Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  Religion, for the most part, sees human beings as separate from God. spirituality sees human beings as one with God, and understands that everything is connected. Religion focuses on an external power, while spirituality focuses on the power within. spirituality invites us to understand our thoughts and feelings as reflections of the source of creation in our lives.
Oddly enough, the great teachers of the religions have taught that: "the kingdom of God is within you."7 They have tried to show the way. But, religious groups have missed the point. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  As a flower essence, catnip helps those who see spirituality and sexuality as forces that cannot be reconciled. It helps those who are fearful of sexuality yet drawn to illicit sexual behavior and helps harmonize body, mind, and spirit.
In the garden, catnip is best grown from seed, because it tends to draw more attention from neighborhood felines when transplanted. Hence the saying, "If you set it, cats will eat it. If you sow it, cats won't know it."
CAT'S CLAW
Botanical Name
Uncaria guianensis, U. | | In Ayurvedic medicine, saffron is used to enhance love and spirituality.
Pure Saffron
Powdered saffron is frequently adulterated with the male stamens or with marigold, safflower, calendula, or turmeric. To make sure you are getting the real thing, buy the whole stigmas rather than the powder. | | It helps prevent fanatacism about spirituality and psychic phenomena.
Edible Uses
Native Americans sometimes ate the leaves after boiling them or roasting them on hot stones, yet they are extremely bitter. The seeds can be sprinkled into salads or baked goods.
Other Uses
Native Americans sometimes used the pollen as a cosmetic. Spanish Californians boiled the leaves in olive oil, then added perfume to make a hair dressing. Marijuana users sometimes smoke this when their herb of choice is unavailable. | | As a flower essence, bay helps release suppressed emotions, increases vitality, and brings spirituality to the physical level.
Edible Uses
Bay leaf is a classic culinary herb and is used to flavor myriad dishes. The whole, dried leaves are usually too tough to eat and have sharp edges that can lodge in the throat, so remove them from dishes or teas before serving.
Other Uses
Ancient Greeks and Romans regarded bay as a symbol of victory and nobility. Olympic athletes, poets, scholars, and military heroes received wreaths of bay to place on their heads. | | As a flower essence, passionflower helps integrate spirituality into daily life. It also helps clear emotional confusion and relieves pain and trauma.
Other Uses
The leaves and roots of some species have been used to increase the potency of consciousness-expanding substances such as ayahuasca.
Like most foods, passion fruit has some physiologically therapeutic benefits, in this case being antiscorbutic, diuretic, and nutritive. When included in the diet, it can help get rid of a urinary tract infection, calm hyperactivity, and relax coughs. It is also considered to be a heart tonic. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  Because we lack leadership, we are trying to regulate our way out of a mess that requires a complete national change in consciousness and spirituality.
That takes placing a value on nature. We must start to put a value on nature in our balance sheets, and, if we do this, we can fuel the new green movement. It just makes sense. Suzuki and Paul Hawken were right. They both state clearly that we have to value our natural assets to measure our wealth, our gross national assets. There has to be a place on the balance sheet for these. |
J. Douglas Bremner
See book keywords and concepts |  Like other doctors, I was trained at a medical school and adapted practices taught to me, mainly focused on treating disease with medications and surgery, with little on nutrition, behavior, spirituality, or disease prevention through lifestyle changes. After that I attended lectures at the annual medical meetings and got updates on new treatments from the leading doctors in my field. Like my peers, I believed that medications were a good thing, that any risks and undesirable side effects would be solved through future medical breakthroughs, continuous research, and newer drugs. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts | | But I also had to free myself; or, rather, open myself up to a different kind of influence on spirituality and religion and maybe even my super-critical spy-eye way of seeing things. I was trying to apply an American Midwest street-grid mentality to a city, region, and people that defied straight lines. After all, I'd grown up in LA a town that was laid down in grids of a certain Midwest geometry and mind-set, and I absorbed all of this as a full-fledged child of the military industrial complex and Aerospace and Hughes and all of that. But here, equipped with map on lap, it did me little good. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Consumer demand and the economic crisis of the medical system are probably the main reasons that increasing numbers of medical practitioners have turned to low cost treatments and even to prayer and spirituality. Particularly in the United States, where insurance fees for malpractice are exorbitant, physicians are increasingly interested in attending to their patients' spiritual needs. By building more personal relationships with their patients, a doctor lowers his risk of litigation considerably. |
Richard Bartlett
See book keywords and concepts |  I wish to pay deep, humble gratitude to my spiritual teacher, Elizabeth Claire Prophet, who taught me it is okay "not to know" and that spirituality is practicality, and who deeply loved me with all my flaws.
