(Photo credit: Keij Sluijk, Leslie’s daughter)
***Leslie van Oostenbrugge, a.k.a. The Awakening Dentist, is another dear friend I met on Hay House Summit 2014 FB page. Leslie is the owner of a dental practice in Amsterdam, with about 3,000 clients and growing. She is currently writing Drilling Into My Emotions, a book that interestingly delves deep into the connection between consciousness and teeth. Her in-depth understanding of the physical and spiritual nature of teeth is so comprehensive that I truly believe she is the Louise Hay of dental health.
I asked Leslie the same questions that I asked other friends in my previous blogs, and here are her answers, along with other gems I culled from her writings.
“I am a holistic dentist…and a physical therapist. I know when something isn't going quite right for someone in his or her life. I ‘read’ the gums so to say… I know why people (better) miss a tooth or a molar! Hmm… terrific, right? On one hand, I care a 100% of each 1/1000th inch of your divine enamel. On the other hand I understand that you better get rid of the tooth. Why? You name it: because of *bad relationships *pushing life *not forgiving parents *Resistance (capital ‘R’) *FEAR (all capitals) *money *jobs *family *not releasing whatever. I can go on with this list. ‘You Can Heal Your Teeth’ could easily be a chapter of Louise Hay’s book You Can Heal Your Life!”
“Many doctors and dentists give terrific insights on bodily issues caused by the mind. As a DDS, MSc, I know this is also true for the teeth and gums; in fact, the total oral cavity… Extremely many diseases start in the mind! They can appear through the gums, teeth, molars and also through the muscles of the jaw. Stress can express itself through muscle tension and gum disease.”
“My top three successes are my amazing mind (!), my thriving dental practice, and I also started to enter the writer's world! I would like to leave the world my amazing upcoming book. It shares insights of how teeth are expressions of consciousness! I see many, many clients with no self love at all. They have a very negative image of their teeth. Because of this, they do not treat their teeth well. Bacteria will grow and oral diseases are born.”
“Many treatments are over-treatments. The body can fix itself. We don’t need a lot of stuff pushed in our mouths by a dentist because the dentist thinks we feel or function better in having that stuff. Change your life and you will have no more dental decay! It is that simple, really. I might talk myself out of my job but this is what I believe in. I have shown it to my clients!”
Asked what great spiritual or esoteric lessons she has learned as an adult, Leslie said, “Be your Self! You are good as you are! You come from Source and will return there. In the meantime: choose the right mind. When you have finally started to love yourself, you are able to make a better life.” Being an athlete herself who works out a lot, Leslie also tells everyone to be physically active. Her other self-care practices are reading, and crying, if she has to.
Certainly, one beautiful change that Leslie is seeing in the world now is “people choosing Love.” Having Jesus as her role model, she encourages her friends and family to “start reading or learning about A Course in Miracles and the Law of Attraction.” In her book, she states that, “If people could choose to look through the eyes of Source or the eyes of Love, they would feel so different. Please look through the eyes of Source or Love when talking about, looking at, brushing, smiling with, grinding, and ‘soft-picking’ your … T E E T H!”
Love does prevent tooth decay! That being said, I encourage everyone to watch out for Leslie’s book Drilling Into My Emotions. In the meantime, let her wit and wisdom bedazzle you in her Facebook page, Leslie van Oostenbrugge, the awakeningdentist and in Instagram, @theawakeningdentist.
Hmm, and what about people who suffer from PTSD, depression, burnout, bad and negative self-treating habits for decades and chronic pain who never had caries/cavities in their life at all? No gum disease, all their teeth, just 1 small filling due to grinding teeth? I´m just wondering if I am a miraculous person or if I belong to one of these so called exceptions? Or is the main reason that I am a dentist as well and I just care about my teeth?
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for this comment. I'm not a dentist but my understanding is that the teeth are just 'one' of the expressions of consciousness - not The Only One. Other parts of our body express consciousness, or inner state of being. (Louise Hay details everything in her book You Can Heal Your Life.) I hope this comment makes sense.
Deleteso tell me where to start after spendin$$$ on Peridontal work,after being on Bood thinners it was a total waste seeing the hygeinist so I sort of gave up tried to do self care but truthfully economics, so now I will need allmost full dentures,Tried to find holistic dentist here but difficult to find a good one in BC Canada
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