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Emmett Miller, MD
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Many of Dr. Miller’s radio shows, interviews, free meditations and guided imagery and other appearances are available here. You will notice that these span a number of topic areas, ranging from Healing The Body to Peak Performance and Holistic Global Perspective.
I am pleased to welcome Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity.
This is a very troubling time for each of us as individuals, for our families, our nation and our world as a whole. Remember, you are not in this alone, we are in it together. At times like this it is also well to remember Weiji, the Chinese word and character for “crisis,” which is […]
In our last issue of Healing Times eNewsletter, for instance, we explored the Sufi story of “Khidr And The Secret Word by which All Might Be Accomplished.” My experiences in my personal life, as well as those working in the healing arts, have led me to believe there is such a thing. Last month I […]
This imagery will guide you to experience your ability to feel the emotion of Love. You have felt love at certain times in your life, and it is the feeling you learned to feel during these times that are revived when you are touched by a beautiful love story, a romantic film that makes you cry, or touching family photos. The state one enters when feeling these emotions is ideal for creativity, play, healing, or peak performance.
In our culture we would say that someone has “died”, but many sects of Buddhism would say that only the body dies, but that a deeper, more essential aspect of ourselves enters the “Bardo,” the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. In this state evaluate your...
Our imagery this week will be an introduction to mindfulness meditation. In this video, excerpted from one of my professional trainings, I will share an important experience from my life, and then the mindfulness experience.
In this relaxed state the power of the imagery you hold in your mind is multiplied, as is the power of the words you say to yourself. Sometimes the changes come about so quickly, completely and permanently it’s almost as if the messages you are giving your mind, are magic words.
This FREE guided imagery experience is a perfect way to begin to learn to heal deeply. Because stress is such a...
In this conversation with Kimberly Braun, you will learn about the profoundly positive role that silence can play in your life if you tune in to it!
Dr. Zimbardo became world famous as a result of his startling “Stanford Prison Experiment,” in which he randomly assigned psychologically normal college students to play the role of either prisoners or guards. Within a few days the two groups became more and more violent with each other – so much so that it became necessary […]
In this experimental presentation, Dr Miller adds his thoughts to a moving speech that was given by his college classmate Kirby Talley about life, leadership, values and collective wisdom.
In this conversation with Roger Morrison MD, you will learn about his philosophy and his against the grain life path of letting the world know about the healing wonders of homeopathy.
In this conversation with Jonathan Robinson and Dr. Miller you will learn about various techniques to cure depression and find happiness on your own without assistance from anything or anyone. They provide practical information that you can immediately use to feel better.
Every one of us can locate ourselves on the spectrum from miserably depressed to exuberantly, blissfully, happy. Many people who feel depressed try medication, and according to research the vast majority are not helped. Today you will learn about a set of skills you can use to boost your happiness and dissolve your depression.
Dr. Miller and Jonathan Robinson will provide you with practical information you can immediately use to quickly feel better. Their approach is very holistic—meaning they help people by attending to their thoughts, emotions, body, and even their sense of spirituality or purpose. Today you will learn some proven simple but powerful ways to feel good again without having to resort to medications.
In this episode you will be introduced to the powerful self-help tools Jonathan and Dr. Miller have published in their new program, From SAD 2 Glad – How to Overcome Stress, Anxiety, and Depression and Feel Happy Again – including an understanding of the nature of stress and how it produces anxiety and finally depression. You will learn a number of techniques you can begin to use right away. Find out more about this collaborative program at FromSad2Glad.com.
Everybody wants to feel happy, don’t you? Listen and learn how.
About Jonathan Robinson: Jonathan is a psychotherapist who specializes in positive psychology, is the best-sellilng author of nine books, and a professional speaker from Northern California. He has reached over 250 million people around the world with his practical methods, and his work has been translated into 47 languages. Jonathan’s work has appeared in Newsweek, USA TODAY, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as dozens of other publications. In addition, Mr. Robinson has made numerous appearances on the Oprah show and CNN, as well as other national TV talk shows. He has spent more than thirty years studying the most practical and powerful methods for personal and professional development.
