A recent AP poll says Americans are impatient. Can you believe it!
Survey results confirm we’re a nation of customers seeking instant self-gratification and any bit of delay in getting what we want frays nerves.
Waiting in a grocery line, at the Department of Motor Vehicles, or on the telephone for a live person are some of the most dreaded wastes of time.
I ask myself, is there a lesson to learn from this survey? Do we have to battle through life feeling time-challenged with every task?
I don’t believe so.
Maybe it’s time to re-examine priorities and decide what’s most important.
It’s not how many jobs we get done that make us happy and content over the long run. It’s how close we feel to God.
What we most need is not more things in our basket or items ticked off of our to-do list. It’s increased spiritual mindedness that makes us truly happy.
Next time you’re standing in line anxiously tapping your toe and coveting someone’s position ahead of you, use the free moments to pray. Go to God in thought and seek a spiritual idea to improve your perspective and bring you peace of mind.
Don’t waste another moment worrying about wasting more moments. Use every moment wisely. Seek spiritual mindedness. Grow spiritually.
With a God-inspired outlook you’ll feel much better when you actually do get to the front of the line.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Live in the now
Do you ever worry about your future? How to pay the bills, getting along with another, staying healthy, finding a date, receiving a promotion, aging, and other concerns often top the lists of people who over-worry.
I’d like to suggest there’s a better way to live than worry, worry, and worry more. We can make the most of God’s good now and banish the worry-mentality to no-more land.
What is this thing called “the future” anyway? Is there such a thing? Does anyone ever actually live “in the future?” No. It’s impossible. We always live in the now. We do not live in the future. We might think about the future, but we live in the now.
Worry about the future prevents us from making the most of today.
Yes, we need to plan for a healthy happy tomorrow. But the best way to ensure a prosperous day ahead is to make the best of the day we are in. The good we accomplish today accumulates and builds for a successful tomorrow.
If facing a lack of money, a lack of ideas, lack in love, or lack in anything essential, don’t fret over whether you’ll have it tomorrow. Find the needed supply today.
God is an ever-present help. God doesn’t give us the aid we need in the future. God gives us what we need in the now. Accept His gift now! He loves you now and provides for every need without delay.
At one point, while in my twenties, I got very worried about ever getting married. There were no prospects for marriage let alone dating on my horizon. To cure my angst, I decided to live in the now. I committed myself to expressing actively and more abundantly day by day the qualities of love I figured would constitute a healthy marriage. Three years later, when least expected, I crossed paths with the woman I would marry. She lived 1700 miles from my home, yet God brought us together in the most unexpected way. I was ready. She was ready. I had made the most of my every “now” moment, and that faithfulness took care of the future. We have been happily married for over 19 years.
Live in the now! It’s the only moment you have. Spiritually considered there is no future, just the present, and you are in it. Enjoy making the most of it.
I’d like to suggest there’s a better way to live than worry, worry, and worry more. We can make the most of God’s good now and banish the worry-mentality to no-more land.
What is this thing called “the future” anyway? Is there such a thing? Does anyone ever actually live “in the future?” No. It’s impossible. We always live in the now. We do not live in the future. We might think about the future, but we live in the now.
Worry about the future prevents us from making the most of today.
Yes, we need to plan for a healthy happy tomorrow. But the best way to ensure a prosperous day ahead is to make the best of the day we are in. The good we accomplish today accumulates and builds for a successful tomorrow.
If facing a lack of money, a lack of ideas, lack in love, or lack in anything essential, don’t fret over whether you’ll have it tomorrow. Find the needed supply today.
God is an ever-present help. God doesn’t give us the aid we need in the future. God gives us what we need in the now. Accept His gift now! He loves you now and provides for every need without delay.
At one point, while in my twenties, I got very worried about ever getting married. There were no prospects for marriage let alone dating on my horizon. To cure my angst, I decided to live in the now. I committed myself to expressing actively and more abundantly day by day the qualities of love I figured would constitute a healthy marriage. Three years later, when least expected, I crossed paths with the woman I would marry. She lived 1700 miles from my home, yet God brought us together in the most unexpected way. I was ready. She was ready. I had made the most of my every “now” moment, and that faithfulness took care of the future. We have been happily married for over 19 years.
