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Bob Cummings
- I write about how spirituality and thought benefit health and serve as the media and legislative spokesperson for Christian Science in Michigan. A life-long Michigander and MSU graduate, I like to travel and am a fairly decent table tennis player.
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Category Archives: Health
Monitor Thought For Better Health
Think thought doesn’t matter when it comes to health? Consider the following two articles that look at how thought affects our health – both of which address all of the following: The placebo effect The nocebo effect (harmful negative version … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings, Spirituality
Tagged fear, health, health care, healthcare, medical students disease, nocebo, placebo, prayer, spirituality, thought
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The Roseto Effect and What Love’s Got To Do With It
What’s the Roseto Effect? It’s named for the Italian residents of Roseto, Pennsylvania who were consistently healthy – much more so than those in neighboring communities as close as one mile away. In his latest article, Keith Wommack of Corpus Christi, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings, Spirituality
Tagged diet, health, Keith Wommack, lifestyle, love, Roseto, spirituality
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Taking Lessons From Hospice Care
“Is it ever too early to incorporate the patient autonomy, compassion, comfort and enhanced quality of life hospice is known for?” Eric Bashor in the Christian Science Press Room asks this question in a short video that looks at the lessons hospice offers … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Spirituality
Tagged Christian Science Press Room, health, health care, healthcare, hospice, patient autonomy, quality of life, spirituality
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The love that is good for health
In an article in the Houston Chronicle, after sharing a very touching story of how he and his step-son-to-be learned together about living love, Keith Wommack - a nationally syndicated columnist on health, thought, and spirituality - discusses the love that has … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Spirituality
Tagged divine, forgiveness, health, Houston Chronicle, Keith Wommack, kindness, love, spirituality
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Penny-pinching for better health?
With growing health care costs and – according to the Institute of Medicine – the large amounts of unnecessary health care spending, will penny-pinching bring a paradigm-shift in health care? And if so, what forms of care will that include? … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Spirituality
Tagged health, health care, health care spending, health insurance, healthcare, spirituality, wellness
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Become “the CEO of your own health”
In a recent article in the Clearwater Patch, Health Blogger Bob Clark brings his readers’ attention to the liberating idea to become “the CEO of your own health”, quoting Dr. Travis Stork, author of ”The Doctor is In”. He also shares author … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged Bob Clark, Clearwater Patch, Dr. Travis Stork, George Barna, health, healthcare, spirituality
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Oklahoma: connecting with each other and the divine to move forward
Images of the category EF-5 tornado that went through portions of Oklahoma on Monday and the trail of destruction it left behind can be disturbing to watch. And, as in the case of other recent tragedies, such as hurricane Sandy, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mental health, Notes from Bob Cummings, Spirituality
Tagged comfort, divine, fear, grief, love, Moore, Oklahoma, Oklahoma tornado, peace, prayer, PTSD, spirituality, stress
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The Power of Hope in Healing
A guest post written by Ingrid Peschke, a Christian Science practitioner and a legislative advocate for spiritual healing in Massachusetts. You can also read this post on her weekly syndicated blog, “Health Conscious” at MetroWest Daily News. Hope. That’s the word I came … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, Health, Spirituality
Tagged compassion, empathy, forgiveness, Framingham, grace, gratitude, hope, humility, Hypocrites, Ingrid Peschke, inner calm, Jerome Groopman, Mary Baker Eddy, morals, Nancy Gaulin, neurochemistry, optimism, peace, purpose in life, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, serenity, Spirit and Healing in the 21st Century, spirituality, The Anatomy of Hope, values
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When Mothers Offer Spirituality It’s Good For Health
My mother – through her example and her actions – instilled in me a recognition of the value of spirituality as it relates both to health and to everyday life. She didn’t push spirituality at others, she quietly lived it … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings, Spirituality
Tagged Bible, health, mother's day, mothers, prayer, spirituality
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Appreciating Nurses and Their Recognition of Spirituality
The Michigan Legislature passed a resolution recognizing National Nurses Week – May 6-12 – here in Michigan. It points out that the “146,488 nurses in Michigan comprise the largest group of health care professionals in the state.” And it calls on the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings, Spirituality
Tagged health, health care, healthcare, Michigan Nurses Week, National Nurses Week, nurses, prayer, spirituality
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