Science and health with Key to the Scriptures

Have MORE patience! It’s good for your health.

January 27, 2017 By Beverly Goldsmith 2 Comments

At this time of year, life can be very hectic. Holidays are over. It’s back-to-school and back-to-work time for many families. Teachers are making preparations. Parents are working hard to establish a smooth daily routine that enables them to get their children up and out-the-door on time. Such an undertaking can be a challenge! As one father said, “Getting kids ready for school each day would test the patience of a Saint”. What’s the answer? Have MORE patience. It’s good for your health.

HAVE MORE PATIENCE

Teachers, parents, and child-minding grandparents, often need truckloads of patience. Why? Because this relationship-smoothing, health-giving quality of thought produces well-balanced, harmonious, daily activity. It fosters calmness, and enables us to be tolerant of delays or problems, without becoming angry or upset. Patience is so valuable and needed these days that it’s considered to be a virtue – a character trait that’s not only morally good, but very desirable in every person.

TIPS:

– Overcome frustrating family situations with patience. Stay calm. Don’t let anyone or anything upset you. God made you calm and He keeps you calm. You are God’s calm reflection.

– Master the art of patience. Embrace it more fully. Patience helps build emotional and spiritual maturity. It produces a better balanced mental state and attitude to family life. It enables you to move through stressful times with grace and poise.

– Have patience with learning, and with learners. Be prepared to teach kids what they have to do as part of the daily routine. Establish a logical order for the day ahead. In time you’ll build helpful attitudes and practices, and achieve a smooth running household.

– In dealing with a difficult, or grumpy family member, resist the impulse to react. Stay calm-and-collected. “Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry” Bible James 1:19

– Remind yourself that you have an abundance of self-control. You have patience. You’ve been created a cool, composed, unruffled person. You have equanimity – evenness of mind. You’re perfectly balanced. Bible Genesis 1:27.

– If confronted with willfulness or disobedience, take a deep breath. Stay loving. A loving attitude helps you stay patient, calm. It helps you keep an emotional balance. Love “…is not easily provoked”. Bible 1 Corinthians 13:5

– Remember what’s most needed from all of us – parents, children and teachers, is “… growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.” Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p.4

– Be calm. Resolve delays or problems without becoming angry or upset. Be proactive. Have MORE patience. You’ll find it’s good for your health.

This article has been published on Motherpedia. Read more by me on Motherpedia…

Also published in the February edition of the Around Point Cook, Around Altona and Around Hoppers Crossing community newspapers in print and online via Issuu.

Beat the winter blues! It’s good for your health.

June 2, 2016 By Beverly Goldsmith 3 Comments

It’s Winter! Time to enjoy cosy fires, hot drinks, warm clothes, snuggling up in bed, and even trips to the snow. However, colder, shorter days may result in the winter blues, anxiety over one’s health, and worry about the best ways to keep the family well. When such winter-time-concerns set in, it’s time to take action. So, turn-up your mental heat. Beat the winter blues! It’s good for your health.

DON’T HIBERNATE.

Although the weather outside may be cold and blustery, resist the urge to hide away. Going into hibernation-mode isn’t good for one’s mental or physical well being. What’s the answer? Get out and about during Winter. Don’t isolate yourself. Keep on-the-go.

TIP:

– Don’t become immobilized during the colder months. Keep yourself mentally active.

– Improve your mood. Give yourself a much needed people-boost. Head out into your community and participate in the many fun activities on offer.

– Socially interact with others. Spend time with friends and family. Share your favourite winter soup or casseroles with them.

LET THE SUNLIGHT IN.

During winter, many people go to work and return home in darkness. Experiencing fewer hours of daylight, can lead to winter depression.

TIP:

– Beat gloomy, wintery-type thoughts by letting the sunlight of gladness and gratitude brighten your thinking. “Love, redolent with unselfishness, bathes all in beauty and light”. – Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p. 516

– Don’t feel trapped indoors by the winter blues. Be like the small canary that was mistakenly shut inside a cupboard. Although in total darkness, it started singing. As a result, it was found and set free.

– Free yourself from melancholy emotions. Let the rays of freedom-generating, joy-bringing thoughts, light up your thinking.

EXPECT TO STAY WELL.

When cold and rainy weather arrives, so too can the fear of becoming ill. Such anxiety can be countered with the confident expectation of maintaining good health in every season.

TIP:

– Don’t anticipate being sick during colder months. Keep the fear of illness out of your thinking.

– Act like a porter. Stand guard at the door of thought. “When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears.” – Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 392
– Feel safe, strong and well. There is a health-protecting, divine Presence, caring for you all year round. See, The Bible, Psalm 91. You can beat the winter blues and it’s good for your health.

This article has been published on Motherpedia. Read more by me on Motherpedia…

Also published in Around Point Cook community newspaper in print and online via Issuu.

Happy mothering! It’s good for your health.

May 2, 2016 By Beverly Goldsmith 4 Comments

Today’s woman is multi-faceted. She can be a wife, daughter, sister, aunt, mother and grandmother. As a mum, she juggles her life with raising children, running a home, work or study. As a grandmother, she often plays an important role in looking-after her grandchildren. For these women, mothering is a serious responsibility and a treasured privilege. While it’s a demanding life, it can be made easier when it incorporates happy mothering which is good for your health.

Celebrate Happy Mothering

Each year Mother’s Day celebrates the contribution women make to family life and acknowledges the importance of mothering. My earliest participation in this celebration, was the morning I proudly carried the breakfast tray into my mother’s room for the first time. Serving my Mum breakfast in bed was my way of thanking her for the love and caring she was giving me. Of course, I didn’t fully appreciate all she was doing to raise me to be a happy, healthy, good person. Yet my mother did this each day with boundless grace and love.

