. One of the first steps taken to address this was the supply of water through tankers. Shimla has a vast network of pipeline that runs across the city. These pipelines are so old that there is leakage during supply. But instead of investing in repairing them, the government opted to encourage tankers. These tankers do not provide water to colonies from far from the roads, are very expensive and waste a lot of water. Political activists allege that this was a step to benefit private tanker owners who were close to the state and the municipal governments. Shimla is also a tourist hub with a large number of unregistered hotels. Many of these are in residential areas and consume their water resources leading to scarcity. The impact of all this is felt most in areas inhabited by the poor. As mentioned before, Shimla's water crisis alarm went off long back. But the state administration did not take policy decisions to stop builders from establishing hotels leading to greater stress on water resources. Let's now take a look at Marathara region of Maharashtra, which has eight districts. Experiences of years past show that this region receives the poorest monsoon in all of the state. Out of the 200 odd sugarcane factories in Maharashtra, over 50 are in Marathara region. Sugarcane, which has only grown in 4% of the land, guzzles 80% of the water resources of this region. A former member of the Maharashtra state planning board called it a policy-induced failure. But why do farmers grow sugarcane? Most of them take to it despite not getting a good deal as it is a cash crop and is purchased by factories directly. Less water-intensive crops such as rice and millet don't find favour as the government which procures them is slow to pay. Let's take the case of Orangabad district in Marathara. 16 major beer-producing brands such as Kingfisher, Karlsberg, Foster and Heineken are located in this water-starved region. Many of these water guzzlers are owned by prominent politicians. This is in addition to 129 units manufacturing Indian-made foreign liquor and country liquor in the region. According to local activists, over 60% of the water in the Jayakwari Dam in Orangabad is utilised by breweries and distilleries. Tankers are allowed to draw water to supply to these breweries and distilleries despite the water falling below dead storage level. Another aspect to this crisis is the bottled water and packaged beverages industry. Over 6,000 licensed bottlers are registered with the Bureau of Indian Standards. On an average, a single bottler selling packaged drinking water extracts somewhere between 5,000 to 20,000 litres of groundwater every hour. To top this off, multinational corporations such as Pepsi and Coca-Cola that package drinking water acquire it at a very low rate. In Thane in 2003, for instance, the government was selling water to these companies at 5 paisa per litre that they would brand and sell for 10 to 20 rupees. Of course, all of these are just a few glimpses of the nature of the water crisis affecting India. There are many other aspects too such as the lack of investment in building strong irrigation systems in rural areas or the unrestricted construction on top of water pathways in urban areas. But in many cases, the water crisis boils down to the question of seeing water as a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder. So next time you hear of India's water crisis don't forget to ask the question, who's behind it?


We're happy to release the study which shows how posts are building trust towards their 1 billion customers in the area of financial services. We also leave a set of recommendations for policy makers and regulators that will allow posts to be part of the national development agenda.


Today with me on NFT stars is Pratik Sethi. He is a producer, designer, a TEDx speaker and entrepreneur. He has his own communication design house. He also has a very interesting LinkedIn profile photo. This video editor will be putting up for you any minute. But the reason he's here today is to talk about NFTs and to start off with Pratik. The earliest NFT you made was the world's first 3D wheel of life. Now for common people like me, what does that mean? Okay, so in Buddhism, you have something known as the Bhavchakra and the Bhavchakra is something that you'll find outside Tibetan monasteries and Buddhist monasteries, which gives us a sort of insight into the learnings of the wheel of life. And that's exactly what we saw always as being a flat representation on the walls as a mural or as a thangka or as a learning point, but always flat. So what we decided that in 2017 I did an extensive travel across the Himalayan region and across another India and into monasteries and a couple of my friends also became monks. So then I realized that, okay, look, this is something that why don't we have it in a three dimensional form? What happens behind? What happens on the sides? What is the representation of this space? Because earlier on they were limited with being flat or architectural to being very flat oriented. So we said, okay, let's make it in 3D and then we decided, okay, let's make it digital. And then it took us a while to actually build it because it's so detailed. And then finally you're saying took you a year to build the 3D model. The actual artwork took us a year to build an NFT creation. The minting of it takes less than a couple