Release Fear And Anxiety, How To Call In The Light - with Dr. Mark Holmes

Fear has a way of shrinking our world until we can’t think straight, and that’s exactly why I wanted to share this conversation with Dr. Mark Holmes. We recorded it at the beginning of the pandemic, but the wisdom lands just as powerfully now: stress and anxiety aren’t only “in your head” they shape your body, your choices, and your immune system through what you repeatedly hold in your awareness.

Dr. Mark, a doctor of oriental medicine trained in Chinese herbology and acupuncture, explains fear through the lens of Chinese medicine and the emotions. We talk about how early survival wiring can drive adult reactions, why doomscrolling and panic-sharing make us more susceptible, and how to stay informed without becoming over-responsive or over-responsible. He also shares a grounded spiritual practice you can adapt to your beliefs: asking for the highest good, surrounding yourself with light, and choosing images of healing over images of harm.

You’ll also hear a clear, step-by-step “clearing technique” you can use after a stressful interaction, or any moment your mind starts spiraling. We close with themes that feel like medicine on their own: forgiveness, flexibility, movement, creativity, and the reminder that love is respect, support, and care in action.

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Transcript

Welcome And A Timely Message

Tyne Stecklein 0:00

Welcome to Essence Embodied by Tyne Stecklein. If you struggle with stress, anxiety, health worries, fear. This episode is for you. Today is a very exciting episode because I'm going to share with you one of my favorite people in the world. And it's with the one and only Dr. Mark Holmes. Sadly, he's no longer with us, but he made a profound impact on my life for the better. And I think you're going to find so much of his goodness in this conversation you'll hear today. We recorded this at the beginning of the pandemic, and the intent was to share it with anyone who needed it, anyone who was going through stress and anxiety as so many of us were during that time. Even though this conversation is many years old, you will hear how relevant it is today and how we always need to check back in with ourselves and our emotional and mental health, as we know they are so very important. I was too shy to post this interview to social media after we recorded, even though that was Dr. Mark's intent. But I'm so honored that I get to share it now here on the podcast because I think he would have wanted it to reach as many people as we could. He wanted to shed as much love and light on this world as we could. And I know from personal experience, he shed so much light into mine. Hi, Dr. Mark.

Dr. Mark Holmes 1:21

Hi, Tyne.

Fear Through Chinese Medicine

Tyne Stecklein 1:22

Thank you so much for being here and chatting with me today. I am really excited that I get to introduce you to my family and my friends and anyone who may be watching this on social media. Uh, just to kind of give you guys a little background, Dr. Mark has been my personal doctor for the last six years now. And I've never been healthier physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, kind of all-encompassing. Thank you to the work that I've done with him. And we met because I was having really chronic migraines one to two a week that were letting me out for 24 to 48 hours at a time. And after working with Dr. Mark for just a month, I now have maybe a few migraines and an entire calendar year. Thank you to the work that we've done together. That's a bit of my background with him. And I'm really, really fortunate that he's become a great family friend and works with my husband, as well as my sweet baby, who did a blessing on for us this past summer. And he's just one of the most wonderful people in my life. So I'm excited to get to share him with you all. And just to give you a little formal bio on him, Dr. Mark Holmes is a doctor of oriental medicine with a degree in Chinese herbology and acupuncture. He graduated from formal oriental medicine studies in Hong Kong in 1974 and developed a high-profile practice at his Center for Regeneration and Beverly Hills of notables such as Nobel Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu, R. Buckminster Fuller, and many executives and actors in the entertainment industry, and was tabbed as the acupuncturist to the stars in the 1990s. He has overseen 40,000 patient visits over in over 50 years in the general practice, including pneumococcus, smokers and miners emphysema, and all manner of viral bacterial fungal lung infections. Immunology is one of his specialties, and he will shortly be publishing his third book, The Nine Transformations: Regeneration, Longevity, and Immortality in Chinese alchemy. So that is a very impressive bio and resume. So thank you again for speaking with me today.

Dr. Mark Holmes 3:21

Start at the top. God has this. If God wanted this to be different, it would somehow be different. So how do we navigate through the fear that's going on?

Tyne Stecklein 3:33

Exactly. Yeah, the fear that we're all kind of facing. Yeah, I would love for you to speak on any advice that you have in helping us deal with that.

