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Steve Drake
Steve Drake writes on the connection between our thinking and our health, with a focus on how spirituality affects health. He also offers through studies, interviews with experts and his own and others' experiences a view of health as something that is natural and health care as not limited to drugs and surgery. He uses primary sources and studies that draw on both Missouri-based talent as well as nationally and internationally recognized work in this field.
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STL 250 - Pioneering Spirit of St. Louis Alive and Well in re-Thinking Health

Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at 4:43 PM
Original photo can be found in MO History Museum

St. Louis was a hotbed of achievement under Pierre Laclede. He became a pioneer of globalization in the fur trade with a "spirit of St. Louis" in his diplomacy with local Indians. [Founding St. Louis; Frederick Fausz, p20]

Charles Lindbergh had a single-minded goal to land his plane "Spirit of St. Louis" in France. He then pioneered advancements in health. "If man could take to the skies, Lindbergh mused, why could he not remain on earth forever?" [A. Scott Berg "Lindbergh"]

Bringing a spiritual approach to medical practices of her day, Mary Baker Eddy wrote: "Health is not a condition of matter; but of Mind [God]." Mark Twain described this Christian pioneer as in some ways "the most interesting woman that ever lived, and the most extraordinary..."

There is a sea change today in Medicine spurred by this same pioneering spirit. More and more doctors recognize that health is not only about what is happening with the body. It is also about our relationship to the divine.

Visionary mind-body-spirit practitioner wrote, "I have known many individuals who experienced miracle cures, and all of them were humbled by the experience...they sensed that the significance of their healing went beyond the disappearance of their disease and pointed to the divine." [Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things, Larry Dossey, M.D. p. 262]

Dr Liisa Rankin, physician and author, quotes Ralph Waldo Trine, "Never affirm or repeat about your health what you do not wish to be true." In her TEDx Talk, Rankin herself asks, "what if I told you that caring for your body is the least important part of your health?" [Mind over Medicine, by Lissa Rankin, M.D. p. 19]

Dr. Eben Alexander, a remarkable neurosurgeon makes a compelling case to re-think medicine: "...the scientific community, who are pledged to the materialist worldview, have insisted again and again that science and spirituality cannot coexist. They are mistaken." [Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander, M.D.: p 73]

Pioneer thinking and determination -- like the Spirit of St. Louis -- will transform our health and wellbeing.

Steve Drake is a self-syndicated columnist writing on the relationship between thought, spirituality and health. He is also a liaison to the media and to the legislature for Christian Science in Missouri

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