of seconds. So that's a very quick thing, but the artwork, the actual 3D model took us about a year to make because it has so much detail in it. So yeah, that's why when we've created it first and we showed it to a couple of art collectors and art, senior art connoisseurs, they all were like, okay, this is brilliant, make it into an actual model. So then we started exploring 3D printing, we started exploring actual sculptors to create it, but then it was just time cost and of course with 3D printing technology, which became a concern. So we said, okay, let's just go into the NFT zone only and publish there for now. Afterwards, once technology has become more exciting, more lucrative, then we can get into the actual building of this 3D model. Okay, and what are some of the other NFTs which you've created? So my 10-year-old nephew does a lot of drawings. So we've done a lot of NFTs for him, in fact, a couple of hundred of them. And they're different ortho rickshaws because he's an ortho rickshaw fan, he's an automotive fan. So we've done a lot of ortho rickshaws for him. Parallel to that, we've also had the pleasure of creating NFTs for other people. So this becomes almost like any other gig, like you're doing animation or you're creating videos or whatever. Creating NFTs is also a gig which is fairly strong these days and it's happening a lot. So we've created NFTs for a lot of clients in India abroad and so on and so forth. As far as creation is concerned, I was looking at the website, you've also said that you've created virtual networks for a lot of brands. Tell us about maybe one such brand where you created a very interesting metaverse. So again, I can't unfortunately take the name of the brand. But what I can tell you is that we are at the cusp right now. So metaverse as such has been there since 2010, 2011. Any game which was interconnected to other companies or any platform like what Microsoft was doing or any platform that was interconnected to multiple platforms in which information could be shared is what a metaverse is. So in that sense, this technology has been there since 2008-2009. And now it's very probabilistic because AR and VR has become very achievable in terms of even the hardware. So what I can say is that what we're seeing right now is like version 0.1 of these physical stores. As soon as the marketing heads of these companies start getting invested and understanding that look in the digital world, anything is possible. I can have a store which is my hand could be a store for example. And it can open into different worlds right here. And I'm still in this virtual space that I'm in. Real estate has a whole different equation. And that is something once they start understanding and capturing on where the universe is the limit for imagination and retail, so to speak. Including learning and so on and so forth as well. So we are very exciting times. There's a lot being built parallel. There are not only physical spaces and intangible spaces but also renditions of what human beings can be to just give a hint into... We call them avtars but that's so small and so limited as to what we see even in video games. It's going to skyrocket. There's so much being built right now. And we are playing a small role in a lot of these larger pictures. So what it sounds to me like it may be sort of heading into a matrix like scenario into the future. Maybe it's already happening. We don't know about it in some secret lab or something somewhere. Coming to the financial aspect of it. Last week there was this crypto crash and the NFT related thing and it affected a lot of people. So how do we go ahead from here? What do you see is going to happen in the weeks and the months and the years in the road ahead and why exactly did this take place? Apparently there are multiple factors. This is not the first time crypto has dipped. If you've been following it since 2011, it's had its dips, it rises, it dips, it rises, it dips. It's never plateaued.  And that's the thing. So this is just another dip in the charts. It's going to happen again. It's not the first time. We just have to ride the wave. That's the way to look at it. Sometimes your rams are getting too less because there was a chip shortage that happened. So sometimes there was a cooler fan shortage. Then there were restrictions that were put in China for mining. There were restrictions that were put in Spain, Portugal, which is the open crypto land had concerns that happened. So there's so many of these factors that affect the market so to speak and it's an unregulated market. Everything like, oh, everybody, everybody, everybody. So there's always a baseline that they follow always. Now my last question for today is not about NFT. It's something much more personal.  So what was it like to have lymphoma cancer as a child? Maybe because a lot of people don't know about it. That phase of your life if you could tell us something about it because it's a lived experience. So I had cancer as a kid. I was about 12, 13 years old. I was still in school, very young. And obviously it hit us by a storm and a year of chemotherapy is something that you don't wish for anybody at all because those sessions can be quite taxing.  Then two weeks break, next session. Those two weeks also your body is fighting it out. You go through hell week after week after week. What it did teach me though was to live every life moment as the best I can and enjoy it because you have literally got YOLO into my head. You have one life. You have to make the most of that moment and everything. You have to go out there. You have to do things. You have to enjoy yourself. You have to make sure everybody around you is happy. Well, great. I mean, and the fact that, you know, you went on to found this design agency, which is an award-winning design agency and so many other things. That's a lot for the future of physique. And yeah, we'll be in fact for more updates on the NFT market and whatever's happening. Thank you so much. It was lovely talking to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


