Moorea Mitchell throwing the hammer (Photo credit: Nate Barrett Photography)

As a former Duke pole vault record holder and a retired Duke radiologist, I attend all the home track meets and the annual Alumni Athlete Networking Lunch. At the fall lunch in 2022, I met Moorea Mitchell, a junior hammer and weight thrower. We talked about how every poor performance is like a malware program that gets uploaded into a file in your brain which stores a picture, a story, and the program. When activated, it will take you back to the experience of the failure as a body memory.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) tapping on the endpoints of the acupuncture meridians on your face and chest while repeating the file name can be used to uninstall the program like hitting the delete key on your computer. When the file is saved again like a Word document through a neurophysiological process known as memory reconsolidation, the program has been replaced by pleasant tapping sensations. Afterwards, self-hypnosis can be used to install a program for success instead.

Moorea was intrigued and scheduled 4 Zoom coaching sessions with me. On the first 80-minute call, she said she had just suffered a back injury doing squat weight exercises and was unable to workout due to the pain. Since I often do EFT for musculoskeletal pain conditions with my coaching clients, we used the tapping phrase “I’m afraid of the excruciating back pain,” while also addressing emotional burdens she was carrying on her back typical of students at a high-pressure school like Duke.

Her back pain was gone by the next session a week later, and she was gradually able to restart her workouts with renewed vigor. Prior to learning EFT, I had worked with a lot of student-athletes in my PE-14 Stress Management and Performance Enhancement class that I taught from 1996 to 2003 including a couple NCAA champions. They learned a potpourri of mind-body techniques. As a psychology major, Moorea was open to combining these approaches with EFT to enhance her performance.

She had a hammer throw failure the prior season at the ACC Championship Meet which was haunting her this year. She had fouled on her first 2 throws and under pressure on the last throw choked and failed to meet the cutoff to make the finals. In the 2nd session we tapped on “I’m afraid of failing again at the ACC meet” and in the 3rd session the phrase was “I’m too far behind in lifting to set a personal record (PR).” The next day in the first indoor meet of the season, she won 1st place in the weight throw!

Moorea: “Thank you for meeting with me yesterday — just finished my first competition of the season! Today was definitely a good start and showed me that I have what it takes to get there! I attached a video of my best throw from today’s meet!” Me: “Thought I saw a smile and a little happy dance at the end!” Moorea: “Yes! My best two throws were actually when I smiled walking into the ring and after I completed the throw. I think smiling really helps me relax which is what makes me throw far.”

She continued to improve during the next 2 outdoor seasons achieving new PRs and setting the school record in the indoor weight throw. In 2024, Moorea achieved her goals of making it to the NCAA Championships in the hammer throw and breaking the 200-foot/60-meter barrier. Moorea: “I remember it being helpful mentally to set my mind at ease and make it easier to be in a relaxed space during competitions. The tapping in conjunction with sports psych helped me get out of my head at meets.”

My inspiration for using EFT to enhance sports performance comes from my psychotherapist friend Greg Warburton, MS, LPC, who has had amazing success in coaching college baseball players. His tapping approach combined with other mind-body methods is detailed in his book, Warburton’s Winning System. His most impressive results came when the Oregon State University (OSU) Beavers Baseball Team won back-to-back College World Series in 2006 and 2007, plus again in 2018.

His work received national media attention in 2007 when OSU star freshman pitcher Jorge Reyes, who won 2 games in the College World Series, was videotaped tapping in the dugout between innings by a local TV station. The reporters in this 2nd video admitted they were somewhat baffled by watching the EFT process, but the bottom line is that it worked and they won again and again. Below is a testimonial from College Hall of Fame Coach Pat Casey, OSU Baseball Head Coach from 1994–2018:

“I have had the pleasure of not only working with Greg but also building a friendship over the many years he has worked with players here at OSU. Greg brings a mental and emotional approach to teaching that has had a huge impact on several players, how they handle pressure in the game and in Life. I have always appreciated his confidence that he will bring out a positive mind with a competitive spirit. Greg also knows and understands every player is unique and finds the best method to reach that individual.”

Through 2025, he is connected to 9 other National Championships including softball and rowing, and a few current Major League Baseball players have been taught tapping by Greg. I want to highlight that what Greg and I are teaching for mental and emotional fitness leads to the consistent top performances of champions. It is an effective cure for the “yips,” a sudden and unexplained loss of skills in experienced athletes which is thought to have a psychological origin.

Motivated by Greg’s success, I offered to teach EFT to the Duke Baseball Team in the fall of 2018. Former Head Coach Chris Pollard invited me to do an hour of group tapping with the team. They had made it to the Super Regional Playoffs that spring, but lost the final game that would have sent them to the College World Series. We focused on that failure during the EFT process, but they got a similar result the next spring. Perhaps, if I had been asked to do individual sessions, the outcome might have been better.

Here is an EFT tapping video for sports performance to show an example of what I teach to athletes. As a bonus for students, tapping is also useful for test-taking anxiety, fear of public speaking, and emotional barriers to attracting abundance. I’m available to teach an introductory 1-hour tapping session to teams as a free service in-person or via Zoom, plus I offer 20-minute free phone coaching consults for individual athletes. I look forward to assisting all-comers in tapping your hidden potential.

Previously published on Medium.com 5/21/2026

Natural mind-body-spirit approaches for your journey to healing! (perplexity.ai)

My recent Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras Zoom workshop on 3/21/26 was so successful that it inspired me to start a new Chronic Illness Holistic Self-Healing Facebook group. It is modeled after my Frozen Shoulder Healing group which has grown exponentially from 10K members last spring to 61K members this year since the publication of my Frozen Shoulder Healing: Diagnostic Methods and Treatment Options book. If this new group proves to be as popular, I will plan to write another book.

This group is for sharing information about meditation, expressive writing, EFT tapping, hypnosis, dreamwork and other mind-body-spirit modalities. Clearing energetic blocks in the chakras due to emotional trauma can be the key to healing autoimmune diseases and lower extremity problems, chronic musculoskeletal and abdominal pain syndromes, eating disorders and diabetes, heart, lung and sinus diseases, neck and thyroid problems, eye and ear diseases, and headaches and neurological disorders.

There is already a Chronic Illness Support Group, so if you want to share about how much you are suffering, please join that one. If you are looking for self-healing without surgery, medication and injections, you may find useful guidance here. This group is focused on success stories, and whatever you did to heal yourself or your clients. Feel free to promote workshops, clinics, books, etc., but please disclose any financial interests, and no MLM or network marketing products like LifeWave or EllieMD.

Many chronic illnesses can be considered somatic metaphors representing repressed emotions that are expressed in physical symptoms as described by clinical immunologist/psychiatrist Brian Broom. These energetic imbalances can be explored using different symbolic systems including the chakras, the Chinese five elements, and the esoteric concepts in popular books such as Louise Hay’s Heal Your Body which provides an encyclopedic list of symptoms and their metaphysical meanings.

In the Chinese five elements there are correspondences with two organs, an emotion, and a body tissue. Water is associated with the kidneys and bladder, fear, and the bones. Wood is associated with the liver and gall bladder, anger, and the sinews and tendons. Fire is associated with the heart and small intestines, joy, and the blood vessels. Earth is associated with the stomach and spleen, worry, and the muscles. Metal is associated with the lungs and large intestine, grief, and the skin.

The 1st chakra has safety as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of an infant with fear as a shadow emotion. Associated illnesses related to root chakra imbalances include autoimmune diseases like lupus, psoriatic arthritis, chronic urticaria, and immune thrombocytopenia, plus lower leg problems such as fractures, calf cramps, and hip pain. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am safe,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have fear blocking my 1st chakra.”

The 2nd chakra has freedom as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a toddler with anger as a shadow emotion. Associated illnesses related to sacral chakra imbalances include back pain, failed back syndrome, frozen shoulder, chronic regional pain syndrome, interstitial cystitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am free,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have anger blocking my 2nd chakra.”

The 3rd chakra has self-esteem as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a preschooler with shame as a shadow emotion. Associated illnesses related to solar plexus chakra imbalances include eating disorders such as food cravings, obesity, diabetes and anorexia, plus gastrointestinal conditions such as ulcers and Crohn’s disease. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am enough,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have shame blocking my 3rd chakra.”

The 4th chakra has social relationships as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a grade schooler with grief as a shadow emotion. Associated illnesses related to heart chakra imbalances include sinusitis and postnasal drip, and lung diseases like asthma and bronchitis, plus heart conditions like arrhythmias and heart attacks. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am grateful,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have grief blocking my 4th chakra.”

The 5th chakra has speaking the truth as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a preteen with lying as a shadow emotional issue. Associated illnesses related to throat chakra imbalances include neck problems and thyroid diseases such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis leading the hypothyroidism and Graves disease causing hyperthyroidism. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am truthful,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have lies blocking my 5th chakra.”

The 6th chakra has clear perception as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a teenager with illusions as a shadow emotional issue. Associated illnesses related to 3rd eye chakra imbalances include eye diseases such as optic neuritis, myopia, and farsightedness, plus ear problems like tinnitus, Meniere’s disease, and vertigo. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am clear,” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have illusions blocking my 6th chakra.”

The 7th chakra has spiritual connection as a developmental focus which relates back to the needs of a young adult with material attachments as a shadow emotional issue. Associated illnesses related to crown chakra imbalances include headaches, brain tumors, and neurological diseases such as ALS and Guillain-Barre syndrome. A useful mantra for meditation on these issues is “I am connected” while a typical EFT tapping reminder phrase is “I have attachments blocking my 7th chakra.”

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras for you to do your own self-healing, along with a specific video on Chronic Illnesses. If you want to go deeper the video from the chakra workshop is still available for purchase. For anyone who would like individual coaching I offer free 20-minute consults through my website plus additional details about the coaching program. Please post your insights and questions in the Chronic Illness Holistic Self-Healing Facebook group.

Originally published on Medium.com 4/7/2026

Gratitude & Love vs Grief and Lung Disease

My original 2019 online chakra course focused on the lower 4 energy centers, as that is where much of our childhood trauma is stored. Since then, I’ve added blogs for the upper 3 chakras and distilled the essence of the teachings into a 7-hour intensive Saturday workshop, Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras, on 3/21/2026, the day after the Vernal Equinox. This blog on the 4th chakra completes a series on the lower 4, so that there are now blogs available on all 7 chakras.

Grief is the emotion with the biggest impact on the 4th chakra manifesting in lung and sinus conditions, plus postnasal drip. Louise Hay describes it as “inner crying” when repressed tears get trapped in your sinuses, run down the back of your throat resulting in annoying coughing, and finally lodge in your lungs as bronchitis, pneumonia or asthma. In Chinese five element theory, the lungs are the organs of grief in the metal element with the associated meridians extending upward into the nasal area.

After learning about this 4th chakra imbalance in my workshop, a participant commented: “The seminar you gave transformed my life. I had been plagued with ‘reactive airway disease’ and ‘chronic bronchitis’ since I moved here 2 years ago. My pulmonologist husband and my pulmonologist were scratching their heads and throwing yet another inhaler at me. The revelation of grief localizing in the lungs and sinuses was truly an epiphany for me! The tapping cleared it almost immediately.”

One of my first coaching clients was a medic from the Vietnam
War who had carried his grief for over 40 years. When he shared that a bomb exploded in his foxhole and blew up his 3 best friends, the EFT phrase that healed his 4th chakra was “It’s all over me!” At the conclusion of the tapping sequences, he focused on his favorite memories and had visions of them as a form of after-death communication. His grief was resolved in just one session after being haunted by it for many decades.