Mr. Robinson’s books include the bestsellers “The Little Book of Big Questions,” “Communication Miracles for Couples,” and “Find Happiness Now.” Mr. Robinson is also the founder of the website FindingHappiness.com and the audio program “Deeper Happiness.” He is known for providing people with immediately useful and powerful methods and ideas presented in an entertaining and motivating manner.
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest on the topic of Happiness: The Technology of Joy In this book, you’ll discover 101 easy and little known ways to feel more joy. You’ll learn about methods ranging from a $1 gadget for feeling intense pleasure, to a free app that really leads to more depth and peace in your life.
You’ll learn what these tools can do for you, and how and where to get these happiness hacks. In addition, you’ll discover how to know which of these tools are most likely to be the best ones for you. Get ready for a quest to experience more of the joy, pleasure, and bliss hidden within you… Buy it here.
Find Happiness Now Presents a simple, but highly powerful tools for deepening your connection to your soul, to your mate and friends, and to your work. Each chapter takes only five minutes to read, yet can lead to a lifetime of helpful information and tools to create more love and joy in your life. Buy it here.
Communication Miracles for Couples In this book, you’ll learn incredibly simple ways to avoid arguments, help you and your partner feel safe and loved, restore broken trust, and negotiate your way past any problem. You’ll even learn methods to get your partner to voluntarily change behavior you don’t like! These methods will help you keep love alive in your relationship. Buy it here.
In this conversation with Gary Knisely, you will learn about the difficulties of his experience with assisting his beloved wife with her death and in the second segment you will learn about the work of Judy Schwartz PhD in the realm of end of life choices.
The wife of one of my college classmates had a brain tumor that had failed to respond to chemotherapy and radiation, and instead of waiting out the last few months of her life with gradually increasing headaches, loss of ability to function, and perhaps slowly slipping into brain death before her body died, she decided that she wished to intentionally end her life, and to hasten death. Her husband agreed to support her, they had a lovely last evening together and she drank the lethal prescription. Unfortunately, reality invaded this tender and vulnerable scene and the system intervened rushing her to the hospital and reviving her – quite against her clear wishes.
What happened next is very important, and well-told in the beginning of this conversation. Very few of us would ever want to be in the kind of situation Gary found himself in – but it is likely that many of us will find ourselves in his situation, or even that of his wife Varian. What Gary has to share with us in this show can make us much better prepared to deal with it.
The latter half of the interview is with Judy Schwarz who has a RN, a MSN as well as a PhD in nursing. Her specialty is dealing with the ethics of the Right To Die movement and the development of humane, respectful and loving environments and opportunities where people can intentionally choose to hasten their death.
Dr. Schwarz explains to us why the term “assisted suicide” is not what we are talking about here. In these cases, it is required that at least 2 physicians agree that the life expectancy is less than 6 months, that the person is of sound mind and capable of making a truly rational decision. The primary reason is not to avoid pain or because of depression, but it is to terminate their lives to save needless suffering of them or their families, as well as to not eat up the families’ financial resources paying for expensive high-tech medical interventions.
As people grow older, they very often experience the onset of anxiety and fear. Some people are afraid of dying, but most people are not. They are afraid of their last few months or years being characterized by excruciating pain and dementia. Knowing that an answer is available is enormously relieving to people; making their last years much more peaceful. In fact, as Dr. Schwarz will explain, 1/3 of all the lethal prescriptions written by doctors in those states where this is legal, are never filled! While this is a subject we would all rather avoid, I think that you will find what is shared in this episode moving and personally valuable to you.
About Judy Shwartz, RN, MSN, PhD: Judith Schwarz, RN, MSN, Ph.D. is a nurse who recently retired from her position as the Clinical Coordinator of Compassion & Choices of New York where she worked since 2002, the year she completed her PhD in nursing at New York University.
Her research involved interviewing nurses about the experience of being asked by decisionally capable patients for assistance in dying. She was the Regional Clinical Coordinator for Compassion & Choices in the Northeast for 8 years, and in that capacity provided end of life information and support to decisionally capable, terminally ill persons who contacted the C&C end of life consultation service. She completed a certification program in bioethics and the medical humanities and has taught ethics and health care law to nursing students on a number of CUNY campuses.
