Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation

Name: Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation
ISBN: 978-1544550251

How Meditation, Shamanism, and Indigenous Healing Can Tap into Your Light Within and Change the World

by Gilbert Martina

Publisher

Houndstooth Press

Publication

Mar 10, 2026

Format

Paperback/Softback

Illustrated

Price

$17.99

Dimensions

6 x 9 x 0.58 in

ISBN

978-1544550251

ASIN

1544550251

Pages

232

Age

Adult 18+

Rights Sold

🌍 World Wide Rights Available

Description

“We are everywhere.”

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings carrying the light within us.

After losing his parents, Gilbert Martina worried that his father’s collective wisdom from his Curaçao ancestors and his mother’s spiritual guidance were forever lost. Instead, he received clear instructions: he needed to carry their legacy to the world.

Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation is a deeply personal portrait of one man’s search for solace while maintaining his health and moral integrity. It is a homecoming for everyone who feels they do not fit in, who longs to find true acceptance and understanding.

Healthy Minds, Healthy Nations introduces transcendental meditation and shamanism to transform your consciousness. It emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and personal growth, even in moments filled with physical pain and suffering. It encourages you to use your light to heal yourself—and to be a lightworker to change the world.

Awards & Endorsements

Reviews

"In the nearly 40 years that I have known Gilbert Martina, I have seen them grow as an authority in the field and become an extraordinary CEO and leader. Their leadership is characterized by not only a business perspective but also by considering mental health and the context of health in historical contexts and social realities. They connect the past, present, and future with an offer of hope. Gilbert is inspiring and decisive. This book is a must for anyone who wants to think about new leadership."

—John Leerdam, Director of the Slavery Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"I have had the privilege of witnessing Gilbert Martina's journey as a modern medicine-man in his training at The Four Winds Society. Gilbert embodies the qualities of perseverance, humility, charisma, and a deep integrity and dedication to healing the world, which shines through in his work. In Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation, he invites us to discover the wisdom within ourselves and to recognize how meditation and shamanic practices can bring positive transformation not only to the individual but to our communities and the world. This is a relevant and timely book, written by a man who has walked the path of spirit with courage and authenticity. I keep Gilbert's book by my bedside and am honored to endorse his work and vision."

—Alberto Villoldo, PhD, Founder, The Four Winds Society.

"Gilbert Martina walks the path of wisdom with humility, integrity, and an open heart. In Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation, he offers a map for healing that reminds us how personal transformation can radiate outward to uplift communities and nations."

—Marcela Lobos, author of The Sacred Andean Codes and lead faculty at The Four Winds Society.

Author(s)

Gilbert Martina

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings carrying the light within us.

After losing his parents, Gilbert Martina worried that his father’s collective wisdom from his Curaçao ancestors and his mother’s spiritual guidance were forever lost. Instead, he received clear instructions: he needed to carry their legacy to the world. His work connects mental health, generational trauma, and cultural identity around one core belief: if trauma can be inherited, healing can be inherited too

Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation is a deeply personal portrait of one man’s search for solace while maintaining his health and moral integrity. It is a homecoming for everyone who feels they do not fit in, who longs to find true acceptance and understanding.

As founder of The Blenchi Sanctuary and current President of the Curaçao Football Federation , the smallest nation in history to qualify for a FIFA World Cup, he is now an international voice in human-centered leadership and collective transformation.