Archive for the ‘God’ Category - Keith Wommack - Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Health, Thought and Spirituality
Posted by Keith Wommack on May 14, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Henry Garza, guitarist and vocalist with Los Lonely Boys, wrote the lyrics to their song, Heaven. It was a prayer; a prayer motivated by his families financial and emotional hardships, combined with the death of his first-born son from sudden infant death syndrome. The prayer expressed his deep desire for healing. “I know there’s a better place/Than this place I’m livin’/How far is heaven?”
Henry’s heartfelt plea touched hearts worldwide. Because of the strength of the message, the album that included Heaven sold over 2 million copies.
Melodies move us emotionally and change us physically.
Tags: autism, Christian healer, dementia, depression, God, Heaven, Henry Garza, hymn, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital, Los Lonely Boys, Mary Alice Dayton, Mayo Clinic, melody, music, Prayer, schizophrenia
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Posted by Keith Wommack on May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
What can fear do to you? It seems a lot. Anxiety, fear, and worry are reported to be mentally and physically harmful. Jere Daniel in a Psychology Today column,Learning to Love Growing Old, wrote, “Fear of aging speeds the very decline we dread most. And it ultimately robs our life of any meaning.”
I’m discovering that we experience what we think and that fear seems to be able to negatively touch every part of the body, if we allow it. Because of this, I’ve found it effective to filter my thoughts through spiritual reasoning. Many call this prayer.
Tags: Bible, Fear, God, God's pocket, health, Jeff Levin, Jere Daniel, Prayer, Psychology Today, Spirituality
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Apr 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You enter the room of a gravely ill friend where hope has vanished. Your thoughts weigh heavy. The family expects a quick passing. Doctors have proclaimed there are but a few hours left. The room is dark, both mentally and physically. You feel helpless.
But, what if you could do something, something that made a difference?
Tags: Bible Mary Baker Eddy, body, cancer healed, Christian healer, Deepak Chopra, divine consciousness, Duke University, God, Handbook of Religion and Health, Harold Koenig MD, Jesus, Prayer, Truth
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Apr 23, 2012 | 5 Comments »
I believe most of us are inherently aware that love is needed for us to maintain a true quality of life experience. Love and forgiveness, given and received, make us feel mentally and emotionally better. Yet, how many of us know that love has an impact on physical well-being?
Tags: Christian Science, Compassionate love, divine Love, God, love, Mary Baker Eddy, Passionate love, Prayer, The World Heart Federation, Why love matters
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Mar 26, 2012 | Comments Off
I am intrigued by the power of expectations; by the impact they have on our well-being.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Thomas Curry, a licensed Texas psychotherapist about this phenomenon.
Dr. Curry explained, “Expectations are a hot topic in healthcare practice and research. It is widely recognized that an individual’s, or group of individuals, expectations either help or hurt healthcare outcomes. Why this is so, and how it happens, unfortunately remains a mystery. However, what is not mysterious at all is the fact that expectations play a very pivotal role in the progression of mental and medical disease, as well as it has a strong role in any treatment effect.”
This makes me wonder: Do expectations of decline and illness allow for unchecked fear to manifest as disease on the body where it can develop and spread? Are expectations of health possibly divine urgings that animate us to discover more than we are accepting of life at a given moment?
Tags: Bible, Doris Wiederkehr, Dr. Thomas Curry, expect, expectations, God, health, Healthcare, Les Wiederkehr, Prayer, Robert Peel
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Feb 27, 2012 | Comments Off
Got pain? Piece of cake. Just take your mind off it.
I know. Sounds crazy. But …
Recent revelations about the placebo effect, and studies showing that distractions help relieve pain, are revealing that health is more mind-based than has been previously acknowledged. So, if you are suffering, get distracted.
You read that right, get distracted. And, yes, it does strike some as being simple, but I’ve actually seen distractions stop pain.
Tags: distractions, Dr. Larry Dossey, Ellen Degeneres, God, health, pain, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Robin Williams, Spirit, Spirituality, spirituality in healthcare, The Huffington Post, Truth
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Feb 20, 2012 | Comments Off
Stahl interviewed psychologist Irving Kirsch, associate director of the Placebo Studies Program at Harvard Medical School. Kirsch’s research challenges the effectiveness of antidepressants. He said the difference between the effect of a placebo and the effect of an antidepressant is minimal for most people.
During the Kirsch interview, Stahl asserted, “But people are getting better taking antidepressants, I know them. We all know them.”
Kirsch responded, “People get better when they take the drug, but it’s not the chemical ingredients of the drugs that are making them better. It’s largely the placebo effect.”
Tags: 60 Minutes, CBS, God, Harvard Medical School, Irving Kirsch, Jesus, Lesley Stahl, Mary Baker Eddy, mind, placebo
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Feb 6, 2012 | Comments Off
Health and wellness are important to everyone. 80 percent of Internet users look for health information online. We want to be educated.
Yet, health information flows toward us even as we commute to work or relax at home. Advertisements repeatedly broadcast the symptoms of diseases and the side effects of applicable medications. But is this knowledge always helpful? Are we educating ourselves into illness and suffering, inducing problems with fearful predictions and images?
Tags: Bible, Christian Science, Daily Mail, Dr. Clifton Meador, Fiona Macrae, God, health, horse, Mary Baker Eddy, Prayer, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Jan 3, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Thirty-one of them, hands behind their backs, slowly made their way to rows of chairs. Thirty-one orange jumpsuits. Four young women. Twenty-seven young men. All in their teens, except two boys, age ten.
Thirty-one. Not one smile. Not one hello. Their body language screamed, “Disdain.”
I was introduced: “This is Mr. Wommack. He’s here to talk with you. Listen up. If you make a noise, disrupt, slump in your seats, or are in any way are out of order you will lose all privileges the rest of the day.”
Tags: 2012, Barbara Culver Juvenile Detention Center, beginning, Detention Center, God, health, Jesus, Life, Midland Texas, orange jumpsuits, spiritual laws
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Dec 23, 2011 | Comments Off
With Christmas cookies, fruitcake and eggnog tempting us at every corner, it is hard not to gain weight during the holiday season. Yet it is not just holiday foods that are enticing.
Oversized and disproportionate – that about sums it up when the average American is 20 pounds overweight. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently said, “Obesity, and with it diabetes, are the only major health problems that are getting worse in this country, and they are getting worse rapidly.”
Tags: Christian Science, Christmas, cookies, health, obesity, Prayer, Texas, weight
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Henry Garza, guitarist and vocalist with Los Lonely Boys, wrote the lyrics to their song, Heaven. It was a prayer; a prayer motivated by his families financial and emotional hardships, combined with the death of his first-born son from sudden infant death syndrome. The prayer expressed his deep desire for healing. “I know there’s a better place/Than this place I’m livin’/How far is heaven?”
With Christmas cookies, fruitcake and eggnog tempting us at every corner, it is hard not to gain weight during the holiday season. Yet it is not just holiday foods that are enticing.
Columnist / Christian Science practitioner & teacher / Legislative
advocate for spiritual healing. -- Keith Wommack is a nationally
syndicated columnist on health, thought, spirituality and the powerful connection they have to each other.