She lectures frequently to professional nursing and palliative care audiences as well as to lay groups and publishes regularly in professional journals. She has recently focused her writing and speaking on the option of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking as a means for peaceful, patient-controlled dying.
To find out more about Judy and her work, visit endoflifechoicesny.org .
Dr. Miller’s Programs Relevant to Death with Dignity: Healing Journey Whatever you’re dealing with, stress most likely has something to do with it. An estimated 90% of all illness and disease begins with stress. Using techniques drawn from meditative and prayerful disciplines as well as soothing music, the Healing Journey program helps melt away stress whether you’re anxious and overwhelmed by everyday life or trying to recover from a specific illness or chronic condition. In the 30-plus years since Dr. Miller created this program, Healing Journey has helped countless people relax and connect with their inner healing source. And it holds the distinction of being the first nationally published guided imagery experience featuring music and deep relaxation.
Accepting Change and Moving On Dealing with loss is one of our most difficult challenges. The loss of possessions, social status, a loved one, or even the imminent loss of your own life can be difficult to deal with. Until we change our self image and our image of the world, our emotions and ego defense mechanisms can burden us and prevent us from what we really need to do.
This program was developed after months of meditation on Tao Te Ching, the Taoist classic that celebrates emptiness and balance. “30 spokes has the wheel, it is the hole in the center that makes it useful. A house is constructed of wood, but it has no value without windows and doors . . . What is not there enables us to use what is there.” An intriguing philosophical, as well as a practical experience.
Caregiver Support & Stress Management This wonderful program speaks to all types of caregivers. It consists of a Heart-to-Heart talk, a reminder of the true source of healing, how the relationship with a caregiver can support this healing, and how important it is to recognize caregiver stress and prevent caregiver burnout. The thrust of this talk is to encourage caregivers to take the time to keep themselves healthy, physically, mentally, and emotionally. There are over 65 million caregivers in the US, and caregiver depression is a common condition.
Don and Whitney had experienced many years of a deep, warm, and joyful Love. Then, in her fifties, Whitney began to show the signs of Dementia. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, which worsened over the next 10 years. Don’s life readily shifted from that of a loving husband to that of a loving caregiver, as […]
Don and Whitney had experienced many years of a deep, warm, and joyful Love. Then, in her fifties, Whitney began to show the signs of Dementia. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, which worsened over the next 10 years. Don’s life readily shifted from that of a loving husband to that of a loving caregiver, as their plans for financial comfort and retirement flew out the window.
Instead of trying to afford the unaffordable fee of more than $10,000 a month for the 24-hour care Whitney needed, Don made the decision to have her live at a lovely Mexican institution, where the staff was as warm as the year-round bougainvillea, and the cost was less than one-third. Partway through, this saga Don decided to keep a journal – a loving, kind, honest, and revealing journal that is a must for those caring for a chronically ill relative – a blend of joy and happiness that also includes a very useful guide for caregivers.
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Where is Whitney Now?: A Husband’s Alzheimer’s Journal and Caregiver Guide Where is Whitney Now? takes the reader through the arduous twelve year journey of caregiver Don Cramer. In his struggle to keep his own life balanced and thriving as he cares for his treasured wife, both of their lives are slowly erased by the unrelenting steamroller of early onset Alzheimer’s. Whitney was only 57 when she was diagnosed.
A 2014 Merrill Lynch survey revealed that Alzheimer’s is the scariest, most feared of all diseases, by a wide margin. Relentless and incurable, it affects those with the diagnosis and everyone around them. But little has been written about the day-to-day challenges that face the caregiver; the constant vigilance, the need to take on ever-increasing responsibilities, the social and financial pressures, the heartbreaking estrangement, the desperate need for help, plus understanding how to cope with the massive changes they face as a loved one’s brain is compromised.
