Dr. Kim's MindBody Healing Blog
MindBody Healing Blog
How to Be a Winner When Life Gets You Down
I recently saw my friend Jason, who is a professional ultra-marathoner, which means he gets paid to run hundreds of miles regularly. He’d just arrived home after winning yet another race…
Instant Elevation Technique
This is one of my favorite MindBody Tools you can use anytime. This tool immediately CHANGES YOUR CHEMISTRY and CHANGES YOUR BRAIN ACTIVITY, so you get a better result in every area of your life.
Is Your Child Responding to Your Anxiety?
Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children. Research shows that untreated children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, miss out on important social experiences, and engage in substance abuse.
Is Fear of Death Killing You?
With the work I do in MindBody Medicine, getting to the “root cause” of people’s illness and releasing it, I find there are only a few major roots that cause a vast amount of illnesses.
Are You Energy-Sensitive?
Do you know that your body is affected by the energy around you? In fact, not only have studies shown that your emotional state affects your heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure, BUT also…
The Most Important Choice You Can Make
Does it feel like life is just too busy? chaotic? overwhelming….? Like you just can’t “get there” so you can finally settle down and take it easy?
Design Your Life
Imagine if you could design exactly the kind of life you want…. the kinds of relationships, the kind of home, the kind of awesome work you love, everything about your health …and just have it show up for you to choose!
How Changing Your Perception Changes Your Reality
Do you ever wonder if changing your perception really can change your reality? Science has shown that the answer is absolutely YES!
Is Defeat Sweeter than Victory?
We tend to think we’re in charge of our choices, but science shows us otherwise. We’re basically living in constant submission to our emotions. Our emotions determine everything we do, say, and choose, and literally create all the outcomes of our life.
Embracing Depression
I’ve been talking recently about the value of embracing your emotions and how this allows energy to move through your body, AND allows greater health and wellbeing. When emotional energy moves, it allows…
Why depression can’t be “fixed”
For years, I fought anxiety and depression. I would sometimes feel such a heaviness in my body and be filled with despair. I tried so hard to resist this, to change it, to “fix” it…and I did find some quick fixes to mask it, but always it would return.
Creating Affirmations that Heal
Did you know that one of the most powerful MindBody tools that you can use – that most of you are already using – is your Inner Communication? By simply speaking to yourself and doing daily affirmations you have the remarkable ability to heal your own life.
How Embracing Depression Creates Joy
Who wants to feel angry, fearful or depressed? No thank you! However, embracing your emotions is one of the surest ways to allow energy to move through your body and create health, vibrance, and even… joy.
Want More Joy?
A friend of mine recently, Dr. Cynthia Glickman, had a challenging experience and used it to open to more Joy.
Are You Doing This All Wrong?
I recently received a question on one of my blog posts about doing Affirmations. This is one area where I see so many people get it all wrong, and actually end up creating the very problems their trying to overcome.
How to Create Affirmations that Heal Your Life
We all posses one of the most powerful MindBody tools that we can use – and that most of you are already using: your Inner Communication. It’s simple, but so incredibly powerful!
Busy, Tired, and Overweight?
Ever feel like you’re too busy tired and overweight to take care of yourself? You get more overwhelmed because your needs aren’t being met. You gain weight, get moodier, and just build up more and more needs…
How to Get More by Doing Less
We’re taught to believe that more is better. That to succeed, we must work harder and go faster… but all this create is burnout, depression, anxiety, and dis-ease.
What to do When Life Throws You a Curve Ball!
What do you do when life throws a “curve ball” right into the middle of an otherwise blissful day? Here what happened as we’re settling into our new home. Some would call it catastrophe.
How to Get HIGH Without Drugs!
You know that amazing feeling when you fall in love and the world feels like a wonderful place? During this time your body is secreting healthy chemicals like Oxytocin that heal disease, boost your immune system…
This is What I Learned from an Improv Coach!
