A healthy spirituality can be one of the most effective tools at our disposal for managing stress. However, for reasons as individual as they themselves are, many people feel leery of anything to do with the spiritual. This article draws the all-important distinction between spirituality and religion, and explores how spirituality can reduce stress levels.

Is Faith - Not Vitamin C What's Missing From Your Nutritional Plan?

It's real easy to look at the physical world around us and not see swords being used. To even find one it is often necessary to go to a museum. So what am I talking about?

I once read a story about a Catholic priest who was a godly person. He was so godly that when he died people believed that his bones had healing powers. Yeah, right...

A brief study of King Herod's slaughter of the young boy sin Bethlehem in Matthew 2:16-18

A Brief Study of the story of the Wise Men as related in Matthew 2:1-12

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. --HEBREWS 4:15 He was the kind of fellow you’d invite to watch the Rams-Giants game at your house. He’d wrestle on the floor with your kids, doze on your couch, and cook steaks on your grill. He’d laugh at your jokes and tell a few of His own. And when you spoke, He’d listen to you as if He had all the time in eternity. And one thing’s for sure, you’d invite Him back...

While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --ROMANS 5:8 Expectations create conditional love. “I love you, but I’ll love you more if.” Now I know what you’re thinking. Shouldn’t we expect the best out of one another? Shouldn’t we encourage each other to strive for excellence and never settle for anything else? Absolutely. But it was Christ who taught us how to use expectations. Does He demand a lot? You better believe it. Does He expect much? Only our best. Does He have expectations? Just that we leave everything, deny all, and follow Him. The difference? Jesus’ expectations were accompanied by forgiveness and acceptance.

Loving Your Neighbors If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:1–2

Can I be honest with you? There are days when I just don’t feel like getting up in the morning. I’m noticing this a lot lately because the weather is changing and it’s pretty cold early in the morning when I awake to start my day. There are days when I move that blanket off of me and quickly snatch it back because it’s too cold to get up.

It started with just wanting something to happen...

Tibetan Singing Bowls have stirred the interest of many spiritually-inclined healers. But is every singing bowl out there really Tibetan? And do they all have healing properties? Don't buy one until you read this article.

1. How can anyone receive direct communication from Divine Source, God, all that is? The answers...

The deeper beauty of spring is its process. In winter's last days, as the sun warms the earth, each root and branch awakens to the patterned memory of who it is and what it can be. Life stirs and nat...

Our approach to surrender would be well taken if we followed the path of nature and as we experienced winters of our soul we took refuge in the fact that spring WILL come.

Do you have a life purpose?

Since I awoke from my three month coma in August of 2004, I have been asked many times about what I remembered and experienced. After looking over my notes and speaking with my wife and some of the ...

Using humor to counter stress is easy to learn and very effective. Examples and simple organization of humor are readily available when we know what to look for.

Symptoms of illness are a way of telling us that something isn't right. When this applies to stress it is effectively the body's call to change how we doing things or find an outlet for the stress. This article discusses some stress related illnesses and how to deal with them.

Stress is a lethal killer, but hard to notice most of the time. To protect yourself, spend some time at one of the many Stockton spas.

Several of the people I've worked with recently have told me privately that they suffer from varying degrees of Social Anxiety Disorder. Treatment for each of them varies from no treatment to drug therapy and regular counseling. Since I've had my own challenges with Agoraphobia, Anxiety and Panic, I czn relate to what they're going through. No two people are alike, and no two experiences of these problems are the same.

In Part 4 of our 101 Stress Management tips series we take a look at tips 61-80.

The fact that we can refer to stress as being a force for both good and bad is often confusing and this article gives a simple example of just how stress can work to our advantage and disadvantage.