High Energy Health Podcast Mind Magic: James Doty and Dawson Church in Conversation
Dec 27, 2024
45:52
James Doty, MD is a Tulane-trained neurosurgeon, Stanford professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Mind Magic and Into the Magic Shop. He is the founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford, of which His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor. He holds multiple patents and is the former CEO of Accuray (ARAY:NASDAQ). Dr. Doty has given support to a number of charitable organizations supporting peace initiatives and providing healthcare throughout the world. Additionally, he has supported research, provided scholarships and endowed chairs at multiple universities.
Here he and Dawson reflect on:
- James' story
- Understanding that everyone is suffering
- Becoming friends with the Dalai Lama, Thich Nat Hanh, and Eckart Tolle
- To live in fear or love
- Seeing the suffering of others
- How your mental state has a profound effect on body
- Manifesting all the time and why the baggage we carry from childhood affects what we manifest
- The 6 to 10 million bits of information passing through our sensory system every second ...but we can only pay attention to 50 to 100 of these
- Creating neural pathways through repetition, embedding our intention
- Why embedded thoughts lock us into an unhealthy narrative
- To be a whole person you have to integrate your shadow ...every human being has one
- How to let the negative thoughts slide by, say “I deserve love and compassion”