By Dr. David Tsai, Biological & Health Coach Practitioner
I’m Dr. David Tsai, and I’m excited to introduce myself. Last year I joined Dr. Villanueva’s Practitioner Certification Program after hearing her speak at a conference almost three years ago. I was impressed with her case studies and the work she was doing and wanted to learn more about the Modern Holistic Health approach that she has developed over the years.
I am currently completing an internship with Dr. V and recently attended a week-long training in her certification program. This training left me inspired with many new insights and wisdom that I am implementing both in my personal life as well as in my practice.
All of what I learned in this training is what the Modern Holistic Health Practitioners teach and use in their work with clients around the world and I understand, after taking this training, why Dr. V invests so much training into her practitioners. These modalities are not only life-changing for them but allow them to be superior coaches and guides to all of the MHH clients who choose to go deep to find their healing. Allow me to share my recent transformational experience with you…
Just a couple of weeks have passed since I embarked on a journey that promised growth not just professionally but on a deeply personal level as well. In the beautiful mountainous expanse of Heber City, Utah, I met up with Dr. V and her personal development team for a retreat and training that turned out to be a beacon of transformation, offering a dive into the profound depths of the power of language, neurological reprogramming, the biology and neurology of trauma and emotions, understanding the conscious and the unconscious mind, and so much more.
This retreat taught us powerful skills of mastering our own mind, how to uncover and address self-sabotaging patterns, and how our thoughts and emotions create a fusion of altered chemistry in our mental, physical, and emotional components within our neurology. We learned how to leverage thoughts, language, emotions, and patterns of thinking to carve paths out of suffering and toward our aspirations.
The Awakening: From Victim to Victor
Amid the tranquil surroundings of the retreat, a revelation awaited — the concept of “CAUSE and EFFECT.” It dawned upon me how often we find ourselves trapped on the “Effect” side of life’s equations, casting blame, feeling victimized, and shackled by circumstances. Yet, the power to flip the script lies within us.
By stepping into the “Cause” side, we embrace personal responsibility, becoming architects of our empowerment. This shift is not just about understanding our present but about shaping our future, turning adversities into avenues of healing, self-discovery, and growth.
Takeaway: View life’s challenges not as obstacles but as opportunities for learning and growth. This perspective is a gateway to transforming your life and your health.
The Shift: Redefining Reality with Mindset and Filters
Another enlightening insight was about “MINDSET and FILTERS.”
Our reality is a reflection of our internal representations and the external events that shape them. Filters, the unseen lenses through which we view the world, craft our behaviors and, ultimately, our reality. Discovering that my reality was not a fixed star but a constellation I could rearrange was liberating. If we wish to alter our reality, we must begin with our mindset, questioning the filters crafted by past experiences and choosing to replace them with ones that align with our desires. Dr. V and her team teach this concept in their Mind Body Energy Program and I see the power of understanding and being willing to change our filters, especially when it comes to healing, health, and vitality.
Takeaway: To change your reality, start with your mindset. Evaluate and adjust your mental filters (your thoughts and beliefs) to foster a life you love. Changing your filters literally changes your body and brain chemistry allowing for healing to take place. Your mind is your most powerful medicine!
The Healing: Confronting Negative Emotions
A cornerstone of the retreat was understanding the impact of NEGATIVE EMOTIONS on our lives. Anger, fear, sadness, hurt, guilt, and shame — the “big six” as they were referred to — can, when unaddressed, weave a web that entangles us in a cycle of limiting decisions and beliefs. This realization hit home; to foster positive change, one must confront and resolve these negative emotions. At the retreat training, we got to learn about and experience what is called the Quantum Time Technique and I got to witness the powerful transformation that happens with this modality, providing a method to trace and neutralize the emotional charge of bad memories.
Takeaway: Healing begins with addressing the root cause of negative emotions. Through resolution, we open doors to health and fulfillment.
