A guest post written by Charles Lindahl. Article originally posted October 30, 2012. I have been a volunteer management consultant for over 10 years with the Executive Service Corps (ESC), an organization that matches retired executives with administrators and boards of nonprofit organizations that need help with planning, board development, fund raising, and executive coaching. Along the way, I have
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A guest post written by Mary Lou MacKenzie The popularity of the current best seller, Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander, indicates a yearning and interest that most of us have for a deeper understanding of what constitutes eternal LIFE. No matter how full ones life is here and now, most of us wonder at some time or another
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A guest post written by Robin Collins To take good care of my health I am learning the value of self-examination, not by investigating my body, but instead my thoughts. When in urgent need, I’ve found a pure, unselfish outlook helps cure discomfort, pain, and disease. In practicing Christian Science, I take a close look at my motive. I ask,
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by Don Ingwerson “Mindfulness Meeting This Way” proclaimed a small sign at the entrance of one of the many medical buildings on the UCLA Campus – and suddenly I felt invigorated. I was not there to attend a mindfulness meeting, but to interview the GWish (George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health) project director, Dr. Margaret Stuber, about a Templeton-funded
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A guest post written by Tim Booth I recently had a conversation with my wife about her tennis group and the discussions they have regarding health. A common theme is the apparent ease with which modern medicine and pharmaceuticals can solve physical problems by simply replacing parts. One woman recently had a knee replaced while others have had a variety
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A guest post written by Evelyn Brookins I recently saw a video blog by Eric Bashor, Christian Science Health News Briefing, about how psychiatrists have concluded that the fear of disease is itself a disease. What I found thought provoking was the source of our fear of disease, which led me to recall being carefully taught in school about germs
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A guest post written by Marc Thompson I had a very normal childhood spending most of my time outside with friends after school and on weekends – riding bikes, hiking, swimming, running, climbing trees, etc. On Sundays my family attended the local Christian Science Church, where my sister and I went to the Sunday School. Whenever I would get hurt
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by Don Ingwerson C. Everett Koop, former US Surgeon General, passed away February 25 at age 96. Here’s how I remember him. I was a school administrator when President Reagan nominated C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General for the United States. I recall Koop’s appearing in front of congressional committees and the intense questioning that he was subjected to. However,
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A guest post written by Susan Berry One of my favorite poems by Robert Frost is “The Road Not Taken.” Frost ends the poem: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” My choice to rely on Christian Science for my health care needs has
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by Don Ingwerson Everyone seems to be affected by fear in some way or another, but looking at fear and its causes isn’t intended to create more fear, but to show that it need not be harmful. Fear is self imposed but so intimately entwined in the individual that it seems as if it were as much a part of
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