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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.
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.
Episodes

Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
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Jennifer's background
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Soul intention
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How dissonance creates a yearning for harmony
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The reason why the body doesn’t know the difference between reality and a story
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Deep compassion and trust
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Fact: One thought of compassion is more powerful than evil
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Using the moment of your reaction to heal the part of you that’s ready to heal
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The importance of spending 3 minutes just feeling your feelings
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Exercise: Say “I feel X” without telling the story behind the feeling
View Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/

Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Spiritual Aging: Carol Orsborn and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
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Why aging in the best of times is difficult
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Searching for meaning and purpose
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Exploring aging as a spiritual experience
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Carol's story
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How to age positively
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What to do when you feel powerless and alone
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Unprecedented joy and fulfillment
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Learning to love aging is a new skill
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The reasons why older you get, the freer you get
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Living passionately and fully at any age

Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Dreaming Your Future: Theresa Cheung and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
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Theresa's background
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Why where your attention goes during the day appears in your dreams
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Dream journaling
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Avoiding screens an hour before sleep
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Allowing the first half of your day to be quiet time just for you
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How dreams can alert you to medical conditions you might not know you have
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How the dreaming mind knows that your real wealth is your soul
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Ways dreams can show you your unconscious mindsets; things you aren’t admitting to yourself
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Looking beneath the surface for meaning
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The practice of seeing your waking day as a dream

Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Inner Stillness: Jiulio Consiglio and Dawson Church in Conversation
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
Saturday Jan 18, 2025
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Jiulio's story
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When you allow negative thoughts to remain unchallenged
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In the Inner Stillness, the mind is silence
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Surrender, trust, faith, no inner conflict
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Living moment by moment
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How attachment to outcomes is the source of our suffering, not desire
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Fearlessness, empowerment discernment unconditional love
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From the inner stillness you’re observing the outer world
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Becoming aware of the thinking mind and then the space between thoughts
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Enlightenment is awareness of inner stillness
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Why we never change when we’re uncomfortable
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In the enlightenment state you’re observing the outside world
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The key is to choose love and stillness consistently

Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Subtle Energy and Your Nervous System: C.J. Llewelyn and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
Wednesday Jan 15, 2025
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Vagus patterns in the chakras
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Filtering and attuning to reading energies
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Feeling safe in our bodies allows us to connect with our spiritual experiences
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Compassionate connection with self and others
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The vagus nerve is bilateral, so as we use bilateral eye movements or tapping we no longer respond somatically to triggering stimuli
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When the trauma is cleared, you feel different in your body
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Exercise: Be curious about the energy in your body

Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Mind Magic: James Doty and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
Thursday Dec 26, 2024
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James' story
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Understanding that everyone is suffering
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Becoming friends with the Dalai Lama, Thich Nat Hanh, and Eckart Tolle
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To live in fear or love
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Seeing the suffering of others
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How your mental state has a profound effect on body
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Manifesting all the time and why the baggage we carry from childhood affects what we manifest
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The 6 to 10 million bits of information passing through our sensory system every second ...but we can only pay attention to 50 to 100 of these
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Creating neural pathways through repetition, embedding our intention
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Why embedded thoughts lock us into an unhealthy narrative
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To be a whole person you have to integrate your shadow ...every human being has one
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How to let the negative thoughts slide by, say “I deserve love and compassion”

Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Herbal Intelligence: David Hoffmann and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
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The value of living a life of simplicity
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Embracing everything including the darkness
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Getting rid of conditioning
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How Herbalism is integrating humans into the whole of life
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Why in every culture from the most ancient ones they have used herbalism
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Thinking of herbs as alleviating distress and empowering rather than curing
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The 6 herbs that everyone should know about
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Reducing inflammation, easing coughs, improving skin, promoting relaxation
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The profound science behind herbalism
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Being in community with people, animals, plants and nature
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Enoughness gives us space to grow and love each other

Monday Nov 25, 2024
The Awakening Intensive with Dawson Church
Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
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Celebrating the connection we all share as community
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Exercise 1: Energetic connection with the whole group
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Exercise 2: Maintaining healthy boundaries and returning to your own energy space
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Exercise 3: Tapping to release tension in the body
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Exercise 4: Eye movements to bring the brain into alpha-theta state
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The Awakening Intensive Meditation Retreat
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Ancient spiritual practices filtered through the lens of neuroscience
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The Four Circuits of the Brain's Enlightenment Network
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How activating the Enlightenment Network leads to ecstatic states of joy

Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Your Magical Power of Choice: Jonathan Hammond and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
Tuesday Nov 12, 2024
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Jonathan's background
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Empathic attunement with indigenous mind
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The enchantment of human and natural worlds
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The energy of Hawaii
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Aloha: to share life force or breath
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What’s lighting you up? It’s like that for a reason!
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The Huna tradition
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The ability to make a choice is magical power
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Trauma blindsides us and the nervous system creates an inner critic
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Looping trauma and how to interrupt it
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Using Ho’oponopono
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“I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.”

Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Fulfilling Relationships: Dené Logan and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
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Lifetime curiosity about our behavior patterns
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Often there is conflict over who’s getting what share of the energy
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Eastern traditions have an understanding of our own wholeness
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Building on Jung’s work on the masculine and feminine within each person
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Jung’s individuation process
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As a society we’re questioning: who are we?
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When you take everything away, who am I?
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Getting into intuition and synchronicity
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Why you can feel the energy between people
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Always be respectful about your partner
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Should you do your psychological growth work within the relationship?
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The first thing to do in your relationship is to ask why
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The Stoics always asked the first question: Know yourself
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Know your story and your own purpose, then bring an individuated self into the relationship dynamic
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Our relationships are these mirrors that are showing us ourselves
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You are the love of your life
