Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 597

What is the connection between emotions and illness?

Dr. Kevin Preston, Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom podcast, episode 597, to discuss how each of our organs stores repressed emotions, why we need to listen to our pain before we try to get rid of it, and how emotions get passed on from generation to generation.

"Any emotion that's not been fully integrated creates an energetic blockage in the organs, whether it's fear, anger, or grief. If it's not dealt with, eventually it manifests physically. Any number of symptoms, mentally, emotionally, physically, it means something's blocked, which is why I've always loved acupuncture because it was designed to unblock meridian flow and blood circulation. So when you do treatment, all you're doing is giving the body a little bit of support to unblock the places it's stuck." - Dr. Kevin Preston

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In This Episode, Dr. Kevin Preston Uncovers:

[01:30] Healing the Root Cause of Disease

• Dr. Kevin Preston
• 386 Mark Groves | Create More Love: How To Deal w/ Breakups, Boundaries, & Beyond
• 481 Scott Jackson | Rewire Yourself: How To Create A Life You Love With Freedom From Subconscious Sabotage
• The Psychic Roots of Disease by Björn Eybl
• Why Kevin loves to help people find medicine inside their body.
• The reason why he prefers traditional Chinese medicine over Western medicine.
• How Chinese medicine provides healing without any side effects.
• Everything in the body is connected.

[08:30] The Healing Spiral

• How Josh's sinus issues were connected with the relationships in his life.
• Kevin's health issues that he suffered from most of his life.
• Antibiotics are a toxin according to Chinese medicine.
• How restoring the gut microbiome can help strengthen immunity.
• 23andMe

[15:20] The Health Problems Related to Dairy

• 579 Sinus Health Masterclass | Using Acoustic Energy To Clear Nasal Congestion Naturally (No Drugs!)
• Why dairy can cause inflammation in the body.
• How the spleen is involved in digestion and how too much dairy impacts it.
• Why eating sugar, dairy, and wheat can make people feel unwell.

[21:50] Holistic Healing Methods

• How to find the root cause of a symptom.
• Why it matters for a doctor to be present with their patients and show them that they care.
• 591 Dr. John Lieurance | Biohacking Big Souls: How UFC Fighters + Big Wave Surfers Holistically Heal
• How people are trained to not connect to their bodies.
• Why it's necessary to identify traumatic events in life to heal the body.

[27:55] Emotions Get Passed on to Next Generations

• 366 Mark Wolynn | How To Heal Generational Trauma: The Thoughts, Feelings, Patterns & Behaviors Formed Before You Were Ever Born
• The connection between organs and emotions.
• How emotions can be imprinted from parents and grandparents onto their children.
• How energy that wants to be released shows up as symptoms.

[33:20] Unlearn What You've Learned

• Epigenetic Approach to PTSD: In the Aspects of Rat Models
• What caused Kevin's father to get asthma but nobody understood why he got it.
• The purpose of learning is to disregard what we know.
• Why Kevin is open to changing his opinion on health and healing.
• New methods can take many years to be implemented.

[38:40] Individual + Intuitive Healing

• Alan Watts
• Our diagnosis doesn't define us but defines the symptoms of what's happening in our body.
• Josh's experience getting medical care and why he trusts his intuition when it comes to his health.
• How Kevin doesn't attach to the name of the diagnosis and treats each patient as an individual.
• Why many people don't want to look deeper within themselves.

[46:40] The Contrast of Feeling Good VS Being in Pain

• What brings people to get help from Kevin.
• Why patients appreciate when their doctor actually listens.
• Physicians need to trust their patients' intuition about their body.
• How people can learn a lot about themselves in a Chinese medicine consultation.
• Western medicine lacks a result-based system.

[55:10] Healing Generational Trauma = Honoring Your Ancestors

• Why we need to change ourselves first to change the system.
• BREATHE Program - 33% off with code "PODCAST33"
• Why healing generational trauma is a gift.
• We can hold several emotions at the same time.
• How our healing honors the emotions of our ancestors.
• Our ancestors didn't have the knowledge and opportunities to process and heal their emotions.
• Why growing consciousness is challenging.

