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Positive Emotions as Nutrients

WEB"Among the most highly cited scholars in psychology, Barbara Fredrickson is most known for her “broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions,” foundational within Positive Psychology for providing a blueprint for how pleasant emotional states, as fleeting as they are, contribute to resilience, wellbeing, and health.

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A Feeling for Life

WEBA Feeling for Life is natural to human life. People all over the world already enjoy a certain kind of intuitive spiritual experience of life and its ground, however named and understood. Thurman proposes that this experience is the experiential foundation for many of the world's religions. This experience includes (1) a sense of radical

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Process Theology and Multifactorial Healing: Bruce Epperly

WEBProcess theology affirms that our attitudes are factors in health and illness. In the intricate interdependence of mind, body, and spirit, our emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical conditions shape one another. On the one hand, physical issues can lead to feelings of depression and powerlessness. Further, emotional and mental states, for

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Disability and Imagination

WEBRosemarie Garland-Thomson is a disability justice and culture thought leader, bioethicist, teacher, and humanities scholar. Her 2016 editorial, “Becoming Disabled,” was the inaugural article in the ongoing weekly series in the New York Times about disability by people living with disabilities. She is a professor of English and bioethics at Emory …

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Growth Counseling: Howard Clinebell

WEBAlong with Howard Clinebell, open and relational (process) theologians believe that: "There is a gentle, often suppressed, but persistent striving in persons to keep developing their evolving potentials. The process of activating this growth elan is at the heart of all effective education, counseling, and therapy."

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How to Reduce Shootings

WEBStar Samkus, who works at the King Soopers grocery store and knew three of the victims of a mass shooting at the store a day earlier, cries while kneeling in front of crosses placed in honor of the victims, Tuesday, March 23, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) David Zalubowski

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Process Philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine

WEBTraditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a system of medical practice that originated in ancient China and has been in use for over 2,000 years. TCM is based on a holistic view of health and the body, and emphasizes the importance of maintaining balance and harmony in the body's energy systems. Some key ideas in the philosophy and practice of TCM

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The Teen Mental Health Crisis: Six Tips from an Open and …

WEBThe Teen Mental Health Crisis. "We’re in the midst of a serious teen mental health crisis. The number of teenagers and young adults with clinical depression more than doubled between 2011 and 2021. The suicide rate for teenagers nearly doubled from 2007 to 2019, and tripled for 10 to 14 year- olds in particular.

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Mental Health in Arkansas: Reflections from the Front Line

WEBA Note from Jay McDaniel, editor of Open Horizons There is a mental health crisis in America, hidden to some but not to others. For those of us interested in philosophy and theology, and also in “spirituality,” these issues can be hidden.

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Where is God in Mental Illness

WEBStill, God is present in the many factors of life as a non-coercive force for health and wholeness. · Treatment of mental illness may involve many modalities, including pharmaceutical, dietary, complementary medicine (acupuncture, reiki healing touch), counseling, and spiritual practices. · God is present within the lives of persons diagnosed

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Walking as a Spiritual Practice

WEBWalking is a spiritual practice that yields so many dividends: replenishment of the soul, connection with the natural world, problem-solving, self-esteem, health and healing, and heightened attention. Movement seems to encourage dialogue and conviviality, leading to richer conversations with soul mates, friends, and even strangers.

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Music for the Elderly: Healing Benefits

WEBBecause music involves rhythmic sounds, it stimulates a part of the brain that relaxes us and lowers impulsiveness. Benefits like these can apply to many mental therapy programs. Experts note using music for improved welfare in a broad variety of issues, from addiction, to depression, to anxiety: “Some of the positive effects of singing and

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The Difference Between Curing and Healing

WEBlife’s circumstances. Healing involves finding a larger perspective, in which death. and chronic illness are realities with which we can come to terms as part of our. larger life story. Healing relates, on the one hand, to our ability to live …

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Whitehead and Twelve Principles of Education

WEBThe Subject of Education. The ultimate subject in education is Life in all it manifestations: human life but also the life of the plants and animals, the earth, and the wider universe. The whole of nature is alive. 2. Creativity. Creativity is an essential dimension of life and it is found at every level of existence.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Whitehead

WEBToday, we are on the verge of a truly global medicine, embracing the insights of both East and West. Twenty-five years ago, when I began teaching spirituality and medicine at a major medical school, my students chuckled when they viewed films on acupuncture, Qigong, and healing touch.

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The Better Angels Project

WEBInter-Political Conversations as a Leading Edge of Interfaith: Eboo Patel of the Interfaith Youth Core speaks of "pluralism" as an achievement not a fact.It is what happens when people with different religious affiliations (and with no affiliation) find common ground and work together for the common good.

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Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Five Ideas from David Bohm

WEB3. The parts of a whole can be physical objects or mental events, including creative acts of intelligent perception. "What all this means is that the flux of the holomovement is the implicate source of all forms, both physical and mental. That is to say, the whole of existence, including inanimate matter, living organisms, and ‘mind

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