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Fearless Presence

By: Melanie Weller
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  • Melanie Weller is a neurotheologist exploring how our belief systems live in our nervous systems and profiling pathways to harmonizing mythology and medicine, science and spirituality, our expertise and intuition, and our internal and external data together in a story prescription for Fearless Presence.
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  • Mary Magdalene and Addiction Recovery with Mary Henlin

    Mary Magdalene and Addiction Recovery with Mary Henlin
    Mar 2 2024
    You won't find Mary Henlin's extraordinary addiction recovery story anywhere else. From federal arrest and massive physical wounds to getting clean, you will be inspired and in awe of how Mary Magdalene showed up every step of the way. It will leave you asking how Mary Magdelene is alive in your life. Connect with Mary on Instagram @MaryHenlin Shop in her Etsy shop Show Notes: Art, spirituality, and personal growth with an artist. 3:48 Mary Henlin creates beautiful Black Madonna and dark goddess statues and figurines.Melanie Weller and Mary Henlin reflect on their transformative journey through India, sharing stories of resilience and spiritual growth. Art, addiction, and recovery. 7:22 In the late 90s, the Mary started their art journey by creating a controversial piece on Mary Magdalene, which led to attention and a scholarship.Mary moved to the Bay Area to study fine art photography at Academy of Art University, where they lived above a DIY music venue and collaborated with artists and musicians.Mary Henlin recounts a harrowing experience at a metal festival in Germany, where they fell off a platform and was rushed to a hospital without their passport or ID.Mary Henlin hitchhiked back to the festival and later learned that the tour promoter had died in a car crash on the autobahn.Mary Henlin describes their experience with opioid addiction, starting with a fractured spine and subsequent surgery, and how they became addicted to prescription painkillers and eventually turned to illegal drugs.Mary Henlin's addiction led to a decline in their academic performance and photography career, and they eventually became bedridden due to their addiction. Addiction, rehab, and recovery. 15:46 Mary describes their addiction to prescription medication and rehab experience.Mary describes feeling lost and depressed after moving to a new house in a remote area, with numb limbs and a lack of interest in life.Mary's symptoms improve after months, with their hands suddenly pouring sweat in the kitchen. Addiction and recovery in Portland, Oregon. 19:58 Mary describes feeling numb and disconnected from their 20s due to addiction, leading to feelings of loneliness and isolation.Mary moves out of their parents' house and back into the city, where they face new temptations and old habits.Mary describes their experience with addiction in a small town, including the availability of drugs and the impact on their family.Mary moves to Portland, Oregon to escape their past and find new opportunities, citing the city's reputation for vice and debauchery. Addiction and mental health in Portland, Oregon. 25:58 Portland, OR has become an "open air asylum" with untreated mental health issues and drug abuse, despite making money from these issues.Melanie Weller asks Mary Henlin about their experience in rehab and the gap between what was offered and what they needed. Addiction, loneliness, and spirituality. 29:40 Mary Henlin describes their home as "a hoarder house of antique statues and roses" and how it became overtaken by their collection during a time of loneliness and addiction.Mary Henlin shares experiences of being robbed and kidnapped multiple times during this period, highlighting the dangerous and unpredictable nature of their situation. Kidnapping, addiction, and self-harm. 32:53 Mary Henlin describes being kidnapped and held captive by a man who was a gambling addict, who would force them to give him money and take their business.Mary Henlin eventually escaped and barricaded themselves in their house, feeling traumatized and scared of everyone.Mary Henlin describes experiencing severe foot wounds that were not healing properly, causing intense pain and discomfort.Mary Henlin tried going to the hospital but was unable to receive proper treatment due to lack of insurance and being openly judged for their drug use. Loneliness, addiction, and near-death experiences. 38:33 Mary struggles with personal issues, interprets crow's death as omen of impending doom.Melanie Weller shares her experience with loneliness and isolation, feeling trapped and unable to ask for help. Arrest, medical care, and legal proceedings. 42:03 Mary Henlin was arrested by marshals and taken to a federal courthouse, where they were told they faced 10 years in prison.Mary Henlin was taken to a hospital due to their poor health, and was handcuffed to a bed.Melanie Weller describes being handcuffed to a bed and facing federal conspiracy charges, feeling trapped and scared for her life.Mary Henlin recounts being chained and monitored 24/7 in a hospital, feeling violated and traumatized by the medical treatment.Mary Henlin describes being shackled to their hands while in the hospital for a drug overdose, with wounds on their arms and legs that were caused by the shackles.Mary Henlin talks to marshals in the hospital, who are older retired men paid to guard people, starting on day 9 or 10 of their hospitalization. Addiction, recovery, and incarceration. 49:56...
