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HEALING THROUGH UNITY
November, 1999
A monthly newsletter dedicated to serving the principles of
physical and spiritual health envisioned in the Baha'i Teachings.
Volume 3, Issue #3
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CONTENTS
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- The Spiritual Life of Man
- Healing - Poem
- The Exchange
- Six Types of Healing - Type Six
- Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet
- A Response on Different Issues covered in the Newsletter
- Aromatherapy: A Beginning
- Laughter Room
- Health Habits
- Announcements
- Question of the Month
- Purpose of the Newsletter
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THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF MAN
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(Editor's Note: Dorothy Baker, Hand of the Cause of God, prepared this talk
for a radio program in Lima, Ohio, United States. It is taken from "From
Copper to Gold: The Life of Dorothy Baker, pp. 149 - 150 by Dorothy Freeman.
Hands of the Cause of God of the Baha'i Faith are people who have been
appointed by Baha'u'llah, Abdu'l-Baha, and Shoghi Effendi, to be the Chief
Stewards of the Baha'i Faith)
"One day a businessman said to me, 'Secretly I wonder about myself. I arise
in the morning, eat, keep shop, sleep and then do it all over again. I begin
to feel like that person who said, "Man matters only to himself; he is
fighting a lone fight against a vast indifference."'
What a strange creature man is! He stands at the very apex of creation and
forgets his own preciousness in the sight of God. Sometimes we go into dark
closets of our own building and stuff up the keyhole and the cracks. Then we
say, 'The sun is not shining for me.' We build the closets of our own odd
variety of materials - envy, fear, selfishness, sadness and sometimes just a
sense of frustration and futility. And there we stay, mainly because we have
not thought out our position there and so we are not doing anything about
it. Often we hear the sighs of others in nearby closets and we wish we could
liberate them, but not having freed ourselves, we find it pretty hard to
tell them what to do.
Now the first thing that is probably needed is a larger perspective. I had
the good fortune to have a remarkable grandmother. How well I remember
hearing her say, 'If anything troubles you very much now, look at it in
terms of five years from this time, or twenty-five, or fifty, and if it
still looms pretty large, measure it in terms of eternity. Now that is my
theme of eternity. Then look back, if you will, and wonder what became of
your darkest closet.
The great thing is to find for ourselves the purpose of being, and to hold
to that through everything. Baha'u'llah said, 'O God, I testify that thou
hast created me to know Thee and to adore Thee.' There is God at the far end
and here are we are at the near end, on this lonely little island, the
earth, needing to discover in that brief flash, an enormous purpose like
that! And it is brief! He also said, 'Count all the days of thy life as less
than a fleeting instant.'
To know and adore God! Think of the things we deplore every day that all the
while may be really speeding us on our way! Take the matter of trouble, for
example. Baha'u'llah, in His Tablet to the Shah of Persia, wrote, 'I am not
impatient of calamity in His way nor of affliction for His love. God hath
made afflictions as a morning shower to His green pasture, and as a wick for
His lamp, whereby earth and Heaven are illumined.'
A morning shower! Often trouble opens the heart to God. And after that it
becomes purified, little by little, so that the self or Satan of the heart
dies out and makes room for the Divine Beloved. I came just this morning
upon these words, 'Purify thy heart for My descent. The Friend and stanger
cannot dwell there together.' Trouble is often just the testing ground of
the soul. There is a real freedom in it. As a Kreisler after difficult years
of drudgery is free in the world of music, as an athlete after long
discipline of the body has supremacy in the world of sports, so does your
soul win a sovereignty through a life that challenges it to be at grips with
the world. Tests often come again and again to teach a single lesson, until
at last there is a victory and a former weakness is replaced by strength.
Every time this happens, it marks a milestone on the path to God."
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HEALING
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This poem is taken from "Below the Surface, p. 6 by Anne Spencer Parry and
Marjorie Pizer
The task of the rescue of the soul is long and slow
And only those will be rescued who want to be rescued,
For only the soul itself can unmake
The prison it has so carefully constructed.