Live in the now! It’s the only moment you have. Spiritually considered there is no future, just the present, and you are in it. Enjoy making the most of it.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Don't fight. Unite!
Do you wish there was less fighting in the world? Not just at the international level, but at home, in a marriage, in the workplace, or in your community?
The world could use more peace these days.
Some people believe fighting is inevitable, as if certain countries are doomed to meet in armed confrontation, spouses are supposed to argue, siblings are programmed to pick on each other, and co-workers eventually grate on each other’s nerves. There’s another point of view worth considering though, a world where disagreements are not settled by who yells the loudest or who carries the biggest weapon. A world in which love arbitrates the decisions and forgiveness rules the day.
We can’t do it alone. The human mind needs help to extricate itself from the hate and negativity it perpetuates. But we have help. We have the power of divine Love to dissolve tension. Like walking into the summer sunshine and feeling the warmth of the sun, when we mentally walk into the omnipresence of Love we feel the action of God's Love melting away our fear, anger and resentment.
Next time you’re tempted to get angry or fight, stop the ugly emotion from growing. Refuse to be swayed by hate. Choose a better way. Don’t fight. Unite! Unite with divine Love and let kindness dominate your thought. The world will be a more peaceful place.
The world could use more peace these days.
Some people believe fighting is inevitable, as if certain countries are doomed to meet in armed confrontation, spouses are supposed to argue, siblings are programmed to pick on each other, and co-workers eventually grate on each other’s nerves. There’s another point of view worth considering though, a world where disagreements are not settled by who yells the loudest or who carries the biggest weapon. A world in which love arbitrates the decisions and forgiveness rules the day.
We can’t do it alone. The human mind needs help to extricate itself from the hate and negativity it perpetuates. But we have help. We have the power of divine Love to dissolve tension. Like walking into the summer sunshine and feeling the warmth of the sun, when we mentally walk into the omnipresence of Love we feel the action of God's Love melting away our fear, anger and resentment.
Next time you’re tempted to get angry or fight, stop the ugly emotion from growing. Refuse to be swayed by hate. Choose a better way. Don’t fight. Unite! Unite with divine Love and let kindness dominate your thought. The world will be a more peaceful place.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Where is God?
“I don’t feel God’s presence,” many people have complained. “How can I feel close to God,” they ask.
It’s a common belief, that one can be separated from God. But this is impossible, for God and man are forever united.
Look around and see how close God is to you.
Is there beauty to behold? Is there harmony to hear? Are there good deeds unnoticed? Every bit of love and every hint of beauty and harmony IS the presence of God.
Is their order anywhere to be seen? A room well swept, a drawer well organized, a schedule well planned is all proof of God in action.
Does someone care? A tender touch, a compassionate response, a kind remark, a thoughtful gesture are all the hand of God at work.
Can you think? Are there helpful ideas to consider, inspirations to act upon, or intuitions to follow? Every insight, direction, guidance and inkling to greater and grander possibilities is God’s Mind at work in you.
The more you look the more you’ll see. God is everywhere! Not in material forms that decay and disappear, but in the good ideas and qualities outward forms manifest.
How do you feel close to God? By acknowledging the good God is obviously doing already.
God is not a controlling power remote to your experience. God IS the presence and power of good and love at work within you, around you, and all about you. You couldn’t be any closer to God than you already are.
Look and see!
It’s a common belief, that one can be separated from God. But this is impossible, for God and man are forever united.
Look around and see how close God is to you.
Is there beauty to behold? Is there harmony to hear? Are there good deeds unnoticed? Every bit of love and every hint of beauty and harmony IS the presence of God.
Is their order anywhere to be seen? A room well swept, a drawer well organized, a schedule well planned is all proof of God in action.
Does someone care? A tender touch, a compassionate response, a kind remark, a thoughtful gesture are all the hand of God at work.
Can you think? Are there helpful ideas to consider, inspirations to act upon, or intuitions to follow? Every insight, direction, guidance and inkling to greater and grander possibilities is God’s Mind at work in you.
The more you look the more you’ll see. God is everywhere! Not in material forms that decay and disappear, but in the good ideas and qualities outward forms manifest.
