Shifting the Parkinson's Disease Mindset

72 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 22 ratings

Lively, upbeat podcasts designed for Persons with Parkinson's Disease and those who care for them. Educational, motivating, and completely positive. Hosted by a retired physician, Dr. Christian Hageseth, who has had Parkinson's disease for over 10 years and still does not take prescription medication medication.

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Episodes

Going on hiatus for a while

August 13, 2018 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.25 MB

Putting my energy into YouTube videos and gonna start writing a book.

Finally - A Few Jokes

July 20, 2018 11:00 - 8 minutes - 6.45 MB

And . . . opening the subject of positive vs. negative humor

What is Humor?

July 10, 2018 11:00 - 9 minutes - 7.35 MB

Introducing the concept of humor being a mindset and that there are three pathways to eliciting a humor experience.

Rattlesnake Bite - What can your mind do?

June 29, 2018 14:00 - 5 minutes - 4.51 MB

Was her mind responsible for her recovery?

Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place

June 28, 2018 10:30 - 13 minutes - 11.7 MB

True story of using suggestion to relieve excruciating pain.

Deep Relaxation and Healing - Revised

June 27, 2018 10:30 - 18 minutes - 16.3 MB

I revised this recording based on listeners' feedback

Humor and PD - 2 - Norman Cousins

June 25, 2018 09:30 - 8 minutes - 6.91 MB

It was more than humor. He used humor to change a mindset of an illness.

Humor and Parkinson's Disease - 1

June 22, 2018 11:30 - 6 minutes - 5.13 MB

Exactly the point of the title. This is the first in a series of podcasts about developing a humor mindset.

What does it mean to become an outlier?

June 21, 2018 19:00 - 5 minutes - 4.26 MB

Don't know t he answer to that question, but it probably has something to do with the mind.

Mindsets hardwired at birth

June 19, 2018 13:30 - 11 minutes - 9.95 MB

But the hardwiring is relative. We can reconfigure these mindsets with life experience and decisions made by our minds

Expectation and Suggestion

June 18, 2018 08:00 - 8 minutes - 6.89 MB

A discussion of concepts that Erik Vance detailed in his book, Suggestible You, The curious science of your brain's ability to deceive, transform and heal.

The honeymoon is over

June 14, 2018 11:00 - 8 minutes - 6.51 MB

Some motor symptoms ARE REVERSABLE. 90% of Parkinson's disease is mental, the other half is physical. (Yogi Berra said so - actually he said that about baseball.

When the Mind fails to heal.

June 11, 2018 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.14 MB

Has cancer been cured by using the mind alone? Not exactly.

An appendicitis story

June 09, 2018 19:30 - 10 minutes - 9.01 MB

This story claims that it happened. More reason to explore the bodymind in greater depth.

Deep relaxation and healing imagery for PD

June 08, 2018 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.2 MB

A 21 minute deep guided imagery for relaxation and to encourage healing from Parkinson's disease. Listen only when you have the time and won't be disturbed.

Sarcopenia – Muscle Atrophy due to age and PD

April 16, 2018 11:30 - 8 minutes - 6.54 MB

The enormous - even critical - importance of building muscular strength - a lot of it! Check out my latest YouTube videos: Bodybuilding for PD, https://youtu.be/jBQkaUsGhyw Treadmills for Parkinson’s https://youtu.be/YrkF-0DovLw

Depression talk 2 – What can your mind do to help?

April 01, 2018 13:30 - 8 minutes - 6.91 MB

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is now recognized as an effective treatment for depression.

An overview of depression: from the blahs psychosis

March 23, 2018 11:30 - 15 minutes - 12.9 MB

Survey of treatment for depression from short term psychotherapy to electro-convulsive therapy.

Considering the Mind, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and Steven Hawking.

March 19, 2018 16:30 - 7 minutes - 5.88 MB

Surely it is no coincidence that Steven Hawking lived ten times longer than anyone else with ALS. What else but a creative and well-disciplined mind could keep him from dying a respiratory death over the last thirty-six years? Is there a lesson for us in this remarkable achievement?

Time for a break

February 19, 2018 20:00 - 2 minutes - 1.22 MB

I see the relationship between the Mind and its mindsets and the progression of Parkisnon's disease. I need to take more time to study the subject befroe coming back and explaining it further. Cheers.

Part 2 - MIND-SHIFT PD

February 14, 2018 19:00 - 8 minutes - 6.71 MB

“Don’t tell me what disease the patient has, tell me what patient has the disease.” Hippocrates

1. Introducing MINDSHIFT

February 11, 2018 14:30 - 8 minutes - 6.66 MB

I have returned from Uganda. Things did not go as planned while I was there, but I’m not going to retell the story of why I returned early. If you want to know about what happened there and why I returned early, send me an email ([email protected]) I have reconsidered what to call what I do. When I started this process five years ago, I felt I was doing so well because of not just exercise, but the intensity of exercise. Make you sweat. Nowadays all PwPs know about the benefits of exercise....

