![Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse – A Conversation with Steve Ozanich [Free Podcast]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Steve-Ozanich.jpg)
by Emmett Miller | Apr 23, 2013
10 years ago, today’s guest, Steve Ozanich, was so crippled by back pain that had resisted every other standard approach, was scheduled to have very serious spinal surgery. He didn’t have it, but instead discovered there was a much more efficient, inexpensive, and effective way to return back to full functioning. Then he wrote a book about what he discovered in the hopes it could help others.
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Steve’s book, The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse, was an Award-Winning Finalist in both, “Best New Health Book” and “Health: Alternative Medicine” categories at this year’s 2012 International Book Awards (IBA).
Steve’s thesis is that a huge percentage of our pain, and nearly all of our back pain is not actually the result of a structural problem, but is the result of suppressed emotions such as anger and anxiety, giving rise to what Dr. John Sarno called the tension myoneural syndrome.
He then discovered Dr. Miller’s guided imagery audio programs and got to work changing his mind and changing his life. In 1 ½ years he was pain free and has been pain free for 11 years.
As you listen, you will learn more about how subconscious levels of the mind, reacting to anxiety, fear, and despair, create pain in the body as a distraction to protect the ego from unpleasant emotions. We will learn more about why it might be important to become more aggressive with your back pain, and how the same changes that can relieve back pain.
Dr. Miller Recommends
www.PainDeception.com
Steve’s Book, The Great Pain Deception
Sarno’s Book, Healing Back Pain
Guided imagery Programs Steve used to put Dr. Sarno’s ideas to work
Healing Your Back
Change the Channel on Pain
Easing Into Sleep
And, of course, Letting Go of Stress
Or, go to shopdrmiller.com and click on the symptom search to find effective ways to deal with your particular problem or illness.
![Careless Caregivers – How to Avoid the Disasters of Old Age: A Conversation with Rosanna Fay [Free Podcast]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_2687-High-Res-Final.jpeg)
by Emmett Miller | Apr 19, 2013
Ever think about what it’s going to be like when your aging parents become sick or incapacitated? Ever think about what it’s going to be like when that happens to you? Probably not, few people do. Who wants to focus on such a negative topic?
On today’s show we dive into what we can all do to prepare and avoid unnecessary stress, pain, and anxiety.
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Episode Description:
In our conversation, you’ll learn something about some of the things it would be very wise (although perhaps unpleasant) to confront before that phone call comes. You’ll learn about the sorry state of the Caregiver industry, how they are classified in the same income class as part time babysitters and who earn barely over minimum wage, even though they are taking care of two of the most loved people in our lives, our parents (or even ourselves). No one wants to think about it, but every one of us should, and Rosanna has made it as easy (and even as humorous) as can be.
This week’s guest, Rosanna Fay, former Silicon Valley executive, who had to deal with the tragedies that befall those that are not ready when that terrible phone call comes – that your remaining able parent can no longer hack it on their own, or the phone call that you have a serious chronic disease that is going to leave you debilitated for the rest of your life. She and her parents hadn’t really considered this when the news came that she was going to have to manage a terrifying situation when her remaining parent suddenly became terminally bed-ridden.
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Blog topics/solutions to be examined over the coming months will include:
Why your family must move to smart phones as the integrated technology platform to connect parents and children. Any parent can learn to use a smart phone, if they choose the right one.
- Review of Phillips Mobilecare app
- Review of SmartBed technology
- “Certified Aging in Place”; what is it and why does it matter?
NEW RELEASE – Guided Imagery Audio Program for:
Caregiver Support and Stress Management:
Treating and Preventing Caregiver Burnout (MP3 Download)
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(for a limited time) Give a Gift of Self-Care to Yourself and the Caregivers in Your Life!
