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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 Mar 27, 2025
Insight and Mindfulness: Andrew Holecek and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
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Chongyam Trungpa: “Meditation isn’t a sedative, it’s a laxative”
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Andrew's background
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The aspects of the unconscious mind
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Cognitive scientists tell us 95 percent of what we do is driven by unconscious patterns
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How to start making the unconscious processes conscious
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How can you attain something you already have?
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The problem with the concept of a Spiritual Path
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The Saint who said: “Enlightenment was my biggest disappointment”
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Underneath all the experience is openness
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Why we are a localization of consciousness
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Andrew's definition of meditation: habituation to openness
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The 5 nocturnal meditations
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Using your sleep for your psychospiritual development

Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Lighting Up Your Soul: Mandy Morris and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
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Mandy's story
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What challenge do you believe you can’t get through?
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What small change will you commit to 100%?
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From that day to me finding my husband was 2 weeks
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Ask: “Why are we manifesting what we don’t want?”
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Transmutation of trauma into light
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Being in the head rather than in the heart
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Mastering yourself: life will never be perfect
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What lights your soul up?
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Look for just the next step, you don’t need to see the destination
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Clearing the clutter

Thursday Mar 13, 2025
When Everything Falls Apart: Fleet Maull and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
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Fleet's background
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Exercise 1: What dark part of your life feels like it can never be fixed?
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Exercise 2: Regulate breath, posture, voice, get ourselves out of fight flight
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Finding a nugget of time when you’re in wellbeing, and build on that
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Why healing the world starts with our individual work
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How genetically we’ve inherited the collective trauma of the human race
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Plugging back into quantum field
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The three views of human nature
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The goals at Heart Mind Institute
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What are the three simplest foundational practices (breathwork, witness perspective/mindfulness, and bodywork)

Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Healing the Incurable: Ofer Niv and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
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Ofer's background
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The question to ponder: What in your body seems like something you can't change?
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Finding the source of problems; the seed might be in a previous lifetime
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Could your condition have a spiritual and energetic origin?
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High-frequency light
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Divine light oneness
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Scalar waves
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How our individual meditation sessions radiate out to the world
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In meditation, see your light radiating out

Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Releasing Chronic Pain: Rick Olderman and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
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The definition of acute versus chronic pain
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The 3 problems that cause almost all back pain
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Exercise: identifying chronic back pain by lying down, legs bent vs flat
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Why the posture with knees bent feels better?
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Fascial myofibroblasts have 6x the flexibility of regular fascia
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Old injuries
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What to do if you’re walking poorly and triggering pain?
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Tension in lower back
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Unlocking your knees

Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
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Research on psilocybin for PTSD and addictions
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Microdosing
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Plant medicine for profound understanding of something beyond self
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Lifestyle management
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Serotonin receptors which synthesizes other neurotransmitters
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Transcendence of self
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Dopamine and oxytocin
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Failure to seek social support
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The many layers of trauma

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