Dr. Mark Holmes 3:41

So let's talk about fear. In in Chinese medicine, that we have the six emotions. Fear is one of the main emotions. What does it do to our body? It consolidates energy. So what that means is like it has to do with with uh calcium and magnesium, right? Making the body stiff, like arthritic. But what it does is it shinies us from moving forward. So if we're in fear, then I cannot make good choices for myself. I cannot have activity, I cannot do and make this a positive experience. So where does fear come from? Where do emotions come from? They come from the survival mechanism that we have, and it's a choice. Just because somebody says something or or we read something doesn't mean that it's true. Perceive, we have to use our brain as somebody trying to program me. And you know, what is my bias and what do I want to listen to? And then how do I want to respond to it? Between gestation and age eight, we are in survival. Literally, are we going to live? And that has to do with what we breathe and how we breathe, oxygenation, and can we digest food? Now, I've I work with you and your your little son, and I told you his immune system is immature, and his digestive system is immature because he's so young. He's not, he's you know, between one and two years old right now. So he's he's a work in process, but he is learning how to survive. Those survival mechanisms never go away. So as an adult, probably 90-95% of how we react to things are based on how we learn to survive between gestation and age seven and eight. So we can have a very mature person, adult, yeah, reacting, reacting in an immature way.

Tyne Stecklein 5:52

In a childlike way, almost.

Dr. Mark Holmes 5:54

Well, yeah, not you know, childlike, not child-ish, rather standable because that's how it's set up. Whenever a patient comes in to see me or whatever, you look at the situation and you go, what's good about this? Then we can look at ourselves. Uh God has this, then it's like, okay, we we have to go through this. And obviously there's a lot of goodness that's going to come to the world to us individually. It's hard when we're going through the stress. But we want to reframe this thing. And again, the these responses are really, really ego-based. So if I'm fearful of something, I'm saying to myself, I know that I need, because it's a choice, to be fearful. And that's my best response, and I'm going to get something out of it, which is interesting. So if we get angry, I'm not getting something that I want. So I'm going to get angry and put all my energy out there and say, you need to do this, you need to give me this. I need this. You know, that's that response. So the fearful response is, I now feel impotent. Interesting. Not a good response because then there's more stuff coming in and we're and we're fearful.

Tyne Stecklein 7:04

And we're more susceptible.

Dr. Mark Holmes 7:06

Well, oh, thank you for bringing that up. Okay. Let's say I'm a I'm a scientist and I'm I'm trying to do an experiment, and I have some bacteria or some virus, and I'm looking at it through a microscope. That virus is going to cooperate with my mindset of what I'm trying to prove to assist me in what I'm doing. And that's not that's not holistic, blah blah. That's been proven. So when I come back to do this the second time, I may not be able to double blind this particular, you know, clinical trial to get the same result. But then if I'm very fearful, I can create the openness to allow that to come into my consciousness.

Tyne Stecklein 7:50

Wow.

Dr. Mark Holmes 7:51

And to manifest it.

Tyne Stecklein 7:52

Right.

Dr. Mark Holmes 7:53

So I delete a whole lot of stuff that the and we you and I talked the other day, you delete some stuff and you told some friends, don't send me that stuff. I mean, I've told friends, you know, don't send me stuff, and they keep saying me stuff because they're on their survival mechanism. So I hit delete, delete, because I don't want it in my consciousness.

Tyne Stecklein 8:12

Exactly.

Dr. Mark Holmes 8:13

Yeah. A clearing technique to help people who see this, how to clear myself. The very first thing to do is, you know, before we get on the internet, is to say what you know, whether we go to Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha, or if we're agnostic, you know, just some natural source, whatever. I want to put my little self into the bigger self and say, for the highest good, I want to participate here.

Tyne Stecklein 8:49

You know, so so Can you say that one more time for people? Just that phrase one more time.

