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  • Homeopathy for Pain: Ancient Remedy TRopicals
    2025/10/07
    Episode 13: How I approach essential oils for muscle pain and neuropathy. The oil from crushed plants is healing, and always has been The term "essential oils" refers to the net result of all of the liquid, pasty material that can be extracted from the living plant. There are ways to extract plant compounds free from residual toxins and not tested on animals. Xylem, phloem, and compounds from the leaves and stems all have ingredients valuable for human health. The chemicals are very small, nanoparticle size, and penetrate through joint capsules where manmade pills do not. The only way mainstream, Western medicine can deliver a synthetic medication inside your joint capsules is with a needle or a knife. Thankfully, "Complimentary and Alternative Medicine, (CAM)" has been around for thousands of years. My Non-Toxic Blend for Pain https://vimeo.com/1125604020?share=copy I wasn't always a fan of Essential Oils I took the Hippocratic Oath in 2003 at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Primum non nocere = "first do no harm". I was trained to warn the public with case reports if I observe a public health problem. In 2014, I published this case report of a young woman with psychosis and inflammatory lesions on her brain after using a lavender product. However, my medical school was allopathic and did not emphasize toxicology in every day products, the benefits of essential oils or clean processes for extracting botanicals. So, what I didn't know when I wrote this in 2014 is that the essential oils at the big box stores are full of neurotoxins and have a very small percentage of essential oil actually in the bottle. Now, I get most of my stuff from Young Living or other impeccable companies with nontoxic products. Lavendar Toxicity Case ReportDownload Now I'm the Family Oil Healer Ok, that's an exaggeration but there was a dramatic rash case of a child at our family reunion. He was rolling down the hill in the pristine golf course grass and his back was cut up with tiny cuts from the grass itself. He was in a lot of pain and crying at the age of 6. My mother was there with one of my handy jars of Ancient Remedy TRopicals and it helped him right away. The whole family witnessed it and several wanted to know the recipe. Well, here it is. As I recall, the batch she had with her that day had the first 8 essential oils mixed into coconut oil as a carrier. Ancient Remedy TRopicals At our house, we call them TRopicals because you apply it Topically and imagine you're in the Tropics relaxing in a happy place in order to assist the pain relief through relaxation. I apply the topical ointment to my sore spots, injuries, closed infections and wounds. The pain is relieved temporarily and the wound will heal faster. Ancient remedy tropicalsDownload Basic Recipe does not contain hot oils 4 Ounces of Organic Coconut Oil (hard at room temperature or fractionated liquid at room temperature) 15 drops Clove 15 drops Cypress 10 drops Frankincense 5 drops Hysop 5 drops Lavender 5 drops Myrrh 7 drops Rosemary 7 drops Tea Tree 7 drops Thyme 7 drops Ylang Ylang If pain stops me in my tracks, Ancient Remedy TRopicals applied liberally will give me 2-4 hours more functionality, then I reapply. I'll do this multiple times per day working around the house. I also alternate with Epsom salt baths for it's magnesium to relax muscle spasms. Keep experimenting with other forms of self care and let me know about it. Find a reason to consume pure essential oils every day. I use them 3-5 times per day when I'm really hurting. I'll add this blend below to a few other topicals all at the same time and get relief for hours at a time. It doesn't stop my pain completely, it reduces it significantly so I can push it to the background and go about my day. At least for 4 hours at a time... First Aid for Hot Oil Burns (not temperature-hot)
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  • VA Disability Evaluations: One Veteran to Another
    2025/10/05
    Episode 012: Download and Share the one-page VA Disability Tracker. MindshiftCare.com/veterans Physical and mental ailments follow veterans throughout their lives. Some things that start out relatively small turn out to be disabling as we age. Eventually the struggle causes a veteran to apply for benefits when they really, really need it. In that condition, it is difficult to stay organized when you're not sleeping enough to have memory issues caused by chronic high levels of cortisol. Well, I've created a one-page VA checklist tracker for you to keep up with the steps of the VA application process for disability compensation. Download and share with the world the VA Disability Tracker (below). Hello, I'm Dr. Daniel Williams, former Major in the Texas Army National Guard. I served as 36th Infantry Division Psychiatrist, Behavioral Health Officer and Veterinary Food Inspector Sergeant in my 16-year career. I've been doing veteran disability evaluations and wanted to discuss my lessons learned healing veterans and getting the disability compensation right. .spwidget-button-wrapper{text-align: center}.spwidget-button{display: inline-block;padding: 12px 24px;color: #fff !important;background: #de6a26;border: 0;border-radius: 4px;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;text-decoration: none}.spwidget-button:hover{background: #d15913}.spwidget-button:active{color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .75) !important;box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .15) inset} Book