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Meditation

Meditation is a powerful tool that has been used for thousands of years to promote inner peace, reduce stress, and cultivate a state of mind that is peaceful, focused, and free from distraction. Generally, in all of these cultures, meditation is part of the religious practice of the shaman, priest, or medicine man, and sometimes it is taught to all members of the community, often in the form of “prayer.”  However, at the heart of all forms of meditation lies the goal of achieving a mind characterized by clarity, calmness, and presence.

Traditionally, meditation involves sitting quietly while focusing on an object, a sound, or the breath, for instance. Dr. Miller has developed ways to augment the meditative experience with the soothing guidance of his voice, enabling more rapid entry into a deeper meditative state. When the doorway to the subconscious has been opened, we can travel through time and space to decondition past patterns and create new behaviors and beliefs. This “guided meditation” is at the essence of his self-healing approach.

The meditative state of mind is almost a pre-requisite for achieving spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being, and it profoundly impacts our overall health and happiness. A meditative state is often achieved simply through mindfulness, a practice in which we are free of thoughts, feelings, and sensations that trigger anxiety and confusion and instead focus our attention on the absolute peace of the present moment. Mindfulness is characterized by a deep sense of serenity and contentment, a feeling of connectedness with the world around us, and a heightened sense of awareness and clarity.

Another popular form of meditation is loving-kindness meditation. This practice involves cultivating feelings of compassion and kindness towards ourselves and others. By focusing our attention on feelings of love and kindness, we are able to shift our focus away from negative emotions and cultivate a greater sense of connection and well-being.

No matter what type of meditation practice we choose, the benefits of achieving a state of mind characterized by presence, clarity, and calmness are clear. By cultivating a regular meditation practice, we can experience greater spiritual connection, improved physical and mental health, and a greater sense of happiness and contentment in our daily lives.

Meditation has lately achieved a measure of mainstream popularity because of its remarkable physical and emotional benefits. It has been shown to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, improve sleep quality, boost the immune system, and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Regular meditation practice has also been demonstrated by fMRI studies to increase gray matter in the brain in areas associated with memory, attention, and emotional regulation.

Emotionally, the meditative state can help us develop greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence. It can help us better understand our thoughts, feelings, and reactions and give us greater control over them. We are less likely to be overwhelmed by difficult emotions or external circumstances and more able to experience inner peace and joy regardless of those circumstances. Through meditation, we discover how to navigate the ups and downs of life with equanimity and grace.

Nearly all religions include some form of meditation among their sacred practices. Religious practitioners find this state of mind important spiritually because they believe it allows a deeper connection with our deepest selves and the ability to tap into the infinite wisdom and guidance within and all around us. Quieting the mind and cultivating inner stillness enables us to access a higher level of consciousness and expand our awareness beyond the limitations of our physical bodies.

Perhaps most importantly, the meditative state is essential for our overall happiness and well-being. When we are in this state of mind, we can let go of the worries and stresses of daily life and focus on what is truly important. We can connect with our inner selves and find meaning and purpose in our lives. We can cultivate a deep sense of gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives and develop a more positive and optimistic outlook.

How to Meditate

Here is a simple meditation exercise for learning how to meditate. By practicing the simple meditation technique described below, you can gradually learn to clear your mind and become more centered.  It consists of two parts:

First you will focus on the flowing nature of unlabored, easy breathing,
Second, enjoy a simple technique for clearing your mind.

1.  Flow of Breath Technique
When learning how to meditate, first choose a quiet place where you will not be disturbed for ten minutes or more, and be seated in a comfortable position. You may choose to sit in the traditional cross-legged posture but this is not necessary in order to gain the benefits of meditation. Allow your eyes to relax closed, or leave them open just a tiny slit, and focus your attention on your breathing.

Breathe naturally through your nostrils. Avoid trying to control the breath and focus your awareness on the sensation of the breath as it enters the body – the cool feeling in your nostrils, and the warmth as it leaves. Feel the rising and falling of your chest and abdomen, and let a steady rhythm of your breathing in and out be the object of this meditation. Concentrate on your breathing, especially the exhalation, to the exclusion of everything else.

 

2.  Mind Clearing
You may discover your mind will be very busy with mind-chatter. At first it may seem meditating is making your mind even busier. This is an illusion; you are simply becoming more aware of how busy your mind is, ALL THE TIME.

