Episode 117
117: Deanna Minich - Creative Expression As Quantum Health Care
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"Every moment is creative. To really see it in that way and to experience it as something flowing, fluid, and gives us potential and possibility," says Deanna Minich, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective Podcast to explore the profound connection between creativity and health. Minich, a visionary in the field of functional medicine, unveils her four pillars of health: color, creativity, diversity, and rhythm. She explains how these natural principles can be applied to everyday life, transforming our approach to wellness from a rigid set of rules to a fluid, intuitive practice.
In this eye-opening discussion, Minich shares her personal journey of healing through art, revealing how creative expression resolved long-standing reproductive health issues. She introduces seven types of creatives, from food creatives to connection creatives, offering a fresh perspective on how we can infuse creativity into every aspect of our lives. Minich challenges listeners to reclaim their innate creativity, arguing that it's not just about artistic talent, but a fundamental life force that drives cellular growth and overall well-being.
Tune in to today's episode to discover how embracing creativity can revolutionize your health, and why every moment of your life is an opportunity for creative expression and healing.
Key Takeaways
1. Explore different types of creativity to find what resonates with you. Whether it's food, movement, visual arts, or writing, there are many ways to express your creative energy.
2. View daily tasks through a creative lens. Transform mundane activities like making dinner into opportunities for creative expression and enjoyment.
3. Make time for unstructured creative activities. Allow yourself periods of "messy" creativity without judgment or expectations to tap into your innate creative flow.
4. Pay attention to your body's signals and use creativity as a healing tool. Engaging in creative pursuits can help process emotions and potentially alleviate physical symptoms.
5. Cultivate beauty in your environment. Creating visually pleasing spaces, whether through art, organization, or nature, can positively impact your mental state and overall wellbeing.
Memorable Quotes
"Creativity, the way I define it, is a sense of flow, a sense of vital force within us that is leading to cellular growth. We're shaping ourselves every day, actually. We're combing our hair, we are getting dressed. We are in a creative process of discovery about ourselves and who we are."
"I feel like one of my issues is perfectionism. Just always going through life as a people pleasing perfectionist. And art was the one place that I can get messy and I didn't really care what other people thought about what I was making."
"If we saw life as art rather than as duty, I think it takes on a different feeling. It's releasing the shackles of maybe our thoughts about something, and it's giving us some more resilient and fluid ways to look at a situation which can take the stress out."
Resources Mentioned
Food & Spirit website - https://foodandspirit.com
Sadhguru's Save Soil initiative - https://consciousplanet.org/
Connect with Deanna
Website - https://deannaminich.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/deanna.minich/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannaminich/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/deannaminich/
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Transcript
Meredith Oke [5:00 - 5:06]: Deanna Minick, welcome to the QVC podcast. I am delighted to be having this conversation with you.
Deanna Minich [5:06 - 5:16]: Well, I'm excited to have the conversation with you. It's not often that I get asked questions about creativity, so I am looking forward to having that deep dive with you.
Meredith Oke [5:17 - 5:56]: Yeah, I'm really excited about it as well, because it's not necessarily something that we connect to health, this idea of creativity, and yet for you, it's one of the key pillars to health. So you have sort of four key pillars, if you want to just tell us what they are and then we'll talk about. When I saw creativity in there, I thought, oh, my goodness. Because I was thinking of you as someone who could talk about nutrition or melatonin. There's so many roads to go down with you, Deanna. But this creativity piece just was so compelling to me because it's in the context of health.
Deanna Minich [5:57 - 7:53]: Yeah, yeah. So I did arrive at these four pillars because I was looking for common threads throughout everything. I was talking about exactly what you just said. What do I talk about within nutrition? What am I talking about when I talk lifestyle, Even physical activity, even down to a dietary supplement. And I realized that there were four things that I came back to time and time again. So they are color. And we'll get into the weeds on color, because color is vast. It's everything from the colors in your environment, the colors you wear, the colors you eat, the colors you see, the colors you feel. So it's much broader than just phytochemicals in food and eating the rainbow. The second one is creativity, which we're going to talk about more. And I even have a personal story about creativity in my own health journey. The third is diversity or variety. Right. So just shaking things up and getting a diverse blend of life experiences, even physical activities, how we think, travel, how we eat. All of that is enrichment, from everything from our microbiome to our brain neuronal plasticity. So diversity is key. It's one of the elements of nature. And then the fourth one is rhythm. And that applies to all the many different kinds of rhythms that we're enmeshed with. So that could be circadian rhythm, lunar rhythm, seasonal rhythm, menstrual rhythm, life rhythm, like season of life. And so I'm not really making any of these up. They all really do come from nature. If you look at nature's principles and kind of following the lead on what nature presents to us, a lot of these principles are embodied in what we see, feel, hear, and experience. So I just apply Those principles to everyday life.
Meredith Oke [7:54 - 8:29]: I love this. And it's, it's a much, it's a very different way of organizing our minds around the concept of health. These pillars. Right. It's not like we're used to, you know, food, diet, mindset, exercise or something like that, but these are much higher level. And I mean higher in terms of altitude, not necessarily like superiority, you know, like a higher altitude view of all of life and how we connect with it.
Deanna Minich [8:30 - 9:41]: Yeah. And I think the reason why I like that is because it allows for some plasticity or flexibility in their interpretation. Because I think often on social media people will post, these are the top 10 things that you have to do for health. And it gets very specific very quickly, which is okay because some people actually like that, like drink water as soon as you wake up, tend to your gut by doing X, Y and Z. And all of those are great strategies for sure. It's just that I like to bring in a bit of interpretation and personalization in that health journey. Because we are more than our physical bodies. We're physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, subtle. We have many different layers and we might feel drawn to certain things at certain times. And all of that is really valid in many ways. Right. So it's really honoring nature on the outside, within the natural rhythm of our own path. So where people are, I mean, that's how I work with people. And that's also a lot of how my teaching is structured as well is through those four principles.
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