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For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
(The Bible KJV – II Timothy 1: 7)
Archive for the ‘Mental Health’ Category
To Have a Sound Mind 1 comment
You Can Count on God Leave a comment
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A Sentinel Watch podcast and Daily Lift by Mary Beattie – The Daily Lift tells of a permanent healing of depression. If you like this short podcast, we invite you to listen to the whole interview, You Can Count On God.
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Daily Lift: The Depression and Anxiety Never Returned
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Is God motivated by our prayers to help or guide us? Mary Beattie, shares how she knows that God’s presence and power is always active. And it’s something we can always count on.
Sentinel Watch Podcast: You Can Count on god – Mary Beattie interviewed by Jenny Sawyer.
“Thank You” – 2 Powerful Words 1 comment
The Enriching Power of Gratitude
Someone said to me once that gratitude was like having windows in a room. When I questioned this, he explained that if you are in a room with no windows you are not aware of the beauty of the scenery beyond the walls, but if you have windows you can experience the pleasure of the view. He said gratitude is the quality of thought that makes you aware of the good that already surrounds you. There is always good. Taking time to appreciate it and say, ‘Thank you’ enriches our lives.
Research suggests that being grateful and expressing gratitude towards others can improve our happiness and quality of life. Gratitude enhances empathy, improves physical health, mental wellbeing, quality of sleep, self-esteem and, also has the capacity to reduce stress. Identifying what you’re grateful for, especially during challenging times, can help foster resilience and improve our wellbeing (Stronger Together – Expressing Gratitude, Tanya O’Shea, Managing Director, IMPACT Community Services).
Gratitude is a quality of Love. Love is that quality that makes the world work right. When we make time for giving gratitude for the large and small things in our lives, then we are doing our part in making the world a better place while enhancing our own lives. That simple act of saying, ‘Thank you’ and counting our blessings enriches.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science encourages us to live the gratitude we feel. She writes on page 3 of her textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures:
Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech.
If you are in Canberra, please join us in giving thanks for the good in our lives and the blessings received at our Thanksgiving Service at 6.15 on Thursdsay 23 November – corner of Macquarie & Bligh Streets, Barton.
Happiness Found Leave a comment
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Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p57)
Seeking Happiness Leave a comment
The good in human affections must have ascendency over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happiness will never be won.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p61:4)
True Happiness Leave a comment
Unselfish ambition, noble life-motives, and purity, — these constituents of thought, mingling, constitute individually and collectively true happiness, strength, and permanence.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p57:7)
Healing Trauma – Is It Possible? Leave a comment
An interview with Kate Robertson
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When trauma seems to have so many lives in its grip, how can we respond in a way that heals, both individually and collectively? Kate walks us through her own healings of trauma to show what Christian Science makes possible.
Facing Down Negative Self-Talk 1 comment
A Daily Lift by Bobby Lewis, a Christian Science practitioner.
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In this brief podcast Bobby describes how he recognised the negative self-talk that came to him – and all of us at times – and how he countered this by affirming his true nature as a child of God.
Mental Stability – Possible for Everyone 1 comment
A Christian Science perspective: A deeper understanding of Mind brings peace to the disturbed mentality. By Deborah Huebsch
In these times of global stir, greater mental stability is certainly something we all would like to experience. A slight variation on a famous saying about peace might relate, “Let there be stability in the world and let it begin with me.” Surely mental equilibrium, an unshakable peace that can withstand turbulent events that occur, is a necessity.
There was a time in my life when I had to think deeply about this subject. A history of severe emotional problems affected both sides of my family. When I started to experience signs of a mental breakdown similar to those other family members had, I was terrified.
At that time a friend, seeing my obvious distress, offered me a copy of a book that literally changed my life – “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy. It explained God as Mind, … continue reading.
Love Myself … Is That Even Possible? Leave a comment
A Daily Lift by John Biggs CS
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In this short podcast John talks about how he learned to love himself – to recognise that he had his own unique ‘light’ to shine – and he describes the positive effect this had.
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