High Energy Health Podcast

Unwinding Anxiety: Judson Brewer and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation

Dr. Jud Brewer MD PhD is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the Medical School at Brown University. He also is a research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behavior change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and source-estimated EEG, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, foreign Parliaments, trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, and foreign government ministers and has been featured on 60 minutes, at TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016 with over 17 Million views), in the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR, National Geographic, and the BBC among others. He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017) and the New York Times best-seller, Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (Avery/Penguin Random House, 2021).

Here is what Jud and Mirjam discuss:

               How can we define addiction and why we may all me addicted

               Dr. Jud’s lightbulb moment: how anxiety is related to addiction

               The importance of meditation and mindfulness

               Are meditation and mindfulness the same?

               A painful lesson: the less you know the more you say

               What does Dr. Jud’s meditation practice looks like?

               Why breaking a habit is not a question of willpower

               The importance of the ancient scriptures in Dr. Jud’s lab

               Why we prefer cake over broccoli            

               How mindfulness helps with procrastination

               The power of Dr. Jud’s apps

               The importance of kindness

Dr. Jud's website is: https://drjud.com/

Mirjam's website is: https://www.mirjampaninski.com/

#eft #eftuniverse #tapping #meditation #blissbrain #mindtomatter #kindness #mindfulness 

The Four Gateways to Heaven on Earth: Martin Rutte and Dawson Church in Conversation

Martin Rutte, a dynamic international speaker and consultant, is president of Livelihood, a management consulting firm, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The company’s areas of service include strategic vision, corporate spirit, performance management, facilitated dialogue, and creative leadership. Martin has worked with many corporations assisting them to expand their outlook and position themselves for the future: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Southern California Edison, Virgin Records, Apple Computer, Marion Merrell Dow, and The World Bank. In Canada: Esso Petroleum, London Life Insurance and Labatt Breweries.

 

He addressed the Corporate Leadership & Ethics Forum of the Harvard Business School and returned for four years as keynote speaker. He has also twice addressed joint meetings of the American and Canadian Chambers of Commerce in Hong Kong.

He is co-author of The New York Times Business Bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work, with sales over 1.1 million copies and translations into 24 languages.

For over 15 years he has been exploring peoples’ vision for the kind of world they deeply long for – Project Heaven on Earth. He has contributed chapters on Heaven on Earth in these books: How to Achieve A Heaven on Earth; Seeking the Sacred; and, Glimpses of Heaven on Earth. His newest book is Project Heaven on Earth: The 3 simple questions that will help you change the world … easily. He sees Heaven on Earth as the new story of what it means to be a human and what it means to be Humanity.

 

Martin’s pioneering work on spirituality in the workplace was featured in an address he gave to The World Bank which was shown in part on the ABC-TV special, Creativity: Touching the Divine. He was a keynote speaker at all six international conferences on spirituality in business in Mexico. Martin was also Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada.

He has given talks and workshops globally in: Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, New Zealand, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, & the U.S. Articles on his innovative work have appeared in: The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, Personnel Journal, US News and World Report, The Toronto Star and The Boston Globe. Martin has served as a board member of Money Concepts Canada, Global Family, The Hunger Project Canada, and as a committee member of The Canadian Cancer Society. Martin is also a member of The Transformational Leadership Council and was a recipient of the ‘Excellence in Leadership’ award. He has been happily married to Maida for over 45 years.

Here Martin and Dawson discuss:

* Hell on earth, why not about heaven on earth?

* What does heaven on earth look like to you?

* When we commit, we attract resources to us miraculously

* Your dream may be small, but when you commit, it grows

* The four gateways to heaven on earth

For more about Martin Rutte: http://martinrutte.com/

For more about Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on August 11, 2016.

