http://bookworm-tips.tumblr.com/post/59027629945/5-ways-reading-improves-your-health
Check out this article by "BookBub".
1. Reduced Stress Reading for only six minutes can reduce stress by 68 percent as well as slow your heart rate and minimize muscle tension (Research links are provided)
2. Improved Memory Elderly people who read regularly are 2.5 times less likely to get Altzheimer's disease.
3. Younger Brain Reading can significantly reduce your rate of cognitive decline
4. Increased Empathy Relating to the situations of characters in fiction can cause us to be more open to real people in our lives.
5. Increased Tolerance for Uncertainty Readers become more comfortable with possibilities, options, and uncertainty - developing more open minds.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Marcus Borg
Whenever I miss church week after week, my thinking becomes very egocentric and negative. Recovery from my knee surgery has left me weak and lacking in energy; I tend to stay by the home fires to heal. I turned once again to one of my favorite little books, A Prayer Book for the 21st Century, by John McQuiston II.
When I heard of the recent foolhardy debate between atheists and creationists, I thought of the introduction Marcus Borg wrote to this prayer book.
By an inexplicable process we were brought into life by stardust. Daily it provides us with all the wonders and challenges of existence: spring breezes, loyalty, wildflowers, curiosity, mountains, consciousness, poems, friendship, tragedy, laugher, fear, trust, joy, death, birth, clouds, love, sexuality, tigers, songbirds, struggle, gain, loss, integrity, duplicity, oceans, economic forces, concern, trees, doubt, and faith --in short, with all that is. And when we look deep inside ourselves to discover what we are, we find that the answer to that question is as much an unsolved puzzle as the origin of the universe.
. . .God is the spirit behind the eyes of every living being. . .for Christians, Christ exemplifies the profoundly deep, selfless life to which we should aspire. . .
When I heard of the recent foolhardy debate between atheists and creationists, I thought of the introduction Marcus Borg wrote to this prayer book.
By an inexplicable process we were brought into life by stardust. Daily it provides us with all the wonders and challenges of existence: spring breezes, loyalty, wildflowers, curiosity, mountains, consciousness, poems, friendship, tragedy, laugher, fear, trust, joy, death, birth, clouds, love, sexuality, tigers, songbirds, struggle, gain, loss, integrity, duplicity, oceans, economic forces, concern, trees, doubt, and faith --in short, with all that is. And when we look deep inside ourselves to discover what we are, we find that the answer to that question is as much an unsolved puzzle as the origin of the universe.
. . .God is the spirit behind the eyes of every living being. . .for Christians, Christ exemplifies the profoundly deep, selfless life to which we should aspire. . .
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