Eric “Rick” Leskowitz, MD served as a consultant psychiatrist for over 25 years with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where he also founded the Integrative Medicine Task Force. He holds an appointment as a research affiliate with the Osher Institute for Integrative Medicine research at Harvard Medical school. Rick has studied energy healing, meditation, and hypnosis for over 40 years, presenting workshops on the integration of subtle energy techniques and theories with the allopathic medical model. He has written over 50 articles being published in leading scientific journals. He is author of The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics, and Gaia Consciousness, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention: Sports, Spirituality and Science Come Together at the Old Ballgame, that is also a documentary film. He is editor of: Sports, Energy, and Consciousness: Awakening Human Potential through Sport, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy: Gateway to Body, Mind, and Spirit. His website is
Rick describes several ways to attain peak experiences and how to get into the zone by choice, not chance. He shares positive experiences of professional athletes who use meditation and energetic practices to enhance their performance with supporting research.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:52 Sport as a path to spiritual awakening
00:07:41 Energetic and meditation practices
00:21:22 Sports and parapsychology
00:26:18 Heart coherence and team chemistry
00:41:19 Audience and group consciousness
00:58:11 Heart’s electromagnetic field
01:00:27 Competition – to strive together
01:03:08 Nature and grounding energy
01:09:32 Conclusion
Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Polish.
New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is a licensed occupational therapist, intuitive healer, and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is
(Recorded on May 15, 2024)
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