Continue your focus on your breathing. Ignore random thoughts that may tend to clutter your mind. Let them slip away; focus on your breathing. You might imagine that the thoughts leave your mind with each exhalation.

 

Benefits of Meditation

Practice this for 10-20 minutes once or twice a day. You will soon notice your mind feeling clearer, not only right after you sit, but throughout the day. You may or may not notice the benefits of meditation immediately. These methods of meditation require attention – and practice. Don’t expect that you will eliminate all the mind chatter on your first or second try.  Stick with this process as a daily practice and you will soon be able to evaluate it’s effects.

Though meditation may seem frustrating or a bit tiring at first, after daily practice and patience, you will find the distracting thoughts subside and eventually yield to a deep sense of restful alertness and deep relaxation. You will feel refreshed and think more clearly at the end of your meditation exercise. Similarly, as you quiet your distracting thoughts through your focus on your breath, you achieve the clarity that you so desperately crave.

 

Follow through

Stay with this Breath and Mind Clearing meditation exercise for a while. You will rapidly feel positive physical and emotional results with daily meditation. Allow yourself the time to enjoy this Breath and Mind Clearing meditation technique and notice a decrease in stress and the open feeling that comes to your relaxed mind.

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Meditation is a practice that has been used for centuries to help people cultivate a state of mind that is peaceful, focused, and free from distraction. This state of mind is often referred to as “meditative state” or “mindfulness,” and it is the foundation of many forms of meditation. This state of mind is so important for our spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being, and has a profound impact on our overall health and happiness.

At its core, the meditative state is a state of profound calm and relaxation. It is a state in which we are able to let go of the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that usually distract us and focus our attention on the present moment. This state of mind is characterized by a deep sense of peace and contentment, a feeling of connectedness with the world around us, and a heightened sense of awareness and clarity.

From a spiritual perspective, the meditative state is a vital aspect of many spiritual practices. It is a state in which we are able to connect with our inner selves, and with the divine or universal consciousness. In this state of mind, we can experience a sense of oneness with all that is, and a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. This connection to something greater than ourselves can be a profound source of comfort, guidance, and inspiration in our lives.

The benefits of the meditative state are not just spiritual, but also physical and emotional. Meditation has been shown to have a wide range of health benefits, including reducing stress, lowering blood pressure, improving sleep quality, boosting the immune system, and reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Regular meditation practice has also been linked to increased gray matter in the brain, indicating that it may have a positive impact on brain function and cognitive abilities.

Emotionally, the meditative state can help us develop greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence. It can help us better understand our thoughts, feelings, and reactions, and give us greater control over them. It can help us cultivate a sense of inner peace and contentment, even in the midst of challenging circumstances.

Perhaps most importantly, the meditative state is essential for our overall happiness and well-being. When we are in this state of mind, we are able to let go of the worries and stresses of daily life and focus on what is truly important. We are able to connect with our inner selves and find a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives. We are able to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude for all the blessings in our lives, and develop a more positive and optimistic outlook.

In short, the meditative state is a state of mind that is essential for our spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being. It is a state of profound calm and relaxation, characterized by a deep sense of peace and contentment, and a heightened sense of awareness and clarity. It is a state in which we are able to connect with our inner selves, with the divine or universal consciousness, and with the world

This state of mind is invaluable spiritually because it allows us to connect with our deepest selves and tap into the infinite wisdom and guidance that lies within us. By quieting the mind and cultivating inner stillness, we are able to access a higher level of consciousness and expand our awareness beyond the limitations of our physical bodies.

In addition to its benefits, meditation is incredibly valuable for improving physical and mental health. The practice of meditation has been shown to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, improve immune function, and alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression. Regular meditation practice has even been linked to an increase in gray matter in areas of the brain associated with memory, attention, and emotional regulation.

Beyond its health benefits, the state of mind that meditation aims to achieve is also crucial for our overall happiness and well-being.

What is Self Healing?

What is Self Healing?

 

What is Self-Healing?

What? We don’t need Doctors, or Hospitals, or expensive drugs? We don’t need healthy diets, or regular exercise, or Chiropractic adjustments?

