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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: spirituality
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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The power of love to improve mental health
Mental health can be improved and maintained by treating the whole person and by helping the patient feel connected with – and loved by – others and the divine. Treating the whole person In 2007 Malkia Newman was appointed to the … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health
Tagged Bipolar Disorder, depression, Eben Alexander MD, love, Malkia Newman, mental health, prayer, Proof of Heaven, spirituality, wholeness
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Prayer in a Mercedes
Today is National Day of Prayer (see Presidential Proclamation — National Day of Prayer, 2013). Here’s a guest post written by Cynthia P. Barnett, media spokesperson and legislative contact for Christian Science in North Carolina, who shares her thoughts on the … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged Boston Marathon, Danny, mercedes, National Day of Prayer, prayer, safety, spirituality
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Mental health treatments that go beyond a drug-based approach
In a brief video, Eric Bashor in the Christian Science Press Room shares how some mental health treatments today go beyond a drug-based approach. Bashor cites a Washington Post article by Tony Lobl entitled, World Alzheimer’s Day: The healing depths of togetherness. The article includes this guidance from … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged Alzheimer's, connectedness, mental health, spirituality
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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
Spirituality Can Help Lift Us Above Life’s Storms To Better Health
It’s springtime, when the rains bathe and nourish nature and then the winds come to dry things out. This week has been designated in Michigan as Severe Weather Awareness Week. Already, we’re seeing occasional wind advisories in our weather forecasts. For safety’s … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged headaches, health, prayer, severe weather awareness week, spirituality, storms, sunshine
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Time for the WHO to Revisit Their Definition of Health
Fifteen years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed adding the word “spiritual” to the definition of health contained in their constitution – at the time, a significant change for an organization created to coordinate and improve medical and health … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged health, health care, healthcare, prayer, spirituality, WHO, World Health Day, World Health Organization
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Heal Guilt For Better Health
The discomfort produced by guilt is not limited to mental agony; it brings physical torment as well. And since guilt starts in our heads, that’s where its cure needs to begin. As Keith Wommack of Corpus Christi, Texas writes in … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Notes from Bob Cummings
Tagged Dearborn, guilt, Healing, health, Houston Chronicle, Keith Wommack, love, Michigan, prayer, spirituality
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