Samir Becic
Fitness Is Spirituality
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a nonprofit 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, which details 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 Church are passionate about this approach and share many lively insights during their dialog, covering topics such as:
- Physical fitness leads to sharper mental focus leads to heightened spirituality
- Working with a congregation of 45,000 people at Lakewood Church
- Pain interferes with your spiritual practice
- Fitness leads to a deeper experience of God
- The 5 components of a healthy life
- Water plays a foundational role in weight loss
- Top Tip: Start small (e.g., a 10-minute walk daily)
- Socialize while moving not while eating
- 3 Top Tips are: up your water intake, up your movement, and eliminate simple carbs
- Next 3 Tips: up your sleep, up your socializing with friends and laughter, and up your personal time in meditation and prayer
- How do you break the cycle of weight gain?
- How can you get fit without going to a gym?
Julie Bonapace
EFT for Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Julie Bonapace is founder of the Bonapace Method and the author of Trusting Birth with the Bonapace Method: Keys to Loving Your Birth Experience. Here, she and Dawson Church, author of Communing With the Spirit of Your Unborn Child, reflect on every facet of the process. They cover difficult issues like vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), breech presentations, the role of the partner, infertility, and common fears. They illustrate their points with case histories of clients they’ve worked with, and show how EFT’s ability to reduce stress immediately can facilitate every part of the process. Among the topics they cover are:
- Dealing effectively with pain
- How stress hormones affect pregnancy and delivery
- The vital role of the partner in the entire process
- Tapping during VBAC and cesarean section
- Using EFT for fertility and conception
- Introducing EFT in the simplest way to expectant parents
- Sexual abuse and pregnancy
- How fear inhibits the entire process of pregnancy and birth
- Unconscious obstacles to natural birth
- Working with the baby to facilitate labor
- The fallacy that all women have similar bodies and cycles
- Women are most suggestible during pregnancy
- Talking to your baby while tapping
- Working with a wide variety of fearful emotions and scenarios
- Infertility and blocks to conception
- Taking back our power from the hospital system
- Drawing authentic solutions from deep within our minds
- Using EFT for successful breast feeding
- How to accept conditions you can’t change
- Having a natural breach birth
Jack Canfield
Manifesting Audacious Goals
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brings together leading figures in the field. The movie The Secret features many TLC members. Here Jack Canfield and Dawson Church talk about:
- Formulating really audacious goals
- You don’t know the final destination when you start
- The importance of doing what’s right in front of you
- Stay humble when you enjoy great success
- How the best ideas come in meditation
- How the title of the Chicken Soup series came to be
- Goosebumps are God bumps
- When your visions don’t work out
- What differentiates a master manifester from a daydreamer
- Limiting beliefs of which we’re unconscious
- How to discern genuine guidance from habit
- Asking for guidance when you’re faced with a dilemma
- When answers come from outside
- Life’s ongoing struggles: aging, weight, exercise
- You become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with
- Most people don’t live as though their thoughts are profoundly creative
- Set a goal that’s measurable and huge
Dawson Church
Yes, You Can Change Your Genes!
Interview from the Winter of Wellness Summit 2018
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Our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are among the signals to which our genes respond. Join the founder of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare, Dr. Dawson Church, as he highlights the exciting new science that demonstrates how we can influence our own genetic transformation. During this mind-opening session, you’ll discover:
- That gene expression is not fixed but is changing dynamically all the time
- Examples of the types of genes that change… and what changes them
- How you can take control of the process, becoming your own genetic engineer
This interview is part of the Winter of Wellness Summit, a free online event where you can learn from some of the most potent health pioneers, coaches, and experts about life-changing practices for your mind, body, and soul. For more information, please visit the Winter of Wellness summit website winterofwellness.com.
Dawson Church
Thoughts to Things: How Our Brains Transform Energy into Matter
Interview from The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, Presented by the Shift Network
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physiologically that the practices of energy medicine actually affect you on the molecular level, at the level of your genes, literally turning genes on and off. In this interview, he discusses how by meditating and using energy psychology methods, you can actually change your genes. He explains how 15% of the human genome is fixed, whereas the other 85% shifts and changes. Epigenetics looks at how emotions and thoughts affect gene changes. Dr. Church discusses the profound effects of negative thoughts and how energy psychology can be used to shift them immediately.
