095: Changing Your Brain For The Better w/ Dr. Shauna Shapiro
Release Date: 03/26/2020
122: How Energy Medicine Can Heal You w/ Thornton Streeter
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Finding connections between modern medicine with traditional understanding is not a new idea, but the ways in which we are learning about the body through these alternative techniques are outstanding. Products such as the Biofield Viewer are helping us understand the chakra system, its connection to our electromagnetic energy, and our overall physical health.
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121: The Key To Preventing Heart Disease w/ Dr. Steven Masley
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90% of heart disease can be prevented through simple lifestyle choices. Dr. Steven Masley is passionate about empowering others to make healthy choices and improve their lives in every way. By incorporating these easy strategies, you can increase your longevity, happiness, and so much more.
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120: HeartMath w/ Dr. Rollin McCraty
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While the theory is not new, it may come as a surprise that the way in which your heart communicates with your brain, body, other people, and the Earth can have a huge impact on how you perceive the world. Dr. Rollin McCraty is pioneering research to prove our connectivity to the global information field and is here to share his findings.
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119: Food as a Source of Healing and Love w/ Ocean Robbins
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The toxic, genetically modified food that is rampant in our modern society is causing disease, illness, and suffering. Ocean Robbins knows that the only way out is through eating real food that comes from the Earth to radically improve your lifespan, healthspan, vitality span, and joy. Through simple changes and innate wisdom, you can stop listening to the companies who only care about the bottom line and start serving your body what it needs most.
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118: The Keys To A Happy Heart w/ Dr. Drew Christensen
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Our hearts are the guiding force between so much of our health, and yet our emotional experiences are often detached from traditional medicine. Dr. Drew Christensen was unhappy with this detachment so he made the switch from family to functional medicine, and has never looked back.
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117: Proof Of Heaven: A Near Death Experience w/ Dr. Eben Alexander
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When neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander went into a medically unexplainable coma for 7 days, doctors were perplexed and doubtful at any sort of recovery. What followed was a transformational experience full of spiritual awakenings, an outpouring of unconditional love, and a new way of viewing the world. Dr. Alexander’s story has inspired people worldwide and has revealed that we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact, consciousness is at the root of all existence.
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116: The Paleo Cardiologist w/ Jack and Heather Wolfson
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Jack and Heather Wolfson couldn’t have been raised more differently. Jack, a board-certified cardiologist, was brought up on the conventional understanding of pharmaceuticals and surgery. It wasn’t until he met Heather, a licensed chiropractor, that he began to understand the power of natural and holistic medicine. Together they have grown as a couple and as doctors, and are here today to open your eyes to the possibility of holistic practices.
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115: Naturopathic Cardiology w/ Dr. Decker Weiss
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By combining the bones of naturopathic medicine with cardiology practices, it is possible to help your body restore and fix itself. Through a commitment to giving patients the opportunity to get well and using medicine without prejudice, anybody at any age can get better. Individualized care and the understanding of how and when these naturopathic treatments are best optimized is the key to creating long-lasting heart health for Dr. Decker Weiss.
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114: The Link Between Thyroid & Heart Health w/ Dr. Alan Christianson
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Dr. Alan Christianson is an NYT bestselling author and naturopathic doctor who specializes in natural endocrinology. Endocrinology is the study of hormones and hormone-related illnesses, and Dr. Christianson takes a holistic approach to analyze the whole body and how the different systems work together.
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113: The Importance Of Play As An Adult w/ Michael Mendizza
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Michael Mendizza is an author, documentary filmmaker, social change maker, and thought leader. His work focuses on the intellectual construct of culture, the importance of play, and the balance between possibility and appropriateness.
info_outlineDo 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
The Power of Mindfulness Shauna Shapiro TedX Talk
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