RamDev Dale Borglum is the author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and the executive director of The Living/Dying Project. A pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement, he has spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Drawing on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path.

 

Here he and Dawson discuss:

Why it’s hard to feel safe where the world isn’t supportive

When we focus on what we’re afraid of and not what fear feels like in the body

Exercise 1: What do I fear, and where to I feel it in my body

Meditation 

The Tantric Three-Step

Step 1: Can I feel it in my heart

Step 2: Is compassion keeping your heart open when there’s suffering

Step 3: It’s all part of life; pleasant and unpleasant

The fundamental spiritual practice: to identify with who and what we really are

Exercise: Feel warm, connected, compassionate, spacious heart?

Fact: Everyone is afraid

Why the world needs more people of compassion

 

For more information on The Living/Dying Project:

https://livingdying.org/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychology #death #grief #diewithoutfear #livingdyingproject

Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Adriana's background

Discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

Using The Prochaska Stages of Change Model to determine readiness to change

The importance of numerical assessment of symptoms

Partnering with Vista Research to collect data using standardized instruments

Assessments of patients in addiction treatment programs

The fight flight freeze response

The limitations of traditional talk therapy

How tapping calms the nervous system

The way EFT can reach the brain through the connective tissue and calms the amygdala

How to apply tapping with someone in the throes of an addiction craving

Tapping on being willing and open to change

Tapping on specific cravings with addiction treatment

 

Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/

And to purchase EFT for Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes: 

https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology

Gina Goldfeder is a psychologist and the author of Releasing the Emotional Wound: Shamanic and Psychological Tools to Release Trauma and Rebuild Your Life. Her work draws on her training in shamanism, dream interpretation, psychdrama, and sacred geometry. She helps individuals and couples find core wounds and uses both psychological and spiritual techniques to release them to build a new and functional identity.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Great psychology as spiritual

The wound as the portal to healing

Why we shouldn't be in a hurry to fix your wounds

Exercise: Write about the you with this wound and the you without it

The ways we wear armor and eventually we forget we even have it on

Our strategies to avoid suffering that disconnect us from who we really are

Exercise: In what ways am I armored?

Why some people seek help and others do not

How for some people, suffering becomes the purpose of life

The practice of owning your life and being responsible 

Exercise: Where have I gotten comfortable with my wounds?

Why at some point there are no more words or thoughts, you need more

Exercise: What ritual can I use to release what I no longer need?

 

Learn more about Gina and her work at: https://ginagoldfeder.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma

Wendy Valentine is author of Women Waking Up: The Midlife Manifesto for Passion, Purpose, and Play and host of The Midlife Makeover Show, which is a top-rated podcast for women in midlife.  Wendy helps women kick fear to the curb, reignite their spark, and wake up to what’s possible. She lives on the island of Madeira, Portugal.

 

She and Dawson share about: 

Midlife experiences 

Wendy's background and personal story

The inner critic and enemy voice

Exercise: Who is the you who is waiting in the wings?

Enjoying the process of being messy as it doesn’t all have to be perfect

“Wonder Wendy”

Focusing on a new future self and just keep moving ahead

The first and most important step... is to believe

How negative thoughts are like weeds growing in the mind

Self-love

“Soul-scribing” 

Allowing emotions to flow

How to stop camping out in low frequency emotions

 

To learn more about Wendy: https://wendyvalentine.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #midlife #genieinyourgenes #reigniteyourspark

Mandy Tang is the author of Heal Your Career Wounds: Navigating the Trauma of Today’s Workplace. A career coach and holistic healer, Mandy helps clients such as large technology companies, start-ups, and the nonprofit sector bring more creativity and joy into their work lives. Her training includes an MBA in finance from Columbia, certification as a trauma-informed yoga instructor, and completion of a three-year shamanic practitioner program.

 

Here she and Dawson discuss:

Mandy's diverse background 

Why there isn’t "great" leadership and management in many companies

How to get you in touch with your potential at work

Overreliance on an analytical the mind and how that leads to bad decisions

Listening to your own inner guidance system; disconnecting from external noise

Why the best decisions are rarely linear 

How we talk to ourselves and why that makes a huge difference

Noticing and raising our level of vibration around work

What to do if you’re feeling stuck

Trusting your own voice

Having a creative outlet that is not tied to outcomes

 

Learn more about Mandy's work at: https://www.mandytang.co/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #career #leadership #worklife #healyourcareerwounds

Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is an integrative psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. She directs clinical and research programs in integrative mental health. She serves as a Director of Research for the UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative. She is the author of Living from the Soul: The Neuroscience of Spiritual Awakening.

