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Prayer in a Mercedes

By Bob CummingsMay 2, 2013Health, Notes from Bob CummingsBoston Marathon, Danny, mercedes, National Day of Prayer, prayer, safety, spirituality

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Today is National Day of Prayer (see Presidential Proclamation — National Day of Prayer, 2013). Here’s a guest post written by Cynthia P. Barnett, media spokesperson and legislative contact for Christian Science in North Carolina, who shares her thoughts on the power of prayer.

It’s a little word, really. One that often gets overlooked in the drama of an exciting story as it’s told or recorded. The word is a soft one to say; it’s a meek word. But more than most, it’s a mighty word.

Followup: A Runner Prays

By Bob CummingsApril 17, 2013Health, Notes from Bob Cummingsmarathon, prayer, runner

My previous post was a guest post by friend and colleague Stormy Becker Falso in Georgia about her insights as a runner, having run her first marathon earlier this year. That guest piece was published shortly before the tragic events at the Boston Marathon. With the events of that day still pulling at our heartstrings, I thought

Looking for Potential

By Bob CummingsApril 15, 2013Health, Notes from Bob Cummingsmarathon, potential, prayer, running, Stormy Becker Falso

With the Boston Marathon being run today, this guest post by my friend and colleague Stormy Becker Falso in Georgia seems especially relevant. A runner for some time, she ran in her first marathon earlier this year. Enjoy her insights.

Looking for Potential
By Stormy Becker Falso

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I heard the rhythmic footfalls quickly approaching from behind. I was running my fastest, but I could hear them overtaking me. A runner, tall and lithe, effortlessly passed me. I watched as he disappeared into the distance. As I continued my steady gait, I thought about his efficient movement and grace.

Instead of feeling impatient with my own plodding pace, I spent time thinking about how this runner’s example of effortless speed, revealed possibilities for my own improvement. I see the same possibilities when I read about people who have been healed of illness through prayer. I find these reports of healing not only in religious and spiritual literature but also in popular non-fiction. For example, have you read the incredible story of Louis Zamperini in “Unbroken”? He left PTSD and raging alcoholism behind virtually overnight as a result of a spiritual experience.

Who’s Missing From a List of 50 Women in Health?

By Bob CummingsApril 10, 20135 commentsHealth, Notes from Bob Cummings50 Women Who Shaped America's Health, health, health care, healthcare, homeopathy, Huffington Post, Mary Baker Eddy, placebos, prayer, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, spirituality

Perhaps her prominence in the field of health is sometimes overlooked because of her historical association with a religion and the fact that medicine and medical research, in her day especially, were almost exclusively the purview of men.

In celebration of Women’s History Month the Huffington Post ran an article last month with pictures of “50 Women Who Shaped America’s Health“. Numerous comments were shared online noting that this list is incomplete.

The Huffington Post listened and added 5 more women taken from their readers’ input. That makes this list 50+5.

Certainly there are many more. But here’s one woman that surely should be included in the field of health – Mary Baker Eddy.

Spirituality Can Help Lift Us Above Life’s Storms To Better Health

By Bob CummingsApril 9, 2013Health, Notes from Bob Cummingsheadaches, health, prayer, severe weather awareness week, spirituality, storms, sunshine

It’s springtime, when the rains bathe and nourish nature and then the winds come to dry things out. This week has been designated in Michigan as Severe Weather Awareness Week. Already, we’re seeing occasional wind advisories in our weather forecasts. For safety’s sake, it’s certainly wise to be alert and aware. And just as flying above the

Time for the WHO to Revisit Their Definition of Health?

By Bob CummingsApril 5, 2013Health, Notes from Bob Cummingshealth, health care, healthcare, prayer, spirituality, WHO, World Health Day, World Health Organization

Fifteen years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed adding the word “spiritual” to the definition of health contained in their constitution – at the time, a significant change for an organization created to coordinate and improve medical and health services around the globe. Sunday, April 7, World Health Day commemorates the creation of the

Heal Guilt For Better Health

By Bob CummingsApril 3, 2013Health, Notes from Bob CummingsDearborn, guilt, Healing, health, Houston Chronicle, Keith Wommack, love, Michigan, prayer, spirituality

The discomfort produced by guilt is not limited to mental agony; it brings physical torment as well. And since guilt starts in our heads, that’s where its cure needs to begin. As Keith Wommack of Corpus Christi, Texas writes in a Houston Chronicle article last week, “in order to heal a body affected by guilt,

IN THE NEWS: Cultural Change in Health Care

By Bob CummingsMarch 29, 2013Health, Notes from Bob Cummingsdrugs, Healing, health, health care, healthcare, Jesus, medicines, prayer, spirituality

Here are three articles in the news this month that indicate a growing cultural change in the use of drugs for health. (1) Heart Drugs: Too Many Medication Types Are Compromising Health, Doctors Say From Reuters, by Debra Sherman, posted on HuffingtonPost.com, March 13, 2013 Excerpts: “We are eager to add medicines and reluctant to take

A Broader Spectrum of Care for Better Health Care Results?

By Bob CummingsMarch 19, 2013Health, Notes from Bob CummingsCAM, ESCAPE FIRE, health, health care, healthcare, prayer, Simcoe.com, spirituality, well-being, Wendy Margolese

Our health care system here in the U.S. is often compared and contrasted with the Canadian system that provides universal coverage. Each system has its virtues and its challenges. Canadian health blogger Wendy Margolese from Toronto, Ontario, Canada recently wrote an interesting piece on Simcoe.com entitled, “Canadian Medicare: More Care in our Health Care System”.

ESCAPE FIRE: Expanding Our View of Healthcare Without Fear

By Bob CummingsMarch 15, 2013Health, Notes from Bob CummingsCAM, CNN, complimentary and alternative medicine, ESCAPE FIRE, health, health care, healthcare, Mary Baker Eddy, prayer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Science and Health, spirituality, Wag Dodge

How much airtime does an issue need before that sets fire to our commitment for change? The award-winning documentary movie Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare, until recently, has received relatively small attention. Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, said, “The physical health of our nation and the cost of healthcare, impact every current

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