Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

09/10/2025

Energy Medicine for Heart Health with Dr. Melanie
New 7-Week Live Video Course Starts
Monday, September 22, at 2:00pm Eastern

Be Well Within . . .
Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

Join me here:
https://theshiftnetwork.com/course/01MSmith08_25?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=infusionsoft&affiliate=19119

09/09/2025

🌠 The Sky Lights Up Tonight!

📅 September 9, 2025 — The Epsilon Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its spectacular peak! ✨

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🔭 What to Expect:
• 🌟 Up to 20 meteors per hour under dark skies.

• 🌌 Best visible after midnight (00:00–04:00 local time) when the Perseus constellation rises higher in the northeastern sky.

• 💫 Expect bright, fast meteors — many leaving glowing, colorful trails behind.

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🌌 Viewing Tips:
• 🚫 Stay away from city lights for the clearest view.

• 👀 Allow your eyes at least 20–30 minutes to adapt to the darkness.

• 🔭 No telescope or binoculars needed — the shower is best enjoyed with the naked eye.

• 🛋️ Bring a blanket or reclining chair so you can comfortably gaze at the sky.

• 🌡️ Dress warmly — even summer nights can get chilly under clear skies.

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✨ Best Viewing Window:
• 🌙 After midnight (Sept 9 → Sept 10)
• ⏰ Peak activity: ~01:00–03:00 local time (when Perseus is highest).

👉 Don’t miss this magical night — look up, enjoy the show, and make a wish on a shooting star! 🌠💫

09/07/2025

Walk with me . . .

Take a deep breath as you immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of Mother Nature and join me at the Presbyterian Village 60-acre Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary with woodland paths, more than 20 species of trees, and remarkable biodiversity in Georgia.

Nature is good for the soul 💚

It took me back to my childhood on the farm in Missouri playing in the creek in the woods seeing birds, deer and wild turkeys.

Be Well Within . . .
Dr. Melanie
Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

08/30/2025

FREE event starting soon! Still time to join me TODAY, August 30th at 2pm Eastern for a FREE event or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

How do you nurture and protect your heart against the wear and tear of everyday stressors? Now more than ever, we need to have tools to manage challenges with anxiety, fatigue and hormonal imbalances that are all too common today.

Even if you have healthy blood pressure, exercise, and eat well, the effects of energetic depletion, hormonal shifts, or physical strain may be disrupting your heart’s delicate balance — one that powerful energy medicine techniques can gently restore.

I invite you to join me for a FREE online event TODAY, Saturday, August 30th at 2pm Eastern.

Energy Medicine for Healing Your Heart: Techniques for Reducing Stress Hormones & Releasing Heartbreak and Grief to Welcome Inner Peace and Joy . . . to explore the science and soul of the heart — and learn how to start calming your nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating lasting wellbeing through energy-based practices.

I’ll be sharing practical, heart-centered tools and guidance, to help restore balance and vitality across your physical, emotional, mental, and energetic selves.

During this experiential hour, you’ll:
Learn how feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, or a variety of heart-related symptoms may actually be your body’s intelligent signals asking for energetic support.

Identify your primary stressors — relationships, finances, health, or global concerns — and apply energy medicine and emotional clearing techniques to ease their impact on your heart health.

Release unresolved grief and heartbreak — which can elevate cortisol levels, overwork your adrenals, and damage your heart — using the “Heart’s River Flow” practice for emotional clearing and regulation.

Experience the “Hormone Hara Balancer” exercise to rewire your body’s emotional responses, calm your nervous system, support adrenal balance, boost immune function, and lower inflammation — all to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re navigating hormonal transitions, recovering from loss, depletion from caregiving, or simply seeking greater resilience and joy, you’ll walk away with exercises to enhance your whole-heart health — body, mind, and soul.

Discover how your heart connects deeply with your vagus nerve, hormonal pathways, and energy circuits.

Experience “The Emperor” technique to calm stress, enhance heart coherence, and improve the flow of blood and oxygen.

Recognize signs of energetic overload — like fatigue, anxiety, or feeling “off” — and begin restoring hormonal and emotional balance by realigning your energy systems.

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a recording as soon as it’s available. Enjoy this wonderful opportunity and reclaim your vibrant, energetic self and give a little love to your heart.