Sometimes the 4th chakra healing process can require even deeper work to release wounds from childhood. Joe was a First Nations elder who I met during an internship at the Victoria Pain Clinic on Vancouver Island. He stated to my mentor Dr. Michael Greenwood that he had come to heal his knee pain which he attributed to being removed from his family at a young age and sent to a residential school where his native traditions were banned. His knee pain worsened later as a Yukon snowmobile guide.

Upon his arrival at the Clinic, Dr. Greenwood lanced a boil on his chest which was located at the Lung 1 acupuncture point corresponding to grief. We then did a series of acu-bodywork sessions placing needles in his hands and feet while encouraging deep breathing to create an altered state of consciousness. Michael’s wife Cheri, a Reiki healer, cradled his head during the treatment while he went into “The Void.” His Eagle spirit guide went with him and took Cheri’s Raven along for the ride as she joined him there.

We waited 10 minutes for them to return and discovered they had journeyed to his residential school and to Wounded Knee, SD, the site of the Lakota massacre in 1890. After several more sessions his knee pain had improved. On the final day, an eagle dropped a feather from the sky in front of him. He picked it up and said it was time for him to return to his tribe and become chief. He had been given the name “Leader of Men” before his birth but had never felt up to the task.

Heart arrhythmias may also be associated with 4th chakra issues which I first experienced with a coaching client who came to me for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). EFT tapping assisted him in resolving the underlying grief and prevented the need for cardiac ablation and drugs. A few years later my own healing journey with SVT complicated by ventricular tachycardia required a multi-faceted approach including herbs, homeopathy, HeartMath, and meditations from Dr. Joe Dispenza.

Medical intuitive Caroline Myss reported on Perry, a workaholic physician with a big practice, who began to question his conventional therapies and to explore alternative approaches. He could no longer stomach pushing drugs, but did not have the confidence to open his heart to his patients. While considering leaving medicine altogether he had a heart attack. It was a life changing event which caused him to open a smaller practice to address the emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs of his patients.

Psychiatrist and medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz did a reading for Mike, an aging professional actor, who was resentful about being passed over for the best roles. He kept his emotions sealed behind a brave face, and she saw the arteries of his heart were thick and hardened with blockages. He denied his feelings about younger actors displacing him and acted as if it was not a problem for him. Unfortunately, she saw his obituary 6 months later reporting that he died of a massive heart attack.

Mona Lisa notes that heart disease in women is often overlooked due to atypical symptoms such as nausea and abdominal pain without the classic signs recognized in men. Her reading for Violet, a musician with ambitions of becoming an orchestral conductor, showed her to be outwardly cheerful while her goals were being smothered by her husband. She put a lid on her feelings to keep her husband happy, but her resentment simmered underneath leading to the development of a cardiac arrhythmia.

Psychotherapist Anodea Judith offers the Jungian perspective that “adult development of the heart chakra results in a transcendence of the ego, an integration of the higher and lower chakras, creation of the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine, and development of social empathy and altruism.” It is the achievement of balance within and the expression of that balance through our relationships with others. The 4th chakra is the gateway to spiritual fulfillment and personal mastery.

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras as examples of what you will experience during the workshop highlighted in this video. It will start at 9:30 am ET with a one-hour break for lunch from 1 to 2 PM ET and closing comments ending at 5:30 pm ET. Recordings will be available the following day. By the end of day, you will have cleaned the shadow emotions out of your chakras to create healing breakthroughs for your chronic illnesses that will continue long after the course is over.

As a bonus for registering, there is a 35-minute video Musical Tour of the Chakras on 22 crystal bowls included on the course page that I recorded with classically trained multi-instrumentalist, award-winning composer, and frequency researcher Charleene Closshey which you can use to tune your chakras! A second bonus is now offered featuring a 25-minute video interview Up and Down the Chakras with Anodea Judith discussing upward chakra development and downward chakra manifestation.

A third bonus has been added to the course page of a 21-minute video recording of a Transforming Symptoms as Metaphors EFT tapping experiential exercise that was presented during a 2013 talk for the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship in Raleigh, NC.

Previously published on Medium.com 3/11/2026

Self-Esteem & Power vs Shame and Eating Disorders

My original 2019 online chakra course focused on the lower 4 energy centers, as that is where much of our childhood trauma is stored. Since then, I’ve added blogs for the upper 3 chakras and distilled the essence of the teachings into a 7-hour intensive Saturday workshop, Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras, on 3/21/2026, the day after the Vernal Equinox. This blog on the 3rd chakra adds to a series on the lower 4 that will eventually take us through the 4th chakra to complete the set.

Food cravings and weight gain can be triggered by shame in the 3rd chakra as noted by my former workshop participant who had failed on Ozempic twice. He succeeded with EFT using, “I am obese, but I am a good person and deserve to lose weight.” After tapping to uninstall the negative obesity malware program, he shifted toward self-hypnosis to install a new positive program, “I lose weight in a safe and healthy way. I achieve my weight goal joyfully. I am mindful of eating for my own health.”

My very first weight loss client was a 50-year-old woman who complained that she craved chocolate so much that she had to have a large candy bar every evening to calm her nerves. In fact, she had a freezer full of them. She used this EFT phrase during her first coaching session: “I crave chocolate when I am anxious.” Continuing the tapping on her own, she returned a month later to report that her horde of candy bars had not been touched since the last visit, and she had lost 10 pounds.

EFT is even more effective when combined with mindful eating practices. In a workshop, I introduced the food cravings tapping exercise before lunch. After lunch, the participants tested the results by buying the junk food they were tapping on. A psychotherapist bought a can of Coke as per her usual afternoon routine. After the EFT protocol, she was instructed to fill her mouth with one mindful sip. She confessed that it had an unpleasant metallic taste and would have preferred to just chug it down.

Mindful eating is also important in healing more severe imbalances of the 3rd chakra such as anorexia nervosa. The star of the women’s cross-country team in my stress management class had an eating disorder. We did a Metaphors for Change exercise where she used torture chamber imagery to describe her situation. She took a mindfulness meditation course and dropped in on the same class a year later. She discovered a new metaphor of walking a labyrinth and quit the team, now running just for fun.

Dreams can sometimes provide important insights into 3rd chakra issues which have not yet been revealed as physical problems. In my Dreams that Can Save Your Life book, Maria Mars described a series of deadly sweet dreams which foreshadowed her diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes prior to finding abnormally elevated blood sugars. She dreamed, “I look for munchies in the kitchen cupboard and find a stash of flavored rice crackers. I put them into a bowl, and they turn into candy.”

The dream warnings can get even more intense when it comes to cancer. Megan was a college student when she started having dreams of a small white circle in the center of her abdomen. A dream voice told her it was something bad but not to worry, she would be okay. The dreams persisted for months until she started getting pain and nausea leading to a medical evaluation. She was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor which was successfully resected before it spread resulting in a cure.

The stomach is one of the organs associated with the 3rd chakra, and the stomach acupuncture meridian runs right through the breast. My friend Diane is a meditation teacher in the habit of giving to everyone else, but not enough to herself, a 3rd chakra imbalance. She dreamed of an operation by a woman breast surgeon and went in for a mammogram that showed no cancer. She insisted on an ultrasound which revealed a small cancer. It was successfully removed a few weeks later by the surgeon from the dream.

Addiction is another 3rd chakra issue. At one of her workshops, spiritual teacher Caroline Myss met Penny who had been an alcoholic for 17 years. Her husband wanted her to drink, as it gave him more control in their marriage and business. She finally bottomed out and went to an AA meeting. Sobriety allowed her to realize that nothing in her world worked. She got divorced and left her job while pursuing courses in personal development which led to a new career and a wonderful marriage.

Psychiatrist and medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz shared the story of Felicia, the oldest of 8 children who was made responsible for the other 7 by her strict parents. When they got in trouble, she was blamed and locked in a dark basement as punishment. This upbringing later caused her to be overly responsible in her administrative job and feel trapped in the middle managing everyone’s squabbles. Her work addiction and resulting 3rd chakra imbalance led to weight gain and the development of ulcers.

Mona Lisa did a reading on Marshall, who had Crohn’s disease, a more severe ulcerative condition. He had major conflicts at work with his boss around responsibility for his management of a loading dock. He felt his authority was being undermined and his boundaries violated in the same way his father did many years before. His self-esteem was dependent on his sense of competence, so being made to feel inadequate was a set up for the breakdown of his 3rd chakra intestinal lining mucosal barriers.

Psychotherapist Anodea Judith notes that for a healthy ego, it’s okay to make mistakes. For a shame-bound personality, there is no room to err, and expansion is severely restricted. “How can we reach and grow if we can’t make mistakes? And without growth, how can we develop a sense of our own power?” When self-esteem is low, we have a paralyzing uncertainty where there should be confidence and power. 3rd chakra work rests on building ego strength to promote a proactive approach to life.

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras as examples of what you will experience during the workshop highlighted in this video. It will start at 9:30 am ET with a one-hour break for lunch from 1 to 2 PM ET and closing comments ending at 5:30 pm ET. Recordings will be available the following day. By the end of day, you will have cleaned the shadow emotions out of your chakras to create healing breakthroughs for your chronic illnesses that will continue long after the course is over.

As a bonus for registering, there is a 35-minute video Musical Tour of the Chakras on 22 crystal bowls included on the course page that I recorded with classically trained multi-instrumentalist, award-winning composer, and frequency researcher Charleene Closshey which you can use to tune your chakras! A second bonus is now offered featuring a 25-minute video interview Up and Down the Chakras with Anodea Judith discussing upward chakra development and downward chakra manifestation.

Previously published on Medium.com 2/23/2026

Freedom & Creativity vs Anger & Pain

My original 2019 online chakra course focused on the lower 4 energy centers, as that is where much of our childhood trauma is stored. Since then, I’ve added blogs for the upper 3 chakras and distilled the essence of the teachings into a 7-hour intensive Saturday workshop, Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras, on 3/21/2026, the day after the Vernal Equinox. This blog on the 2nd chakra adds to a series of 4 that will eventually take us through the 3rd and 4th chakras to complete the set.

Chronic pain may arise from anger in the 2nd chakra which the late Dr. John Sarno, author of Healing Back Pain, described as repressed rage. One of my coaching clients had debilitating postoperative back pain for 7 years after complications from spinal surgery requiring many drugs including methadone, gabapentin, and soma. He had chronic back pain for 5 years prior to his spinal fusion but was worse after the surgery than before. His EFT phrase was “Angry that surgeon butchered me.”

To facilitate his healing process, I suggested the movie “All the Rage” about Dr. Sarno’s decades of work as an NYU physiatrist nationally known for many celebrity back pain cures. Two books that were valuable in creating a breakthrough for my client included Back in Control by spine surgeon David Hanscom and The Way Out by pain psychologist Alan Gordon, a research colleague of my pain mentor internist Howard Schubiner. The end result was “I’m feeling better than I have in years! So. Damn. Good.”

Lisa in my Frozen Shoulder Healing book also had a complication from a procedure meant to cure her, but instead worsened her symptoms resulting in chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a much more severe condition. She was a pharmacist who had been suffering with shoulder pain for 4 months when she underwent a manipulation under anesthesia (MUA) where the arm was forcefully moved through the entire range of motion to break up the adhesions with brute force.

Afterwards her entire arm was swollen and remained painful for a year until we started working together. She had angry “buyer’s remorse” after the MUA, and the CRPS added at least a year to her healing process which was accomplished with EFT tapping sessions guided by vivid and detailed dreams. Once it resolved, we were able to focus on the original anger that triggered the frozen shoulder about an emotional trauma which abruptly ended her pharmacy career. She is now fully recovered.