How do you feel close to God? By acknowledging the good God is obviously doing already.
God is not a controlling power remote to your experience. God IS the presence and power of good and love at work within you, around you, and all about you. You couldn’t be any closer to God than you already are.
Look and see!
Friday, May 19, 2006
Eternal health
Do you believe in eternal life? If so, then you have to believe in eternal health.
It’s impossible to possess eternal life and not be healthy, for disease is the opposite of life, the effect of death in varying degrees.
Jesus taught, “I am the way, the truth, the life…follow me.” He didn’t mean worship of his physical personality was the way to Life, but living true to the one God and one’s spiritual self as he did would lead to heaven.
To arrive in heaven, we have to leave the earth and all of its limited material beliefs behind, including the belief that disease is real.
In the big picture scheme of things, disease is not real. It’s illusion. Life is eternal. People discover this when they pass-on and still find themselves alive.
We’re living our eternal life now. It’s not in matter. It’s not in a physical body. It’s not temporal. It’s spiritual, at-one with God, in Spirit, and it’s healthy--totally.
Claim your health today. Don’t look at yourself or others through the eyes of mortal mind that get spellbound by disease. Rise into a higher consciousness of life in Spirit where health is eternal, and live well!
It’s impossible to possess eternal life and not be healthy, for disease is the opposite of life, the effect of death in varying degrees.
Jesus taught, “I am the way, the truth, the life…follow me.” He didn’t mean worship of his physical personality was the way to Life, but living true to the one God and one’s spiritual self as he did would lead to heaven.
To arrive in heaven, we have to leave the earth and all of its limited material beliefs behind, including the belief that disease is real.
In the big picture scheme of things, disease is not real. It’s illusion. Life is eternal. People discover this when they pass-on and still find themselves alive.
We’re living our eternal life now. It’s not in matter. It’s not in a physical body. It’s not temporal. It’s spiritual, at-one with God, in Spirit, and it’s healthy--totally.
Claim your health today. Don’t look at yourself or others through the eyes of mortal mind that get spellbound by disease. Rise into a higher consciousness of life in Spirit where health is eternal, and live well!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Taking responsibility
I recently read a cartoon that was divided into a then and now picture. Under “Then” a mother is doctoring her son’s bruised elbows and knees and commenting to him “I guess we’ve learned to be more careful when climbing trees!” In the “Now” picture the mother is doctoring her son’s bruised elbows and knees and complains “We need to pass legislation requiring safer trees!”
It’s been a common and unfortunate trend of recent years. Rather than taking responsibility for our thoughts and actions we blame something else for our sufferings. Fast-food restaurants are often blamed for obesity as if consumers were forced to eat their fare. People commit crimes and reply “I couldn’t help it” citing abuse in their past.
Compassion and understanding are needed to help society deal with its ills. Goodness knows we all need help in improving our models and learning better behavior. But absolving responsibility for thoughts and actions is not a good place to start.
It’s healthy to take responsibility for our mental household. It puts us in a position of dominion and authority to know our mental precincts. We can take command of evil impulses and prevent them from affecting us before there is an outward consequence.
God made us intelligent beings. A consciousness of our God-given ability to think clearly and act wisely gives us the discernment we need to avoid evil in the first place or to quickly work out of trouble when it seems to take over.
We’re not helpless. God is an ever-present help. We don’t have to live out the role of a victim. We can take responsibility for our thoughts today and side with the good thoughts, the spiritual thoughts, and lead a predictably progressive life.
It’s been a common and unfortunate trend of recent years. Rather than taking responsibility for our thoughts and actions we blame something else for our sufferings. Fast-food restaurants are often blamed for obesity as if consumers were forced to eat their fare. People commit crimes and reply “I couldn’t help it” citing abuse in their past.
Compassion and understanding are needed to help society deal with its ills. Goodness knows we all need help in improving our models and learning better behavior. But absolving responsibility for thoughts and actions is not a good place to start.
It’s healthy to take responsibility for our mental household. It puts us in a position of dominion and authority to know our mental precincts. We can take command of evil impulses and prevent them from affecting us before there is an outward consequence.
