Category: health

Swine flu

April 27, 2009 | 8 comments

Oh mercy, headlines are filled with fear of a swine flu pandemic breaking out across the continent. Now is not the time to watch and see what happens, but to determine what happens by metaphysically treating the population’s thought with

You’re okay now

April 25, 2009 | 2 comments

A friend reminded me yesterday of something I told him a year ago, and of the healing effect it had on him. He was about to board a plane for an extended overseas trip. He was in terrible pain and

Children overmedicated

April 7, 2009 | 5 comments

A thought-provoking article I just read in “The Washington Post National Weekly Edition,” states that the debate over the effectiveness of long-term drug treatment of children with hyperactivity or attention-deficit disorder has been reignited. For years, millions of parents have

Overmedication of America

April 2, 2009 | 6 comments

I read a book recently, titled, “Comfortably Numb: How psychiatry is medicating a nation,” by Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. Barber contends that Americans are horrendously overdosed in psychiatric medicines, and provides

No long drawn out suffering

April 1, 2009 | 3 comments

I struggled with a little health issue for a few days recently that ordinarily would vanish with a short prayer. It was not a big deal, but I got a bit bothered by why it hadn’t yielded quickly this time.