Another client of mine is a nurse who had 6 months of pain behind her scapula radiating up into her neck. As a stressed-out single mother, she had limited success with muscle relaxants and trigger point injections. Exploring the roots of her illness revealed relationship issues. Her EFT tapping phrase was “I resent being stabbed in the back” as a metaphor for her sharp scapular pain. She realized that the pain was her body’s feedback mechanism keeping her on track to release trapped emotions and heal.

Psychiatrist and medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz did a reading on Donna, a surgical nurse who enjoyed her job until managed care came to her hospital. She was being paid less to work more with increasing anger. Low back pain led to her to consult many physicians without success. To maintain her medical insurance, she was caught in a cycle of staying in the job that made her ill because it paid for the treatment of the illness it induced. She was advised to transition into patient counseling instead.

Medical intuitive Caroline Myss did a reading on Kate, a woman whose husband died in a car accident, leaving her with 2 young children. She was depressed, and the reading indicated the presence of a benign ovarian cyst which was confirmed by her physician. The intuitive guidance was for her to do a small task that would represent her intention to survive and rebuild her life. She chose planting flowers as a symbolic activity which inspired her to launch a costume design business, and the cyst disappeared.

Caroline also did a reading for me on one of my MRI patients in 1990 with a more tragic outcome a few weeks after I met her at an Edgar Cayce conference. I had just finished scanning a 13-year-old girl with a painful limp and made the diagnosis of a malignant bone tumor in the left side of the sacrum damaging the sciatic nerve. That afternoon Caroline returned a phone call from me and agreed to do a brief reading from hundreds of miles away in Illinois which was a paradigm-shifting experience for me.

I gave her the name and age of the patient, but no information about the scan or her symptoms. After a few seconds, she said there is a large tumor working its way into the spine due to a 2nd chakra imbalance causing the patient to rather die than go through puberty. I was stunned by the accuracy of her observations which played out as predicted over the next few weeks as she got radiation to her pelvis that likely damaged her ovaries with an overall poor prognosis for survival and procreation.

Psychotherapist Anodea Judith notes that guilt, as a demon emotion of the 2nd chakra, is a direct antidote to pleasure and self-esteem. It has been poured through the sexual gates with such force that for many this portal no longer opens blocking transformation. Sexuality is rejected and sent to the realm of the shadow, where it takes on its demonic form of dissociation. Reclaiming the energy of the 2nd chakra means the reclamation of our right to feel and our right to healthy sexuality.

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras as examples of what you will experience during the workshop highlighted in this video. It will start at 9:30 am ET with a one-hour break for lunch from 1 to 2 PM ET and closing comments ending at 5:30 pm ET. Recordings will be available the following day. By the end of day, you will have cleaned the shadow emotions out of your chakras to create healing breakthroughs for your chronic illnesses that will continue long after the course is over.

As a bonus for registering, there is a 35-minute video Musical Tour of the Chakras on 22 crystal bowls included on the course page that I recorded with classically trained multi-instrumentalist, award-winning composer, and frequency researcher Charleene Closshey which you can use to tune your chakras!

Originally published on Medium.com 2/11/2026

Safety as Foundation vs Fear and Autoimmune Disease

My original 2019 online chakra course focused on the lower 4 energy centers, since that is where much of our childhood trauma is stored. Since then, I’ve added blogs for the upper 3 chakras and distilled the essence of the teachings into a 7-hour intensive Saturday workshop, Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras, on 3/21/2026, the day after the Vernal Equinox. This blog on the 1st chakra starts a series of 4 that will eventually take us through the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chakras to complete the set.

Autoimmune diseases may result from 1st chakra imbalances stemming from early childhood trauma as in the case of my client with lupus whose depressed mother stayed in bed all day. Forced into the role of caregiver at a young age she eventually went into nursing and developed muscle pain and nephritis treated with methotrexate. Her imagery during EFT included her mother grabbing her legs with vice grip and not letting go. Tapping on never feeling safe resulted in clinical improvement.

Fear is the demon emotion of the 1st chakra as noted by psychotherapist Anodea Judith. This shadow emotion revealed itself in the self-defense dreams of another of my clients with psoriatic arthritis whose Achilles tendinitis is a manifestation of 1st chakra imbalance in the lower legs. She was overweight with sugar cravings and had been treated with biological response modifying drugs. Her biggest fears were concerns about unwise decisions being made in her family business.

She had a series of vivid dreams beginning with killing a man in self-defense as a metaphor for antibodies attacking her own tissues in response to a perceived threat. The next night she dug the dead man back up with careful excavation to begin her healing process. The third night a gigantic female was trying to kill her while she was physically holding the attacker down with all her strength. Tapping on fear of moving forward resulted in a business breakthrough with decreased cravings and pain.

My very first coaching client in 2002 was a Duke student with itchy hives after a fearful car accident. She had no physical injuries, but started taking anti-histamines to suppress the urticaria which left her too drowsy to study. Off the drug she became too itchy to study. Tapping on the scary-thought-I-was-going-to-die crash resolved the rash in just one session. She also tapped on all her prior car accidents breaking out of the pattern of her first chakra imbalance and regaining her confidence in driving.

Medical intuitive Caroline Myss shared the story of Sam who grew up in poverty without a father figure and became a drug-dealing gang leader. When a radio show reminded him of his grandmother telling him about his guardian angel watching over him, he began to question his life path. A car accident caused serious injuries to his legs which he saw as an opportunity to change the direction of his life. He became a youth group leader and mentor who now stands up better than before even with a limp.

Caroline also describes the first chakra as the center of tribal power and uses polio as a metaphor for an entire society’s energy capacity to manifest illness. When the Great Depression hit people described themselves as being “crippled” by the economic crash and even elected FDR as a president with polio. The physical tribal event of WWII allowed the United States to reclaim its position as the leader of the free world and put the economy “on its feet again” setting the stage for the defeat of polio.

Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz had a patient named Mrs. O’Halloran who lived alone independently until breaking her hip. In the hospital she was also diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia which caused internal bleeding due to low platelets. She felt hopeless and helpless while worrying about being a burden on her family. Fortunately, she found safety and security in a new nursing home which allowed drugs to work effectively in boosting her platelet count.

Anodea Judith cleverly notes that “scared is what happened when the sacred gets scrambled.” She emphasizes the importance of grounding the root chakra to create a stable foundation for the rest of the chakras. “Reclaiming the sacred temple of our bodies, our right to be here, and our right to have what we need in order to survive can be a joyous reunion with the very ground of our own being and a solid beginning to the exciting journey of recovery through the chakras.”

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras as examples of what you will experience during the workshop highlighted in this video. It will start at 9:30 am ET with a one-hour break for lunch from 1 to 2 PM ET and closing comments ending at 5:30 pm ET. Recordings will be available the following day. By the end of day, you will have cleaned the shadow emotions out of your chakras to create healing breakthroughs for your chronic illnesses that will continue long after the course is over.

As a bonus for registering, there is a 35-minute video Musical Tour of the Chakras on 22 crystal bowls included on the course page that I recorded with classically trained multi-instrumentalist, award-winning composer, and frequency researcher Charleene Closshey which you can use to tune your chakras!

Originally published on Medium.com 1/23/2026

Sanskrit Names for the 7 Chakras

My original 2019 online chakra course focused on the lower 4 energy centers, since that is where much of our childhood trauma is stored. When I got invited to teach a Shift Network course this summer on The Chakra Self-Healing Protocol, I decided to include the upper 3 energy centers because they have a 7-module business model. Now, I have distilled the essence of the teachings into a 7-hour intensive Saturday workshop, Spring Cleaning for Your Chakras, on 3/21/2026, the day after the Vernal Equinox.

When Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul, gave a lecture at Duke on March 20th a few decades ago, he noted that all important endeavors should start on the Spring Equinox. The season also corresponds to the wood element in Chinese medicine. A growing plant that must push its way up through the ground is a useful metaphor for how you deal with obstacles encountered during life. In wood balance, you gracefully make decisions and skillfully plan your way around barriers to progress.

In a state of wood deficiency, the tendency is to collapse in the face of any resistance, while in excess, obstruction to planned movement results in anger, metaphorically banging one’s head against the wall. Similar observations can be made about chakra imbalances which may lead to insights into achieving your goals. According to psychotherapist Anodea Judith, there are shadow demon emotions associated with each chakra which may reflect the residual effects of childhood trauma.

The Sanskrit names for the chakras in the image above sometimes reveal clues to the origins of these emotional blocks as described by energy healer Cyndi Dale. The first muladhara chakra means “base support,” so if safety is lacking the shadow emotion is fear. The 2nd svadhisthana chakra means “the abode of self,” so if you are not free to be yourself, the emotion is anger. The 3rd manipura chakra means “the city of gems,” so if you feel you are not enough, the result is shame.

The 4th anahata chakra means “unhurt,” so if your sense of gratitude is undermined by loss, the result is grief. The 5th vishuddha chakra means “purification,” so if you cannot speak your pure truth, the result is lying. The 6th anja chakra means “perceive,” so if you are unable to see clearly, the result is illusion. The 7th sahasrara chakra means “lotus of the thousand petals,” so if you do not have a connection to infinite spirituality, the result is material attachment.

These emotional issues in the lower chakras may sometimes be revealed in dreams which can guide the healing process with EFT tapping. Self-defense dreams may indicate fear in the 1st chakra, while angry dreams can reveal a 2nd chakra imbalance. Sugary dreams may indicate shame related to eating disorders in the 3rd chakra. 4th chakra grief-related dreams can include visitations by deceased relatives as a form of after-death communication which can be of great comfort to the bereaved.

In my 2018 book Dreams that Can Save Your Life, precognitive dreams led to the diagnosis of breast cancer and other physical illnesses. Related energy center imbalances may predispose you to developing a variety of different diseases that are specific to individual chakras. These somatic metaphors will be explored in the upcoming workshop through case reports taken from my coaching practice and the books of medical intuitive Caroline Myss and intuitive psychiatrist Mona Lisa Schulz.

1st chakra imbalances may lead to autoimmune diseases and lower extremity problems. 2nd chakra imbalances may result in musculoskeletal and abdominal pain syndromes. 3rd chakra imbalances may lead to eating disorders and diabetes. 4th chakra imbalances may result in heart, lung, and sinus conditions. 5th chakra imbalances may lead to neck and thyroid issues. 6th chakra imbalances may result in ear and eye diseases. 7th chakras imbalances may lead to headaches and neurological disorders.

EFT tapping videos are available for each of the 7 chakras as examples of what you will experience during the workshop as highlighted in this video. It will start at 9:30 am ET with a one-hour break for lunch from 1 to 2 PM ET and closing comments ending at 5:30 pm ET. Zoom recordings will be available the following day. By the end of day, you will have cleaned the shadow emotions out of your chakras to create healing breakthroughs for your chronic illnesses that will continue long after the course is over.

As a bonus for registering, there is a 35-minute video Musical Tour of the Chakras on 22 crystal bowls included on the course page that I recorded with classically trained multi-instrumentalist, award-winning composer, and frequency researcher Charleene Closshey which you can use to tune your chakras!

Originally published on Medium.com 1/8/2026

Frozen shoulder X-rays are usually normal

How can a condition that has no abnormalities on radiographs be so incredibly painful that it is said to be worse than childbirth? That is because the severe inflammation of adhesive capsulitis only shows up on MRI and ultrasound exams. There are two types of frozen shoulder (FS); primary and secondary which occurs due to prolonged immobilization from fractures, surgery, Parkinson’s disease, and cerebrovascular disease, or due to Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA).

