“You are not your thoughts.”

Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona is one of my biggest inspirations in the healing world. I took a workshop with Lewis (as he is called by his students) at Kripalu (a yoga center in Massachusettes). Lewis is a half-Cherokee MD who has a very unique view of how healing happens; he believes that healing happens in the stories we have about our health and our potential healing.

What if you were given a laboratory and told to discover the coding for normal cells and malignant cells? Where would you start? What strategies could you learn to quiet your racing mind to listen to other ways of knowing? And how in the world do you leap into the great unknown with only a microscope in hand?