Where is Whitney Now? is an intimate, heartfelt, no-holds-barred recounting of the Cramers’ seemingly charmed lives, and the frightening erosion of the life they had planned. When Whitney suddenly slipped beyond Don’s ability to manage her care, it required an immediate, gut-wrenching move to the enchanting colonial hill town of San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico, where he had located a remarkable Alzheimer’s facility to provide the loving care for Whitney he had thought impossible.
What happens in San Miguel is compelling, heartbreaking and inspiring. Where is Whitney Now? interweaves the story of the Cramers’ first ten years with Alzheimer’s along with Don’s journal entries of Whitney’s continuing decline since arriving in Mexico. The story reveals his jumble of emotions, his caretaking strategies, his profound sense of loss, and the search for his own new place in the world.
It is a fascinating read: sobering, and ultimately transformative. As we watch Whitney slip away, we have a front row seat on the unstoppable rollercoaster of the escalating demands required to handle a future they could not have imagined. Buy it here.
Dr. Miller’s Programs Relevant to this Topic: Further Information For Caregivers: At the DrMiller.com home page, type “caregiver” in the search cue to find resources for caregivers as well as our other radio shows on this subject:
Coaching For Caregivers – A Conversation with Yosaif August
Careless Caregivers – How to Avoid the Disasters of Old Age – A Conversation with Rosanna Fay
Empowered Caregiving – Thriving, Not Just Surviving – A Conversation with Cindy Laverty
Letting go of Stress No wonder it’s the world’s most popular stress management tape! Several distinct and different guided imagery and deep relaxation experiences teach powerful techniques for melting away stress and its symptoms. Learn to use progressive relaxation, autogenic self-suggestion, creative visualization and everyone’s favorite—”A Trip to the Beach.” Dr. Miller’s relaxing voice, at its best here, is enhanced by a beautiful, especially composed score performed by famed musician Stephen Halpern. No healing library is complete without this one!
Healing Journey Whatever you’re dealing with, stress most likely has something to do with it. An estimated 90% of all illness and disease begins with stress.
Using techniques drawn from meditative and prayerful disciplines as well as soothing music, the Healing Journey program helps melt away stress whether you’re anxious and overwhelmed by everyday life or trying to recover from a specific illness or chronic condition.
In the 30-plus years since Dr. Miller created this program, Healing Journey has helped countless people relax and connect with their inner healing source. And it holds the distinction of being the first nationally published guided imagery experience featuring music and deep relaxation.
Caregiver Support & Stress Management This wonderful program speaks to all types of caregivers. It consists of a Heart-to-Heart talk, a reminder of the true source of healing, how the relationship with a caregiver can support this healing, and how important it is to recognize caregiver stress and prevent caregiver burnout. The thrust of this talk is to encourage caregivers to take the time to keep themselves healthy, physically, mentally, and emotionally. There are over 65 million caregivers in the US, and caregiver depression is a common condition.
In this conversation with Nancy Gordon LCSW you will learn about 7 Steps of Hope - a process that she created to help people heal from Chronic Illness and Disability.
Nancy Gordon was an enthusiastic Licensed Clinical Social Worker when suddenly she was hit with a devastating illness that was not diagnosed for many years. And even when it had been diagnosed, there was no adequate medical treatment, so she knows firsthand what it is like to descend into the depths of disability. From this experience she created her 7 steps of hope.
Her combined personal experience of chronic fibromyalgia and traumatic brain injury has given rise to her passionate mission in life – to assist others on the journey of transforming one’s life while living with the challenge of illness and disability. Along the way she discovered a breed of dog, the Xolo, which for many centuries has been shown to have sacred and healing powers.
In today’s conversation you will learn of her inspiring Journey through devastation and disability to become a beacon of hope and healing. We will explore the seven steps of hope that she describes more fully in her guidebook, “ 7 STEPS OF HOPE Healing the Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Impact of Chronic Illness and Disability”.
In addition you will learn more about this remarkable little dog that can replace your heating pad and much more. Nancy is the founder of Paws for Comfort® and the non-profit Xolos For Chronic Pain Relief,™ as a result of her story filmed by Animal Planet on her use of Xolos as the first identified service dog specifically for fibromyalgia.