I wish to thank my friend Betsy Bergstom, who introduced me to shamanic states of consciousness and showed me the validity and power of that realm.
On the scientific side of things I wish to acknowledge and thank my friend Dr. Karl Pribram, developer of the concept of the nervous system as a holographic phenomenon, and my dear friend, Dr. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  They also observed increased activity in an area of the brain associated with both spirituality and sex— the right temporal lobe. So if decreasing stress isn't enough motivation for you to do the Relaxation Response, maybe improving your sex life is!
Lowering Your Blood Pressure, Not Your Bank Account
So how is the Relaxation Response different from meditation? Truth be told, there may not be a lot of difference, at least from a physiological point of view.
"There's one common physiology to all techniques that use different words, or sounds, or postures," Benson explains. |
Dan Buettner
See book keywords and concepts |  Slowing down ties together so many of the other lessons—eating right, appreciating friends, finding time for spirituality, making family a priority, creating things that bring purpose. I remember sitting one cloudy afternoon with Raffaella Monne in the Sardinian village of Arzana. Outliving most of her children, this woman had enjoyed a full life; at age 107, she stayed in her home for much of the day, venturing out to a nearby plaza some afternoons. Though she could only muster a whisper, her loving, serene demeanor attracted people. | | The Blue Zone in Okinawa
Sunshine, spirituality, and Sweet Potatoes
THE SIMPLEST WAY TO IMAGINE OKINAWA is to envision it as a Japanese Hawaii—an exotic laid-back group of islands with a warm, temperate climate, palm trees, and sugar-sand beaches hemming a turquoise sea, where the cities ping and hum with an electronic din, and a favorite dish is a SPAM-and-vegetable stir-fry. For nearly a millennium, this Pacific archipelago nearly 1,000 miles from Tokyo has maintained a reputation for nurturing extreme longevity. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Give yourself a chance to think through your spirituality.
We'll offer you a bunch more habits throughout our fourteen-day starter program so you can adopt them for the rest of your now longer life.
Week One
Pay Owe: Take Stock, Which Way Is the Scale Tipping?
Your YOU-do List
Do the everyday basics, uh, every day. See page 313.
Get out and go shopping! Buy these items, which should run you less than $125.
A tape measure.
A heart-rate monitor. (We like Polar and Omron products; they have chest straps and monitor watches.) A pedometer. |
Dan Buettner
See book keywords and concepts | | I'd met Greg years earlier at the University of Minnesota's Center for spirituality and Healing, where he served as the medical director.
"In America we focus on battling diseases once they occur," says Greg, 46, who completed residencies in both internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, holds a divinity degree from Harvard, and is one of the world's leading experts on Kampo, Japan's traditional herbal medicine. "However, in traditional Asian thought, the highest, most honored form of medicine was prevention, and the lowest was treatment. |
Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts |  Extending someone's consciousness to be 'in tune' with a higher level of spirituality, with God, a 'Supreme Being' or whatever the 'force' is conceived to be, opens remarkable possibilities for cure.
The orthodox medical profession theorises that faith healers simply reinforce the mental attitudes of patients and they feel better, even if their actual condition is not cured. The body's natural defences actively respond to the belief, stress is reduced, health-giving hormones may be produced and antibodies—the cells in the blood that fight infection and disease—are strengthened. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | In one recent study, a group of people participated in a week-long program that included a strict vegan diet, stress management and spirituality enhancement sessions, group support, and exclusion of tobacco, alcohol, and caffeine. Just within one week on this program, the average homocysteine level fell 13 percent.
