Sharing the 150th Episode of the Be Well with Dr Michelle Greenwell Podcast with the Ann Smets Trilogy – Episode 1 — Spirituality Isn’t Woo, It’s Wiring
What if healing doesn’t begin with fixing what feels broken—but with remembering who you truly are?
In Episode 1 of our new podcast series, Healing Through Spirituality, Ann Smets and I open a conversation that gently shifts the lens of wellness. For decades, health has been framed primarily through physical symptoms, nutrition plans, mental strategies, and emotional processing. These are important layers—but they are not the whole story.
There is another dimension of healing that is often overlooked: the spiritual field—the energetic intelligence that informs how our bodies organize, adapt, and restore balance.
This episode is an invitation to explore spirituality not as belief or dogma, but as the original wiring of being human.
Spirituality as an Innate Design, Not an Add-On
From a scientific perspective, the human body is a complex, self-organizing system. Every cell communicates through electrical signals, electromagnetic fields, biochemical messengers, and subtle frequencies. Long before symptoms appear, the body registers information through sensation, intuition, and energetic shifts.
Research in psychoneuroimmunology, heart–brain coherence, and biofield science shows us that states of presence, safety, and coherence directly influence healing outcomes. When the nervous system shifts out of chronic stress and into regulation, the body’s innate repair mechanisms activate more efficiently.
In other words, the body knows how to heal—when the conditions are right.
Spirituality plays a critical role in creating those conditions. When we are disconnected from ourselves—rushing, overriding intuition, living in constant reaction—our systems stay in survival mode. Healing becomes slower, fragmented, or stalled.
When we reconnect, healing accelerates.
The Tea Ritual: A Spiritual Gateway to Presence
This is why we begin each episode with a tea ritual.
Tea is more than a beverage. Across cultures and centuries, tea has been used as a threshold practice—a way of crossing from distraction into presence, from external noise into inner listening.
In Episode 1, we share SoulTEA Harbour, a blend designed to create a sense of safety and arrival. A harbour is a place where ships rest, refuel, and realign before continuing their journey. Spiritually, this is what tea offers us: a pause that allows the nervous system to soften and the heart to open.
Two key herbs in this blend speak directly to healing at the energetic level:
- Licorice root, known in herbal traditions as a harmonizer, supports balance across systems. Energetically, it softens rigidity—helping us release the inner pressure to push, strive, or hold it all together.
- Anise brings clarity and expanded perception. It supports the intuitive field, helping us see beyond surface-level narratives into deeper truth.
Together, they create a gentle alchemy: grounding and awakening, soothing and clarifying. This combination mirrors the healing process itself—we soften first, then insight emerges.
Coming Home to the Heart
At the center of this episode is a simple but profound idea:
Healing begins when we come home to our heart.
The heart is not just a physical pump; it is a powerful electromagnetic center that communicates with the brain and the rest of the body. Studies from the HeartMath Institute show that when we cultivate heart-focused awareness—through breath, intention, or ritual—we enter a state of coherence. In this state, physiological systems synchronize, stress hormones decrease, and clarity improves.
From a spiritual lens, the heart is also the seat of truth. When we slow down enough to listen, the heart reveals what we need—not what we’ve been told we should need.
The affirmation we share in Episode 1 captures this beautifully:
“Balance and flow is possible when we open to be present for our true heart’s desires.
Come home to your heart.”
This is not about chasing healing. It’s about being in it.
Focus, Identity, and Accelerated Healing
One of the most overlooked aspects of healing is identity. When we define ourselves by illness, struggle, or what’s missing, the body organizes around that story. When we reconnect to who we are beneath the symptoms—our values, intuition, creativity, and inner wisdom—the body receives a new signal.
Focus matters.
When attention is aligned with authenticity rather than fear, the nervous system settles. When intention is rooted in self-connection rather than self-correction, healing pathways open more readily.
This is the innate potential we explore in Episode 1: healing not as effort, but as remembering alignment.
An Invitation
This first episode is a doorway.
If you’ve felt that something essential has been missing from your wellness journey…
If you’ve sensed that healing requires more than protocols and plans…
If you’re ready to listen more deeply to yourself…
We invite you to begin here.
Make a cup of tea.
Place a hand on your heart.
And allow yourself to come home.
✨ Episode 1 of Healing Through Spirituality is now live.
✨ Episode 2 will explore Healing & the Quantum Body: How Energy Creates Reality.
Your healing journey is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been.
With the music and the movement today I found myself more grounded than ever. It gave me a sense of freedom to feel my connection to the earth. Thank you!
If you feel that you could use some assistance to make that heart connection, then consider our special online programs. We have two to consider: Symphony of Radiance and Qi YINtegration: The Innate Healing Potential. Take a look, and join us. We would love to add you to our conversations.
If you are looking for an in-person class, consider the following Tai Chi opportunities:
Tai Chi Cape Breton: Inverness, Mabou, Creignish (with CORAH), and Baddeck at the Public Library, Nova Scotia.
Or, West Kelowna and Peachland, BC with Wine Country Tai Chi Society.