Human Healing Unlocked: transforming suffering into wellbeing | David Reilly | TEDxFindhornSalon

“Don’t take yourself so personally” and “understand how the mind works” incredibly powerful words for anyone battling anxiety or depression

As a healthcare practitioner of over 40 years I can say that this talk by Dr. Reilly is brilliant and spot on! I am in the United States and would love to see more of this dialogue happen here.

After thirty years of working in ICU as an RN I know for certain that kindness shown the patient is an important part of the healing process.

Bringing balance to the suffering through compassionate connection and teaching self-care towards healing with self-compassion. Teach the parents this and have schools teach towards human health choices like this ☺👍👍

Your comparison of the darkness people perceive inside themselves with the conditions surrounding a resting seed, as well as your invocation of other natural imagery, reminded me very much of the following poem by Louise Glück, called The Wild Iris. I've included it here, with the hope that you, and anyone who reads this post, may find it somehow useful and interesting:

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.

Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.

You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice:

from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.

-- Louise Glück

Thank God for you, Dr. Reilly. Thank you for your bravery, and for asking publicly the important questions you pose in your talk. 🌷

So refreshingly authentic and inspiring, and very timely too, thank you 🙏🏽 .
I’ve always explained to my own clients that all illness is a teacher; our bodies are a living portrait of our psychological state.
The NHS has been wonderfully helpful in its time, but mass consciousness has outgrown the NHS which has now become disempowering. It’s wonderful to be alive during the this era of natural healing, this cyclical return to the ancient healing wisdom.

‘Life responds to nurture.’ Be kind to yourself and everyone. And that means forgive both as well. Sending love to all reading this.

I've listened to thousands of TED talks till date, but THIS is the most life transforming one, and somehow it is closest to my own "inner belief system" so in many ways I totally understand and agree with the things he shared! God Bless You , and God Bless me & God Bless Us all.

What profound wisdom this doctor shared with us, in such a humble manner. There was this punchline at the end, that was so significant, but his mild manner didn't express it fully - Wow. I took so much from this, for my own work on wellness & healing. Hope people world wide get that there are better alternatives to the "there's a med4that" theory, and try simple, commonsense treatments, instead. Enjoyed the talk. Thanks, B. Well.

This was one of the best lectures I have heard among the many awesome teachings in TEDX. I am married to a pediatrician and will share it with him for sure. I wish you would teach this in medical schools and to Therapists and Psychologists. Thank you for all these wonderful teachings. YOU ARE TEULY MAKING A DIFFERENCE and I will try to go to sleep earlier because if you.

"Nurturing self compassion ", "finding a sustaining reason", "become the gardener of your own life / plant" are brilliant advice. Thank you Dr Reilly for encouraging us to open our hearts and connect to the healing energy of love.

Got to say.. this has been soul food for me. Extremely wise, informative and also beautiful. Very, very well done. An excellent presentation. After hearing this, I truy feel better right now than I have for weeks. Evidence of this contents veracity itself, I believe.

Absolutely great. We are blessed that there are people like this!!!

That was absolutely fantastic 🙌🏽💗🕯 you are the only type of Doctors we need!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥳

Great talk. I’ve learned to self love and take the time to nurture myself and it’s made a huge difference. A ways to go but I’m on a new journey.

We had a bereavement in the family and my poor mother just couldn’t let go and this happened to her bladder so the doctors gave her a bypass for the rest of her life. I was lucky and discovered self healing and was able to overcome mine without surgery or medication.

I enjoyed listening to Dr. Reilly's TED talk video from beginning to end. I activated my inner nurturing through prayers because only God heals when the doctor cannot find what is ailing you. All you need is to have Faith in God and start experiencing the healing.

Yes we need trauma informed care!!💖 Deal with the root of the problems!

I especially loved it when Dr. Reilly asked his patient,
'Do you daydream?'
And then they went on to daydream.

A true healer.