Track 1: The essence of the healing response, the importance of kindness in caregiving – to the patient/client as well as to yourself
Enjoy a Heart-to-Heart talk with Dr. Miller, a reminder of the true source of healing, how the relationship with a caregiver can support this healing, and how important it is to recognize caregiver stress and prevent caregiver burnout. The thrust of this talk is to encourage caregivers to take the time to keep themselves healthy, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Track 2: Deep Relaxation and Guided Imagery for Caregivers
The second track on this product is a soothing deep relaxation/meditation and guided imagery experience specifically designed to support caregivers. It guides you release excess and accumulated stress and tension and to recommit yourself to your own care and those you care for.
Suggested Programs by Dr. Miller
Dr. Miller’s Professional Manual and Desk Reference (Free PDF Download)
A Guide To Using Dr. Miller’s Most Effective Guided Imagery Programs In Your Practice Or Healing Work.
Letting Go Of Stress CD or MP3 Download
No wonder Letting Go of Stress is the world’s most popular stress management CD! Several distinct and different guided imagery and deep relaxation experiences teach powerful techniques for melting away stress and its symptoms. The beautiful vocal performance, one of Dr. Miller’s best, is enhanced by an exquisite, specially composed score performed by famed musician Stephen Halpern. No healing library is complete without this one! You will be treated to four different specific relaxation and stress reduction techniques, including progressive relaxation, autogenic self-suggestion, muscle tension release, and creative visualization with everyone’s favorite—”A Trip to the Beach.” Buy Letting Go Of Stress CD or MP3 Download
Serenity Prayer CD or MP3 Download
All behaviors are based on decisions made by the deeper mind. Use this beautiful program every day, while you drive, to choose your wisest behavior. You will hear affirmations to enable you to access the serenity to accept what you cannot change, and the courage to confront and change what you can change. The words of wise men and women from many times and cultures, intoned over soothing music, awaken within you the wisdom to choose well. Listen to a sample of Serenity Prayer Guided Imagery Affirmations CD
“After years of saying the Serenity Prayer at recovery meetings, I can truthfully say I never truly understood it until I heard Dr. Miller’s recording.” ~ Tim Benson
Writing Your Own Script 2CDs
Helping resolve essentially any unwanted habitual pattern – overuse of drugs and alcohol, nail biting, procrastination, guilt, stage fright, insecurity, inhibition, negative thinking, excessive worry, or self-criticism.
CD 1, Part A – Setting Your Image Goal: Builds self-confidence and motivation as you journey inward in your own private elevator to your personal screening room where you experience positive mental, physical, and emotional images of yourself. (20:10)
CD 1, Part B – Letting Go of the Past: You will view the past objectively and permit your mind to release non-adaptive patterns through a “de-conditioning” process. (19:50)
CD 2, Part C – Writing Your Own Future Script: You will choose new ways to respond to stressful situations by creating mental images. This key section of the program helps you associate your desired behavior with expected rewards by using image rehearsal. (19:54)
CD 2, Part D – Applauding Your Progress: Helps you make new patterns permanent through positive reinforcement. (19:10)
See more of Dr. Miller’s Guided Imagery Audio Programs for Treating and Preventing Caregiver Burnout.
![Awakening Leadership-Bringing Enlightenment into America’s corporations: A conversation with Alan Shelton [postponed]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/alan_shelton_leadership_speaker.jpg)
by Emmett Miller | Apr 2, 2013
**Due to a very sad technical issue, this show has been postponed… please stay tuned and we will let you know when it is available. Thanks for your patience.
Enlightened corporations? Is this an oxymoron or is it the shape of things to come?
According to Allen Shelton, author of Beyond Self Mastery, it is definitely the shape of things to come. In fact corporations are poised for a dramatic transformation. As a younger, more aware set of leaders take the reins of our companies, there is a new openness to ideas such as that of the triple bottom line – not merely profit, but equal weight given to people’s needs and those of the planet. Corporate social responsibility is an idea whose time has come.
