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Listening Improves health by Keith Wommack for The Houston Chronicle

June 6, 2014 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

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Are you a good listener?  My colleague, Keith Wommack, has written an article in The Houston Chronicle posted May 2nd. Here in Bloomington, IN with 40,000+ college students the listening issue can become a source of conflict and make listening “all about me.” We call them “Boom Car Civility Issues.” Sound familiar?   I hope you enjoy this excerpt from Keith’s article. You can click on the link below to read the complete piece.

Admit it. You’re a lousy listener. Don’t fret. I used to be one, but I’ve been fine-tuning my skill, and you can too. I believe, you’ll want to improve your listening because good listeners have fulfilling relationships and are more apt to experience good health.

Regarding relationships, as you look to improve your listening ability, there are destructive behavioral habits you’ll need to be aware of and abandon. (Several habits detailed in Are you really listening?: Keys to Successful Communication – Donoghue & Siegel)

Rude – Do you interrupt others while they speak? If you make the moment about you, you’re not listening, not considering another’s thoughts and feelings, and you’re certainly not being courteous. Rudeness is an unhealthy behavior for a relationship.

Savior – Do you give others undivided attention because you believe you’re the one to solve their problems? When you think of yourself as a savior, you can’t hear the real need or come up with sound solutions. You merely add to their challenges.

Target – Do you stop listening when you perceive another’s words to be critical of you? Low self-esteem flows from a victim-mentality and this self-centeredness takes offense at everything said, turning it inward. When you’re a target, you miss the point of conversations. It’s hard to listen when you’re defensive.

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Bridge to understanding Christian Science with “un”

January 6, 2014 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 2 Comments

Severin's Bridge, Gibson County, Indiana by Katie S. Brown
Severin’s Bridge, Gibson County, Indiana by Katie S. Brown

 

Author: Katie Brown (former COM for Indiana)

There should always be joy in walking over the bridge to understanding Christian Science, so let’s begin the New Year by having fun with “un”…some  words that begin with u followed by n.

The “uns” play an important role in eliminating stress and promoting healthier and happier lives. Who wants to be unhappy, unsafe, and unloved? It’s so much better to be unafraid, undaunted, and unlimited.  These “uns” could be unbelievable to the unbending, but not to the unbiased and unaffected, who remain undisturbed.  These are a few “uns” to consider, keeping in thought that to feel uncomfortable from anything can be healed through prayer to God.

Essential sources to realize healing are the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures  by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science. The Bible Psalm, “Be still, and know that I am God (Psalms 46:10)” has the practical effect of becoming undisturbed and unbothered by circumstances. To be unfearful and unstressed when snow makes driving conditions hazardous, like currently in Indiana, this Psalm helps, “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe (Psalms 119:117).”

Mrs. Eddy wrote, “The theology of Christian Science includes healing the sick (Science and Health 145:31-32).  The “un” word undiseased may be one unthinkable and unbeknown, but the Bible indicates that being undiseased is undeniable and unambivalent by the physically diseased and impaired being healed throughout the scriptures. In the New Testament Jesus’ healed the diseased, because he saw God’s undiseased spiritual man.

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A Hug’s Message to Tragedy: “Move On!”

July 29, 2013 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Forgiveness

Thanks to Tony Lobl, media and legislative liaison for Christian Science in the United Kingtom and Ireland and Christian Science practitioner, for today’s blog that was posted on The Huffington Post UK and his blog Healing-neither myth nor miracle.

Forgiveness, it seems, is becoming increasingly fashionable.

At least in theory.

From yoga teachers to self-help books and from research papers to seminars on consciousness, the benefits of forgiveness are being widely trumpeted – it’s not only good for the soul, it’s also good for the health.

However, many are finding it’s easier said than done. When that inner voice of resentment clings doggedly to even a casual slight from a relative or colleague, then what hope is there when facing a real crisis?Continue Reading

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Bridge to understanding Christian Science

July 15, 2013 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 5 Comments

Huffman's Mill Bridge, Indiana, by Katie S. Brown
Huffman’s Mill Bridge, Indiana, by Katie S. Brown

Note: Walk over the bridge with me to understanding Christian Science as an effective means of health care.

The Christian Science method of treating disease is through prayer to God following the life and teachings of Jesus in the Bible. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, wrote in her primary book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation (p. xi).”

To experience a healing of sickness in Christian Science is to experience a deeper sense of who you are as the spiritual image and likeness of God, rather than a material, biological being. It is to identify self with qualities of Spirit or God. The Bible says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:…(Galatians 5).”

Over many generations, since the late 1800’s Christian Scientists throughout the world have experienced healing of sickness through acknowledging God or Mind as the only power, and matter as not a power. Mrs. Eddy declared, “A Christian Scientist’s medicine is Mind,…(Science and Health, p. 453).”Continue Reading

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Prayerfully watching the news

July 9, 2013 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 2 Comments

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Watching the television evening news last night ranging from the San Francisco airplane crash, Arizona fires, Canadian train incident, and a court case for murder, I found it a struggle not to feel a downward pull in my mental well-being, while feeling compassion for those who died and lost loved ones. There’s a line between wanting to be informed and the challenge to maintain an optimistic joyful outlook on life. How does one cope?

My way to cope is pray daily to find comfort and solutions to the tragedies presented by the news. I find reassurance in the Bible that tells us, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein (Psalms 24:1) and “He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, (Psalms 24 5).”

