High Energy Health Podcast

Tapping In: Laurel Parnell and Dawson Church in Conversation

Laurel Parnell is a clinical psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Since 1995 she has trained thousands of clinicians in EMDR both nationally and internationally. She is co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN), and the author of several books including, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR and Tapping In. Dr. Parnell has served on the faculty of the California Institute for Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

 

• Laurel's background
• What is EMDR?
• The benefits of EMDR
• Working with neural networks and their response to tapping
• Activating the “felt sense” of your resources
• Bilateral stimulation 
• Rhythms: tapping, squishing balls, drumming on desk
• How EMDR is different from Resource Tapping 
• Why Resource Tapping uses imagination and resourcing to prepare people

 

Dr. Laurel Parnell can be found at: https://parnellemdr.com/

 

Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #trauma #emdr #therapy #resourcetapping #tapping 

Mindfulness and Community Empowerment: Ali and Atman Smith and Dawson Church in Conversation

Ali and Atman Smith are Baltimore-born brothers who co-founded the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in 2001. Raised in a household immersed in yoga and meditation, they deepened their practice during college at the University of Maryland. Motivated to revitalize their West Baltimore community, they established HLF to provide yoga, mindfulness, and wellness programs to underserved populations. Their initiatives have reached over 200,000 individuals across diverse settings, including schools, detention centers, and wellness centers. In their book Let Your Light Shine they share insights on mindfulness and community empowerment. 

 

Here they and Dawson discuss:

• Their background
• Counseling those in trauma
• Sympathetic dominance breathing 
• Connecting with people authentically to lay the foundation
• Why other people will see the difference in you before you see it in yourself
• Being Social Entrepreneurs
• The Holistic Life Foundation's mission
• Their new program for changing detention to meditation 

 

To learn more about Ali, Atman, and The Holistic Life Foundation: https://holisticlifefoundation.org/

 

Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #trauma #yoga #mindfulness #community #holisticlifefoundation 

 

The Genetics of Health: Dr. Sharad Paul and Dawson Church in Conversation

Sharad Paul is a physician and the author of several books in the field of skin, medicine, and genomics such as Skin, a Biography and The Genetics of Health. He has been honored by several professional societies for his contributions to patient centered care in several countries. His latest book is called Biohacking Your Genes. 

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

• Simple health hacks you can do yourself
• The importance of positivity 
• The truth about stress
• Why genes are typical of an entire species, not an individual
• Lifestyle research and statistics 
• Natural remedies 
• Support from food / diet

To learn more about Dr. Paul's work and books: https://skininyourgameblog.drsharadpaul.com/

 

Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #gene #nutrition #genetics #skin

 

Uplift Human Consciousness: Shakti Durga and Dawson Church in Conversation

Shakti Durga is a spiritual teacher, healer, author, sacred musician, and founder of transformative initiatives that uplift human consciousness and create inner peace. She established the charities Shanti Mission and The Wellbeing Initiative to foster spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. She has written five transformational books and produced numerous spiritual music and mantra albums. Before embarking on her spiritual vocation, she was a practicing Trial Attorney. She resides in New South Wales, Australia and teaches world-wide. 

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

• How meditation evolves you
• Questioning, are we moving into the Age of Aquarius?
• Looking back 100 years, you see a great change
• Contrast and free will
• Developing an inner spaciousness
• Feeling content in our own being and thinking about others
• What can you do to give back?
• Visioning, non attachment, and surrender
• Processing collective trauma 
• Practices that can bring us into elevated states
• The energy of the people around us and how that can affect us
• Releasing energy that isn’t yours through the breath
• How do we find our highest energy?
• Breathing into the heart, contemplating love and compassion

 

For more about the work of Shakti Durga: https://shaktidurga.com/

 

Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness 

 

Spiritual Intelligence with Dr. Dawson Church

High Energy Health host, Dawson Church, PhD, just released his latest book, Spiritual Intelligence. The book reveals the breakthrough science behind Spiritual Intelligence... how your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs literally shape your brain and gene expression. You’ll discover how to activate your brain’s Enlightenment Network, reduce stress hormones like cortisol, and rewire your neural pathways for joy, resilience, and self-transcendence. Drawing from the latest neuroscience, peak states research, and personal practice, Dawson shows how simple daily actions like mindfulness, meditation, and EFT can lead to extraordinary mental clarity, emotional balance, and even reverse aging in the brain. 

 

In this solo episode, he shares: 

• The unhappiness of his early journey
• How many of us learned the biochemistry of stress even before we were born
• About the stress hormone cortisol
• Why stress is epigenetic, creating molecules like adrenaline and cortisol
• MRI studies have now mapped the brain circuits active in long term meditators
• “The Enlightenment Network”
• How to dig ourselves out of the pit of stress
• Ways we can stimulate the neural bundles of the Enlightenment Network so they grow
• How Spiritual Intelligence changes your every day life
• Specifics on how Spiritual Intelligence enables you to meet challenges with wisdom and resilience

 

Find Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #theenlightenmentnetwork 

 

 

Proof of Heaven: Eben Alexander and Dawson Church in Conversation

Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2008, he experienced a transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection that completely transformed his worldview. A pioneering scientist and modern thought leader in the emerging science that acknowledges the primacy of consciousness in the universe, he is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Proof of Heaven, The Map of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe. 

