
High Energy Health Podcast
Join Dr. Dawson Church, a best-selling science writer, to explore the leading edge of health and happiness, along with practical techniques to maximize your wellbeing.
Latest episodes

Jun 12, 2025 • 46min
Happy for No Reason: Marci Shimoff and Dawson Church in Conversation
Marci Shimoff is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned transformational teacher, and an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Marci’s books include the runaway bestsellers, Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason, and six titles in the phenomenally successful Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul series. Her books have sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. Marci hosts a podcast called Living in the Miracle Zone and leads a worldwide program called Your Year of Miracles with thousands of participants from over 80 countries.
She and Dawson have been close friends for many years, and here talk about:
Generational trauma
Marci's background
Transcendental Meditation
Research shows happiness is 50% genetic, 10% our circumstances, 40% our habits of thought and behavior
The 7 categories of happiness habits
Taking responsibility for your happiness
Your emotional immune system
The Inner Ease Technique
The more we’re filled with light, the more it impacts the world
Find Marci at:
www.HappyForNoReason.com
www.YourYearofMiracles.com
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #happiness #happyfornoreason #happinesshabits

Jun 5, 2025 • 47min
Tapping In: Laurel Parnell and Dawson Church in Conversation
Laurel Parnell is a clinical psychologist and one of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Since 1995 she has trained thousands of clinicians in EMDR both nationally and internationally. She is co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN), and the author of several books including, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR and Tapping In. Dr. Parnell has served on the faculty of the California Institute for Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
Laurel's background
What is EMDR?
The benefits of EMDR
Working with neural networks and their response to tapping
Activating the “felt sense” of your resources
Bilateral stimulation
Rhythms: tapping, squishing balls, drumming on desk
How EMDR is different from Resource Tapping
Why Resource Tapping uses imagination and resourcing to prepare people
Dr. Laurel Parnell can be found at: https://parnellemdr.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #trauma #emdr #therapy #resourcetapping #tapping

May 30, 2025 • 45min
Mindfulness and Community Empowerment: Ali and Atman Smith and Dawson Church in Conversation
Ali and Atman Smith are Baltimore-born brothers who co-founded the Holistic Life Foundation (HLF) in 2001. Raised in a household immersed in yoga and meditation, they deepened their practice during college at the University of Maryland. Motivated to revitalize their West Baltimore community, they established HLF to provide yoga, mindfulness, and wellness programs to underserved populations. Their initiatives have reached over 200,000 individuals across diverse settings, including schools, detention centers, and wellness centers. In their book Let Your Light Shine they share insights on mindfulness and community empowerment.
Here they and Dawson discuss:
Their background
Counseling those in trauma
Sympathetic dominance breathing
Connecting with people authentically to lay the foundation
Why other people will see the difference in you before you see it in yourself
Being Social Entrepreneurs
The Holistic Life Foundation's mission
Their new program for changing detention to meditation
To learn more about Ali, Atman, and The Holistic Life Foundation: https://holisticlifefoundation.org/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #trauma #yoga #mindfulness #community #holisticlifefoundation

May 21, 2025 • 47min
The Genetics of Health: Dr. Sharad Paul and Dawson Church in Conversation
Sharad Paul is a physician and the author of several books in the field of skin, medicine, and genomics such as Skin, a Biography and The Genetics of Health. He has been honored by several professional societies for his contributions to patient centered care in several countries. His latest book is called Biohacking Your Genes.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
Simple health hacks you can do yourself
The importance of positivity
The truth about stress
Why genes are typical of an entire species, not an individual
Lifestyle research and statistics
Natural remedies
Support from food / diet
To learn more about Dr. Paul's work and books: https://skininyourgameblog.drsharadpaul.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #gene #nutrition #genetics #skin

May 15, 2025 • 47min
Uplift Human Consciousness: Shakti Durga and Dawson Church in Conversation
Shakti Durga is a spiritual teacher, healer, author, sacred musician, and founder of transformative initiatives that uplift human consciousness and create inner peace. She established the charities Shanti Mission and The Wellbeing Initiative to foster spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being. She has written five transformational books and produced numerous spiritual music and mantra albums. Before embarking on her spiritual vocation, she was a practicing Trial Attorney. She resides in New South Wales, Australia and teaches world-wide.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
How meditation evolves you
Questioning, are we moving into the Age of Aquarius?
Looking back 100 years, you see a great change
Contrast and free will
Developing an inner spaciousness
Feeling content in our own being and thinking about others
What can you do to give back?
Visioning, non attachment, and surrender
Processing collective trauma
Practices that can bring us into elevated states
The energy of the people around us and how that can affect us
Releasing energy that isn’t yours through the breath
How do we find our highest energy?
Breathing into the heart, contemplating love and compassion
For more about the work of Shakti Durga: https://shaktidurga.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #consciousness

