Higher Minded Health

Lisa Dion and I discuss how to regulate your emotions and stress levels using immediate "in the moment" techniques and through optimising your perception. Lisa is the creator of Synergetic Play Therapy and the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute.  Lisa and I dive into the science of "regulation", in other words how to regulate your body using your mind. We cover Lisa's personal journey of rapidly overcoming fatigue and adrenal problems by giving herself permission to be herself, confronting her fears, and designing a life she loves.  

Can changes in your psychology create physical symptoms? Is there such a thing as "non-disease"? In this utterly compelling episode, a true medical detective - Dr. Clifton Meador - explains how he came to understand that some symptoms and diseases emerge from the "life narrative" of the patient. If a doctor listens hard enough, the patient will often volunteer the reasons for his or her health struggles. He asserts that all patients should consider their diet, chemical exposures and stress levels, and partner with their doctor in a "medical detective" team in order to uncover the root causes of symptoms and illness.

Dr Meador says:

"I came to fully understand that the mind and the body were one – not separated, not disconnected. What affected one also affected the other. Sitting above all the molecules, tissues, organs, and mind of the human body was an integrated person. This person was connected to a family and perhaps to a spouse, and the family was connected to some social structure and society at large. All this social structure impinged on the person, and the person impinged on the social structure. There was a continuum all the way from society to the person to the organs and even down to the molecules. There were no separated pockets or islands. There certainly was no mind separated from a body. "

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Dr. Clifton K. Meador Biography  

Dr Clifton K Meador has been practising and teaching medicine for over 60 years. He has written fifteen books and published articles in esteemed medical journals such as NEJM. 

Fascinated by patients with symptoms of hidden origin and by patients who carried diagnoses of non-existent diseases, he recorded his experiences in his books Symptoms of Unknown Origin, Puzzling Symptoms and Fascionomas – fascinating medical mysteries. 

A Graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1955, Dr. Meador trained at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and Vanderbilt Medical School where he completed a National Institutes for Health fellowship in Endocrinology. 

After practicing medicine, he joined the faculty of medicine at UAB, where he was Professor of Medicine and then Dean of the University of Alabama School of Medicine at UAB from 1968 – 1973. He returned to Vanderbilt and St. Thomas Hospital, serving as chief of medicine and chief medical officer of Saint Thomas from 1973 to 1998.

He then served as the first Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance from 1999 to 2012. He is professor of Medicine Emeritus at both Vanderbilt School of Medicine and Meharry Medical College.

Dr. Meador lives in Nashville, TN. His wife Ann Cowden, is a well-known portrait artist. He is father of seven children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. 

What do symptoms and diseases mean, and what is their purpose? Can people like you and I heal when they find a sense of meaning or purpose in life? Why is it that some people heal from diseases, when others do not? Distinguished medical doctor, Kim Jobst, has dedicated 40 years of his life to answering these questions. Join us as we discuss the importance of meaning in health and disease, and why finding your purpose may be the most important thing you can do when it comes to overcoming adversity in health. 

During my 20 years working with clients one-to-one, I've learned that body and mind can fall out of balance in many ways, creating unpleasant symptoms and even advanced diseases.  T

he reasons for symptoms and ill health can differ vastly from one person to the next, which can make things very confusing.

To simplify it all, I created a diagram called The Higher Minded Health Mandala which, on a single PDF or piece of paper, explains all the factors that can influence health on the inside of your body (internal environment), and in your external environment.

This episode is a "high level overview" of the Mandala diagram.  I think you'll find it really helpful in unraveling the confusion of what might be creating your symptoms.

Please feel free to download the Higher Minded Health Diagram at https://davehompes.com/highermindedhealth, or request a copy by emailing [email protected].

All my best,

Dave

Is it possible for chronic diseases to dissolve in a matter of just a few days? Most people would say not but my friend, Carlos' multiple sclerosis did. 

In this episode briefly explains Carlos incredible story, but the main theme of this episode is to share with you how Higher Minded Health evolved over the last two decades and how my mind was blown on several occasions by some of my teachers and mentors.

It's an intimate "solo cast" with just me at the mic, but I think you'll find it really helpful and, hopefully, inspiring! 

Welcome to Higher Minded Health, the podcast that explores your inner and outer worlds to give you the tools to move seamlessly from illness to wellness, and from feeling under the weather to on top of the world. In this special introductory episode you'll meet your host, Dave Hompes, and get to know to know how his mother's difficult transition through menopause inspired him to create Higher Minded Health and alleviate the struggles of post menopausal women who feel the medical system is leaving them high and dry when it comes to  key health challenges such as digestive problems, chronic aches and pain, hormone imbalances, low energy and sleep problems, mood-based symptoms, and many more.