Most of us try to avoid anything that triggers us at all costs. Especially if we have sensitive nervous systems. But what if triggers, approached consciously and incrementally, can be a source of deep healing? Cynthia Li, MD, gave this presentation for the World Consciousness Community (a global qigong community) to illuminate how, through embodied consciousness practices, triggering events can potentially contribute to deeper healing, rather than just keeping us in a trauma

If you’re reading this post, you likely feel sick, but your labs are normal. Or maybe this has happened to your partner or another family member. I had the experience myself, for years after the birth of my first child. I couldn’t sleep or think straight. I felt awful. All my energy went towards keeping a precarious inner stability. And yet, my screening tests were normal. As a doctor, I'd concluded that I didn’t have a disease, that I must be fine, and if I wasn't, it was al

Our modern lifestyle is disrupting a deeply ingrained, primordial, and universal code to being healthy.   This is how Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor at the Salk Institute in San Diego and a researcher on circadian rhythms, begins his book,  The Circadian Code.  His statement is backed up by a compelling body of research. In 2012, Dr. Panda’s team divided genetically identical mice into two groups, one with unlimited access to a high fat-diet, and another with access to the