Our EMOTIONAL FITNESS
segments delve into the fascinating world of mind-body medicine. Join
us as we explore how consciousness and our emotional well-being can be
important factors in determining our overall health. From interviews to
reviews -- we speak with leading-edge practitioners and authors in the
field, and examine how new technology and products can help us all
achieve a healthier state of mind.
 This season we profile an emotional fitness resource called My Inner World,
an online "spiritual gym" founded by Michele Bernhardt, a respected
healer, astrologer and metaphysician. Her daily, weekly, and monthly
forecasts have delighted and informed online readers at Elle.com,
Spiegel.com, and Ibeauty.com, Seventeen.com as well as on her own site myinnerworld.com. For more than two decades,
Michele has been sharing
her intuitive and empathetic gifts with all who care to listen and learn
simple and fundamental truths about themselves and the miraculous
universe they inhabit. If you would like to join Michele and learn more about ways to explore
your inner world, please tune in to her website and look for upcoming webcasts and
seminars -- and always feel free to write to her at contact@myinnerworld.com.
 Online Healing
with Michele Bernhardt
The Internet has opened up whole new worlds for many of us but the Web
has not exactly been noted for its spirituality. Michele Bernhardt is a
gifted intuitive, teacher and author who’s launched a website called My
Inner World, best described as a "spiritual gym" where we can get rid
of the things that trouble us and get the guidance we need to live a
synchronistic life that helps us connect with our heart and our soul.
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Inner World Media |
 Emotional Freedom
Featuring Judith Orloff, MD
Emotional vampires are people who suck your energy dry. Everybody has
experienced this, where you’re around somebody and suddenly feel like
taking a nap. Judith Orloff is a psychiatrist and nationally known
author whose newest book Emotional Freedom draws on her years of
experience helping people escape the clutches of an emotional vampire,
as well as release negative patterns to achieve emotional freedom.
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Dr. Judith Orloff
Official Website
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 Medicine for the Mind
Healing Media with Gary Malkin
Gary Malkin is an award-winning composer with a vision to use music and
images to help transform our world. Through his Wisdom of the World
project, his goal is to create media that is contemplative and
integrative, and reminds us who we are and what matters most. He calls
the results of this a “state of coherence” – a place where our heart
and spirit and mind are equal jewels in the crown of human experience.
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Wisdom of the World
The Wisdom Project
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 The Power of Women
Featuring Isha, Elizabeth Lindsey and Marianne Williamson
Three acclaimed spiritual teachers discuss the need for women to step
into their power to help preserve and heal the world we all share. They
say that the energies of our planet are changing, and the masculine and
feminine energies are starting to balance. Men are starting to embrace
more of their femininity and women are becoming much more powerful and
assertive, while realizing that the old forms of masculine aggression
do not work.
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Isha Official Website
Elizabeth Lindsey
Official Website
Marianne Williamson
Official Website |
 The Healing Power of Forgiveness
Featuring Marianne Williamson
The most prestigious academic institutions in the United States have
now statistically verified that people who attend support groups, who
practice forgiveness, who have more love in their lives, who pray and
meditate on a regular basis are physically healthier. Acclaimed
spiritual teacher and author Marianne Williamson has a lot to say about
how forgiveness, or the lack of it, affects our health.
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Marianne Williamson
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The Forgiveness Alliance |
 Colorpuncture for PTSD
Helping Heal the Wounds of War
Its practitioners say Colorpuncture can tap into the part of the brain
that regulates our energy system to help us stay balanced and healthy.
Dennis Telfer was a port security chief for the U.S. Coast Guard. While
Dennis was in Iraq he sustained some contusions to his neck, and now
receives Colorpuncture treatments for his pain and other symptoms
related to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He says he's by no
means the only returning soldier who could use this help.
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Institute for Esogetic Colorpuncture, USA |
 Managing Change with Joan Borysenko
Emotional Fitness in Challenging Times
Unwanted change is an inescapable part of life, whether it’s a health
challenge, a business problem, an unexpected move, or even the loss of
a loved one. Joan Borysenko is a renowned scientist, clinician and
teacher. She’s written extensively on mind-body medicine and especially
on how to approach change as an invitation to empowerment instead of as
a threat. She gives us some tips for how to navigate the life events we
cannot control.
