More than "thoughts & prayers"
Prayer can take different forms. As treatment, it can be an effective, systematic, and practical method of healing, meeting human needs through spiritual means.
Remembering Sandy Hook One Year Later – With The Heart
With the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, coming up tomorrow, Saturday, December 14, it’s important to turn our hearts and thoughts in directions that will continue the healing process. In Watching what we’re watching for health’s sake, we are reminded that research shows a link between watching
Touching account of one man’s journey from obesity and diabetes to health
Come meet John. Seventy pounds overweight and in poor health – little exercise, a poor diet, and no energy. See how, with a few life-changing mental ‘turns’, he became healthy and full of vigor. Last month, my colleague, Huffington Post “Changing Tides of Health” blogger Ingrid Peschke, shared a touching account of how a man she met
For Health: Gratitude with the Heart, Lips and Action
If it is true that gratitude is good for health, then wouldn’t it be beneficial to actively be grateful on a consistent basis? In a study looking at a conscious focus on blessings, subjects expressing gratitude experienced a 25% increase in happiness and, get this: those with chronic health problems experienced better sleep. There are
Why you might want to change your view of stress
“Those who reported a lot of stress but didn’t view it as harmful actually had a lower risk of dying than anyone else in the study, including those who reported low levels of stress.” What? Really? That’s what the study found. Furthermore, can caring for others and divine inspiration help reduce negative effects of stress?
Dealing with chronic pain through prayer
Here’s a guest post written by Katie S. Brown, media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Indiana, writing in the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She shares how a cousin of hers found relief from pain by using prayer when post-surgery medications failed to provide relief. DEALING WITH CHRONIC PAIN THROUGH PRAYER by Katie S.
Tips Beyond The Medicine Cabinet For Better Sleep
In a recent Tampa Bay Times article entitled, “10 tips to help you sleep: Look outside the medicine cabinet“, health writer Bob Clark from Belleair, Florida points out that Americans are using 60 million prescriptions for sleep-inducing drugs at a cost of $7 billion a year. But it’s not doing the trick. He says, “Sleep experts
A Healthy Attitude Is…Well…Healthy
“Do you have a healthy attitude?” This question is tackled in a recent article by Keith Wommack, a syndicated columnist from Corpus Christi, Texas who focuses on the impact thought and spirituality have on health. The article quotes Mark Hyman, M.D., author of Calm Your Mind, Heal Your Body, who said, “… the most powerful
From DOWN UNDER: Care Helps Dementia Sufferers and Caregivers
In the U.S., the Alzheimer’s Organization reports that an estimated 5.2 million Americans suffer from dementia and more than half of their caregivers struggle with high emotional stress. Writing in the Fraser Coast Chronicle in northeastern Australia, Kay Stroud presents a hopeful look at helping those suffering from dementia in an article entitled, “Care can
Malala Yousafzai and Lessons On Forgiveness
Anna Bowness-Park, writing this week in her Owning Our Health blog in the Vancouver Sun in British Columbia, Canada, looks deeper – much deeper – into lessons on forgiveness from Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for speaking out about education for girls in Pakistan. Bowness-Park quotes Rev. Alisdair Smith, Deacon
Perspective Amidst Signs of Change in Health Care
Russ Gerber, in his latest article on Health Care in Psychology Today, writes: “Humorist Art Buchwald said ‘The best things in life aren’t things.’ Perspective matters.” With Health Exchanges open and many considering insurance choices and costs, Gerber nudges us to take a deeper perspective: “Much of what we call health care starts to look like