Episodes
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Slowness and Stillness: Michael Shea and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Thursday Dec 29, 2022
Dr. Michael J. Shea is an expert in the fields of somatic psychology and craniosacral therapy. He holds a doctorate in Somatic Psychology at The Union Institute and leads seminars in the US and Europe. He is a formal student of the Dalai Lama, and for 10 years apprenticed with a medicine man named John Nelson on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He is the author of a series of books on biodynamic craniosacral therapy.
Here he and Dawson talk about:
- 93% of Americans have an unhealthy heart
- 88% of Americans have metabolic disruption
- History of PTSD and obesity linked to being a Vietnam-era veteran
- If you have metabolic dysfunction, what is the first thing you do?
- How to read the labels and notice ingredients
- Manage your kitchen; learn to cook consciously
- The kitchen is the new ER
- Interoceptive awareness, noticing sensations in body, sensing your heartbeat
- The embodiment of the senses
- The polarization in the culture cuts us off from our bodies
- Visceroception - new word for the perception of when we’re hungry
- Benefits of becoming aware of your heartbeat
- When do you need physical adjustment like massage, chiropractic?
- How our bodies know how to heal
- The importance of prayer, poetry, song, calming the mind
For more about Dr. Michael J. Shea: https://www.sheaheart.com/
For more about Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #immunesystem #balancingenergy #slownessandstillness
Monday Dec 19, 2022
The Healer Within: Roger Jahnke and Dawson Church in Conversation
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, is one of the most respected luminaries in the fields of evidence-based mind-body practice, wellness, integrative medicine, and Chinese medicine. He has dedicated his professional life to sharing the ancient holistic empowerment and healing traditions of China, distilled for contemporary times. He is the author of, The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi.
He has trained over 3000 Tai Chi and Qigong Teachers internationally. With 35 years of clinical practice as a physician of acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and 10 research tours to China’s temples and sacred mountain sites, Dr. Jahnke has emerged as a key spokesperson for and master teacher of Tai Chi, Qigong, and mind-body practice.
Here he and Dawson reflect on:
- Every indigenous culture in the world developed insights about the way the world worked
- Around the campfire a million years ago, science was observational science
- Who we now called scientists used to be called “Natural Philosophers”
- When you observe a person, you can see their degree of vitality
- Even eighteenth century, “vitalism” judged the vitality of a person
- In India, degree of “Prana” in Ayurvedic medicine
- Called “Mana” in native Hawaiian culture
- Ancient Chinese medicine observed “Qi”
- The ancients could see organs inside dead people, but recognized Qi is absent
- If you stay active, rest well, nourish yourself with a variety of natural foods
- Asked how you could train up Qi. So, they developed Kung Fu
- Qigong much later, fifteenth century, making medicine in the human system
- How do we boost our qi?
- Lengthen spine, yoga, breath, mindful body scan, tension release, and massage
- Long Deep Slow (LSD) breath
- The people doing Tai Chi in the park aren’t weird, it’s the people who aren't!
- Anxiety and depression reduce our qi and energy tremendously
- Yeong Shun is the Chinese wellness routine, includes apoptogenic superfood herbs
To learn more about Dr. Roger Jahnke, http://healthaction.net/ and http://instituteofintegralqigongandtaichi.org/
For more on Dr. Dawson Church: www.dawsongift.com
#qi #thehealingwithin #mindtomatter #eft #blissbrain #eftuniverse #chinesemedicine #qigong #wellness #taichi
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Dr. Eric Pearl is the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of The Reconnection. Jillian is Eric's teaching partner and Head of Development for their company The Reconnection, LLC. Through powerful workshops, seminars and training programs, they have offered the Reconnective Healing Experience in over 100 countries. They have also coauthored The Direct Path to Healing: A Trinity of Energy, Light & Information. It shows how simple healing can be, and that it doesn't require complex techniques or time-consuming practices.