How delicate is the work of the freeing of the soul!
Open eyes and open hearts,
A tongue to speak what must be said
And hands to hold through the terror and the pain.
Only those who are themselves becoming free
Can wield this fiery wand.
The rebirth of the soul is an agony and a joy
And only one already born
Can assist this painful labour.
How tender and beautiful is the work of the
freeing of the soul.
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"O My Servant
Free thyself from the fetters of this world, and loose thy soul from the
prison of self. Seize they chance, for it will come to thee no more."
(Baha'u'llah, Hidden Words, Persian #40)
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THE EXCHANGE
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Question:
In the October, 1999 issue, the question was:
One thing I would really like to address are the issues of wealth,
prosperity, consciousness and the Fund. I firmly believe that the same
feelings of fear and unworthiness that contribute to physical and emotional
illnesses also keep us in poverty. We each deserve physical health,
emotional health and financial health. We say healing prayers so that we can
serve the Cause without our physical
limitations getting in the way, but when was the last time any of us asked
God to make us wealthy enough that our financial limitations
would not get in the way?
We consider healthy food and exercise part of a spiritual lifestyle, but we
consider healthy profits and financial exercises part of a
materialistic lifestyle. But both our bodies and our money are just tools
for the spirit. I would like to hear your views on this issue.
Answers:
The Gift of Financial Tests
I would like to share some recent experiences my husband and I have had with
spiritual growth around the issue of financial income.
For the last two years my 63 year old husband and I (56 with long standing
chronic illness) have struggled without earning an income, to establish a business at our most recent pioneer post. When we first arrived, I decided
to practice positive thinking. "Attitude is everything!" was my motto.
Success, financial security, was just around the corner. Roger, ever the
complementary personality, began very cautiously to explore this
enterpreneurial opportunity without success. As setback followed setback, he
began reading an 'Abdu'l-Baha prayer for prosperity on a daily basis and
found books to help him persevere. I faced my panic about being old and sick
and broke, and Baha'u'llah helped me to discover many older sick people,
with little money, who do get along as long as they have the joy of serving
our Beloved. And I adopted an "Attitude of Gratitude". Along the way, we
learned the difficult lesson of accepting charity from family and friends,
gratefully and cheerfully, recognizing that their generosity blesses both
the giver and the recipient. We have both been in and out of depression
during the last two years. Just yesterday Roger and I were talking about how
wonderful a blessing this struggle has been for us, bringing us new insights
and developing otherwise neglected capacities. He now feels free of old
fantasies about what wealth would bring. My latest lesson has been to accept
that my value as a parent does not depend on my being able to shower my
children and grandchildren with all the gifts they never had from me. And,
who knows, the business may turn out alright after all. If it does, we will
experience that new development hoping to continue to appreciate all of
Baha'u'llah's bounties that have brought us this far.
- Diana Carson
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On first reading of the question, the following prayer by the Bab for
detachment sprang to mind:
"...Vouchsafe unto me, through Thy Grace, what will enable me to dispense
with all except Thee, and destine for me that which will make me independent
of everyone else besides Thee..." (Baha'i Prayers, U.S.,1985, p. 55)
God knows what we will need to serve His Cause, and standing ready to serve
Him implies keeping an open mind about how in His wisdom He will assist us.
'Abdu'l-Baha leaves little doubt, however, about the morality of wealth:
"...it should not be imagined that the writer's earlier remarks constitute a
denunciation of wealth or a commendation on poverty. Wealth is praiseworthy
in the highest degree, if it is acquired by an individual's own efforts and
the grace of God, in commerce, agriculture, art and industry, and if it be
expended for philanthropic purposes... Wealth is most commendable, provided
the entire population is wealthy. If, however, a few have inordinate riches
while the rest are impoverished, and no fruit or benefit accrues from that
wealth, then it is only a liability to its possessor. If, on the other hand,
it is expended for the promotion of knowledge, the founding of elementary
and other schools, the encouragement of art and industry, the training of
orphans and the poor--in brief, if it is dedicated to the welfare of
society--its possessor will stand out before God and man as the most
excellent of all who live on earth and will be accounted as one of the
people of paradise." ---Secret of Divine Civilisation, pp. 24-25
- Dr Mary Ann Chance, Australia
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There are many, many references to be found in the Baha'i Writings on the
subject of wealth. Here are just a few:
"When the love of God is established, everything else will be realized. This
is the true foundation of all economics."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Promulgation of Universal Peace, p 239)
"Love is the most great law …"
(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha; p 27)
"... God hath made the achievement of everything conditional upon material
means, ..."