Dawson Church
The “Flow State” of Bliss Brain
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We forget time and space, past and future, as we come fully into the present. Flow states are highly creative, and peak performers experience them regularly. Examples are a maestro conducting a symphony, a child at play, an athlete “in the zone,” a meditator feeling one with the universe, a scientist at the moment of discovery, or a hiker feeling part of nature. Research with EEGs has found that people in flow states have a unique brain wave pattern. This presentation by Dawson Church describes flow states, and the brain wave patterns they create. He reviews research from his book Bliss Brain showing that we can learn to induce flow states at will. Finally, he guides you through a 15 minute EcoMeditation routine that studies show induces a flow state. Experience it here!
Dawson Church
The “Flow State” of Bliss Brain
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We forget time and space, past and future, as we come fully into the present. Flow states are highly creative, and peak performers experience them regularly. Examples are a maestro conducting a symphony, a child at play, an athlete “in the zone,” a meditator feeling one with the universe, a scientist at the moment of discovery, or a hiker feeling part of nature. Research with EEGs has found that people in flow states have a unique brain wave pattern. This presentation by Dawson Church describes flow states, and the brain wave patterns they create. He reviews research from his book Bliss Brain showing that we can learn to induce flow states at will. Finally, he guides you through a 15 minute EcoMeditation routine that studies show induces a flow state. Experience it here!
Dawson Church
The “Flow State” of Bliss Brain
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We forget time and space, past and future, as we come fully into the present. Flow states are highly creative, and peak performers experience them regularly. Examples are a maestro conducting a symphony, a child at play, an athlete “in the zone,” a meditator feeling one with the universe, a scientist at the moment of discovery, or a hiker feeling part of nature. Research with EEGs has found that people in flow states have a unique brain wave pattern. This presentation by Dawson Church describes flow states, and the brain wave patterns they create. He reviews research from his book Bliss Brain showing that we can learn to induce flow states at will. Finally, he guides you through a 15 minute EcoMeditation routine that studies show induces a flow state. Experience it here!
Dawson Church
Tapping into Peace of Mind: The Genie in Your Genes
Interview on the Self Talk Radio Show
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and how Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as “tapping,” can be used to affect your thoughts and emotions. He cites research that demonstrates the positive effects of tapping, including the study showing that EFT can alleviate symptoms in veterans with posttraumatic stress (PTS). The Self Talk Radio Show, “Mind Changing Radio,” features masters of the mind—hypnotists, therapists, and leading edge thinkers.
Dawson Church
Healing Mind, Healthy Genes
Interview from the Winter of Wellness Summit 2017
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Here Dawson Church talks about the latest studies as well as how you can apply these breakthroughs to shift your own gene expression. He shares the stories of people who’ve had radical life-changing shifts as a result of using energy healing methods, and how you can apply simple changes to produce big results in your health and happiness.
This interview is part of the Winter of Wellness Summit, a free online event where you can learn from some of the most potent health pioneers, coaches, and experts about life-changing practices for your mind, body, and soul. For more information, please visit the Winter of Wellness summit website winterofwellness.com.
Dawson Church
Your Happy Genes
Interview from the Winter of Wellness Summit 2016
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Boosting your mood regularly and systematically can both add years to your life and create peak health. This program reviews the studies showing exactly how this works in your body, and outlines the practical techniques that are most effective at influencing positive gene expression.
This interview is part of the Winter of Wellness Summit, a free online event where you can learn from some of the most potent health pioneers, coaches, and experts about life-changing practices for your mind, body, and soul. For more information, please visit the Winter of Wellness summit website winterofwellness.com.
Charles and Carol Crenshaw
Charles and Carol Crenshaw
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Beginning meditators find it hard to still the body and quiet the mind, and EFT’s stress-reduction methods help with both. Charles and Carol show how to use EFT to overcome resistance to meditation and discover the place of inner peace. The book begins with a quick-start guide that gives readers an immediate experience combining tapping for deep meditation. Interviewer Dawson Church discusses with Charles and Carol the research using EEG, MRI, and gene chips to measure the changes that happen in the bodies of meditators. In just a few weeks, the volume of tissue in the brain’s emotion-regulation circuits increases, while cancer and metabolism genes are regulated. Among the wide range of topics covered in this interview are:
- The commonality in all the many meditation traditions is the breath.