Primary FS is one of the great mysterious enigmas of orthopedics, as it occurs spontaneously or after only minor trauma. In 1934, the legendary orthopedic surgeon Ernest Codman coined the term frozen shoulder to describe glenohumeral stiffness and pain, saying it was “difficult to define, difficult to treat and difficult to explain from the point of view of pathology.” Idiopathic FS means there is no known cause in conventional medicine which prompts me to consider a mind-body-spirit origin.

In 1953, Mayo Clinic orthopedist Mark Coventry wrote, “The periarthritic personality is a result of a ‘poised indecisiveness,’ an inability to express tension freely. The patient then becomes hung up on ‘dead center,’ in a state of disuse.” Periarthritis of the shoulder (FS) “may occur as an isolated incident in the life of a patient who appears perfectly healthy and continues to remain so.” That said, there are 3 known medical risk factors for primary FS including perimenopause, diabetes and autoimmune disease.

These conditions are all systemically pro-inflammatory due to loss of estrogen, elevation of blood sugar, and autoimmunity. However, there is no good explanation as to why the shoulder joint is specifically involved and why it occurs 30% of the time in men sometimes without any of these risk factors. My acupuncture mentor, Canadian physician Michael Greenwood from the Victoria Pain Clinic on Vancouver Island, observed that there was often a psychosomatic etiology targeting the shoulder.

Another of my mentors, clinical immunologist/psychiatrist Brian Broom from Auckland, NZ, explained the concept of somatic metaphors in his January 2012 Explore article, “Symbolic Diseases and Mind-Body Co-Emergence. A Challenge for Psychoneuroimmunology.” In the case of FS, repressed emotions, most commonly anger, manifest symbolically in the shoulder as inflammation where the synovial lining of the joint capsule at arthroscopy has been described by surgeons as “angry” red.

A 2024 Frontiers in Physiology review article by Leo Pruimboom from Granada, Spain offers “A new perspective of frozen shoulder pathology; the interplay between the brain and immune system” revealing that depression and anxiety significantly increases the risk of developing FS. It goes on to suggest “that ‘toxic’ emotions and ‘toxic’ thoughts could be part of the multifactorial etiology of FS.” Psycho-emotional stress at the start of the disease suggests a possible neuroimmune cause for FS.

The shoulder is sometimes referred to as the “emotional joint” and can be considered the “seat of responsibility” since it carries not only physical loads, but also emotional burdens. Perimenopausal women who are sandwiched between caring for teenagers and elderly parents are particularly at risk. Physical therapist Gina Calderone observes from a physioenergetic perspective that FS can be a form of musculoskeletal armoring against a stuck grief process or a heart-centered wound.

Anger is one of the stages of grief that can cause FS, as illustrated by 3 of my coaching clients in the Frozen Shoulder Healing book who experienced an unexpected loss of a friendship, an abrupt end to a professional career, and an unanticipated move from a building housing a non-profit. An even greater emotional burden is the illness and death of a loved one. The key to healing is identifying the emotional trigger that occurred just prior to freezing which may have been months earlier and faded in memory.

There are a variety of methods to release trapped emotions from the shoulder, but my favorite approach is to combine expressive writing, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT tapping), and hypnosis. However, Brian Broom has success just using brief psychotherapy with his rheumatology patients, and Michael Greenwood uses acu-bodywork with his chronic pain patients combining acupuncture, acupressure, and breathwork to facilitate an altered state of consciousness for healing.

Expressive writing is a self-care method supported by years of research that allows you to get painful emotions out of the body by writing them down using evocative language. It is different from journaling in that the written material is not meant to be kept for later review. The simplest approach is just to write in a stream of consciousness format continuously for 5 minutes to fill a single sheet of paper. The only rule is to use as many emotional words as possible with no regard to grammar.

Afterwards, it is useful to look over what you have written and circle the most highly charged words. Read through the page out loud while doing continuous EFT tapping as many times as needed to dissipate the emotional charge. When you are done, destroy the paper by shredding it to finish releasing the emotions. If you are upset about a particular person, you can imagine writing them a rough draft of a letter which you never send or in the case of someone who is deceased, burn it up in smoke.

EFT in this video is a self-healing method for FS combining acupressure and self-hypnosis that involves tapping on 9 acupuncture points of the face and chest while repeating an emotionally charged phrase. Psychologist Peta Stapleton reports there over 50 randomized controlled trials proving its effectiveness for a variety of physical and psychological conditions including one on FS by researcher Dawson Church which demonstrated decreased pain and depression after one tapping session.

A computer metaphor is the best explanation for how EFT works. Every trauma is like a malware program that gets downloaded into your acupuncture meridians and uploaded into the limbic system of your brain where your emotional memories are stored in a file containing a picture, a story, and a program. Tapping while repeating the file name allows the program to be uninstalled like hitting the computer delete key repeatedly. Self-hypnosis can be used to install a new program for healing your FS.

I offer free 20-minute consults to evaluate your FS situation and determine if it is a fit to do coaching work together. During 80-minute Zoom coaching sessions I will act as your guide on your healing journey to release any emotions that may have triggered your FS. I can assist you in choosing among the 29 different treatment options in the book to optimize your healing process. The Frozen Shoulder Healing Group that I administrate on Facebook has many valuable discussions among the 65K+ members.

The Highwire’s Del Bigtree produced the movie An Inconvenient Study which premiered on October 12th at the 2025 Malibu Film Festival and won the “Best of Festival” award. It highlights an unpublished study of vaccinated vs unvaccinated children that shows a dramatic increase in chronic illnesses in the vaccinated children. The results were announced on September 9th by Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in a hearing titled “How the Corruption of Science Has Impacted Public Perception and Policies Regarding Vaccines.”

This mainstream breakthrough is a far cry from the reception received by Bigtree’s initial vaccine movie production in 2016 when Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe was pulled from the Tribeca Film Festival by co-founder Robert De Niro. It was directed by physician Andrew Wakefield whose 1998 Lancet paper “Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children” was retracted under controversy. The movie focused on a CDC whistleblower who revealed a coverup of a link between autism and MMR vaccines.

The new movie originated from a challenge Bigtree made to internist and epidemiologist Marcus Zervos, Division Head of Infectious Diseases at Henry Ford Health, in Detroit, MI. He was asked if he would be willing to do a retrospective study of vaccinated vs unvaccinated children health outcomes under the condition that he would publish the results no matter what they showed. Dr. Zervos is a highly respected researcher who is known for blowing the whistle on the link between lead in the water and an outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in Flint, MI.

Zervos is no stranger to vaccine-related controversy despite being adamantly pro-vaccine. His Henry Ford COVID-19 task force group published an important paper in May 2020 showing that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was effective in treating COVID at a time when the FDA and BARDA were demonizing HCQ in favor of the vaccine agenda and promoting fraudulent papers about the risks of HCQ that were later retracted. His paper threatened the Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine which was contingent on there being no effective treatments for COVID.

Unfortunately, the experience of being harshly criticized for the HCQ paper may have depleted his supply of courage resulting in his failure to publish his “inconvenient study,” although a copy of the paper was obtained and released into the Congressional record. It found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with a 2.5-fold increase in the likelihood of developing chronic health conditions such as asthma, atopic disease, eczema, autoimmune disease, and neurodevelopmental disorders when compared to children unexposed to vaccination.

When the initial trailer for the movie was released, the Henry Ford Health Foundation sent a cease and desist letter to Bigtree and the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) stating that the study did not meet their scientific standards. They claimed it was fatally flawed and cautioned against the spread of dangerous disinformation. ICAN’s response was to double down and release a second trailer featuring a hidden camera recording of a dinner conversation about the paper between Bigtree and Zervos, as if to dare them to defend their “vaccine religion” in court against Aaron Siri.

The conversation recorded without his knowledge revealed that Zervos considered the study to be of the highest possible quality and provided unexpectedly important information about the safety of childhood vaccinations. When Bigtree reminded him that he had promised to publish the paper no matter what the results, Zervos noted that he could not do that now or it would be the end of his career. He said it would be attacked for the flaws inherent in any retrospective study and picked apart by the pro-vaccine skeptics. Instead, it has become an international news story with huge impact.

The movie provides important background information on other vaccinated vs unvaccinated studies that had been done prior to the Henry Ford study all showing similar alarming results. Six studies were done by the Danish pro-vaccine researcher Christine Stabell Benn whose TEDxAarhus2018 talk revealed that the DTP vaccine caused a 5-fold increase in overall mortality. A recent review by the McCullough Foundation listed 11 other studies showing greater risk for autism, although one was retracted due to conflicting with the official “safe and effective” narrative.

The career-ending story of that author, pediatrician Paul Thomas, is a cautionary one. For many years he had offered the families in his busy pediatric practice 3 options regarding childhood vaccines; the CDC schedule, the Vaccine-Friendly Plan minimizing aluminum containing vaccines and allowing a delayed schedule, and no vaccines at all. He published a 2020 retrospective study of his patients showing a marked decrease in chronic illnesses such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, and sinusitis in the unvaccinated group who also had no ADHD and one fifth the rate of autism.

Unfortunately, the Oregon Medical Board punished him for his policy of informed consent in his practice and suspended his license claiming he “posed a threat to public health by failing to vaccinate his pediatric patients according to the CDC’s schedule.” The board ignored the data in his study despite having requested Thomas to produce peer-reviewed evidence to support his alternative approach. After his paper was read over 250,000 times, it was retracted in 2021 following an anonymous complaint about the methodology which has since been refuted.

Although the board withdrew its suspension of his license, Thomas elected to close his practice since the publication of The Vaccine-Friendly Plan book led to a marked decrease in revenue due to a drop in his vaccination rate to 1%. Instead, he now offers vaccine coaching services based on his 2024 book Vax Facts: What to Consider Before Vaccinating at All Ages & Stages of Life. He has also been exposing details about the “perverse incentives” for pediatricians to push vaccines discussed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Thomas disclosed that most pediatric offices rely on vaccine-related income to stay afloat, and that he was losing a million dollars a year when his patients chose not to be vaccinated. The reimbursement for the actual vaccine administration is not a big money maker, but there are lucrative value-based care “pay for performance” incentives amounting to more than $100,000 per year when a typical benchmark such as 80% of patients being fully vaccinated by age 2 is met. Blue Cross Blue Shield provides a $475 bonus for every 13-year-old child, if all the shots are given.

Pediatrician salaries are near the bottom of all physicians at $260,000 per year, and impending changes in the CDC vaccine schedule by the Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule Workgroup may have a significant impact on practice revenue. RFK, Jr.’s HHS shake up of ACIP at the CDC is resulting in the re-evaluation of vaccines including the ubiquitous use of neurotoxic aluminum adjuvants. They may even finally validate the long suspected connection between vaccines and SIDS. In the meantime, let’s get rid of all of the Faulty 5: Vaccines We Don’t Need.

A Global Gathering on Death, Dying, and Sacred Transition Online Summit, Nov. 3 & 4, 2025

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s new top bestseller describes The Secret of Secrets as the possibility that science can prove there is something beyond the threshold of death. That concept inspired my banned TEDxDuke2022 talk on The Spiritual Alphabet Soup of Death and Dying which was crafted to fit the “Liminal” theme for the event. My 12-minute review of NDE, NDA, SDE, and ADC highlighted the scientific evidence about each of these abbreviations for mystical states around the time of death.

Brown’s book is the 6th thrilling adventure of Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon with an encore role for noetic scientist Katherine Solomon who previously was featured in The Lost Symbol. Her character is reported to be loosely based on my friend parapsychologist Marilyn Schlitz, an actual noetic researcher who was former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. We met a few decades ago at the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC, where we have both been board members.

Marilyn has been passionate about non-local consciousness research for many years. My favorite paper of hers was an enhancement of the classic Ganzfeld (full-field) experiments done with Juilliard students. One subject watched a provocative video while another in an isolation chamber attempted to receive the images and later choose the correct video from 4 different choices. The original studies were statistically significant at 33% correct, but she got 50% for all students and 75% for the musicians.

