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Moving beyond drugs to find health

September 18, 2014 By christianscienceminnesota 15 Comments

As summer slips away again, I’m reminded of how walking along the seashore listening to the continuous sound of crashing surf can clear our head and allow fresh perspectives.

In the local Walgreens parking lot, I had a beach-like moment and found an answer. A CVS store had opened up on the other end of the same block and I puzzled over how these stores were both thriving while selling identical merchandise.

As I stood listening to waves of traffic, the answer hit me: drugs. They are drug stores. There’s an insatiable demand for prescription and non-prescription medication. People’s search for health is relentless. Everyone needs to be healthy.

But are drugs the only way?

Reports say a lot of us don’t think so. In addition to mega-dollars spent on drug-based health care, Americans also spend almost $34 billion each year out of their own pockets on alternative treatments. Even 3 out of 4 U.S. health care workers use some form of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) to stay healthy.

Prayer is no longer listed as part of CAM but the statistics still show an increasing percentage of people pray about their health.

I’m part of those statistics….Continue Reading

Curing the incurable

October 5, 2012 By christianscienceminnesota Leave a Comment

Here is a guest post from my Australian colleague Beverly Goldsmith. She tells from her own experience how incurable migraines were cured.

A spiritual response to: National Headache and Migraine Awareness Week

Do migraine sufferers want to just ‘manage’ headaches, or would they prefer permanent freedom from this complaint? I know what my preference would be!

In writing about National Headache and Migraine Awareness Week, September 17-23^rd, Professor Paul R Martin, Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University, and Head of “Conquer Headaches – The Headache and Migraine Program“, suggests how people can learn to cope with headache/migraine triggers.

From early in my life I experienced migraine headaches. My parents tried to find a cure for them. Doctors were consulted, drugs prescribed, and treatments undertaken. Numerous theories were put forward as to the possible cause. There was even a theological notion that I had to endure this affliction because it was God’s will. Finally, we accepted the medical diagnosis that the headaches were triggered by a particular food. I stopped eating it. The headaches diminished in number, but they certainly weren’t cured.

Our path to health – there must be something more than drugs

September 11, 2012 By christianscienceminnesota Leave a Comment

Before we let go of summer, here’s a beach memory.

When I was a kid, my family rented a house on Fire Island, NY for seven summers in a row. I remember long, slow walks on the beach with the constant sound of crashing waves in my ears. Like a lot of people, I found those walks would help me get a clearer perspective on my life.

What is it about walking along the seashore and hearing that continuous sound that clears our head? I think it has to do with a sense that the waves will never stop. There’s something inevitable, almost eternal about that sound.

We know the ocean won’t change. Short of maybe a nuclear explosion, there’s nothing on earth that could keep those waves from coming. Hearing that steady rhythm gives us a sense of something we can always depend on. And that feeling calms us and helps simplify all the temporary, changeable things we’re dealing with; we end up with peace and direction.

The other day here in Edina, I was standing in the Walgreens parking lot. The steady sound of cars on York Avenue wasn’t as nice as the ocean waves, but for a minute it seemed to give me a similar clarity. I looked half a block north and saw the new CVS. I thought, “How can two almost identical stores survive right next to each other? And the Super Target is right across the street selling all the same stuff!”

The answer hit me in a flash – drugs.