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • QiGong and Nervous System Health with Scott Roos

    QiGong and Nervous System Health with Scott Roos
    Oct 22 2023
    Qigong as a nervous system regulation tool. 0:01 Melanie Weller and Scott discuss Qi Gong as a nervous system regulation tool, with a focus on energy channels and their function in modern exercise. Melanie Weller discovers parallels between her nervous system regulation teachings and traditional Chinese energetic practices, despite politics and cultural shifts in China. Melanie Weller and Scott discuss how art and meditation can become a threat to those in power, citing examples from history.Exercise and its role in modern society. 6:38 Exercise may not solve the underlying problems of modern society, despite being good for mental health. Scott highlights the importance of exercise for those who are not moving much, citing the potential negative effects of a sedentary lifestyle on the human body. Scott expresses surprise at the high cost of some exercise classes, such as a cycling class in San Francisco, and questions the value of paying for a structured exercise session when a gym membership can provide similar benefits at a lower cost. Idolizing a 20-year-old coach on a bicycle, revealing a lack of connectivity in society.Exercise, loneliness, and vision with a focus on nervous system regulation. 13:05 Exercise and nature connection can alleviate loneliness and improve mental health. Melanie Weller reflects on the impact of her surroundings on her vision, wondering if living in a different environment would have affected her need for glasses as she ages. Weller's husband's classmate creates makeshift glasses for people in Africa, highlighting the accessibility issue for those without proper vision care. Exercises impact five sensory systems: visual, vestibular, proprioceptive, somatosensory, and interoceptive.Dantian and joint mobility in Qi Gong and Tai Chi. 19:42 Dantian is a concept in Qi Gong and Tai Chi, referring to a storehouse of qi in the body. Melanie Weller discusses the importance of joint mobility in maintaining body health, citing examples from her visceral mobile mobilization training. Scott explains that stuck qi in joints can cause pain and limit the body's functioning, and provides examples of joint mobility exercises to open up the chi flow.Body movement and energy flow in Chinese philosophy and meditation. 24:11 Melanie Weller explains how Tai Chi movements can help treat trauma by increasing shock absorption and resolving stuckness in the body. Master Zhang's response to his students' concerns about training after retirement is to continue doing circles, which involves moving the body in various planes to keep the energy flowing. Melanie Weller explains how the Chinese philosophy views the body as consisting of different planes, including the coronal plane, which is involved in movement and posture. Scott discusses the microcosmic orbit meditation practice in the secret meditative tradition, which involves moving awareness up and down the body's energy channels for optimal health and awareness. Weller finds geometric patterns in body & cosmos, connecting alignment to cosmic rhythms.Vedic philosophy and alignment with spirit. 31:54 Scott discusses alignment with self, family, community, nation, world, and spirit as key to achieving bliss and well-being. Guru's plea for people's rights leads to his death by boiling. Enlightened state is achieved when one aligns with spirit, losing desire for external things. Melanie Weller discusses the concept of contrast in our lives, how it can be both positive and negative, and how it affects our ability to find meaning and pleasure. Weller and Scott explore how seeking pleasure can sometimes lead to more painful experiences, and how finding healthy contrast can help us enjoy life more fully.Spirituality, contrast, and nervous system regulation. 42:22 Scott suggests that contrast and the contrast of the collective can be soothing to the nervous system, potentially reducing drama in one's life. Scott and Melanie discuss the idea that karma can be manifested in the body and soothed through actions that promote relaxation and reduce stress. Melanie Weller discusses how solar in space weather affects the Earth's electromagnetic field, which can be measured in the vagus nerves, and how this relates to medical astrology and nervous system regulation.
