Dr. Elaine Ferguson, author, speaker, and holistic doctor joins us for another thought-provoking discussion. This week we examine discrimination, its effect on the mind and spirit, and ways to share love in difficult times and circumstances. Join us in the tent for a conversation about the healing power of peace, love, and joy.
In this episode, Dr. Elaine talks about her childhood growing up in a suburb of Detroit Michigan, and being surrounded by people of all ethnic backgrounds. This richly diverse community gave Elaine a wonderful scope of the world and how to truly see people instead of their skin color or cultural background. Then along came medical school. Diversity was not abundant and with the added distraction of a predominantly male group of students and professors, Elaine felt lost in a sea of discrimination and chauvinism. She made it through with a little help from friends, graduated, and started her career in holistic medicine.
Dr. Elaine’s books are about healing, healing the body through nutrition, lifestyle and a mind, body, spirit connection. At one point in her career she faced prejudice and mental stress. She listened to her body as it told her to tune in and destress. Dr. Elaine decided to apply the principles in her books for healing the body to healing the mind and soul. The stress came from attacks on her character and her life’s work. When she listened to the wisdom from within, Dr. Elaine experienced a paradigm shift that greatly affected her understanding of stress and the ravaging effects it has on the body.
“A Superhealing approach sees disease as an important message that you need to deal with. Holistic medicine enables good health to emerge. It also allows you to be treated as a precious individual – not your body in isolation. It addresses the cause rather than the symptoms.” Dr. Elaine Ferguson
Connect with Dr. Elaine’s method in her book: Super Healing: Engaging Your Mind, Body and Spirit to Create Optimal Health and Wellbeing.
Be sure to watch her PBS special here: Super Healing Secrets
Moments with Your Higher Self
Carefully curated activities – we’re educators, we know that reflection on a topic (homework) works and these activities can help us share even more moments with our higher self.
Here are some suggestions for eliminating bias and replacing it with love.
- Following Dr. Elaine’s advice, we need to look at the history of slavery from a different angle. It is not a Human Rights violation but a Cosmic Violation. Viewing racism from this new position has the potential to unite us to the truth of who we really are.
- Think about ancestral trauma from a new perspective. What your ancestors went thru can affect you but you can change it with a new lens of healing and wholeness.
- Several lifestyle factors have been identified that might modify epigenetic patterns, such as diet, exercise, tobacco and alcohol use, internal and external pollutants, stress, and work habits. What we think and do, can have long-term effects, on ourselves and society at large.
- Read the novel, Cain Jean Toomer, that Dr. Elaine recommended in the interview. Here is a short summary: Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/765172.Cane
Thanks for listening and we’ll see you next time in the tent.
Zella Marie and Wendy