Survival Wiring And Adult Reactions

Dr. Mark Holmes 8:56

Yeah. Um, when I do things, I ask for the light. I for the highest good, my highest good, everybody else's highest good, how can I participate? And then I will put an eight-foot cube of light around myself. So if we're asking for the highest good, our mind, our emotions don't know what's really all that good for us, but the spirit knows. So we're saying, spirit, the greater in Chinese we call it shin, greater spirit, you decide what's for my highest good. And then also what leaves me to go to other people is also for the highest good. So it's not just I'm protecting myself, but I don't want you know vibes coming from anybody. It's also like what I put out to other people. It goes both ways. So I surround myself with the light, eight foot keep a light. So that's the very start. Yeah, in in in the alchemy, we we say to people, at night, when you get done with all your responsibilities, sit back and look and see what you learned today. Because why are we on the planet? We're on the planet to learn and to grow. That's the bottom line. So, what did I learn today? Everything else we can let go. So, we've all heard the saying to be born anew. So, just like your son, it's like wrecking, he wakes up in the morning and it's a good day. I mean, he he's not aware of all the stuff out there, he's only aware of mom and dad and their responses. So if you and Corey and and your mom are in you know good a good sort, he picks that up. So his life is loving. But that's that's a choice, you know. That's that's great. If he might find you guys out of balance, even in his you know, 15, 16 months of of life, he may internally attempt to do something to assist you to get back to balance. He may goof off, he may, you know, do whatever he does. We're so connected. So we call in the light for ourselves for the highest good, we put that eight-foot cube around us, and then we store language in the frontal brain. In our brain, it's here in the front. So it's like if I'm a batter and I'm gonna hit a baseball, I might hit the bat on the on the plate three times every time I go to the go to bat. You know, it's like it's it's for the survival part of me. It's like, yeah, okay, I'm ready. So doing this then allows me, okay, I'm now focusing and I'll say I'm putting all of this in the light. And Jesus, you take it, or Mohammed, you take it, or nature, you take it. Whoever, you know, whatever that word is for us. So it's like, okay, I'm not holding on to it because I don't want the result. I don't, I don't, I don't need to have that because it's constrictive.

Tyne Stecklein 12:01

I want to be free. When we are holding on to this information that we don't necessarily need, it even has the ability to make us more sick than we are, or like you said, manifest. I think people use manifestation always in the positive of I can manifest the things that we want. But I think what you're saying is we can also manifest making ourselves sick, right? Because we focus on that.

Dr. Mark Holmes 12:27

The wisdom is keep the images in your mind that you want more of. So if people keep these images of, oh my God, everybody's dying in their minds, there's an openness there to dying. If we keep an image in our mind that people are getting well, and you know, we'll get through this, and there's good positive things that will come out of this, and that there's more light, spirit than there is darkness, evil always on the planet, then those images are just happier, better images. And when we get to the end of the day, I would rather have a happy up day when I look at my day, and up happy learnings than you know, crack.

Tyne Stecklein 13:14

Right.

Dr. Mark Holmes 13:15

So again, it comes down to choice, you know, what kind of what kind of life do I want to have? So before we get to the clearing technique, we don't want to be over-responsive to input, nor do we want to be over-responsible. So if I I love you guys, so if I'm over-responsible uh bull for you and I worry about, you know, your condition and Brecken and I'm constantly doing stuff, that's gonna have me open to whatever emotional mental state you and Corey and Brecken handle, which is really not appropriate. And then by the same token, if I'm over-responsive to all the input from the internet or from friends, then I leave myself open to all of that. Right. Of all this stuff. Now, is that is that saying I'm blocking myself off to, you know, the the plight of people losing their jobs or dying or you know, all that stuff. No, no, but I'm just not self-identifying with it. So if there's an auto accident, if I yell and scream, that inhibits my ability to assist. But if I'm calm and I call in the light and ask spirit, where do I want me? What can I do? Then I can be very useful in the situation. So I'd rather be clear and open to be useful to friends, to patients, to whomever, than to yell and scream and be not useful. Right.

Tyne Stecklein 14:52

So yeah, and that I think that goes along with passing on the negative information that you hear to friends and family or via social media, because then yeah, it's just continuing that negative energy. So yeah, it's not ours, just letting letting go of it.

Dr. Mark Holmes 15:10

Yeah, and we still we still want the input, but again, but but but there's there's the thing about being neutral about it, you know, again, seeing if it's useful to move on the information, but but not being over-responsive to it.

Light Practice And Better Boundaries

Tyne Stecklein 15:28

Yeah, so yeah, we have a clearing technique that we can use to kind of you know help get rid of our worries.