Discover their work at: https://www.thereconnection.com/
Here Jillian, Eric and Dawson discuss:
- Dr. Eric's background
- How Dr. Eric and Jillian met
- In true healing time and space falls away
- We’re embedded in what we think we are
- In a state of pure being you are neither the witness nor the witnessed
- No focus on the outcome of healing; you are one with everyone and everything
- During healing sessions we’re receiving not sending
- Reconnective Healing’s effects increase with distance
- Love and play are integral to the experience of healing
- There is no state, it’s ever-present
- Once you reconnect, the essence of all of healing modalities is available
For more on host Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #thereconnection #healing #thedirectpathtohealing
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Heal Beyond Expectations: Maya Novak and Dawson Church in Conversation
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Dr. Maya Novak is the author of Heal Beyond Expectations. Over 350,000 people have already used Dr. Maya's website and the healing services available there, helping them heal their bodies and lives from the inside out with confidence and ease. She is host of The Mindful Injury Recovery World Summit and developer of the Mindful Injury Recovery method.
Here she and Dawson talk about:
- Her rock-climbing accident
- Are your beliefs supporting your health?
- How and why people often think their body is letting them down
- How our bodies don’t just want to survive, they want to thrive!
- If there are delays or complications, ask yourself if there is something else you need to deal with
- Often there were signs in advance, but we pushed them aside
- Another question to ask yourself, what is unresolved in your past?
- This injury might be an opportunity to stop and think
- Forgiveness is essential to healing physical trauma; it changes our biochemistry
- Forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting, but it frees us from past trauma
- Four forms of forgiveness, the first is forgiving yourself
- Putting yourself in a positive state of mind when you wake up
- The Mindful Injury Recovery Design Model
- Study gets information but nothing changes
For more on Dr. Maya Novak: https://www.mayanovak.com/
And to reach Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #healbeyondexpectations #mindfulinjuryrecovery #trauma
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
The Science of Channeling: Helané Wahbeh and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Helané Wahbeh is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, an adjunct assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University, president of the Parapsychological Association, and author of The Science of Channeling. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and completed two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, PTSD and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her research into the range of altered states found in channeling.
She and Dawson discuss:
- Dr. Wahbeh's background
- IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences)
- Parapsychology
- The materialist paradigm
- The post-materialist paradigm where our consciousness is not limited to our brains
- The best evidence for nonlocality of consciousness comes from remote viewing
- Accessing energy from beyond our conventional dimensions of time and space
- Spectrum ranges from hunches and intuitive hits, to trance channeling
- How every person can channel but the way it shows up is unique to them
- Meditation as one of the strongest predictors of channeling
- How our intentions affect the outside world
- Study of 17 energy medicine healers with 200 people with hand wrist pain
- Evanescence, length and angle of the oxygen-hydrogen bond
- The paradigm that is slowly changing
For more information about Dr. Helané Wahbeh and IONS: https://noetic.org/
For more on Dr. Dawson Church: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#mindtomatter #eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #ions #meditation #channeling #highenergyhealth
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Zero Point Intention: Alfred Heath and Dawson Church in Conversation
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Over the past 30 years, Alfred Heath has been as an explorer, student, developer, practitioner, teacher, and trainer in the areas of consciousness, psychospiritual growth, energy healing, counseling, and coaching. He has been involved with energy psychology since 2004 and is the Principal Master Trainer and primary torchbearer for the modality Be Set Free Fast™, (BSFF) created by Dr. Larry Nims, PhD. He maintains a part-time, online coaching and training practice from his home in St Ives, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Here Alfred and Dawson discuss:
- Quantum physics and energy
- Core relationships and family history
- Cue: a word you give your subconscious mind
- Muscle testing
- Test statements
- Exploring Buddhism Sufism and Asian traditions
- Alfred's background
- The common thread of the expanded sense of consciousness
- Zero point intention
Alfred can be found at: https://alfredheath.com/
And Dawson at: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #eft #eftuniverse #highenergyhealth #zeropointintention #energy #subconsciousmind
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
The Language Your Body Speaks: Ellen Meredith and Dawson Church in Conversation
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Ellen Meredith is the author of Your Body Will Show You the Way and The Language Your Body Speaks. She has been in practice since 1984 as an energy healer, conscious channel, and medical intuitive, helping over ten thousand clients and students worldwide. Asan energy medicine practitioner, Ellen helps clients engage with the body's energies to activate healing. She teaches energy medicine courses on the Shift Network and has served on the faculty of energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden since 2010.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
- Tuning into your body as a source of guidance
- The situations our bodies face when we often aren’t listening
- Outside-in thinking vs inside-out
- How to get guidance from your body
- Ask: “What’s going on, how can I positively influence it?