We are here in Sacramento where the weather is about 70 degrees and a little bit of sunshine but Monica, things are about to change rather quickly. That's right. It's springtime, but some winter weather is on its way. So we brought Courtney Obergefell with the National Weather Service to talk about what's in store here in California. Courtney? Yeah, we have a system moving on shore right now. Rain will be pushing southeast throughout the day today and impacting most of the area on Friday. So the timing of the heavy precipitation of the storm, what do you expect that? This rain will fall from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning and then it will become lighter during the day Saturday before finally ending on Sunday. Safe to say it's a pretty strong storm. This is a very strong and wet storm with very high snow levels, so mostly rain this time around. And so we're expecting rain. How many inches are we looking at here? Totals through the next few days for the valley are going to be one to three inches with three to seven inches at those higher elevations. So being that this is a warmer storm, what type of snow accumulations are we looking at? So most of the storm will fall as rain up to about 9,000 feet. On the backside of the storm Saturday evening into early Sunday we could see some accumulating snow down to around 5,000 feet, but the bulk of this again will fall as rain. Is it safe to say that this is primarily a Northern California storm? That is correct. It will affect Northern and Central California before tapering off really. Southern California will be mostly let out. So we hear the term Pineapple Express a lot and it's associated with this storm as well. What exactly does that mean? So the Pineapple Express is a type of atmospheric river, which basically is a river of moisture in the atmosphere that brings rain to California from the Pacific. So Pineapple Express means that moisture is coming to us from Hawaii. So one to three inches of rain, that's a pretty significant amount of rainfall. And we should probably expect some localized flooding, possibly some mudslides. Is that said about right? The main concern will be localized flooding, so those low lying areas ponding on roadways when you're driving home. So be aware of that. Some of the burn scars will see heavy rainfall, but it should be at rates low enough not to cause major issues. What are some other helpful tips that people can be aware of for this next storm? We ask people to clear your gutters and storm drains today to kind of mitigate that flooding issue. Keep aware if you do live near the burn scars just in case anything does develop. Be aware and be ready to go if you need to.  Is this going to be the last big storm before summer time? We're actually looking at a wet pattern into next week, so we could see a few more storms next week, but they don't look as wet as this one. Do you anticipate any high winds with this storm at all? We will see some strong winds Friday night into early Saturday. They do look to be in that 20 to 30 mile an hour range with some higher gusts at the mountain elevations. Any possibility of funnel clouds? We may see some thunderstorms pop up in the valley Saturday if we can get enough clearing Saturday morning, but not looking like anything widespread. Now I know the National Weather Service issued a flood watch for the Nicaragua Sea or Nevada. I've always been curious about the difference between a flood watch and a warning. Can you describe the differences? We should watch several days out ahead of a storm to let people know that something's coming. Be aware and be ready when the storm does come in. A warning means that flooding is imminent or already occurring. Great. Before we let you go, I know the latest snow survey results were conducted earlier this week. What can you tell us about those results and maybe what it means from a drought perspective? The snowback is below normal, but we did see enough storms to certainly help the reservoir storage out. And because we had a wet winter last winter, a lot of the reservoirs are sitting pretty good for this time of year. All right, so we'll be tracking the storm here at Cal OAS and we recommend everyone at home does as well. You can follow the National Weather Service on all of their social media channels. You can follow Cal OAS on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Also CalOAS.cia.gov has some tips if you need some helpful reminders on winter driving tips. And also subscribe to OASnews.com and it's looking like we're not putting away those rain boots quite yet. Our thanks again to Courtney or thanks to all of you for watching. From Monica Vargas, I'm Jonathan Goodell. We'll see you next time.