Conclusion: If you regularly consume large quantities of animal protein, including meat, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, milk, cheese, etc. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts | | In matters of spirituality and religion, we were taught to listen to the minister, pastor, priest, rabbi, or sheikh. In matters of our health, we have been conditioned by our upbringing, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to go to the doctor because "The doctor knows best." But is this always the case?
We think we are free, in control, and well taken care of, but are we really? The answer in health, as in all other parts of our lives, is to think for ourselves. |
Pam Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Pastor Shirley Oskamp recognizes that "spirituality is the life breath of religion and must be a part of it" and that you can't go to church each week and "expect easy answers or pray in this way and you'll be all better. Living a spiritual life is about taking responsibility and taking action," engaging with spirit in all its many forms.
In working with spirit within and without, we must let any confinements imposed by religion fall away and not get stuck in the orthodox view of spirit that ingrained religion may impose. | | Journal Entry, February 2006
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It has been said that the spiral is the oldest symbol of human spirituality. Nature manifests in a spiraling motion, returning with new life each year. In early human times this must have seemed like a miracle, and, after too long a winter in Vermont, the song of the first robins heralding spring is indeed a miracle. The earliest known spiral was found on a mammoth-tooth amulet dating twenty-four thousand years ago. |
Stephen T., M.D. Sinatra
See book keywords and concepts |  Think of spirituality as your beliefs about the life force or God that is both within and outside yourself. It is about having faith in that power and turning to it for courage, strength, and healing.
You may be wondering why a cardiologist is advocating spirituality. Aren't medicine and spirituality at opposite ends of the spectrum? Isn't one grounded in fact, the other in faith? Actually, I believe that medicine and religion are indeed the twin traditions of healing. More and more, physicians and health care providers are discovering spirituality as an untapped resource and tool in healing. | | While spirituality can embrace any one or all of these, drawing on the power of the divine can have tremendous implications in healing. Think of spirituality as your beliefs about the life force or God that is both within and outside yourself. It is about having faith in that power and turning to it for courage, strength, and healing.
You may be wondering why a cardiologist is advocating spirituality. Aren't medicine and spirituality at opposite ends of the spectrum? Isn't one grounded in fact, the other in faith? | | But actually, what is spirituality? Is it religion—going to church every Sunday? Is it searching for a guru? Or is it getting in touch with nature? While spirituality can embrace any one or all of these, drawing on the power of the divine can have tremendous implications in healing. Think of spirituality as your beliefs about the life force or God that is both within and outside yourself. It is about having faith in that power and turning to it for courage, strength, and healing.
You may be wondering why a cardiologist is advocating spirituality. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
See book keywords and concepts |  Mind-body intervention strategies that are thought to promote health include hypnosis, meditation, yoga, cognitive-behavioral therapies, Tai Chi, group support, autogenic training, and spirituality. Some mind-body approaches have been documented to be effective and are considered mainstream, such as cognitive therapy, hypnosis, meditation, and expressive therapies. Other mind-body techniques, such as prayer, though widely considered effective, are still being researched for their effectiveness. | | The term religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or spirituality, but these latter terms are more closely associated with personal conviction or a personal belief in the sacred or holy, not necessarily associated with organized religion.
Repetition compulsion—A repetitive pattern of flawed thought, feeling, and/or behavior that has dire consequences for health and wellbeing. Unresolved difficult experiences or emotions create impressions in the subconscious mind that lead to repetitive, negative tendencies of thought, feeling, and behavior. | | In other words, I wasn't the most likely candidate in the world to embrace spirituality.
I went off to Brandeis University in 1966, determined to get an MD and PhD and follow in my father's footsteps. Brandeis was a crucible for radical thought at that time, and much to my parents' chagrin, I became somewhat of a radical proponent for social change. The larger world was in trouble, and I didn't believe I could help solve the problems by making another breakthrough in biochemistry. | | As he continued to deepen his spirituality, he shifted his focus even further. He volunteered in one of the organizations that he oversaw as a board member, and for six months he worked with a poor, uneducated man and taught him to read. Only then did he find a modicum of the peace he was looking for.
But his story doesn't end there. Despite his personal growth, this man still hasn't fully let go of worldly power as a marker of success because he hasn't gained perfect freedom from self-doubt. Since this is the case, he still has significant physical problems to contend with. |
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