Trusting in the Lord’s blessing can bring comfort. I have found the first sentence in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, who founded Christian Science, trustworthy. The sentence is “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings (Science and Health, p. vii.)”Continue Reading

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Honoring Mother’s Day

May 10, 2013 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 1 Comment

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Stock Photos Mother and Son Riding Bikes © Glow Images. Models used for illustrative purposes only.
Stock Photos Mother and Son Riding Bikes © Glow Images. Models used for illustrative purposes only.

As we honor mothers throughout the United States, where Mother’s Day has been celebrated annually for over 100 years, let’s honor our Mother-God.

Because I attended the Christian Science Sunday School as a very young child, I was taught and have always thought of God as both Mother and Father. This was made clear by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, when God was considered by most people to be exclusively Father. To think of God as Mother is to bring into one’s life Her precious nurturing, tender mercies and unconditional love that are apparent in all good mothers.

Mrs. Eddy wrote, “a mother’s love touches the heart of God …” (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 253), and “Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.516)  She defined Mother, “God; divine and eternal Principle; Life, Truth, and Love.” (Science and Health, p. 592)Continue Reading

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Sunshine in us takes away winter blues

January 23, 2013 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 4 Comments

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Outside the wind rages,

Inside my nose in pages,

Reading book after book,

Snug n’ cozy in my nook.

Finding God’s way,

Brightens the day,

No sun outside,

Sun shining inside.

Here’s a little poem I’ve written to take away the winter blues. Often in Indiana, especially up north where I live, we don’t see the sun for weeks at a time in January and February. Lack of light can cause Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that affects millions of people.

The ways people deal with it vary. Many Fort Wayners head south to Florida. Exercising, a healthy diet, and light therapy are recommended to combat the symptoms of lack of productivity at work, school, and home; loss of appetite; moodiness and irritability; poor sleep; fatigue; and social withdrawal. SAD is considered a major depression disorder with a seasonal pattern.

You may note that in my poem (not great… but I like rhyming) my nose is in pages. You could guess that the books, not exclusively, but most importantly, would be the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The two books are the Pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as The Mother Church, that I read everyday when I study the Christian Science Bible lesson. These books help me find God’s way to keep the sun shining within me.Continue Reading

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Christmas and the beginning of a new era of health care

December 20, 2012 By Sharon Vincz Andrews 2 Comments

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About this blog: Katie S. Brown lives in Fort Wayne and writes regularly about spirituality and health. She is also a Christian Science practitioner and teacher and the media and legislative liaison for Christian Science in Indiana.

My most memorable Christmas would be hard to choose, but I remember a special one when I was a shepherd in my public school’s Nativity play. With all the other girls I wanted to be Mary, but the teacher chose me for one of three shepherds.

Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus (a doll) were the center of our play, with the three Wise Men flanking one side, the shepherds the other, and a few angels scattered around the stage. The best reader in our third-grade class read the story of the birth of Jesus from the Bible, and the rest of my classmates — dressed in their Sunday best — were in the chorus.

We sang the traditional “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” and “Silent Night.” Another grade must have covered “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”

I had a non-speaking part, but being in that play started me on my way to wanting to know more about the significance of Jesus’ life. Through the following years, through my study of Christian Science by reading the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy,  I realized the birth of Jesus was the beginning of a new era of health care based on man’s divine nature.Continue Reading

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Gratitude…what’s at the top of your list this Thanksgiving?

November 19, 2012 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

 

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With Thanksgiving Day this Thursday, November 22, I’ve been thinking of my answer to the classic question: “What’s at the top of your gratitude list?” My answer is being healthy.

As reported in “Thank You. No, Thank You in The Wall Street Journal, “A growing body of research suggests that maintaining an attitude of gratitude can improve psychological, emotional and physical well-being.”

This research has been proven in my own experience. Gratitude has been effective in improving my physical well-being many times, when I have been ill or injured and was shortly restored to health. For instance, as a young child, I had a heavy cold the night before Thanksgiving, and I was having difficulty getting to sleep.

While tucking me into bed, my grandfather told me that God loved me, and that gratitude for God’s blessings brings healing. He said I should think about everything for which I was grateful, and he would pray for me. I fell asleep counting my blessings. When I woke up the next morning all the cold symptoms were gone, and I went with my family to the Thanksgiving church service.Continue Reading

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“God is Love”

November 14, 2012 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Sculpture by Robert Indiana

Note: This guest blog will fill you in on what happened in a Christian Science Sunday School class.

By Dave Horn, Christian Science Practitioner and former Indiana Committee on Publication from Raleigh, North Carolina

Robert Indiana, creator of the LOVE sculpture shown above, always
insisted he got the idea from a Christian Science church in
Indianapolis, where he noticed a plaque on the wall which said “God is
Love.”

The words remind us that true love is spiritual, not material. But
what’s wrong with material love? Isn’t it better than hate?

To find out, a Christian Science Sunday school class recently examined
a four-inch tall, aluminum paper weight designed like Indiana’s famous
sculpture. Holding this material symbol of love in her hands, a
student said, “Well, it looks very nice, but it feels cold,
and it’s sharp in some places, and I bet you could kill somebody with
it!”Continue Reading

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I'm Sharon Andrews. I look forward to conversations with you about the connection between health and consciousness. How does thinking affect the body? What makes us healthy? I am a Christian Science practitioner and the media and legislative liaison for Christian Science in the state of Indiana. I like travel, bicycling, organic gardening, and basketball!

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