God made us intelligent beings. A consciousness of our God-given ability to think clearly and act wisely gives us the discernment we need to avoid evil in the first place or to quickly work out of trouble when it seems to take over.
We’re not helpless. God is an ever-present help. We don’t have to live out the role of a victim. We can take responsibility for our thoughts today and side with the good thoughts, the spiritual thoughts, and lead a predictably progressive life.
Monday, May 15, 2006
No need for oil?
Can you imagine an economy not dependent upon oil? Citizens in Sweden can. Sweden has resolved to go oil-free within the next 15 years, Yes! magazine reports. Plans call for renewables—including biofuels, wind, and wave power—to replace fossil fuels by the year 2020 contributor Langendoen wrote for the Summer 2006 issue of Yes!
The conceivable is the possible.
Today, the long run future of oil looks bleak. Supply is limited. Gas prices are high. Oil companies tap ever dwindling reservoirs and developing countries have a voracious appetite for more crude. People worry about what will happen when oil runs out.
But we don’t have to fear.
Rather than fret over the obvious, we can prepare for the inevitable. If we can think it, we can do it.
We live in a universe of Mind where infinite possibilities for progress and advancement exist. Oil has served a valuable purpose in the past, but its future is short. Rather than complain about the limits, we must open thought to new practices and potential for tomorrow.
The economy is not dependent upon oil, but upon Mind, the infinite divine Mind that is filled with new ideas and progressive options.
Swedes are not waiting until shortage forces action. They are taking initiative and preparing for the inevitable. Maybe they’re setting an example for the rest of us to follow?
The conceivable is the possible.
Today, the long run future of oil looks bleak. Supply is limited. Gas prices are high. Oil companies tap ever dwindling reservoirs and developing countries have a voracious appetite for more crude. People worry about what will happen when oil runs out.
But we don’t have to fear.
Rather than fret over the obvious, we can prepare for the inevitable. If we can think it, we can do it.
We live in a universe of Mind where infinite possibilities for progress and advancement exist. Oil has served a valuable purpose in the past, but its future is short. Rather than complain about the limits, we must open thought to new practices and potential for tomorrow.
The economy is not dependent upon oil, but upon Mind, the infinite divine Mind that is filled with new ideas and progressive options.
Swedes are not waiting until shortage forces action. They are taking initiative and preparing for the inevitable. Maybe they’re setting an example for the rest of us to follow?
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Suicide not helpful
“I can’t take the suffering anymore. My life is hopeless. The depression is overwhelming. The only way out is suicide,” many people have despaired in moments of dark misery.
When facing bleak options, it’s good to know there’s a better way than suicide. Choose Life!
Death is like walking from one room into another and closing the door behind. We never return to the room previously inhabited, but continue to live and have to work out the problem of being. The setting may change but the victim’s thoughts do not until spiritualized and improved. The victim leaves all his friends, family, and home behind, but takes his thoughts with him.
It’s easier to face the evil thoughts now than to face the same dark thoughts in the hereafter plus deal with the belief that suicide was a mistake.
Death does not end life, for life is eternal. It cannot be ended. Try as a mortal may, attempts to end life never succeed. The efforts to self-destruct only force the victim to ultimately realize that problems cannot be escaped, but must be dealt with head-on and worked out spiritually.
There is no better time or place then here and now to work out problems and find solutions. God is an ever-present help. The belief that suicide is a help to anyone is a myth.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Miscellaneous Writings, “The error of supposed life and intelligence in matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth. Not through sin or suicide, but by overcoming temptation and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wickedness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony of being.” (page 53)
The solution to self-destructive thoughts is not death, but understanding Life.
Life is good. Life is God. Life is Love. Life is spiritual. Life is not in matter, and cannot be taken away by matter. The gateway to eternal bliss is not a grave, but increased spiritual understanding.
Forsake the temptation to commit suicide, and choose Life! It’s the happier better way.
When facing bleak options, it’s good to know there’s a better way than suicide. Choose Life!
Death is like walking from one room into another and closing the door behind. We never return to the room previously inhabited, but continue to live and have to work out the problem of being. The setting may change but the victim’s thoughts do not until spiritualized and improved. The victim leaves all his friends, family, and home behind, but takes his thoughts with him.
