Do you sometimes feel stuck in the way that you feel or the habits that fill your days? Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a clinical psychologist, author, TEDx speaker, and mindfulness expert who is passionate about neuroplasticity, or our brain’s ability to change. The feelings of not being enough or self-critical thoughts are hardwired into our brains, but when you are able to pay attention with kindness and curiosity instead, you can start to change your brain for the better. Neuroplasticity tells us that change is always possible. Shauna has created daily practices to increase your happiness set point and is here today to share the science behind mindfulness. Everyone from Google to LinkedIn has sought out Shauna’s expertise, and you too can embrace her practices to start living a happier life. Science tells us that the only way to increase our happiness is through internal changes, not external ones. By training your brain to search for kindness, compassion, and happiness, you will automatically start to look for the good in every situation and realize your interconnectedness to the world around you.  When you care about yourself, you take care of yourself, and through becoming your own ally you can allow yourself to take a different pathway and heal more completely. Your past doesn’t have to impact your future happiness, and with Shauna’s help, you can shift from doom and despair to hope and positivity.  Are you ready to start choosing practices that help you live a healthier life, connect with the love that is inside of you, and grow your happiness muscle? Share your daily self-love rituals with us in the comments on the episode page.   In This Episode  Learn about neuroplasticity and why it means an eternal possibility of change Practices that can help you change and train your brain to become happier  Explore the difference between mindfulness and meditation and how to embrace them Specific ways that you can support your health and soothe yourself out of loneliness How to practice mindfulness when parenting or dealing with chronic pain The importance of becoming your own ally instead of your worst critic    Quotes “When we shame and judge ourselves it actually shuts down our capacity to learn, which inhibits our ability to change. And so when we judge ourselves for a behavior that we don’t want to continue, we actually lock ourselves into that very pattern.” (3:36) “No matter what has happened to you, no matter what your past, no matter what mistakes we have made, no matter what our current circumstance is, it’s never too late to change.” (8:46) “Even though external changes, winning the lottery, getting the new Tesla, whatever it is, external changes don’t change our level of happiness. Internal changes can. Happiness can be trained because the very structure of our brain can be modified.” (13:26) “When I start to feel afraid or lonely, instead of pushing it away or instead of judging myself or instead of spiraling into gloom and doom, I meet it with kindness. I say ‘oh sweetheart you are feeling really lonely right now’, and I soothe myself, that I can be my own ally, that’s such a radical perspective, to actually be on your own team.” (25:55) “When you start planting these seeds of kindness, of joy, of gratitude, they grow bigger. They change our brain.” (34:29)   Links Good Morning, I Love You by Shauna Shapiro Dr. Shauna Shapiro Website The Power of Mindfulness Shauna Shapiro TedX Talk Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook |Instagram

095: Changing Your Brain For The Better w/ Dr. Shauna Shapiro

It is well established in the literature that relationships of all types throughout our lifetime impact health and well being physically and psychologically. Research shows that most chronic diseases have lifestyle and environmental causes. Beginning in childhood and even prenatally, events and relationships the way in together which we interact with nature the world around us shape our state of health and happiness. Affection and aggression have profound implications on physical and emotional development, homeostasis and immune function. 

How we are loved, how we love each other and how we love and care for ourselves not only impact chronic disease but also resilience, depression and anxiety, sleep issues and performance. Self-care is the true health care!

