Short, steady practices often beat grand intentions, especially when stress hijacks the day. The five-minute reset works because it targets the nervous system’s two modes: sympathetic, which fires you up for action, and parasympathetic, which restores, digests, repairs, and helps you sleep. Many of us live stuck in sympathetic overdrive, nudged by constant notifications, deadlines, […]
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The Art of Healing podcast recently featured plant medicine expert David Crow in a fascinating exploration of ancient chakra systems and their original purpose. As a specialist in Chinese, Tibetan, and Ayurvedic medicines, Crow brings 40 years of experience studying these traditional healing modalities. What becomes immediately clear in this conversation is that our modern
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In an enlightening conversation with Dr. Charlyce on the Art of Healing podcast, Dr. Ibrahim Jaffe shared profound insights into the integration of Western medicine with Sufi spiritual healing. As a licensed medical doctor who transitioned from emergency medicine to pioneering the field of medical spiritual healing, Dr. Jaffe’s journey represents a powerful bridge between
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My evening routine means that when I get home from work, I take my cats for a walk. Why I walk my cats is a story for another time. After our 30-minute walk, we return home, where I start dinner, and the cats decide if they want to come in or stay outside and play.
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Improve your Self Care Ritual without spending a dime Self-Care Rituals can come in many flavors. Self-Care Rituals can be simple, such as a daily meditation practice, or a soothing bath. Self-Care Rituals can be complex and expensive, such as a retreat or a day at a spa. On the Art of Healing Podcast, Anabel
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4 Signs you are in a Dark Night of the Soul, and what to do next I first heard the term “Dark Night of the Soul” during a Reiki class. This is a time of major disruption in life. This can be job loss, breakups, illness, fear, anxiety, and overall feeling like you can’t take
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5 facts to know about mindfulness. Curious about mindfulness? Let’s talk about some of the basics of Mindfulness. Mindfulness is the practice of being present and fully engaged in the current moment, without judgment. It involves paying attention to one’s thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations in a non-judgmental and accepting way. Mindfulness can be cultivated
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Using the power of observation to connect to yourself. Observation is a tool frequently used in meditation mindfulness to help focus the brain. When we take our attention to one specific object and not only helps to eliminate distracting thoughts, but we can also learn something about ourselves. Recently I have deepened my studies in
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Healing the 3 Pillars of Burnout What Is Burnout? Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job, and is defined by three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy (1). The topic of burnout has been growing and frequent in the healthcare industry for several years. Burnout doesn’t impact just
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Does gratitude do more than make you feel better? 1. Decreases a Rapid Heart Rate “During the gratitude intervention, we observed decreased Heart Rate compared to the resentment intervention.”(1) Palpitations are a common reason to come into the doctor’s office. Palpitations could be a sign of something serious such as a dangerous cardiac arrhythmia. Oftentimes,
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Three ways you can lower anxiety in a few minutes Most people don’t become aware of their anxiety until they have a severe symptoms. What most people don’t realize is that well before the sentinel event of anxiety that makes most people reach out for help, there were symptoms leading up to it that may
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Chronic pain from various diagnosis is the most common issue I treat in my medical practice. This finding is confirmed by studies showing that “one in 10 adults in the general population report chronic widespread pain with possible sociocultural variation.¹” The options for patients suffering from chronic pain remain limited. I have been advising my
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We are learning in times of crisis that some things are out of our control and our best way to recover is by tapping into our inner strength and healing. It seems counterintuitive that sitting still and looking inward helps to cope with the ever changing external world. I believe that having a personal meditation
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One of the blessings of Reiki is that I have met people I would not have met had I not learned this healing modality. I have met several individuals in my medical practice, personally, and on social media who share with me that at some point in their lives they learned Reiki I or II
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