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NCCIH’s Decision to Not Add a Spiritual Domain to Their Whole Person Health Model

August 27, 2025 By Dale Fletcher 9 Comments

The National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) conducts and supports research and provides information about complementary health products and practices in the context of whole person health. This National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency has been studying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith and Health, Federal Government, Health Care & Wholeness, Spirit Mind Body Health, spirituality and health, the research, Whole Person Health Tagged With: Faith and Health, mind body spirit, prayer, spirituality and health, the research, wholeness

Prayer is Excluded as a Form of Complementary Health Practice by Our Federal Health Agencies

February 11, 2025 By Dale Fletcher 6 Comments

Prayer is no longer considered a form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practice by the National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), a federal government agency in the Department of Health and Human Services. It was removed in the 2007 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Federal Government, Health Care & Wholeness, Religion and Health, Spirit Mind Body Health, the research, Whole Person Health Tagged With: mind body spirit, prayer, spirituality and health, wholeness

A Prayer for You

March 10, 2016 By Dale Fletcher 1 Comment

I'm lifting up a prayer for each of you who read this post: Good Morning God, You are an awesome God, full of grace and mercy and love and forgiveness. Your Word, your Son, tells us each to 'come to you' when we are burdened and are carrying heavy loads. (Matthew 11:28) … [Read more...]

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Chronic Stress Can Lead to High Cholesterol. How Your Faith Can Help.

February 9, 2016 By Dale Fletcher 2 Comments

In the Health Section of today's Wall Street Journal, there is an informative article, Stress Raises Cholesterol More Than You Think.  I've long understood this and have tried to educate others on this topic so that they might be able to better control their high cholesterol … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bible and Health, spiritual exercises, the research, Weekly Health Devotional Tagged With: cholesterol, prayer, spiritual exercises, stress

How May We Pray for You?

May 7, 2015 By Dale Fletcher 2 Comments

Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States.  As we have done the previous three years, our ministry would like to pray for you and your concerns. Are you ... In a health struggle? Concerned about a family member or friend? In a financial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: prayer

You Are Wired to Be Connected to God

February 19, 2015 By Dale Fletcher Leave a Comment

You  were wired to be connected to and in a relationship with God. Research has shown that a prayer of 12 minutes or more will cause physical changes in the brain. I imagine that this is why God instructs us to 'pray without ceasing.'  See 1 Thessalonians 5:17 And there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Principles for an Abundant Life, the research, Weekly Health Devotional Tagged With: prayer, the research

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