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A new study by Lisa Miller Professor of Clinical Psychology at Colombia found that those who placed a high importance in religion or spirituality had thicker cortices than those who did not. For those with a family history of mental illness, the results were even more striking – a thicker cortex was found in precisely […]
Robert Emmons a researcher on Gratitude says that we should remember the Bad. He says we should ‘Think of the worst moments, your sorrows, your losses and your sadness and then remember. Focus on how you got through the worst day of your life, the trauma, the trial; you endured the temptation, you survived the […]
Scientists are finding through numerous studies that holding on to grievances is a decision to suffer and rumination is a barrier to forgiveness. It activates negative aroused intense emotion, activating the sympathetic flight and fight response, which impairs positive emotion and the parasympathetic calming system. Researchers have also found out that holding a grudge activates […]
Psychologist Dr Richard leahy says ‘the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s’. The social climate we have all been born into says we must do more, do better, do it now, work harder and now we must be working smarter. We have things to accomplish […]
It didn’t seem to be what God was blessing so we dropped it. So often we are making decisions based on what we call blessing, and not on the sometimes invisible work of God. That means we probably would have abandoned Joseph in prison in Egypt. We would have labelled Moses a no-hoper. Gideon a […]
In his second letter to the church at Corinth Paul writes ‘Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God […]
Fear is a biological state of readiness that you absolutely need, to put in a performance, it is your friend. People who have no fear are people who live life way too much in the safe zone. God is calling and has always been calling people to move from the safety zone. Ananias was called […]
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