High Energy Health Podcast

Herbal Intelligence: David Hoffmann and Dawson Church in Conversation

David Hoffmann is the author of 14 books, such as The Holistic Herbal and Medical Herbalism, that have been translated into 9 languages. He is a Fellow of Britain’s National Institute of Medical Herbalists. After moving to the US in 1986 he became co-founder and is a past president of the American Herbalist Guild. His most recent book is Herbal Intelligence. 

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

• The value of living a life of simplicity
• Embracing everything including the darkness
• Getting rid of conditioning
• How Herbalism is integrating humans into the whole of life
• Why in every culture from the most ancient ones they have used herbalism 
• Thinking of herbs as alleviating distress and empowering rather than curing
• The 6 herbs that everyone should know about
• Reducing inflammation, easing coughs, improving skin, promoting relaxation
• The profound science behind herbalism 
• Being in community with people, animals, plants and nature
• Enoughness gives us space to grow and love each other

 

To purchase David's book, Herbal Intelligence: Plant Teachers and the Return of Viriditas

https://www.amazon.com/Herbal-Intelligence-Teachers-Return-Viriditas/dp/1620556146

 

To connect with Dawson, his work, and his books:

https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #herbalintelligence #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation 

The Awakening Intensive with Dawson Church

A rare treat! A solo High Energy Health episode! Here, host Dr. Dawson Church leads listeners through a set of energy exercises. They are designed to cultivate a sense of community and allow you to feel your energetic connection with others on the same path. They also help you develop healthy boundaries, release tension in your body, and cultivate the slow waves of healing and renewal in your brain. He explains the Four Circuits of the Brain's Enlightenment Network, and how you can develop these one by one.

• Celebrating the connection we all share as community
• Exercise 1: Energetic connection with the whole group
• Exercise 2: Maintaining healthy boundaries and returning to your own energy space
• Exercise 3: Tapping to release tension in the body
• Exercise 4: Eye movements to bring the brain into alpha-theta state
• The Awakening Intensive Meditation Retreat
• Ancient spiritual practices filtered through the lens of neuroscience
• The Four Circuits of the Brain's Enlightenment Network
• How activating the Enlightenment Network leads to ecstatic states of joy

 

For more information, visit: https://eftuniverse.com/awakening-intensive/

 

#highenergyhealth #spiritualintelligence #blissbrain #mindtomatter #eft #meditation #thebrain #enlightenmentnetwork #awakening 

Your Magical Power of Choice: Jonathan Hammond and Dawson Church in Conversation

Jonathan Hammond is a spiritual counselor and author of The Shaman’s Mind. He is a graduate of Harvard and a master teacher of Reki and Shamanism. He teaches classes in the Hawaiian healing art of Huna at Omega Institute and online. 

 

Here he and Dawson discuss: 

• Jonathan's background
• Empathic attunement with indigenous mind
• The enchantment of human and natural worlds
• The energy of Hawaii 
• Aloha: to share life force or breath
• What’s lighting you up? It’s like that for a reason!
• The Huna tradition
• The ability to make a choice is magical power
• Trauma blindsides us and the nervous system creates an inner critic
• Looping trauma and how to interrupt it
• Using Ho’oponopono 
• “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”

 

Jonathan can be found online at: https://mindbodyspiritmaui.com/

 

And Dawson can be found at: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #spiritualintelligence #blissbrain #eft #highenergyhealth #meditation #theshamansmind #huna #hawaii 

 

Fulfilling Relationships: Dené Logan and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dené Logan is a marriage and family therapist, spiritual teacher, and host of the podcast Cheaper Than Therapy, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at coaching sessions with clients and interviews with thought leaders in the field of mental health and wellness. 

 

Here Dené and Dawson discuss:

• Lifetime curiosity about our behavior patterns
• Often there is conflict over who’s getting what share of the energy
• Eastern traditions have an understanding of our own wholeness
• Building on Jung’s work on the masculine and feminine within each person
• Jung’s individuation process
• As a society we’re questioning: who are we?
• When you take everything away, who am I?
• Getting into intuition and synchronicity
• Why you can feel the energy between people
• Always be respectful about your partner
• Should you do your psychological growth work within the relationship?
• The first thing to do in your relationship is to ask why
• The Stoics always asked the first question: Know yourself
• Know your story and your own purpose, then bring an individuated self into the relationship dynamic
• Our relationships are these mirrors that are showing us ourselves
• You are the love of your life

 

To learn more about Dené and her work: https://denelogan.com/

 

To find Dawson and his work: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #relationships #marriage #couples #cheaperthantherapy 

Getting Past Defensiveness: Sarah Close and Dawson Church in Conversation

Sarah Close is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Oregon. She received her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and operates from a Relational, Trauma-Informed approach. She is trained in EMDR and NARM. Sarah gently aims to shift the focus of mental health care from the struggles and ‘problems’ we all face, to the resiliency and wisdom inherent in seeking help. She has been with BetterHelp since its inception in 2013, supporting this online service dedicated to making mental health care more accessible to everyone. BetterHelp’s network of over 30,000 licensed therapists has helped millions of people take ownership of their mental health and work towards their personal goals. 

