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390: How spirituality impacts your health | Mind-body medicine physician Lissa Rankin, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Lissa Rankin, M.D.: "Healing and spirituality should never be a luxury. It should be absolutely equitable for everybody.”  Rankin, a mind-body medicine physician a New York Times bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how spirituality has the power to heal, plus: - How to navigate the paradoxes of healing (~04:07) - The 4 types of intelligence & how to know which one you use most (~14:32) - How to set intentions on your healing journey (~40:27) - Why surrendering is so important for your health (~49:12) - How to become a better self-healer (~01:12:14) Referenced in the episode: - Rankin's newest book, Sacred Medicine. - Rankin's previous titles, Mind Over Medicine, The Fear Cure, and Anatomy Of The Calling. - mbg Podcast episode #133, and #111, with Rankin. - Read more about Larry Dossey and the science of prayer. - Read more about William Bengston, Ph.D., and "image cycling." - Kitchen Table Wisdom, by Rachel Naomi Remen. - mbg Podcast episode #226, with Jeffrey Rediger, M.D. - When The Body Says No, by Gabor Maté, M.D. - Learn more about Rankin's organization, Heal At Last. Enjoy this episode! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:08.0

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performance is not guaranteed. Dr. Lissa Rankin is the star of two national public television

0:52.7

specials and the author of seven books, including the New York Times best selling mind over medicine.

0:59.2

She's the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute. She's a physician, educator,

1:03.9

and health care advocate who seeks to bridge the divides between traditional medicine,

1:08.4

complimentary medicine, and cutting-edge trauma therapy. And today she's back on the show to

1:14.4

chat about her latest must-read book, Sacred Medicine. A doctor's quest to unravel the mysteries

1:22.4

of healing. Lissa, welcome. Oh my gosh, it's such a joy to be back. And as I was just saying to you,

1:30.8

I just feel like I feel a little sad that I'm not sitting next to you. Like I have many times before.

1:37.2

So I miss you guys. Well, we miss you too. And we are both optimists. And I think we're on the

1:45.0

other end of COVID and emerging stronger, hopefully. But at any rate, it's so great to see you.

1:50.9

Congratulations on the book, Sacred Medicine. And look, you are a prolific

1:57.4

bustling author. You don't need to write books, but you wrote this book and it's amazing.

2:02.2

But I'm curious, like, what was the why behind Sacred Medicine?

2:06.5

Well, Sacred Medicine originally was part two of mind over medicine. This literally started

2:12.4

in 2011 when I was working on that book. Part one was going to be everything we can prove with

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