Chats

Why Christians Should Listen to Atheist Arguments Against Suicide

This is a REPLAY of a short live broadcast I did explaining my contention that secular arguments such as the 2 main ones by Jennifer Michael Hecht are sufficient anti-suicide arguments for Christians that can prevent suicidal behavior and additional deaths and pain consequential to those behaviors.

The “practical atheism” many Christians live out is another reason, but that is for a different podcast or live broadcast. That could be a can of worms that get me booted out of both camps…and maybe I’m fine with that.

The research shows that many people who take their lives do it not from a long, planned out event, but from an impulsive and desperate act done after a big setback, humiliation or disappointment (or string of them) that leaves them feeling hopeless. Depress can be a factor, but many people who are depressed do not kill themselves.

MAKE SURE YOU LISTEN to the EPISODE this periscope is REFERRING to with Jennifer Michael Hecht. Her work is important. HERE

Hecht

 

Maintaining gratitude: A LIVE discussion 12/3/2015

My resources that I mention at MIN 7 in this conversation can be found at these links!

It’s called the DAILY SHARPENING RITUAL and it’s based on a “gratitude journal” principle.

Available at NOISETRADE.com

(It’s inter-faith)

Gratitude
http://books.noisetrade.com/lisadelay/daily-sharpening-exercise

Gratitude – prayer centered
http://books.noisetrade.com/lisadelay/daily-sharpening-exercise-prayer

SHANE CLAIBORNE Episode referred to in the discussion. HERE

Mindfulness and Fear: A LIVE chat with Chris Shea

8pm EST chat.
My first test at a LIVE embedded chat at the website.
I hope you enjoy it and tell me if it works for you as you participate.
The replay will be here to watch if you can’t make the LIVE event.
Chris and I hope to do regular conversations together. Let us know if you like them.
-Lisa

Here are the links I mention in the LIVE chat:

onbeing.org Krista Tippet’s podcast

You will love this episode!

ELLEN LANGER — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness
Ellen Langer is a social psychologist who some have dubbed “the mother of mindfulness.” But she defines mindfulness with counterintuitive simplicity: the simple act of actively noticing things — with a result of increased health, competence, and happiness. Her take on mindfulness has never involved contemplation or meditation or yoga. It comes straight out of her provocative, unconventional studies, which have been suggesting for decades what neuroscience is pointing at now: our experience of everything is formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. What makes a vacation a vacation is not only a change of scenery — but the fact that we let go of the mindless everyday illusion that we are in control. Ellen Langer has shown it’s possible to become physiologically younger through a changed frame of mind; to find joy in what was experienced as drudgery by renaming it as play; and to induce weight loss by substituting the label “exercise” for labor.