#eft #eftuniverse #meditation #mindtomatter #blissbrain #dream #heaven #fourgateways 

Mastering Manifesting Wealth: Margaret Lynch Raniere and Dawson Church in Conversation

Margaret Lynch Raniere is a Chemical Engineer and Success Coach. She became certified in the mind body techniques of EFT/Tapping (through Gary Craig) and is a Hypnotherapist. Here is where she puts her inner engineer archetype to work. As an engineer, her job was to synthesize massive amounts of information with the sole focus of applying it for a measurable result. She devoured thousands of case studies on this powerful mind-body 'Tapping Technique' until she reached expert status.

Here Margaret and Dawson discuss:

• Subconscious vows that block money and success
• Why marketing is sharing your gifts with others
• Learning about Hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Goal Trauma 
• The very heavy emotion of shame 
• Financial trauma and how it relates towards your debt
• How Tapping moves the energy to support the healing of trauma
• Transformation via raising of your consciousness

Margaret can be found at: https://margaretlynchraniere.com/

Dawson is at: http://dawsongift.com/

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on June 23, 2016.

#blissbrain #mindtomatter #eft #tapping #eftuniverse #wealth #manifestingwealth 

More Love, Less Conflict - Jonathan Robinson and Dawson Church in Conversation

Jonathan Robinson is a psychotherapist, a bestselling author of 12 books, and he has been a frequent guest on Oprah and CNN. In addition, his work has been featured in USA Today and Newsweek magazine. He and Dawson are both members of the Transformational Leadership Council and share many of the same interests, especially how to create a wonderful marriage. Jonathan wrote a book called More Love, Less Conflict and in this lively exchange, they talk about all things related to relationships, communication, and how to create more love and less conflict in your life.

Topics discussed on this show:

• The best predictor of relationship success is how many appreciations they give their partner each day
• Using “fill in the blank” statements that support your relationship
• The two keys to success are to do the right thing and do it consistently
• Blame never works, but people do it average 47 times a day
• The one sentence that gets you out of the blame game
• By asking questions, being curious, showing empathy, you connect
• Learn to avoid your partner’s triggers
• The right tool can overcome decades of animosity

Jonathan's books can be found at: 

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B000APLARW

Dawson can be found at:

http://www.dawsongift.com/

 

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on September 5, 2018. 

#blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #relationships #movelove #lessconflict

 

Turning Consciousness to the Universe: John Gray and Dawson Church in Conversation

John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus". USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter century. In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller.

Here John and Dawson discuss: 

• How one thought out of nowhere could change your life
• The power of offering our prayers to the universe
• Physical signals of being in tune with our inspiration
• How to access expanded consciousness
• The role of service and meditation
• How meditation raises motivational neurotransmitters like dopamine

Dr. John Gray's website: https://www.marsvenus.com/

Where to find Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/

 

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on June 30, 2016. 

#meditation #mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse #menarefrommars #womenarefromvenus #consciousness 

Teens, Lies, and Energy: Jessica Fitzpatrick and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dr. Jessica Fitzpatrick is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at State University of New York. She is passionate about helping teenagers navigate the challenges of this period of their lives. She has founded the organization Youth Rights Agency of Western New York to empower young people. Dr. Fitzpatrick is trained in aromatherapy and Eden Energy Medicine. She uses these holistic practices with young clients.

Here, she and Dawson reflect on many topics such as:

• Ways in which physical symptoms may be dismissed by doctors as “all in your head”
• Energy healing for young people
• Teens discovering what is "normal and not-normal"
• The often-skewed sense of what love means for teenagers
• The idea of manifestation: allowing rather than pushing
• Vision boards and being intentional with your words
• Using tricks to make us more conscious

Dr. Fitzpatrick's Youth Rights Agency of Western New York can be found at: https://youthrightsagency.wixsite.com/yrawny

Host Dr. Church can be found at: http://www.dawsongift.com/

 

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on March 8, 2018. 