Not exactly. Self-healing does not dismiss the importance of medical treatment, especially for acute injury or illness. And beneficial practices like exercise and a healthy lifestyle are excellent complements to Self-healing. However, at its core, Self-healing refers to activating the innate ability our bodies possess to heal themselves, through the use of powerful, self-applied Mind-Tools.

As you have noticed, when you cut a finger or bruise your knee, your body heals itself. Antibiotics don’t heal you, they just weaken the bacteria. Your immune system must kill and remove them. Similarly, the cast on your broken arm just prevents movement from disrupting the repair, and the surgeon who removes a cancer just removes an impediment. In every case, the body must repair the damage to its tissues.

Consider this: our bodies are intricately designed to repair and restore themselves, eagerly engaging in the healing process unless there are obstacles hindering this innate capacity. Sometimes, these obstacles are physical. Excessive consumption of alcohol, drugs, or unhealthy foods can impede the body’s healing mechanisms. At other times, the hindrances are emotional. Emotions such as grief, rage, frustration, and anxiety can negatively impact the immune system and other vital processes, leaving our bodies vulnerable to infections and illnesses. Remarkably, research has revealed that many, perhaps most, diseases, including the top five killers, are strongly linked to stress.

 

Claude Bernard and Homeostasis

In the late 1800s, two prominent doctors presented contrasting theories about the causes of disease. Louis Pasteur, well known for developing Pasteurization to kill bacteria in milk, taught that diseases resulted from being invaded by external organisms. Conversely, Claude Bernard proposed that the primary factor in disease development was the loss of homeostasis—a balanced state within the body’s internal environment.

Studies in the new field of neuroscience harken back to Bernard’s theory, confirming that certain thoughts, self-talk, beliefs, and emotions we generate have a profoundly negative impact on our health and functioning. The stress from these factors significantly disrupts our body’s homeostasis, leaving us vulnerable to physical diseases, mental illnesses, poor health habits, addictions, and even strained relationships. A considerable portion, or even most, of our sickness and unhappiness, can be traced back to these imbalances. Our ways of thinking, reacting, speaking, and behaving block our healing and wellness!

In other words, science is proving the value of Self-healing. By intentionally engaging in self-healing practices, we can first learn and utilize specific Mind-Tools to melt away our stress into deep relaxation and meditation states. Next, through Guided Imagery and Mental Image Rehearsal, we can reshape our thinking patterns and transform our reactions to challenging stimuli. Moreover, these same tools can now be used to create healing imagery that addresses past wounds and programs in a future filled with optimal health.

And this entire process is relaxing, enjoyable, empowering, and energizing. Self-healing is a holistic approach to well-being that will empower you to tap into your inner healing potential. Take an active role in your health by promoting the mind-body connection and unlocking the immense power within you to rejuvenate, restore, and thrive.

 

What is Healing?

Healing means becoming more whole, more able to accomplish what you wish to accomplish, and more able to enjoy your life. This wholeness may involve the healing of a physical wound, an emotional disturbance, a maladaptive behavior (rage, addiction, shyness), or conflictual relationships.

Healing is an active, living process. You can learn how to heal yourself. Medicines, supplements, surgery, exercise – they help but are only support for the self-healing process. Antibiotics can weaken a bacterium, but only your immune system can actually kill and get rid of it. Studies show the single most important thing you can do is to learn to create mental and physical relaxation and balance. These, along with guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and prayer are very potent mind tools for getting you well and keeping you well.

Patient, Heal Thyself

Self-healing refers to the things you can do to cause your internal system to function better and heal you faster and more thoroughly. Self-healing involves behaving wisely, tuning into the true needs of your body, mind, spirit, and soul and making wise choices – to eat the right way, exercise the right way, and get the right amount of sleep. Learn deep relaxation for ten or twenty minutes each day, three times a day if you want even better results.

During this time focus on peace, harmony, beauty, love, and other similar experiences. Meditation, prayer, and other deep relaxation techniques will help you eliminate distractions. During this time, allow yourself to feel completely accepting of yourself, exactly as you are and accepting the world just as it is at this moment – after all, it cannot at this moment be any different from how it is at this moment!

Fill your mind with the things you feel grateful that you have to feel and experience in your life. Give thanks and feel the gratitude in your body. Visualize your body healing itself and becoming more whole and functional. Then picture yourself as completely well, happy and healthy.  That’s the key to the secrets of self-healing!  Just remember to do it several times a day.

