How can diet and lifestyle decrease stress and anxiety in your life? In this latest episode, Dr. Dean Ornish, considered by many to be the father of the fastest growing trend in medicine today: lifestyle medicine, discusses the connection between mind, body and spirit.

“Science, love, spirituality and meaning are what everything is really about. It's the basis of healing. It's the basis of joy. If it's meaningful, it's sustainable.”

Dean hit rock bottom in his early twenties, and was at one point contemplating suicide as a way out. But as the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher appears. And for Dean, that teacher came in the form of an ecumenical spiritual teacher named Swami Satchidananda, who told him: 

“Nothing can bring us lasting health and happiness. That's the bad news. The good news is we already have it.”

Dean changed his diet, learned to meditate, did some exercise, had more love in heart, and transformed his life. 

“And so the question is not, ‘how can I get what I think I need to be happy and healthy’. But rather, ‘how can I stop disturbing what's already there?’ And that's a really empowering realization.”

If you’re suffering from stress, anxiety or depression. If you’re looking to heal. If you’re wondering what you can do to protect yourself better against COVID. If you’re ready to change your diet and lifestyle to a plant based one, don’t miss Dean Ornish on Into The Magic Shop.

On today’s podcast:

• Learning from ecumenical spiritual teacher Swami Satchidananda
• Nothing can bring you lasting happiness
• The value of meditation
• Stopping and reversing Alzheimers with lifestyle changes
• Increasing your resistance to COVID

Links:

• Book - Undo It!
• Effect of comprehensive lifestyle changes on telomerase activity