It’s easier to face the evil thoughts now than to face the same dark thoughts in the hereafter plus deal with the belief that suicide was a mistake.
Death does not end life, for life is eternal. It cannot be ended. Try as a mortal may, attempts to end life never succeed. The efforts to self-destruct only force the victim to ultimately realize that problems cannot be escaped, but must be dealt with head-on and worked out spiritually.
There is no better time or place then here and now to work out problems and find solutions. God is an ever-present help. The belief that suicide is a help to anyone is a myth.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Miscellaneous Writings, “The error of supposed life and intelligence in matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth. Not through sin or suicide, but by overcoming temptation and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wickedness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony of being.” (page 53)
The solution to self-destructive thoughts is not death, but understanding Life.
Life is good. Life is God. Life is Love. Life is spiritual. Life is not in matter, and cannot be taken away by matter. The gateway to eternal bliss is not a grave, but increased spiritual understanding.
Forsake the temptation to commit suicide, and choose Life! It’s the happier better way.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
No resistance to healing
“I’m resisting this spiritual healing from happening,” a man struggling for relief from suffering complained.
I replied, “If Bill Gates offered you one billion dollars, with no strings attached, free for your taking, would you resist accepting his gift?” He quickly answered that he would not be resistant at all, but would happily accept the offer.
Point made.
If relief is not occurring, it’s not because there is a power called “resistance” in the ether of thought preventing us from being healed. God is the only power, and what God bestows upon us is freely given to us with no obstacles in the way.
The real issue when faced with delay in healing is perhaps not resistance, but acceptance. Are we willing to accept what God is giving?
God gives us eternal life, eternal health, happiness and well being. It's all ours to claim as children of the Divine. And it’s a gift worth infinitely more than a billion dollars.
Are you ready to receive the gift? Are you willing to accept it, and in the form God is giving it?
Resistance is an illusion. If you really want a gift freely bestowed, nothing stands in the way of your receiving it.
I replied, “If Bill Gates offered you one billion dollars, with no strings attached, free for your taking, would you resist accepting his gift?” He quickly answered that he would not be resistant at all, but would happily accept the offer.
Point made.
If relief is not occurring, it’s not because there is a power called “resistance” in the ether of thought preventing us from being healed. God is the only power, and what God bestows upon us is freely given to us with no obstacles in the way.
The real issue when faced with delay in healing is perhaps not resistance, but acceptance. Are we willing to accept what God is giving?
God gives us eternal life, eternal health, happiness and well being. It's all ours to claim as children of the Divine. And it’s a gift worth infinitely more than a billion dollars.
Are you ready to receive the gift? Are you willing to accept it, and in the form God is giving it?
Resistance is an illusion. If you really want a gift freely bestowed, nothing stands in the way of your receiving it.
Sunday, May 7, 2006
Reducing debt
Would you like to get your credit card balances down, reduce your debt and save more money for the future?
In our consumer driven society, the temptation to buy, buy, buy is played out in many shopper’s lives. We need a spiritual perspective to discipline our purchasing decisions and maintain dominion over our finances.
A friend who was in deep credit card debt prayed for a way out of his financial straightjacket. He yearned to be satisfied with what he had, not wanting to have something more all of the time.
When looking around his house, he saw many items he didn’t need. He realized he was substituting things for genuine contentment and joy which truly come from God. He resolved to improve his motive for shopping.
He developed a policy of “If I need it, I buy it. If I want it, I wait.” He stuck to his plan, and in a year saved enough money to pay off all his credit card balances. He has remained out of debt for several years since.
Material things and toys do not bring genuine long term happiness. Happiness is spiritual, and is found in drawing closer to God.
When tempted to buy something you don’t need, ask yourself, “Do I really need this item and the debt it creates? Or do I need to spend more time drawing closer to God and finding the spiritual understanding that brings me true happiness?
Increasing your interest in God will reduce the amount of interest you pay to lenders.
In our consumer driven society, the temptation to buy, buy, buy is played out in many shopper’s lives. We need a spiritual perspective to discipline our purchasing decisions and maintain dominion over our finances.
A friend who was in deep credit card debt prayed for a way out of his financial straightjacket. He yearned to be satisfied with what he had, not wanting to have something more all of the time.