TIPS:

– Relish the challenges of parenting. Be pleased that you’re doing your best as a mother.

– Take pleasure in the fact that you get your children to school each day so that they can receive a good education; that you’re able to feed, clothe, and give them a safe, loving home; that through your efforts you are giving them a good start in life.

– Be glad to “Direct your children onto the right path (so that), when they are older, they will not leave it.” The Bible, Proverbs 22:6.

– Feel satisfied that through your spiritual values and example, your children will become model citizens, knowing right from wrong, treating everyone with respect and kindness, and being a blessing to others at home, school and in the community.

– Have inner contentment. Find joy in allowing meditation or prayer help you be a happy mother. “Take time to be holy, Be calm in thy soul; Each thought and each motive beneath His control.” – W.D. Longstaff .

– Be grateful for your mother’s nurturing and the selfless caring that women around the world give their own children and others. “Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” Science and Health p. 57 – Mary Baker Eddy.

– Be joyous. With the help of a divine Mother-love you can fulfill your parenting tasks with poise and grace, and celebrate happy mothering.

This article has been published on Motherpedia. Read more by me on Motherpedia…

Also published in Around Point Cook and Around Hoppers Crossing Community newspapers in print and online via Issuu.

Be resilient! It’s good for your health

March 28, 2016 By Beverly Goldsmith 6 Comments

Be resilient! It’s good for your health When it comes to juggling family and work, parents and workers can sometimes get bent-out-of-shape by the demands made on them. They can feel pulled in two directions or mentally stretched to the limit. When this happens, life can be a tight ball of stress. The answer? Be resilient. Stay emotionally on-track under pressure. Retain your mental balance and poise. It’s good for your health.

BE A RESILIENT PERSON

A resilient person is someone who is adaptable and recovers readily from stress or misfortune. The key to being resilient is to have a bucket-load of mental qualities, such as suppleness, elasticity, and flexibility. These thought-qualities allow you to easily rebound from stressful situations, and regain control of your emotions and your life.

It’s like the humble rubber-band. Being supple, the band can be stretched sideways a long way without breaking. It can be formed into a triangle, rectangle, square, or even rolled into a tight ball. Yet, no matter how it’s treated, when the pressure is released, the circular band easily recovers its original shape.

While the ability to rebound quickly is sometimes thought to be associated with genetics, one’s temperament, or good parenting, resilience is actually a mental, spiritual capability which we all have. No one has to think or act like a metal paperclip, which is inflexible, rigid, and when stretched can’t readily recover its form.

TIPS:

– When faced with a difficult situation, draw on spiritual resilience to help you overcome it.

– Maintain your balance in life. Be supple – bend with the winds of hardship or misfortune, and then recover quickly, easily, from trouble or stress.

– Be assured, that “The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares.” Mary Baker Eddy – Science and Health p.574

– Affirm often during the day, that divine Spirit made you resilient, flexible, able to live a happy, healthy life.

– Retain your mental composure. Bounce back from disappointment or discouragement. You can do it!

– Be reassured: “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not.” Bible II Corinthians

– Mentally stand firm. Don’t stay rigid with fear or despair. Be assured that with God’s help you can defeat prejudice or bullying, with courage and determination.

– Be strong. Get up each day mentally stronger than the day before. Practice thinking and being resilient. It’s good for your health.

This article was first published on spiritualityandhealthconnect.com

Nourish your thinking! It’s good for your health.

February 24, 2016 By Beverly Goldsmith 4 Comments

In the whirlwind-of-life that we call our daily routine, every minute seems to be accounted for. There’s the family to attend to, trips to the supermarket, household chores, work commitments, and yes, emails and Facebook posts to catch up with. How does one cope with the hectic pace of life and stay mentally on top? One way, is to make time to nourish your thinking at home and work. What’s more, it’s good for your health.

NOURISH YOUR THINKING AT HOME AND WORK.

Recently I witnessed the benefits of undertaking “nourishing” action. In my garden a number of beautiful rose bushes planted by a previous home-owner, suddenly started failing. A friend inquired if I was regularly nourishing the roses with proper food and water? I hadn’t been doing so. When I did, they revived immediately and have bloomed more profusely than ever.

In the comfort of our home, we may have appropriate food and water each day for our bodily needs. But what about our thinking? It also requires attention. Old, worn-out, negative thoughts need to be over-hauled and refreshed, and our thinking capacity nourished with fresh, robust, constructive ideas. Such mental nourishing leads to a healthier state of mind. We’re able to relax more, sleep better, and respond to challenges from a position of strength.

SIX TIPS TO HELP YOU NOURISH YOUR THINKING

1. Before you leap out of bed in the morning, take a moment to nurture your inner self. Affirm that you are loved, lovable and loving. You are a special person. You can accomplish much good.

2. Cherish yourself by remembering that an ever-present Love is constantly watching over you, guiding you through each day, and keeping you safe. – Bible Psalm 121

3. If you’re thirsty for caring or companionship, drink-in thoughts of hope and encouragement. Happiness and contentment are within your reach.

4. When feeling under pressure at work, do what a friend of mine does. Take a mental pause and feed your thinking with “beautiful images of thought”. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health p. 248

5. Use the gentle imagery of the beautiful 23^rd Psalm, and picture yourself in a peaceful green meadow, resting beside a calm stream. This comforting, tranquil thought-image, will soon refresh and restore your peace of mind.

6. If you’re someone who likes to pray, or meditate, feed your thinking with gratitude for the good that is already in your life. Gratitude definitely gives you a boost. It nourishes your thinking, puts a spring-in-your-step, and is good for your health.

This article was first published on my previous blog site spiritualityandhealthconnect.com