- The power of reframing
- How focusing on results keeps us imprisoned
- Play, experiment, move, change
Ellen's website is: https://listening-in.com/
Dawson can be found at: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #languageyourbodyspeaks #yourbodywillshowyoutheway #energypsychology
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Love Art: Carole Watanabe and Dawson Church in Conversation
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Carol Watanabe is a leading artist and teacher. Her tapestries, sculptural handmade paper works, and paintings hang in private collections, hotels, banks, hospitals, and corporate offices across the country. She lives and teaches "life as an art form" during the winters at her art school in Sebastopol, California, known as Art Heaven. In the summers she’s in the French fauvist village of Collioure where she paints and sells her work in her own gallery, L'Art Vivant.
She and Dawson discuss:
- Art as solace
- Magical human connections
- How an idea becomes a fact
- What to do when you get knocked off the creative path
- Creating art out of exuberance rather than suffering
- Creating a community around yourself who are also creators
- Seed the joy that fuels your creative path
- Expanding on what you love
Carole can be found at: https://www.artfully.com/
And Dawson at: http://www.dawsongift.com/
Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on February 22, 2018.
#eft #eftuniverse #mindtomatter #blissbrain #art #creativity #highenergyhealth
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Fitness Is Spirituality: Samir Becic and Dawson Church in Conversation
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Samir Becic has been named the "#1 Fitness Trainer in the World" four times in a row. He’s the founder of Health Fitness Revolution, a non-profit movement that aims to spread the message of health and fitness throughout the world in order to prevent disease and improve quality of life. He’s the author the book ReSync Your Life - a program for people to become a stronger, leaner, smarter, and happier version of themselves in 28 days. His philosophy emphasizes both the physical and spiritual aspects of health and fitness.
He and Dawson are passionate about this approach, and share many lively insights during their dialog, covering topics such as:
- Physical fitness: how it sharpens mental focus and heightens spirituality
- The result of pain
- The 5 components of a healthy life
- The role of water in weight loss
- The benefit of starting small
- Top healthy living tips
- Breaking the weight gain cycle
Samir’s website is: https://samirbecic.com/
And host, Dr. Dawson Church can be found at: http://www.dawsongift.com/
Note this episode was recorded originally live for HealthyLife.net on December 7, 2017.
#eft #eftuniverse #blissbrain #mindtomatter #fitness #health #highenergyhealth
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
PTSD Dreams: Linda Yael Schiller and Dawson Church in Conversation
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW, is a mind-body and spiritual psychotherapist, consultant, author, and international teacher. Linda facilitates group dream circles, provides individual, group, and corporate consultation, and trains professionals on working with dreams. She has designed several innovative methods for dreamwork. Linda is trained in numerous mind-body methods such as EMDR, EFT, energy psychology, Enneagram, and integrated trauma treatments. In addition to her professional work with dreams, she has been involved with her own dream-sharing group for almost 40 years. She lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
- Linda’s background
- The only person who can tell you what your dream means to you is you
- Dream incubation
- The collective unconscious
- GAIA: Guided Active Imagination Approach
- Gathering of resources before working with a PTSD dream
- First question: Would you like to talk about having had the dream?
- Second question: Would you like to work on this dream?
- Ask: “Is there anything inside the dream that might have been a resource?”
- The ability to turn to a scary figure and ask for information
- Trauma can be soul-shattering, producing dissociation
- The goal to return to state of wellbeing
- World events have produced trauma in many untraumatized people
More about Linda and her work can be found at: https://lindayaelschiller.com/
More about Dawson and his work can be found at: http://www.dawsongift.com/
#eft #eftuniverse #dreams #ptsd #mindtomatter #blissbrain #trauma #ptsddreams