So, today's class most of the time we will try to spend in looking over a case scenario and then followed with some practice problems. So, as a case let us take a look at this notion of say traffic congestion, this can even illustrate what kind of policy resistance it comes up and how we can iteratively build a model which try to encompass at least the key aspects towards traffic congestion. First some background, so there it the freight transport by road has risen from 6 billion tons. This is for statistics for India in 51 to 1100 billion ton per kilometer in 2000. So over 50 years and passenger traffic has also raised from 23 billion passenger kilometer to 2875 billion passengers per kilometer during the same period. So, the order of the growth has been tremendous, annual growth rate of traffic expected to be 10 to 11 percent, whenever there is a boom in automobile sector that leads to increase in road traffic in the future. So, that is the part of the traffic, but when you look at the capacity that is the road network, national highways carrying 40 percent of traffic, among national highways and state highways only 2 percent of the lengths are 4 lanes, 34 percent 2 lanes, 64 percent single lane. This is as of 2004, it is not that updated, but both would have increased since then. So, we can assume a parallel or similar kind of increases that increase in the cars on the road versus road network, the main idea is the trend, the growth percentages that has been tremendous both in the capacity as well as in the traffic. So now, this is, so we would like to now model this concept of traffic congestion as well as how we are going to say increase the capacity. A simple example we saw last class as an example for delays itself captured this, where you try to model traffic congestion as well as how do you add capacity, how do you add capacity to road network, increasing amount of paved roads so that you can reach further places or widening the existing roads, either way it is going to involve construction. So, only way we are going to increase capacity is by road construction, either way maybe we will build better bridges, do some shortcuts for different locations, tunnels or expand the road network by widening, lane widening is very common as well as expanding the reach of paved roads into more remote areas or new locations and things like that. So models for traffic congestion, let us look at an open loop view, pretty much what we want to try is that whenever there seems to be some congestion, how do you measure congestion? Congestion in the road, after a delay we find that road construction happens. Most of the time it is not the other way, initially there is a lot of congestion, then government invests in expanding the road facilities there and as soon as road construction is finished traffic seems lighter and going smoother, so how do you measure this congestion? How can you measure this congestion? What do you mean by congestion? Density of vehicles on the road, what does it affect? Speed, eventually what? Travel time. Travel time, so what we are interested in is congestion or delay or let us make a better note called as travel time. So we can expect that as travel time increases then we want after some delay it will prompt action to expand the road capacity by involving road construction. This is what we want to do because the density in one hand can be a little misleading because it is taking it from point in time or the speed can be regulated but as long as traffic seems to be moving and you are getting from one point to other within your preferred travel time then people are happy. But this kind of open loop is not sufficient because even in your own narration in our head what we want to do is move now towards the, let us start with the basic closed loop.  That is a very broad scope and we will just hydrate it and move ahead. So let us define congestion by using what we call as travel time. What affects travel time? Some of the things is already given, what affects travel time? Density or you have the number of vehicles on the road as well as the capacity of the road as highway capacity affects it as well as number of vehicles or the volume of traffic. We will make it as part of the capacity. It is a highway capacity. We will determine the quality is bad, we will just transfer it into the. So travel time is depends on capacity of highway. Capacity of highway in turn depends on the number of lanes, it depends on the quality of the road, number of signals that is there, other bottlenecks that can appear at some distinct points in time, I mean distinct point in space depends on capacity of highway and volume of traffic. We have two variables which we say can affect our travel time. But road construction does not immediately happen. Suppose even if the road is narrow or there is only single or two-lane road, but as long as there is no new pressure to expand the road network, road construction is not affected or as there is no pressure to reduce congestion. So let us create, identify new variable called as pressure to reduce congestion. So more the pressure, we can expect that this is going to result in as there is more pressure to reduce congestion, it will prompt their government to take up road construction activities where road construction activities once it is completed will result in increased capacity for the highways. So this is what we kind of can expect. But this pressure to reduce congestion itself will depend on not just the travel time, it will be a function of both the travel time as well as a desired travel time. If it takes 10 minutes to go somewhere and people are happy with the 10 minutes, then there is not real pressure to reduce it. But if you want to do the same thing in 5 minutes, then that is when the pressure comes. So we want to define those goals explicitly. So let us try to draw this preliminary loop