In this episode, we sit down with my good friend and revolutionary thinker, Dr. Dawson Church. Dawson is an award-winning science writer and the best-selling author of Genie In Your Genes, Mind to Matter, and Bliss Brain. He founded the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare, which conducts clinical trials and studies evidence-based psychological and medical techniques for relieving human suffering and unlocking human potential. The Veteran's Stress Project is the Institute's latest program, where they offered free treatment to 20,000 veterans with PTSD.
During our time together, Dawson tells a shocking story about waking up in the middle of the night to a raging fire.
Escaping this traumatic event left him with PTSD, the same condition he had been helping others transcend. He applied the tools and techniques of his research himself and detailed their impact on the mind, body, and soul. His experience tells us how crucial it is that anyone dealing with high-stress levels has techniques and support to move through it.
Dawson walks us through a quick but potent process to shift from stress and frustration to a place of peace and calm. He shows us how to use this alongside stressful moments to rewire your brain and change your stress response to past events. And he throws in a few more groundbreaking tips for us to believe in ourselves and live in the Miracle Zone!
“In your sense of connection with transcendent space, with the All That Is, you're infinitely wealthy and abundant, and you have infinite resources of well-being, even when everything around you appears to have gone to hell in a handbasket.”
What we talked about:
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Dawson discusses his life prior to living in the Miracle Zone (4:35)
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Navigating life after experiencing an awakening (7:26)
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The shocking event that forever changed Dawson’s life (11:21)
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The phenomenon of Post-Traumatic Growth (15:05)
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What we can do to be more resilient (20:37)
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Dawson’s favorite method for relieving tension and finding peace in any situation (22:20)
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What Dawson’s research tells us about living life in the Miracle Zone (27:22)
Favorite quotes from the episode:
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“We're all having what the Sufis called glimpses of heaven. And then we don't know what to do with them or where to put them, and we don't share them very often. And yet, they are so transformative. “ - Dawson Church
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“The flow of miracles is continuous; all that grace, all that love, all that wisdom, all that compassion in the universe is surrounding us.” - Dawson Church
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“Believe in yourself, love yourself, gift yourself with being in the Miracle Zone every day because it's up to you. It's available for you. It's there for you. The only question is…Will you step into it?” - Dawson Church
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