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Dr. Adam Zwig is a world renowned psychologist, musician, educator, and author. He has been featured on Billboard, SiriusXM Radio, CBS Radio, and many other stations, and in People Magazine, SPIN, Pollstar, and many other publications. Billboard calls him a “Renaissance man.” In this podcast, he merges psychology, communication theory, physics, neuroscience, and music to show how painful states of mind and difficult life issues aren’t pathologies but rather signs of personal growth trying to happen. Each lively episode contains an in-depth discussion and/or a practical exercise for processing and transforming problems like depression, anxiety, attention deficit, trauma, relationship conflict, and many other common issues. While conventional mental health practice focuses on trying to suppress what it calls, “mental illness,” Dr. Zwig demonstrates how to use these distressing experiences as the springboard for making profound positive changes. This is self-help and personal growth with a strong scientific foundation that leads to self-awareness, healing, and success. A personal note from Dr. Zwig: “I created this podcast to help your connect with the hidden purpose and meaning of your troubles. Doing so not only heals your problems, it connects you to your whole, true self.” Disclaimer: https://DrZwig.com/podcast-disclaimer
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When you experience a body symptom you most likely attribute it to an underlying physical process. You SHOULD think this way. Check out your symptoms with a medical doctor.
But there’s another, equally, if not more important, level of the human body—the PROCESS BODY. This isn’t a physical body you can see, touch, and quantify but rather an experiential body you can feel and visualize. It encodes and expresses the psychological processes driving your symptoms and illnesses.
To work on your process body, you must use your somatic senses and visualization to explore, unfold, and process your perception of symptoms in order to connect with their meaning and message. The more you’re able to integrate this message into your consciousness, the more you activate a natural healing response in your biochemistry.
Today’s episode guides you through an exercise for processing your physical symptoms.
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The best way to improve your relationship is to become aware of how your psyche gets entangled with the other person's psyche. To do this, you must learn to identify your own patterns of experience and behavior. Identifying patterns lies at the heart of both music and mathematics, so this episode includes a discussion of the connection between music, math, and relationships, complete with some loud guitar riffing! drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction both are transformed.” - C.G. Jung. This episode guides you through a practical exercise for working on your relationship. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Being objective about yourself isn’t easy. You need a method to observe and facilitate your inner processes in a neutral, non-ideological way. Conventional psychology and psychiatry fail miserably at this but you can use processing methods to achieve it. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
A practical exercise in which you video yourself talking about a problem, tap into a new, more objective perception of your issue, and give yourself some sage advice. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Relationship conflict often arises when people become stuck in static roles—dramatic and calm, extroverted and introverted, spiritual and mundane, pragmatic and idealistic, leader and follower, doctor and patient, etc. Switching roles is a powerful change agent. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Learn the 3 levels of relationship work and do this practical exercise for transforming conflict. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Relationships get stuck when one or both people aren’t conscious of their deeper feelings and needs. Visualization is a powerful method for tapping into your subconscious where these unknown parts of yourself reside. Connecting with them brings solutions and change to conflict and pain. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
A practical exercise for processing a relationship problem. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Obstacles are meaningful guideposts, not meaningless blocks. You encounter them in order to raise your awareness, expand your mindset, and redirect your actions. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
We can know exactly what our problem is and how to solve it but still be unable to do it. Why? We have unconscious fears and resistances. This episode is a practical exercise that shows you how to work through these blocks so you can connect with the positive changes trying to come forth in your life. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
A life obstacle causes us pain but it contains a positive power we can harness for our growth and success. Learn how to do this in a practical exercise. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
The ancient martial art known as Aikido can teach us a lot about transforming our problems. Aikido doesn’t use techniques to battle an opponent directly but rather to redirect its energy and use it to transform the situation. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Our fears create a psychological barrier between who we are and who we’re meant to be. Some of our fears are known but are difficult to overcome. Others are unconscious; we automatically resist and block our own growth without even realizing. Fear is one of our most uncomfortable experiences but it holds the keys to our healing and growth. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
If you only focus on what’s negative in your life you miss the fact that your symptoms, pain, and conflict contain meaningful messages. These messages manifest as problems because they’re blocked from your awareness. They aren't intrinsically negative but rather are symptomatic expressions of your deeper self trying to come to consciousness. Get fixated on this process, not on its momentary negative manifestation. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
We usually try to avoid, suppress, or manage the negatives in our lives. But within them lies our positive power trying to come forth. In order to discover it we have to explore and process the “poison” in our problem, not run from it. This is a practical exercise. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Therapy is music and music is therapy. They both help us connect with the deeper feelings and thoughts that reside in us but we aren’t aware of. They bring to the surface what’s hiding in the shadows of our psyche. This episode explores the interconnections between life problems, psychotherapy, music, physics, mathematics, and process! drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
A life problem contains a victimizing power. To transform it you must get out of your identification with the victim and inhabit the victimizer’s energy. By doing so, you can transform it into positive power. This is a practical exercise. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
Your life problems contain meaningful information for your growth. To tap into this information, you have to amplify and process your symptoms, not just try to get rid of them. This requires feeling your distress MORE, not LESS, studying and unfolding it, and exposing its underlying story. Rather than trying to simulate contentment by masking your pain, explore and process what's bothering you. This leads to true change and healing. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
The disease model of mental health focuses on suppressing symptoms just like in physical medicine. But this misses the whole point of having a life problem. Distress / dysfunction contains a meaningful message of change and growth. In order to discover and act upon this message you have to strategically amplify, not reduce, your symptoms. This brings the contents of your process to consciousness so you can connect with the changes trying to come forth and transform the issue. Today’s episode guides you through an exercise for doing this. drzwig.com - instagram.com/drzwig - youtube.com/drzwig - facebook.com/drzwig
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