right now as our first closed loop. So let us just define by our highway capacity as well as traffic volume. Traffic volume is large, we expect the travel time to be large. Highway capacity is large, we expect the traffic volume time to be lower. And based on the travel time, let us have a variable called as pressure to reduce congestion. And as pressure to reduce congestion is large, we take up road construction and as road construction after a delay results in increased highway capacity. So as pressure to reduce congestion increases, road construction activities are going to increase as road construction activity increases. After some delay, the highway capacity will increase. It takes time to expand roads, time to you know, you have seen all that. And as highway capacity is more, then the travel time goes down. Now as travel time increases, the pressure to reduce congestion also needs to increase. But that increase is related to what we can call as desired travel time. So if you see here, what it just did is apply some other guidelines that we gave, we had. So we here, if you look at this loop, it is a negative feedback loop for road construction. So as travel time is more, there is pressure to reduce congestion. As pressure to reduce congestion increases, road construction activities increase. As road construction increases, after some delay, the capacity increases. And as capacity increases, the travel time falls. So that is a negative feedback that is happening. But what is the goal here? The goal will be, has to be done explicitly. It cannot keep on happening like this. So the goal is the desired travel time. Based on that, you decide whether it is to be a one lane to two lane or one to four lanes or one to six lanes. It depends on the desired travel time. So this defines your goal of the system. Another point is, while we are actually doing this kind of modeling, it is good to actually start thinking in some sort of units that we want to try. Because it will also help in identifying some new variables etc. that we may want in the system later. Like we have, say for example, these three variables, travel time, traffic volume, highway capacity or desired travel time. We can think of what kind of units that we can have for these. For example, we have variables like, let us say traffic volume. Good to consider units while modeling. Suggested units could be that if you want a traffic volume. It could be say, vehicle miles per day, then highway capacity. See eventually we want to compare highway capacity as well as our traffic volume. So it is good to then have both in the same units. Eventually that is how the model has to come to. Highway capacity can also be defined as the vehicle miles, say per time unit. Say per day or per minute or whatever it is. The same time units can be considered. So this means that okay, now we can compare it. Suppose you have defined highway capacity in terms of width of the road. Then comparing width of the road to vehicle miles per day, then how will we compare it? We cannot subtract it or we cannot divide it or something because the units are may not necessarily match. Again these are not all the variables. I am just giving illustration, traffic volume, highway capacity. Then travel time. Travel time itself could be say minutes per trip or something like that. So the idea here is we want to come up with some metric for what kind of units that we are looking at. This is how we are going to start measuring these values and this is how we are going to define some highway capacity and travel time it is going to be minutes per trip. Then we need to get some say example like average trip length or something. So then we can use it to figure out what is how we are going to measure the time units and things like that. This is just a kind of illustrative idea of how we are going to think about units. Now as this travel time increases as I told we are going to have congestion. So we define that as travel time is more then congestion is more. So and this is a negative feedback loop. Then we are in when we start building the model this is kind of small steps that we can take to figure out okay let us draw some broad loops to close the system and then let us look at currently what are the variables that are outside the loop. We have two variables one is a desired travel time other is the traffic volume. Desired travel time sounds like exogenous variable in the outside system because it is what people expect. Then we have traffic volume. Can traffic volume be made endogenous? What do you think affects the traffic volume? What all affects the traffic volume? Number of vehicles and then population affects the number of vehicles fine. Other number of vehicles what else? Just because there is lot of vehicles what do they need to do? The final units we just wrote as vehicle miles per day. Number of cars just goes vehicles. Where will I get miles and per day? Distance. The distance traveled. Quality of road affects the highway capacity. So the traffic volume itself it depends on the day of the week is fine. Let us what else? You have got two things. One is you have got the number of vehicles this time or number of cars and number of vehicles. Second is we need the vehicle miles per day. So for miles we need what is average distance or average trip distance. Average time is what you already got as travel time. Travel time you already got it but what you are looking at traffic volume. So one is how many cars are there and what is average distance per trip that they are making. And we can also have one more variable called average number of trips per day. If for example let us say if we have a nice highway or let us say even inside campus when there are shops right here the traffic is very low. So even if we forget some things we can make multiple trips to keep buying things. But if it is going to take you half an hour