- There are many different forms of meditation: chanting, movement, visualization, mindfulness.
- Different learning styles–verbal, visual, auditory, kinesthetic–gravitate to different styles of meditation.
- Find the entry point that’s easiest for you.
- Meditation coordinates all the different channels of your physiology.
- What about when nothing seems to be happening when you meditate?
- Often the people around you are the first to notice changes when you start a meditation practice.
- Start with a few minutes a day; 2 minutes is enough.
- We touch the transcendent state each day when we’re in deep delta brain-wave sleep.
- You need a system to be a successful meditator.
- Unconsciously we’re programmed to think we’re wasting our time when we sit still
- Find the time of day that works best for you
- Trick the part of your mind that makes excuses not to meditate.
- Learn to do what’s good for you long-term and elevate your practice above short-term feelings.
Naomi Janzen
Escaping the Whirlpool of Depression
Naomi Janzen is an expert EFT practitioner and Clinical EFT trainer for EFT Universe. She is the creator of Remindfulness,
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an app that helps you stay mindful throughout your busy day, as well as the cocreator and co-host of One Mind Live, a weekly live group meditation and tapping experience. She is the author of the book Tap Out of Depression and coproducer of a documentary film called The Science of Tapping. in this interview, Naomi shares her own journey out of depression. Dawson Church and Naomi review the research showing that EFT tapping is very effective for depression, and dialog about:
- Looking for nonpharmacological solutions to depression.
- Asking the right questions is essential.
- Memories are stored in the body.
- Your body speaks to you when you start tapping.
- The messages you get may make no sense to the conscious mind.
- Each level—body, mind, spirit—has its unique logic.
- Form an observer relationship with your problems through journaling.
- Interview your body.
- When I was depressed, I did all the right things, but they didn’t work.
- Helpful people advised me to “snap out of it,” but I was stuck in a whirlpool of anger and grief.
- Before EFT, my attempts were like gathering the garbage in my life: I had it in bags, but it was still there.
- Depression is physically painful; every part of your body can hurt.
- Advice I wish I could have given myself back then:
You are not alone.
Don’t isolate; tell someone you’re suffering.
Just waiting it out over time won’t heal you.
Getting over depression may take a while.
Don’t try and wean yourself off meds without medical advice.
Meditate and journal.
- How to identify which therapeutic method to choose for each problem.
Valerie Knopik
Yoga for Health and Life Balance
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Formally trained in classical ballet, as well as a former runner, Valerie has always been a believer in staying active, but yoga is the perfect marriage of her work in mental health and her love of movement and anatomy. Her research focuses on how our internal biology and our external physical environment (including yoga, mindfulness, and meditation) can interact to positively change our mental health landscape. Here she and Dawson Church dialog about yoga and other practices that lower stress and promote health, covering topics such as:
- How yoga helps with both physical health and mental problems such as anxiety and depression
- The way the mindfulness you learn in yoga spills over to other parts of your life
- Research showing yoga reduces the symptoms of psychological trauma
- Do you need to first get fit to practice yoga?
- How many times a week for the ideal practice
- How to get started if you’re stiff or sick
- Why the small muscle groups are important
- The time frame in which you notice changes in your body
- Yoga for weight loss
- You’re as old as your spine
- The way yoga affects the vagus nerve and parasympathetic nervous system
- The risks of yoga injuries
- Big poses can be misleading and a sign of big ego
- The importance of correct posture during transitions from one pose to another
- Why listening to the body is essential
Valerie Lis
EFT for Allergies and Sensitivities
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She began her practice in 2001, is a certified expert practitioner, and has been a trainer and mentor for EFT Universe. She has contributed chapters to numerous books, including the Clinical EFT Handbook, and is the author of Simplified EFT Tapping: How to Get Exceptional Results Every Time You Tap. She’d suffered from asthma for her whole life and was able to clear it after discovering EFT. This in-depth dialog with Dawson Church explores how to use EFT for allergies, sensitivities, and similar conditions, including:
- How half an hour is usually enough time to clear a single allergy
- The importance of touching the allergen when tapping
- Do people become more sensitive to environmental toxins over time?