You will also have an opportunity to listen to some of the guided imagery from Dr. Miller’s highly acclaimed CD, Healing Journey.
If you would like to find out more about Nancy Gordon LCSW and her work, visit her website nancygordonglobal.com
In this conversation you will learn about Colleen Mauro's work of teaching about Spiritual Telepathy and helping people to realize the untapped power of their minds through connection with their spirit .
Have you ever had the experience of a message being communicated to you from deep within your soul or from higher beings? If so, you have had an experience of a spiritual telepathy. Although we may study science in school, we don’t learn much about this kind of communication; yet we must remember that our science is only a couple of hundred years old. On the other hand, there is a science which is thousands of years old and which has been studied by brilliant men and women in a variety of spiritual traditions.
According to today’s guest, our world is on the brink of an evolutionary step forward. The key, she says, is spiritual telepathy.
About Colleen Mauro: Colleen Mauro was the founder and editor-in-chief of Intuition magazine. Her thirty years of experience in magazine publishing includes work as a publisher, editor, advertising director, and circulation and marketing consultant. A lifelong interest in the untapped powers of the mind led to the launch of Intuition magazine in 1988. Intuition explored the higher potential of the mind and the many and varied ways of knowing—intuition, inspiration and telepathy—providing both research and how-to information in easy-to-read form for the general reader. Learn more about Colleen at spiritualtelepathy.net
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul
Colleen Mauro founded Intuition: A Magazine for the Higher Potential of the Mind to introduce readers to the emerging field of intuition development. In her new book, she takes readers beyond the intuition basics and introduces them to the next step–a more advanced form of intuitive perception called spiritual telepathy.
This book provides the ancient mind-training techniques that will allow you to access the wisdom and guidance of your own soul. These techniques, once taught in the ancient mystery schools come from a body of knowledge called the Ageless Wisdom.
The Wisdom teachings tell us that the soul is our gateway to the higher worlds. Through the soul, we have access to the universal or divine mind where information on all subjects can be found. In the past, it’s been only the “special” people–our saints, shamans and spiritual leaders–who have had access to the higher worlds. Colleen assures us that we can all gain access to that universal wellspring of inspiration and knowledge. Buy it here.
Frederic Luskin, PhD has become world famous for his work in a most unusual subject – forgiveness. This quality is sorely needed in this world of polarization, conflict, and violence.
I first met Dr. Luskin when he approached me at the end of a class I was teaching at Stanford University, while he was in graduate school. In this conversation we will trace his pathway to his current position. He is now the Director of the Stanford University Forgiveness Projects and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology.
In his work in health promotion, he started to research the effect that forgiveness had on physical and emotional well-being as well as the reduction of the risk of cardiovascular disease. His research showed that learning to forgive helps people hurt less, experience less anger, feel less stress and suffer less depression. As people learn to forgive they become more hopeful, optimistic and compassionate, and they report significantly fewer symptoms of stress such as backache, muscle tension, dizziness, headaches and upset stomachs.
In this conversation you will get to meet him up close and personal as he and Dr. Miller share their perspectives on forgiveness and healing at the personal and family level as well as at the global level.
About Frederic Luskin, PhD: Dr. Luskin is the author of the best seller Forgive for Good – A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness , Stress Free for Good and Forgive for Love. His work has been featured in Time magazine, O magazine, Ladies Home Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Prevention, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal and many other publications. Learn more about Dr. Luskin and his work at learningtoforgive.com
In the Forgive for Good workshop and class series Dr. Frederic Luskin presents the forgiveness training methodology that has been validated through six successful research studies conducted through the Stanford Forgiveness Projects.
Dr. Luskin’s work combines lecture with a hands-on approach to the ancient tradition of forgiveness. Participants explore forgiveness with the goal of reducing hurt and helplessness, letting go of anger and increasing confidence and hope as they learn how to release unwanted hurts and grudges. His presentations explore the HEAL process of forgiveness that, when learned, can lead to enhanced well-being through self-care. In class practice may include guided imagery, journal writing and discussion all presented in a safe and nurturing environment. Dr. Luskin holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University.
