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Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
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Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath. Research interests include the physiology of emotion, intuition and optimal functioning. His work focuses on the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, and health as well as the global interconnectivity between people and the earth’s energetic systems.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Rollin's background and interest in this work
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How the heart’s field is 100 times greater than brain’s field
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Experiments that show heart coherence and meditation could change DNA
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Needing both heart coherence and intention
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What is heart coherence
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How the heart is carrying information about our emotional states
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The Global Coherence Initiative
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The link between earth’s geomagnetic field and human electromagnetic fields
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The Earth’s Field Line Resonances are plucked by the solar wind
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A study where people radiate love and coherence using the heart lock-in
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Why negative emotions like frustration produce 1400 biological changes
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Ways to turn your emotions around at the energetic level with heart focused breathing
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Importance of pausing as often as possible throughout the day
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Asking: “What am I feeding the field?”
To learn more about Dr. Rollin McCraty and the HeartMath Institute: https://www.heartmath.org/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #heartmath #heartcoherence #emotions
Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
Jackie Jackson is a yoga teacher certified in Somatic EMDR. She is the author of Urge Overkill: A Story of Breaking Free, a self-help book on based on her own experience and her work at a domestic violence and rape shelter. Her second book is Holistic Trauma Healing: Strategies to Integrate the Body, Mind, and Spirit, exploring how to use conventional with complementary modalities. Jackie is also a group facilitator with Other Parents Like Me, a national online network supporting caregivers of children facing mental health challenges.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
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Jackie's story and purpose
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Why addiction is a family disease
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Questioning our thoughts, and holding space for contrasting needs
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The gayatri mantra
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Remaining positive no matter what
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Emotional triggers
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Experience glimmers
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Self-care and boundaries
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When adverse behaviors appear in loved ones
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Maintaining connection with I statements and understanding
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Walking beside people without trying to fix or change them
To learn more about Jackie: https://www.jacquelinejackson.net/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #addiction #somaticemdr
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Sol Smith spent nearly two decades as a college professor, always feeling and doing things out of step with everyone else, before realizing that he was autistic. He works with individuals, as well as offering educational seminars about neurodiversity. He is the author of The Autistic’s Guide to Self-Discovery.
Here he and Dawson talk about:
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Sol's story
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Masking; feeling like an impostor
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Why sharing puts us into a vulnerable position
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Stats: Around 3-6% of the population is autistic
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Stats: Four boys for every 1 girl
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Why only 20% are diagnosed as children, 80% are not diagnosed till adulthood
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How women mask autism better than men
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Self-assessments
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Camouflaging autistic traits
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How Autism is a type of neurodivergence
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Definition: Neurodivergence is when the brain diverges from typical development
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Tools for those with Autism like exercise, sleep and meditation
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Short term tools: steps like changing your setting, activities, mantras
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Going from motivation to stress
An important topic! Find Sol's book and work at: https://www.professorsol.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #autism #neurodivergence
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Linda Backman is a psychologist and regression therapist. She has been guiding a process she calls Soul Regressions for 30 years and has conducted thousands of Past Life and Between Lives Soul Regressions. Among her books are Soul Design, Souls on Earth, The Evolving Soul and Bringing Your Soul to Light. They describe how reincarnation plays a pivotal role in our personal growth and relationships.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
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Linda's background
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Research into actual past life cases
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Working with clients on the soul level
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What is soul energy and where does it come from
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Energy that pushes us to evolve and grow
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Why most of us do not remember our past lives
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The discovery that knowing the specifics of our past lives isn’t necessary to heal
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How you know when you’re on track and off track
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Trusting the signs the universe is giving you
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How some souls are here to aid humanity not necessarily designed for earth
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Your core is your higher self and your guides speaking to you
To learn more about Dr. Linda Backman: https://ravenheartcenter.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #souldesign #pastlives #soulenergy
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Wednesday Jul 23, 2025
Dr. Bernard Beitman is a graduate of Yale Medical School and did his psychiatric residency at Stanford University. He is the author of Life-Changing Synchronicities: A Doctor’s Journey of Coincidence and Serendipity. Dr Beitman is the former chair of psychiatry of the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School for 17 years; he writes a blog for Psychology Today on coincidence and is the coauthor of the award-winning book Learning Psychotherapy. He’s the founder of The Coincidence Project, and you can share your coincidence story with him at https://thecoincidenceproject.net/
Here he and Dawson talk about:
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How and why love is fundamental to creating coincidences
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The inner GPS compass
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Bernard's background
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They ways individually we are part of a global mind
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Love connections over time and space
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Shared consciousness of all humanity
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Contributing to the collective consciousness of humankind
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Questions: What is it that you’re here to do? What’s your purpose?