 

Here Sarah and Dawson discuss:

• Sarah's background feeling trapped by her desire to help
• Research into complex PTSD
• Trauma results from an event when our needs are not met
• Survival needs, relationship needs, attachment needs
• As we approach healing, our defensive strategies come up
• Being stuck in the negative belief that 'I’m not enough'
• Why some people do not heal despite effective treatments like EMDR and EFT?
• Suggestions for self-care

 

To reach out to Sarah or other therapists in the BetterHelp network: 

https://www.betterhelp.com/

 

To reach out to Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #podcast #blissbrain #eft #emdr #betterhelp #highenergyhealth #therapy #mentalhealth 

Spiritual Intelligence and Leadership: Yosi Amram and Dawson Church in Conversation

Yosi Amram is a clinical psychologist, leadership coach, and author of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership. Previously he was founder and CEO of two companies that he has led through successful IPOs. Yosi has coached over 100 CEOs, many of whom have built companies with thousands of employees and revenues in the billions.  With engineering degrees from MIT, an MBA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Sofia University, he is a pioneering researcher in the field of spiritual intelligence. His research has received over 1000 citations. Yosi is committed to awakening greater spiritual intelligence in himself and the world. 

 

Here Yosi and Dawson share their views on:

• Yosi's background
• Yosi’s research
• The 7 Dimensions of Spiritually Intelligent Leadership
• Meaning, Grace, Inner-direction, Community, Authentic Presence, Truth, Wisdom
• Trusting the universe, opening to beauty in our work
• Bringing joy into work makes us creative and spontaneous
• Working in alignment with our core values
• The most precious resource we have is our attention
• Exercise: connect with your breath, drop into body, heartbeat

 

Yosi's website is: https://yosiamram.net/

And Dawson can be found at: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #highenergyhealth #leadership #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation 

Living Open Versus Closed: Nate Klemp and Dawson Church in Conversation

Nate Klemp is a philosopher, mindfulness entrepreneur, and the author of several books including Start Here, The 80/80 Marriage, and Open: Living With an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World. 

 

Here Nate and Dawson discuss living with an open mind, and provide you with four provocative exercises you can use to live an open life as well as: 

• The two modes of being in the world: open and closed
• Nate's background and journey to this work
• Tantric Buddhism says we can burn out the roots of our desires
• Why being closed affects your sleep
• External closure to those who disagree with you
• How the real work is done when you’re back to ordinary reality
• Living in a closed mind you still get short term pleasures
• Experiencing sadness grief as part of the human experience
• Daily why and how Nate interrupts his closedness and moves into openness
• What openness looks and feels like

 

To learn more about Nate's work and books: https://www.nateklemp.com/

 

And to learn about Dawson's work and his books: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#blissbrain #mindtomatter #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #expansivemind #distractedworld #mindfulness 

Healing Through Feeling: Rachel Kaplan and Dawson Church in Conversation

Rachel Kaplan, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and author of the book Feel, Heal, and Let That Sh*t Go. Kaplan has studied yoga, meditation, and hands-on healing practices in India and Nepal, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and trained in cutting-edge trauma modalities such as EMDR. She divides her time between Oakland and Joshua Tree, California. 

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

• Rachel's story
• How human relationships inherently involve loss and challenges
• When decades of emotional numbness isn’t easy to overcome
• When people don’t allow themselves a physical based feeling
• The lurking sense of impostor syndrome
• The inability to slow down because of all the distractions
• First Step... ask a key question: What qualities of me do I not accept?
• Emotional release work
• Letting the energy of emotions move through you
• Moving anger is high energy release
• Emotional resilience
• Why EMDR is one of the most powerful forms of trauma healing
• Brave into the unknown... face your fears and you’ll build self-trust

 

To learn more about Rachel: https://thefeelingsmovement.com/

 

And for more about Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#highenergyhealth #feelings #healing #mindtomatter #blissbrain #emdr #eft #meditation 

The Five Core Characteristics of Enlightenment Experiences: Andrew Newberg and Dawson Church in Conversation

Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. is currently the Director of Research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in Philadelphia. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. Dr. Newberg has been particularly involved in the study of mystical and religious experiences; a field referred to as “neurotheology.” He has published over 200 peer reviewed articles and chapters on brain function, brain imaging, and the study of religious and mystical experiences. He is also author or co-author of several books including How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation (Avery) and Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality (Columbia University Press). He has appeared on Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, Nightline, 20/20, CNN, ABC. 

 

He and Dawson discuss topics such as: 

• The five core characteristics of the enlightenment experience
• Intensity - the emotional centers of the brain are triggered when something significant happens to us
• Oneness - as we surrender, there’s a drop in activity of the frontal lobe
• Limiting distractions
• Focus... but then surrender
• How long do you need to meditate to start neural plasticity? (... just 12 minutes!)
• Being happy, creativity, concentrating, and problem solving
• The sense of unity to community and global humanitarian the universe

Andrew's website is: https://www.andrewnewberg.com/

 

And Dawson can be found at: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

Note: This episode of High Energy Health originally aired on HealthyLife.net in September 2019. 

 

#highenergyhealth #enlightenment #blissbrain #eft #mindtomatter #meditation #integrativehealth 

Living Gandhi’s 6 Core Values: Perry Garfinkel and Dawson Church in Conversation

Perry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, and author of the books Buddha or Bust and Becoming Gandhi. For that book, he spent 3 years retracing the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi while living his core values. He has written extensively for many publications including the New York Times, National Geographic, LA Times, and the Huffington Post. 

 

Here he and Dawson reflect on:

• Why people turn to Buddhism
• Gandhi’s 6 Core Values
• Perry's story
• The questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How is the world put together?
• Simplicity 
• Meditation
• Emptying your mind
• Releasing the self judgment that brings us down

 

To learn more about Perry, his work, and his books: https://perrygarfinkel.com/

 

And for more on Dawson: https://dawsonchurch.com/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #highenergyhealth #eft #meditation #gandhi #buddhism