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- 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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Tag Archives: Healing
Charles Darwin sees connection between thought and blushing
Blushing provides a great example, I think, of how consciousness can affect health. An emotional response in thought (e.g. feeling embarrassment) has a direct effect on the body – a change in blood flow seen as blushing in the face. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged blushing, Charles Darwin, consciousness, divine, Healing, health, spirituality, thought
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Taming impossibility
“What is now proved, was once only imagined.“ - William Blake Earlier this month Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of a new chemical structure called quasicrystals that researchers considered to be impossible. … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, Daniel Schectman, Healing, health, imagined, impossible, possible, prayer, spirituality, Theory of Relativity
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Thinking about the placebo effect
If the placebo effect is the result of an expectation in thought, if we took the placebo out of the equation and retained only the thought, would that still help? If the placebo has no intrinsic medicinal value, isn’t the … Continue reading
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Tagged divine, Healing, health, placebo, thought, treatment
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Rethinking the universe
Does thought know no bounds? In my previous blog post, “Science and spirituality”, I shared a new shift in thought identified by Larry Dossey M.D. that he describes as moving from “local” (brain-body) to “non-local” (mind-body) healing. This non-local healing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Science
Tagged Healing, infinity, non-locality, quantum physics, Scientific American, thought, TIme and space, Vlatko Vedral
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Science and spirituality
“The choice between science and spirituality appears increasingly artificial today, even from a scientific perspective.” writes Larry Dossey M.D.¹ It does seem difficult for thought entrenched in the material to consider something quite different. But all that is needed really … Continue reading
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Tagged Healing, Healing Words, Larry Dossey M.D., mind-body, Science, spirituality
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Caregiver placebo effect
The placebo effect is usually considered to be the curative effective resulting from patients equipping a sugar pill with their belief in its ability to help. But it turns out that the placebo effect can result from the thought of … Continue reading
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Tagged Caregiver, Christ Jesus, Christian Science, Healing, health, Herbert Benson MD, placebo effect, Science and Health, thought, Timeless Healing
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Spiritual evidence-based healing
Andrew Weil, M.D., in “Why Our Health Matters” (page 43) writes, “Many doctors have told me about cases of spontaneous healing that they have witnessed in patients, some correlated with mental or emotional changes“. So, how can we account for … Continue reading
Medicine’s reverse marriage?
It’s like a reverse marriage – sort of. An Op-Ed piece entitled, “Medicine’s Great Divide – The View from the Alternative Side” published this month in the Virtual Mentor, the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics, describes the relationship between … Continue reading
White as a ghost
I was about 11 years old. I froze in my tracks and listened. My folks were having a new house built just around the corner from where we lived and that night I was the one who went over to … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, fear, Healing, health, Jesus, thought, truth, white as a ghost
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Health promise
“promise |ˈpräməs|noun declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that guarantees that a particular thing will happen” (New Oxford American Dictionary) “I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord;…” (KJV … Continue reading