(Baha'u'llah, Huququ'llah, p 12, #33)
"When a rich man believes and follows the Manifestation of God, it is a proof that his wealth is not an obstacle and does not prevent him from
attaining the pathway of salvation."
(Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p.216)
"Having attained the stage of fulfilment and reached his maturity, man
standeth in need of wealth, and such wealth as he acquireth through crafts
or professions is commendable and praiseworthy in the estimation of men of
wisdom, and especially in the eyes of servants to the education of the world
and to the edification of its peoples."
(Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p.35)
"Bahá'u'lláh had also in His writings given a most important place to Art,
and the practice of skilled trades. He had stated that the practice of an
Art or Trade in the true spirit of service was identical with the worship of
God."
(Abdu'l-Bahá, Abdu'l-Baha in London, p.72)
"We cannot give of our wealth to the poor unless we possess it."
(Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p.3)
"The attainment of any object is conditioned upon knowledge, volition and
action. Unless these three conditions are forthcoming, there is no execution
or accomplishment."
(Abdu'l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p.157)
- Complied by Jim Belchamber, Ontario, Canada
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SIX TYPES OF HEALING - TYPE SIX
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By Dr. Orval H. Minney, California, U.S.A.
orvalm@prodigy.net
I have been presenting my views on the six types of healing (four spiritual
and two material) as mentioned by Abdu'l Baha in Some Answered Questions.
Of spiritual healing; Type One was through contagion of health; Type Two,
was by transfer of a magnetic force from the healer to the patient, Type
Three was from the entire concentration of the mind of a strong person upon
a sick person, when the latter expects with all his concentrated faith that
a cure will be effected., Type Four was "...produced by the power of the
Holy Spirit" and Type Five was by use of medicines and surgery. Today we
will consider Type Six which consists of the use of aliments, fruits,
vegetables, and hot and cold waters.
"It is, therefore, evident that it is possible to cure by foods, aliments
and fruits; but as today the science of medicine is imperfect, this fact is
not yet fully grasped. When the science of medicine reaches perfection,
treatment will be given by foods, aliments, fragrant fruits and vegetables,
and by various waters, hot and cold in temperature."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 258-59)
Abdu'l Baha speaks in the same reference that the body is in a state of
energy and chemical equilibrium and that an imbalance causes disease while
balance restores the equilibrium and health. As an example, he speaks of
lacking the sugar element and restoring the balance by replacing the missing
element. Since I have previously discussed the science of dynamic balance
or homeostasis and how it works through the autonomic nervous and endocrine
systems, I will not go into it here but it is the basis of healing by use of
herbs, foods and waters.
Nutritionists and physiologists like to point out that we are what we eat.
Physically, our bodies are made up from the food we eat, the water we drink,
and the air we breathe. They are poisoned by ingestion of toxins by
eating, drinking and breathing. If the body is healthy and in a state of
balance, the immune system can deactivate the toxins. If it is not, then
the chemistry of the body must be returned to balance. This is where the
use of foods, herbs and waters comes in. If the foods we eat were grown in
naturally rich soil and contained all the nutrients according to their
species we could eat a "balanced" meal and maintain the body equilibrium.
Since today many of the soils are either depleted or have been artificially
fertilized by growth/yield producing chemicals the plants either lack the essential elements or they are in an unbalanced state in the plant. We eat
according to the best knowledge we have of our body's needs but still we may
not meet it's needs.
