The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks with Dr. Maya Novak

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The way we live and perceive life is very much connected to how we see health and healing.

You’ll probably agree that materialism is (still) at the core of our culture – something shiny on the outside that we keep searching for, working for, waiting for, striving for.

So it’s actually no wonder that our current medical system is designed around the idea that all the answers we need are outside of us.

But luckily this is shifting and one of the amazing researchers and doctors who is helping move us in this direction is Dr. Helané Wahbeh. She is a naturopathic physician, the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a professor at the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. 

I really resonate so much with her research and what she teaches and practices – that we have the ability to tap into the body’s innate wisdom to improve our healing. Whether it’s PTSD or injury-related trauma, this talk is absolutely essential for learning how to calm the mind and the nervous system, and tune in, and listen, and heal.

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It takes real mastery to develop effective and simple solutions to complex problems like chronic pain.

That’s why I enjoyed sitting down with Les Aria, PhD so much – he’s worked with over 50.000 patients through the course of his career, and the way he explains the pain process and recovery is at the same time incredibly deep, and so easy to understand, as well as implement. 

In our age of growing opioid crisis, and conventional medicine that often still tries to fix human bodies like they were machines, the kind of mind-body interventions that Les teaches are absolutely necessary for moving us forward.

Les is a pain psychologist who specializes in treating psychophysiological disorders, persistent pain, functional neurological disorders, and medically unexplained problems.

In episode 7, we dive deep into mastering the skills to calm the nervous system down, how to create pain recovery habits, the 3 Ns of neuroplasticity, and how to train your brain into pain recovery in 90 seconds. 

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Did you know there’s a form of self-acupuncture that you can do at home? In fact, you can try it as you’re listening to this episode.

There’s a life force flowing throughout your body and it’s known to many cultures and religious traditions. In Chinese medicine it is called ‘qi’ (chi), in Japan ‘ki,’ and in India, ‘prana’.

This life energy is transported in your body through meridians which are energy channels.

Modern science and Western medicine denied the existence of these BUT in recent years, science finally caught up. Meridians do exist in the body and have now been “discovered” through CT imaging, X-rays, and the study of human anatomy.

Of course, traditional medicine has been using this knowledge for thousands of years, and one of the best known methods of manipulating the energy flowing through meridians is acupuncture. But there’s a similar form that’s also getting more and more recognized, although not so many people understand the similarites – emotional freedom technique, or tapping.

Brad Yates is an emotional freedom techniques expert and he helps people release any blocked energy with tapping or emotional freedom technique. He has over 1000 videos on his YouTube channel and is well-known in the field of EFT.

In today’s episode, we talk about the emotional distress that comes along with injuries, how this affects recovery, and how you can simply help yourself when healing any physical trauma. 

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Imagine having all sorts of symptoms and then, after being exposed to certain sounds, all of this is a thing of the past. It might sound too good to be true, right?

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson is a brainwave entrainment expert who’s been pioneering the field of vibrational medicine and sound healing since the early 80s.

It all kind of started when he made a chiropractic adjustment of his ex-wife’s back with the help of sound. She suffered with back pain and after being exposed to sound for 2 minutes, her back was healed.

This might seem like a nice fairy tale, but in this interview, you’ll discover a different way of looking at healing and what is really happening in the body. Dr. Jeff explains how sound healing works and why this can truly be called vibrational medicine.

Ready to expand your knowledge and also use your own voice to heal your body? 
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There’s a lot of controversy when it comes to detox. Our bodies are equipped with organs that take care of this process (liver, kidneys, lungs…) but is this truly enough in the environment that we live in and the food and drink we put into our bodies?

I sat down with Angel Evans who is a detox specialist and we talked about all things related to detox. We went even further and discussed not only physical detox, but mental and emotional detox as well.

As you might know, everything is connected and you have more than just one body - your physical body is accompanied by your emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies.

Angel will be the first one to tell you ‘I understand suffering and confusion’ because in her own words, before she healed her multiple sclerosis that she had for 20 years, agonizing neurological pain, and depression, she did everything wrong.  

Today’s episode is a holistic view of detox and this conversation might be at times triggering for some, and eye-opening for others.

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If you needed to decide on a surgery would you expect its success rate to be very high? What about if it was well below 50% – would you still take your chance?

Dr. David Hanscom was a top orthopedic spine surgeon for 15 years. Then he quit – because the stress and pressure of perfection he demanded of himself wore him down, but more importantly, because he discovered that the overall success rate of spine surgeries was far below 50%, and the suffering caused by failures far greater than the upsides.

He took that knowledge and his own experience in overcoming stress to formulate another kind of science-based approach to treating pain; one that doesn’t rely on surgical intervention.

This interview spreads from his past work and the lesser-known truths behind spine surgeries and the things you should ask when making that decision, to the very close overlap between physical and emotional pain, the causes and consequences, and the ways we can relearn to handle our mental and emotional body to improve the physical one.

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You’re more than just that one body part that has been injured and you deserve to be treated as a whole.

Many times people don’t see beneficial results in their progress because many times medical professionals zoom in and focus just on one area of the body – where the pain persists.

The decades of Eileen Kopsaftis’ experience show a different kind of story. Everything’s connected to everything else.

This and much more is today’s topic with Eileen who is a pain and chronic conditions specialist and has been practicing physical therapy for 30 years.  

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The conventional medical approach to treating physical trauma is simply not enough!

This is the reason Dr. Maya created The Mindful Injury Recovery Talks. This show focuses on healing physical trauma holistically.

The episodes are released on a weekly basis.

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