Here she and Dawson discuss:

When you bring in the soul it changes everything

Helen's background

How our bodies have the ability to express light

Why human awakening is happening in steps because it’s too much to handle

Self-regulation

Being open to the possibility of the existence of your soul

The ways caregivers realize that they’re never alone

Brain health

Encouraging psychiatry to include self-healing and soul perspective

Viewing stress and trauma as information for the soul’s evolution

 

Find Helen at: https://drhelenlavretsky.com/

 

Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #neuroscience #spiritualawakening #livingfromthesoul

A rare solo episode! Join host Dr. Dawson Church as he guides listeners through the 8 fundamentals of wellbeing ...which are:

Clean food

Clean water

Time in Nature

Conscious Breathing

EFT Tapping

Meditation

Loving Relationships

Quality Sleep

To connect with Dawson: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #consciousness #breathing #mindfulness #wellbeing

Will Johnson is the director of the Institute for Embodiment Training and the founder of Bambu Hueco, a retreat center in Costa Rica that views the body as the doorway to spiritual growth and transformation. The author of several books, including Radiant Mindfulness, Breathing through the Whole Body, and Eyes Wide Open, he teaches a deeply body-oriented approach to sitting meditation at Buddhist centers around the world. He lives in Costa Rica.

 

Here he and Dawson reflect on: 

Why oxygen is food for our cells

How breathing is central to health and energy

The historical Buddha

The first level of instruction the Buddha tells us to keep our attention

Mindful awareness

Entering into a shift of consciousness

Exercise 1: When you’re stressed or overwhelmed, move your attention to the breath

Why most of us are embedded in the thinking mind

Exercise 2: Feeling the whole body all at once

Breathing practice to every cell of the body

The energetic vibration of all our cells

When the whole body becomes the organ of breathing

 

To learn more about Will, his work, and his books: https://www.embodiment.net/

 

To connect with host Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #consciousness #breathing #mindfulness

Kristin Kirk is a spiritual teacher and healer. Since an awakening experience in 2003, she has worked with people to accelerate healing, embodied awakening and self-realization. She offers transmissions and healing events through her online community.

 

Here she and Dawson reflect on: 

Kristin's background

Where thoughts and emotions get lodged in the body 

Fully surrendering 

Levels of self 

Nature manifested as miracles of consciousness

How the truth is within you now whether or not it makes sense

Question: Are we going through a jump in planetary evolution?

When it’s hard to trust that love will take care of situation

Allowing yourself to feel the wisdom and purity of nature

Creating inner space for lightness newness freshness

Solutions you would never think of

 

To learn more about Kristin's work: https://kristinkirk.com/

 

To connect with host Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #emotionalregulation #consciousness #healing

In this solo episode, host Dr. Dawson Church brings three important pieces to listeners who are looking to find more resilience in the midst of global (and personal) chaos.

 

Spiritual Intelligence and Emotional Regulation

Dawson discusses his book "Spiritual Intelligence" and its focus on developing emotional regulation and spiritual intelligence as a progression beyond IQ and emotional intelligence. He explained how the ventromedial prefrontal cortex can be developed to better regulate negative emotions, using examples of both highly intelligent people struggling with emotional control and how meditation can strengthen this brain circuit. Dawson also addressed how global issues like climate change and political concerns are triggering increased depression and despair, particularly among young people.

 

Eco-Meditation and Brain Function

Dawson talks about the importance of maintaining positivity in the face of global challenges and emphasizes the need for resilience. He explained how stress affects brain function and recommended practicing EcoMeditation for 30 days to see measurable changes in brain function, including increased presence and compassion. 

 

Daily Meditation Benefits Discussion

Dawson shares the benefits of daily meditation. He explained how meditation can shift brain function and change one's perspective on global challenges, allowing individuals to see both negative and positive events from a resilient standpoint.

 

To connect with Dr. Dawson Church: http://dawsongift.com/

 

To purchase Dawson's book, Spiritual Intelligence: 

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/

 

#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #energy #emotionalregulation #ecomeditation #brainfunction