http://texashealthblog.com Texas Health Blog Mon, 14 May 2012 13:13:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/14/the-healing-power-of-music/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/14/the-healing-power-of-music/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 13:13:27 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4349 Henry Garza, guitarist and vocalist with Los Lonely Boys, wrote the lyrics to their song, Heaven. It was a prayer; a prayer motivated by his families financial and emotional hardships, combined with the death of his first-born son from sudden infant death syndrome. The prayer expressed his deep desire for healing. "I know there's a better place/Than this place I'm livin'/How far is heaven?" Henry’s heartfelt plea touched hearts worldwide. Because of the strength of the message, the album that included Heaven sold over 2 million copies. Melodies move us emotionally and change us physically. ]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/14/the-healing-power-of-music/feed/ 10 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/07/what-can-fear-do-to-you/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/07/what-can-fear-do-to-you/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 13:21:19 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4320 What can fear do to you? It seems a lot. Anxiety, fear, and worry are reported to be mentally and physically harmful. Jere Daniel in a Psychology Today column,Learning to Love Growing Old, wrote, “Fear of aging speeds the very decline we dread most. And it ultimately robs our life of any meaning.” I’m discovering that we experience what we think and that fear seems to be able to negatively touch every part of the body, if we allow it. Because of this, I’ve found it effective to filter my thoughts through spiritual reasoning. Many call this prayer.]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/05/07/what-can-fear-do-to-you/feed/ 0 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/30/cheating-death-101/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/30/cheating-death-101/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:33:16 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4313 You enter the room of a gravely ill friend where hope has vanished. Your thoughts weigh heavy. The family expects a quick passing. Doctors have proclaimed there are but a few hours left. The room is dark, both mentally and physically. You feel helpless. But, what if you could do something, something that made a difference?]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/30/cheating-death-101/feed/ 0 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/23/why-love-matters/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/23/why-love-matters/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:54:40 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4285 I believe most of us are inherently aware that love is needed for us to maintain a true quality of life experience. Love and forgiveness, given and received, make us feel mentally and emotionally better. Yet, how many of us know that love has an impact on physical well-being?]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/23/why-love-matters/feed/ 2 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/16/make-the-wait-great/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/16/make-the-wait-great/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:00:45 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4263 Because most us are now accustomed to quick access and instant rewards, waiting is irritating. Not only do we wait in doctors’ offices waiting rooms, but we also wait in traffic and in bank and grocery lines. We anxiously wait to hear about job and housing opportunities and, as well, we wait for apologies and I love you’s. Yet, while we wait, shouldn't we be utilizing our time wisely? Studies show there is something valuable and productive we could be doing, -- something that will help us, even physically. Believe it or not, this beneficial activity is prayer.]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/16/make-the-wait-great/feed/ 1 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/09/stop-i-cant/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/09/stop-i-cant/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:58:30 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4228 The capacities you and I are endowed with, at this time, are barely being realized and employed. The practice of breaking beliefs which cause pain and disease, is, today, taking place because of spiritual understanding. It may be occurring in a very small degree, but the momentum behind such advancements is beginning to be noticed. The ill-health that seems so unyielding and the health that seems so unattainable at present, perhaps, is not that far away. I’ve seen in my own healing practice how the breaking of one belief changes everything; changes everything for the better. Yes, in regard to spiritual healing as well as music, languages, and sports, barriers are breaking, and, instantly, what couldn’t be done before now seems natural, as if we always had the know-how.]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/09/stop-i-cant/feed/ 1 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/02/master-and-commander/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/02/master-and-commander/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:02:20 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4188 Don’t these two situations hint to how, ultimately, the body is thought driven, and perhaps, thought manifest? If this is true, how do we keep from harming ourselves? As well, how do we stop others’ beliefs from impacting our own health negatively?]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/04/02/master-and-commander/feed/ 6 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/26/great-expectations/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/26/great-expectations/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:07:27 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4167 I am intrigued by the power of expectations; by the impact they have on our well-being. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Thomas Curry, a licensed Texas psychotherapist about this phenomenon. Dr. Curry explained, “Expectations are a hot topic in healthcare practice and research. It is widely recognized that an individual's, or group of individuals, expectations either help or hurt healthcare outcomes. Why this is so, and how it happens, unfortunately remains a mystery. However, what is not mysterious at all is the fact that expectations play a very pivotal role in the progression of mental and medical disease, as well as it has a strong role in any treatment effect.” This makes me wonder: Do expectations of decline and illness allow for unchecked fear to manifest as disease on the body where it can develop and spread? Are expectations of health possibly divine urgings that animate us to discover more than we are accepting of life at a given moment?]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/26/great-expectations/feed/ 0 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/19/health-just-like-texas/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/19/health-just-like-texas/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:19:42 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4147 When people around the world think of Texas, I have found that images of Dallas, oil fields, and cattle ranches come to mind. However, there is much more to our grand state than cattle barons and oil tycoons. Citrus groves thrive in south Texas and the tall Piney Woods flourish in the east Texas red soil. Sand dunes and beach houses line the coast from Galveston to Post Isabel, and I haven't even mentioned the Chisos Mountains in the Big Bend National Park. Texas is big and there are a lot of big things in it. And health is one of them. Yet, just like Texas, there is a lot about health that is relatively unknown.]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/19/health-just-like-texas/feed/ 4 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/12/einnie-meenie-miney-mo-i-choose-health/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/12/einnie-meenie-miney-mo-i-choose-health/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:30:33 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4109 One of the important responsibilities of parenting is making sure children are physically cared for. Because of this, parents should be helping their children cultivate greater self-control. So suggests the findings from a 32-year study, which showed that children whose self-control improved were more likely to have better health. There are many ways to improve self-control, but what the study suggests is that the effort could be rewarded with greater well-being. Self-control allows children to cope with difficult situations. Rather than responding immediately to impulses, they are able to plan, examine alternative actions, and side step what they may later regret. This mental management has been considered an innate human ability. However, many are finding it to be much more, a spiritual faculty – a talent wisely exercisable when coupled with spiritual awareness.]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/12/einnie-meenie-miney-mo-i-choose-health/feed/ 2 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/05/is-there-an-antidote-for-hate-mental-poison/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/05/is-there-an-antidote-for-hate-mental-poison/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:54:22 +0000 Keith Wommack http://a-few-words.com/?p=3855 Deborah Smith, staff writer for Monitor on Psychology (a publication for the American Psychological Association), in her post Angry thoughts, at-risk hearts, writes “Research findings indicate a clear pattern -- being an angry or hostile person is bad for your heart.” She goes on to cite several studies that prove the point. It’s my experience as a Christian healer that hateful thoughts can be harmful not only to the heart but to every part of the body. Therefore, if hate is a poison, what is the antidote?]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/03/05/is-there-an-antidote-for-hate-mental-poison/feed/ 6 http://texashealthblog.com/2012/02/27/pain-busting-distraction/ http://texashealthblog.com/2012/02/27/pain-busting-distraction/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:03:56 +0000 Keith Wommack http://texashealthblog.com/?p=4047 Got pain? Piece of cake. Just take your mind off it. I know. Sounds crazy. But … Recent revelations about the placebo effect, and studies showing that distractions help relieve pain, are revealing that health is more mind-based than has been previously acknowledged. So, if you are suffering, get distracted. You read that right, get distracted. And, yes, it does strike some as being simple, but I’ve actually seen distractions stop pain. ]]> http://texashealthblog.com/2012/02/27/pain-busting-distraction/feed/ 0