38. It’s Christmas Eve. Where have I been and where is my focus

December 24, 2017 14:00 - 10 minutes - 8.85 MB

All plans are in motion. I'll be in Uganda in just over 3 weeks. I just published a Parkinson's video. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/dJGR_mVXeFk . Also, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah , Happy Holidays, Super Kwanzaa , or whatever. I'm only wishing you be merry today. You don't have to have a reason. This is simply my wish for you.

37. Where is your focus

December 01, 2017 15:00 - 7 minutes - 6.37 MB

Should it be somewhere else?

36. When creative visualization fails to work

November 29, 2017 15:30 - 7 minutes - 6.32 MB

The lesson is meaningful today—even more so since now we understand the significance of reprogramming mindsets.

35. The Tour de France, guided imagery and mindset shift, while enjoying Tea

November 24, 2017 19:00 - 9 minutes - 7.5 MB

More on the subject: change your mindset, change your bodymind. Focus on your mind, not your disease.

34. A joke, a smile, and a laugh over tea

November 20, 2017 15:00 - 5 minutes - 4.32 MB

Here’s a story to tickle your funny bone

33. Taking stock and looking ahead over a cup of tea

November 16, 2017 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.58 MB

The positive Parkinson’s disease mindset. These messages need to be implanted into your deepest mind. It is your responsibility to mindful to them every day. I have Parkinson’s disease. I’m glad it’s not ALS or Alzheimer’s. I choose to view PD as a challenge, not a curse. I will seek out those people who are doing well with PD and learn from them. Neurologists see the people who are doing the worst with PD, so their opinions are jaded. I will take no medicine before its time. I will ...

32. Fast tea or slow

November 10, 2017 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.71 MB

Depends on whether you have Parkinson’s or not.

31. Mind over body while enjoying Tea

November 07, 2017 17:00 - 8 minutes - 6.84 MB

Do you believe it is possible that by using your mind you can alter the course and symptoms of Parkinson’s? Have you done that?

30. Pets and tea

November 02, 2017 09:00 - 5 minutes - 3.95 MB

Something tragic happened yesterday.

29. Tea and the mind

October 31, 2017 19:00 - 7 minutes - 5.65 MB

If you expected to hear about cannabis today, go to my YouTube channel. I produced a fifteen minute video on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgGhQ9bCRN8&feature=youtu.be

Peaceful Tea

October 27, 2017 12:00 - 7 minutes - 5.65 MB

Stay tuned; on Monday I’ll be talking about cannabis.

27. Exercise! Exercise! Exercise!

October 26, 2017 17:00 - 8 minutes - 7 MB

Exercise for Parkinson’s disease has three functions: aerobic conditioning; strength training, and neuroplastic change.

26. Tea and the Inner Game of Parkinson’s

October 25, 2017 17:00 - 6 minutes - 5.48 MB

To shape your inner mind, you have to know what’s there. Sort it out. Make choices. Add new merry tracts. (Sad to say, it’s not so easily done. But we will get there as we meander through our various cups of tea.)

25. Tea and Intensity . . .

October 24, 2017 18:00 - 8 minutes - 6.75 MB

There are two functions of intensity. One mires you in knee deep mud. The other focuses your mind to you can master sending a man to the moon. This has gotta apply to Parkinson’s; the Inner Game

24. Tea in honor of Rip Van Winkle

October 23, 2017 14:30 - 9 minutes - 8.19 MB

Or the lack of it . . . and what you might do about it.

23. Laughter over Tea

October 21, 2017 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.72 MB

Yes, but there’s a lot more to it than simply laughing.

22. Tea with Scott Joplin

October 20, 2017 20:00 - 6 minutes - 5.07 MB

While the word, rag, has referred to scraps of cloth, a couple more incarnations of the word make for interesting contrasts. Rag-time became a musical genre in the 1890s. Rag was used to describe syncopation. Then in the last 30 years it means to be petulant and angry. The term itself was a reference to the mood changes women experience with menstruation; though now it’s used equally for both sexes.

21. Tea with Yogi Berra and my Aunt Nora

October 18, 2017 23:00 - 9 minutes - 7.68 MB

Well. Not really, but I do introduce the concept of “a merry heart” and what that might mean for those of us who have Parkinson’s. Yogi once said, “baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” So, I asked him if that might apply to person’s with Parkinson’s disease. His answer, “If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.”