Dr. Joan Borysenko, founder and former co-director at the Mind-Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School, and author of A Woman's Book of Life, sheds critical light on our need for social balance, specifically how our society can embrace both feminine and masculine empowerment.Peer reviewed as a respected scientist, a gifted therapist and unabashed mystic, Dr. Borysenko supports a powerful intelligent mission for women, to bring much needed integration to a western society foundering from denied feminine principles such as interconnectedness.
What do make-up, virtue, and absolute beauty have to do with one another? These are three types of Ayurvedic beauty: outside, inside and the balance of all levels. Pratima Raichur, founder of the Ayurvedic Skin Care Clinic in Manhattan, and author of Absolute Beauty, suggests nurturing contentment, peace of mind, balance and harmony within to invoke more absolute beauty into your life.The 5,000 year old healing science of Ayurveda reveals how everything that goes on inside you on emotional and mental levels is reflected exteriorly. Vatta, Pitta and Kapha are mind-body temperaments that distinguish how best to align your inner nature with your active experience in the world.
Penny Price interviews Marion Woodman, author of Conscious Femininity, and Dr. Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice. Marion discusses the conscious feminine and Dr. Gilligan discusses women's voices. The theme revolves around how men and women can get in touch with their inner feminine voices and relate to their own essence. Also, finding a voice in the human conversation is discussed.
Western medicine is not the end of all and be all of health and wellness. If anything, western medicine fails to negotiate the bodily needs of the individual person. That leaves gaps in medicine because each of our bodies aren't formulaic solutions. We are all unique and Dr. Leo Galland says that doctors need to take a unique approach to every person that a doctor checks up on.
Jean Houston, co-director for the Center for Mind Research and the author of A Passion for the Possible, guides you in how to reach your true potential. Exercises that engage your imagination will help you get in touch with your essential self. Suppose you had a thousand years to do your human homework. What would you be like?This is your essential self, and in some sense it already resides within you. Jean invites you to meet that self and use it as a guide while journeying to four important realms of the self, recognized in essence by all cultures by various names: the physical, mind, mythic/storied and spiritual.
What does it mean to truly live from your heart? Check within yourself and ask if the life you're living in the outer world is matching who you are inside. His goal in life is to look back and at the end of each day, be able to have a feeling of that was a good day.Discover your heart's aliveness and the power to manifest your dreams as we learn by example from Alan Cohen, creator of the workshop Living from the Heart, and author of nearly two dozen bestselling inspirational books.
Buddhist Sister Chan Khong Cao, who worked closely with Thich Nat Hanh for more than 30 years, explains that the word perception is very important in Buddhism. When you look at her, she says, you perceive her as an image in your head, which is not her reality. Buddha said that when you perceive, it is always partial perception; the reality of the person is much deeper.When we perceive wrongly, we suffer and cause suffering. We must learn to practice peace in order to be still and listen deeply to the other person, and discover the parts hidden from us. For her, Buddhism is the art of living your life deeply and working to see things with deep understanding. Therese Fitzgerald interviews Sister Chan Khong Cao for Omega Presents.
If money is the key to prosperity then material possession is the currency. Many people see prosperity as the acquisition of security, status, and wealth, which seem to equal admiration, freedom, and leisure. But money doesn't always work the way that we think, reveals Shakti Gawain, author of Creating True Prosperity.We sometimes forget that having a lot more doesn't necessarily mean we struggle less. True prosperity comes from realizing and engaging what matters in life, not from accumulating things or building walls or images around us. Join Shakti Gawain in this fascinating and enlightening weigh-in between inner prosperity and material prosperity.
Discover how emotional healing can catalyze the integration process of mind, body and spirit and help western medicine heal the whole person. Holistic healing involves important principles essential to the growth and integration of western medicine and life. The role of emotional healing is often overlooked in traditional medical remedies.Dr. Carl Simonton, founder and director of the world-renowned Simonton Cancer Center in California, and author of Getting Well Again, follows his passion in helping to reintegrate patients' feelings of hopelessness and frustration. Discover the power of emotional healing on your well-being.
Are there kinks in your relationship that you want to smooth out? The key to effective communication, master relationship counselor John Lee believes, is our willingness to ask the real questions. So what gets in the way of asking the real ones?When we find ourselves hesitating to address or to give what the other person needs in relationship, we distort our connection, which leads to painful projections and misunderstandings. Having real conversations invokes the natural healing inherent in intimacy. John addresses a broad range of relationship scenarios in this enlightening Omega interview hosted by Penny Price.
John Lee presents keys to dramatically shift your way of being in relationships. Using humor and self reflection, you will learn to become aware of and identify “regression” in yourself and your partner as it comes up, and to overcome it.Healthy, autonomous individuals ask themselves how well they are loving themselves, their family, community, God. The regressive version of that inquiry might be: how well am I being loved? Distinguishing “what we have to give” versus “what we need” can be a simple matter of growing up.
It's easy to get lost in spiritual ideas, so the real practice is in constantly coming back to what is real. In relationship that can mean knowing another as a subject via heart-to-heart connection rather than as an idea of that person in your mind. In this endeavor, practice is your priority, whether you choose prayer, singing, meditation or other methods.Stephen Levine and Ondrea Levine, co-authors of Embracing the Beloved, are known widely for their landmark work in relationship as the pathway to self-discovery. With years of personal exploration to learn from, Stephen and Ondrea walk you through the intricacies of staying conscious in relationship.