Dr. Mark Holmes 15:36

So first uh we call them the light for the highest good.

Tyne Stecklein 15:39

Yeah.

Dr. Mark Holmes 15:40

So however we do that, place this cube of light around us, and then just focus here in our frontal brain and say, you know, it's not mine. And that can be, you know, it can be a single thing like, gosh, my friend is really freaked out because uh, you know, her her mother has the virus and I'm really concerned there, or it can be generally about America or you know, Italy, or it could be anything, you know, we get to choose. So then we say, um okay, so I I would like people who are listening to this who who want to do this, to pick a particular uh instance that they um don't want to have bothering them. Okay, so like this when when you have something you have a okay, okay. So the first thing uh we do in the consciousness is focus on that and then just say, oh, and this technique comes from China, interesting from many years ago, and uh people it's a way of alleviating uh where it came from cancer. See, so it's that whole thing of whatever I focus on, okay, we get sick by what we block. We want to be free-flowing. So then we say, okay, do whatever this thing is, dissolve. So so we we see whatever this issue is dissolving, we discuss it, scatter it, we see it becoming loose, we see it breaking up in our consciousness. We say clear, disappear. And then we go, I'm healed, I'm recovering my original intent. Which is why we like intents so much, because you know they're so pure, but that's that's all of our original intent. Then we declare it done, finished, spiritualized. And we we feel in however we do that again, our our attunement to whatever that higher thing is. It's been said that intention is God. So in other words, we just intended for ourselves to let go of stuff that we held on to and to become clear. And then in the clarity, it's like, okay, so what's next?

Tyne Stecklein 18:34

So if I, you know, I wake up, I'm having a good day, I'm feeling good, I place myself in the light, but then I have to go out and say, do the grocery shopping this week for our household. I go, I do the shopping. When I get back in my car, I can do this clearing to clear the negative thoughts that I'm having about what I might have come in contact with while I was out, right?

Dr. Mark Holmes 18:55

Great, great example. So you don't want to bring home to your husband and your baby and your mom some experience from the shopping. You want to be just like Brecken, open, happy. Hey, I'm here, life is good. So, really, it's just taking taking care of ourselves. And and this technique that I just gave you, I worked with somebody with uh stage stage three uterine cancer. And um, in in two months before her surgery, it went from 95% invasive down to 5%. It was like microscopic, they could hardly find it. And that's not supposed to happen. The doctors were like, what happened?

A Step By Step Clearing Technique

Tyne Stecklein 19:36

Wow. That's that's huge because I think we forget how important our our emotional health is. You know, I think a lot of this, at least for me, it comes back to emotion and my heart center, you know. And if that's off, then yeah, that's a huge part of our health.

Dr. Mark Holmes 19:53

In Chinese medicine, there's there's three causes of disease. The first one, the very first one is our emotions. Second one is the environment: rain, heat, cold, wind, all that stuff. The third one is the epidemics, the pandemics, the injuries, the poisons, and all that stuff. But they've known for you know 3,000 years, number one cause of disease, it comes from the emotional body. And then if we back off, it's again, it's a choice. So when we have an emotion, there's a payoff. So my advice is when we you know, when we see, oh, I'm emotional about this, it's like, what are we getting out of it? And do we want to continue that or do we want to change it?

Tyne Stecklein 20:36

Right. And then we have the ability to clear it.

Dr. Mark Holmes 20:40

Yeah. So when we're in fear, we're being programmed that we have no ability to be responsible for ourselves. So, you know, my wish for everybody hearing this is you know, reframe that for yourself and going, no, I am self-responsible. I'm responsible for my emotions, for how much I earn it, you know, for how much I exercise, how much I whatever. I have control of my internal environment. Yeah. And then see, do I love what I'm doing or do I want to change? Life really comes down to that since it's about learning and growth.

Tyne Stecklein 21:13

Totally. Yeah, that's that's wonderful. I think that'll be really helpful for people just to have a process that can help them clear big or small. I think what's really great about this is you can use this for the smallest thing or for bigger concerns too.