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Dr. Joan Borysenko
Official Website
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 The Illusion of Permanence
Seeing the Perfection of Every Changing Moment
Finding stability in a time of change is a natural inclination of human
beings. While there is an upside to this tendency, author and spiritual
teacher Isha tells us about the importance of connecting to an inner
consciousness that can’t be shaken by external drama. She tells us how
take responsibility for our own happiness, to focus primarily on love,
and to vibrate in a frequency that attracts what we need in our lives.
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Isha's Official Website
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 Overcoming Our Fears
Transforming Ourselves Through Love
Dealing with fear is one the biggest challenges almost all of us face.
Isha is a an author and spiritual healer who says the human experience
comes down to choice. We can choose fear, to feel like victims, or we
can choose to be masterful creators and choose love. Isha tells us
about a system of powerful statements called “facets” she developed to
help herself and others move from fear and doubt to love and confidence.
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Isha's Official Website
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 Staying Positive with Joan Borysenko
Emotional Fitness for a Joyful Life
Research shows that people with a positive outlook on life live up to
10 years longer than people whose primary outlook is negative. But
staying positive through life’s ups and downs is a lot easier said than
done, especially in difficult economic times. Psychologist and healing
Joan Borysenko is a prolific author and a leader in the field of
mind-body medicine, and Director of mind-body clinical programs at two
Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals. She gives us the three
skills of Challenge, Control and Commitment as learnable competencies
of stress hardiness.
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Dr. Joan Borysenko
Official Website
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 Stress Busters
Watzu and Labyrinth
Stress is probably the most common enemy to our overall health. This
segment explores two very different ways of dealing with stress: (1)
Watsu, a deep form of relaxation therapy in warm water, and (2)
Labyrinth work, a winding path that leads into series of switchbacks
and curves all the way to the center, and then back out again.
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 Overcoming Depression
Understanding Your Non-Drug Options
Anti-depressants are called the treatment of choice by the
pharmaceutical companies and by many of the physicians who prescribe
them. However, according to Dr. James Gordon, a Harvard-educated
psychiatrist and founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in
Washington D.C., anti-depressants should be considered a last resort.
Dr. Gordon tells us about the many different approaches that can help
us rebound from depressive episodes, including a seven-stage therapy
process that has yielded success with many of his patients.
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The Center for
Mind-Body Medicine
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 The Secret of Happiness
With Candace Pert, Ph.D.
Dr. Candace Pert is a trailblazing scientist whose work has centered on
neuropeptides released by our brain. These biological messengers
communicate constantly with every tissue, organ and part of our body.
That means our feelings are really chemicals that can either help us or
hurt us. Dr. Pert tells us that emotions are the key to everything,
including health and disease, which is why it is so important to love
and accept ourselves just as we are.
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Dr. Candace Pert
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 Sunrise Ceremony
Honoring Our Connection to Earth, Ocean & Sky
Sunrise anywhere is a special time of day, but that’s especially so in
Hawaii when you’re in the company of some of Maui’s leading wellness
practitioners. Judy and Roy attended the Kapalua LifeFest on Maui, and
their experience began before dawn with about 30 others standing
together at the water’s edge as part of the awke kali keena or sunrise
ceremony.
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Kapalua
Ritz Carlton Kapalua |
 Hawaiian Stress Management
An Indigenous Cultural Perspective
When it comes to staying healthy, dealing with stress is one of the
biggest challenges most of us face. In fact, various studies show that
up to 90% of all doctor visits are due to stress-related complaints.
Different cultures have different ways of dealing with stress.
According the indigenous Hawaiian practitioners, stress takes us into a
place of being unbalanced. Integrated mind, body and spirit, and the
unification of yourself with all things around you, is what they call
what ho’oponopono.
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Kapalua Official Website
Ritz Carlton Kapalua
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 Healing Music with Michael Stillwater
Creating Your Personal Healing Song
Michael Stillwater is an accomplished recording artist and musician
who’s found a new way of tapping into the healing power of music. Judy
and Roy had the opportunity to take a workshop led by Michael who helps
participants discover and create what he calls our personal healing
song. We learn how music can be a source of revitalization and deep
connection to soul.
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Michael Stillwater
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