Greg Schmaus | Ancient Secrets: Healing OCD & Boosting Mental Health | Wellness Force #Podcast

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GREG SCHMAUS: "Can we can heal mental health 100%? The answer is 'yes' but to heal it 100% we have to acknowledge that we're not here to get rid of it, we're here to integrate it into our being." 

International Holistic Health Coach and Licensed Massage Therapist at Greg's Holistic Strength Training, Greg Schmaus, shares his incredible story of developing OCD and then healing it, how to take back your health into your own hands, the blessing of being a wounded healer, and how listening to your body's wisdom will greatly serve you along your wellness journey.

Which holistic health practices can help you heal the mind and overcome any of the four most common addictions?

Discover what mental hygiene practices you can apply to your life now to help you grow into your best self.

Listen To Episode 356 As Greg Schmaus Uncovers:

(0:00) Start
(1:30) Taking Back Health Into Our Own Hands
(18:00) The Blessing Of Being A Wounded Healer
(29:00) What The Mind Can Teach Us
(54:00) Healing OCD With Holistic Nutrition
(58:00) Listening To Your Body’s Wisdom
(1:08:00) Mental Hygiene Practices For Life
(1:13:00) The Four Most Common Addictions
(1:19:30) Coming Back Into Balance And Awareness Through The Middle Way

-Unpacking what lessons we can learn from our own inner child plus what Josh and Greg have learned from theirs on the path to healing past wounds.
-Why feeling our emotions is the prerequisite to the healing process.
-Exploring the chasm between those who want to push pharmaceuticals for "healing" and the other side of healing: people taking the health of their mind, body, and spirit into their own hands.

The Blessing Of Being A Wounded Healer

-Why he sees himself on a deeper level as a wounded healer and doesn't just define himself by his credentials.
-His definition of a wounded healer who has faced the Hero's Journey.
-Why wellness professionals can only take a client on a healing journey as far as they have been on one in their own lives.

What The Mind Can Teach Us

-The power of focusing on what our addictions can teach us instead of putting all of our energy into fighting them.
-The soul loss we experience when we face trauma according to shamanism.
-Why we should face our obsessive compulsive disorder tendencies with gratitude because not only do they look out for us but they also help us diffuse negative energy.
-Explaining how OCD differs from other forms of mental illness such as ADHD, anxiety, depression.
-Unpacking why obsessive compulsive disorder thought patterns are a way of keeping the mind occupied to avoid feelings

Healing OCD With Holistic Nutrition

-The importance of being more mindful of our caffeine consumption as it drives more and more people to be ‘neck up’ rather than truly in our body.
-What Josh notices in his own body when he consumes too much caffeine or carbohydrates including putting his mind in a loop and feeling off.
-How caffeine consumption can further someone’s imbalance in the left brain if they have OCD.

Listening To Your Body’s Wisdom

-What steps we can take to become really clear on our body wisdom and what nutrients are best for our unique biochemistry.
-How to use your natural intuition to know whether a certain food is what your body needs right now.
-The challenges we face to listen to the body’s wisdom when we either have diet dogmas, addictions, or biochemical imbalances in the gut.

Mental Hygiene Practices For Life

-Why we cannot connect with the world around us when we are not actually connected to ourselves and know who we are at our core.
-Mental hygiene practices to help us reconnect with ourselves and our inner awareness.
-Why a consistent meditation practice is a non-negotiable part of his regular mental hygiene.

The Four Most Common Addictions

-Unpacking the four most common addictions: intensity, perfectionism, needing to know, and the fixation on what’s wrong.
-Why our constant need to know something or fix what is going on in our lives is an addiction in itself.

Coming Back Into Balance And Awareness Through The Middle Way

-Exploring the massive gut check we’re experiencing as a society as we go through the Middle Way in 2020.

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