Your Heart Remembers What Your Mind Forgets

Based on a podcast with Dr. Kirk Laman and host Philipp Kobald

When the Heart Knows More Than the Brain

Dr. Kirk Laman didn’t just join Spiritual Conversation to casually chat. He came with a mission: to introduce his new book Inner Peace Now — and, more importantly, to open the door into a lifetime of work at the intersection of medicine and mysticism. The book is the container, but the wisdom inside spills far beyond its pages.

Produced by HolisticCircle and hosted by Philipp Kobald, the episode wastes no time: if you think healing belongs to white coats or incense alone, think again. For Laman, who has treated thousands as a cardiologist and guided seekers as a Sufi practitioner, the heart is where science and spirit collapse into one undeniable truth.

“People’s hearts are suffering. You have deep trauma and sadness — you get heart disease. They’re connected, they’re not separate,” Laman explained. Coming from someone who reads EKGs for a living, that lands differently.

The Doctor Who Prescribes Remembrance

Dr. Kirk Laman is a cardiologist who integrates Sufi-inspired heart-centered practices into healing and has written several books, including his new release Inner Peace Now.

The book introduces “the Remembrance,” a deceptively simple practice of breathing the sound “ah” into the heart. “Ah,” he explained, “is the universal sound of relaxation.” It relaxes the body, clears the mind, and — if done consistently — strips away what Sufis call veils: the emotional debris clouding our original light.

In Inner Peace Now, Laman shares case studies, stories, and step-by-step ways to use this practice at home. But listening to him speak, you realize this isn’t promotional spiel — it’s testimony from someone who’s seen patients transform in days where medicine had failed for years.

Trauma as a Heart Condition

The book is filled with stories like one unforgettable case: a woman crippled by racing heartbeats no doctor could explain. In one remembrance session, a buried memory surfaced — an attempted assault she had repressed for decades. The moment it broke free, her heart calmed. Two sessions later, the tachycardia disappeared.

“By uncovering that issue, she released it — and she was 90% better,” Laman recalled.

This is why Inner Peace Now insists that trauma isn’t just psychological. It lives in the chest cavity, in the rhythm of the heart, until remembered and released.

Love as a Nervous System Hack

Even the skeptics get their foot in the door through biology. The book cites research showing the heart has over 70,000 neurons — its own “heart brain.” Stress rewires it, trauma hijacks it, and practices like remembrance reset it.

“The remembrance,” Laman said, “pulls in light and pumps that love to every cell of your body.”

So while pharmaceuticals aim at symptoms, Inner Peace Now argues the source code can be rewritten by reconnecting to the heart itself.

Mystics, Mothers, and Mobsters

Laman grounds this with imagery straight out of both scripture and street. He points to the only love that gangsters and mystics agree on: a mother’s. Even when her son is infamous, she still calls him her “sweet, poor boy.”

This unconditional love is the engine of the remembrance. Not sentimental, not fragile — just the raw mercy that underpins existence. Inner Peace Now frames it not as theory, but as something you can practice into being, bead by bead, breath by breath.

When Stress Becomes a National Epidemic

The urgency behind the book is clear: society is cracking. “People are just right to the point where they’re at the breaking point,” Laman warned. Post-COVID stress, endless screens, and negative news cycles have us vibrating at panic pitch.

Inner Peace Now isn’t positioned as one more wellness fad. It’s a lifeline. Fifteen minutes of daily remembrance, he argues, could tilt the trajectory of lives and even cultures.

A Revolution in the Ribcage

Philipp Kobald asked the inevitable: what if 20% of Americans practiced remembrance?

“I’m certain it would change the world,” Laman answered. Not through governments or grand policies, but through neighbors speaking softer, parents listening deeper, strangers approaching each other with patience instead of suspicion. Healing scales person to person, heart to heart.

This vision sits at the heart of Inner Peace Now — individual practice as societal antidote.

The Spark We Keep Forgetting

The paradox lingers: remembrance is easy to learn, but hard to commit to. Anyone can breathe “ah” into their chest. Few will keep showing up long enough to pierce the veils.

Yet Inner Peace Now is full of proof that those who do, change. “Listen to your heart,” Laman urged. “Your heart will tell you what’s right for you.”

In an age overrun by algorithms, maybe the bravest act is listening to the algorithm already coded in your chest — the one that has loved you since birth.

The full episode of Spiritual Conversation with Dr. Kirk Laman can be watched on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel.

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