to reach let us say 2 kilometers to buy things then you might say even if you forget something you are not going to make the second trip. So if there is capacity is large then you may be able to make more discretionary trips or more number of trips you can make. There is one and two you will make longer trips define traffic volume as these three. Traffic volume can be affected by the trips per day, average trip length and vehicles in region. When people start taking more trips then my traffic volume is going to be more as average trip length increases traffic volume is going to be more there is more. Traffic congestion outside IIT is caused by people not from power, people not in power because they are all travelling large distances. People in western suburb want to work in eastern suburb, people in eastern suburb want to work in western suburb. So it causes traffic jam in power. And more cars in the region we can expect higher traffic volume and as was also suggested vehicle in the region depends on the population and to some extent on the economic activity of region. That is more the population more vehicles can be in the region and or just that does not affect we can also have let us say average vehicles per person as more average vehicle per person is there vehicle region is going to increase is going to contribute to traffic volume. Now let us try to close this loop by looking at suppose my travel time became easy if the travel time is large and my desired travel time was 15 minutes but my current travel time is say half an hour then it causes pressure to reduce congestion. Suppose the capacity is so big that you are now able to go there really fast so that will attract you to driving imagine nice well laid smooth roads we would love to drive we do not want to walk we do not want to take public transport we may just want to drive correct. So let us introduce that variable called attractiveness to driving. Here I am reversing the signs right just observe this travel time desired travel time here travel time is plus desired travel time minus some actual travel time is here but desired is here so there is huge gap then that causes pressure to reduce congestion but now if my travel time is only 5 minutes but my desired travel time is like I am willing to spend say 10 minutes to go there so that means you are more attracted to driving because roads are free and you can go at higher speed and it is much more pleasure driving and more you are attracted to drive you will do more trips per day you will just go out so that you can take a spin in your motorbike your new motorbike or new car you will go longer distance you will not go to the nearest shop you will say okay RIR what is this nice road why the hell am I stopping in nearest shop let me travel little longer distance and go to the other bigger shop or some other fancy place which has near mall etc but you get the relation right like these are just opposing to each other you may not even have two variables but this is just to illustrate the point that travel time is too high and people you know for short distance themselves spend long time to go that causes pressure to reduce congestion but your travel time is quite smooth and your then that will attract you to do more driving you can have both ways you can have this one also will that will make people happy as more you are attracted to driving then your desired travel time also increases so that is not the only one which attracts us to driving we cannot consider okay let us kind of finish this loop first so here if you see as attract as let us say we are more at we are more prone to say prefer driving then we do more trips per day which increases in traffic volume which increases in travel time which then reduces your attractiveness to driving each time you are getting caught in traffic jam you are you do not like it so this becomes a negative feedback loop same thing goes here as more attractive to driving you do more longer trips but then as traffic volume increases travel time increases then your attractiveness driving comes down it takes much longer time so we try to avoid or come up with another route things like that again becomes a balancing loop attractiveness to driving to by average vehicles per person please not enough we just go through this only looking at private vehicles ownership many times the attractiveness to private vehicles of course there is a simple pleasure there is also the utility of it because most of the commute is for work so we would like to bring in the adequacy of public transit itself on how attractive it is to drive so let us introduce those two variables called as adequacy of public transit as a negative relation the sense more adequate the public transit is it reduces your attractiveness to driving if you have really good public transit it works the other way public transit is not good enough then attractiveness to driving increases and as more people start wanting cycles or preferring their own means of transport maybe you will get a better pair of shoes that is also part of private ownership so that can also reduce the what can you say public transit ridership now let us look at what I have done I have introduced a new external variable called adequacy of public transit and attractiveness to driving and as attractiveness to driving becomes larger the public transit ridership falls down and it also has as it falls down the number of vehicles average vehicle per person also increase I could have put up direct link also but let just go diagram for now so people start buying more vehicles and as they start buying more vehicles more vehicle regional increase which will increase the traffic volume which reduces the travel time which reduces the attractiveness to driving so this again I have one two three negative feedback links so this also becomes a larger negative feedback within the system