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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

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

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 … Continue reading

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ESCAPE FIRE: Expanding Our View of Healthcare Without Fear

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, … Continue reading

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Must we ingest something to achieve health?

“Dr. Viggiano, noting that the act of taking a pill is often just an external trigger to what she describes as an internal or ‘central’ healing response, wonders what this tells us about our thoughts in terms of their effect … Continue reading

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Watching what we’re watching for health’s sake

The recent tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut pulls at the heartstrings of all of us. We long to know that everyone involved will soon find some measure of comfort and peace. As we search for answers to why the tragedy unfolded … Continue reading

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Need an emancipation proclamation for your health?

Do you sometimes feel like a slave to disease? Or to its treatment? Or know someone who does? How do chapped lips, Abraham Lincoln’s visit to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a case of poison ivy shed light on needed emancipation? Abraham … Continue reading

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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

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What’s prayer got to do with it?

The short answer is…. plenty! So, how was weight loss accomplished through prayer ? Healing in Christian Science is not faith healing through the human mind or a blind faith. It’s not New Age thinking or positive thinking. It’s not … Continue reading

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Is God ever uncaring?

“Would Americans, in the face of unemployment, home foreclosures, two wars and an uncertain economic future, describe the Almighty as a wrathful, cold critic of our failings, or maybe a distant, uncaring force?” The answer?   “For Americans today, God, quite … Continue reading

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A Relevant Social Network Christmas

This video below showed me that the Christmas story can be told in the language of today’s Social Media and still share the same message. Here’s the YouTube video entitled Social Network Christmas by Ignitermedia.com So here’s a question: does … Continue reading

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