Are you mesmerised by the hungry wolf on the web?

Encouraging news is now coming out of studies into the effects of our thoughts and spirituality on our health. Dr Craig Hassad has discovered via recent medical studies that "Spirituality is an important determinant of physical, emotional and social health ..."(Australian Family Physician, Hassad, 2008).

Thinking about a persistent cough I was experiencing a couple of weeks ago, I asked myself had I become mesmerised by the constant advertisements in the media that included commentary on the inevitability of colds and coughs, descriptions of symptoms, and bold statements on the efficacy of drugs and medication? Wow, there really had been a barrage of hypnotic suggestions!

I've found that a spiritual approach to health care works, so I started to think about the cold in a different way and from a spiritual perspective ..... by claiming my identity as the reflection of the divine, which includes health and wellbeing as explained in Christian Science. This prayer took some persistence, but the next day there was no evidence of a cough or cold at all.

A young guy also found a spiritual approach helpful to healing a chronic addiction to pornography.

It's worth considering that the more we focus on disease, pornography, or ugliness of any description, the more we are impressed with it and experience it in our lives. Some of the young people on Insight discovered that they were no longer conned by the fake attraction (or repulsion) to pornography, when they woke up to the truth about it and focussed on a better reality.

Just as in that thought-provoking Cherokee story, it seems likely that if we 'feed' the good in us with joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith, more good and healing will occur day to day.

Which 'wolf' will you feed and will win in your thoughts and interactions today?