World renowned spiritual healer Barbara Brennan, founder of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and author of Hands of Light and Light Emerging, explains healing through the human aura. The aura is a spectrum of energy fields that envelop and extend from the physical body through our highest spiritual vibration or essence.Barbara senses and works with auras in service of healing all levels of our being – from physical illnesses, to emotional or mental imbalances, and soul retrieval. Demystifying the idea that you have to be born with abilities such as clairvoyance, she explains how seeing energy is natural and demonstrates how you can tap into your own ability to see the color in your auric field, whether you think you can see energy or not.
Fascinated by how people heal, Dr. Joan Borysenko, co-founder of The Mind Body Clinic at Harvard Medical School and author of The Ways of the Mystic, analyzes how bio- and neurochemistry respond to thought and prayer, or mind and spirit, as a natural part of an integrated or holistic system.Bringing together science, psychology and spirituality, her studies of mysticism reveal how we grow in love and wisdom. Dr. Borysenko distinguishes that we have different neuro-pathways or wiring for living our unique gifts in life and describes seven archetypes that can help us understand and work with our true strengths.
Are your mind's story and your body's story congruent? When asked if you are relaxed, do you grind your teeth when you say yes? Ilana Rubenfeld, creator of Rubenfeld on the Road, discusses the Rubenfeld Synergy Method of bodywork that is based on the mind-body connection. Recognizing how changing your body can change everything in your life is a gift that gives you the tools to transform your life.
All cultures have roles such as the Warrior, Healer, Teacher, and Visionary. Angeles Arrien, author of The Four Fold Way, shows us how to bring these four paths into our own lives to become more whole and healthy by finding their natural balance within us. This practice reveals how ancient wisdom contributes to our modern social and professional lives and to our connection with the earth.
Our culture does not practice the value of slowing down or stopping to regenerate. With meditation we find our regeneration to fully engage our productivity in the rest of our lives. Join Joan Halifax, author of Shaman: the Wounded Leader and; the Fruitful Darkness, anthropologist, and Buddhist teacher, as we stop and look within. Be enlightened by the four holy truths of Buddhism. Contemplate suffering versus pain and that which gives rise to liberation from suffering.
Gabrielle Roth, author of Sweat Your Prayers, conducts workshops all over the country using dance and movement as a spiritual practice. The body and the soul are one and the same, by moving the body, the mind emotions and spirit all click together and let the soul shine through. Gabrielle explains the different workshops she gives, presenting the techniques and benefits.
Take a life experiment: What if you don't wait until the last year of your life to practice living with the fullness, gratitude and surrender, the accomplishment, service and completion, that gives your life meaning? Learn the power of the open heart, and that love is the only rational act of a lifetime.Stephen Levine, author of A Year to Live, takes us through an in-depth look at the process of living and dying. Ondrea Levine illuminates the extraordinary life changes that one embraces after knowing when one will die. Working with terminally ill patients for over twenty-five years, they saw the remarkable transformations that can happen in the last year of one's life.Take advantage of this wisdom and bring your own heart more into this year of your life, as if it were the only one that mattered.
Alberto Villoldo, renowned medical anthropologist, psychologist, and author of Dance of the Four Winds, integrates shamanic healing with modern medicine. To heal the physical body, the luminous body surrounding it must be worked on, and that’s where shamanic healing comes into play.Shamanic healing works at the source, not only the apparent levels, and can accomplish in 2 or 3 sessions what sometimes takes 5 or 6 years of psychotherapy. While medical doctors may be able to tap into the spirit and soul, ultimately only you can heal yourself. The goal of any healing process is to empower your self to heal yourself.
A decorated army officer, David Morehouse's life changed when a freak accident left a bullet through his helmet. Abandoning the front lines, he was ushered into a secret governmental group practicing a unique method using consciousness to see events in the past, present and potential future. But David decided to use these skills in a way the army never dreamed possible.Years Later, he began the program at Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto California, in connection with the CIA, for what is now widely known as Remote Viewing. Now, get an inside view of David's elite program out of which more than 10,000 students now successfully practice the metaphysical protocol, including respected scientists, engineers and physicians.
Have you ever wanted to develop your psychic connection? Do you doubt that you even have one? Judith Orloff, psychiatrist, clairvoyant, and author of Second Sight, reveals that everyone has innate psychic ability, and the secret is how to awaken it. Clairvoyance, to Judith, means to be able to look into someone and see certain things about them with great compassion, to see their inner workings in order to help them heal.Psychic empathy, for example is a way of literally feeling what others are going through simply by being near them. To use this awareness, this second sight, to serve the healing process requires a deepening of your own healing skills. You must begin with healing yourself. Meditation, accessing the stillness, connection to the divine, and trusted guidance by those familiar with the psychic realm, will all serve your intuition and connection as you become a clear conduit.
Penny Price talks to Sam Keen about his book, To Love and Be Loved. Sam discusses that fact that we all have an intuition that we are made to love and be loved, and that it surpasses all our other needs and desires. He believes that we need to learn that we are all related to one other, that we are not separate beings from one another, and that we need to love one another if we are ever going to thrive.Keen says that to have fulfillment in our lives we should not ask the question, “How do I get love?” but rather we need to ask ourselves, “How do I become a loving human being?”
Donovan is a singer and songwriter who has created passionate work about beauty, nature, the environment, and, more recently, the search for spiritual truth. His musical career began in the early 60s, and he talks about the musicians of that era who wanted to deliver a message of change, and the challenges of delivering a message in popular music.He discusses how he has tried to hold onto his sense of wonder and awe as he grew older, and how he has had to discover his own spiritual journey and maintain a sense of self despite the celebrity he experienced. As he has moved into the second part of his life, having completed a personal transformation, Donovan wants to bring a new message to his listeners: a message of peace and transformation while holding a spiritual path in mind.