The Science of Happiness has proven that positive emotions or happy feelings release chemicals that boost our immune system leading to greater health and well being. Dr. Aymee Coget shares her ground breaking work with Betty Louise on how to achieve sustainable happiness.

Listen in to this 12 minute podcast and learn how to tap into a natural healer that lives inside of you and can learn to choose happiness in every moment. Imagine being able to feel happy regardless of circumstances on the outside.

Dr. Aymee Coget

Dr. Aymee Coget , CEO of the American Happiness Association, has devoted her entire life to helping millions of people live happier lives. She has an international practice based in San Francisco, California offering three month happiness makeovers. She explains that the science of happiness looks at what is right with us instead of what is wrong…how refreshing!

To find out more, and learn how you can become happier, go to MakeMeHappyTV.com or HappinessHomeStudy.com.

Remember when you are happy, those around you are happier, and the whole planet is happier too.

How easy is it for you to choose happiness? What gets in the way?

This podcast highlights international artist Yossi Fine, who is a musician, music producer and engineer and life coach. He shares his own healing story of how music helped him through a childhood of depression and asthma. His talent with music allowed him to understand his own unique intelligence, and he now helps others do the same through his life coaching practice.

Listen here to this 17 minute podcast.

Yossi Fine

Yossi was born to a West Indian singer and an Israeli guitar player, and began playing the guitar at the age of 4. Whether as a producer, arranger or bassist, Yossi’s unique and undeniable talents have made him one of the most in demand names throughout a number of different genres.

He has worked internationally with legendary names including David Bowie, Lou Reed and Deepak Chopra. He has taken his own success and experiences and now helps others find their uniqueness through a life coaching practice.

To learn more about Yossi, check out YossiFine.com.

What is healing about music for you?

The following podcast highlights neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, who is also the author of a book titled “Buddah’s Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love and wisdom.”

During this interview, Rick explains why we hang onto negative thoughts, and need to make an active effort to think positively. The reward for your positive thinking is a good one…happiness, love and wisdom!

Listen to this 15 minute podcast and find out how easy it can be to train the brain.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, and teacher in contemplative neuroscience. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, Rick founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, edits the Wise Brain Bulletin, and teaches therapists and the general public in Europe, Australia, and America.

Buddha's Brain

To reach Rick and learn more about his work, check out WiseBrain.org.

What do you do daily to stay positive?

How would our relationships change if we took out the verbal communication, and related to our partners by dancing to deep African rhythms with Latin overtones as a way to communicate? Wow…just imagine that!

On this Green Think podcast, international artists Jean-Pierre Simons and Bianca Blesching explore just that with Coach Betty…how dancing can strengthen our relationships.

Listen to their fascinating work and story…

Jean-Pierre Simons and Bianca Blesching

Jean-Pierre Sighé of West Central Africa’s Cameroon nation grew up in a cultural environment where dancing was part of normal living. Equipped with his African dancing background, he later discovered the Latin dances and immediately felt their appeal…particularly Argentine Tango.

His motivation for teaching Tango derives from his desire to share with others the beauty of this wonderful gift to the world from the Argentinean people. He does not want to simply teach a set of steps following some futile pattern. Jean-Pierre desires to faithfully transmit to others what he has had the privilege to receive directly from the Tango Masters – the spirit of Tango.

Bianca Blesching grew up in rural Germany. As a child, her inner appeal for dancing grew strong leading her to seek formal training in Hamburg, and a degree as a Certified Modern Dance Instructor and Choreographer with a focus on Improvisation.

Bianca followed her passion for dancing into Latin styles as she studied then taught Salsa. A logical progression in her exploration took her to the Tango world where she found roots.

Bianca is an instinctive dancer who is familiar with the rhythmic language as applied in African dancing. She enjoys the code of “call-response”, which plays a major role in improvisational exchanges between dancing partners.

Check out more beautiful photos, and learn more about these two fascinating people at TangoMagdalena.com.

Master Ming Yi Wang, from the Medicine Buddah Teahouse and Healing Center, shares his theory and experience with the power of a BODY smile. A smile, which we carry around with us everywhere we go, is an inner source of healing and well being.

Master Ming Yi Wang

On this 9 minute podcast, Master Wang describes how to smile with your body, and how that helps us release tension and drop the burdens we carry.

A physical smile helps us expand and access the inner light. Listen to Master Wang share his simple theory of how we can re-balance our lives.

To learn more about Master Wang’s programs, check out MedicineBuddhas.org or ZenAndTea.com.

My special guest on this podcast is Beth Hillson, the Founder of Gluten Free Pantry. She shares how she was inspired to create these yummy foods without gluten so that those with Celiac Disease and other health conditions sensitive to gluten can enjoy good quality breads and pie crusts. Eliminating gluten has helped reduce my joint pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis also. And, I was not a pie eater until I had her “Perfect Pie Crust!” Listen in…

Beth Hillson

Beth Hillson was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 1954 and again in 1976. Beth had been a so-called “Banana Baby,” thought to outgrow the disease after a few years on a very restricted diet (mainly bananas). We now know that patients do no outgrow Celiac Disease.

She was re-diagnosed while living in Europe and attending culinary school so she could learn to eat defensively. In the process of learning the intricacies of preparing fine foods so she could ask the right questions in restaurants, she discovered she could create the same dishes at home by substituting gluten-free flous and without sacrificing taste and texture.

She serves as the president of the American Celiac Disease Alliance, and is the food editor and writer for “Living Without Magazine,” a lifestyle publication for people on special diets.

