The Mind-Body Connection in Health

Neurotransmitters, Receptors, and Prescription Drugs

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Christian Health – 15 Reasons Your Prayers For Healing May Be Blocked

You’ve thought you’ve been a “good” Christian. You go to church, have devotions and are active in church events. You pray – well, especially now that you’re sick and neither the medical community or alternative medicine has been able to help you. You’ve exhausted all avenues known to “man” and came up empty. So God is your last hope.

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Mood Music

Music affects our moods, gets us pumped up, can depress us, and really can be used however we want! The choice is up to YOU!

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Stop Struggling to Find Your True Purpose

Struggling is not going to make us any stronger. This is a statement made by people who have nothing better to offer. As soon as you are struggling, people like to like to say let’s make the best of it. Some even tell you that struggling is good for you-when they should be saying, if there’s more of a complete understanding about struggling, then you don’t have to struggle as a person.

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Teach Me to Fix My Chakras – Part I

Chakra means wheel or energy center. We have over 100 of them, from head to toe. Some of the lesser known locations are the palms of our hands, the soles of our feet., the backs of our knees, and the joints right next to our ears. There is one about a foot above our heads, and another one about a foot below our feet. They all have names and functions, colors and vibrations and even sounds. Each chakra is correlated to an organ and system of the body as well. Everything living has a chakra system.

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The Benefits of Play

While coloring at a meeting, I realized how relaxed I felt. My daughters participate in 4-H and I was helping the group decorate the annual float that would be in the Northwest Montana Fair parade. While outlining circles on a poster board in various shades to simulate a crowd at a rodeo, I experienced a guilt free respite from my usual routine where every task screams, “Get me done first!”

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Study – Having Close Friends Leads to Longer Life

Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, an associate psychology professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah has co-written a study showing that people with strong close relationships are 50% more likely to live longer than those without. These relationships have been linked to lower blood pressure, better immune functioning and decreasing hospitalization length. In other words, the risks associated with being isolated and alone are as severe as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, being an alcoholic or being inactive and obese. The report analyzed 148 studies of over 300,000 people with an average age of 64 evenly divided between males and females. The participants were followed for an average of 7.5 years and showed that those over 18 with strong relationships lived an average of 3.7 years longer.

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Are You Leaking Energy?

With the pace of modern society it can be difficult to gain a perspective on our own lives and energy levels. After all, we often live our life to the full every minute of every day and this haste isn’t exactly conducive to reflection. Any short breaks that we do get can become more about resting and recuperating than they are about reflecting or gaining any real perspective on ourselves or the lives that we are leading.

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