Allen Shelton was once a corporate “bottom-line type,” when he began to feel the call to something more than financial and professional success. It took him deeper into his own psychology and eventually to the ancient teachings found in Indian Ashrams. What he discovered changed his life and many others as well. Trekking through his own life experiences as both a business leader and spiritual seeker, Allen invites us to explore our own deep restlessness, the beliefs that are driving it – and the transforming power of presence and service, to move us through and beyond it.
He now has the vicarious and interesting job of taking enlightenment into corporations. Interestingly, today’s corporations have figured out that their leaders and managers have to be more than simply cookie-cutter drones, that people who are passionate about their work, who know themselves at a deeper level, and who can relate with their teams in an empathic and responsive way rather than a rigid, reactive way, are much more effective.
In this stimulating conversation, Allen will share some of his personal experiences, and the ideas he is taking into the corridors of power in our nation. It is time to awaken the leader within you! And after listening, check out Dr. Miller’s Awakening the Leader Within.
![Societal Lies, Spiritual Abuse, And Why Dads Leave – A Conversation With Dr. Jack Travis [Free Podcast]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/JWT2008NC-960x675.jpg)
by Emmett Miller | Mar 21, 2013
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Solid relationships and successful marriages are the backbone of a society, yet the rate of divorce continues to be breathtaking.
You might think that the arrival of a child would help couples focus their energy, but instead relationships often become even more unstable. The reasons behind these tragedies are important to understand, since they are symptoms of a troubling phenomenon that is an issue for all of us. Jack Travis has made this a focus of his work and has co-authored a book on the subject.
In his groundbreaking work in the 1970’s Jack revealed his clear thinking in his pointing out to our culture the notion that simply relieving the symptoms of disease is not enough, that there is a destination beyond merely being “symptom free,” that of high level wellness. The founder of the world’s first wellness center, and the author of the ever-popular Wellness Workbook, Dr. Travis a physician who has also earned a Masters degree in Public Health, and is one of the great myth-busters of our time. In this provocative show, we look at some of the fundamental flaws in our culture, how our society fails to teach us adequate relationship skills, and how it teaches us, instead, to accept extraordinary violence to our kids, and then abandon them.
One of the areas we will discuss is the practice of circumcision, a practice we have been taught to take for granted, but one that, in many studies, has been shown to result in trauma, poor relationships, and the lack of sexual sensitivity. We’ll also look at the typical ways that both men and women are abused in our society as children, and how this leads to the breakup in our relationships, actually those that tend to occur during pregnancy and during the first years of the life of the child. This is the time when relationships tend to fail.
His (and many others’) personal experience with this issue, which he named Male Postpartum Abandonment Syndrome is described in the book Why Dads Leave , Insights & Resources for When Partners Become Parents, by Meryn Callander. What their careful study of the topic has revealed is very interesting, and shines a clear light on some things that are important in all of our lives. Join us for this provocative exploration.
![For Lovers Only – Valentines, Open Hearts, and the Spirit of Love: A Conversation with Jim Britt [Free Podcast]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/315375_10150284299483925_7726775_n.jpg)
by Emmett Miller | Jan 14, 2013
In this lively exploration of this most important, central aspect of all our lives – once again noted author, public speaker, and personal coach (he is the one who mentored the fantabulous Tony Robbins), Jim Britt, spends some quality time with Dr. Miller. Jim is a regular visitor on “Conversations With Extraordinary People,” and each time their interaction is creative, entertaining, engaging, wise, and friendly.” This time they explore the tender, yet deep, passion of Love.
Each year we celebrate Valentine’s day, which is basically a holy day of our culture, that special time during which we honor that amazing state of euphoria and connection that so transforms us whenever we fall in love. We will speak of the ancient origin of this theme and its evolution from the spirit of St. Valentine to the special relationships we are forming in our lives.
We will examine such questions as, “What is this thing called love?” and “Why is it so important, this infatuated state that makes everything seem so beautiful, and how can we make that passion and openness to beauty an ongoing experience in all our lives?”
As you will learn, this is possible – and becomes more possible as we appreciate the importance of Presence and Connection.
