The Art of Healing
Welcome to "The Art of Healing Podcast," where the realms of traditional medicine, energy healing, and holistic well-being converge. Join Dr. Charlyce, a distinguished physician who wears multiple hats as a Reiki Master and Functional Medicine physician, on a transformative journey toward optimal health.
In each episode, Dr. Charlyce explores the profound intersection of Reiki, meditation, Functional Medicine, and Integrative Medicine. Discover the power of Reiki, a gentle yet potent energy healing technique, as it intertwines with evidence-based Functional Medicine practices. Explore the art of balancing the mind, body, and spirit through the transformative practice of meditation.
Through insightful interviews, expert discussions, and personal anecdotes, "The Art of Healing Podcast" delves into the holistic approaches that bridge conventional medicine with alternative healing modalities. Dr. Charlyce's goal is to empower you with knowledge, inspire self-discovery, and guide you on a path to comprehensive well-being.
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or a curious beginner, this podcast invites you to embrace a holistic perspective on health. Tune in and embark on a journey of healing, self-discovery, and empowerment. The art of healing awaits – are you ready to explore it?
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The Art of Healing
Calm Your Nervous System In Five Minutes
Ever feel like your day gets hijacked before you’ve had a chance to breathe? We dive into a simple five-minute reset that shifts you out of stress mode and into the calm, restorative state where your brain thinks clearer, your body heals faster, and your mood steadies. Drawing on practical neuroscience and compassionate mindfulness, we break down how the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems work, why so many of us get stuck in overdrive, and how a short daily practice can lower cortisol, improve heart rate variability, and make focus feel natural again.
Together, we explore emotions as energy in motion and show how resisting grief, anger, or anxiety can keep you trapped. Instead, you’ll learn a gentle, repeatable loop: pause, breathe with a longer exhale, name what you feel, and release what does not serve you. We guide you through hand-on-heart and belly anchoring, color or shape visualization if it helps, and a short gratitude close that signals safety to your nervous system. The method is light, portable, and designed for real life—between patients, before meetings, or during a lunch break when digestion needs support.
You’ll get clear steps for morning, midday, and evening resets, plus advice on building consistency without perfectionism. We also share our mini course, Channel Your Negative Emotions, which includes a downloadable guided practice and resources to help you set a five-minute habit that compounds over time. Five minutes won’t remove every challenge, but it changes how you meet them—present, steady, and kinder to yourself and others.
Channel Your Negative Emotions
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Hello, I'm Dr. Charlize and welcome to the Art of Healing podcast. Thank you so much for joining me for today's episode. If this is our first time to meet, so nice to meet you. This podcast comes out a few times a month, sometimes once a week, sometimes a little bit less, depending on what we have on the schedule. And if we have met before, hopefully you have enjoyed some of the prior episodes we did. Earlier this month, we had fantastic, amazing guests, Reiki Pioneer, who brought the practice of Reiki to Modern Medicine, Pamela Miles. She was a guest on the show. If you miss those episodes, when you finish up with this one, go back and download those. They're just amazing, including a personal practice she does with us, a personal Reiki practice. You don't have to be Reiki certified to do the practice that she shared with us. Today's episode, I'm going to be sharing with you the power of the five-minute reset and how short meditations can transform your mood and your energy. Five-minute reset: how short meditations can transform your mood. If you feel like your day gets hijacked with being stressed, with being irritated, this presentation is for you. We're going to discover how five minutes a day can shift your emotional landscape. To understand the five-minute reset, a few basics to understand are your nervous system. The human nervous system runs in two operating modes or systems. One is the sympathetic response, and that's your body's fight or flight startle mode that makes your body ready for activation, makes you ready to run, makes you ready to fight. It's also the sympathetic response that we are activating when we exercise, when we intentionally raise our heart rate, we're trying to get in shape. The sympathetic response is cool. Sometimes it's even fun. We do need it, but for the most part, our body needs to be in the other mode, which is the parasympathetic mode. This is our rest and our digest mode. It is the parasympathetic mode that allows your body to recover from injury. Your body needs to be in parasympathetic mode to recover from illness. And it's also where we digest our food, where we absorb our nutrients. It's where our body can produce the chemicals it needs to work at its very best, such as hormones. The parasympathetic mode should grow. And that's also where our sleep is the most restful. We need both modes of operations. We need sympathetic mode and the parasympathetic mode. But the balance is interesting because, for the most part, our body needs to be in the parasympathetic mode most of the time to make sure you sleep the best, and that's where your body recovers the best, and that's where your organs can heal and detoxify and regenerate the best, is in the parasympathetic mode. But you do need that sympathetic mode at times. The sympathetic mode gives your body the right amount of challenge. That's when your muscles get a good challenge and a boost and can grow and regenerate. Unfortunately, what