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

• Dr. Alexander's story
• Binaural beats 
• Remote viewing and precognition
• Shedding baggage with our soul group between lifetimes
• Soul agreements
• The life review as from the perspective of everyone involved
• The Golden Rule: written into the fabric of the universe
• The link between intuition and meditation
• Releasing suppressed emotions
• Trusting in the universe and increased positive emotions

 

To learn more about Dr. Eben Alexander: https://ebenalexander.com/

 

Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #neardeath #lifereview #proofofheaven 

 

Spirit and Self: Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji and Dawson Church in Conversation

Sadhvi Saraswatiji, PhD, is the author of Come Home to Yourself and Hollywood to the Himalayas. She graduated from Stanford University and for more than two decades has lived at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. She has presented to groups ranging from the United Nations to the Parliament of World Religions on topics ranging from conscious business to science and spirituality to sustainable development and is renowned as a spiritual bridge between Eastern and Western culture. 

 

In this discussion, Dawson and Sadhvi share personal stories and experiences on topics such as:

• Experience of the divine and being infinite
• Living in Rishikesh
• The solution to so much of our suffering 
• Which of our sufferings is objective over which we have no control?
• Where is our inner wellbeing hooked into a story about how others should behave?
• The highest calling in a human birth is to experience who we are
• How we can be conscious of being conscious
• How we can look at the mind and emotions to recognize “I am not that”
• Oneness with the universe
• Our purpose or dharma as this particular human body
• Choosing peace regardless of how others are
• Remembering every day that we are not our body or our story
• The goal is to do while remaining in being, fulfilling our dharma

 

To explore Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji's work: https://divineshaktifoundation.org/about/sadhvi-bhagawati/

 

Find Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #oneness #consciousness #beinginfinite #comehometoyourself 

 

 

 

Abundant Wealth: Elizabeth Husserl and Dawson Church in Conversation

Elizabeth Husserl is a registered investment advisor representative, financial advisor, and cofounder of Peak360 Wealth Management, a boutique wealth planning firm. She is the author of The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money. She holds an MA in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has led workshops at major tech companies, including Airbnb, Unity, and Google. 

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

• How to put “joy” and “money” in the same sentence
• Asking yourself: What, to me, represents wealth?
• The mandala of the 12 dimensions of wealth
• “Financial DNA,” or the ways that family beliefs shape money behaviors
• Exercise: Go back in your lineage, what beliefs did your ancestors hold?
• How to have a conversation with money to work through moments of scarcity
• Money as a spiritual guide
• Money as a doorway to self-knowledge
   

To learn more about Elizabeth's work: www.elizabethhusserl.com 

 

Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #money #wealth #abundance #powerofenough #relationshipwithmoney

 

 

Channeling and Intuition: Helané Wabbeh and Dawson Church in Conversation

Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is the author of some 90+ peer-reviewed publications and the book The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition. Her VET-MIND study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and examined the mechanisms of meditation for combat veterans with PTSD. Her current research interests include healing stress and trauma and extended human capacities. She is a Board Member and Past President of the Parapsychological Association and has been meditating for two decades. 

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

• Noetic Signature: experience of our inner wisdom
• How to differentiate from your ego and your higher self?
• Exercise: To what question would you like intuitive information?
• Noetic knowing shows up in one of 12 different ways
• Meditation: An introduction to the inner world
• The ability all humans have to access energy and information
• Types of channelings 
• Why studies correlate childhood trauma with psychic experiences and mediumship
• How two studies in UK found that psychic abilities run in families
• Study comparing the full genome of a psychic to controls
• Study discovery: a unique noncoding gene on chromosome 7 in the psychic group
   

To learn more about the Institute of Noetic Sciences: https://noetic.org/

 

Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #channeling #intuition #noetic #ions 

Insight and Mindfulness: Andrew Holecek and Dawson Church in Conversation

Andrew Holecek offers seminars internationally on meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He has studied sleep yoga, bardo yoga, and other traditional practices with living masters in India and Nepal. Holecek is a talented writer who has published books, Dreams of Light and Dream Yoga, and had articles appear in Psychology Today, Parabola, Lion’s Roar, Tricycle, Utne Reader, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, and many other periodicals. He also hosts the popular "Edge of Mind" podcast and is the founder of the Night Club Community, a support platform for nocturnal meditations. 

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

• Chongyam Trungpa: “Meditation isn’t a sedative, it’s a laxative”
• Andrew's background 
• The aspects of the unconscious mind
• Cognitive scientists tell us 95 percent of what we do is driven by unconscious patterns
• How to start making the unconscious processes conscious
• How can you attain something you already have?
• The problem with the concept of a Spiritual Path
• The Saint who said: “Enlightenment was my biggest disappointment”
• Underneath all the experience is openness
• Why we are a localization of consciousness
• Andrew's definition of meditation: habituation to openness
• The 5 nocturnal meditations
• Using your sleep for your psychospiritual development

 

To learn more about Andrew's work: https://www.andrewholecek.com/

 

Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

And to preorder Dawson's next book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #unconscious #spiritualpath #consciousness