Spiritual Medical Checkup

Millions of Baby Boom generation women find in midlife an excellent opportunity to pause and reflect on their spirituality. Following the stages of a routine medical exam, the author, who specializes in the study of religion and aging, describes ten spiritual fitness "checkups" midlife women can conduct to assess their spiritual health and tone up their relationship with God. Each checkup consists of the author's personal reflections, a Scripture reference for meditation, and a "Spiritual Pulse Check," with exercises readers can use for personal application. The Spiritual Fitness Checkup for the 50-something Woman is your guide to toning up your relationship with God at your midlife milepost. This book is for you if: - You had 50 or more candles on your last birthday cake. - You think "fitness" is all about getting skinny. - Your spiritual life is important to you. With 10 spiritual fitness "Checkups" and exercises to help you take your own "Spiritual pulse Check," you will learn how to: - Jettison unwanted spiritual "baggage" - View your "midlife crisis" from God's perspective - Focus on forgiveness instead of anger - Conduct a spiritual "lab test" - Improve your spiritual "stamina" - Enhance your meditation time - Spiritualize your midlife self-image

According to the author, Christians need to check in with their Lord and Master, the Great Physician, to be certain that the challenges of this life have not produced any major, bad spiritual changes in their spiritual condition. In thirteen chapters, Braswell helps readers assess themselves and addresses how they can recover from their current state. Braswell starts by identifying what readers should look for during the checkup. She covers all aspects of ones being, from the mind to the heart. At the end, she helps readers handle the results of their spiritual examination and leads them to move forward.

Just as we need to have check-ups to gauge our physical and mental well-being, we should also conduct check-ups to evaluate our spiritual maturity and wellness. In this book, Dr. Randy Bell Sr. urges readers to conduct A Spiritual Check-Up on themselves. He asks 10 questions that are necessary to determine spiritual wellness and then provides steps to improve and maintain our spiritual health.

In an age when people have both medical and financial check-ups, this books suggests the spiritual check-up. The author contends that it should enable one to feel encouraged by showing that God has been at work. The author has also written Jesus: Man of Prayer and Transformed by Love.

Health of the Human Spirit, Second Edition: Spiritual Dimensions for Personal Health is a thoughtful examination of the ageless topic of human spirituality. It addresses the need to acknowledge spiritual wellness as a vital dimension of the general health and well-being of the individual and examines the dynamic balance between mind-body-spirit health and the roadblocks and distractions on the spiritual path. Dr. Seaward includes many behavioral suggestions to enhance the health of the human spirit. He presents the material in an approachable, user-friendly manner by engaging the reader and carefully distinguishing the differences between spirituality and religion.

Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power-an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion, which too often reminds us of our mortality. As a result of this separation of medicine and religion, patients facing serious illness infrequently receive adequate spiritual care, despite the large body of empirical data demonstrating its import to patient meaning-making, quality of life, and medical utilization. This secular-sacred divide also unleashes depersonalizing, social forces through the market, technology, and legal-bureaucratic powers that reduce clinicians to tiny cogs in an unstoppable machine. Hostility to Hospitality is one of the first books of its kind to explore these hostilities threatening medicine and offer a path forward for the partnership of modern medicine and spirituality. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship including empirical studies, interviews, history and sociology, theology, and public policy, the authors argue for structural pluralism as the key to changing hostility to hospitality.

'Making Health Care Whole' charts a common language for addressing spiritual care across the disciplines of medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy & psychology, offering tools for screening, assessment, care planning & interventions.

16 short devotions helping Christians to see where and how they can grow in their faith and joy. We all need a spiritual healthcheck from time to time. These 16 devotions will help you to see where and how to grow in faith and joy. This book will: help you to diagnose how you’re (honestly) doing in your faith; give you the “vitamins” you need-God’s ways of helping you to thrive; and point you to the one who enables you to really grow-the Holy Spirit. Give yourself a spiritual healthcheck and ask for God's help to make you more like Christ. There's no better way to start the new year.