Dr. Mark Holmes 21:26

There's one more little, let me mention one more thing. Forgiveness, you know. So I might forget, so let's say I'm way out of balance about something. I might forgive myself for forgetting that I'm divine. Or if I blame my mother about something, you know, I mean she's deceased, but let I'm just, you know, picking an example. I can I can say, I forgive myself for judging my mother for da-da-da-da and for my response to da da da, you know, because it's fine. We all judge.

Tyne Stecklein 21:54

I don't want to hold on to right, because you've taught me what we don't eliminate makes sense.

Dr. Mark Holmes 22:00

Makes us sick. Exactly. Not what we take in. So so if if there's something that comes in, we have about 60 seconds to go delete, delete, delete together. You know, so if I take negativity and put back out loving, then that's taking responsibility for myself and everybody else on the planet. Because we are all connected in the soul. So it doesn't it doesn't work well when when a person tells another person what they should be doing or should be thinking. So you know, so it's always like so introspective. Why am I why am I responding that way? And and again, do I like my own response to ever? If so, great. And do I want to change it? Okay, then I'll change it. Yeah and I'm I'm in control of my life. Consciousness is 90% of who we are. So we're not who we're not what we that that statement you know from the 70s or something is you know, BS. We are who we are, and who we are in our consciousness and our soul is 90% what you and I are looking at and the viruses and all that stuff. That's just 10% of who we are as a team. So so do I want to focus on the 10% or do I want sure, you know, I'll I I'm doing the things physically for myself and for patients and for us, whatever. Sure. But do I want to focus on the 90? You bet. Yeah, yeah. That's what this is for me.

Tyne Stecklein 23:36

Yeah, great. Thank you so much. I think that's huge. I just want to really thank you for your time. And if there's anything else you want to say before we get off, go for it.

Dr. Mark Holmes 23:46

Sure. I mean, you know, love, you know, that love is the most powerful thing, you know, and and for years I I went what's love? It's like, I didn't know. I mean, you know, I I had a response, but but then I I heard somebody said love is having respect and giving support and caring. And I went, oh my god. Yeah. And so to love myself through this process and to love other people, if I have respect for who I am and for everybody else, and I care and I give people support and I give myself support, I'm then actively loving. And because we get sick by what we don't eliminate, and blockages create uh non-elimination. If I'm free if I'm loving to myself and others using these tech, you know, these things I just mentioned, then I'm good. Negativity moves in straight lines, but spirit moves more circularly. So when you dance, you don't dance in a straight line, your joints are moving. Yep. I've never seen you dance, but but you have to because that's you know, ball and socket joint. This is a ball, these right? Right? Circular, you don't move straight, even if you move straight, your hips are still doing this and your head's doing this, and your arms are doing this.

Tyne Stecklein 25:15

Yeah, absolutely.

Dr. Mark Holmes 25:17

So, so so we want to be flexible. That's another I'm glad you asked. Flexibility has to do with survival. So if we're inflexible and say, I'm right, when when we think we're right, we're probably wrong.

Tyne Stecklein 25:31

It's true. So I can relate from personal experience when I'm like, I'm so right. I'm I'm it's because I'm not right and I'm holding on to it. I want to be right. My ego wants me to be right.

Dr. Mark Holmes 25:43

Exactly. Yeah, yeah. So so we want to be flexible and we want to move circularly, which means if I'm doing some kind of circular motion, I'm not holding on to something, blocking and creating a disease for myself, whether short-term or long term. And if and if we humans, you know, in in the short term, we might get over a mood. But if we have a certain thing that we block, then as we get older, it becomes a disease.

Tyne Stecklein 26:15

Yeah.

Dr. Mark Holmes 26:15

So get up and move.

Tyne Stecklein 26:17

Yeah.

Dr. Mark Holmes 26:18

If if you're in an emotion, get up and express it. I mean, it's great. There's there's no judgment. It's like great, express it, and then you're gonna be on to something else. And not not not to hold on to our our righteousness and during this stress.

