Stress and the Balance Within (04 Sept. 2008)

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Krista's Journal: August 28, 2008

Can stress make us sick? Can places of peace, prayer, meditation, rest, music, and friendship help us to live well? Each of us must answer these questions in the context of our lives, with our particular histories and our physical and spiritual details. But what interesting times we're living in when physicians and scientists begin to ask such questions along with us.

Krista Recommends Reading:
The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
by Esther M. Sternberg

In this program, you'll hear lovely and powerful passages and insights from Esther Sternberg's book The Balance Within. This is a challenging book with tremendous scientific detail — part history of medicine, part reflection on cutting-edge knowledge — and yet it is written in a strong and lyrical style that makes reading it a pleasure.

This week on public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas:

Stress and the Balance Within
Dr. Esther Sternberg works at the molecular level of the mind-body connection. The language of genes, neurotransmitters, and hormones, as she describes it, is helping science understand how our emotions and our bodies are connected — why stress can make us sick, and loving and believing can help us be well.

{This is an encore presentation originally broadcast in January 2006.}

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