May 8, 2025 • 48min
Spiritual Intelligence with Dr. Dawson Church
High Energy Health host, Dawson Church, PhD, just released his latest book, Spiritual Intelligence. The book reveals the breakthrough science behind Spiritual Intelligence... how your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs literally shape your brain and gene expression. You’ll discover how to activate your brain’s Enlightenment Network, reduce stress hormones like cortisol, and rewire your neural pathways for joy, resilience, and self-transcendence. Drawing from the latest neuroscience, peak states research, and personal practice, Dawson shows how simple daily actions like mindfulness, meditation, and EFT can lead to extraordinary mental clarity, emotional balance, and even reverse aging in the brain.
In this solo episode, he shares:
The unhappiness of his early journey
How many of us learned the biochemistry of stress even before we were born
About the stress hormone cortisol
Why stress is epigenetic, creating molecules like adrenaline and cortisol
MRI studies have now mapped the brain circuits active in long term meditators
“The Enlightenment Network”
How to dig ourselves out of the pit of stress
Ways we can stimulate the neural bundles of the Enlightenment Network so they grow
How Spiritual Intelligence changes your every day life
Specifics on how Spiritual Intelligence enables you to meet challenges with wisdom and resilience
Find Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #sq #theenlightenmentnetwork

May 1, 2025 • 49min
Proof of Heaven: Eben Alexander and Dawson Church in Conversation
Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2008, he experienced a transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a week-long coma from an inexplicable brain infection that completely transformed his worldview. A pioneering scientist and modern thought leader in the emerging science that acknowledges the primacy of consciousness in the universe, he is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Proof of Heaven, The Map of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
Dr. Alexander's story
Binaural beats
Remote viewing and precognition
Shedding baggage with our soul group between lifetimes
Soul agreements
The life review as from the perspective of everyone involved
The Golden Rule: written into the fabric of the universe
The link between intuition and meditation
Releasing suppressed emotions
Trusting in the universe and increased positive emotions
To learn more about Dr. Eben Alexander: https://ebenalexander.com/
Find host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #neardeath #lifereview #proofofheaven

Apr 22, 2025 • 50min
Spirit and Self: Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji and Dawson Church in Conversation
Sadhvi Saraswatiji, PhD, is the author of Come Home to Yourself and Hollywood to the Himalayas. She graduated from Stanford University and for more than two decades has lived at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India. She has presented to groups ranging from the United Nations to the Parliament of World Religions on topics ranging from conscious business to science and spirituality to sustainable development and is renowned as a spiritual bridge between Eastern and Western culture.
In this discussion, Dawson and Sadhvi share personal stories and experiences on topics such as:
Experience of the divine and being infinite
Living in Rishikesh
The solution to so much of our suffering
Which of our sufferings is objective over which we have no control?
Where is our inner wellbeing hooked into a story about how others should behave?
The highest calling in a human birth is to experience who we are
How we can be conscious of being conscious
How we can look at the mind and emotions to recognize “I am not that”
Oneness with the universe
Our purpose or dharma as this particular human body
Choosing peace regardless of how others are
Remembering every day that we are not our body or our story
The goal is to do while remaining in being, fulfilling our dharma
To explore Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji's work: https://divineshaktifoundation.org/about/sadhvi-bhagawati/
Find Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #oneness #consciousness #beinginfinite #comehometoyourself

Apr 10, 2025 • 46min
Abundant Wealth: Elizabeth Husserl and Dawson Church in Conversation
Elizabeth Husserl is a registered investment advisor representative, financial advisor, and cofounder of Peak360 Wealth Management, a boutique wealth planning firm. She is the author of The Power of Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money. She holds an MA in East-West psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has led workshops at major tech companies, including Airbnb, Unity, and Google.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
How to put “joy” and “money” in the same sentence
Asking yourself: What, to me, represents wealth?
The mandala of the 12 dimensions of wealth
“Financial DNA,” or the ways that family beliefs shape money behaviors
Exercise: Go back in your lineage, what beliefs did your ancestors hold?
How to have a conversation with money to work through moments of scarcity
Money as a spiritual guide
Money as a doorway to self-knowledge
To learn more about Elizabeth's work: www.elizabethhusserl.com
Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #money #wealth #abundance #powerofenough #relationshipwithmoney

Apr 3, 2025 • 49min
Channeling and Intuition: Helané Wabbeh and Dawson Church in Conversation
Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is the author of some 90+ peer-reviewed publications and the book The Science of Channeling: Why You Should Trust Your Intuition. Her VET-MIND study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and examined the mechanisms of meditation for combat veterans with PTSD. Her current research interests include healing stress and trauma and extended human capacities. She is a Board Member and Past President of the Parapsychological Association and has been meditating for two decades.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
Noetic Signature: experience of our inner wisdom
How to differentiate from your ego and your higher self?
Exercise: To what question would you like intuitive information?
Noetic knowing shows up in one of 12 different ways
Meditation: An introduction to the inner world
The ability all humans have to access energy and information
Types of channelings
Why studies correlate childhood trauma with psychic experiences and mediumship
How two studies in UK found that psychic abilities run in families
Study comparing the full genome of a psychic to controls
Study discovery: a unique noncoding gene on chromosome 7 in the psychic group
To learn more about the Institute of Noetic Sciences: https://noetic.org/
Find Dawson's work at: http://dawsongift.com/
And to order Dawson's newest book, Spiritual Intelligence:
https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Intelligence-Activating-Circuits-Awakened/dp/160415294X/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #channeling #intuition #noetic #ions