Forgiveness Flexibility And Daily Creativity

Tyne Stecklein 26:33

Totally. I love that. I think that's yeah, I love that. That's beautifully said. And and I couldn't agree more with, you know, I think something I've been doing too the past week. I I am creating, I'm forcing myself to be creative every day. And I have a limited time where I'm free with the baby. But whether it's when he naps or he goes down to bed at night, I'm painting, I'm dancing, I'm writing a monologue, you know, I'm I'm creating and even just that activity of getting. And sometimes, you know, I even start with where I'm at in the negative space, whether it's just in relation to a frustrating day or fear of what's going on in the world around us, I start with that. If I'm writing, I write that aloud, and then I might paint over the top of it and something really beautiful comes out of it. So allowing us ourselves to get out of the negative thoughts and creating, I think, is really beneficial right now. Even if you aren't a creative person, you wouldn't consider yourself that. We all have that in us, we all have that instinct. My 15-month-old, when we put on music, he immediately has a slight little bounce and he throws his hand up and it's like, where did he learn that? No one taught him that yet. It's it's instinct to hear music and to want to move to it, you know. And I think we all have a bit of us that wants to be creative and and flexible, as you're saying, and moving in a circular, soulful way. So that would be, I guess, my biggest tip to people is just try to do something where you let all of your thoughts go once a day and get really aligned. I feel my calmest after I've done that.

Dr. Mark Holmes 28:04

Yeah, one last thing uh came up when you were talking, you know, going back to God, there's just one energy. And then there's all those manifestations of the one energy. So when we say this is negative or this is positive, that's a judgment. So if I say, you know, here's my here's my cell phone, um, that's an evaluation. But if I go, my cell phone doesn't work because it jumps messages, then that's a judgment if I have any energy on it.

Tyne Stecklein 28:32

Yeah.

Dr. Mark Holmes 28:32

So, you know, if if we get to the point, so we can use that, you know, if if we say, well, I'm in a negative space, that's fine. But we can use it to instruct ourselves about what's going on. And if I want to be in a negative space, it's like, so why am I responding that way? Because somebody else may not be in a negative space in the same situation. Right with that thing where we all see an auto accident, and you know, it's 28 people seeing it, and everybody's got a different viewing point. Yeah, so so we can we can back up from this was good, this was bad, you know, this is positive, this is negative, and just say, This is, and go from there, which which is a really good place to be. It's just like this is this is this this is, yeah.

Tyne Stecklein 29:23

And oh, I love that too because it reminds me of one of the things we talked about in our session, was just being present because the stress lives in the fear of the past or what's happened in the past, or the potential of what could happen in the future, in the what if. So if we allow ourselves, and that's what I've been saying to my household when we thought maybe we were getting sick, like check in like right now. How do you feel right now today? Pretty good, great, go with that, and put any other thoughts about what could be, what could come aside. We need to live in this is right now, the present.

Dr. Mark Holmes 29:57

No, because really that's all we have, you know. But it takes energy to remember. So it takes energy to remember what happened when I was five years old. It comes up and it's like, oh, okay, maybe there's something to clear from when I was five, but I don't, I don't need to like walk around through my day remembering a bunch of stuff. Nor do I need to create stuff in the future because I don't have the future yet. All I have is you and I talking. So so here's here's the here's the key. We want to make what we're doing the most important thing in the world. And then, and then, like, if I go, well, I'm bored about when I'm doing something, it's like, well, find out what's important to you and go do it. So we can use everything to our advancement. So nothing needs to be this is bad. It's like, no, we we use everything to advance, to become who we are in the true self, to express the loving and the care and and the respect and the support of ourselves and other people. That's that's who we are.

Closing Reflections And How To Connect

Tyne Stecklein 30:58

Yeah, that's great. Doing everything with enthusiasm. We could, I know we could do this all day. We can go back and forth and on and on and on. And I don't want to take too much of your time, but I thank you. I love you. I so appreciate this, and I hope that that you guys found some um helpful and inspirational stuff from this. And let me know if you have any questions or any thoughts. And thank you so much, Dr. Mark, for doing this. My pleasure. I truly hope you enjoyed that episode with Dr. Mark. Love is everything, as he said, and that's what he did. He loved those and his life profoundly, and I have been forever changed since getting to work with him. He also inspired the work that I do today. I now mentor young creatives on their pathway in the same way that he mentored me. I love this work so deeply. I'm incredibly passionate about it. In the show notes, you'll find my Instagram as well as my website where you can get in touch with me. Thank you for being here. And remember to spread a little more love out into the world today. Dr. Mark, you are so missed, and I am incredibly grateful for the light that you brought into my life. This is essence embodied by Tyne Stecklein.