This is a MindBody tool I’m incorporating into EVERYTHING I do. I didn’t realize I had this nasty little habit that was kicking my but!!…destroying my health, my relationships, and even my career!
Can You Instantly Increase Your Quality of Life??
The other day I was with a private client online. She had been struggling with overwhelm, anxiety, and feeling stretched in every direction. Her relationships have been strained, and she told me she just can’t do it this way anymore.
Can You Use Your Mind to Heal Your Body?
For decades, we’ve seen evidence of it. In virtually every pharmaceutical study in history, study it has been scientifically proven. It is a fundamental law of health, but one still not relatively unnoticed by doctors…
How a Little Thing Can Heal Disease
I’m having an amazing time in NYC. After launching my book last week (it went to #1!!!!!!) I received the most wonderful message from a client about how it impacted her.
How to Build Trust in Your Body’s Wisdom
Last week I shared with you about how to get a Yes or No answer from your body. There was a big opportunity I had been presented that seemed like a no-brainer to take. That is, until my body said no.
How to Answer a Yes or No Question in Your Body
You know when you have a really tough choice how it can stress you out and drive you nuts?? Even the small choices can do this.
How to Reverse Pain in 3 Minutes
If you’ve lived with chronic pain, you understand that this can destroy your life. Not only do you have pain, but there’s so much frustration trying to get better; you’re exhausted from dealing with it.
What is the Real Deal with Lyme Disease?
The CDC estimates there are 300,000 cases of Lyme Disease diagnosed each year in the United States. The illness is caused by borrelia bergdorferi, which is a spirochete (similar to a bacteria, but with a different structure)…
What is the 1 Trait People with Lyme Disease Have in Common?
Avril Lavigne just came out about her battle with Lyme Disease. The world is taking notice. Lyme disease is one of the most mysterious illnesses in our current time.
Got Pain?
Pain is the #1 reason people come to the Emergency Room or seek care from a doctor. However, for most people, chronic pain is something that cannot be reversed without medications.
Is Anxiety Scaring You to Death?
One of the biggest medical complaints plaguing Americans today is anxiety. Even if you don’t have a diagnosis, chances are you’re living in some degree of overwhelm.
The Pose that Reverses Depression
According to my friend, Matt Sanford (he trains yogis all over the world,) this simple yoga pose is like “Broccoli for your emotional body.” You literally cannot feel depressed after being in this pose.
How to Get Your Head Together If You Flip Your Lid
Do you find that sometimes your brain goes a little haywire and you lash out at those you love, or you get so upset over something small, and don’t even know why?
How to Listen With Your Whole Body
I told you this week in my blog about your body’s ability to create solutions…even to your most difficult challenges and stuck points. (They’re in there, believe me!)
Change Everything Happening Outside You With This Simple Process
Do you realize your body is speaking louder than your words? That means no matter what you’re saying or doing….the impact you have is prewritten in your cells! You can change everything happening outside you by just learning…
How to Turn Heartbreak and Disappointment into Your Greatest Opportunity for Healing
I recently heard from my girlfriend that she got stood up on Valentine’s Day. Ouch! Holly has been so excited about meeting the love of her life, and recently met a wonderful guy. They set up a date… on V-day.
How Falling in Love Can Save Your Life
Want a way to dramatically improve your health immediately AND decrease your risk of cancer? Fall in love. That’s right! Studies show that people who are in love live longer and have less incidence of illness.
Why You Don’t Have the Relationship You Want
You can’t have vibrant health and a fulfilling life without loving relationships. If you want to be in love and share your deepest self in a passionate relationship, but can’t figure out how to make that happen…
Love Cures Cancer
What’s Love got to do with medicine? You may think love is something special you find, something you share, or something you do…but the plain, basic truth when we think about it scientifically is that Love is… Energy.
The #1 Reason You Won’t Get Well
So often we fight against the things we don’t like about our body. If we have low energy, we push ourselves to get going. If we have extra weight, we workout hard to get our body to change. This is the #1 reason why some people never get better!