Self Healing Stress

Stress is a very important part of most of our illnesses. Some it causes, others it makes worse. Physical tension and mental/emotional stress produce disordered (incoherent) neural impulses in the nerves and circulate stress chemicals in the body that cause, for example:

      • Emotional imbalance (anxiety, irritability, anger, depression, unhappiness)
      • Mental dysfunction, (low creativity, insomnia, procrastination, attention deficit)
      • Behavioral disorders, (drinking, smoking, eating)
      • Chronic stress over a long period actually shrinks the brain, killing neurons by the millions
      • Muscle pain and dysfunction, (backache and headache, muscle tension, elevated blood pressure, colonic disorders)
      • Inflammation, (tendonitis, arthritis, GI problems)

Deeply relaxed states re-balance the system. Most imbalances and disorders, (illnesses, dysfunctions, symptoms, or diseases)  are either caused or made worse, by physical tension and mental/emotional stress.  Deep Relaxation is the direct antidote to stress and is thus widely used in self-healing techniques.

So, to help speed up your healing, be certain to wisely guide the mind, its thoughts, and emotions, to function in a way that is congruent with the healing process you want to facilitate. In other words, be the change you want to create.

 

 

How to Heal Yourself

You can learn how to heal yourself!  In fact, you are the only one who can.

The right food, the right exercise, the right medications, the right relationships -all these can help support your healing process, but not unless you intentionally cause them to. Your conscious, intentional mind (which is separate from, though connected to, your subconscious mind and nervous system) is the key to your self-healing.

The process is simple, actually.

  1. First, you need to understand the process with your intellect, the part capable of critical thinking that realizes the value of evidence-based reasoning.
  2. The next step in healing any system is that the system becomes aware of its identity as a system. For you, this means freeing yourself from distraction and focusing on who you are, your true values, purpose, goals, and vision.
  3. Third, you learn how to read the signals and messages that come from within and how to balance your system — physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Fortunately, you can learn to do this in a remarkably short period of time using the powerful Mind Tools Dr. Miller has developed. These tools can help you to reach a very pleasant state of deep relaxation and meditation, bringing you into the present, emptying your mind of distractions and your body of toxins, and preparing the cells of your body to receive your self-healing instructions.

Another very valuable tool for self-healing is guided imagery. This process involves holding specific healing imagery in the mind while in the receptive “Healing State.” This results in relief of stress, and the activation of your unconscious healing and corrective processes are mobilized.  In a very real sense, you are “reprogramming” your mind and rewiring your brain. Your goal is to restore internal coherence and balance, and thus to help heal your body, emotions, mind, and behavior.

Each time you repeat these experiences, you are re-scripting your body, your emotional state, and how you will respond in future situations. You will discover this is a powerful way to mentally rehearse, through guided imagery, your desired behaviors of mind and body, much as athletes or actors mentally rehearse their performances.

These new behaviors may have to do with modifying how the internal organs of your body operate, how you talk to yourself, your personal habits, how you interact with others, etc.  Diet, exercise, rest, prayer, meditation, and other modalities of re-balancing the system may be needed, but all these require us to change our mental behavior in order to apply them. Thus, the mind-body axis is always primary in healing yourself.