The Revelation: Activating the Parasympathetic Nervous System
A bonus insight from this transformative retreat was the importance of shifting from the stress-induced “fight or flight” mode to the healing “rest and digest” mode. The daily practices of cold plunging, red light therapy, group meditation, movement, and breathwork that we got to experience at this retreat and training were not merely exercises but rituals that allowed me to consciously engage with the parasympathetic nervous system, fostering an environment for healing and creativity. Dr. V talks about much of this in the MBE program and I understand now how effective these modalities can be, especially when doing many of them sequentially.
Takeaway: Dedicate time daily to practices that nurture your body’s natural state of rest and healing. It’s not just foundational, it’s essential for healing and maintaining a balanced, creative, and fulfilling life.
This journey through this training and retreat was more than an educational endeavor; it was a voyage of personal discovery and transformation. Not only for those seeking healing but also for those on the path of personal and professional growth, understanding and applying these insights can be a game-changer. Embrace the journey, and may each insight light a step on your path to wellness and achievement.
(For established clients)
This appointment type should only be made for an established client. (After you have had your initial/first visit completed).
Not sure WHO to book with? No Problem! Here at MHH we have an AMAZING team of coaches and EVERY ONE OF OUR COACHES can help you with ANY of your conditions, so just pick the one that has availability on the day and time that works best for you.
This package contains 12 Biological Coaching Visits at 30 minutes each. Purchasing this package can save you 10% vs. if you purchased 12 sessions individually.
Using the combined modalities of EFT tapping, Resonance Repatterning, Color, Light, and Sound, this visit type addresses:
• Anxiety • Depression • Fear • Mind racing • Feelings of anger • Feelings of hopelessness • and more…
This unique approach can address and resolve emotional trauma, present or past, that has been locked into the physical body’s memory, often below the realm of conscious thought. Our bodies replay these memories at different times, and they can adversely affect our health especially in times of great stress and uncertainty.
These packages contain 12 Brain & Emotional Repatterning visits of 60 minutes or 90 minutes each. Purchasing either of these packages will save you 15% as compared to purchasing individual sessions
Not feeling well and looking for help with your condition, diagnosis, or symptoms that won’t go away no matter what you have tried? Our holistic biological health coaches can help you! Our coaches teach you how your body works, what the underlying cause of your condition or symptoms are, and how to fix and address them using long-term solutions that are data-driven and that work!
Our holistic biological health coaches have a deep understanding of advanced functional testing and genetics testing, along with much experience in complex cases.
Our biological coaching team works with you to empower and teach you how to understand and interpret your lab results, what your results mean, how they are connected to your health conditions or symptoms, and most importantly, what to do with the information, how to put protocols together based on your lab results, and when to reorder your various labs to track progress.
You will become your own healing master learning how to navigate the healing process, how to modify your protocols, when and how to detoxify your organs and cells from the toxins discovered on your lab results. You will learn the importance of tracking your assessment forms and symptom sheets and how to troubleshoot your healing process.
In addition, you have the opportunity to learn how to understand YOUR genetic blueprint – Our coaches are trained in the field of epigenetics and understand implicitly that YOU are in control of your own gene expression and how your genes either work for or against you. If you choose to add genetic testing into your program, your genetic blueprint information can be used not only to help drive your plan of action for healing, but also it can be used to understand your body’s unique nutrition, lifestyle, sleeping, eating, and physical activity needs are so that you can optimize once you are healed.
Get help from our functional nutrition coaches who understand that there is no ONE diet that is right for everyone. Our nutrition coaches work hand in hand with our biological coaches so if you need any lab work done or specific protocols that would require supplement protocols, you have a team working on your behalf and your nutrition coach would make recommendations for which other team coaches would be able to help you.
Your coaches will teach and empower you to learn how to determine and navigate your diet modifications which are decided based on your extensive intake forms, history, and your lab data that your coaches may want to order for you. Based on all of this information, they will teach you what foods to eat and not eat according to various conditions and why.
