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
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
“Each of us has within us a divine spark.” ~Christiane Northrup, M.D. In her recent article in Westminster Patch in Maryland, Kate Johnson, who writes about spirituality and health, takes a look at how women find better health by looking within. Here are three excerpts showing some of the examples Johnson shares: Dr. Riina, a family physician,
“It was the first time the question had been asked and the study turned up a surprising result: some 6 million Americans had used a mind-body therapy because their doctor had recommended it.” What was the question? “A 2011 study conducted by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School looked at how mainstream
You almost have to read the title of his article twice, and even then, you may still wonder if you got it right. Here’s the title: You are not prepared for a health miracle. In this recent Houston Chronicle article, Keith Wommack of Corpus Christi, Texas — a self-syndicated columnist writing about health, thought, and spirituality —
Recently, a report with recommendations of a working group of the National Cancer Institute was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The report advocates changing the definition of cancer and eliminating the word from medical diagnoses in cases where it is deemed unwarranted resulting in over-diagnosis and over-treatment to the detriment of
A guest post written by Tim Mitchinson, media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Illinois. Recently, actor Michael J. Fox talked about his visit to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. He said there was “something special with these people, something special with the way they live their lives, something special about how they look at things.”
Think about it for a minute. How would you answer this question? What is mind? John D. Clague from Salem, Oregon, who writes about spirituality and health, discusses this after hearing neurobiologist Dan Siegel open his talk at a Portland, Oregon conference on integrative medicine with the question. Clague shares Siegel’s observation that in measuring the brain,
An intriguing view of “buoyancy” as applied to thought comes from Health Blogger Beverly Goldsmith of Melbourne, Australia. She writes: “No one enjoys the ‘sinking feeling’ that often accompanies upsetting news. Some people can deal with it as if it’s nothing more than a blip on their emotional radar. For others, feeling down can seem
He spoke of a closet in their home with carbon inscriptions. It took me a moment to figure this out. Don’t worry – he explains it. Steven Salt, writing about health, spirituality and thought in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, addresses vital signs – not just the usual: height, weight, body mass index, etc., but also spiritual vital signs.