Nancy Mramor Kajuth Ph.D.

WHY GIVING IS SO GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

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Dr. Nancy Mramor

Research shows that giving can create amazing effects on the body and mind.  And now we know of a way to boost those benefits in 2022! When you give a gift, you typically get a verbal, electronic, or written acknowledgment and thanks.  You often feel elated briefly, knowing that your gift or donation made a difference. But what if giving or doing a good deed anonymously can improve your mood, have long-term effects on life satisfaction, and stimulate brain activity associated with pleasure and reward? When giving our brain releases chemicals like serotonin and dopamine, giving you a sense of reward. A reduction in stress and anxiety, lower blood pressure and better sleep are also associated with the part of the brain that is stimulated with giving. And when these chemicals are released, depression is lessened.

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What Will Save The World?

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Recently, I was noticing that a Women’s March, that had been so united, was now showing signs of fracture, due to some personal agendas, creating racial divides, and the loss of some important sponsorship. I began to wonder about the reasons why even when we have a mutual cause, personal agendas get in the way.

I began to think of the issues with the NFL. I am an independent person, and had not taken a side, seeing the philosophies of both sides and the merit of both. Was it right to use the venue of the NFL to make a statement about race? I knew that the NFL would go on, but what would happen to the Women’s March? Without the sponsorship, they would surely experience growing pains. I wondered if they would recover.

I was considering lately that perhaps the only thing that can potentially unite the world, beyond personal interest, money, or pride is the issue of our natural resources. Are the air, the earth and the water the only things we all have in common, without argument? Do they provide the things that every individual needs, regardless of race, interest in professional sports or financial gain and do they override all other special interests? If they do, we haven’t found this universal truth to be self evident.

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WHAT IS THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

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Create a life of permanent purpose

When you are setting your priorities for the day, you typically list the most important things first. But what if the most important thing was the smallest action that you take today? One thing sets your intention for the day and creates a ripple effect that impacts you and the world indefinitely?  If you have ever dropped a stone in a pool of water, you have seen the ripple effect, the circles of water that surround the place where the stone landed. They go on and on just from one action.

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Good health starts on the inside and moves outward

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Daily News Lifestyles Editor, By Carol Waterloo Frazier

Many years ago, Dr. Nancy Mramor was diagnosed with leukemia. She was told the prognosis did not look good.

So she put to the test what she had been teaching for several years – mind-body medicine.

Mramor is author of “Spiritual Fitness,” as well as a licensed psychologist and educator. In the book, she presents in a concise yet easy-to-understand way the strategies for becoming spiritually fit.

“I was a special education teacher and decided to take a class in relaxation and stress management,” she related. “I found that one exercise that sent healing and prayer to another person really opened me up spiritually.”

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Give Your Spiritual Self a Workout

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By Jill Cueni-Cohen

It sometimes seems like we’re just running the human race, going from place to place in order to fulfill our daily requirements of taking care of our families and making a living.  When we’re sick, we take medicine and soldier on; and when we’re tired, we don’t sleep; there’s just too much to get done.

But are we really living?  Are we activating that amazing spirit that dwells within the center of each one of us and makes us so uniquely human?  If we’re constantly putting others’ needs before our own, then maybe it’s time to get fit, spiritually speaking.

According to Pittsburgh psychologist Nancy Mramor, Ph.D., putting your spirituality first in your life and letting it drive you, mind, body and spirit, will help you reconnect to that part of you where your abundant health comes from.  “You might, for example, get a great deal of health benefits from running, but if you also added quiet prayer, meditation, or yoga, you might experience something quite different,” says Dr. Mramor.

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Encouraging Spiritually-Fit Businesses

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By Frederica Saylor

Pennsylvania consultant applies mind-body techniques to the workplace  For more than 25 years, Nancy Mramor has used a mind-body-spirit approach to health psychology and psychotherapy in her private practice and training. Voted one of western Pennsylvania’s most successful women in 1997, she has developed programs to teach relaxation, meditation and yoga to help people open up spiritually.

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Psychologist credits ‘Spiritual Fitness’ in recovery from leukemia

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By Marjorie Wertz
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW

When Nancy Mramor learned she had leukemia nearly six years ago, the Pittsburgh-based licensed psychologist turned to mind-body medicine to help herself become well.

She refers to the mind-body approach as spiritual fitness and used various techniques, including prayer, faith, and visualization during her struggle with the disease.

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Psychologist explores mind-body connection

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Valley News Dispatch

Psychologist Nancy Mramor has an ambitious goal for herself and others: spiritual fitness.

On the staff at UPMC Shadyside Hospital since 1999, she is recognized as an authority regarding the mind-body connection.  She believes she cured herself of leukemia five years ago by using those techniques.

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Article for the Solitary Writer on how media is affecting you

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Recently I was contacted by The Solitary Writer to write about the Top Ten C’s of Conscious Viewing and Living. In my book, Get Reel: Produce Your Own Life, I introduce the idea that we need to view all media consciously so that we get the benefit without the side effects. Each chapter of the book contains a “C” or guideline for maximizing your media time in a way that empowers your real conscious life. The “C’s” are words that open a way of thinking about all of your media intake that can make your viewing time highly productive rather than just a down time activity. The “C’s” start with getting curious about what you are listening to, viewing, seeing online, watching on a billboard or reading in a magazine. There are clever marketing techniques that keep you viewing, and if they’re successful and entertaining, it results in keeping you on their viewer list. Yet, sometimes that takes you into a way of living or thinking that doesn’t match your true self. Learn how to enjoy your media time and build a mindful life at the same time, with the Top Ten “C’s” of Conscious Living and Viewing. Click here to read the article

 

 

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