2014

Yearly Archives

  • Meditation for Pain Relief: How to Meditate Your Pain Away

    [ad_1] Mindful meditation for pain relief has been proven to decrease the mind’s response to pain by 40-57% according to a discovery published in The Journal of Neuroscience. But how do you get these benefits when you’re in so much pain you can’t think? This article offers you easy meditation techniques to use for meditation […]

  • Security in the Modern-Day Church Environment

    [ad_1] No one needs tell us that we no longer live in the same world our mothers and fathers grew up in. Violent acts happen every day in the United States, and for that matter in every country on earth. Many of us can remember the time when most churches didn’t even have locks on […]

  • Why People Fall Down In Church

    [ad_1] For years I ridiculed and questioned everything that looked unfamiliar in the church. I believed we are called to prove everything, to test everything that seems to be novel in the church. True enough. But when we move into ridicule we are in Enemy territory and can be rebuked soundly for it. So I […]

  • How To Talk Like a Mediator, Part B

    [ad_1] One of the hardest jobs of a mediator is to give a good response to the parties’ concerns. After mediating thousands of cases, I have heard a lot of questions and concerns from the parties. The mediator has to give a response that informs without alienating one or both parties. Here are some responses […]

  • Your Church: House of God or Ichabod?

    [ad_1] Most of us have surely heard the church building on the corner referred to as “the house of God.” Have you ever heard the Word “Ichabod”? Other than the first name of the schoolmaster character in Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” – the word “Ichabod” was originally mentioned in Scripture. “Then she named […]

  • How to Meditate to Relieve Stress Effectively?

    [ad_1] It IS possible to relieve stress through meditation if you have the courage to sit and do nothing. So how to meditate to relieve stress effectively? Firstly, meditation is a technique which uses internal focus to restore internal balance. There are many different techniques so you can pick and choose which one appeals to […]

  • Predicting When to Mediate Workplace Conflict

    [ad_1] Predicting the optimum time to intervene in a conflict is a bit like predicting the weather, more often than not you get it right but there are always freak events that will contaminate your predictions. Conflicts tend to transition through specific stages, if you improve your knowledge of these stages then you’ll increase your […]