Sign up for her newsletter at GlutenFree.com.

You do not have to sacrifice taste with the Gluten-Free Pantry…check it out!

Master Ming Yi Wang, originally from the Yunnan region of the Himalayan Mountains in China, shares the amazing health results you can achieve by drinking hot water.

Master Ming Yi Wang

He is the Founder of the Medicine Buddah Teahouse and Healing Center in San Francisco where every Friday at 10 am and Sunday at 3:00 pm he has an open tea service.

Zen and Tea

Master Wang’s “Total Vitality Program” includes hot water as a healing therapy. From the first visit or phone call, Master Wang requests that you drink 2-4 liters of hot water every day.

Listen in to this eleven minute podcast to learn how you can become healthier, happier and achieve more vitality by using this simple therapy which holds NO SIDE EFFECTS.

Stay tuned next week to Master Wang’s philosophy on how powerful your smile can be in your health and well being.

To reach Master Wang and learn more, check out MedicineBuddhas.org or ZenAndTea.com.

I’ll bet there are not many people who would say they fear going to Paris, France. Would you?

Coach Betty offers up a perspective on fear that may expand your mind AND make you less fearful. When you are fearful, you are not able to love yourself…all your energy is taken up with the fear response…brain power compromised…muscles tense…disconnected to spirit…not to mention it doesn’t feel good.

Check out this short Views You Can Use segment, and see if you can’t redesign your fear. I can guarantee it is worth the effort…

After great reflection from last year’s Green Think Radio Shows, it was stunning how guest after guest, book after book, article after article showed that repairing our relationships and saving the planet begins with self-love. My mission is to help us find our greatest love of all in 2010 – SELF LOVE!

My approach to healing involves using what we have available. I will continue to explore the research on the healing powers of our own bodies, including sex…it lives within us. Check out interviews, WOA Babies (news sounds bites), and Views You Can Use Segments from 2009 and you will hear a strong argument for the healing powers of sex. We even have scientific evidence that a healthy sex life is good for our hearts and immune systems. Pleasurable and loving sex shows protection against cancers, and lower rates of depression.

So then…it is a WOA BABY that…

“Thirty-two percent of women and 15% of men lacked sexual interest for several months within the last year.” (Laumann EO, Paik A. Rosen RC. Sexual dysfunction in the United States: Prevalene and Predictors. JAMA 1999;281:537-544).

All that healing power going to waste…

Listen to this two minute WOA Baby, and let Coach Betty inspire you to have “More HEALTHY Sex” in 2010 for the sake of bringing more self-love to the planet. How about THAT?

Wow…I hope you are all ready for a fabulous year! We are ready for something a little different at Green Think Radio in 2010. Coach Betty will continue to interview experts, innovators, musicians, and everyday people with a message of healing for Self, others and the planet. Instead of the radio show, these interviews will be posted as podcasts each week.

The Green Think Radio year in review found guest after guest pointing towards self-love as the path to caring for our relationships and our planet. My project in 2010 is to travel to Europe and beyond discovering expansive views and concepts of healing and helping you bring your life into an exquisite balance with nature.

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Wishing you much peace and harmony in 2010 and always!

Ready or Not…Here comes 2010!

My special guest, Nagi, is an active spiritual medium. On the show, he shares his work aligning the spiritual with the temporal, and also what he sees, hears and feels for 2010 and beyond.   Opening your mind to the fact that we are spiritual beings in a human experience creates infinite potential.

Listen to Nagi now…

Nagi (formerly Reggie Arthur)

Nagi has an active energy practice for 20 years and is a Reiki Minister. He is the Founder of the Family of Light Foundation; an organization dedicated to advancing spiritual awareness within minority communities.

Urban Hero

He conceived of “Urban Hero” Workshops to encourage “thinking outside the box” which he describes as learning to go to the opposite of that to which you are accustomed to experiencing and see how far you can go.

He currently holds these workshops to restore well being and capability to ex-offenders re-entering society or persons in recovery. His work creates more understanding and love for yourself and others.

To learn more and reach Nagi for phone healing sessions, email urbanhero3@aol.com.

May your 2010 be filled with joy, love and peace…what you command will happen!

Happy New Year!

Rocky Dawuni, international music sensation from Ghana, champions social causes and inspires artists and fans alike to a green think mindset. My second guest, Kevin Danaher, is working on a vision of a model green global center inspiring green businesses to collaborate and support each other. Both of these inspiring men are creating amazing positive shifts in how we care for our planet.

Listen to Rocky and Kevin now…

Coach Betty & Rocky Duwani

Rocky Dawuni underlines the Green Think message that our shifts to making a better world always begin with self love. Rocky is one of Africa’s most exciting artists. His unique fusion of reggae, soul and traditional African sounds and combustible live performances, combined with his social commentary and advocacy for a multitude of global causes, has brought him global recognition and resulted in collaborations with organizations including UNICEF, and the Carter Center.

His highly anticipated new CD, Hymns for the Rebel Soul, is being distributed by Whole Foods.

To learn more about Rocky and his music, check out RockyDawuni.com.

Dr. Kevin Danaher

Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (globalexchange.org), Founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (greenfestivals.org), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (globalcitizencenter.org).

He is the author and editor of 13 books, including his two latest: The Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change (2008); Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots (2007).

The global citizen center project is a green economy launchpad…this is a vision whose time has come.

Listen in, get involved, and check out GlobalCitizenCenter.com.

Happy Holidays!