New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • Jun 4, 2024 Eric “Rick” Leskowitz, MD served as a consultant psychiatrist for over 25 years with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where he also founded the Integrative Medicine Task Force. He holds an appointment as a research affiliate with the Osher Institute for Integrative Medicine research at Harvard Medical school. Rick has studied energy healing, meditation, and hypnosis for over 40 years, presenting workshops on the integration of subtle energy techniques and theories with the allopathic medical model. He has written over 50 articles being published in leading scientific journals. He is author of The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics, and Gaia Consciousness, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention: Sports, Spirituality and Science Come Together at the Old Ballgame, that is also a documentary film. He is editor of: Sports, Energy, and Consciousness: Awakening Human Potential through Sport, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy: Gateway to Body, Mind, and Spirit. His website is themysteryoflifeenergy.com. Rick explains how every healing tradition in the world includes some form of energy medicine, except Western medicine. Although, he is seeing evidence of this changing with a large grassroots effort and research. He describes the energy medicine methods that he has found to be most effective for alleviating pain, including treating phantom limb pain, where the biofield and sensations of the physical body part that has been removed, still seems present. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:17:25 Franz Mesmer and animal magnetism 00:23:11 Wilhelm Reich and orgone energy 00:25:35 Energy psychology 00:29:47 Reiki 00:33:49 Phantom limb pain 00:37:03 Kirlian photography 00:42:11 Pain serves many functions. 00:46:08 Affordability in health care system 00:51:05 Innate self-healing potential 00:58:32 Research 01:04:33 Conclusion Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish. New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/ (Recorded on May 2, 2024)