Disease Begins In The Heart: Stillness & The Middle Way | Tommy Hughes

Disease Begins In The Heart: Stillness & The Middle Way | Tommy Hughes

July 8, 2026 · 2h 19m · Season 5 · Episode 219

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Tommy Hughes discusses the connection between emotional patterns and physical disease through the lens of Classical Chinese Medicine.

Tommy Hughes returns to the Terrain Theory Podcast for a conversation that builds on our first exploration of Classical Chinese Medicine and takes it into even deeper territory. Drawing from the ancient medical classics, Tommy explains why Chinese physicians believed disease begins in the heart, how chronic emotional patterns can eventually become physical pathology, and why the body's symptoms are often the final chapter of a story that began years earlier. Together we examine the Chinese un...

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