Hello everyone. Welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind. In this show, we explore the process of transformation and give you tools and strategies that you can use to transform your own life. Today we are going to be talking to Dr. Steven Hall about how to tune into your inner wisdom to heal. Dr. Steven Hall started his medical career in 1985 as a family practitioner and quickly shifted to a focus of helping people heal the root causes of their health and life challenges instead of just diminishing their symptoms. As a practitioner of integral medicine, Dr. Hall has explored many of the world’s leading healing traditions and combined with his medical training, helps patients genuinely heal by returning to their optimal state of health. With a passion to share what he has learned, dr. Hall is the author of three books, most recently, “The Seven Tools of Healing, Unlock Your Inner Wisdom and Live the Life Your Soul Desires.” He also offers classes and many free resources to help patients take better care of themselves. Dr. Hall, welcome to Your SuperPowered Mind.
Well, thank you, Kristin. I appreciate you having me here.
Yes, I’m excited to pick your brain and share what you know. My first question is always, what superpower did you discover as the result of mastering your mind?
Sorry, I’m just getting over a little bit of a cold. I would have to say that what I learned that’s helped me the most is self-compassion.
And growing up, I was always like my harshest critic. Just really judging myself, comparing myself to others. And you it has led to a pretty strong depression when I was a teenager. But of course I wouldn’t tell anybody about it. I have to do everything myself, of course. Right?
Right.
But over the years, I’ve really learned to see myself for who I actually am, to accept myself, including all my shortfalls and the mistakes and just be kinder to myself. So I think that’s probably the most significant change I’ve seen is I’ve really learned how to explore my mind and master my mind.
That’s beautiful. And boy, could we all use to learn how to accept ourselves, really wholeheartedly accept ourselves. And I want to go and ask you more about that in a little while. But I guess what I would love to first ask is how does this self-compassion relate to the healing work that you do with people, with your own clients now?
Well I would have to say if I was really honest and I’ve been in practice over 33 years and I’ve only seen two things actually heal people and one is surgery when they need it, and the other one is when they start to have self-compassion for themselves. And so I really think that that’s a critical component of personal healing. And as long as somebody stays really critical and judgmental of themselves, they just don’t get to that deep healing that I’ve witnessed so many times in people.
Wow. So one of the things that you talk about and I’ve seen is that healing is a transformational process. What do you mean by that?
Well, I’m trying to figure out what is healing. I asked myself that question while I was still a resident. And I was stunned that I didn’t know. Because here I was like seven years into my medical training and we never talked about what real healing was. We talked about an incision healing or a broken bone healing, but we never talked about a human life healing.
And I thought that was ludicrous. So I started searching and about seven years later I realized why it was such a hard thing to answer. But I finally came to the idea that healing is the process of us finding out who we really are, like in our heart of hearts and then making life choices that fit that, that fit who we are. And so that’s what I started helping my patients do is find out who you really are, underneath your wounds, underneath your abandonments and your betrayals and your limiting conclusions that you’ve drawn? Who are you in your soul? And as people do that searching and that self-discovery and so many things in our life start getting better. Oftentimes your body starts functioning better, their relationships work better. They find the careers that really nourish them and feed them and just things just start getting better.
So asking that question, who am I really? Who am I? And try to go as deep as you can into that question. That’s been very helpful for so many of my patients over the years.
Wow.
I hope that answers your question.
It does. I can see how self-discovery helps with relationships and changing the things that you do in your life. But you have seen that this also has an impact on physical health.
Correct. Yeah. I’ve seen people get over autoimmune diseases. I’ve seen things heal that weren’t supposed to heal by conventional medical concepts. People get over depression, they get over their anxiety, they get over their addictions. Yeah. It’s amazing. And it kind of makes sense when you think about the things that like Bruce Lipton talks about in his book, “The Biology of Beliefs” where what you believe literally determines your biochemistry.
And Caroline Myss talks a lot about that too. What you believe determines your biochemistry. So your physical body will change in response to you changing your beliefs. Once you understand the mechanisms, it’s not that much of a mystery.
Okay. I very much want to go into that. Before we do, we do need to take a quick break. Can you let people know, if they want to hear a little bit more about what you’re doing and see some of your resources, where would they go?
www.the7tools.com is where most of the free resources and classes and things are.
Great. Hang on everybody. When we come back, we’ll talk some more about how exactly do you tune into your inner wisdom to heal?
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