The book is a wild ride through the latest revelations in the field of consciousness research featuring out-of-body and near-death experiences, precognitive dreams, remote viewing, psychedelics, brain implants, mind control, and virtual reality. It is set in Prague which in Czech is translated as Praha meaning Threshold, and the story includes a bonus visit from its legendary Golem. Secrets is Brown’s riskiest dive yet into the world of conspiracies featuring the CIA and their venture capital spin off In-Q-Tel.

Research in remote viewing was sponsored by the CIA for several decades through Project Star Gate from 1972 to 1995 despite denial of its existence until declassification of records in 2017. My friend and fellow board member from the Rhine Center, Joe McMoneagle, is the most famous psychic spy from that program known for remote viewing an advanced Russian submarine in 1979 that none of his military colleagues believed could exist until it was confirmed by satellite imagery a year later.

The CIA has also been interested in terror management theory, one of Katherine Solomon’s research areas exploring death anxiety as the greatest motivator of human behavior. However, in my TEDx talk I make the point that learning about NDEs and related topics is a proven way to decrease the fear of death. For that reason, I am participating in an upcoming online summit, Between Worlds: A Global Gathering on Death, Dying, and Sacred Transition, to be held on November 3 & 4, 2025, with replays later.

I’m a presenter at the Between Worlds Online Gathering — a sacred two-day event exploring how we can reimagine death, dying, grief, and transition through ceremony, community, and healing. Together, we’ll weave wisdom from ancient traditions, modern death care, and soul-level healing practices. This gathering is for anyone drawn to conscious end-of-life care and transformation. Topics include conscious dying & afterlife journeys, home funerals & natural burial practices, grief circles & healing rituals.

My presentation will focus on Healing the Physical Symptoms of Grief in the form of sinusitis, postnasal drip, and lung diseases such as asthma and bronchitis which represent somatic metaphors for trapped tears and inner crying. EFT, expressive writing and dreamwork in my coaching practice can be used to release these emotions from the body which result in imbalances of the 4th chakra and the metal element in Chinese medicine. After-death communications may also facilitate the healing process.

Spiritual connection vs Material attachment

This blog on the 7th chakra follows the 5th chakra and 6th chakra blogs in the prior 2 months announcing The Chakra Self-Healing Protocol 7-module course I will be teaching on Tuesday evenings in August and September for The Shift Network. The course will be officially launched via a free introductory event on July 26th which will be a prerecorded interview and experiential process with Shift Network Founder and CEO Stephen Dinan preceding the first module on the 1st chakra on August 12th.

Headaches can be one of the physical manifestations of a 7th chakra imbalance. A couple decades ago when I was practicing acupuncture at the Duke Student Health Clinic I was referred a divinity student who had been sexually harassed by her community preceptor. She had severe debilitating headaches which were preventing her from completing her course work. Prior to coming to see me, she had gone for a massage in an attempt to relax which triggered a panic attack requiring a 911 call.

After beginning with some acupuncture for the headaches, I started to teach her EFT to deal with the emotional stress. We tapped through the acupuncture points and shifted into an imagery process. As she began to relax into a scene in nature, she started to panic when the face of the perpetrator appeared in front of her. I said to do whatever she wanted to make it into a more comfortable image. She spray painted it blue and went into a deep trance which resulted in a profound spiritual experience.

I referred her to our Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program where she completed her healing process. Later that semester she went to a conference where the perpetrator was present, and she was able to confront him without getting retraumatized. It was a dramatic example of how opening the crown chakra to a higher spiritual connection can overcome material attachments to beliefs about religious authority figures that create cognitive dissonance and physical symptoms.

Regarding the emergence of unconscious material, Anodea Judith notes: “We may be bombarded with feelings, sensations or information we are not equipped to handle. If our work in the lower chakras has formed a foundation for higher consciousness, we will have the tools and context necessary for handling difficult material. If not, we can go to someone trained to help … to use the information to work through the knots of our psychic being. They may have somatic, emotional, or symbolic aspects.”

Psychiatrist/neuroscientist/medical intuitive Mona Lisa Schulz observed that the health of the crown chakra has to do with our sense of purpose in life or lack thereof. She recounts the story of Shirley, one of her patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome acquired after a viral infection as a teenager, who later in life started to regain her ability to walk. However, she lacked purpose in life and was attached to her identity as an invalid saying “I need a wheelchair, and I deserve twenty-four-hour care.”

A more hopeful perspective was shared by medical intuitive Caroline Myss about her client Per who endured the dark night of the soul after being diagnosed with HIV. He fell into despair and depression following the death of his mother lacking any spiritual purpose in life. Per retreated into isolation in the mountains and began to read mystical literature and meditate. He experienced “ecstasy beyond human consciousness” and felt his fear disintegrate as his immune system returned to maximum health.

Anodea Judith comments that “We open this chakra by developing the capacity for stillness and concentration, for which there is no better tool than meditation.” She also emphasizes that the journey up the chakras is about “discovering who we are” while the journey back down through the chakras is about “creating who we are.” When the crown chakra lesson of spiritual understanding is achieved we are able to return to the root chakra with the ability for manifestation in the physical world.

One of the bonuses for registering for my Shift Network course will be an Up and Down the Chakras Dialogue with Anodea Judith which will highlight her wisdom teachings. Another bonus will be a Musical Tour of the Chakras with Charleene Closshey, an actress, musician and Shift Network presenter whose celestial crystal bowl healing workshop I attended at the recent ACEP conference. In the meantime, here is my EFT for 7th Chakra Illnesses video to give you a head start, pun intended.

Originally published on Medium.com 7/1/2025

Clear perception with intuition vs Illusions and deluding yourself

This blog on the 6th chakra follows the one on the 5th chakra last month announcing the Chakra Healing Protocol for Chronic Physical Illnesses 7-module course I will be teaching on Tuesday evenings in August and September for The Shift Network. The next blog in this trilogy on the 7th chakra will be in early July prior to the free introductory event on July 26th which will be a prerecorded interview with Shift Network Founder and CEO Stephen Dinan for the official launch of the course.

My holistic physical therapist friend and teaching partner Terry Lynch has given me permission to retell her personal story of a dramatic 6th chakra imbalance that I have heard her share many times before in our prior workshops on healing symbolic diseases at the annual conferences of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. Since the third eye chakra in balance facilitates clear perception, going blind in one eye on the way to work is a guaranteed way to bring attention to a 6th chakra block.

Thirty years ago, Terry was enjoying teaching at Stony Brook University in an academic physical therapy training program while raising 2 young children and commuting an hour both ways in Long Island traffic. She was firmly committed to the illusion that she could handle all the associated stresses and maintain her health. That delusion was shattered when she was diagnosed with optic neuritis in her right eye as an early symptom of multiple sclerosis after driving to work seeing only through her left eye.

One of her physical therapy patients with MS said that taking the recommended drugs for the condition felt like having the flu every day, so Terry was highly motivated to go on a quest to find alternatives in holistic healing. She was already listening to audiotapes on her long commutes by motivational speakers like Denis Waitley and Tony Robbins, so her intuition guided her to Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life, described as the definitive guide on the power of the mind to heal the body.

As a physician I was initially skeptical of her books when I started using them in 1988, but there are often nuggets of intuitive truth about the origins of a long list of symptoms. When Terry looked up eye problems she found “I didn’t like the life I was looking at” which caused her to reassess the challenges she was facing about work-life balance. She cut back to part-time and hired a full-time nanny to replace her unreliable babysitter. Her eyesight came back, but there were still other MS symptoms to heal.

Ongoing fatigue, pain and weakness led her to explore energy medicine solutions like EFT tapping and other energy psychology methods including EmoTrance. In addition to the 6th chakra imbalance, she also had 1st chakra fear issues which predisposed her to autoimmune disease dating back to her childhood as the 5th of 12 children where she sometimes felt overlooked by her overwhelmed mother. She eventually fully healed, took a few years off to be with her kids, and had two more children.

My EFT mentor Carol Look published her Improve Your Eyesight with EFT book in 2006 based on an informal study she did with 100 people who tapped through a variety of emotions over an 8-week period. Anger was the emotion most often trapped in the eyes represented by the somatic metaphor of “blinding rage.” EFT researcher Peta Stapleton confirmed the results in a recent study “Clinical EFT for Visually Impaired Individuals: Effects on Psychological Wellbeing and Subjective Visual Functioning.”

In Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, Anodea Judith makes interesting observations about the difference between vision and illusion. “Both are pictures held in the mind, and both shape our behavior. But vision leads us forward and illusion holds us back. An illusion tends to be held as a certainty and forced into place — something we believe is real and unchangeable. An illusion binds the energy; a vision consciously directs it.” Terry followed her vision to heal.

Medical intuitive Caroline Myss notes that “The challenges of the sixth chakra are opening the mind, developing an impersonal mind, retrieving one’s power from artificial and ‘false truths’; learning to act on internal direction; and discriminating between thoughts motivated by strength and those by fear and illusion. In becoming conscious one is able to detach from subjective perceptions and see the truth or symbolic meaning in a situation.” In summary, the task of the third eye is to “Seek Only the Truth.”

Failure to hear the truth can also indicate a block in the 6th chakra as described by psychiatrist Mona Lisa Schulz in an intuitive reading for a client she refers to as Otis. He was a farmer set in his ways running the farm which had been in the family for generations. Profits were drastically down, and his son with a degree in agricultural business management offered to make some changes. Otis refused to listen and developed dizziness and vomiting due to Meniere’s disease affecting his inner ear.

Another one of her medical intuition clients named Marsha was afflicted with tinnitus. She had an overly involved and meddling mother who wanted her to take a job closer to home. Marsha developed ringing and pain in her right ear which blocked out her mother’s voice. She herself had issues with rigidity and control and considered her mother to be irrational and uninhibited. Marsha repressed her emotions which were then expressed as a somatic metaphor through her ear.

A coaching client on mine with Meniere’s disease had right ear deafness and left ear tinnitus. She had to take Valium to manage the associated vertigo. Her symptoms started when she was board president for a non-profit that she had founded. The treasurer who was sarcastic just like her father ambushed her with a screaming attack at a board meeting that led to her resignation. Her EFT tapping phrases “sick to my stomach” and “thrown out like garbage” resolved her chronic vertigo in just two sessions.

You can address many of these symbolic diseases and blocked emotions using my EFT for 6th Chakra Illnesses video with the goal of creating clear perception and access to intuitive guidance. It was preceded by a video for the 5th chakra last month and will be followed by another one for the 7th chakra next month. All of the chakras will be included in my Shift Network course that will feature meditation, expressive writing, EFT tapping, self-hypnosis and dreamwork adapted from my prior chakra workshops.

Originally published on Medium.com 6/6/2025.

Speaking and manifesting your truth vs Suppressing your voice and lying to yourself

For the past four years I have written several blogs and led many workshops on Transforming Symptoms of the Lower 4 Chakras because it is in these energy centers that we store much of our childhood trauma predisposing us to chronic illness later in life. However, I was just invited to teach a seven-class course for The Shift Network, so it is time to explore the issues in the upper 3 chakras beginning with the 5th. Hence, the name of the course will be Chakra Healing for Physical Illnesses and include all 7.

As an interesting synchronicity, shortly before receiving the course invitation, I attracted a new coaching client whose main block to healing is in the 5th chakra. Eliza had multiple surgeries for a rare congenital fistula on the left side of her neck from ages 5 to 12. According to Anodea Judith’s chronology of chakra development those ages correspond to the emergence of the 3rd chakra in preschool, the 4th chakra in grade school, and the 5th chakra in middle school exposing her to cumulative trauma.

