Conversations with Extraordinary People - DrMiller.com

Today's conversation features best-selling author, physician, and thought leader Rachel Remen M.D., whose work is changing doctors and medical schools throughout the world. “I first met Rachel in the early 1970s, when she visited Esalen Institute to experience the work we were doing to create a new kind of medicine–one that was holistic and that focused on self-healing and human potential,” reminisces Dr. Miller.

In this lively and convincing conversation we will touch on the highlights of the work that has made Dr. Kravetz successful working with one half of all the Fortune 500 companies and the Navy.

“Not long after developing the tools of guided imagery meditation and Selective Awareness (mindfulness), I discovered how much more powerful they were when skillfully wedded to beautiful music and nature sounds. Not long after that, I met Susan Mazer, and we performed together, blending the uniquely beautiful sound of her harp with my voice. The results were spectacular!” – Emmett Miller Dr. Mazer has a doctoral degree in Human and Organizational development as well a Master of Arts in Musicology, and has come a long way since that time 30 years ago. She has produced a huge library of beautiful nature images and soothing music that is available to every patient in more than 700 hospitals. Check it out when you are next in a hospital – it is the CARE Channel. She has gained professional recognition for her work demonstrating the need to counteract the noise in hospital and other healing environments. In this warm and personal discussion, you will get to know the woman herself and her concepts of how music can shift the sense of time and place to enable patients to claim their identity in the healing process, overcoming helplessness, and speeding recovery. She will reveal why she sees the environment as a primary tool in the healing process, and quotes Florence Nightingale’s observations on this point. If you or those you love become ill, it would be good to understand this oft-neglected tool of healing. And, especially, you will experience Dr. Mazer’s transcendent harp solo and together with some guided imagery with Dr. Miller – their first collaboration in more than 30 years. You’re going to love this episode! Bio Sketch: Susan Mazer earned her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Development from Fielding Graduate University, where she also holds a Master of Arts degree. She was previously awarded a graduate fellowship to Stanford University where she completed her Master of Arts in Musicology. Dr. Mazer is also an adjunct faculty member of the Saybrook University College of Mind-Body Medicine. She graduated from Wayne State University and was born in Detroit, Michigan. In 1992, she and her husband, Dallas Smith, founded Healing HealthCare Systems (HHS). Included on INC Magazine’s list of 5,000 fastest growing small businesses in America, HHS produces The C.A.R.E. Channel relaxation programming for patient television. Prior to her work in healthcare, Dr. Mazer had a full-time career as a jazz harpist, performing with Smith, and such notables as Ahmad Jamal, Frank Sinatra, and Julio Iglesias. Her accomplishments include bringing the issue of hospital noise to the forefront of hospital concern through her accredited educational programs for nurses and presentations at conferences. In addition, Dr. Mazer is an expert in the field of privacy and HIPAA. A well-published author, Dr. Mazer has written articles and white papers for major healthcare journals and periodicals focusing on noise in hospitals, speech privacy, patient safety, elder care, and other related topics. She has also been featured on “Good Morning America” as a hospital noise expert. She is a member of the American Gerontological Society, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), Association of Healing Healthcare Advocates, Stanford Alumni Association, Wayne State University Alumni Association, and Cass Technical High School Alumni Association. Dr. Mazer and Smith received a 2012 Symposium Distinction Award for their contributions to the healthcare design industry and were named to Facility Care Magazine’s list of Who’s Who of Health Facilities Management for their work on noise reduction. Dr. Mazer and Smith’s music has been featured on NPR, the Discovery Channel, and NOVA. They are also the founders and sponsors of the Elder Care Concert Series in Reno, NV, which is administered by the Sierra Arts Foundation.

With the holiday season come the parties and the delicious candies, cakes, pies, and other delicious sweets and Carbohydrates. Then come the extra pounds of weight, the internal inflammation, and the imbalance that they cause.

Together we explore Sondra Barrett, PhD's story of what convinced her to bridge medical science and self-healing strategies, and what we have learned about how and why music is healing to the cells of the body. Discover how we can see not only intelligence, but something sacred in our cells and molecules.

Bhava will share with us some of the extraordinary experiences he had while pursuing his goal of bringing public attention and healing support to people around the world whose lives have been wounded or destroyed by war. You will be fascinated, moved, and inspired to discover the incredible healing experience that guided him to his discovery of Mind-Body medicine.

With all the bad news flooding in on us all the time, how can we stay centered, find grace – and still actively pursue making the changes we need to make in our personal as well as our collective world? This is the question Dr. Miller explores in this fast-moving yet deeply inspiring conversation with Justine Toms, who, with her late husband, Michael Toms, created the now legendary radio show, New Dimensions Radio.

On my recent journey to Dubai, I had the fortune of coming across a truly beautiful, inspiring – even electrifying woman. When I discovered Zeina Abdo had been the first Arab woman to reach the summit of Imja Tse Island Peak 20305ft (4 miles) high in an effort to raise funds for pediatric cancer patients in Nepal, I knew I wanted to have a conversation and learn more about her.

Together we explore the power of mental frames, how the problem of hunger can be successfully addressed, why a freedom from oil dependence is a necessary step towards the creation of real democracy, at home and abroad, and how democracy itself provides the ideal tools we need to make the changes that are long overdue.

In this episode we will explore the how and why of designing, convening, and hosting conversations around the most important questions in the service of nourishing life for all the stakeholders, and how you can move from over-focus on a current problem to the development of “possibility thinking.”

10 years ago, today’s guest, Steve Ozanich, was so crippled by back pain that had resisted every other standard approach, was scheduled to have very serious spinal surgery. He didn’t have it, but instead discovered there was a much more efficient, inexpensive, and effective way to return back to full functioning. Then he wrote a book about what he discovered in the hopes it could help others.

Ever think about what it’s going to be like when your aging parents become sick or incapacitated? Ever think about what it’s going to be like when that happens to you? Probably not, few people do. Who wants to focus on such a negative topic? On today's show we dive into what we can all do to prepare and avoid unnecessary stress, pain, and anxiety.

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In this provocative show, we look at some of the fundamental flaws in our culture, how our society fails to teach us adequate relationship skills, and how it teaches us, instead, to accept extraordinary violence to our kids, and then abandon them.

Each year we celebrate Valentine’s day, which is basically a holy day of our culture - that special time, during which we honor an amazing state of euphoria and connection, which so transforms us whenever we fall in love. In this lively exploration of this most important, central aspect of all our lives - we will speak of the ancient origin of this theme - and its evolution from the spirit of St. Valentine, to the special relationships we are forming in our lives today.