#mindtomatter #energyhealing #blissbrain #youth #eft #eftuniverse 

Trauma and Spirituality: Mirjam Paninski and Dawson Church in Conversation

​​Mirjam Paninski is a teacher and PhD candidate at Brown University. She also mentors EFT practitioners through EFT Universe. She will be hosting some upcoming episodes of this podcast while Dawson is traveling!

Here Mirjam and Dawson share their passion for combining spirituality with healing trauma, covering topics such as:

• Spiritual bypassing, ignoring the suffering in the world
• Recovery from PTSD 
• How trauma can turn into a superpower 
• Forgiving your ancestors 
• How do you believe in a divine presence in the midst of suffering?
• Grieving your inner child, acknowledge the hurt, learning to receive again
• The ways EFT lets you interrupt the repetition compulsion, even for a minute
• EFT as a dimmer switch, dimming the emotions that get in the way of meditation
• Holding space for the pain that lies behind other people’s accusation and judgment
• Interrupting your old patterns of perception

Mirjam's website: https://www.mirjampaninski.com/

Dawson's website: http://www.dawsongift.com/

#blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #ancestralhealing 

Connecting With Joy Daily: Jennie Lee and Dawson Church in Conversation

Jennie Lee is a yoga therapist, and the author of two books: Breathing Love: Meditation in Action, and True Yoga: Practicing with the Yoga Sutras for Happiness and Spiritual Fulfillment. She focuses on finding joy in connection with the universe in meditation, and on encouraging her coaching clients to develop a consistent spiritual practice. In this program, she and Dawson dialog about consciousness and how we can shift our lives into connection and happiness with meditation, despite the challenges of busy lives.

Topics discussed include:

• What it means when your life lacks joy
• How even positive people can get discouraged by life’s setbacks
• The ways meditation connects you with the divine energy of love
• The challenge of bringing discipline to a meditation practice
• Approaching meditation as a long term endeavor
• The “why” of meditation
• How you stay connected to love in the crazy world we live in

Guest Website: https://jennieleeyogatherapy.com/

Host Website: http://www.dawsongift.com/

 

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on February 8, 2018. 

#meditation #mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse 

Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path: David Gandelman and Dawson Church in Conversation

David Gandelman is a teacher, author, and guide whose mission is to awaken souls on their path of growing into being human, and living an enlightened, purpose-driven life. He is the author of The 7 Energies of the Soul: Awaken Your Inner Creator, Healer, Warrior, Lover, Artist, Explorer, and Master (release date is 2/22/22). He is the founder of the Meditation School app and podcasts. He has taught at Cornell University, NBC, SAP, and numerous other organizations.

He and Dawson share a long-standing interest in meditation and here they discuss:

• Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now 
• The realization that we are responsible for our own spiritual development
• The meaning of enlightenment 
• The oneness we’re all part of
• Launching yourself on a meditation practice 

For more about David or his book, The 7 Energies of the Soul: Awaken Your Inner Creator, Healer, Warrior, Lover, Artist, Explorer and Master: https://www.meditationschool.us/

For more about host Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/

#blissbrain #mindtomatter #meditation #eft #eftuniverse #energy #creator #healer #warrior #spiritualpath 

Finding Happiness: Dean Radin and Dawson Church in Conversation

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). A BSEE degree graduate of electrical engineering. Magna Cum Laude and with honors in physics. He’s also an author of hundreds scientific, technical and popular articles. Four dozen book chapters and four popular books.

In this episode, he and Dawson discuss:

• How the mind has the ability to affect matter
• At the subatomic level, atoms respond to thought
• The double slit experiment: Observation changes the behavior of molecules
• The intentions of meditators to exert a more powerful influence on matter
• The life area to which we pay the most attention is the one we excel at
• Clarity: Being extremely clear about desired outcome
• Attention and intention happen outside of space-time
• Consciousness is not locked into space-time

Dean's website is: https://www.deanradin.com/

Dawson can be found at: http://www.dawsongift.com/

Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on June 28, 2016.

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #findinghappiness #eft #eftuniverse #meditation #realmagic