happens to a lot of us is we're in that sympathetic mode too much. Brain can influence which mode we operate in. And if your brain is perceiving that you're in a lot of stress all of the time, you may be in that sympathetic mode too much. And what that means is that your brain doesn't get to function as well, your organs don't get to heal, your immune system can't work as well as it's meant to. You may be getting sick all the time, your sleep is messy, then it builds up into chronic things like your hormones are a wreck and you're gaining weight and you're losing hair. And so what we are hoping we can do with this five-minute reset is find pockets in our time and eventually sense where we may be in that sympathetic mode too much, and where we hope to get more into the parasympathetic mode so our body can operate the very best. Micro mindfulness, which is practicing mindfulness for short periods of time, has some benefits. So even practicing just five minutes in a 24-hour period can help regulate your cortisol. Just five minutes of meditation can reduce the amount of stress hormones that you're making. So it can get you some calmness throughout your day, which is not a terrible thing. Your heart rate variability. If you're one of those tech savvy people who is monitoring your heart rate variability, brief mindfulness can help you adapt to stress better, which is why you're monitoring your heart rate variability, enhancing your focus. So many people, my patients will often tell me, I think I have ADHD. Sometimes what you have is a lack of mindfulness. So a short meditation or mindfulness lets those circuits in your brain that are generating electricity and using a ton of energy get a reset. And you may find that your focus comes back even better with a short meditation practice rather than thinking of going straight to a medication or a stimulant. Even healthcare professionals that are in between patients can practice these brief mode of meditation. I've started doing, I see several patients throughout my day, and I found that it really is helpful. It really does work. And the benefits are immediate. And it's not even just me, my medical assistant made a joke earlier a few days ago. She's like, Well, that's how you stay so calm. That's how you deal with all this. I deal with stressful patients, and I don't know that I deal with it well. But because I have my micro-mindfulness practices, my ability to recoup and recover is definitely there. And I feel like that's very necessary because if I have a stressful encounter with one patient, I can't let it carry over to another patient. So me being able to refocus my energy is a must. Later, I will tell you about my latest offering, which is channeling your negative emotions. So what are emotions? One way to think of emotions are energy in motion. So emotions we think of is how we're feeling in the moment. Happy, sad, anxious, grateful, angry, blah. Even right now, you can practice sensing what your emotion is right now. Matter of fact, for the next minute, why don't you, if you can, take a breath, close your eyes, see if you have an emotion and label it. So let's just take a minute to do that just for fun. So, do you sense an emotion? I'll share with you the emotion that I sense right now is laughter or chuckling. I I need to come up with a better term of this. I am internally laughing at myself because of the series of bloopers I created prior to taping this episode. I was even joking that I needed to create a blooper reel from recording an entire episode that I starting a podcast recording, and I forgot to hit record. So it was 30 minutes of me talking to myself to losing my favorite Bluetooth headset. I found it, but I went through a whole drama. So for me, my emotion right now is laughing at myself. So now that you've named your emotion, let's take several seconds to a minute to see how long you actually feel that emotion. So we'll start that now. So just take a deep breath. If you name the emotion, and then as you exhale, is it still there? Do you still feel it, or does it feel like it's fading? So for me, that emotion, which at the peak of it, it had been anger at myself for the bloopers that I was creating. But then it sort of melted into laughter and then it melted into a calm sense of it happens. It happens, let it go. It's a lost moment in time, but was it really lost? So with our emotions, whatever they are, and we label them as good or bad or things we want to feel or don't want to feel. The thing with emotions is that they are moving their energy in motion. So when we have these emotions, we can label them, but do we always need to hang on to them, particularly if they're impacting us in a way that we don't desire? So with the practice with this offering, you'll actually learn how to invite that emotion in, actually really feel it, and then learn how to release it and release it in a way that's even productive. And what our hope is that in a short period of time, this mindfulness with this witnessing of emotions, that we can restore our energy and restore pretty rapidly, and maybe release some things that we want it to release. Understanding emotional signals, your body's wisdom, anger and sadness and anxiety, these aren't our enemies. They're our body telling us that something isn't in alignment or something just isn't right. When we learn the healing art of Reiki, or really any energy tradition, we learn how to sense these, and we sometimes call them blocked emotions or an imbalance. But one thing we can learn to do with them is not to fight them. Really, the worst thing you can do with some of these unwanted emotions is to fight them. Fighting and resisting grief can be so bad for you when you are going through a grieving process, not engaging in the grief and not feeling the grief, it could just impact you in so many ways, can hurt your heart, your lungs, your immune system, all of that leading to long-term illness, the least of which is major depressive disorder. When we have these emotions, we want to listen