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Energy medicine and the technologies that are being developed alongside it have had groundbreaking success when addressing health issues that plague our global society. Your heart chakra, biofield energy, and bioplasma technologies can help you heal yourself on a whole level to draw the negative energy out of you and help you come out shining in all aspects of your life. Key Takeaways To Better Understand The Chakra System You Must Embrace:  The scientific and spiritual aspects of the chakras, especially that of the heart chakra Accept your ability to receive signals through the human biofield and the electromagnetic spectrum  Align your heart chakra and your assemblage point to find good healing in the new health paradigm  Understanding Biofield Sciences with Dr. Thornton Streeter Dr. Thornton Streeter is the founder of the Centre of Biofield Sciences, now based in Panaji in his own research center after 18 years at the UNESCO, MIT, World Peace Centre. He focused on investigating the anatomy and physiology of the human biofield. In addition, he has also founded the Energy Medicine Exchange as well as a collaborator on the subtle energy imaging system, the Biofield Viewer. Dr. Streeter has spent over twenty-five years specializing in research of the Human Biofield and encourages research worldwide that is designed to integrate modern medicine with the traditional understanding from Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. The Importance Of Understanding The Chakras Dr. Streeter is passionate about the most powerful field that we can measure coming from the human body, our electromagnetic fields. By going around the world and visiting traditional knowledge wells to get more information about the subtle body, Dr. Streeter has found groundbreaking ways to use the Chakra’s and our Western understanding of the central nervous system to communicate knowledge through grassroots so people can experience a global health choice. Healing The Bioplasmic Field While biochemists and modern medical practitioners focus on the solid physical body, Dr. Streeter focuses on the bioplasmic field to find new ways of predicting and healing the entire body and the skeleton of the soul. Dr. Streeter wants to help you keep your family healthy and shake up your concepts around bioplasma, wave state medicine, and core frequencies. This episode is your opportunity to be initiated into the first class of the chakras dimensionality perspective and start to tap into your own innate ability to heal from the inside out and the outside in through a framework of science. Are you ready to start understanding the wonderful weave between the evolution and revelation of consciousness and honor it through your chakras? Share your thoughts on Dr. Streeter’s research and perspective with us in the comments on the episode page.   In This Episode  How the chakras can work as a preventative screening environment to various illnesses (12:10) Gain an understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum and the elephants in the room of modern medicine (24:00) Why the new understanding of the chakras lays the track for us to be energetically heart-centered and beyond (41:52) Discover the difference between wave state medicine and particle state medicine (52:24) How to ensure that you are plugged into the mains through the crown chakra by being in service with total humility (55:51)    Quotes “Our plan is to trick mankind back into Eden and save them and save ourselves humbly and in service from the fate of the lemmings.” (6:22) “What we are suggesting here is that the nervous system is like the oldfashioned wiring in your house. But the meridian system must be a fiber optic superhighway that’s able to get information at the speed of light to your brain, or maybe even faster.” (33:17) “This is the heart revolution, and it’s a velvet revolution because it allows us to understand that the heart is time, in the truest sense of two words being married together.” (47:01) “I am very comfortable in saying that the three dimensions of space, advocated by the lower three chakras, and the heart chakra, and therefore the correspondingly physical heart, are the navigational equipment that we use to surf time.” (50:32) “We’ve got an opportunity to take time in our very fingertips and rise above it and travel back and forth through time and do whatever we want.” (1:06:20) “Earth is like a star school, and it only happens when people experience a heart revolution first.” (1:08:08)   Links Biofield Viewer Energy Medicine Exchange Facebook Group The Heart Math Institute The Center For Biomath Sciences Foundation For Alternative and Integrative Medicine Full Spectrum Presentations The Colors Of Infinity Movie Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook | Instagram