Appointment Tinnitus | Hearing Loss | Chronic Pain | Chronic Fatigue | Anger and Irritability | Social Isolation | Losing Jobs and Relationships | Night Sweats | Depression | Panic Attacks | Addictions of All Types When you first book an appointment with me, I'll go through my full psychiatric evaluation. Then, I'll spend time analyzing your Capacity/Opportunities/Motivation experiences throughout your life. Next, I'll cross-reference that information with your Physical/Mental/Spiritual/Emotional domains to come up with a customized Mindshift Plan for you. Steps to VA Disability Evaluations One-Stop-Shop in under 1 hour - listen to full video due to Semper fi - heal your comrades https://vimeo.com/1124693712?fl=pl&fe=sh Download the best Ambassador Slides HANDOUT yet. Step 1. Request an appointment for an Independent Medical Opinion and Compensation and Pension. Your approval email will come with instructions to access the HIPAA-secure portal at Mindshift Care. This will allow you to upload secure PDF copies of your medical records and paperwork needed PRIOR to the appointment. Please allow at least 2-3 weeks to gather all of the documents below. Step 2. Request a copy of medical records from healthcare agencies you visited. Upload copies into the HIPAA-secure portal at Mindshift Care. (FAQ page) Disability Packet Your DD214. If you don't have a copy, you can request one from the National Archives. Your NGB-22 if you were in the National Guard or Air Guard. The method of getting a copy depends on several factors and each state may have a different process. The National Guard Associations hosts a database with the contact information for all of the state's National Guard Headquarters where you can directly request a copy of your NGB-22. Your military medical record. All previous VA Rating Decision letters are available for download online. VA medical records online (recommended) or request a physical copy. If all of your paperwork is in PDF files, you can upload it quickly both here at Mindshift Care for your disability evaluation and to submit for your VA claim to be date-stamped faster. The first payment for VA service connections will be back-dated to the initial date of filing of your active claim, therefore I recommend doing it online so you don't waste time or risk your sensitive information in the mail. (But overnight, certified, return receipt mail should do the trick.)
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  • What a Functional Psychiatry Team Looks Like: The New Standard for a Modern Mental Health Team
    2025/10/03
    Episode 11: This is my favorite duo in private mental health care: a psychologist and energy healer working under the same roof. Interview with Julie Crowe and Heather Wadeson, PsyD. As a psychiatrist, I always have my ears open to client feedback about therapists around town. Springfield, Missouri was no different. I found Julie Crowe first while looking up an Emotion Code practitioner for a patient. That's when I learned that she worked in the same office as a psychologist, Dr. Heather Wadeson. We are all fast friends though I've only met them a few times in person. I do all of my work remotely now. I quickly started presenting holistic mental health care to my patients and using them as an example while I worked in Springfield. My hope is that more people will follow through with holistic referrals! https://vimeo.com/1124360712?fl=pl&fe=sh Eastern Subtle Body Work... JulieCroweHealing.com Contact Julie Crowe at JulieCroweHealing@Gmail.com or by calling 417-860-3062. Be sure to leave a message because she's probably doing another appointment. Energy healing takes longer because the practitioner has to do certain practices both before and after the session. For this reason, energy clearing session typically cost more than a massage in a particular geographical area. Julie Crowe is certified in several ancient practices and is, in my view, a savant when it comes to using them. Her personal style integrates several (like 5-7) different types of practices, trainings, techniques and intuition all at the same time. She is a phenom. I get high watching people like her work. Reiki, which is love energy projected toward the client for an hour. Emotion Code, which is releasing trapped, stuck energy in the body painlessly. Chakra Balancing, which is body work involving all 7 of your main endocrine zones. ...Meet Western Psychology DrWadeson.com Dr. Heather Wadeson is a licensed psychologist in Springfield, Missouri offering appointments in person and online. Call 417-319-6076. She has a Compact license that applies to dozens of states within the United States. Folks, this is exactly the type of therapist I recommend - a compassionate, vulnerable person that is competent in multiple, holistic disciplines. She has deep experience in psychology and personal body stress relief as a certified yoga instructor. She works and is great friends with Julie Crowe so that means that her professional experience is full of witnessing energy healing work in her psychology patients, and visa versa. Between the two of them, they won't miss anything!! Specialties include: Sleep and Insomnia Diet, Nutrition and you Relationship with Food Setting Boundaries with Others ADHD and Executive Dysfunction Psychological Testing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Special thanks to Heather and Julie for making this web page possible. They are my 2025 Every Day Heroes!