Interestingly, in terms of body needs, one size does not fit all. For
example, in very cold climates the need for calories from fats is essential.
In Antarctica, I read that members of an expedition confined to their hut
during the winter, lost weight on 10 to 12 hundred calories per day. An
athlete requires lots of carbohydrates that might trigger diabetes in a
sedentary older person. Therefore, God has made us individuals with different needs.
Water is the solute for the body's chemicals as well as the means of
transport of nutrients and waste. We need to take in the amount of pure
water, not beverages, to balance what we excrete and to implement the
maintenance of homeostasis.
Using herbs to help restore balance is in line with what I believe is Abdu'l-Baha's intent, but to use herbs to treat symptoms is, to me,
'allopathic' herbal medicine. Yet the supplement industry is being built on
the "magic pill" concept and many herbalists are falling into
the trap. I believe that the use of herbs or supplements should be on the
basis of maintaining the dynamic equilibrium of the body and its Innate
intelligence and its immune system....
It has been my intention in this series of articles to present my opinions
based on my research and experience rather than use the method of a
technical paper with cited statistics. I have tried not to condemn any
practice or group in total but to present a path to the
future by mentioning concepts, problems and information for your thought,
consideration, and planning. In my opinion, 'competent
physicians' should have all six types of healing in their methodology and
hopefully this will increase as our knowledge and understanding develops.
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" The Bab hath said that the people of Baha must develop the science of
medicine to such a high degree that they will heal illnesses by means of
foods. The basic reason for this is that if, in some component substance of
the human body, an imbalance should occur, altering its correct, relative
proportion to the whole, this fact will inevitably result in the onset of
disease. If, for example, the starch component should be unduly augmented,
or the sugar component decreased, an illness will take control. It is the
function of a skilled physician to determine which constituent of his
patient's body hath suffered diminution, which hath been augmented. Once he
hath discovered this, he must prescribe a food containing the diminished
element in considerable amounts, to re-establish the body's essential
equilibrium. The patient, once his constitution is again in balance, will be
rid of his disease."
(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 155-4)
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BREAKING THE VICIOUS CYCLE:
INTESTINAL HEALTH THROUGH DIET
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By Elaine Gottschall, MSc, Ontario, Canada
"There are ten million North Americans bothered with gastrointestinal
problems," say Ms. Gottschall whose lifelong interest in these disorders
started in 1955. Here are some facts about this illness given by Elaine. She
gathered this information from the Crohn's and Colitis Association and her
own intensive research.
* It accounts for the second highest number of hospital admissions.
* In 1922, thirty percent of doctor visits were because of it. Today, nearly
half the people visiting doctors are there due to complaints relating to
this illness in its various forms.
* Although it's not as life threatening as heart disease or cancer, it is
responsible for much human suffering, the expenditure of a large portion of
health care budgets and often requires lifelong drug management.
* Sufferers of its various forms are told their illness is incurable.
* When people ask their doctors what they should eat, they are told that
food has nothing to do with their problem.
People diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulosis,
irritable bowel, spastic colon, or celiac disease are usually given no hope
of a cure. As a result, Elaine Gottschall's book "Breaking the Vicious
Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet" has served to assist people who claim
to have been helped by it and appears that this diet is capable of reversing
the intestinal damage related to these disorders.
This is printed on the back cover which includes testimonials from various
people:
"Diagnosis: Ulcerative Colitis
"Thanks to the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, I have regained my life! For many
years, ulcerative colitis contolled almost every aspect of my existence -
where I worked, social situations, recreation, travel, etc. Having not
responded well to medications, I had even reached the point of discussing
with my doctor the possibility of having my colon surgically removed. I
would never have thought that something as simple as diet could solve this
problem.
- Lucy Rosset, Bellingham, Washington
Diagnosis: Crohn's Disease
"I was diagnosed as having Crohn's Disease of the small intestine fifteen
years ago. The 'bland diet' I was told to follow did not help. In June of
1993, I began the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Not only did all pain
disappear but laboratory blood tests returned to normal. Since discovering
this remarkable diet, I recommend it to all my patients who have Crohn's and
other intestinal problems."