122: How Energy Medicine Can Heal You w/ Thornton Streeter

Dr. Steven Masley has been surrounded by heart health since childhood. After his father suffered a stroke that changed his life, Dr. Masley decided that he would dedicate his life to helping people prevent heart disease. Through simple lifestyle changes and healthy eating, we can prevent 90% of heart disease and avoid the procedures and medications that have become commonplace. Key Takeaways If you want to improve your heart health you must:  Incorporate fruits, vegetables, nuts, and beans into your diet Get fit and stay active to improve your circulation and decrease your artery plaque  Manage your stress and mental health to improve your overall functioning  Preventing Heart Disease with Dr. Steven Masley A physician, nutritionist, author, speaker, and award-winning patient educator, Dr. Masley has devoted his medical career to the study of heart disease and aging. His passion is empowering people to achieve optimal health through comprehensive medical assessments and lifestyle changed. Achieving optimal heart health is a simple and easy thing, and Dr. Masley is here today to share how you can do it too. Taking Back Your Health Through Nutrition Food preparation and the spices and oils used can make a drastic impact on your health. By understanding which foods are ‘smart fats’ and ‘stupid fats’ you can make simple changes to your diet and improve your life in a massive way. Things like fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts are all ways that you can simply, easily, and cheaply improve the health of you and your family and can help you start feeling fantastic. The Importance of Fitness Fitness and nutrition are proven to reduce heart disease by up to 90%. If you want to start feeling better, lose weight, gain more energy, improve your brain function, and start feeling healthier, food and fitness are the way to do it. Heart disease can impact many aspects of your life including sexual dysfunction, emotions, mood, and more. By understanding how your heart works and what you can do to improve it, you can live a longer and happier life. Are you ready to transform your life and prevent heart disease? Share which of Dr. Masley’s simple tricks to better heart health you are incorporating into your daily life with me in the comments section of the episode page.   In This Episode  Learn the number one cause of heart disease and how to prevent it through simple lifestyle choices (8:20) Discover the difference between ‘smart fat’ and ‘stupid fat’ (11:30) The four food groups that can keep you healthier and keep you feeling younger (16:32) Why you should be more concerned about heart disease than any other prevalent disease (20:18) Which fitness programs can help you get your heart health back on track (24:16) The importance of heart health when it comes to your sexual health and emotions (28:04)    Quotes “When you do that, you feel better, you have more energy, and its easier to keep doing it. And you get into this positive spiral about taking care of yourself and feeling fantastic.” (4:12) “We can prevent 90% of heart disease through lifestyle choices and making the right ones, and my mission is to help people make those right choices.” (7:25) “If we made one change, it would be more vegetables, fruit, beans, and nuts, that would be the most important change we could make.” (18:02) “Eat more vegetables, fruit, beans, and nuts. And get fit. And if you do that, and you don’t smoke, we can prevent 90% of heart disease.” (22:52) “The number one cause of preventable death is related to fitness. If we can make people fitter we would probably decrease more death rates than anything else.” (24:51)   Links Dr. Steven Masley Website Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook | Instagram

121: The Key To Preventing Heart Disease w/ Dr. Steven Masley

Do you ever wake up feeling a sense of anxiety or grief, but have no personal reason to feel that way? As it turns out, we are all connected on a global scale of synchronization through a global information field. Dr. Rollin McCraty has spent his life studying the connection between the heart, mind, body, and energetic fields and is here today to share the results of his research with you. Key Takeaways If you are looking to better understand the resident frequencies of the global coherence, you must:  Understand how the heart communicates with the brain, body, and people around you Accept that globally we are synchronized to each other and the earth  Find energy through magnetic fields and feed the field with positivity and compassion  Gaining Clarity On The Heart’s Coherence with Dr. Rollin McCraty Rollin McCraty, Ph.D. is the research director at the HeartMath Institute and a Florida Atlantic University professor. Dr. McCraty is a psychophysiologist who studies the physiology of emotion. Focused on the mechanisms by which our emotions influence the cognitive process, behavior, health, and the global interconnectivity between people and the Earth’s energetic systems, he is passionate about the heart’s role in health, behavior, performance, and quality of life. The Connection Between The Heart and The Body There are four primary ways in which the heart connects to the body and communicates with the brain. The quality of these neuro signals affects your brain's function and your perceptions of the world. The magnetic fields of our Earth carry this information and can impact our ability to synchronize with each other and the world around us. Heart rate variability, intuition, and field line residences all play a part in these frequencies and can have a huge effect on your experiences in the world. Improving the Global Information Field For The Greater Good Throughout his research, Dr. McCraty has proven the slow wave of global synchronization that is taking place. We are all contributing to the global information field, and Dr. McCraty argues that by feeding this field with positivity and compassion that it is possible to become better in sync with ourselves, our peers, and the world as a whole. By taking self-responsibility for ourselves, we can increase inclusiveness, collaboration, and cooperation to build a healthier and happier global information field. Dr. McCarty is making the deniable undeniable and confirming what many of us intuitively know to be true. Are you ready to align your heart and brain and start feeding into the field positively? Share your thoughts on Dr. McCraty’s research, hypothesis, and predictions with me in the comments section of the episode page.   In This Episode  Discover the four primary ways the heart communicates with the brain and the body (2:21) Take a look at the history of psychophysiology and the current breakthroughs (8:04) Understand how your heart radiates magnetic fields and impacts global coherence (20:28) The connection between tuning forks, field line residences, and magnetic fields (29:02) Learn how we are all globally connected and how you can impact the field by feeding into it positively (34:40)    Quotes “From an energetic perspective, it is very clear that the heart is the big player in our physiology and psychophysiology. Every cell in our body feels that magnetic field, as do other people around us.” (6:10) “What we are really showing is what all the great philosophers and religions all around the planet have been talking about for millennia, which is that the heart is that doorway, if you will, to that deeper part of ourselves.” (16:03) “It is metaphorically like measuring the heart rhythms and brain waves of planet earth. As it turns out, it may not be a metaphor, but ill keep it at that for now.” (23:24) “The only thing that could really explain this is that they were all synchronizing to something external that was everywhere in California, some environmental signal. It turned out to be the time during the magnetic field. Exactly the power of the rhythms that I was talking about earlier that overlap our hearts and brains ” (33:27) “Were finding that people really are synchronizing globally, which really is amazing. We like to talk about ‘on some level we are all connected’, I hear that all the time. And what these studies are showing is that we really are, and this is the level are connected at.” (35:49)   Links HeartMath Institute Website Heart Intelligence by Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman, Howard Martin, and Rollin McCraty Science of the Heart: Volume 2 by Dr. Rollin McCraty mWave Technology Inner Balance Device Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook | Instagram