Join me today, August 30th at 2pm Eastern for a FREE event or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

Be Well Within,
Dr. Melanie
Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

A Free Video Event With Doctor of Oriental Medicine &; Advanced Energy Medicine Practitioner Dr. Melanie Smith

08/26/2025

FREE event starting soon! Still time to join me tonight, August 26th at 8:30pm Eastern for a FREE event or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

How do you nurture and protect your heart against the wear and tear of everyday stressors? Now more than ever, we need to have tools to manage challenges with anxiety, fatigue and hormonal imbalances that are all too common today.
Even if you have healthy blood pressure, exercise, and eat well, the effects of energetic depletion, hormonal shifts, or physical strain may be disrupting your heart’s delicate balance — one that powerful energy medicine techniques can gently restore.
I invite you to join me for a free online event Tuesday, August 26.

Energy Medicine for Healing Your Heart: Techniques for Reducing Stress Hormones & Releasing Heartbreak and Grief to Welcome Inner Peace and Joy . . . to explore the science and soul of the heart — and learn how to start calming your nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating lasting wellbeing through energy-based practices.

I’ll be sharing practical, heart-centered tools and guidance, to help restore balance and vitality across your physical, emotional, mental, and energetic selves.

During this experiential hour, you’ll:
Learn how feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, or a variety of heart-related symptoms may actually be your body’s intelligent signals asking for energetic support.

Identify your primary stressors — relationships, finances, health, or global concerns — and apply energy medicine and emotional clearing techniques to ease their impact on your heart health.

Release unresolved grief and heartbreak — which can elevate cortisol levels, overwork your adrenals, and damage your heart — using the “Heart’s River Flow” practice for emotional clearing and regulation.

Experience the “Hormone Hara Balancer” exercise to rewire your body’s emotional responses, calm your nervous system, support adrenal balance, boost immune function, and lower inflammation — all to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re navigating hormonal transitions, recovering from loss, depletion from caregiving, or simply seeking greater resilience and joy, you’ll walk away with exercises to enhance your whole-heart health — body, mind, and soul.

Discover how your heart connects deeply with your vagus nerve, hormonal pathways, and energy circuits.
Experience “The Emperor” technique to calm stress, enhance heart coherence, and improve the flow of blood and oxygen.

Recognize signs of energetic overload — like fatigue, anxiety, or feeling “off” — and begin restoring hormonal and emotional balance by realigning your energy systems.

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a recording as soon as it’s available. Enjoy this wonderful opportunity and reclaim your vibrant, energetic self and give a little love to your heart.

Join me tonight, August 26th at 8:30pm Eastern for a FREE event or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

Be Well Within,
Dr. Melanie
Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

A Free Video Event With Doctor of Oriental Medicine &; Advanced Energy Medicine Practitioner Dr. Melanie Smith

08/25/2025

https://youtube.com/shorts/8NGhTQSHl-E

Join Dr. Melanie for a Free Online Event on August 26, 2025 at 8:30pm Eastern Time and Learn Energy Techniques for Heart and Emotional Healing.Click Here to ...

08/23/2025

Discover heart-centered techniques for healing and joy! Join our free event!

Email from Free event-Opening Our Hearts during Turbulent Times Greetings! In these turbulent times, so many people are feeling heart-broken, not knowing how to respond to the overwhelm that often sur

08/21/2025

How do you nurture and protect your heart against the wear and tear of everyday stressors? Now more than ever, we need to have tools to manage challenges with anxiety, fatigue and hormonal imbalances that are all too common today.

Even if you have healthy blood pressure, exercise, and eat well, the effects of energetic depletion, hormonal shifts, or physical strain may be disrupting your heart’s delicate balance — one that powerful energy medicine techniques can gently restore.

I invite you to join me for a free online event Tuesday, August 26.
Energy Medicine for Healing Your Heart: Techniques for Reducing Stress Hormones & Releasing Heartbreak and Grief to Welcome Inner Peace and Joy . . . to explore the science and soul of the heart — and learn how to start calming your nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating lasting wellbeing through energy-based practices.

I’ll be sharing practical, heart-centered tools and guidance, to help restore balance and vitality across your physical, emotional, mental, and energetic selves.

During this experiential hour, you’ll:

Learn how feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, or a variety of heart-related symptoms may actually be your body’s intelligent signals asking for energetic support.

Identify your primary stressors — relationships, finances, health, or global concerns — and apply energy medicine and emotional clearing techniques to ease their impact on your heart health.

Release unresolved grief and heartbreak — which can elevate cortisol levels, overwork your adrenals, and damage your heart — using the “Heart’s River Flow” practice for emotional clearing and regulation.