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How one might contribute to planetary healing
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Global synchronicity
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Consciousness on this planet as a collaborative
To learn more about Dr. Beitman: https://www.coincider.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #coincidence #synchronicity #consciousness
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Thursday Jul 17, 2025
Scott Stabile is the author of Big Love: The Undeniable Joy of Following Your Heart. He is a passionate love advocate who believes there is no force more powerful than love to create real connection and healing in our world. Scott guides transformation breathwork journeys and leads personal empowerment workshops internationally. His inspirational posts have attracted more than 350,000 Facebook fans.
Here he and Dawson talk about:
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Why it is entirely human to have conflict and not like people
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Accepting who we are as we are in the moment
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Being in alignment with your heart’s energy
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Our journey through life is figuring out how to be with our experiences
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How can we stay in our hearts despite all our emotions
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How do you live love in a world in which horrible things are always happening?
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Aligning yourself with your values
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How can you be a living example of what you want to see in the world?
Scott's website is: https://www.scottstabile.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #biglove #joy #followyourheart
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Dr. Peta Stapleton has 25 years' experience as a registered Clinical and Health Psychologist and is currently a Professor in Psychology at Bond University in Australia. She is the author of The Science behind Tapping and has been an investigator in dozens of clinical trials, mostly of EFT tapping. In 2019 Peta was named Psychologist of the Year by the Australian Allied Health Awards.
She and Dawson have collaborated on many studies, and here they review:
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Peta's background
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Treating anorexia and bulimia
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EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Clinical Trials and Research
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After EFT had better restraint, in the next 6 months they kept on losing weight
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How tapping can leave you in a meditative state
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Where tapping and meditation is taking the world
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Interactions with children, partners and team members after using EFT
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Why tapping can lead to an increase in happiness and calm
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Can EFT result in changes in countries and global systems?
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Children learning to tap in school
For more information about Dr. Peta Stapleton: https://www.petastapleton.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #tapping #research
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Thursday Jul 03, 2025
Cindy Wigglesworth is the bestselling author of SQ21: The Twenty-One Skills of Spiritual Intelligence. Her SQ21 spiritual intelligence self-assessment has created a validated and diversity-appropriate way of having spiritual conversations in the workplace. John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, calls SQ “the next frontier in leadership.” Cindy has appeared on Oprah, PBS, and numerous other national media and conferences. Through her company Deep Change, she consults on leadership development and sustainable corporate culture.
She and Dawson have been sharing ideas about SQ for years, and here talk about:
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How personal growth makes you so much more effective as a leader
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Cindy's background
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Why SQ is love in action
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Defining SQ as the ability to behave with wisdom and compassion while maintaining inner and outer peace
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An essential skill is distinguishing between your ego and higher self
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Awareness that your ego self exists
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Observing the ego and noticing the differences between it and the higher self
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Recognizing in the body the situations where ego wants to take charge
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Learning to hear the voice of the higher self.
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Shifting from Ego to Higher Self, acronym, SOUL
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S for Stop. Interrupt the pattern.
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O for Observe what’s happening in your body
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U for Understanding deeply from the other person’s perspective
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L for Love; find a loving response
Learn more about Cindy and her work at: https://www.deepchange.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #ego #soul #deepchange
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
Thursday Jun 26, 2025
On a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs, James Maskell has spent the past decade innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. He created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference. He is author of the book The Evolution of Medicine, which prepares health professionals for a new era of personalized, participatory medicine.
James and I discuss:
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James' background
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Discovering our society is on the brink of a precipice of chronic disease
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People supporting each other in their own healing
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Why all lifestyle diseases lead to brain inflammation
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TruNeura software
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How our culture reinforces the most unhealthy behaviors
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James' personal vision
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Collective models of ownership
You can find more information at: https://goevomed.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #truneura #evolutionofmedicine #chronicdisease
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Michael J. Gelb is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, innovative leadership and executive coaching. His clients include DuPont, Emerson, Genentech, KPMG, Merck, Microsoft, Nike and YPO. Michael trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique and holds a fifth-degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido. Michael is the author of 18 books which have been translated into 25 languages and have sold more than one million copies. They include How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, The Healing Organization and Walking Well: A New Approach for Comfort, Vitality and Inspiration in Every Step with Bruce Fertman.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
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Where we hold our traumas
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“Character armor”
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Why our old patterns are embedded, and change is hard. What can we do?
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Benefits of EFT, walking, qigong, and meditation
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Expanding rather than contracting
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As well as trauma triggers, we can find glimmers that remind us of wellbeing
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Finding your glimmer.
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A day in the life of Michael Gelb: his personal practices for wellbeing
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How is body awareness linked to spirituality?
To learn more about Michael Gelb: https://michaelgelb.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #creativity #innovation #leadership