Dr. Luskin continues to serve as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. In addition his work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He presents lectures, workshops, seminars and trainings on the importance, health benefits and training of forgiveness, stress management and emotional competence throughout the United States. He offers presentations and classes that range from one hour to ongoing weekly trainings.
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Forgive for Good – A PROVEN Perscription for Health and Happiness Based on scientific research, this groundbreaking study from the frontiers of psychology and medicine offers startling new insight into the healing powers and medical benefits of forgiveness. Through vivid examples (including his work with victims from both sides of Northern Ireland’s civil war), Dr. Fred Luskin offers a proven nine-step forgiveness method that makes it possible to move beyond being a victim to a life of improved health and contentment. Buy it here.
Stress Free for Good – 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness Dr. Fred Luskin and Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier spent years at the Stanford University School of Medicine developing ten proven skills for eliminating the stress, anxiety, and pain that occur in daily life. Delivering skills that have been honed and tested among a diverse group of Americans, Stress Free for Good is easy to use and starts working immediately. Offering more than just the promise of breaking even and eliminating daily stress, these ten skills provide a foundation for living a healthier and happier life. This is not only a practical and accessible guide to conquering the stress in our lives once and for all, it is also the last stress aid you will ever need. Buy it here.
Forgive for Love – The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship Forgive for Love is the solution for your relationship woes, providing the tools you need to find and hold onto the love of your life. Dr. Luskin delivers a proven seven-step program for creating and maintaining loving and lasting relationships, teaching easy-to-learn forgiveness skills that will not only resolve immediate conflicts but improve the overall happiness and longevity of your relationships. Simply put: people in healthy relationships figure out how to forgive their partners for being themselves. They do so because it is nearly impossible to change other people and because none of us are perfect. Forgiveness is the key, and Forgive for Love has the answers. Buy it here.
In this conversation with Dr. Miller and Dr. Luskin, you will learn about Dr. Luskin's life's work as he provides insight into the healing powers and medical benefits of forgiveness.
What is the promised land? Could it be that a militant agnostic could learn practical tools from sacred scriptures?
Reverend Michael Schulenberg is an Episcopal priest. Mike graduated from the same college as did I, Trinity College, in 1963. We met again, a full 50 years following our graduation, at a talk I gave. After my talk, Michael came up and insisted upon giving me a copy of a recent book of his. He said that he felt an enormous similarity between his book and the ideas that I had just spoken on. I felt my eyebrows go up – that this devout minister who, over the span of 34 years, had served as a parish priest for four different churches. What can he possibly have in common with a militant atheist like me?
Well, when I read it I was deeply moved. I have spent the last 40+ years trying to answer, through scientific study and mathematical reasoning, such questions as “What is healing,” “What is Life and “How can we access our deepest healing power and wisdom to transform our lives.” It was deeply fulfilling to discover that Mike, through the deep study, practice, and devotion to the teachings of a Christian church, had in essence come to the same conclusions.
In this episode we each share our perspective, and you will see how incredibly they match up. You will also have an opportunity to experience the love at the core of the relationship between these old friends. An intimate, honest, compassionate, and moving experience of what Mike and I feel is the deepest of human wisdoms and the key to living the life you came here to lead.
About The Reverend Michael Schulenberg: Born in 1941 in Red Wing, MN; 1963 graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, with a B.A. in Economics.
He then attended the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, MA, graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Divinity Degree. Ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1969 and became a priest in 1970. He served four churches as a parish priest over a time-span of nearly 34 years, retiring from active ministry at the end of 2002.