120: HeartMath w/ Dr. Rollin McCraty

Ocean Robbins was born into the famous Baskin Robbins Family. A harsh brush with the reality of unhealthy diets changed Ocean, his parents, and eventually, his grandfather’s point of view and they have never looked back since. Now the CEO of the 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network, author, speaker, facilitator, father, dancer, and movement builder, Ocean is passionate about the necessary food revolution to regain the health of our nation. Key Takeaways  Toxic chemicals that are routinely found in modern food are scientifically proven to contribute to disease, illness, and suffering You can simply enter the kingdom of vital, healthy living by eating foods which increase your health and overall longevity It is possible to promote healthy food as the norm and the foundation for health, and it can actually be cheaper than toxic foods are now  Getting Your Health Back Through Whole Foods with Ocean Robbins Ocean believes that there are two most important days of your life, the day you are born and the day you discover why you were born. His calling is to help others regain their health through healthy, delicious, sustainable food for everyone. Eating healthy is not just enough for Ocean; he wants to spread this knowledge to prevent suffering and increase the human population’s longevity. Systemically Changing The Way We View Food For The Greater Good Everything from changing government subsidies around food policies, to the way our medical system is trained to treat disease rather than create a foundation of health, and the healing power of gratitude is on the table today as we dive into the passionate work of Ocean Robbins. By eating with consciousness, bringing joy to everything in our lives, especially food, and highlighting the four pillars for a healthy life, it is possible to stand up, make a change, and get informed about the longterm effects of the foods you are putting into your body. How To Start A Food Revolution Through Love Despite a person’s political perspectives, ideologies, or faith backgrounds, the human body generally responds to food in pretty predictable ways. Ocean views this as an opportunity to work with people from all nationalities and value systems to bring together a common denominator, healthy eating. Expressing love through food is Oceans’ answer to the toxic food system that is so prevalent in our country and the world, and he is calling upon you to join him. Do you feel passionate to call the population to action in regards to the disease-causing foods our society is eating? Are you ready to join the Food Revolution? Share your favorite part of Oceans’ passion project in the comments on the episode page.   In This Episode  Why a food revolution is a key to long-lasting health and wellness globally (10:10) How the standard American diet could be ruining your health and increasing your likelihood of disease (12:00) The connection between GMOs, our digestive tracts, and food allergies in children (22:10) How to activate in the heart of humanity a stand for a food revolution through love (28:03) Ways that you can eat healthy food that tastes great without breaking the bank (34:57)    Quotes “There are a lot of people out there who don’t get a second chance, like my dad’s uncle Burt, and they don’t know until it is too late. And then there are some people who do get a second chance, and they take it. And I want to help more people take their chances without even having to be on death’s door.” (5:30) “To eat real, whole, natural, sustainable food, is actually revolutionary. It actually takes being radical and transforming the norms. Because our convenience foods, our fast foods, our school foods, our hospital foods, are all serving what quite frankly is food-like substances.” (11:10) “Wherever you stand and whatever your health history is it's going to have an impact on what’s right for you. But broadly speaking, in the broad terms of things, we can see that eating a diet that is based around more plants and more whole foods is going to be beneficial for the vast majority of humanity.” (22:02) “I think love is a great place to start. Because when we love, we have a reason to live. And when we have a reason to live, then suddenly we care for ourselves, and we care for our loved ones, and we care for life.” (28:24) “Everybody deserves love, that’s the bottom line. And with food is a wonderful place to express that, because everybody eats. And so I get the beautiful opportunity in my work to share about healthy eating with everybody.”(32:37) “I want to see a world where food is taken seriously, where the food industry takes health seriously, and where science guides the choices that people are encouraged to make around food, not industry profits.” (43:17)   Links Food Revolution Network Website Diet for a New America by John Robbins Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook | Instagram