Your functional nutrition coach will help you learn what substitutes you can use when there are certain foods you may need to stop eating for a period of time, how to put your meals together based on your dietary needs per your lab data, how and when to incorporate gut repair protocols, and what lifestyle modifications you want to address based on your labs and your health conditions.
Nutritional coaching can be a great tool by itself or combined with coaching from our biological coaches. You can schedule with either our biological or nutrition coaches and they can help you get started and make recommendations as needed.
Many people who have successfully mentored with our nutrition coaches have had past issues such as:
Mindset, past and present traumas, and limiting belief systems are some of the biggest barriers to healing, so much in fact that gene expression and biological ‘engines’ of the human body can change for the worse because of it.
In the many years, we have been working in the field of holistic medicine, helping people who have tried everything else with no success or little success, we have discovered how great of an impact our thoughts, beliefs, and past and present trauma, and chronic stress can be to the human body, mind, and spirit.
The rate of recovery and healing for those who place emphasis on creating new neurological pathways to imprint new and healthy mindsets and belief systems in how they perceive themselves and the world around them is greatly improved when the psychological aspect of mindset and integration of mind, body, the spirit is addressed through repatterning of the mind and body neurology.
By removing barriers discovered from traumas, mindset, and conscious/unconscious patterns that are not congruent for healing, health, and vitality, you set yourself up for the best outcomes in your healing journey. Healing only occurs when the physical, emotional, and mental barriers to healing are removed.
Therefore we incorporate mind, body, spirit integration work into our programs and in doing so, we see exponential increases in positive outcomes with our clients. We have put together the most comprehensive ‘whole person’ approach in the world, and this is why our results are so successful.
Our Emotional Processing, Stress Release, & Neurological Repatterning coaches work with you to create new neurological connections, anchor new neurology, and habits, and show you how to become aware of any conscious or unconscious belief systems that may be holding you back from healing and total health.
You are welcome to try one or two appointments to see what you think. We typically recommend a minimum of 6 sessions to make an accurate assessment of how this type of modality is working for you.
Here are some of the modalities our Emotional Processing, Stress Release, & Neurological Repatterning coaches use for brain and body repatterning:
Breathwork is more than just a simple exercise of intentional breathing. Specialized breathwork techniques are used to facilitate major transformation and healing by encompassing a wide range of therapeutic practices that are extremely powerful in providing immediate relief for pulling people out of fight or flight (the amygdala hijack we teach about in Part 2 of our Mastering Trauma Masterclass).
This vagus nerve activation through breath work activates the rest/digest (parasympathetic nervous system), stimulates healing, reduces blood pressure, reduces the cortisol stress response, regulates hormone and blood glucose activity, and heart rate variability (the biological stress response). It rewires the body for self-regulation of the nervous system in a manner that optimizes the body and creates resilience in times of stress.
Yoga breath therapy allows you to disconnect from the mind chatter, mind racing, and negative self-talk and reconnect with your body your energy. From this elevated state of awareness, you are able to facilitate healing, growth, and expansion. And if you are looking for some expansion of your body/mind/spirit awareness, then this type of breathwork can be nourishing and can facilitate the next layer of peace, love, gratitude, connection, clarity, and insights.
In the many years, we have been working in the field of holistic medicine, helping people who have tried everything else with no success or little success, we have discovered how great of a damaging impact our thoughts, beliefs, and past and present trauma, and chronic stress (the fight or flight response) can be to the human body, mind, and spirit.
By becoming aware of how to regulate our own nervous system, and resolve traumas, mindset, and conscious/unconscious patterns that are not congruent for healing, health, and vitality, you set yourself up for the best outcomes in your healing journey. Healing only occurs when the physical, emotional, and mental barriers to healing are removed.
The rate of recovery and healing for those who place emphasis on:
….. Find much success and amplification in their healing journey.
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