When looking around his house, he saw many items he didn’t need. He realized he was substituting things for genuine contentment and joy which truly come from God. He resolved to improve his motive for shopping.
He developed a policy of “If I need it, I buy it. If I want it, I wait.” He stuck to his plan, and in a year saved enough money to pay off all his credit card balances. He has remained out of debt for several years since.
Material things and toys do not bring genuine long term happiness. Happiness is spiritual, and is found in drawing closer to God.
When tempted to buy something you don’t need, ask yourself, “Do I really need this item and the debt it creates? Or do I need to spend more time drawing closer to God and finding the spiritual understanding that brings me true happiness?
Increasing your interest in God will reduce the amount of interest you pay to lenders.
Friday, May 5, 2006
Trying to lose weight?
Are your eating habits out of control? Do you need to lose weight?
One fear dieters often confront when trying to get a lust for food under control is the argument of “If I don’t eat, I’ll get hungry.”
Gluttons get in the habit of stuffing their mouths at will or whim. It brings pleasure, they believe, and also prevents them from feeling hungry.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” Jesus taught.
When I committed myself to spiritually losing weight over 20 years ago, I saw the need to reduce snacking between meals. I wanted to pray more instead of weigh more! But 11 a.m. would roll around, and I’d feel starved.
One day, after struggling with the temptation to snack, I realized that I didn’t need to fear hunger. Waiting until noon to eat was not going to kill me! I didn’t live to stuff a stomach. I lived to glorify God, and eating more than I needed did not glorify God.
As I prayed daily for spiritual support and strength instead of going to the kitchen for more cookies, the dreaded hunger pangs left. I soon found it easy to wait until mealtime to eat with no snacks in between.
I lost the extra weight, and I’m wearing the same size pants today that I discovered in the new me back then.
Don’t fear hunger. It won’t hurt you. God is giving you everything you need internally to feel happy, contented and well without having to chomp on something between your teeth.
One fear dieters often confront when trying to get a lust for food under control is the argument of “If I don’t eat, I’ll get hungry.”
Gluttons get in the habit of stuffing their mouths at will or whim. It brings pleasure, they believe, and also prevents them from feeling hungry.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” Jesus taught.
When I committed myself to spiritually losing weight over 20 years ago, I saw the need to reduce snacking between meals. I wanted to pray more instead of weigh more! But 11 a.m. would roll around, and I’d feel starved.
One day, after struggling with the temptation to snack, I realized that I didn’t need to fear hunger. Waiting until noon to eat was not going to kill me! I didn’t live to stuff a stomach. I lived to glorify God, and eating more than I needed did not glorify God.
As I prayed daily for spiritual support and strength instead of going to the kitchen for more cookies, the dreaded hunger pangs left. I soon found it easy to wait until mealtime to eat with no snacks in between.
I lost the extra weight, and I’m wearing the same size pants today that I discovered in the new me back then.
Don’t fear hunger. It won’t hurt you. God is giving you everything you need internally to feel happy, contented and well without having to chomp on something between your teeth.
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
American healthcare failing
Americans are sicker than the British despite twice the spending on healthcare in the USA as in Britain, a newly published study claims.
“Why isn’t the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?” study co-author Dr. Marmot asks.
Doctors and researchers are scrambling to account for the dramatic differences. “It’s a mystery,” some conclude.
No one has yet mentioned the most obvious explanation of all. And that is, increased spending on healthcare does not increase the overall health of our population. Conventional medical practices, which absorb by far the largest share of our healthcare expenditures, are not working.
Why the healthcare system in the US is failing is not a mystery. The US model is based on a premise that largely fails to account for the spiritual individuality of a patient.
People are not mindless robots. They are not mere chemicals and electrical charges. They are spiritual beings with a consciousness that governs their state of health. To improve the body, the mind governing the body needs to be improved. This is done through love, comfort, and understanding, medicine that does not come from a bottle, but from an understanding of God’s tender care for each of us.
Filling thought with truth and love will succeed where pumping bodies full of drugs fails.
It’s time to re-define healthcare from taking more drugs to spiritualizing consciousness. It doesn’t cost near as much to fund and the effect is far better.
