Tag Archives: well-being

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.

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Looking Within For Individual Well-being

“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,

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Is 21 Scoops Too Much Ice Cream?

“Remember when you ate too much ice cream as a kid and afterwards your tummy ached?” Wendy Margolese in Ontario, Canada, writing about health from a spiritual perspective, quickly caught my attention with this opening question in a recent article. When I was a kid, our family frequented an ice cream parlor on Friday nights.

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Love Delivers

“Over 80% of Americans directly feel God’s love according to a survey conducted by the organization funded by the John Templeton Foundation”. This was reported by Steven Salt last month in an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland.com) entitled, “Love delivers healthy makeover”. With some recent incidents in the news that just call out

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What is Happiness Worth?

What if we ranked nations by their “gross national happiness” instead of their gross national product? That’s how the country of Bhutan has measured itself since the early 1970’s. If you live in Michigan, as I do, where we still have snow on the ground, snow in the air at times, and it’s just plain

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A Broader Spectrum of Care for Better Health Care Results?

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”.

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Music and health – really?

(Courtesy of flickr user Labanex)

Cancer patients were provided with 30 minutes of culturally appropriate music to relieve pain. This provided a level of 50% pain relief in 42% of the music group compared to 8% in the control group.

This from a 2010 randomized controlled trial¹ conducted at the Fooyin University School of Nursing in Taiwan.

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