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    30 分
  • Interview with documentarian Penny Lavin, The Healing Field: Exploring Energy & Consciousness
    2025/10/03
    Episode 10: Another hero that does not disappoint. Penny and Ron Lavin's One Light Healing Touch school started in 1996 and has helped hundreds and thousands of people all over the world. https://youtu.be/sC7XWV9TyrY I first reached out to Penny and Ron just to thank them for their body of work. To tell them that "if I had it to do all over again I would not got to medical school, but would do their class and I would have been healing people this entire time." What happened next was unexpected. Penny said "Daniel, you'd make a great master healer." This was music to my ears because I still felt in the beginning of 2025 like I had been burned out by my profession as an Army Psychiatrist and civilian Medical Director. The jobs drained my empathy and compassion, just like I wrote about 10 years ago in my internationally cited burnout publication in the prestigious journal, Academic Psychiatry. Penny Lavin's documentary is available in Gaia and Amazon Fast forward through a lot of documentaries and it turns out that empathy can actually be studied, measured and analyzed with biofeedback. Well, I felt it as an Army Psychiatrist pulling double duty in 2022 on the Texas-Mexico Border and providing telepsychiatry to four federal prisons in Texas. I felt the pain on all sides closing in, pain from the migrants that lost loved ones crossing Mexico due to cartels, mass murderers, the military casualties helping with border patrol. As a dedicated healer, like Penn Lavin, I never waivered in my compassion towards my clients. But I did learn the hard way that when compassion is completely drained due to past trauma's quantum drag, that I wanted to simply quit it all. With this backdrop, this podcast interview interjects one of the worlds foremost accomplished healers and teachers. Penny Price Lavin is the second hero I've ever met that did not disappoint. (The first was COL Scott Bier with the Texas Army National Guard.) Finding her Basic Training class in early 2025 helped my with a few of my symptoms at the time: Terrible anger about my chronic pain and insomnia Grief over not being able to work as many hours as I used to Lack of enjoyment in life, not looking forward to living 20-30 more years in chronic pain Yes, I felt this way in 2025 due to chronic pain, but then that issue spiraled into complete exhaustion that affects everything. Soon, I was no fun to be around so I just stayed in the garage gym doing what I could to keep studying self-care, take different classes, and become more holistic so I could help myself. I took several certification classes but the One Light Healing Touch Program was, by far, the most impactful. Email Penny Lavin for $25 off the Day of Healing UPCOMING DATES: Day of Healing $125 - October 25 and November 6, 2026 - Register no later than 10 days in advance. Email PennyLavin@Gmail.com for the flyer for the January 16, 2026 Basic Training class for One Light Healing Touch. Basic Training $3,100 - January 16 through May 2026. Payment plans are available. If you want to join me when I retake the Basic Training class in January 2026, visit OneLightHealingTouch.com to register today. Payment plans are available. I assure you, if you want to put these healing practices into your life you will have a Mindshift. Brave Browser AI search results for Penny Lavin's bio, accessed 10/3/2025.
