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The Life-Changing Practice of Meditation

Anita Mathias — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 18:24:05 +0000

So, a couple of years ago, almost on a whim, my husband Roy and I took an intensive eight week course in Mindfulness at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry! (and at the famous local psychiatric hospital, the Warneford!!) I didn’t really know what Mindfulness was, but I “knew,” we should do it. You can imagine […]

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Homo Sapiens and Homo Stupidus: On Giftedness and its Price

Anita Mathias — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:19:50 +0000

I live-blogged in Cambodia recently, fund-raising for a charity. We were to be accompanied by a “Christian celebrity” who had promised to do national talks on her return. The posters had been printed. Well, she was not at Heathrow. Among several possible forms of ID, she sent off her passport to get her driver’s […]

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Jesus, Positive Thinking, and Mental Health

Anita Mathias — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:09:00 +0000

Mental health, like physical health, is on a continuum. When someone totally loses it, and is obviously “mad” enough to be sectioned, we say they’ve lost touch with reality. But how few of us see reality as it really is. With a God’s eye view. As Jesus taught us to see it. If we could train ourselves […]

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