From WECT TV 6ATLANTA — Yoga is a popular way many adults use to reduce stress and anxiety.
But now, some younger people are using the technique as well. An elementary school in Atlanta is incorporating yoga into their curriculum and said its having a positive effect on their students.
Some first graders at Fernbank Elementary School get a lesson in meditation and relaxation by practicing yoga during P.E. Class.
Fourth graders at the school are incorporating yoga in a lesson plan on Greek Mythology.
According to teacher Elisabeth Beckwith, the students get energized, and are given a tweak to their day so they’re not just sitting at their desks.
The teachers were trained by YogaKids International to do simple poses and techniques that are fun for children.
Guidance Counselor June Neal reported an improvement in test scores and test taking skills since the yoga program began two years ago.
Evangelical Christians love to blame gay marriage for the destruction of heterosexual marriage. Call me crazy, but I’m in the camp that feels that beating your wife and then televising the divorce on Divorce Court is at least as harmful. . . but then again I’m a San Francisco Liberal so what do I know?
Televangelist Juanita Bynum says in a two-part episode of “Divorce Court” that she’s through with her marriage to minister Thomas W. Weeks III, who is on probation for assaulting her.
In episodes scheduled to air Thursday and Friday, Bynum also says she had thoughts of suicide and weighs in on a case involving domestic violence. When asked what advice she had for women in situations similar to hers, she said, “I have to make a decision … to take the love that I had for him with me.”
In a transcript of the show obtained by The Associated Press, Bynum said she would always love Weeks, but made a decision to “love me more.”
Weeks pleaded guilty in March to assaulting Bynum on Aug. 21 in a hotel parking lot outside of Atlanta; police said Bynum told investigators he choked her, pushed her down and kicked and stomped her.
Weeks was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to perform community service and undergo counseling.
Bynum, a prominent televangelist whose message of women’s empowerment resonated with many followers, said she saw signs of trouble in her marriage well before the assault.
“I was just trying to make it work because I don’t like losing relationships,” Bynum told Judge Lynn Toler, who hears cases on the syndicated show distributed by Twentieth Television. “All of this just kept getting swept under the rug … So you begin to adapt to a very wrong and very unhealthy marriage.”
After speaking to a Nazi group on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday, Tony Zirkle, a Republican seeking the nomination to run for Congress in Indiana, said that he didn’t know enough about the groups beliefs to have an opinion either way.
Zirkle, who has suggested that the USA should revisit the issue of racial segregation said that he wanted to witness the Gospel of Jesus to the group so that they can present the “issues they have in a more loving fashion.”
MY TAKE:
1. If you are standing in front of a large photo of Hitler and a swastika flag, you should have a idea what the group stands for. At least enough of an idea to form an opinion.
2. How exactly do you present white supremacy and antisemitism in a more loving fashion?
3. I wonder if he and Larry Craig will have to sit together at the kiddies table during the Republican convention as punishment for embarrassing the party?
4. It is worth noting that Zirkle pulled in 30% of the Republican vote in 2006. A number that is truly frighting.
5. Earlier this year, he suggested the USA should return to using the guillotine for capitol punishment. I say, “why not?” As long as the beheading is done in a more loving Christian way.
ABC’s hit show Eli Stone has just wrapped up it’s first season and I have to say I’m impressed. I started watching it on my iPod on the flight home from DC last week. My expectation with most TV shows is set very low, so I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
The show centers around a San Francisco based corporate lawyer named Eli Stone who begins to hear music and have visions. At first he thinks he is going crazy, but in the first episode he learns that he has a brain aneurysm which is causing his hallucinations and could kill him at any moment.
What Eli discovers, with the help of his acupuncturist and spiritual guide is that his visions are anything but random. In fact they turn out to be very prophetic. Like all prophets, he resists the visions at first, but in time he learns to trust them as they guide him to take cases for the little guy.
His family, friends and coworkers understandably think he is going crazy, but little by little they too are changed and healed.
The show is both serious and funny. . . like Alley McBeal meets The Practice with a touch of the John Travolta movie Phenomenon. What I liked most about the first season is the way nothing is neat and clean. Eli and friends live with doubt and fear but still manage to listen to the messages with miraculous results.
If you are looking for a fun, uplifting and spiritual show, I highly recommend it.
From the beginning, AIDS has been a unique disease. While every disease brings with it
emotional and spiritual challenges, AIDS hit the gay community just as we were learning to walk and knocked us back down with a hard and grief-filled blow. Society responded, at least in the early years, by blaming gay men — and some people even went so far as to claim that AIDS was God’s punishment for our “deviant” lifestyles.
And so AIDS was not just about having a deficient immune system. It was — and to a large extent, still is — a psycho-social-spiritual disease. To test HIV-positive carries with it a whole
host of issues that have nothing to do with the virus. And yet how HIV-positive people deal with those issues has everything to do with the quality of their lives, the strength of their immune system and their ability to live long and healthy lives.
Recognizing the importance of dealing with all issues surrounding living with HIV, Charles
Steinberg, M.D. and his wife, psychologist Torkin Wakefield, founded AIDS, Medicine and Miracles (AM&M) in 1988. The organization was founded on the premise of Dr. Bernie Siegel, an oncologist who wrote Love, Medicine and Miracles. Dr. Siegel observed that many of his cancer
patients did better when they combined their traditional therapy with support groups, education and self-awareness of the connection between mind, body and spirit. Considering the fact that at the time there was no treatment for HIV, this model offered many living with the virus an alternative — hope.
As part of my new website update, I have released the first of four online book readings. From time to time I do author readings at Barns & Noble or Boarders, For those of you who can’t make my readings, you can listen to a sample online.
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From WECT TV 6ATLANTA — Yoga is a popular way many adults use to reduce stress and anxiety.
I have just posted a book reading from my book, 
After speaking to a Nazi group on the anniversary of Hitler’s birthday, Tony Zirkle, a Republican seeking the nomination to run for Congress in Indiana, said that he didn’t know enough about the groups beliefs to have an opinion either way.
started watching it on my iPod on the flight home from DC last week. My expectation with most TV shows is set very low, so I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