“Why isn’t the richest country in the world the healthiest country in the world?” study co-author Dr. Marmot asks.
Doctors and researchers are scrambling to account for the dramatic differences. “It’s a mystery,” some conclude.
No one has yet mentioned the most obvious explanation of all. And that is, increased spending on healthcare does not increase the overall health of our population. Conventional medical practices, which absorb by far the largest share of our healthcare expenditures, are not working.
Why the healthcare system in the US is failing is not a mystery. The US model is based on a premise that largely fails to account for the spiritual individuality of a patient.
People are not mindless robots. They are not mere chemicals and electrical charges. They are spiritual beings with a consciousness that governs their state of health. To improve the body, the mind governing the body needs to be improved. This is done through love, comfort, and understanding, medicine that does not come from a bottle, but from an understanding of God’s tender care for each of us.
Filling thought with truth and love will succeed where pumping bodies full of drugs fails.
It’s time to re-define healthcare from taking more drugs to spiritualizing consciousness. It doesn’t cost near as much to fund and the effect is far better.
Monday, May 1, 2006
Pill pushers
Have you noticed how aggressively pharmaceutical companies have been pushing their pills?
Forbes magazine claims Big Pharma’s focus is more market-driven than ever. Billions are spent on ad campaigns aimed at convincing consumers they need more medicine. Drug firms have hired nearly 100,000 salespeople to call on physicians to sell their product. A drug is advocated for every ill, it seems, and not just for traditional physical ailments, but also for lifestyle issues.
For the consumer striving to live a happy healthy life, it’s essential to defend one’s thought from the aggressive campaigns of drug companies. Many ads are designed to impress a viewer’s mind with graphic images of disease, and create fear in their thought. The unsuspecting ad-reader may wonder if they have a disease they never would have dreamed having if it weren’t for the ad.
Mary Baker Eddy understood the deleterious effects of advertising disease. She wrote, “The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a price for human knowledge!”
One way to protect ourselves is to not watch or read medical ads in the first place. This is easier to say than do at times! Leafing through Parade magazine or watching the evening news requires constant diligence to pass over and tune out the undesirable content. But no one else will do it for us. We need to take the initiative and keep our mental house free of descriptions of disease if we wish to keep the diseases out of our experience.
Focus on health, and not on disease, makes it easier to maintain a health-consciousness. Health is a spiritual gift from God, and we find more of it through using our spiritual senses,--tuning into Truth and filling thought with spiritual images of love and harmony.
So, when the next ad toting disease and pills hits your mental airwaves, block it out. Tune into Truth and know you are well under God’s constant care.
Spiritual mindedness is the best medicine around. It’s a prescription that keeps us healthy and also spares our savings.
Forbes magazine claims Big Pharma’s focus is more market-driven than ever. Billions are spent on ad campaigns aimed at convincing consumers they need more medicine. Drug firms have hired nearly 100,000 salespeople to call on physicians to sell their product. A drug is advocated for every ill, it seems, and not just for traditional physical ailments, but also for lifestyle issues.
For the consumer striving to live a happy healthy life, it’s essential to defend one’s thought from the aggressive campaigns of drug companies. Many ads are designed to impress a viewer’s mind with graphic images of disease, and create fear in their thought. The unsuspecting ad-reader may wonder if they have a disease they never would have dreamed having if it weren’t for the ad.
Mary Baker Eddy understood the deleterious effects of advertising disease. She wrote, “The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a price for human knowledge!”
One way to protect ourselves is to not watch or read medical ads in the first place. This is easier to say than do at times! Leafing through Parade magazine or watching the evening news requires constant diligence to pass over and tune out the undesirable content. But no one else will do it for us. We need to take the initiative and keep our mental house free of descriptions of disease if we wish to keep the diseases out of our experience.
Focus on health, and not on disease, makes it easier to maintain a health-consciousness. Health is a spiritual gift from God, and we find more of it through using our spiritual senses,--tuning into Truth and filling thought with spiritual images of love and harmony.
So, when the next ad toting disease and pills hits your mental airwaves, block it out. Tune into Truth and know you are well under God’s constant care.
Spiritual mindedness is the best medicine around. It’s a prescription that keeps us healthy and also spares our savings.