Experience the “Hormone Hara Balancer” exercise to rewire your body’s emotional responses, calm your nervous system, support adrenal balance, boost immune function, and lower inflammation — all to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re navigating hormonal transitions, recovering from loss, depletion from caregiving, or simply seeking greater resilience and joy, you’ll walk away with exercises to enhance your whole-heart health — body, mind, and soul.

Discover how your heart connects deeply with your vagus nerve, hormonal pathways, and energy circuits.

Experience “The Emperor” technique to calm stress, enhance heart coherence, and improve the flow of blood and oxygen.

Recognize signs of energetic overload — like fatigue, anxiety, or feeling “off” — and begin restoring hormonal and emotional balance by realigning your energy systems.

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a recording as soon as it’s available. Enjoy this wonderful opportunity and reclaim your vibrant, energetic self and give a little love to your heart.

Join me on August 26th for a FREE event or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

Be Well Within,
Dr. Melanie
Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

A Free Video Event With Doctor of Oriental Medicine &; Advanced Energy Medicine Practitioner Dr. Melanie Smith

08/19/2025

How do you nurture and protect your heart against the wear and tear of everyday stressors? Now more than ever, we need to have tools to manage challenges with anxiety, fatigue and hormonal imbalances that are all too common today.

Even if you have healthy blood pressure, exercise, and eat well, the effects of energetic depletion, hormonal shifts, or physical strain may be disrupting your heart’s delicate balance — one that powerful energy medicine techniques can gently restore.

I invite you to join me for a free online event Tuesday, August 26.
Energy Medicine for Healing Your Heart: Techniques for Reducing Stress Hormones & Releasing Heartbreak and Grief to Welcome Inner Peace and Joy . . . to explore the science and soul of the heart — and learn how to start calming your nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating lasting wellbeing through energy-based practices.

I’ll be sharing practical, heart-centered tools and guidance, to help restore balance and vitality across your physical, emotional, mental, and energetic selves.

During this experiential hour, you’ll:

Learn how feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, or a variety of heart-related symptoms may actually be your body’s intelligent signals asking for energetic support.

Identify your primary stressors — relationships, finances, health, or global concerns — and apply energy medicine and emotional clearing techniques to ease their impact on your heart health
Release unresolved grief and heartbreak — which can elevate cortisol levels, overwork your adrenals, and damage your heart — using the “Heart’s River Flow” practice for emotional clearing and regulation.

Experience the “Hormone Hara Balancer” exercise to rewire your body’s emotional responses, calm your nervous system, support adrenal balance, boost immune function, and lower inflammation — all to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re navigating hormonal transitions, recovering from loss, depletion from caregiving, or simply seeking greater resilience and joy, you’ll walk away with exercises to enhance your whole-heart health — body, mind, and soul.

Discover how your heart connects deeply with your vagus nerve, hormonal pathways, and energy circuits.

Experience “The Emperor” technique to calm stress, enhance heart coherence, and improve the flow of blood and oxygen
Recognize signs of energetic overload — like fatigue, anxiety, or feeling “off” — and begin restoring hormonal and emotional balance by realigning your energy systems.

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a recording as soon as it’s available. Enjoy this wonderful opportunity and reclaim your vibrant, energetic self and give a little love to your heart.

Join me on August 26th or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

Be Well Within,
Dr. Melanie

Energy Medicine for Healthy Living™

08/18/2025

Dr. Melanie here I too am often asked about Dry Needling and agree with what my colleagues have to say.

From my friend and colleague Dr. Julie Kaplan, DOM, AP: “I often get asked if I do “dry needling”. I appreciate this post. Acupuncture is dry needling with years more knowledge behind point application. Ask someone offering dry needling how long they have trained in point application. An acupuncturist in Florida has trained a minimum 2700 hours to be licensed.”

This from colleague Dr. Cyndi Leigh, DOM, AP from Atlanta:

Stop Framing Acupuncture as Mere “Energy Flow” – A Call for Scientific and Historical Integrity

The persistent tendency in Western medical discourse to frame Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) acupuncture as a form of “energy healing” based solely on vague concepts like qi or “meridian energy flow” is not only scientifically irresponsible — it is intellectually dishonest and culturally dismissive.

🔹 Acupuncture Is a Neurophysiological Intervention — Not Mysticism

What is referred to as qi and meridians in classical East Asian medicine is not unscientific. These were pre-modern conceptual models developed to describe real, reproducible human physiological responses — particularly somato-visceral reflexes, autonomic regulation, and descending pain modulation through central nervous system pathways.

