Ep. #161 | The Seven Laws of Healing with Dr. Ben Reebs
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Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I’m delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project and the creator of the women’s revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.
Today, we kick off this episode breaking down elixirs and tinctures as I speak about these two quite often on this podcast, as well as addressing inflammation given it is a frequently asked about topic by our listeners, clients and community.
We will then dive into our conversation with Doctor Ben Reebs, award-winning naturopathic physician and founder of the Portland Clinic of Natural Health which is an integrative medicine clinic that specializes in helping resolve chronic disease with natural medicine. He is the author of the highly acclaimed book, the Serpent and the Butterfly, the seven laws of healing.
We actually go deep into his book, the name of this book, the whole meaning behind it. We talk about the seven different laws of healing as well in today’s interview. And Ben is a recognized leading expert in the mind, body healing and alternative medicine industry. He was awarded one of Portland’s top medical providers 2019, 2020 and 2021.
He has appeared in many different shows and publications. He is a member of the American association of naturopathic physicians and the Oregon association of naturopathic physicians.
And lastly, I just want to congratulate Dr. Ben Reebs on being an imminently expectant father to be during the recording of this episode, and with all our prayers and best wishes, a father to a beautiful, healthy, son or daughter, by the time you are hearing this episode.
You can find links to Dr. Ben Reebs’s multi platform publishings, as well as social / websites below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.
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Here are the main topics of today’s episode:
- Introducing our guest, Dr. Ben Reebs
- Jenn’s seasonal recommendations
- Answering your questions
- Seven laws of healing
- The inconvenience of modern convenience
- Mitochondria and Cytokines
- Listen to your body, listen to its feedback
Connect with us –
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Quotes
- “One of the reasons I love them so much is that the tinctures help to retain the most complete range of that plants therapeutic constituents… they bypass the gut. They get directly into the body, into the stomach without having to go through all of the other channels.”
- “I think sometimes we get very wrapped up in just the physical of like what we eat and what we supplement with without taking into consideration everything else.”
- “The first law is what I call the love vitality, the vital force.”
- “The second is law of disease…the founder of naturopathic medicine states that disease is caused by three things…and in modern language, these are – deficiency, toxicity and weak vitality.”
- “Looking at their symptoms which are really a reflection of an imbalance of imbalances. It’s the way their body’s pivoting, almost light a fighter… I don’t see their symptoms as something that’s wrong. It’s more like this is the way their body compensated for an imbalance.”
- “I think it’s how we’ve been taught. It’s how we’ve been trained. You know, there’s a pill for your ill. So just tell me the ill, give me the pill and let me move on. But then that person never actually feels better. They don’t achieve vitality.”
- “ The powerful thing is that it’s not having the right modality or having the right supplement, its having the right way of thinking. I find that so liberating”
- “Your body will never lie to you”
- The fourth law is the Law of Compensation. Again from the founder of Naturopathic medicine, in his book, Nature Cure, written in 1913, he said that – ‘Everything you do to the body has first a primary action that is easily observed, and it’s short lived, It’s transient, it lasts a short time. Then there’s always a secondary reaction that goes in the opposite direction of the first that is actually much more long lasting and more potent.”
- “The sixth law is the Law of Synergy – we can combine different therapies, different modalities, and they have a much greater effect than if they were just used individually…certain plants when used together are much more powerful than by themselves.”
- “A lot of that convenience, food and lifestyle is leading to a very inconvenient decrease in our health”
- “Cytokines, in their very essence, are signaling cells and they’re little proteins that cascade, one into the next.”
- “The seventh law is arguably the most important of them all, the Law of Intention. We really are the summation of what we think and feel and believe. And so what we intend, if we can visualize healing, that has an enormous impact on the outcome.”
- “Listen to your body, listen to its feedback, and then start to apply these different healing laws”
- “You just have to be willing to sit back and observe to sometimes press pause and to allow the innate power and ability of your body to step forward.”