- Carl E. Byer D.C., Mt Prospect, Illinois
Diagnosis: Ulcerative Colitis
"My battle with colitis had gone on for a number of years. I had been on
high doses of medication steadily for one year and felt that I had hit
bottom. It was then that I read a newspaper article about the Specific
Carbohydrate Diet and began following it immediately. I am now so much
healthier, happier, and energetic. It was a miracle to find this diet.
- Lois Lang, Wilson, Oklahoma
Diagnosis: Crohn's Disease
"It is now four months since I heard those wonderful words from the doctor
at the London, Ontario hospital telling me that he could see no signs of
Crohn's disease. I felt as if someone had lifted a great weight from me and
I could breathe freely again. And this after only two years on the Specific
Carbohydrate Diet."
- Mary Rimmer, Centralia, Ontario, Canada
Topics covered in "Breaking the Vicious Cycle":
- The relationship between food and intestinal disorders such as Crohn's
disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, celiac disease, cystic fibrosis
of the pancreas, and other forms of chronic diarrhea.
- A discussion of the cycle of events occuring in the intestine of those
with problems and how the Specific Carbohydrate Diet can break this cycle
and permit the body to regain normal functioning.
- A complete recipe section which offers an assortment of simple, quick, as
well as gourmet-type recipes, based on the scientific principle underlying
the Specific Carohydrate Diet."
To order this book you can visit www.amazon.com (website bookstore) or write
to Kirkton Press Ltd, 396 Grills Road, RR # 2, Baltimore, Ontario, Canada,
K0K 1C0, 905-349-3443. This book costs $22.55 Cdn funds which includes
shipping. This book has also been translated into the Danish and Hebrew
languages and it has sold 1 1/2 million copies.
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A RESPONSE ON DIFFERENT ISSUES
COVERED IN THE NEWSLETTER
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By Dr. Bernhard Koppold, Greece
USES OF COLD AND HOT WATER, Volume 3, Issue #1
The use of hot and cold water as a way of treatment, as can easily be seen,
has not yet been sufficiently appreciated by Baha'i physicians. In Germany
and other countries there is made use in many clinics and therapeutic-centres of the "Kneipp" method, which is healing many diseases
through the use of mainly icy cold water in a very specific way.
Interestingly the founder of this system, a monk with the name Kneipp, was
living and discovering his system of healing in the times of Baha'u'llah
during the second part of the last century.
As to the concrete suggestions given in issue #1 on using warm and hot
water, I would like to differentiate and caution a bit: if cramps in the
legs are due to venous insufficiency warm and hot water are clearly
contraindicated and could result even in some serious condition. As to the
use of hot water in bites, I don't know about the concrete case of sting ray
bites, but in general warm water causes hyperemia at the spot of application
and through this a dissemination of the possibly toxic substances, which
should be avoided clearly in case of serious bites (like through snakes or
scorpions). So this cannot by suggested as a first aid application in such
cases.
Finally, a differentiation of using either cold or hot water in case of hemicrania or other kinds of headache is often done intuitively by the
patients themselves. Some apply hot water, others would feel crazy with it
and apply icy cold water instead. No human being is exactly the same as
another one and often each is reacting in a specific way, which the patient
and the physician would do well to find out and to consider.
(Editor's Note: Dr. Koppold's comments are very valid and point out the need
to consult skilled physicians and for Baha'i physicians to study the
writings of the Baha'i Faith to assist in the application in their practice.
The case of the sting-ray bite was a personal experience of the writer of
the article; who, while in Florida encountered two individuals who had been
bitten and the first aid treatment was to apply a hot pack to the area
bitten or to immerse the area (in this case a foot) into a hot tub of water
for a period of approximately 45 minutes. The paramedics in charge then
advised the person to see a doctor and get a tetanus shot.)
