EPISODE 080 | Accessing the Hidden Wisdom of Your Body
This episode has been maintained in loving memory of Dan Strelan.
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This week’s guest is Dan Strelan. He’s a health coach and expert in nutritional medicine who lives in the beautiful Blue Mountains of Australia. He gathers his own spring water and showers in waterfalls. You really get to experience his calming, creative, and thoughtful personality in this interview as he leads us through a philosophical exploration of our own meaning making in life to the science behind ingesting worms to heal your gut. A journey he’s personally been on, in addition to his clients, to heal from gluten intolerance and sensitivity.
We start out this episode philosophizing about the meaning making humans imbue on all aspects of life. Dan takes us through different perspectives that he rates on a scale of effectiveness in helping us alleviate suffering. We spend a bit of time establishing the foundation of the entire discussion. That is, uncovering our true human nature is a life long self discovery process that includes physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing in order to thrive.
We explore how that wellbeing increases when we align ourselves with the natural cycles of our world - the Earth, the seasons - and recognize that we’re part of a living ecosystem. When that ecosystem flourishes, we do to. To the contrary, we also explore how our wellbeing can decrease when we’re out of alignment with the natural flow of Earth and how many of our societal systems and cultural conditionings have taken us away from our true nature.
As part of this human nature in alignment with nature discussion, Dan gives us tangible advice for awakening to our own truth, healing our gut through Helminths therapy (that is, ingesting a certain type of worm that restores our gut ecosystem), and for how creation plays a role in healing our bodies. We wrap up with exploring how the natural cycles of order and chaos in life parallel co-creating music - when you jam with other people, unprescribed, you experience cycles of order and chaos. When you trust the cycles and let go, you find the freedom of creative flow.
Ultimately, Dan says the starting point for healing our bodies is by truly listening to our emotions. Then, the hidden wisdom of our bodies emerges and we can truly grow.
Highlights
Getting to know Dan
What is our true nature, as humans?
What is sovereign awakening?
Self discovery is a lifelong process
Human’s search for meaning in all that we do
the perspective of how everything being meaningless allows humans to consciously create meaning
The opposite perspective of how everything has meaning and we can interpret how that applies to our life
How consumerism is restrictive to our ability to experience our true nature because we’re out of touch with nature
The economy doesn’t reflect the natural cycles of Earth and our life
What’s good for the ecosystem is good for us because we’re part of it
How we’re out of alignment with mother nature
Helminth’s worm therapy
How we have a deficiency in gut worms
What are Helminth worms and how they preserve the ecosystem of our guts
Dan’s personal experience taking Helminths
What ingesting Helminth worms feels like
Reversing gluten sensitivity results
Dan’s journey with healing gluten intolerance
Dan’s testing and when results come with Helminths
Healing your gut journey with Sovereign medicine relies on the seasons and Ayurvedic healing, emotional work, energy work
Teaching people how to listen to their body by listening to emotions
The body has natural mechanisms built in to return to balance, and it’s our job to remove the blockages and keep the energy flowing through
yoga
breathing exercises
connection
time in nature
good relationsihps
great food
sex
healthy living
quality sleep
How creation plays a role in healing
The impact of repressing creativity
The impact of embracing creativity
Exploring the different circumstances people come into when they enter life
Advice: try and see whether a new perspective is valuable
Taking responsibility without judgement
How letting go of control actually gives you more power to create
Music and co-creating with others
How the nature of order and chaos in creating music parallels life
About Dan Strelan
Dan Strelan lives in the beautiful Blue Mountains of Australia, where the fresh air, ability to collect his own spring water, and the experience of tangible changing seasons called to him. He loves the community he’s found. He also loves traveling, rock climbing, beauty, music, yoga, Taoist medicine, and Qigong practice.
Dan has a nutritional medicine degree from the Endeavour College of Natural Health in Brisbane Australia. He runs the Sovereign Medicine Foundation where he helps people with gut health, sleep, mood, and overcoming pain. The Sovereign Medicine mission is to connect you to the medicine that lies within and guide you to self empowerment.
Links
Ecclesiastes in the Bible, Old Testament, as a resource to explore meaning making
Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Harrod Buhner
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
Wolves in the ecosystem at Yellowstone National Park
Denise Hales, Senior Naturopath, lecturer, and leading clinical expert on Helminths therapy in Australia
Hookworm Therapy for Coeliac Disease study at James Cooke University (JCU), Queensland Australia
Taoist teacher and Qigong Master Mantak Chia
Quantum physics verifying that creativity heals through the work of Dr. Joe Dispenzer and Dr. David Hawkins
