Building on our expectations of health Expectations are largely built without our being aware we're building them so Steven Salt's June 14 article in Cleveland.com offers thought-provoking considerations about building on our expectations - especially as they relate to health. The beginning of Salt's article is below but please click the link to read the entire article. "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." Continue Reading
The greatest moment in the history of human imagination by Eric Nelson via Communities Digital News
“The greatest moment in the history of human imagination.” A thought-provoking title for Eric Nelson's January 16, 2017 article in Communities Digital News challenging the fixedness of matter in regard to health. Inspired by Jay Walker's TEDMED about a change in perception regarding earth's relationship to the sun has implications relevant far into the future. Consider “human imagination” as you begin reading below and be sure to click through to read the entire article. Jay Walker described it Continue Reading
Balancing act: Finding a successful work-life balance by Ingrid Peschke via The Christian Science Monitor
Is finding work-life balance on your New Year Resolutions list? Then you will be interested in the successful approach Ingrid Peschke relates in this Christian Science Monitor article of December 4. It is certainly relevant at this time when many in Kansas and across the US are evaluating personal life choices as we head into a new year. Below you will find a sample and a link to read the full article. A recent Christian Science Monitor editorial addressing a new generation of women in the Continue Reading
Owning our Health: Defeating ageism with grace by Anna Bowness-Park via The Vancouver Sun
Defeating ageism with grace sounds like a plan for our health that's worth considering. And Anna Bowness-Park does more than consider this plan – she shows us what defeating ageism with grace looks like. Pointing to the societal problem of ageism as one of the most tolerated forms of discrimination in Canada - and many would add Kansas and the US – Anna offers examples of putting grace into action in her April 6, 2015 Vancouver Sun article. The first few paragraphs are below. Please click the Continue Reading
How healthy are you? By Rodolfo Jerome Lacusong via The Daily Guardian
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 Continue Reading
Is Removing Fear Key to Healing Disease? by Tony Lobl via The News Hub
The question "Is Removing Fear Key to Healing Disease?" asked by Tony Lobl in The News Hub is one that deserves some serious consideration. While doctors are puzzled by "non-medical reversals of cancer symptoms" the search for what has brought about these cures seem primarily along the lines of standard medical methods. Maybe a different approach should be considered. I hope you will find this excerpt of Tony's article thought-provoking and will click the link below to read the full Continue Reading
Redefining the mind-body connection by Eric Nelson via Communities Digital News
Eric Nelson's article Redefining the mind-body connection in the March 23 Community Digital News ties closely to the goal of this blog - to promote thought and conversation in Kansas about the effect of thought on health. While the connection between qualities of thought and health are being recognized by many, is there something foundational that is often overlooked? Please consider the ideas in the excerpt below and follow the link at the end to read the full article. As Continue Reading
The universal desire for universal health by Eric Nelson via Communities Digital News
There seem to be few points that unite all Kansans, let alone the whole world, but Eric Nelson seems to have found a point of agreement in The universal desire for universal health as shared in Communities Digital News. You will find an excerpt from this January 26, 2015 article here and a link to the full article below. PETALUMA, CA, Jan. 26, 2014 – You’d be hard-pressed these days, at least here in the U.S., to come up with a more divisive subject than universal health care, but probably Continue Reading
Working for or against your health? By Steven Salt via cleveland.com
In this new year Kansans look to the future - or maybe it's not just in the new year as Steven Salt contends in a cleveland.com article - Are we working for or against our health? Of course we wouldn't intentionally work against our health so it's worthwhile to take a few minutes to consider if mental time travel is affecting your health. Below is an excerpt from this December 2nd article with a link below to continue reading. We can never know about the days to come But we think Continue Reading
Beyond Genetics for Health by John Clague via eSouthernOregon.com
Like the weather in Kansas, our genetic makeup, and therefore our health, may seem beyond our control but "Beyond Genetics for Health"by John Clague via eSouthernOregan.com shares a different view of genetics that some scientists say offer promising effects regarding our health. The ideas are worth considering further so below you will find an excerpt from Clague followed by a link to the full eSouthernOregon article. Geneticists report that almost everything about us, including our Continue Reading