The Six Steps of Self Healing with Guided Imagery Audio

  1. Education — Obtain as much accurate information as possible about health and healing. Learn as much about your constitution and about your condition, the symptoms, etiology, and therapy, including the role of stress, diet, emotions, and exercise. Learn about the different options for treating your condition. To begin your education consider reading about Mind-Body Medicine.
  2. Relaxation — Deep Relaxation is essential for rapid healing because it is the direct antidote to stress. In addition, relaxation empties your mind of distractions, and thus allows you to self-program new, more desirable self-healing behaviors — both at the visible (macroscopic) level and in the microscopic behavior of the cells of your body. Deep relaxation is also the key to programming mind and body for peak performance in any endeavor — sports, profession, or personal life (yes, even sexual).
  3. Entering “The Healing State” — Here the mind is open to re-scripting and the body accepts new healthy images and emotions. Re-scripting is a powerful way to mentally rehearse desired behaviors of the mind and body, much as athletes or actors mentally rehearse their performances. These guided imagery & meditation CDs and MP3 downloads will teach you to do this through simple, logical, straightforward, and highly enjoyable guided imagery experiences. The experience and your ability to use the Healing State becomes progressively more powerful with a few minutes a day of pleasurable practice.
  4. Forming Powerful, Transformative, Healing Images—Intentional mental imagery through Selective Awareness — Software For The Mind — allows you to make a commitment to healing yourself by directly influencing the behavior of the cells of your body (e.g., the immune system), initiating and sustaining health-producing behaviors, (exercise, diet, non-abuse of alcohol or drugs, quit smoking), and produce a health-sustaining self-image. This inner image serves to change the behavior at every level of the mind-body system.
  5. Rehearsing These Images Daily — Reprogramming your mind is actually retraining the mind. Just as you might practice musical scales or typing in order to improve, the regular practice of the appropriate imagery trains the brain, the nervous system, and the immune system to easily carry out the desired changes. Your goal is to restore internal coherence and balance and thus to help heal the body, emotions, mind, and behavior.
  6. Reinforcing Positive Changes — Reward your mind for responding to your entreaties so that the new behaviors prevail. Take yourself out for dinner, to a ball game, or a movie, for instance. Or take time off to be with loved ones.

 

 

What Is Guided Imagery?

What Is Guided Imagery?

Guided Imagery – Noun 1. a self-help or therapeutic intervention during which a person visualizes or imagines things suggested in order to create physiological and psychological healing. 2. the least expensive, safest, and often most effective way to resolve most illnesses.

You can learn how to heal yourself using guided imagery. Perhaps the best and quickest way to gain an understanding of deep relaxation is to take a few moments and experience a short meditation using guided imagery. Listen to a sample of a recorded guided imagery experience in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes. Your experience is the best teacher.

The Origin of Guided Imagery

Early in Dr. Miller’s career, he discovered that if a patient is taught a way to relax and direct their thoughts in certain positive, healing ways (Selective Awareness), they can reach deep relaxation and implement self-healing techniques. Millions have discovered by using the tapes and CDs, as well as the DVDs, and guided meditation mp3 downloads Dr. Miller has created, you can learn how to enter a deeply relaxed state of awareness. After reaching this “Healing State,” Dr. Miller will guide you through a carefully selected sequence of guided imagery experiences – scenarios designed to create positive physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, and relational changes (healing). Practicing these guided imagery exercises on a daily basis gradually trains your mind, rewires your brain, and changes your body.

Guided imagery meditations are effective for reducing stress and tension, and have been clinically proven to:

    • Reduce stress and improve health,
    • Increase depth and speed of healing,
    • Enhance wellness,
    • Awaken self-awareness,
    • Improve self-respect, self-confidence, and self-esteem
    • Optimize creativity
    • Inspire peak performance for you and your family

Dr. Miller shows you how using guided imagery exercises can lead to deeper self-healing through the wise choice of thoughts and mental images. Through a special process, he developed called Selective Awareness, you will learn how to use your mind to heal your body. Discover how an enjoyable series of images and emotional experiences can lead your body, mind, and emotions too deep healing and peak performance.  The power of guided imagery can help you tap into your inner spiritual resources and take your health and happiness to a higher level.

Benefits of Guided Imagery

    • Deep relaxation of muscles and other organs
    • Letting your body work with you – not against you
    • Faster recovery from illness and injury
    • Improved athletic and creative performance
    • Stress reduction and anxiety relief
    • Improved quantity and quality of sleep
    • Richer spiritual connections
    • Eliminating self-destructive behaviors, habits, and addictions
    • Achieving optimal performance – physically, mentally, creatively
    • Increased capacity for communication and authentic relationships

How Guided Imagery Works – the Mind-Body Connection

The thoughts that pass through your mind create internal images that, to your body and nervous system, are indistinguishable from actual physical reality. Create a positive inner image (of your body, health, or performance), and the deeper levels of your mind (subconscious) make it come true!

Here is an example of how Guided Imagery audio can help you to control normally involuntary processes.

Step 1: Say to yourself, “salivate!” You can’t – the act of salvation is not a conscious one.

