Giving Thanks at Dinner

When was the last time you stopped to say thanks at the dinner table?

Children reap a myriad of rewards from the ritual of giving thanks and having an adult sit down and eat with them. According to the Greater Good Science Center, family dinners help develop language, manners and social skills, even in just 20 minutes together. If you’re a single parent, take heart. Studies show that, as long as the adult is present and engaged, children experience the same benefits from one parent as they do with two.

Need ideas at the dinner table? Watch “Half Full: The Social Science of Raising Happy Kids.” Read more in Rev. Barry Ebert’s column “Spiritual Parenting: The Dinner Table” in the November 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

Inviting Greater Good Through Gratitude

Edwene Gaines tried a revolutionary experiment. “I made the commitment that for 21 days, I would not gossip, I would not criticize, I would not complain — not to others or even to myself,” she says in her book “The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity.” “No matter what happened during that time, whatever disaster might befall me, my response was going to be, ‘Well, that’s great.’”

The result? For several days, Gaines could think of nothing to say at all! Then something happened. “I began to experience the joy that comes with praising and saying good things about other people and appreciating more what I had in my life,” she says.

Listen to this witty Southerner illustrate how gratitude sets the stage for greater good in “The Secret of Permanent Prosperity.”

Read more in Rev. Dr. Joe Hooper’s column “The Law of Circulation: Abundance Awareness” in the November 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

Healing from Sexual Trauma

Nearly one in five women say they have been raped or experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four report having been beaten by an intimate partner, according to a survey conducted by the National Institute of Justice and the Department of Defense. Moreover, one in seven men report having been abused by a partner.

If you or someone you know is dealing with the effects of sexual trauma, you are part of a large community, says Jodie Ortega. In this wonderful TedTalk “Breaking My Silence: Healing Thrives in Conversation,” Ortega describes how breaking her silence to a cab driver led to him sharing his own story.

Read more about healing from sexual trauma in the article “Achieving Forgiveness: One Brave Woman’s Story” by Julie Mierau in the November 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

The Living God Within Me
By Ernest Holmes

I am the Christ, the Son of the Living God within me. This inner mind of mine is now Divine and complete. It has no worries and no fears. It is whole, complete and satisfied. I look back over all previous experience and find that it was good, very good. I look toward the future and find that it is good, and very good. I look at the present and find that it is also good, and very good. God is in all, over all, and through all.

I am the Christ, the Son of the Living God within me. I am the spirit of confidence. I am poised in love and reason. I am the perfect law of truth and complete presence of beauty . . . I am Christ, the Son of the Living God within me.

This is an excerpt from “The Science of Mind,” written by spiritual visionary Dr. Ernest Holmes. Read more in the November 2016 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.