1 Simple Thing You Can Do Today to Reverse the #1 Health Issue…
Do you know the #1 health issue most people deal with on a regular basis? It’s been shown to increase the risk of health problems like diabetes, cancer and heart disease…
How to Get INTO Your Body and Change Your Life
Think you live in your body? Guess again! Most people spend more time with their attention outside of themselves –ruminating over the past, worrying about the future, or wondering what other people think…
Prescription To Create Your Future
This MindBody Tool inserts future memories that automatically create your intended outcomes. Use it at the beginning if the year, start of the month, or anytime you want to automate your success!
Red Hot Success
I’m really not a car person…just not my thing. BUT…if I WERE to be excited about a car, without a doubt it would have to be a red Ferrari. For me, that’s just a symbol to me for RED HOT SUCCESS happening.
New Year’s Prescription
Don’t spend another year on autopilot! This MindBody Tool creates a new template that guides your system in creating what you want this year.
Don’t Start 2015 Without Doing This!!!
Before I go into an ER shift, I always do this quick ritual. It makes a HUGE difference every single time. This is a great template to use for your 2015 intentions!!
Lose Weight For the Holidays?
This is the #1 Ninja MindBody tool to maintain and even lose weight during the holidays… Eat your food! Be Mindful of every bite while you are having it.
How Alternative Medicine Can Help Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia, rather than being a disease, is really a syndrome. It’s a constellation of symptoms. Typically pain, fatigue (low energy that can be debilitating,) depression, sleep disturbance and specific tender areas reliably found on specific…
What fish know that they don’t teach in medical school…
Lots of people talk about “abundance” and many people work their butts off to try to get “more” in life…but do you realize, you don’t have to work for it! Your body is naturally guided toward abundance.
Pre-turkey MindBody tool to keep you slim!
I saw a post this morning at my gym about the fact that the average person will consume about 4500 cal on Thanksgiving day and it takes about 11 hours of aerobic exercise to burn all those calories. Well it’s not exactly the full picture.
Need a vacation… no charge?
I recently took a fabulous trip with my family to Mexico and by day 3 was soooo mellowed out and relaxed that everything was different. I wanted to bring that feeling back with me so created a Mind Body Tool to do just that!
What Harvard doctors have to say about MindBody Medicine…
Last week I spoke at an amazing event with my friend Michael Rocha, MD, a cardiologist with a mission. He’s created the New Bedford Wellness Initiative to transform his hometown into an empowered, healthy, fit community.
Lose weight just by breathing??
I learned this simple technique from Dr. Andrew Weil, pioneer in Integrative Medicine. It turns off the “fight-or-flight” response in your body and puts you into the “relaxation response,” which has been proven to…
Do this if you get sick…
You know that feeling when you’re about to get sick, but you’re not quite there yet? You don’t have full-blown cold symptoms… but you know one is coming on? Well, don’t just wait for things to get worse!
Why Listening to Your Doctor Can Make You Sick
I recently came across a statistic that up to 25% of medication use is considered unnecessary or inappropriate. I also recently had someone recently point out to me that most people who are told by their doctor that they…
How to reverse a mid-day slump in seconds
Do you ever have that mid-day slump? ….around 3PM, when you think you need another cup of coffee, some chocolate, an energy drink or a nap? Well, here’s a tool I LOVE that will reverse that in just seconds.
Can Using Holistic Medicine Make Disease Worse?
A patient with Irritable Bowel Syndrome who had gained weight and was tired all the time came to me in the Emergency Room the other day and was surprised when she discovered I practice holistic medicine.
Why did Haitian farmers burn US seeds?
Do you remember the big earthquake in Haiti? It was in 2010. As part of our aid effort, we sent them tons of seeds… to help them re-grow their crops and feed their children.
#1 Reason People Get Depressed and Sick
You know one of the BIGGEST reasons I see for people being overweight, depressed, and sick??? Not living their heart’s desire.