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Inspiration: Books that transform our lives by Kim Shippey for Changing Tides of Health

July 11, 2017 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

Need some inspiration? Think about your book collection. Perhaps you have some that you’ve read many times. I have a small shelf of such gems. I think about what they have in common. It seems to come down to this: they inspire. It might be beautiful use of language to inspire my own writing. It might be a story that is so compelling I continue to learn from it. It might be a book full of spiritual lessons that I hunger for. I hope you have such a collection. If not or if you’d like to add to your inspirational bookshelf, my colleague, Kim Shippey, can help as he shares his favorite must-have reads. Enjoy! Here’s Kim: 

Every five years I thumb through the books on my shelves and cull about thirty percent of them, which I donate to our local library. What I notice is that year after year the same well-explored books escape the purge and return to their joyful task of inspiring those who turn their pages.

They include:

  • The Greatest Thing in the World (Henry Drummond, 1911): “Is life not full of opportunities for learning Love?”
  • What’s So Amazing About Grace? (Philip Yancey, 1997): “Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”
  • Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis, 1955): “The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
  • Your God Is Too Small (J.B. Phillips, 1952): “Once the inner affections are aligned with God the outward expression of the life will look after itself.”
  • And, a book, which since it was first published in 1927, has sold millions of copies in 40 different languages, My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers): “Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person’s inner nature.”

Imagine my delight as a came across a new book……

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Inspiration: From despair to health restored by Anna Bowness-Park for The Vancouver Sun

August 7, 2015 By Sharon Vincz Andrews Leave a Comment

@Glowimages: Jogging in an Aspen Grove
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Have you accepted some negative view of your health, your character, or your prospects for success and happiness? We all journey to the dark side of thought once in a while. The medical profession calls this effect on health the “nocebo” effect–what you fear will make you sick, actually will, whether that effect has been proved by medical science or not. My colleague, Anna Bowness-Park, writing for the August 3, 2015 edition of The Vancouver Sun, provides us with some inspiration: an account of Arthur, a veteran who was told he’d never walk again. Then his thinking and expectations changed and the result is heart-warming and encouraging. Here’s Anna: 

What if you woke up one day and discovered that those negative things you had always believed about yourself simply weren’t true? In fact, they were absolutely false. How would you feel?

One man has documented his inspiring journey from negative beliefs about his health to total mental and physical freedom. Arthur was a disabled US war veteran. For 15 years he was constantly told that he would never walk again, and that his health would inevitably worsen each year. He accepted this diagnosis of his disability as true. He said: “I allowed others to tell me what I couldn’t do.” Like so many others, he came close to giving up on life. Then he made an inspiring discovery – he did not have to accept that hopeless diagnosis!

When we are told that we have a high likelihood of no recovery, or that we have a 50% chance of getting some disease, we may unwittingly buy into these beliefs.

Lissa Rankin, a popular physician, health author and speaker, writes about this problem of accepting dire prognosis about our health in an article in Psychology Today. Referring to studies that have verified this phenomenon, she points out, for example, that patients who believed they might die after surgery, usually did; but those who were just generally apprehensive, recovered….

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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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