Modern neuroscience has validated that acupuncture involves:
• Activation of nociceptive and proprioceptive afferents
• Regulation of autonomic nervous system tone
• Stimulation of descending inhibitory pathways in the brain and spinal cord
• Neuroendocrine and immune modulation through hypothalamic-pituitary axis effects

Dismissing this as “energy work” while ignoring the neurobiological mechanisms is equivalent to calling cardiopulmonary resuscitation “ritual chest compressions.”

🔹 IMS Is Derived from TCM’s Ashi Point Techniques

Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS), often practiced by physical therapists with as little as 50 hours of training, is essentially a rebranded version of Ashi point acupuncture — a foundational method in TCM used for centuries to treat myofascial pain and neuromuscular dysfunctions.

Yet IMS practitioners routinely claim their method is “different from acupuncture,” attempting to distance themselves from TCM in order to gain institutional legitimacy — while simultaneously using the exact same tools (needles) and target tissues (trigger points).

This is not scientific innovation. It is academic appropriation.

🔹 Misrepresentation Undermines Both Science and Ethics

To portray acupuncture solely as “meridian energy flow” while claiming that IMS or “dry needling” is distinct and evidence-based is to:

1. Deny the historical and clinical reality of acupuncture as a somatic therapy grounded in empirical observation
2. Perpetuate a colonial bias, reducing non-Western medical systems to caricatures
3. Ignore converging evidence from pain science, neurology, and physiology that supports acupuncture’s systemic effects

🔹 A Call for Intellectual Honesty

If the medical and academic community seeks to promote scientific rigor, it must stop:
• Treating TCM terminology (qi, jing-luo) as inherently unscientific rather than contextually pre-modern
• Appropriating acupuncture techniques under different names (IMS, dry needling) without acknowledgment
• Framing East Asian medicine as “mystical energy work” while claiming neurophysiological legitimacy for functionally identical Western versions

The integrity of science demands intellectual honesty, cultural respect, and historical accuracy. Anything less is not medicine — it is propaganda.

08/12/2025

How do you nurture and protect your heart against the wear and tear of everyday stressors? Now more than ever, we need to have tools to manage challenges with anxiety, fatigue and hormonal imbalances that are all too common today.

Even if you have healthy blood pressure, exercise, and eat well, the effects of energetic depletion, hormonal shifts, or physical strain may be disrupting your heart’s delicate balance — one that powerful energy medicine techniques can gently restore.

I invite you to join me for a free online event Tuesday, August 26…

Energy Medicine for Healing Your Heart: Techniques for Reducing Stress Hormones & Releasing Heartbreak and Grief to Welcome Inner Peace and Joy

… to explore the science and soul of the heart — and learn how to start calming your nervous system, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating lasting wellbeing through energy-based practices.

I’ll be sharing practical, heart-centered tools and guidance, to help restore balance and vitality across your physical, emotional, mental, and energetic selves.

I'll reveal how feelings of exhaustion, anxiety, or a variety of heart-related symptoms may actually be your body’s intelligent signals asking for energetic support.

You’ll experience the “Hormone Hara Balancer” exercise to rewire your body’s emotional responses, calm your nervous system, support adrenal balance, boost immune function, and lower inflammation — all to reduce your risk of heart disease.

Whether you’re navigating hormonal transitions, recovering from loss, depletion from caregiving, or simply seeking greater resilience and joy, you’ll walk away with exercises to enhance your whole-heart health — body, mind, and soul.

During this experiential hour, you’ll:

Identify your primary stressors — relationships, finances, health, or global concerns — and apply energy medicine and emotional clearing techniques to ease their impact on your heart health
Release unresolved grief and heartbreak — which can elevate cortisol levels, overwork your adrenals, and damage your heart — using the “Heart’s River Flow” practice for emotional clearing and regulation

Discover how your heart connects deeply with your vagus nerve, hormonal pathways, and energy circuits
Experience “The Emperor” technique to calm stress, enhance heart coherence, and improve the flow of blood and oxygen
Recognize signs of energetic overload — like fatigue, anxiety, or feeling “off” — and begin restoring hormonal and emotional balance by realigning your energy systems

I hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available. Enjoy this wonderful opportunity and reclaim your vibrant, energetic self.

Join me on August 26th or sign up and catch the replay:
https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/emhhMS/a19119/

Be Well Within,
Dr. Melanie Smith
EEnergy Medicine for Healthy Living™