The question “How healthy are you?” may not be directly asked very frequently but health concerns are voiced regularly in the media and every-day conversations in Kansas and, apparently, around the world as we see in Rodolfo Jerome Lacusong April 18th article in The Daily Guardian. Lacusong’s piece was prompted by a New Zealand researcher’s website questionnaire intended to gauge one’s health. Enjoy these practical ideas about how to consider health from a spiritual basis -in the excerpt below and in the full article reached by clicking the link at the end.
IF YOU were asked “How healthy are you?” how would you respond? On what would you base your answer?
A researcher from New Zealand, Mr. Jason Shon Bennett, formulated a questionnaire to measure this on his website “Exceptional Health”.
His 35 questions are mostly geared towards a healthy lifestyle, healthy food intake and healthy thinking.
In responding I thought about what “healthy thinking” actually means to me. A familiar citation came to mind which says: “Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious – as Life eternally is – can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy)
Why should fearful and doubtful thoughts affect our health?