Adverse childhood experiences are known to be the most significant risk factor for adult chronic illnesses as documented in the ACE study from the CDC. However, the 10-item questionnaire focuses only on abuse and neglect, so childhood surgical and medical trauma is not included which in my experience is quite important, especially at a young age. Eliza described the experience of being alone and afraid, with nobody who knew her or who cared, and going under with anesthesia, terrified.

She remembers how dismissive and condescending they were and felt they were using her as an experiment. She has vivid memories of the way they talked to her before and the way they reported after the surgery. “We didn’t really know what we were looking for.” One major problem with fistulas is that they will recur if not completely removed initially. In her case, it meant repetitive traumas throughout the periods of 4th and 5th chakra development suppressing her voice and sense of agency over her life.

Decades later Eliza had a traumatic dental procedure made worse by the dentist side-talking with an assistant about topics unrelated to the delicate task at hand. We did EFT tapping on that experience prior to her next dental procedure, and she decided it was time to take her power back. She proactively asked the dentist to focus only on her during the bone graft and gum repair. It went much better than expected as she symbolically healed the block in her 5th chakra and her relationship with healthcare providers.

Eliza shared a healing dream during a coaching session after setting the intention to build a bridge to the future instead of burning it. A male contractor offers to help with craft work. He has a blue energy suit of protective overalls. Fire soothes the spirit and calms the mind. Using the Ullman Method, if this were my dream I would wonder if my masculine side is working to protect the energy of my blue throat chakra, so that the fire from my heart chakra can flow across that bridge into the higher chakras.

Caroline Myss, arguably the most famous medical intuitive since Edgar Cayce, gave a comprehensive overview of the chakra system in her 1996 book Anatomy of the Spirit. Her accurate remote reading in 1990 on one of my MRI patients with a malignant bone tumor in the sacrum related to a severe imbalance of the 2nd chakra had a major influence on my career path as detailed in this blog Is Medical Intuition Real and Does It Work? I recently reviewed her chapter on the 5th chakra for this blog.

She considers the throat chakra to be the center of willpower with the associated challenge of aligning our will with God’s will through the choices we make. Understanding the resulting energy consequences causes us to be honest and avoid lying to ourselves or others. Speaking our truth requires faith to overcome fear and allow manifestation as part of a grander spiritual design. The sacrament of Confession holds us accountable for our actions and liberates us from spiritual karma.

If the throat chakra is functioning well there is a balanced flow of energy from the heart to the higher chakras. Caroline shares five rules for working with the will in the 5th chakra including: 1) Make no judgements; 2) Have no expectations; 3) Give up the need to know why things happen as they do; 4) Trust that the unscheduled events of our lives are a form of spiritual direction; 5) Have the courage to make the choices we need to make, accept what we cannot change, and have the wisdom to know the difference.

Medical intuitive, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mona Lisa Schulz described herself as a poster child for imbalances of the 5th emotional center in her 1998 book Awakening Intuition. She had a history of cervical spine disease exacerbated after getting hit by a truck and hyperthyroidism due to Graves’ disease as a manifestation of her incessant impatience rushing to achieve her goals. The thyroid is the master gland for timing, so it is ironic that she died prematurely in a car accident last year.

In the book Mona Lisa shared an intuitive reading case report of Cecelia, a 60-year-old woman with hypothyroidism manifesting as problems with energy, libido, and fatigue. She worked for a government agency, but couldn’t connect the passion in her heart to open a flower shop with the very mental focus of her current job. Even though Cecelia had saved enough money to fulfill her dream, she was blocked in expressing her creativity due to fear which also resulted in a stiff cervical spine.

Girls are known to be more advanced verbally in childhood than boys, but their voices are typically suppressed in their teenage years leading to 5th chakra imbalances extending into adulthood. Reclaiming that power for healing is the goal of my EFT for 5th Chakra Illnesses video. This summer I will create two more blogs and videos for the 6th and 7th chakras prior to the July 26th introductory event for the launch of the August/September Shift Network course. Stay tuned for further updates coming soon.

Originally published on Medium.com 5/16/2025

Since I am not a pediatrician or an infectious disease expert, I will not comment on the current measles outbreak or any controversies surrounding the MMR and DPT vaccines in the childhood schedule. However, at the Independent Medical Alliance Conference last weekend, IMA board member Chris Martenson made the distinction between “private knowledge” about which vaccines are worthless and harmful and what happens when it becomes “common knowledge” that is obvious to everyone. These 5 vaccines are the “low hanging fruit” to be pruned from the CDC tree first.

Pediatric COVID vaccines are the most egregious example of injections that have only risk and no benefit. The known adverse effect of myocarditis with possible long term cardiac scarring is enough to warrant never giving it to another child. Healthy children do not die from COVID which rarely causes myocarditis. The shots were unethically added to the childhood schedule for the purpose of granting indemnity to the manufacturers. Mary Talley Bowden, MD, recently shocked Tucker Carlson with the fact that 9 million children have been injected with the latest mRNA vaccines.

Influenza vaccines are notoriously ineffective and the second most dangerous after the COVID vaccines in the VAERS database as a leading cause of Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The CDC and WHO guess which viral strains to put in the vaccine every year without ever having a randomized controlled trial to prove efficacy which after the fact is at best 50% and at worst 15% as detailed by former CDC Director Robert Redfield on a recent MAHA Podcast. Most damning is the scientific fact that the flu vaccines increase the risk of getting COVID and other flu-like illnesses.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines like Gardasil are of questionable efficacy in preventing cervical cancer and are litigiously dangerous causing autoimmunity, POTS, infertility and death with multiple lawsuits pending. It has been asserted that the reason Merck pushed Gardasil so hard was to Help Pay for Vioxx (HPV) after the $4.85 billion settlement for its most infamous deadly drug. In a gross conflict of interest, CDC Director Julie Geberding rushed Gardasil through the approval process in 2006 shortly before retiring to become Merck’s Vaccine Division President.

Chickenpox vaccines are another childhood shot of dubious benefit for a relatively harmless illness with reports of adverse side effects suppressed by none other than Julie Geberding. It was approved based on the cost savings from parental time lost from work to care for a child with chickenpox, but due to waning immunity requiring repeat booster shots it is no longer cost effective. It has resulted in an increase in herpes zoster in children and adults creating a market for the shingles vaccine, although ironically, Merck’s Zostavax has been withdrawn due to multiple lawsuits.

Infant Hepatitis B vaccines are the most absurd of all the childhood injections, since its primary value is to prevent infection in adults who abuse drugs or have sex with prostitutes. Unless their mothers harbor the virus, which is screened for in routine prenatal blood testing, it is ridiculous to give babies a vaccine containing a neurotoxic dose of aluminum adjuvant based on a study with 5 days of safety testing. Sadly, during RFK, Jr.’s HHS confirmation process, Sen. Bill Cassidy cited an emotional anecdotal case report while revealing his ignorance of the relevant science.

It will be up to Kennedy’s HHS team to evaluate the science and determine which of the vaccines in the childhood schedule are safe and effective based on placebo controlled trials of sufficient duration to screen for long term side effects. His prior requests to Anthony Fauci for such studies revealed that they do not exist. The CDC has never published studies comparing the health status of unvaccinated vs vaccinated children, although pediatrician Paul Thomas showed in his practice the unvaccinated kids had much less chronic illness in keeping with the MAHA agenda.

In her recent Joe Rogan interview, nephrologist Suzanne Humphries provided historical evidence Dissolving Illusions about the efficacy of vaccines as detailed in her well-documented book. She exposes the truth behind the mythical claims of success for the smallpox and polio vaccines and also shows that the dramatic decreases in the dreaded illnesses of childhood that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century were due to life-saving sanitation improvements in public hygiene. The vaccine industry falsely claims credit although their products were introduced decades later.

No discussion about vaccines would be complete without addressing the elephant in the room represented by the autism epidemic. Doing justice to it is beyond the scope of this blog, so here is the best summary, The Political Economy of Autism. Finally, with regard to the growth market for mRNA vaccines, the technology inventor, vaccinologist Robert Malone, abandoned it years ago due to its lethal toxicity and refocused his efforts on repurposed drugs with anti-viral effects. Fortunately, for future pandemics there are many safe and effective treatments available.

MRI of adhesive capsulitis with arrow to dark fibrosis of shoulder capsule

The PDF Frozen Shoulder Healing: Diagnostic Methods and Treatment Options eBook with 200 hyperlinked references covering 29 different anti-inflammatory remedies, injection procedures, manual therapies, and surgical approaches is available for download from the Let Magic Happen store. It is also available as a Kindle eBook, Audiobook and Paperback on Amazon. The paragraphs below are excerpted from the book, and the contents are summarized in this 2-minute video.

If you found your way to this book, you probably have had symptoms for many days or weeks already, as the unexplained onset of pain with frozen shoulder (FS) can be quite baffling for a while until you eventually find out about this mysterious affliction. There are many other possible causes of shoulder pain, but when you start to lose your range of motion (ROM) it inevitably leads you down the adhesive capsulitis rabbit hole on a quest for answers.

The diagnosis of FS is usually made clinically based on the typical history of unexplained onset of shoulder pain followed by gradual loss of ROM in the 1^st and 2^nd freezing stages of inflammation. Dramatic decreases in forward flexion, abduction, and external and internal rotation occur in the 3^rd frozen stage as the synovitis is replaced with fibrosis and constant pain begins to diminish. The inability to move the hand above shoulder level leads to inevitable comparisons to the short arms of the dreaded prehistoric predator T. Rex in this video.

If an experienced clinician suspects another diagnosis inexpensive plain radiographs will be the first step which are usually normal in FS. When an MRI or ultrasound that was ordered to exclude a possible rotator cuff abnormality does not show a tear, thickening of the capsule in the axillary recess and around the coracohumeral ligament at the rotator cuff interval can confirm the diagnosis of FS. However, in idiopathic primary FS neither one of these expensive imaging tests is routinely necessary if the history and physical examination are diagnostic.

Most patients with FS are between 40 and 60 years of age with 70% being women. Menopause and diabetes are the biggest risk factors due to loss of the anti-inflammatory effect of estrogen and the pro-inflammatory effect of elevated blood sugar. It occurs in up to 5% of the general population and in up to 10% with type 1 diabetes and in up to 22% with type 2 diabetes. FS is also associated with HLA-B27 positivity and autoimmune disease including hyperthyroidism from Grave’s disease and hypothyroidism from Hashimoto’s disease.

The many options are listed here in the order of suggested implementation from non-invasive and inexpensive approaches to invasive and expensive procedures. I will not discuss muscle relaxants and analgesic approaches that do not decrease inflammation such as pain relief creams. In accordance with the 4 stages of FS, it is best to begin with anti-inflammatory choices in the freezing stage prior to using therapies that focus on mobilization of the joint to regain ROM that may cause more inflammation if started too early. Manipulation under anesthesia, arthroscopy, and embolization which have significant risks should be reserved as a last resort.

I hope the many therapeutic options above will assist you in healing your FS. To prevent getting a 2^nd one, it would be wise to release any residual emotional issues that may have triggered your 1^st one using the FS EFT video. If you need a bigger breakthrough than is possible in an online group tapping session, I offer individual Zoom coaching sessions. I have openings for free consults most days of the week at 11 AM ET, plus some scattered times in the afternoons. The Zoom coaching sessions are 80 minutes between 2 and 7 PM ET most days of the week.