REIKI, Volume 3, Issue #2
As the spiritual ways of healing are obviously much underdeveloped in our
materialistic times, it is excellent if we are using them intensively and support their application, wherever appropriate. But the danger of overdoing
it on the other side, we should also not ignore. In a recent seminar on
Reiki an instructor suggested to the participants to heal AIDS and cancerous
diseases with Reiki. We know about the power of spiritual healing; however,
we find in numerous quotations in the Baha'i Writings, that the best would
be to combine material and spiritual healing, whether it may be a physical
or a psychic disease (see for example, quotations in: 'The Throne of the
Inner Temple', pp. 75-76, No 186, 187, 188).
FRIENDS WILL BECOME PHYSICIANS, Volume 3, Issue #2
Certainly every friend can support the healing process through prayers and
other spiritual kinds of healing. In my (perhaps insufficient) understanding
however both quotes from Abdu'l-Baha, which are cited at this place, are
referring to the healing of the world (of humanity) in general through the
teachings, and not to the friends becoming and considering themselves
physicians in the usual sense.
SKILLED PHYSICIANS
The important question of what could be the criteria for patients to find
out who could be considered a "skillful physician" and who should not, has
only been touched on the surface and has not yet been discussed thoroughly.
What should be considered before a decision is made as to whether to visit a
specific physician? Some examples include: formal education at Universities,
a doctor's title, reported healing successes by other patients and other
factors.
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AROMATHERAPY: A BEGINNING
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By Galya Gunderson, Oregon, United States
"Make use of rose-water, and of pure perfume; this, indeed, is that which
God hath loved from the beginnng that hath no beginning, in order that there
may be diffused from you what your Lord, the Incomparable,the All-Wise, desireth."
Baha'u'llah The Kitab-i-Aqdas p.47:76.
The "pure perfumes" referred to in the above passage are now known as
'essential oils' and they form the treatment basis for an ancient healing
knowledge now greatly updated and known as Aromatherapy. Purity is very
important as these oils will not be effective if they have been adulterated
which, unfortunately, is the case with many of the oils currently available
here today. "Pure" on a label means nothing. Look for 'organic' or 'wildcrafted botannical' suitable for Aromatherapy instead. Years ago, I
wandered into a book store and found a treasure; "The "Aromatherapy Kit"
prepared by Charla Devereux. This kit included five exquisitely pure and
vital oils and it explained how to use them to effectively treat conditions
as diverse as colds (eucalyptus) and black widow spider bites (lavender). I
carried these five wonderful little bottles with me everywhere and did they
ever come in handy! Now, as a certified Aromatherapist, I recommend this
resource to you. If you cannot find it locally, it is available on-line at
Barnes & Noble. There is another excellent beginning textbook, "Aromatherapy
Workbook" by Marcel Lavabre. If you want a complete and visually beautiful
guide, I recommend the "Encyclopedia of Essential Oils" by Julia Lawless. To
order this book, you can visit www.amazon.com (website bookstore). The next
article I will write will focus on the spiritual uses and applications of
these wonderful "pure perfumes."
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LAUGHTER ROOM
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We would love to hear your jokes, funny stories and how you cheer your loved
ones who are ill. Please e-mail your ideas to fmezei@sentex.net.
This is a common Baha'i joke:
This Baha'i, named Bill, is in a fatal car wreck and finds himself at the
Gates of Heaven. St. Peter says, welcome to Heaven. Before we can let you
enter, We have a quick test for you to take. You must score at least 400
points in order to enter Heaven.
The first question is: What good works have you done in your community to
deserve entering Heaven?
Bill answers: Well, I was on this committee, that committee, I went to a
deepening over here, a Fireside here, and I did this and I did that (and
continues on until he lists about 30 or 40 good things he has done in his
community).
St. Peter says: Very impressive! Your answer is worth 2 points.
Bill thinks to himself "How am I ever going to make 400 points at this
rate!"
The second question: What have you done outside of your community that is
worthy of entrance into Heaven?
Bill answers, by naming several dozen projects outside of his community that
he was involved in on earth. His answer takes several minutes, as his list of projects is a long one.
