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Dr Bob Block former president American Academy of Pediatrics says “Tolerable stress is okay, but toxic stress changes the composition of the brain and body together and the interactions of the brain with the other organs of the body and it causes a significant percentage of brain health issues later on.” What does the Bible […]
There are individual differences as to what constitutes a stressor. One person’s stress is another person’s excitement. They would pay to do it as their favourite hobby! We tend to perceive the event as being stressful when we have no control about what going on, no predictive information about the stressor, as to when it […]
Glucocorticoids are hormones that are released whenever you are facing a situation which has some fear and uncertainty. They are brilliant for facing your fear. They start the mobilisation of energy, they increase cardiovascular tone, by getting glucose to the thigh muscles quickly. They make sure there is the suppression of digestion, growth, reproduction, and […]
George Whitfield the great evangelist one said “I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.” When we plunge into something terribly challenging, or scary if you explore it and begin to understand it, it can deepen your faith. Fully stretch into your fear and uncertainty and invite someone to […]
Whether covert of overt, ostracism hurts. Professor Kipling Williams studies – the fact of being ignored and/or excluded by others – and its psychological effects. His studies indicate that the initial reaction to ostracism is pain, which is similarly felt by all individuals regardless of personality or social/situational factors. Ostracism then instigates actions aimed at […]
We often let other define situations for other. Social Psychologist Milgram did a study of a crowd of people on a corner of a street with a number of them looking up at nothing. He wondered how many people walking by would look up. Milgram found that virtually everybody took it as a cue that […]
Dr Naomi Eisenberger University of California comments that recent FMRI studies of brain activities have confirmed the biblical verse it is more blessed to give than receive. In the act of support giving there appears to be great activity in reward regions of the brain, there is also a hint that there is less activity processing […]
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