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    31 分
  • Urgent Times Call for Resurgence of Mastermind Groups
    2025/02/17
    Episode 9: The United States ranks 36th in literacy. The populace is entering into a Second Dark Ages and drinking poison in the water. Artificial intelligence, auto-spelling, auto-correction, auto-complete is all chipping away at our brain's opportunity to practice working. The censorship war is has been in full swing for years now. https://vimeo.com/1057642916 Download the Ambassador Slides HANDOUT to share and post. Need for a New Renaissance People have always been able to solve their own problems, given the right capacity, opportunity and motivation. Mastermind Groups create opportunity where there is none, by harnessing lessons learned from the first Dark Ages. Human imagination, trial and error took hold during the Renaissance and provided the free-thinking environment for leaders of the Industrial Revolution. What did the leaders have in common? They possessed 17 traits and held regular, active Mastermind Groups. Groups worked together in harmony with a definite major purpose. Individuals can have a separate purpose from the group, but agree to work together in harmony. Urgent Times Today the challenges before us are different than the Dark Ages, but the Great Reset appears already underway. Our challenges today are to our health, security, food, water and exposure to toxicity and radiation. The leadership required for a successful Mastermind Group is similar to that of a military commander. At higher levels of military echelons, the departments the commander must oversee are very diverse and highly specialized. For example, one Commander I knew came from an artillery background but was in charge of a Combat Engineer unit that could build cities. The Commander didn't have to know everybody's job. The role of the Commander is to get effective work from the team, delegate authority, and to deal with people causing disruption to the organization. Harmony is the watchword. From a place of support and safe vulnerability, comes innovation. These principles are at the core of the successful way the US military decentralizes decision-making where possible. Therefore, racism and nepotism are rendered impotent. Marry a harmonious group, working actively towards a definite major purpose, together with humility and you have a recipe for outstanding success. Call to Arms: Need for Resurgence of Mastermind Groups Mindshift Care hosts a group called Making Minshifters, in which we study together from the audio program The Science of Personal Achievement, by Napoleon Hill (available in Amazon). Members participate in solving their own problems while contributing to a group. Activism Mindshift: How You can Help You can start a Mastermind Group of your own! If you want to tackle a problem, or detox from a rare chemical, I'm offering training and support for lay leaders and professionals alike. Examples of Mastermind Groups PROBLEM STATEMENT: Need holistic support for relapse prevention from addictions of any type. PROBLEM STATEMENT: Need ideas and support for detoxification from industrial pollutants (PFAS, lead...). PROBLEM STATEMENT: Need to raise community awareness about polluted water (Springfield, Missouri). PROBLEM STATEMENT: Need a way to add live Q&A and content updates for the 5 books and 8 free, video courses that launched with our initial launch. Making Mindshifters Making Mindshifters is a traditional Mastermind Alliance with a purpose of overseeing the other Mastermind Groups. The schedule is subject to change based upon availability. Sync the Mindshift Events calendar for updates and reminders.
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    9 分
  • Anger Management Simplified: Trileptal and a Two-Minute Speech
    2025/02/06
    Episode 8: How childhood neurodevelopment turns into road rage, or becomes rewired completely. You decide. (This one will save loss, pain, and lives.) Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is an official diagnosis for an anger control problem. It is characterized by impulsive, unexpected anger and aggression that is disproportionate to the situation. The diagnosis code is F63.81 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision. From the outside, the world sees an angry person, but they are often riddled with guilt about their behavior. If unable to modify the personality and self-care to accommodate for IED, these people burn all their bridges and wind up totally alone. They need to Mindshift. https://vimeo.com/1054709890 Download the Ambassador Slides HANDOUT to share. Trileptal and My 2-Minute Speech "When a threat is perceived, adrenaline triggers an uncontrollable reaction. Intermittent explosive disorder is a hard-wired anger reaction, almost always originating from PTSD. This is why traditional cognitive approaches to anger management are often inadequate. It is exactly the opposite of a trained operator or martial artist. However, if the brain is exposed to enough toxicity, a veteran will slowly lose their brain's ability to inhibit. A mood-stabilizer is a "10 second fuse". It will let you notice the feeling without impulsively acting on it. Walk away from the anger-provoking situation the first 5 times you get mad, so you can learn how the medication will help you go calm yourself down. Then, practice talking through your problems knowing you can now walk away if you need to, so eventually you won't have to live in fear of your anger or be made to feel like a doormat." Trying to overcome IED without help is like dancing stoned on the edge of cliff. By definition, not taking life-threatening behavior seriously is absolutely the most irresponsible decision for mental health. Afterall, mental health equals self-care. Why won't this work on children? From the outside, children and adults look the same emotionally with temper tantrums. The adult with IED, however, is overreacting in anger despite a previous decision to keep anger under control. Children haven't yet made decisions on the kind of person they want to be (superego), they are running into a nonstop series of life lessons and reflexively react based upon their hardwired subconscious programming. It's not the kid's fault. By that same logic, it's also technically not the adult's "fault", but it is their responsibility. Adults in the heat-of-the-moment react violently without a conscious choice - the prefrontal cortex is not involved in a decision until after the action has begun. Trying to stop yourself once your anger has progressed to screaming and violence is literally trying to overcome all of your life's pains and griefs that have come to bear, and in the most dangerous and unhealthy way possible. You need to Mindshift. Notice the division between Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) in children and Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) in Adults in Figure 1: Psychotherapy mirrors neurodevelopment across the lifespan. This means that the different psychotherapies that helps these psychiatric diagnoses as we age support our understanding of brain health and its misuse:There are three overall phases in brain development when viewed from the womb to the tomb. Initial Programming is broken into two stages: womb to age 6 and from age 6 to age 17. The first stage begins in the womb and involves the direct download of the environment into the unconscious body memory (mind) of the child. Gradually, the child learns how to approach the world through choices but faces an uphill battle to rewire the body-lessons learned in very early development. The subconscious mind is already formed. We never completely undo the early, initial programming. The Neuroplastic Zone reflects the period of our liv...
