Mental Imagery Healing with Jonathan Carp

Send us Fan Mail Your imagination might be one of the most underused tools in your health kit and it does not require hours of meditation or perfect focus. We sit down with Jonathan Carp, a dermatologist and lifestyle medicine expert, to talk about “mental imagery”: a fast, prompt-based practice where your own inner pictures emerge and guide the process. The difference matters. Instead of following a long scripted scene, you get a simple cue, a brief image, and a surprisingly direct route past the rational mind. Jonathan shares a striking clinical story about neurodermatitis and skin picking, where three slow outbreaths help switch on the parasympathetic nervous system and an image of “barbed wire” becomes the turning point. By finding the opposite image, the patient discovers a personal, symbolic way to calm the itch response and change behaviour over 21 days. We also dig into what it means to “become your own authority” in health: not replacing professionals, but reclaiming the truth that nobody else knows what it feels like to live in your body. Then the conversation takes an unexpected turn into nutrition and entrepreneurship. Jonathan explains how illness, research into diet for chronic conditions, and the science of the gut microbiome lead him to konjac noodles and founding Miracle Noodle. We cover konjac as a traditional Japanese root, a modern pasta alternative, and a source of prebiotic fibre that supports gut health, satiety, and wellbeing. We finish with grounding spiritual practices, time in nature, and book recommendations that trace imagery work through biblical and Kabbalistic roots. If you enjoy thoughtful mind-body healing, lifestyle medicine, gut health, and practical spirituality, subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Support the show Be a Compassion Crusader! Please like, share and subscribe! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1827829/supporters/new Subscribing to the podcast opens additional episodes with meditations, exercises, concepts and ideas from Freedom of the Soul. Find your Soul purpose for only a few pounds a month. Click on the link below:- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1827829/subscribe Natasha Joy Price www.dandeliontherapies.co.uk Facebook - Dandelion Therapies Instagram - natashajoyprice Books:- Freedom of the Soul - available on Amazon UK The Red Magus - available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.