The conversation will touch on the ways that each partner’s perceived needs for Acceptance and Control can either enhance a relationship – or torpedo it. Have you ever considered (or noticed) how decisions about relationships that you made during times of abuse in your childhood (and who has not been abused – at least spiritually?) tend to recreate themselves in your current relationships? We have been trained, and will continue to experience Groundhog Day until we act intentionally to change things. You will learn a way to address this challenge.
Next, Jim and Emmett will explore the importance of looking responsibly at yourself and how to ask yourself questions that will help the beauty of a relationship be sustained and grow. Finally, we close with a sensitive meditation and guided imagery experience designed to awaken the power of love within, discover its continuous presence, and sustain it on an ongoing basis.
Imagine yourself as a different person being in relationship to you. Now ask yourself, “How would it be to be my friend? To be my spouse or main squeeze?” “How would it feel to be talked to that way by me, to be treated in that way?” “On the basis of my behavior, how would it feel to be in intimate relationship with you – or to be made love to by you?” Ask yourself that, then be sure to tune in . . .
About Jim Britt
As a coach and trainer, Jim leverages his skills and experience as one of the leading experts in peak performance, entrepreneurship and personal empowerment to produce stellar results.
Jim Britt is the author of numerous best-selling books and programs. He is an internationally recognized business leader who is highly sought after as a keynote speaker for all audiences, was recently named as one of the top 20 living success coaches, and was presented with the “Best of the Best” award out of the top 100 contributors of all time to the Direct Selling industry.
Jim has mentored several of today’s top name motivational speakers, and was the man who gave a young Anthony Robbins his first real job and mentored him for the next five years. He is really worth your paying attention to!
![Beyond The Sandy Hook Shootings – What Do I Need To Know and Do?: A Conversation With Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Judith Prager [Free Podcast]](https://eadn-wc04-7796843.nxedge.io/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dr_Daniel_Amen.jpg)
by Emmett Miller | Jan 9, 2013
Following a tragedy like the mass murder of innocent children in Newtown Connecticut, especially on the heels of so many such events as the movie theater massacre in Colorado, what happens? Immediately after we are shocked and outraged. We look for who to blame, and then a polarized argument begins. If we can find someone to fire, jail, or send to the gallows, we feel satisfied
. . . until the next catastrophe. Usually we are unable to find someone to take the rap (think economic collapse of 2008). In both cases, we rarely address the deeper sources of our problems, there is much sturm und drang, and nothing is accomplished.
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Dr. Daniel Amen |
Albert Einstein said, “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
And Frantz Fanon said, “There comes a time when silence becomes dishonesty.”
I think that it is important that each of us asks himself or herself, “Should I be doing something about this? Even if I want to do something,what might that be.”
Not enough of us “inquire within” at times like these. Instead, we simply add to our internal anxiety and stress, and don’t feel quite as nonchalant about dropping our kids off in school or going to a movie theater or mall. The feelings of separation and disconnection so pandemic in our society increase.
I asked myself that question, and came up with the answer: “I need to use the media tools available to me to pass on, through the global network, all the wisdom and experience I can find.”
Today’s two guests will address two issues – What might be going on at the neurological level in the minds of mass murders like these, and what might we do about finding and treating them? – is the first.
For some answers we will have a conversation with Dr. Daniel Amen, a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, teacher and five time New York Times bestselling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to everyday clinical practice.
The second issue has to do with what can we do to help those who have been traumatized by horrific acts like these – whether we are first responders at the scene, or if we have to deal with the families or friends of victims, or even people we know or serve that have been traumatized by just being exposed to the news.
For some expert advice we will converse with Dr. Judith Prager, writer, teacher, lecturer, and author of the extraordinary book, The Worst Is Over, verbal first aid to relieve suffering and prevent PTSD in emergency situations.
Two fascinating guests and two fascinating subjects. Discover what you CAN do. |
 Dr. Judith Prager |