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  • Practice Guidelines for Serious Mental Illness
    2025/01/31
    Episode 7: Teaching tool for medication classes in severe psychiatric illnesses. Figure 1. This is the table of contents for the Clinical Handbook I wrote as a teaching tool for advance practitioners. I taped the below graphic on the walls of each office where I supervised a busy psychiatric urgent care. It was helpful in explaining modern medication management approaches in an easy-to-understand format. The 100-Day Mindshift by Dr. Daniel Williams helps primary care and mental health programs that don't have time to explain the Clinical Practice Guidelines from the American Psychiatric Association. Figure 2: Treatment Guidelines for Serious Mental Illness. https://vimeo.com/1054650093 Download the Ambassador Slides HANDOUT to share. What is considered a "Serious Mental Illness"? Major depressive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder type 1 are considered Serious Mental Illnesses. Lobbyists aren't yet successful with getting PTSD added to the list. Medications are frequently used to treat dozens of mental health-related symptoms, but this episode will focus on Serious Mental Illnesses. Summary of Diagnostic Criteria for Serious Mental Illnesses *Major depressive disorder ~ 2 weeks of a collection of low mood and neurovegetative symptoms (appetite, sleep, energy, concentration, motivation, psychomotor agitation or retardation) with or without suicidal thoughts and psychotic features. Schizophrenia ~ 6 months of predominantly psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions. Bipolar disorder ~ 7 days of a manic episode ever in life, including the combination of decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and euphoria. Episodes can be depressed, manic, or mixed. Schizoaffective disorder ~ Clinically significant depressive or manic episodes, but psychosis remains when the mood episodes are in remission for at least 2 weeks. Bipolar Disorder is frequently confused with Intermittent Explosive Disorder Western culture defines "bipolar" as impulsive anger flares. This is nothing like the manic episodes of bipolar disorder and it is possible to have an anger problem too. Intermittent Explosive Disorder is truly an anger problem diagnosis. Features include unplanned, violent overreactions, such as arguments, punching holes, breaking cell phones and TV remotes. The guilt from the outbursts is often enough to trigger a full major depressive disorder, unless the person is antisocial and has no guilt. In my practice... A holistic approach to Intermittent Disorder would include Trileptal and a 2-Minute Speech, energy release work, and the Definite Major Purpose worksheet. Definite Major Purpose WORKSHEETDownload
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  • Top 18 Ground-Breaking Mental Health Documentaries
    2025/01/01
    Episode 6: Dr. Williams' top 18 documentaries for your date nights. "When you finally graduate as a psychiatrist and start watching documentaries, you can't help but wonder why universities left out so many vitally important facts...There should be a relationship warning that comes with these because one partner may rapidly outgrow the other - don't watch them alone. Make it a date night." Daniel Williams, MD The following documentaries are organized the same as our free Core Curriculum class, How to Mindshift video bundle and the 100-Day Mindshift printed book. https://vimeo.com/1054572807 Download the Ambassador Slides HANDOUT to share. Mental: Choosing Power The Science of Resilience: How to Thrive in a World of Chaos The Earthing Movie: The Remarkable Science of Grounding (also Down to Earth) Messages From Water: Water Crystals in Motion Physical: The Body Component Watch the Water, Stew Peters The Devil We know Dark Waters Erin Brockovich Root Cause (dental) Food Inc. (a nice complement to the Wheat Belly book) Cannabis: A Lost History Spiritual: Faith, Energy Healing, Purpose I Am: The Shift is About to Hit the Fan The Healing Field: Exploring Energy and Consciousness Heal: The Most Powerful Healer is Within Emotional: Regulating Emotion Brene Brown: The Call to Courage E-Motion and the 6-minute Releasing the Heart Wall episode Art Therapy: The Movie
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    30 分