The School of Greatness
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: How To Escape The Prison Of Your Mind & Reinvent Your Life In 2025
Mon, 6 Jan 2025
Get my new book Make Money Easy here!Join me for an enlightening conversation with renowned physician Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, who after 23 years of medical practice has uncovered the deep connection between emotional well-being and physical health. In this powerful episode, Dr. Chatterjee shares insights from his new book "Make Changes That Last" and reveals how 80-90% of what doctors see is related to stress. Through personal stories and clinical experiences, he explains why most people struggle to maintain lasting changes and offers practical solutions for breaking free from limiting habits. His unique perspective on trusting yourself, managing stress, and the science of forgiveness provides a fresh approach to sustainable transformation.Dr. Chatterjee’s new book Make Changes That LastIn this episode you will learn:Why our overreliance on external experts prevents us from trusting our own intuition and making lasting changesHow unresolved emotional stress manifests as physical symptoms and illness in the bodyThe powerful "3 F's" technique for understanding and changing problematic eating habitsWhy forgiveness is crucial for both emotional and physical health, and how to practice it effectivelyThe science behind how physical touch and breathing techniques can rapidly reduce stressFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1716For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. Ellen Langer – greatness.lnk.to/1578SCDr. David Perlmutter – greatness.lnk.to/1698SCDr. Joe Dispenza – greatness.lnk.to/1633SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What is the connection between emotional well-being and physical health?
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode. My name is Lewis Howes, and I'm so excited that you're here because we have a powerful episode with world-renowned physician Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, who after 23 years of medical practice has uncovered the deep connection between emotional well-being and physical health. And for years, people have struggled trying to understand the how to heal themselves.
And they've struggled trying to understand how medicine can heal their emotions when it's only been treating symptoms in the body. And we're starting to learn how emotions, how stress, how anxiety, how thoughts are also impacting the body. And as a physician for many years, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee reveals
how 80 to 90% of what doctors see is related to stress and how unresolved emotional stress actually manifests as physical symptoms and illness in the body. So if you're listening to this right now and you've been thinking to yourself, I'm not crazy. I feel like this anxiety with my relationship, this stress around my career or my working situation,
or this unresolved trauma that I've had through my parents or childhood might be causing me some of these physical symptoms that I have.
Might be causing me these irritable bowel symptoms or constipation, or maybe I have these incredible migraines and headaches that are just causing me so much pain in my head, or I feel this tightness in my chest, or I have this skin condition that just keeps flaring up and I'm eating all the right things. I'm trying to do all the right things, but for whatever reason,
I feel like maybe it's related to stress and my emotions. Well, if that's what you've been thinking, you're not crazy. As we enter this new year, he explains why most people struggle to maintain lasting changes. And he also offers practical solutions from breaking free from these limiting habits that have been holding you back.
Here's someone who is trained as a medical doctor who has now learned how emotions, thoughts, habits, your environment, your relationships, how those are impacting symptoms in the body, and how you can heal all these different things. He's gonna give us a unique perspective on trusting yourself, managing your stress, and the signs of forgiveness that provides a fresh approach
to make this your best year yet. I'm so excited for you to dive into this episode. If this is your first time here, please follow us on Apple podcast, follow us on Spotify, just click that follow button right now. If someone sent you this episode, make sure to follow and share this with one or two friends that you want to see improve the quality of their health in a positive way this year.
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Chapter 2: Why is trusting yourself important for making lasting changes?
And I wouldn't say I've got a unique insight, but I do see the human body a certain way. And I kind of feel I've had some pretty awesome results with patients over the years with some quite, what would be called untreatable conditions, because I really try and get to the root cause And so I want to teach now.
I want to share the knowledge that I've learned with people and I don't want to be burnt out. And so I decided, okay, what would my life feel like if I don't practice for a little while? And I miss it because my favorite thing was seeing patients. But like you, Lewis, you know, I speak to a large volume of people each week on my podcast, right? And I do my podcast my way, right?
I spend a day, a day and a half preparing for each guest because I like doing that. I do a deep dive and then I go along with these guests. And I am inundated with DMs on a daily basis. People saying, oh, that episode or your third book helped me cure my depression. You've helped me with my anxiety. You've helped my mother put her time to diabetes into remission.
I've now got rid of my fibromyalgia pains, which I've had to take. Whatever it might be, I get this every single day. And I have such gratitude that I do a job that helps people. And I've realized that If 80 to 90% of what we see is driven by our collective modern lifestyles, I can have more impact teaching people about how to change their lifestyles through these mediums.
And here's the funny thing, Lewis. In the UK, there's probably a few thousand doctors at least that I know about who prescribe my podcast to their patient or their store. So they have a 10-minute consultation with a patient, And they might suggest a few things and say, hey, listen, if you're interested in this, why don't you listen to episode 420 of Dr. Chachi's podcast?
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Yeah, 100%.
I remember I had Ali Abdaalan a number of years ago, and he was holding on to like, I'm still doing, I don't know, 10 hours a month of... you know, medical practice because I'm afraid if I let it go fully, people won't take me seriously as a YouTuber and as an author and things like that. And I really just kind of challenged him on that. And I go, what would it look like?
And he eventually on his own decided to leave the practice and not be practicing medicine, I guess, or not have any patients. And he realized it was just a fear. Like he was able to grow even more. He was able to do more of the things that he wanted to and not hold on to something that he once wanted to, but no longer wanted to anymore.
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Chapter 8: What are practical steps to break free from limiting habits?
I want to reduce how much alcohol I'm having or how much sugar I'm having. But here's the problem, Lewis. How many people can do dry January? Quite a lot. How many people can quit sugar in January? Quite a lot. How many people do that and then they actually make long-term changes? The number's a lot less, right? Often by the end of February, most people are back to where they were in December.
And here's, let's make it really obvious. If you've got a lot of stress in your life, and alcohol is your way of dealing with the stress, right? Because it's an effective way of managing stress, at least in the short term. You can white knuckle it for a few weeks and stop drinking, but you're gonna return back to your previous behaviors unless one of two things happens.
Number one, either the stress in your life goes down. If the stress in your life goes down, great, you may need less alcohol. If the stress in your life doesn't go down, If you don't find an alternative behavior to manage that stress, like something else to relieve the stress, maybe the gym or something else, you're going to go back to the alcohol.
So let's relate that to what you were asking about relationships. If you're having conflict in your relationships, it doesn't feel good. It's a huge source of stress that. That emotional stress, you will neutralize. You have to neutralize it in some way, right? And this is something I think people really don't get.
And it's one of the big themes in this book is that emotional stress is not neutral. You're having conflict with your partner. What do we often do? We don't feel good. We go to sugar. We go to alcohol. We spend three hours scrolling Instagram trying to find some kind of inspiration.
Those things are a downstream consequence of the emotional stress that's going on because of your relationship issues. And that's why if we can repair our relationships, learn how to communicate better, be open, be honest, not... give accusations, but share how we're feeling. And if we can successfully manage conflict, you will naturally find your behavior start to improve.
And I think this is the missing piece in behavior change. We don't think about the root cause of our behaviors. We just want to change the behavior, which is why it usually doesn't last in the long term. Wow.
And when you were treating patients, how much would you say were people's symptoms related to
relationship conflicts in their life, whether it be with their parents or their boss or a friend or whatever it might be, a family member or something, how much of it was once they started to have the courage to speak up or once they were able to break themselves free of a situation in a relationship or create a boundary in their life or whatever it might be, create new alignment with that person.
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