The 25,800-year Precession Cycle of the Earth from bibhudevmisra.com

Just like Bill Murray in the classic movie Groundhog Day keeps waking up to repeat the same day over and over again every morning, Mankind in the Yuga Cycle of the Ages keeps waking up every 25,800 years to the cataclysmic rebirth of civilization at the end of the Kali Yuga/Iron Age. The pictured wheel of time is derived from complex calendrical calculations found in Bibhu Dev Misra’s thoroughly documented 2023 book Yuga Shift: The End of the Kali Yuga & The Impending Planetary Transformation.

His prediction that the Kali Yuga will end on March 21, 2025 is based on historical dates from the Vedic texts and the records of other sacred traditions. The calculations date back to 9,676 BCE, a time when a worldwide catastrophe was recorded in the myths and legends of many indigenous and ancient cultures. It corresponds to the end of the Younger Dryas period which began 1200 years earlier likely related to comet impacts as detailed in Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse Netflix series.

This timing corresponds to the dating of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, one of the oldest known archeological sites in the world, built at the end of the last Ice Age which marked the end of the Satya Yuga/Golden Age. In the Yuga Shift book, Misra provides evidence that 4 cyclic ages of the world were described by many societies including the Egyptians, Persians, Hopis, Aztecs, Greeks, and Lakota. There is a descension through the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages with a return ascension to the Golden Age.

In the Vedic writings each Yuga lasts for 2700 years followed by a 300-year transition into the next Yuga providing a total cycle of 24,000 years which is a mismatch with the accepted precession of the equinoxes through the 12 constellations of the Zodiac over a span of 25,800 years. He reconciles this discrepancy by noting that the Greek tradition described two extended periods of purging on opposite poles of the cycle called Kataklysmos with inundation by water and Ekpyrosis with destruction by fire.

The “Deluge” corresponded to the stories of the Great Flood during the Younger Dryas period and the “Conflagration” is where we are headed next. He notes that minor cataclysms possibly related to meteor showers have occurred after each Yuga marked by historical civilization reboots in 6676 BCE, 3676 BCE and 676 BCE. There is also paleontological evidence that human lifespans, stature and intelligence decrease and increase with the cycle as described in the Old Testament of the Bible.

My first exposure to the concept of the Cycle of the Ages came through reading director Jay Weidner’s blog on Tolkien at the End of Time; Alchemical Secrets of The Lord of the Rings. He revealed provocative insights into Tolkien’s mythic reimagining of the prehistory of Europe in the beloved trilogy which chronicles the dawn of the Iron Age of men at the end of the Bronze Age of elves which had been preceded by the Silver and Gold Ages of the gods in his prequel book The Silmarillion.

I found out about the Yuga Shift book from watching a Dreamland video interview of astrologer Barbara Hand Clow by Whitley Streiber, author of Communion. His book was my introduction to the ET phenomenon back in 1987 when the alien eyes on the cover stared out from every bookstore display case. With the recent hearing on government UAP reports of various discs, orbs and other UFOs, Hand Clow notes that the astrological signs indicate the first few months of 2025 will be tumultuous.

Dr. Steven Greer has been investigating UFO reports through the Disclosure Project for several decades and has pointed out that many of the sightings may be due to secret human-made aerospace vehicles reverse-engineered by major defense contractors from recovered extraterrestrial crafts. I spent a week with Greer in 2017 at one of his CE5 expeditions without any sightings, but there has been a recent blast of misinformation about UAPs many of which turned out to be drones rather than orbs.

My friend Christopher Bledsoe, author of the UFO of God, can tell the difference between drones and orbs which he communicates with on a daily basis as documented in hundreds of videos. I’ve been with him on several occasions when they appear in response to his prayers to The Lady who has shared prophecies of the future with him. On Easter 2019, She said that the 7-year Biblical period of Tribulation from the Book of Revelation had just started and would end on Easter 2026.

Bibhu Dev Misra shared with me that his research indicates the dates are likely one decade later from 2029 to 2036 during the passage of the Earth through the Taurid resonant swarm of comet fragments. However the timing works out, his insights about the coming Ekpyrosis point to an extended period of planetary instability as we enter the ascending Yuga cycle. Remember that apocalypse means revelation and perhaps ITEOTWAWKI, so be prepared for more to be revealed soon.

Shortly after the initial publication of this blog, a major news story broke about Asteroid 2024 YR4 predicted to have a 2.3% chance of hitting the earth in 2032 during the Ekpyrosis, so I added this edit on 2/19/25. In the book, Misra also notes that in 1946 theosophist Alice Bailey was given prophecies by Tibetan Master Djwal Khul indicating 2025 as an important year of transition marking the beginning of The Externalization of the Hierarchy including Ascended Masters, Initiates and Chohans.

There was an auspicious sign already in 2024 when a white buffalo calf was born in Yellowstone National Park fulfilling a prophecy of the Lakota. There have been many white bison born in the past two decades in captivity, but this one is the first documented in the wild. Chief Arvol Looking Horse, keeper of the sacred bundle containing the pipe given to them by the White Buffalo Calf Woman, said it is a blessing and warning to take better care of the Earth for the future of our children.

Originally published 1/31/2025 on Medium.com

Meme paraphrased from a book by English politician Sir Anthony Weldon in 1651

This meme is my 3rd one so far, but the first one that inspired me to write a blog which was also motivated by a conversation with a close friend who is awakening from the trance of fear related to the COVID pandemic. I’ve also been listening to my 50-year-old collection of still-playable vinyl record albums recently recovered from the dusty basement of my old family home. Among the many classics I found an album by The Who from 1971 featuring their most famous hit, Won’t Get Fooled Again, which includes the currently relevant line: “I know that the hypnotized never lie.”

The lying by bureaucrats, politicians and the media that was so blatant from 2020 to 2024 is being revisited by some of the same bad actors in an attempt to keep a significant portion of the population in a perpetually hypnotized state. Fortunately, many people are waking up to the fraudulent “safe and effective” propaganda, albeit sometimes due to the tragic vaccine injury of a friend or relative. In my coaching practice, I am careful to assess which clients want the red pill of truth-telling vs those who are not yet ready for it. Everyone is entitled to their own belief system.

However, when notorious vaccine pusher Peter Hotez, ironically a pediatrician with an autistic daughter, makes a sinister prediction about a bird flu pandemic starting on January 21st the day after Trump’s second presidential inauguration, it is hard not to draw a parallel with Tony Fauci’s similar gloom and doom 2017 prognostication about a pandemic during the first Trump administration. Also, the New York City bird flu simulation training exercise held on 10/22/2024 was eerily reminiscent of the pre-COVID Event 201 tabletop exercise at Johns Hopkins on 10/18/2019.

Just when we thought we had seen the last of scarf-wearing propagandist Deborah Birx, Trump’s coronavirus response coordinator responsible for the lockdowns across the country, she is back promoting the inaccurate PCR test for bird flu. Kerry Mullis, the inventor of the test, is on record as saying it was never meant for diagnostic purposes. Using a cycle amplification of 40 or greater as was done during COVID yields many false positives inflating the pandemic numbers dramatically. Birx resigned in disgrace after violating her own travel policies on Thanksgiving of 2020.

Fast forward to early July 2024, and we are back on the dubious Moderna mRNA vaccine gravy train which is leaving the station soon with 176 million doses for the bird flu already ordered by the US government. You don’t think they would order it, if they don’t intend to use it? Coincidentally, a study was published in Nature a week later detailing risky gain-of-function research on pathogenicity and transmissibility of cattle-derived H5NI virus. As documented in RFK, Jr.’s The Wuhan Cover Up, vaccine development often goes hand in hand with bioweapons research.

Now, to top it all off, in December Gavin Newsom announced a State of Emergency in California for this Avian influenza after 34 human cases were reported in the state, although there has been no evidence of serious illness or human to human transmission. You know they are desperate to induce a state of panic when at the end of the year, Face The Nation trots out that infamous COVID fear monger, Leana Wen, breathlessly stating that the lack of testing for bird flu doesn't mean that the virus isn't alive in humans, and we "should have learned our lesson from COVID.”

Thankfully, many of us learned our lessons from COVID about how to effectively treat viral illnesses of all kinds using ivermectin, HCQ and other remedies from the FLCCC protocols. Early treatment is key in blocking viral replication with these zinc ionophores that eliminate the need for unsafe and ineffective vaccine programs. In that regard, there were more disturbing pandemic lessons revealed in The Pfizer Papers showing a host of severe side effects in the original clinical trial data for the mRNA vaccines ranging from miscarriages to myocarditis to blood clots to strokes to death.

Dr. Peter McCullough on X notes that the AUDENZ FDA package insert indicates “Humans injected with the CSL Seqirus H5N1 Bird Flu vaccine (AUDENZ), which is currently being globally distributed for human use, died at a rate of 1 in 200 (0.5%) compared to 0.1% in the placebo group, in one of the clinical trials (Study 3).” Remember that in 1976, the swine flu vaccinations were halted in only 10 weeks after reports of just 25 deaths and 500 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome resulting in millions of payouts to families for damages.

You might think the FDA would be protecting us from these current dangers, but instead former and current commissioners Kessler and Califf are promoting vaccines with inflated predictions of high bird flu mortality rates from 25 to 50%. The CDC is no better, touting relatively ineffective Tamiflu as a treatment with vaccine candidates ready to go. Based on director Mandy Cohen’s track record as secretary of the DHHS in North Carolina during COVID we would expect her to implement draconian lockdown policies and vaccine mandates following the money, not the science.

Fortunately, the incoming Trump administration has made promising appointments of change agents for these positions in the HHS with RFK, Jr. as the new secretary. Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary, a critic of past pandemic policies, has been appointed FDA commissioner. If they are both confirmed, we can rewrite The Who’s dire concluding lyrics, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” so we can Make America Healthy Again!

Boone, NC, Friday dinner to Sunday lunch, 3/14–16/2025

The Healing Happens here in the Blue Ridge Mountains where we will focus on Transforming Symptoms in the Lower 4 Chakras during this experiential retreat. At the mind-body-spirit conferences I attend everyone is usually most interested in exploring the spiritual qualities associated with the energy centers of the upper 3 chakras. However, most of the healing action happens in the lower 4 which store childhood traumas that we need to release in order to transform and make progress.

My first trip to the largest retreat center in the Southeast was in 2013 shortly after it was resurrected under the management of Venkat Srinivasan who also taught the Happiness Retreat that my wife and I attended. A few years earlier he had been tasked by international peacemaker Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with bidding at a foreclosure auction for the property which had fallen into a state of disrepair with frozen pipes, vandalization, and its temple turned into a skateboarding venue.

The Heavenly Mountain site was originally constructed in 1999 by Transcendental Meditation devotees of Maharishi who was the mentor of Ravi Shankar. Venkat was instructed by Sri Sri not to bid more than $6 million at the auction of the mountaintop complex which had a tax value of $18 million. He reported back that he had been outbid by another group, but surprisingly was told just to wait a month. Sure enough, the other deal fell through, and they obtained it for the original bid.

Subsequently, they spent that much and more on renovations to the 37 buildings which include 37,000 square feet of meeting space and sleeping quarters for 1000. It is located on 381 acres 15 minutes from Boone, NC, at 3400 feet of elevation. You can eat delicious Ayurvedic meals on the dining hall deck with mountain views. The Art of Living Retreat Center’s physical healing story above makes it the perfect place to hold a workshop devoted to personal physical healing and transformation.

Adverse experiences in childhood may result in chronic illnesses later in life due to emotional imbalances in the lower chakras. Fear in the 1st chakra may result in autoimmune and neurological diseases. Anger in the 2nd chakra may result in pain syndromes and bladder problems. Shame in the 3rd chakra may result in eating disorders and Type 2 diabetes. Grief in the 4th chakra may result in lung and sinus conditions. Dreams and nightmares may occur that are specific to each of the chakras.

