A healthy dose of (productive) doubt can be an enriching and favorable state of mind, leading you to consult your own inner wisdom and question events around you.
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Church Relationships Can Lead to Healing
Recently, I read that there is scientific evidence that going to church weekly has health benefits – it can boost the immune system, decreases blood pressure, and may add as much as two or three years to your life. When I heard this, I was interested to find out what …
Read More »Research Continues on Meditation’s Health Benefits
No one wants to be in pain, and few like to talk about it. But I do want to write about what many are now finding to be one of the most effective pain medicines: meditation. Although there are many meditation studies and reports that indicate it’s helpful in alleviating …
Read More »Challenging Our Set Ways of Thinking by Meeting Others in a “Third Place”
Research has shown us time and again that potent creative ideas result from encountering different points of view, perspectives and disciplines.
Read More »Lose the Indifference
Indifference prevents us from exploring circumstances and possibilities, as well as the internal landscape of our own heart and mind. It makes us less vulnerable, available and effective.
Read More »Defeat Stress Through Healthy Thoughts
Calm thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that are expectant of good outcomes can lead to effective stress responses.
Read More »From Field Holler to Mass Movement to Concert Halls
The black people of Hollywood, South Carolina, like black people all over America, loved this music for the power it instilled in them; for the hope it engendered and for the spiritual feeling it awakened in them.
Read More »How Righteous Anger Keeps You Up the Tree (And How to Get Down)
Often people become angry because they’re not getting what they want or they’re not receiving the recognition they believe they deserve.
Read More »God and the Planetarium
Whenever I’m in a conversation about the planetarium I like to make people laugh (and think) by telling them that from the looks of the real night sky, I think that God must have been to the planetarium too.
Read More »Health Care and Spirituality Can Be Hard to Discuss Together
But doctors and medical schools are taking patients' attitudes toward spirituality more and more seriously.
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