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Getting to the Promised Land Without Spending Fourty Years in a Wilderness Too often the institutional church presents God as a celestial, judgmental ruler consigning us to our richly deserved fates in the afterlife. This well-reasoned discourse represents one priest’s personal search for the reality of Christ. He shows us how we can hard back to the transcendent lives of the early Christians and become true disciples of Jesus. The message is that God is with us. Following the teachings of Jesus, we too can get to the Promised Land, for Heaven is fellowship with God and Man, here and in the afterlife, now and forever. Too often the institutional church presents God as a celestial, judgmental ruler consigning us to our richly deserved fates in the afterlife. This well-reasoned discourse represents one priest’s personal search for the reality of Christ. He shows us how we can hard back to the transcendent lives of the early Christians and become true disciples of Jesus. The message is that God is with us. Following the teachings of Jesus, we too can get to the Promised Land, for Heaven is fellowship with God and Man, here and in the afterlife, now and forever. Too often the institutional church presents God as a celestial, judgmental ruler consigning us to our richly deserved fates in the afterlife. This well-reasoned discourse represents one priest’s personal search for the reality of Christ. He shows us how we can hard back to the transcendent lives of the early Christians and become true disciples of Jesus. The message is that God is with us. Following the teachings of Jesus, we too can get to the Promised Land, for Heaven is fellowship with God and Man, here and in the afterlife, now and forever. Too often the institutional church presents God as a celestial, judgmental ruler consigning us to our richly deserved fates in the afterlife. This well-reasoned discourse represents one priest’s personal search for the reality of Christ. He shows us how we can hard back to the transcendent lives of the early Christians and become true disciples. Buy it here.
In this Conversation with Dr. Miller you will learn about the work of The Reverend Michael Schulenberg and his book "Get to the Promised Land Without Spending 40 Years in a Wilderness" . You will also experience a sharing between two old friends who have been on very different life paths in pursuing questions about healing , life and accessing our deepest healing power and wisdom to transform our lives but they have come to very resonant insights and conclusions.
In this conversation with Dr. Miller and Justina Lasley, you will learn about utilizing the power of your dreams to enrich your relationships, career and health to create greater happiness in your life.
We often think of our dreams as nonsensical distortions of our much more reasonable and important waking lives. At the same time we think of our waking lives as the source of information becoming a truth, and guidance. As Justina Lasley shows us, our dreamworlds can be the bridge to great wisdom. You will learn from her personal story about how keeping track of her dream experiences awakened her from her rigid lifestyle. They transformed her life and have the power to inform, enlighten, and guide us all.
While enjoying this rich conversation, you will gain a new respect for the potential of dream time and learn some valuable ways to interact with it. Dreams can be understood through the lenses of character, belief, and emotion, and they are a powerful channel to our power and passion.
Justina is the author of Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders, In My Dream… A Creative dream journal and her recently published book Wake Up to Your Dreams: Transform Your Relationships, Career, and Health While You Sleep, and she will share some of the many tools she has found to help open this inspiring door to an expanded reality.
Be prepared for an intriguing and entertaining hour, concluding with a beautiful guided meditation.
“Our truest life is when we are in our dream awake” – Henry David Thoreau
About Justina Lasley: Justina Lasley holds a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology and a B.A. in both Applied Art and Education. She is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Dream Studies. This is an internationally recognized program that promotes the understanding of dream to help people claim their uniqueness and full potential. She is also the creator of DreamSynergy™, a comprehensive process with proven results for uncovering dream meaning leading to personal transformation. Learn more about Justina at dreamsynergy.com
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Wake Up to Your Dreams Wake Up to Your Dreams teaches you to use nighttime dreamtime as a tool to awaken your most authentic, creative, and spiritual self and thus to lead a more fulfilling and joyful life.
Justina Lasley reveals her inspiring personal story of change and transformation, and explains how dreams have impacted her life in countless positive ways. She also shares others’ unique stories, dreams and personal growth.
Wake Up to Your Dreams will inspire you to awaken to your authentic Self and greatest potential, by introducing you to the incredible wealth of wisdom available nightly in your dreams.
Learn to easily remember, record, and dissect your dreams to better understand yourself and your life.
Harness the wisdom of your own dreams to help you find the authentic person you were born to be! Buy it here.
I discovered Kimberly Braun and learned about her work with spiritual freedom and meditation while browsing through TED Talks. Although she was talking about a very practical approach to spirituality, it turns out that she had spent 10 ½ years in a Carmelite monastery. I contacted her, and I am happy to share this most interesting and inspiring conversation with you.
