3.4M+ views, and still creating ripples... What do you do when you have a debilitating chronic illness and the medical system you've dedicated your life to has no answers? For many, this leads to a feeling of learned helplessness, being punted from one doctor to the next only to be told your tests are "normal." In this powerful and personal conversation, Dr. Mark Hyman talks with Dr. Cynthia Li, a conventionally trained internist who found herself on the other side of the ste

Cynthia Li has written a second book on healing from within that is just as profound and intimate as her first, Brave New Medicine. Any page I turned to offered me a gem of insight and instruction. I’ll turn to it again and again. — Anne Lamott, activist and NYT bestselling author of Bird by Bird Optimize your body’s innate healing abilities...in a seemingly effortless way. Are you one of the millions who suffer from chronic illness? Have you tried everything—conventional or

What If the Heart Knows Before the Mind? A Deep Dive Into Heart Coherence The heart is by far the master rhythm maker in the body. Think of the heart as the conductor, and the body is the music it's playing. If the conductor gets out of sync and gets frustrated and frazzled, the music becomes very discordant. That's what's playing out in the body. It's a very energy inefficient state. Coherence, on the other hand, is a very energy efficient state. What happens when an enginee

I used to be a total skeptic when it came to intuition.  Having grown up in Texas in an evangelical community, then going through western medicine training, I would say that my “gut feeling,” if I had one, was to steer clear of any such practices. The Other Kind of Knowing The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung defined intuition as a method of perception drawn from inner or imaginative experiences; this was in contrast with sensing, where information was drawn from the external wor

A physician, author, and public figure, Dr. Mark Hyman has been transforming Western medicine for 30 years. As a young man, he taught yoga and wandered Tibet and Nepal in search of meaning. As a young doctor, he became disheartened by conventional medicine. “The way we were treating disease wasn’t working,” he says. “We can’t just cover up symptoms with medications. We have to understand the body as a biological system — an ecosystem.” This led him to research root causes of

This is an invitation to shift your allegiance from the activities of your mind to the eternal presence of your being. Born Merle Antoinette Roberson in Texas in 1942, and raised amid the pines and hymns of Mississippi, Gangaji grew up believing fulfillment lay in doing things right—marrying young, raising a daughter, teaching school. Yet beneath those roles ran what she called "a deep and persistent longing." After her divorce, she moved to San Francisco in the 1970s, taking

When we think of infections or toxins or pollutants, we typically think of protecting ourselves. A rigid shield to protect us from the outside. While there's nothing wrong with this, a response of hypervigilance and alert can trigger the "fight or flight" stress mode which, if chronic, can suppress the immune system. Perhaps you get sick more often. Or your joints and muscles ache. Or your seasonal allergies are worse. Or you tire more quickly. These may be signs that the imm

Most of us try to avoid anything that triggers us at all costs. Especially if we have sensitive nervous systems. But what if triggers, approached consciously and incrementally, can be a source of deep healing? Cynthia Li, MD, gave this presentation for the World Consciousness Community (a global qigong community) to illuminate how, through embodied consciousness practices, triggering events can potentially contribute to deeper healing, rather than just keeping us in a trauma