The themes of dream content may reflect the underlying shadow emotions in these chakras including self-defense in the first, violent anger in the second, sugary sweetness in the third, and after-death communication in the fourth. Corresponding affirmations such as “I am safe,” “I am free,” “I am enough,” and “I am grateful” may trigger what are referred to as “tailenders” in the form of dreams. You can use dreamwork to help guide your healing when you understand the symbolism of the chakras.

Dreams often have multiple layers of meaning resulting in different interpretations, all of which may be true depending on our projections. Even participants who claim to not remember their dreams often start to recall dream fragments of words or symbols at the beginning of the retreat and progress to receiving meaningful messages by the end. My book Dreams that Can Save Your Life: Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases has more information about health-related dreams.

I have taught the Where the Healing Happens: Transforming Symptoms in the Lower 4 Chakras workshop on Zoom to hundreds of participants around the world, but this retreat will be just the 2nd one offered only in-person. We will use meditation, expressive writing, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) tapping, self-hypnosis, and dreamwork for each chakra beginning with the 1st chakra on Friday night after dinner and ending with the 4th chakra on Sunday before lunch.

You will meet other workshop participants from all around the country and get to know them better while sharing 6 meals in the dining hall during the weekend. There will be a break on Saturday afternoon when you will have the option of a massage, class, or other spa treatment at Shankara Ayurveda Wellness. It is indeed a family affair, as Venkat leads the kirtan chanting on Saturday nights, and his wife Nalini Mehta teaches the Ayurvedic cooking classes. Many people return for additional future retreats.

Originally published on Medium.com, 12/11/2024.

Savor your food! Eat when hungry. Stop when full. Unsplash: Pablo Merchan Montes

What if you could eat whatever you want this holiday season without guilt? Just follow the guidelines provided in the 4th edition of Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, which can be summarized as eat when you are hungry, and stop when you are full. Seems too good to be true, but the first chapter covers dozens of research studies that have been done since the 1st edition in 1995 showing that there are many good reasons to follow this approach.

The book was recommended to me by a psychotherapist who took an online EFT class from me where I mentioned using tapping for weight loss and suggested I might be promoting “anti-fat bias” that could cause “harm to people in bigger bodies.” I had just written a Holistic Alternatives to Ozempic for Weight Loss blog featuring EFT and Intermittent Fasting for Food Cravings and Type 2 Diabetes which included links to my 3 YouTube videos on Food Cravings, Emotional Eating and Weight Loss.

Having taught EFT for the past 20 years at the 3 major weight loss clinics in Durham, it never occurred to me that I might be engaging in fat shaming. However, the book makes a good case for undoing the damage done by the pervasive diet culture that dominates our society. The authors, dieticians who came to intuitive eating from the traditional model of eat less, exercise more, cite evidence that weight loss diet schemes fail up to 95% of the time. If that success rate was true of a drug, it would not be marketable.

Millions of people have experienced failure on a wide variety of fad diets, sometimes beginning in childhood and persisting to torture themselves into adulthood with minimal success. Repetitive yo-yo weight fluctuations of 100 pounds or more such as I have witnessed among the severely obese clients at one of the clinics that is now out of business may be more harmful to health than maintaining a stable weight and may lead to additional rebound gains, frustration, and hopelessness.

The premise of the book is to restore a healthy relationship with food where the goal is to enjoy eating again and find satisfaction in whatever food you choose. Many people have such a distorted connection to the nutritional needs of their bodies that they have lost the ability to sense when they are hungry or full. Diets that place restrictions on certain foods or count calories only amplify cravings which result in inevitable bingeing. It is a vicious self-defeating cycle which fuels a profitable industry.

Who can argue with an approach that emphasizes mindfully savoring your food and makes you healthier according to various laboratory metrics even if you don’t lose weight? That said, the authors do have their blind spots, recommending canola oil and demonizing lard due to their outdated fear of saturated fat. While they note childhood trauma as an obesity risk factor, there is no mention of EFT. Since they avoid restrictions on eating patterns, they are wary of intermittent fasting despite known health benefits.

Due to their concerns about stigmatizing language, they relabeled junk food as “play food,” but don’t do justice to that fact that it is artificial and not really food at all. Processed foods laced with chemicals, artificial dyes, high fructose corn syrup, flavor enhancers, seed oils, or hydrogenated products are made purposefully addictive by the industry as described in the recent Senate Roundtable. With that caveat, the 10 principles of intuitive eating that follow are useful to know about and apply in your life.

1) Reject the Diet Mentality. The obsession with dieting is aggressively amplified by the media’s promotion of thinness dating back to the days of Twiggy and Kate Moss. Rejecting this programming can be very challenging, but is the important first step in the process. 2) Honor Your Hunger. Chronic dieters often go to great lengths to suppress their hunger to the point where they get ravenous and overeat in response to a sense of deprivation. They need to pay attention to subtle signals instead.

3) Make Peace with Food. Some people have struggled with food all their lives, so the concept of making peace with it may seem a remote possibility. Memories of childhood authority figures maintain a hold on us for years reminding to finish your plate or it will be sent to feed starving children in Africa. 4) Challenge the Food Police. Even though our parents may have done the best they could with limited nutritional knowledge, their voices in our head come in a variety of forms that hinder our intuitive eating.

5) Discover the Satisfaction Factor. When food has been demonized as the enemy, the idea of finding it satisfying requires retraining your taste buds and accompanying attitudes. You can bring back the joy of eating in the manner that Europeans have been accustomed to for millennia. 6) Feel Your Fullness. Learning to tune into subtle signals of satiety is a crucial part of the process. Heaven forbid, you might find that you may even leave food on your plate if you discover that you are comfortably full.

7) Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness. Stress eating to sedate yourself is one way emotions can sabotage your intuitive process. The first step to remedy it is just to be aware of the various factors driving your appetite and pay attention to what you are feeling. 8) Respect Your Body. The rest of the world seems to be judging your body, but the most important opinion is yours and that is the only one you have control over. Shift your focus to being grateful for the many functions that it performs well for you.

9) Movement — Feel the Difference. In a fashion similar to intuitive eating the focus for exercise is to enjoy moving. Start slow to avoid injury and measure success by pleasant feelings not the number of calories burned. 10). Honor Your Health with Gentle Nutrition. Beware the trap of orthorexia which means becoming obsessed with the quality of the food you eat to the point of taking the joy out of it. Trust that if you follow these intuitive eating guidelines you will get the diversity of nutrition you need.

While reading the book I was inspired to make a video on EFT for Intuitive Eating to tap away the guilt from prior dieting failures. My next challenge was to make a video on EFT for Intermittent Fasting that would be compatible with it. If you would like to tap with me on any of these issues I offer individual Zoom coaching sessions where we start by addressing cravings, deal with whatever trauma initiated the weight gain, and focus on removing barriers to success which are often in the form of limiting beliefs from childhood.

Originally published on Medium.com 11/21/24

Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer responsible for the BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

Naomi Wolf, celebrated feminist author and former campaign consultant to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is the CEO of the DailyClout whose research team of 3250 volunteers has spent the last 2 years investigating the Pfizer Documents. Her transition into a COVID truth-teller is described in her 2023 book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. The dark reality of the incriminating clinical trial data for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is now documented in her new book The Pfizer Papers, destined to be as damning as the legendary Pentagon Papers.

This book could not have been written without the bold and relentless legal work of Informed Consent Action Network attorney Aaron Siri who successfully sued the FDA for release of the Pfizer Documents after his FIOA request was met with an attempt to delay it for up to 75 years. The lawsuit brought by Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency resulted in a federal judge mandating that the rate of release be increased from 500 pages per month to 55,000 pages per month. The WarRoom/DailyClout team then set to work reviewing the 450,000 pages.

The team rapidly found out why the FDA was so reluctant to reveal the clinical trial results. There were thousands of serious adverse reactions throughout many different organ systems, but some of the most numerous and devastating were related to women’s reproductive health. Menstrual cycles were severely dysregulated with heavy bleeding and elderly post-menopausal women starting to have periods again. 270 women became pregnant during the study, and Pfizer “lost” the records of all but 34. Among those pregnancies there was an alarming miscarriage rate of 80%.

As in the Watergate Scandal it is vital to find out who knew about this coverup, when did they know it, and how far up the chain of command in the White House did it go? The Pfizer Documents show Peter Marks, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director at the FDA, knew about this flagrant safety signal by April 2021, 3 months after the vaccine rollout. Despite this knowledge, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky recommended on April 23rd that pregnant women get the vaccine. This malpractice paper trail led to the highest levels of the Biden/Harris Administration.

Two years later, on April 29th, 2023, Amy Kelly, COO of the DailyClout, broke the story about the Pfizer pregnancy data implicating Walensky who resigned a week later amidst additional criticism for lying about the vaccine stopping transmission. Obstetrician James Thorp had earlier confirmed the horrible Pfizer results in an analysis of the CDC’s VAERS database comparing the flu vaccine to the COVID vaccine in pregnancy showing a 27-fold increase in miscarriages which he described as “the greatest violation of medical ethics in the history of medicine.”

I just got my oversize hardback copy of The Pfizer Papers, all 386 pages jammed with an overwhelming number of vaccine injuries reported in the original clinical trial data and in post-marketing analysis encompassing 34 chapters written by dozens of scientists and physicians. The types included cardiac such as myocarditis and tachycardia, neurological such as stroke and Bell’s palsy, immune such as anaphylaxis and hypersensitivity, and vascular such as blood clots and vasculitis, plus liver/kidney failure and severe skin reactions, and the most common, joint and muscle pain.

In the first 3 months after the vaccination rollout there were 1,233 deaths without mention of this alarming safety signal by the FDA or CDC. Half of the serious reactions occurred within 72 hours of the injections. In contrast, the 1976 swine flu vaccinations were halted in only 10 weeks after reports of just 25 deaths and 500 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome resulting in millions of payouts to families for damages. Instead with COVID, the White House, government agencies, legacy and social media, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecology all suppressed it.

Why would there be such an aggressive program to promote the vaccines as safe and effective regardless of the obvious data to the contrary that the injections were dangerous and not even useful in preventing disease or transmission? Former Blackrock manager Edward Dowd cites insurance company data showing a 40% increase in all cause death in 2021 among normally healthy working-age adults. Analysis of government databases by mathematician Igor Chudov and Dr. Robert Chandler showed that birth rates have plummeted by 13-20% since 2021.

This disturbing reality brings up the inevitable suspicion about a global depopulation agenda which reminds of the conspiracy theory related to the 2010 TED talk by Bill Gates where he comments on what to do about the growing world population, “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services – we can lower that by 10 to 15%.” A more ominous proclamation was inscribed on the Georgia Guidestones in 1980 and destroyed in 2022 stating as a NWO commandment, “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.”

Naomi Wolf notes that evidence about the disastrous impact on reproductive health suggests that this effect of the vaccines is “not a bug, but a feature” like the 1995 WHO involuntary sterilization program in Kenya when tetanus vaccines were laced with hCG to create antibodies to that fertility hormone.  So, when will the government officials, media, and the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna be held accountable? The Moderna Papers is scheduled for publication on April 1, 2025, and it will be no April Fool’s joke with very similar findings to the Pfizer Documents.

To end on a positive note, the uptake for COVID boosters is now down to 4%, so remember in November whose administration previously mandated the vaccines. Naomi Wolf concludes her introduction to the book with these comments. “The story of this project is not over. Your own actions, upon your having read these reports, are part of the ongoing ripples of this work. Whom will you tell? How will you process the information? What will you do to avenge the crimes of the past? What will you do to save the future?” Our children and grandchildren’s lives depend upon our answers.