Tag: spiritual mindedness

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

The unreality of matter

March 25, 2009 | 5 comments

A reader sent in the following quote: Max Planck, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century, considered the father of Quantum Theory, made the following statement when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics: As a man

Your quality of life

February 10, 2009 | 5 comments

Yesterday, a visitor came into my office and chatted a bit. She talked a bit about how she had cut back on expenses because of the slower economy, but was overjoyed to understand that her quality of life was still

If you don’t like your job

January 25, 2009 | 1 comment

What do you do if you don’t like your job? With unemployment rising, thousands of people are finding themselves out of work and often accepting jobs they would not choose if better options were available. But they’re committed to supporting

The after effects of Christmas

December 26, 2008 | 5 comments

On the radio, I was listening to lamenting and bemoaning over the “after effects” of Christmas by talk show hosts and call-ins complaining about gaining too much weight over the holidays and accruing heavy debt from gift purchases. After a