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    47 mins
  • Shifting Perspectives: Astrology and the Nervous System with Astrologer Marcia Wade Ep. 3.wav

    Shifting Perspectives: Astrology and the Nervous System with Astrologer Marcia Wade Ep. 3.wav
    Sep 4 2023
    What we bring to what we see and why. 0:01 Astrology is just a framework. Libra and Aries are opposite energies in one way, but in another way, they are very similar astrologically. Astrology has been so valuable in terms of helping with pattern recognition. There is an interplay between the pattern and what the pattern is doing over and over again. Everything is energy. The fundamental difference in yin and yang is not a pattern.How do you shift your perspective on your story? 7:20 We are all wired for what is familiar, not what is right for us. Aries and libra are associated with the cingulate gyrus and the amygdala. Chinese medicine associates the kidneys with fear and the interplay between initiating something different and doing what is safe for you. Aries and Libra bring us to two major turning points in our earth's relationship with the rest of the universe and with our sun and the universe. Astrology of the West. Aries and Libra are very different, but they are also very alike. At each equinox, we are moving towards the light or the darkness of the great mystery. Libra is full of baggage.Aries libra interplay and balance. 14:56 Aries and libra interplay and how they show up in her life and how she is seeing it in her charts right now. The cultural myth that Libra is the one who makes things happen. Letting go of vision boards and manifesting strategies to focus on doing something. Justice is a big word right now. Justice is a puzzle. It's a paradox. As a libra, aries feel like they are often in the balance equally with all the people they care about. Native americans had a strong principle of reciprocity in their culture.Astrology of the West vs. Vedic astrology. 21:37 Sometimes things can come back into reciprocity or balance if at the moment one side is doing more than the other side. Egyptian and Vedic astrology The parallel energy structures that are held in different patterns by different gods like Jupiter, vishnu, shiva and Dionysus. The astrology of the west and the western way of thinking. If one wants to change the world, they have to change themselves. Astrology can help us do that. Every person on earth goes back to one mother, the mitochondrial eve.High contrast trauma. 29:07 Our nervous systems are always seeking contrast, but the nervous system will not let you live a boring story story, one without contrast. The universe is always whacking you upside the head with a two by four. War can take people to a different and yet similar kind of edge. Dionysus and the age of terror.Libra scales. 35:01 For a set of libra scales, there would be four platforms on it versus two, because all humans experience change through alertness, awareness, reward and rest. Nerve firing is a contrast. Aries and libra are the two spots in the zodiac where there are two times of equal balance, the equinox and the full moon. The path to wellness at all levels.The sun is associated with the thalamus. 40:57 The sun is associated with the thalamus, the center of the brain, and is the relay station for everything. The sun fuses together two elements, hydrogen and helium. Nerve cells in the thalamus are associated with the water that is in all of the cells and that fills all of us. Neurotransmitters break down into water when fired. Full moons are the only two celestial bodies that are here on the earth without the moon to stabilize orbit and regulate the waters.What happens when the neuron fires? 47:03 A full moon is a chance for everything to have a different stimulus and to clean house and release patterns that have been holding on to. 10 neurotransmitters do 99% of all functions, but it's more about how they cycle through them than how they live statically. Being present with the cycle is what being present is. The hardest thing as a parent is letting the child live out their own karmic journey and not trying to intervene in it. Holding the tension of the opposites is a contrast.
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    54 mins
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