- How allostatic load increases with exposure
- Most allergies have an emotional component
- Nervous excitement looks a lot like the fight-flight response
- How quickly children clear
- Using EFT for OCD and compulsive behaviors
- What to do when allergies don’t clear
- How to ensure client safety when testing results
Dan Siegel
Mind: A Journey into the Heart of Being Human
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executive director of the Mindsight Institute, and founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology. A New York Times best-selling author, his books include Mind: A Journey into the Heart of Being Human. In this two-part series, Dawson Church and Dan talk about how much bigger the mind is than the brain. They reference research showing that quantum entanglement applies not just at the molecular level, but to to large living systems. Besides fields at the level of atoms and molecules, there are large scale fields extending even to the level of societies. These may be the mechanism connecting minds at a distance. When we fill our personal experience with love and kindness, our interior worlds reach out to shape the larger fields of nonlocal mind.
Interview topics in Part 1:
- What is the mind?
- What is the experience of the self truly made of?
- How does the mind differ from the brain?
- Though the mind’s contents—its emotions, thoughts, and memories—are often described, the essence of mind is rarely, if ever, defined.
Interview topics in Part 2:
- The old view that mind and consciousness are epiphenomena of complex brains is outdated.
- There are social fields that connect large numbers of human beings.
- Energy is the movement of possibility to actuality.
- While Newtonian properties apply to the brain, quantum properties apply to the mind.
- Entanglement is the way we connect nonlocally.
- Thoughts can move intention toward collapsing possibility into probability.
- How the phenomenon of shared mind can extend to the macro level.
- Entanglement may be the way groups influence each other.
- Love is integration made visible.
- The 3 ingredients of a connected life: Focused attention, open awareness, kind intention.
- Kindness and compassion begin in the internal world but shape social fields.
- Your state of mind will influence people 3 degrees of separation away.
Carol Watanabe
Love Art
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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
- Dying of Lyme disease
- Buying a funky old house in the village of Soreze, France
- Surrounded by sunflowers
- Jewel dropping from the bad experience
- Soreze contains one of four military academies founded by Napoleon.
- Six city blocks of classrooms and dormitories
- Mayor walked me through the property. Leaves swirling among the marble on the floor
- “We’ve never had an outsider in our village. How do we make our village come alive again?”
- Described hotel, restaurant, conference idea like Fort Mason in San Francisco, CA
- In the following 25 years, the whole village came back to life.
- Villages create magical human connections.
- There were four or five people living in the village who came to my house then remodeled their own.
- An idea became a fact.
- You can get knocked off the creative path in so many ways.
- Art starts with showing up at my studio each day.
- Triggers something in the creative mind, even when the final result isn’t clear
- Totally unpredictable elements come together
- Creating art out of exuberance rather than suffering
- Creating a community around yourself who are also creators—they feed you
- Even though we have a dark side, through meditation we can feel it and release it.
- Seed the joy that fuels your creative path.
- Seek out people who encourage you to take risks and positive feedback.
- Being an artist isn’t like going to a job.
- How you know when a painting is done
- Expand on what you love.
Jan Watkins
The Exciting Breakthroughs You’ll Experience in an EFT Workshop
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DC area. She helps clients work through difficult emotions, including trauma, and clear limiting beliefs to eliminate barriers to empowered living. Jan has used EFT for more than 15 years and is an EFT Expert Practitioner, Trainer, and Mentor. She offers trainings and workshops in Energy Psychology. She is a contributing author to the Clinical EFT Handbook. In this interview, she and Dawson Church cover topics such as:
- The way limiting beliefs often have both a physical and emotional component
- How trainings give you a quick start to success with EFT
- How EMDR and EFT can be used together in therapy
- A range of cases, from an 18-month-old who wouldn’t get in his car seat to a 50-year-old cancer patient
- How to find the type of EFT training that’s best for you
- The way people quickly gain confidence when they train in Clinical EFT
- As children, we weren’t taught to deal with our emotions
- What happens when we use EFT to clear emotional reactivity
- Families, couples, singles, entrepreneurs, and professionals all benefit from EFT
- When we project our sense of self differently, circumstances often mysteriously change
- The changes you experience after EFT training will often shatter your beliefs about what’s possible