to them, invite them in. And we also want to remind ourselves that they're not permanent. So, whatever we feel these waves of anxiety, if we learn to go ahead and invite it in and even work with it, which we'll learn how to do, we can learn how to turn that into something that's good and even something that we can use for our greater good or the greater good of the world. So your five-minute daily reset practice can be as simple as this pause and take a breath. So throughout your day, if you are sensing overwhelmed, feeling over anything, stop what you're doing and take three deep breaths. We can even do that together now. And as you feel those breaths, you may feel tension release, muscles release, the muscles of your necks begin to gently release. You can place a hand on your heart and one hand on your belly to enhance this. So if you want to right now, you can place one hand on either and take a few deep breaths and exhale. And as you inhale, see if a feeling comes in that you can label. If you can't label it, go ahead and label it. So as I inhale, now I inhale a sense of calm. Right now, that's what I feel, but not always. And to deepen this practice, you can even give this attributes. You may envision it as a color in your chest, or a color in your belly, or a shape. If it's something that you feel doesn't serve you, you can just release it with your breath. You can close by offering gratitude to that moment and to yourself and to that feeling and being thankful for whatever it was that came up for showing you something you needed to see or helping you sense something in yourself that you may have been ignoring. You can practice a five-minute reset, or my latest offering, you can practice the channeling your negative emotion anytime during your day. So you can start your morning with this. It's a great way when you first wake up in the morning to set five minutes to sense what you're feeling, label it, see if it's something that needs to be transmuted into something else, and then send it on its way. Midday during your lunch break, great way before you eat lunch to do this midday reset, to do the channeling your negative emotions, because that lets you wind down from the morning of overactivity, doing too much or being too stressed, and lets your system calm down so that you can get some blood flow to your digestive tract and you can digest your lunch. Practicing this channeling your negative emotions in the evening is a beautiful way to let go of the day. So many people with insomnia feel like they have to have something to tranquilize them when really what they need is something to help them process the things that they maybe didn't want to process during the day. Practicing this channeling your negative emotions in the evening is an excellent way to unwind. And although it may sound a little scary, if you do this at bedtime, it really lets you release the day so that you can sleep well that night. The magic of this practice is not the length, it's just doing it consistently, short daily resets, compound over time, and help your nervous system rewire itself so that you're not leaning on that sympathetic mode to get the job done, that you're engaging in that parasympathetic mode where your brain is optimized and you find solutions with a lot less effort than that go, go, go attitude. So you're not just feeling better in the moment, you're building lasting capacity. So my advice is practicing this practice or similar practices. You experiment with yourself for a week and see how you feel, or practice every day for a month and see if you notice little changes in your life. I believe the true power in a short meditation practice such as this is that your body will naturally, subconsciously guide you to do this every day because you'll feel good and your body's very intelligent. So it will guide you to find five minutes that you can practice your mindfulness so that you feel better and better every day. And practicing short sessions can be an easy trigger for you to find pockets in your day or create pockets that practicing 10 minutes where you start to feel more benefit, or even 20 minutes where the benefit really starts to take hold. That's when the magic happens. So I would like to offer my latest course, Channel Your Negative Emotions. This is a mini course. It's short, it's inexpensive. You can be launching into this immediately, and you'll have access to the channeling your negative emotions meditation that you'll be able to download, and there'll be other resources to help guide you and help set up the daily practice of five minutes of mini meditation. So in your show notes, there'll be the link where you can get started with the course, five minutes a day, just a few dollars to help you get started, and yours to keep forever. And the key takeaway from this, five minutes can change your energy field. And when you have a simple five-minute practice you can do every day, not only do you feel better, the people around you will notice and will be grateful that you took the time to do this. So your next step, committing five minutes every day to reset, even if it's not with my program. Setting five minutes to breathe deeply, five minutes to listen to nature sounds, five minutes to do nothing, to turn off everything and just dare outside or even step outside. Five minutes a day, and you'll notice the benefit. So in your show notes, you'll find the link where you can get started with the channeling your negative emotions mini course. And as always, I'm so thankful for you joining me for this episode. Questions or comments, you can send me a message in the podcast app you're listening to. You'll also find my contact in the show notes. And if you found this episode helpful, you can share with your friends or family. I love that. I'd also love if you'd leave me a review. It's always very helpful, especially for a small production such as this one. I will see you soon. If it's not in a week, definitely you'll see me within the next month with the next new episode. Thanks so much.
