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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

Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Living Open Versus Closed: Nate Klemp and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
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The two modes of being in the world: open and closed
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Nate's background and journey to this work
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Tantric Buddhism says we can burn out the roots of our desires
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Why being closed affects your sleep
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External closure to those who disagree with you
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How the real work is done when you’re back to ordinary reality
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Living in a closed mind you still get short term pleasures
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Experiencing sadness grief as part of the human experience
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Daily why and how Nate interrupts his closedness and moves into openness
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What openness looks and feels like

Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Healing Through Feeling: Rachel Kaplan and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
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Rachel's story
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How human relationships inherently involve loss and challenges
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When decades of emotional numbness isn’t easy to overcome
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When people don’t allow themselves a physical based feeling
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The lurking sense of impostor syndrome
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The inability to slow down because of all the distractions
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First Step... ask a key question: What qualities of me do I not accept?
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Emotional release work
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Letting the energy of emotions move through you
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Moving anger is high energy release
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Emotional resilience
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Why EMDR is one of the most powerful forms of trauma healing
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Brave into the unknown... face your fears and you’ll build self-trust

Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
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The five core characteristics of the enlightenment experience
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Intensity - the emotional centers of the brain are triggered when something significant happens to us
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Oneness - as we surrender, there’s a drop in activity of the frontal lobe
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Limiting distractions
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Focus... but then surrender
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How long do you need to meditate to start neural plasticity? (... just 12 minutes!)
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Being happy, creativity, concentrating, and problem solving
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The sense of unity to community and global humanitarian the universe

Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
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Why people turn to Buddhism
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Gandhi’s 6 Core Values
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Perry's story
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The questions: Who am I? Why am I here? How is the world put together?
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Simplicity
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Meditation
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Emptying your mind
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Releasing the self judgment that brings us down

Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
Tuesday Oct 01, 2024
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Why most people are able to feel energy even if they can’t see it
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What is Tapping
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How Tapping converts pressure into an electrical impulse to manage stress
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Why David and Dawson picked EFT
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Energy and healing
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When people tap, you see a little spark in their hands then the energy travels up to the brain along meridian lines
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After the tapping sessions you see the different energy systems vividly
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How David and Donna work along with some client stories
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Self-healing is a gift handed to you when you’re born
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Believe in energy, and it will change your life
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How energy medicine and energy psychology work together

Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Consciousness Is All There Is: Tony Nader and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
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Life’s big questions of freedom and happiness
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Research on the brain and consciousness
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Transcendental Meditation (TM)
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Consciousness as emerging out of cells and brain
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Training ourselves to direct our intention inward rather than outward
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The infinite absolute unbounded self within
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The purpose of life as an expansion of consciousness which leads to happiness
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The whole purpose of our existence
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Creating peace and harmony within a group to change collective awareness

Monday Sep 09, 2024
Reversing Alzheimer’s: Heather Sandison and Dawson Church in Conversation
Monday Sep 09, 2024
Monday Sep 09, 2024
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Optimizing our health as we age
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The six risk factors of Alzheimer's: Toxicity. Nutrients. Stressors. Structure. Signaling. Infection.
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Three types of toxins: Mold, household, and personal chemicals
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Heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium: what they do to our body
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Balancing stress
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High quality sleep
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Your body's signals
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Infection as a risk factor, especially gum health
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Case histories: the first major study was published in 2022

Thursday Sep 05, 2024
How Our Negative Patterns Serve Us: Jerry Colonna and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
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Jerry's story: walking away from the money and glamor of being a venture capitalist
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“What is the path to enlightenment?”
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Confronting the things that have held us back
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“How have I been complicit in creating these circumstances?”
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Thinking we lack the power to create changes
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“How has this belief system served me?
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The gap between the world as it could be and the world as it is
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The importance of pausing and taking note of how you feel at this moment
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Start by being kind to yourself

Thursday Aug 22, 2024
The Gift of Your Shadow: Amrit Sandhu and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
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Amrit's struggled with depression and career misalignment
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Doing what you love: inspired evolution
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The benefits of a "retreat"
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Meditation
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Choosing a retreat designed to bring you into enhanced mindfulness
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Your soul has a reason it’s here
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We are the universe looking in on itself
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We are all pure consciousness

Sunday Aug 11, 2024
Sunday Aug 11, 2024
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Amanda's background
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Yoga as the process of creating space in your life
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Healing starts with the body, second the soul, and finally the mind
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We usually try to heal in reverse, using the mind, overriding the body
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If we want to change our thoughts, we have to start with the body
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Anxiety starts with fight of flight in the body
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Observation: How does anxiety manifest in my body?
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Healing isn’t a linear process
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Connecting with your soul starts with getting quiet
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Create a vision by asking, “What does that empowered version of me look like?”