[01:02:55] Understand Your Pain Before You Get Rid of It

• What organs in our body store emotions.
• The most important functions of the liver and why it can regrow.
• Unexpressed emotions create blockages.
• How acupuncture gets the body unstuck physically and emotionally.
• Pain is an opportunity to understand our problems.
• 369 Paul Chek: All Is God | Part 1 of 3
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer

[01:08:45] The Liver Stores Your Anger

• Stress affects the liver function which decreases the filtering of toxins.
• We can heal the emotions stuck in our liver using milk thistle.
• How healing a patient with liver issues brought her anger to the surface.
• The importance of tapping into curiosity.
• Unpacking the healing modalities Kevin uses and how he assesses patients.

[01:16:35] Taking Care of Stored Trauma

• The body needs to be taken care of.
• Why we should work with therapists that we feel resonance with.
• Conscious Millionaire Show JV Crum III
• How our unconscious mind keeps us safe from the most traumatic events.
• We can remember our past trauma when the body is ready to process it.
• How our children can become our mirror.

[01:25:25] What You Can Learn from Your Children

• The moment Josh realized that the way he talks to his son is how he talks to himself internally.
• Why we shouldn't feel guilt or shame if we do things wrong.
• How Kevin breaks his own patterns with his children.
• We don't need to be perfect parents.

[01:32:25] Classical Chinese Medicine

• How the communist regime in China impacts Chinese medicine.
• Why the West is leaning more towards Eastern practices and vice versa.
• How Kevin learned about old Chinese medicine practices that were being kept secret.
• Why elders in the modern culture are not given space to share their wisdom.
• The Collective Hearts Retreats
• Fish Fisher

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Power Quotes From The Show

Organs Store Emotions

"The 5 yin organs are lung, liver, spleen, kidneys, heart. Every one of those organs has a different emotion associated in the Chinese medicine theory. So spleen would be overthinking, excessive contemplation, which is modern phenomena. If you spend all day, all night ruminating in your mind, thinking and obsessing about things, that will damage your spleen because you're taxing that energy system too much." - Dr. Kevin Preston

Generational Fear

"Kindeys store fear. If your ancestors went through horrendous fear, that memory, that imprint, that epigenetic nuance could be imprinted in their body and passed forward to you. That baby may have kidney issues, actual physical kidney issues. They're carrying that lineage of that energy that is just looking to be into the light, it's looking to be resolved." - Dr. Kevin Preston

Healing Your Lineage

"A lot of people don't look deeper because they don't want to find what's there because they are going to need to change things in their life. Sometimes they think, how come I'm the one in my family that's having to heal all this generational trauma? And I think, what a gift, even though it's hard, that it's finding you. That is the seedling, the plant, the energy that's seeking its way as like, oh, this person can. This person holds enough energy, enough compassion, enough love in their heart to heal so many generational aspects." - Dr. Kevin Preston

Links From Today's Show 

• Dr. Kevin Preston
• 386 Mark Groves | Create More Love: How To Deal w/ Breakups, Boundaries, & Beyond
• 481 Scott Jackson | Rewire Yourself: How To Create A Life You Love With Freedom From Subconscious Sabotage
• The Psychic Roots of Disease by Björn Eybl
• 23andMe
• 579 Sinus Health Masterclass | Using Acoustic Energy To Clear Nasal Congestion Naturally (No Drugs!)
• 591 Dr. John Lieurance | Biohacking Big Souls: How UFC Fighters + Big Wave Surfers Holistically Heal
• 366 Mark Wolynn | How To Heal Generational Trauma: The Thoughts, Feelings, Patterns & Behaviors Formed Before You Were Ever Born
• Epigenetic Approach to PTSD: In the Aspects of Rat Models
• Alan Watts
• BREATHE Program - 33% off with code "PODCAST33"
• 369 Paul Chek: All Is God | Part 1 of 3
• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer
• Conscious Millionaire Show JV Crum III
• The Collective Hearts Retreats
• Fish Fisher