Your Brain On God: Reward and Motivation - Stroke rehab

Your doctor should be exploiting this knowledge for your recovery if these areas were damaged. You should expect your doctor to have stroke protocols for each area of the brain either dead or damaged.
http://brainposts.blogspot.com/2016/11/your-brain-on-god-reward-and-motivation.html
"We demonstrated in a group of devout Mormons that religious experience, identified as "feeling the Spirit," was associated with consistent brain activation across individuals within bilateral nucleus accumbens, frontal attentional, and ventromedial prefrontal cortical loci."
More at link.

Stupid Phrases for People in Crisis

Thanks Barb Polan for bringing this up. The stupid just burns when you hear these.
https://communicatingacrossboundariesblog.com/2015/09/28/stupid-phrases-for-people-in-crisis/

1. God will never give you more than you can handle.  This one completely flipped me to atheism. It really proves that the god out there is evil.
2. It gets better.
3. When God shuts a door, he opens a window.
4. Did you pray about it? 
5. God is good – all the time. 
6. But for the grace of God go I. 
7. Don’t worry. God’s in Charge. 
8. Maybe God needed to get your attention.
9. Maybe it happened for a reason.
10. Just call me if you need anything.
11. I could never go through what you’re going through.
12. When I think of your situation, I’m reminded how blessed I am. 

Please don't confuse your medical detree with actual knowledgfe about how to get stroke survivors to 100% recovery.

Yeah, I know I shouldn't goad the medical gods. What are they going to do? Prove they know nothing about their subject matter?

Google continues to prove its mettle in public health research

The Type of Spirituality Linked to Healthier Mind And Body

I'm an outlier then because I have no spiritual belief. One of my psychologists in the hospital tried to get me to answer whether I believed my body failed me by having the stroke. I said no and the more I thought about it the more it became obvious that my body is what saved my life. My excellent physical condition, my brain reserve from learning new programming languages often. My mental health is excellent.
http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/10/the-type-of-spirituality-linked-to-healthier-mind-and-body.php?
People who believe God loves them and forgives them have better mental health, a new study finds.
In contrast, those who hold negative spiritual beliefs tend to have worse mental health.
Negative spiritual beliefs include believing that God is punishing you or feeling abandoned.
Professor Brick Johnstone, one of the study’s authors, said:

“In general, the more religious or spiritual you are, the healthier you are, which makes sense. ( I see no reason for why this statement should be assumed true.)
But for some individuals, even if they have even the smallest degree of negative spirituality — basically, when individuals believe they’re ill because they’ve done something wrong and God is punishing them — their health is worse.”

More at link.

God is a good bartender - wine

Even God endorses wine. Although you will notice that God seems to prefer women. I guess us guys get the dregs.

god heals of stroke

This is bizarre, this search term brings up my blog as the first response.