Step 2: Now try this…

Imagine a lemon. Imagine you are holding the lemon in your hand. Visualize it clearly in your mind. You can see its color, feel its bumpy surface, and see the stem. Imagine that you drop it on a wooden table and hear the sound it makes. Imagine you have a very sharp knife and are cutting the lemon in two. See the cut surfaces glistening and notice that you have even cut one of the seeds in half. Now visualize a sparkling clean glass and squeeze the juice from one of those halves into the glass. See it run down the side of the glass.

Now imagine that you are lifting the glass towards your face so you can smell the lemony flavor of the juice. Place the rim of the glass in your mouth and as you tilt the glass up, let the lemon juice flow down the side of the glass into your mouth. Taste the lemony taste. Taste the sourness of the juice as it flows over and around the sides of your tongue. Savor the tart flavor and notice the flow of saliva.

 

Chances are you can feel the saliva flowing freely. In a similar manner, the thoughts and images you hold in your mind all day have impacts at subconscious levels of the mind and can cause changes in your body, your behavior, your feelings, and your thinking.

Your inner images affect all your behaviors – your thoughts, your emotions, and right down to the behavior of the cells of your body – as well as the behaviors of your body as a whole. The process of carefully controlling and guiding your thoughts has been the secret to most healing traditions and is at the core of self-hypnosis, faith healing, and the performance visualization techniques used by most top athletes, performers and creative professionals, among others.

You can learn to wisely guide your awareness to harness the power of your mind and focus it to realize your full potential. Because different people learn in different ways, DrMiller.com offers you a variety of opportunities to tap into Dr. Miller’s wealth of experience.

  • You can download guided imagery audio mp3 files or browse our online store for guided imagery CDs and guided imagery scripts.
  • His free eNewsletter Healing Times is where you can find fascinating articlesdiscussionshealing tips, and stories of personal success through guided imagery exercises.
  • And the guests on his internet radio/podcast show bring you even more ideas about how to use the power of your mind. Take a listen to the leaders and healers on the shows in the Radio Show Archives.

Suggested Guided Imagery, Meditation & Self-Hypnosis Programs

An experience is worth a thousand words; take a moment to enjoy this brief clip from Healing Journey (coming soon), the program that awakened the world to the power of guided imagery to reduce stress and heal: A Trip to the Beach.

Mind, Medicine, Miracles: A Conversation With Dr. Bernie Siegel (Podcast)

Mind, Medicine, Miracles: A Conversation With Dr. Bernie Siegel (Podcast)

We are happy to present one of the true giants in the field of patient-centered medicine, self-healing, Dr. Bernie Siegel. Bernie, the author of numerous bestsellers including the groundbreaking 1986 book, Love Medicine and Miracles, will explore some of his personal histories, and what attracted him to the practice of Mind-Body Medicine.

Bernie, a top-ranked student, graduating with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, as well as Alpha Omega Alpha (the Medical Students’ Honor Society), Dr. Siegel was a professor of medicine and a staff surgeon, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale, and was a real non-believer until a surprising event occurred in the mid-seventies that would cause him to redirect his life.

Bernie will discuss the miracles he has seen – things that happen that we don’t understand. When a person heals his cancer, that’s no longer a miracle to Bernie – he has learned that when your body knows that you love your life, it heals itself. There’s a good reason. He says that strokes, suicide, and myocardial infarctions happen on Monday.

We will explore the remarkable ability of the body to heal itself – something that now has been well-documented by medical studies, and how living a life of purpose and Love can sustain our health and our life. After all, as Bernie says, “If we don’t love our lives, our body sees death as the solution.” Probably not the solution we’re hoping for though.

We’ll discuss some of the current studies as well as some of Bernie’s anecdotes – like the study that indicates that people above 50 years old whose parents said, “I love you,” have less than half of the number of major illnesses of those whose parents never said it.

Bernie will also share with us the rules for living he received from his mother and how they have affected his life and the lives of millions more. We’ll talk about the power of story – and how the only thing truer than the truth is a story, how to create the authentic life you’re here to live – not merely accepting the one that’s given to you, along with all of the warmth and humor we’ve come to expect from Bernie.

For many, Bernie needs no introduction; he has touched many lives all over our planet. In 1978 he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician, who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by an illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our society grapples with today. He continues to assist in breaking new ground in the field of healing and personally struggling to live the message of kindness and love.

His website is www.BernieSiegelMD.com.