From the age of five, Kimberly had experienced herself on the receiving end of the many moments that she has come to call “unitive experiences,” where time seemed to stop and the veils pulled back revealing the deeper essence of the moment. These experiences continued, and they led her to ask deeper questions, and eventually to become a nun. Although she loved the utter simplicity of life there, she soon found herself called to become a general contractor (with no prior training). With this she lead construction of a multimillion dollar stone monastery.
Together we explore the changes she went through, and how they have finally led her to become a meditation teacher and spiritual guide who teaches about spiritual freedom. We then discuss the similarities and the contrasts between her approaches and my own. What we found is that meditation can bring us into a presence of oneness. This ceases to identify, compare, or name “what we are,” and can help us transform our lives and the world.
About Kimberly Braun M.A. CSP and Spiritual Freedom:
Below is Kimberly’s first person biography which is a small piece of what you can learn about her and her work at her website kimberlybraun.com :
From a very young age, (4-5 years old,) I found myself on the receiving end of many moments I now call unitive experiences. Time seemed to stop and veils seemed to pull back where the deeper essence of the moment came forward within me and around me. Naturally curious I liked the feelings these experiences evoked and began to connect the dots that THIS was a key to happiness. These experiences happened in ritual, family, school, and especially nature. Naturally curious the occurrences inspired me and motivated me to ask deeper questions. These deeper questions led me to find out that all our happiness and success is within us, we just have to discover it and surrender to it unconditionally and proactively. This can be easily said, but not always easily done, and my journey, probably similar to yours, has been an ever unfolding participation in the co-creation of my life, a yes to what reveals itself in any given moment.
So again and again I surrender. Ever ancient. Ever new.
The first large surrender was to immerse myself in silence in a monastery, impelled by Love firing within my soul I lived ten and a half years as a Carmelite nun. Within that frame came many surrenders, all impelled by the marriage of myself to God.
Another surrender led me to obtain my Masters in Theology, concentrating on spiritual direction and psycho-spiritual development. My hope was to presence others to presence the Divine within themselves…nurturing skills to hear the language of the heart
And yet another surrender, after three years on a ministry team, led me to plunge into the world as a woman, a spiritual guide whose lineage was the common essence of all people and all creation; independent of, yet bowing to all, traditions, faiths and practices, culling forth what can be shared with all.
My training continued as I studied with Rev. Laura Thornberry in developing psychic and spiritual skills, culminating in ordination with the Church of the Creator; and also studying Reiki through the Diane Stein school, bringing me to complete level 3 Reiki Master training.
Now, I surrender to the pulsing of communication through writing books soon to be published, offering keynotes to inspire all to experience their own inner Essence, teaching Essence Meditation class, and a large host of retreats and workshops including yearly stints as meditation faculty at the renowned Omega Institute in New York and a retreat in Ecuador with AmazonAndesSky. I am happily accepted as a Certified Speaking Professional and member of the National Speaker’s Association.
Support Dr. Miller’s Conversations With Your Purchase of: Books by Today’s Guest: Love Calls – Insights of a Former Carmelite Nun LOVE CALLS touching the YES to life within us all Allow Kimberly to share her story, her hero’s journey, in the privacy of your heart and you will see that this relationship is one that calls us all, at some level to live to our highest potential. Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D. Quiet Mind, Fearless Heart Kimberly’s quest to pursue a connection with the divine is awe-inspiring. As a woman seeking spiritual connection, too, I felt while I was reading that I was her friend and confidant … Kimberly heard the call of the mystic, and as all seem to do, eventually, left the solitary life to emerge as a missionary to share her love for the divine and what she knows as the power of the soul. Sarah McLean, Soul-Centered: Transform Your Life in 8 Weeks with Meditation Poignant, powerful and poetic, this wonderful book by Kimberly Braun is unique in the world of spirituality and personal growth and offers important insights and messages for all. -Jonathan Ellerby, Ph.D., Return to the Sacred Buy it here.
In this interview, Dr. Miller and Kimberly Braun talk about her life's journey in finding her own spiritual freedom which has culminated in her becoming a nun, a spiritual guide and a reiki master among other things.