119: Food as a Source of Healing and Love w/ Ocean Robbins

Dr. Drew Christensen is on a mission to bring the ‘heart’ back into medicine. Several years ago Dr. Christensen found himself stressed out, gaining weight, and with declining health. He decided to make the switch from family medicine to Functional Medicine and has since used a root-cause approach to healing his own health and many others. Heart Focused Medicine with Dr. Drew Christensen After becoming a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, opening Living Health MD and a trip to Eygpt that changed his understanding of the heart, Dr. Christensen became passionate about spending quality time with his patients to learn about their unique health issues and find their root causes. Through personalized care, lab testing, lifestyle interventions, and group coaching, Dr. Christensen is delighted to help patients turn things around and create lasting health. How To Be True To Your Own Heart Dr. Christensen believes that when it comes to matters of the heart, every factor needs to be evaluated. Our love, relationships, burdens, and flow of our hearts can have a large impact on the health of our hearts, which is why Dr. Christensen believes that true health starts from the heart. By living from the heart you can get in tune with the symphony of your body and get back to your reason why that comes from the heart and guides your whole body. Why Starting From The Heart Can Create Lasting Change In addition to heart-centered treatment such as labs, diet, and exercise, Dr. Christensen harness the power of change that comes from the heart for meaningful and lasting health. By listening to your heart, following the natural laws of the heart, and changing the flow of your heart, you can transform from a heavy heart to a lighter one, and start living from the heart to make a major difference in your life and those around you. Are you ready to take responsibility for your health by looking inside and making a change of heart? Share how you embrace the intuitive knowledge of the heart with me in the comments on the episode page.   In This Episode  How to lighten your heart in order to move onto lasting health and a better way of living (10:10) The most common causes of a heavy heart and steps you can take to address those issues (13:27) Why a change of heart is the most significant way that you can start to take your health seriously (19:05) The importance of becoming aware of your heart rate variability and how to do monitor it (23:52) Steps you can take to start living healthy and increasing your gratitude (32:02)    Key Takeaways In Order To Start Living From The Heart You Must:  Start listening to the ‘reason why’ that is coming from deep inside your heart Trust in the innate wisdom and ultimate power of the flow of your heart Accept gratitude, forgiveness, and responsibility for your health and spread that flow to other people, even if they have wronged you    Quotes “I think we are all put on this Earth to do something beautiful to serve other people, and I think that purpose comes from our heart.” (4:52) “A lot of times we forget about talking about love, relationships, our burdens that we are carrying, our burdens of judgment and blame, and our inability to forgive. All of those things weigh heavy on our hearts and are contributing to heart disease. And it is really part of the game, and a lot of us are not addressing those issues.” (13:04) “When somebody goes through that experience of a change of heart, that’s when I know they are going to be okay. Because then they are able to continue all of those things we have been working on because they are then committed.” (19:12) “If I ask them what their brain is telling them, I get a totally different list than if I ask them what their heart is telling them. So if we can listen to our hearts and follow our hearts, it makes all the difference.” (28:43) “Living is an active process and sometimes we experience it passively, but we really need to be actively living. And if we are living healthier, then we are creating health and we are creating meaning in our lives.” (31:49)   Links 21 Days of Heartful Living Video Series Start With The Heart: How to create lasting health, meaningful business, and abundant living by Dr. Drew Christensen Living Health MD Website Find the full show notes for this episode here Keep up with all things Love Is Medicine Follow Razi on Facebook | Instagram

095: Changing Your Brain For The Better w/ Dr. Shauna Shapiro

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