St. Peter responds: Very good! That answer is worth another 2 points!
Bill replies while smacking his forehead with the palm of his hand: How am I
going to get into heaven at this rate? I only have 4 points! Only by the
grace of God will I get into Heaven!
St. Peter says: Congratulations! That answer is worth 396 points! You may
enter!
- Author Unknown
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'Happy are they who act; happy are they who understand; happy the man that
hath clung unto the truth, detached from all that is in the heavens and all
that is on earth."
(Baha'u'llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 139)
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"Therefore, be rejoiced, for ye are sheltered beneath the providence of God.
Be happy and joyous because the bestowals of God are intended for you and
the life of the Holy Spirit is breathing upon you.
Rejoice, for the heavenly table is prepared for you.
Rejoice, for the angels of heaven are your assistants and helpers.
Rejoice, for the glance of the Blessed Beauty, Baha'u'llah, is directed upon
you.
Rejoice, for Baha'u'llah is your Protector.
Rejoice, for the everlasting glory is destined for you.
Rejoice, for the eternal life is awaiting you.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Promuglation of Universal Peace, p. 214)
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HEALTH HABITS
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Here are some essential elements for our spiritual and physical health
provided by a physician who has practised for more than 35 years under the
guidance of the Baha'i teachings.
Trust in God
Consult a skilled physician and follow his instructions
Practice detachment from all save God
Practice moderation
Pray and meditate daily; read the Creative Word morning and evening
Be happy always
Simplify
Focus
Practice patience
Cleanliness
Eat simple, natural plant foods
Drink adequate pure water
Evaluate progress daily, summarize weekly
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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I have been a subscriber to the newsletter for a few months now and greatly
appreciate being connected to Baha'is and others with an interest in health
and healing. The following notice is about a project I am involved with
which may be of interest to some of the readers:
An international e-mail network of female doctors of chiropractic in
clinical practice, education, research and administration is in the process
of formation, and is expected to start with circulation of a newsletter with
a format similar to this one. Expressions of interest should be addressed
to chance@wagga.net.au
- Dr Mary Ann Chance, Editor, Chiropractic Journal of Australia, Australia
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"PARENTING IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER " NEWSLETTER is a bi-monthly publication
dedicated to raising families with strong spiritual values. It is published
for the purpose of sharing thoughts, comments and experiences on how the
teachings of the Baha'i Faith are being applied to the task of parenting and
family life.
If you are interested, please email: allamanda@caribsurf.com or check out
the website at: http://www.spiceisle.com/homepages/allamanda/
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I would like to ask a question. What does anyone know about healing
Hepatitis ? My daughter is undergoing the traditional drug method.
Although she hasn't had many side effects except tiredness, I'm wondering
what else she can do?
- Barbara Bennett, chabarb@gwtc.net
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Change of E-mail Addresses
Editor's Note: To make it easier when I receive a change of e-mail address,
I would appreciate receiving the following information.
1) Old e-mail address.
2) New e-mail address.
This would assist me to readily search for your old e-mail address on the
distribution list and then change it to the new one.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who have given me
your new e-mail address.
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QUESTION OF THE MONTH
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There are many references in the Baha'i Writings about detachment from all
save God. What is your understanding of this? How can we be detached and
live a spiritual life in this world? What kind of things do you think can
turn us away from God?
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PURPOSE OF THE NEWSLETTER
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"Healing Through Unity" is published for the purpose of sharing thoughts,
comments and experiences on how the teachings of the Baha'i Faith are being
applied to our physical and spiritual health. Other than the quoted Holy
Writings, the material in this newsletter represents the thoughts and
opinions of the writers and has no authority. You are free to copy articles,
provided you indicate the source of the article. If you have a change of
e-mail address or wish to unsubscribe the newsletter, please inform me.
There are 10 issues per year; it is not published during July and August.
The newsletter is produced in Ontario, Canada.
Please send your stories, comments, suggestions or "Question for the Month"
ideas to Frances Mezei by e-mail: fmezei@sentex.net.
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