Conscious Physician: Medicine & Psychedelics
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Conscious Physician: Medicine & Psychedelics
Healing Trauma Through Community & Mind-Body Medicine with Dr. Noshene Ranjbar | Shaking, Peace & Nervous System Regulation
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In this deeply nourishing episode of the Conscious Physician Medicine and Psychedelics Podcast, I sit down with Noshene Ranjbar, psychiatrist, humanitarian, and leader in mind-body medicine.
We explore what it means to stay regulated, embodied, and connected during times of global trauma, war, and collective stress. Dr. Ranjbar shares powerful, practical tools to help calm the nervous system — starting not with breath, but with grounding into the body and reconnecting to the earth.
Together, we discuss:
- Why community is essential for survival and healing
- How trauma gets stored in the body — and how to release it
- The science and power of shaking as emotional detox
- Daily emotional hygiene (like brushing your teeth, but for your nervous system)
- Teaching children emotional regulation
- Boundaries, peace, and personal responsibility
- Imagery as medicine for world peace
- Supporting mind-body healing efforts in Iran, Afghanistan, and beyond
This episode includes guided grounding, shaking, and a global peace visualization you can return to anytime.
It is medicine.
Moments That Stuck With Me
- When she said: “The more stressed we are, the less embodied we feel.”
- Starting with grounding before breath — because you can’t breathe your way out if you’re still stuck in your head.
- The image of children shaking in bomb shelters while adults remain rigid — and what that teaches us about trauma release.
- Shaking as evolutionary wisdom — something our ancestors did naturally through dance, drumming, and ritual.
- Emotional release as daily hygiene — like brushing your teeth.
- The reminder that imagery changes physiology — our bodies respond to imagined peace as if it’s real.
- “Stand up for peace within.”
- Love + boundaries + peace as the foundation for service.
- The power of widening the circle of imagination until the entire globe is held in safety.
- “None of us are going to survive this alone.”
Key Themes in This Episode
- Nervous system regulation
- Trauma release and somatic healing
- Shaking and vibration practices
- Community as medicine
- Emotional regulation for adults and children
- Mind-body-spirit medicine
- Collective trauma and historical oppression
- Imagery and global peace practices
- Philanthropy and peace-building through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine