Who is the author?
My name is Laura and I am on a journey, pondering the implications of God's glorious design of humanity and integrating four aspects of this design—spiritual, intellectual, affective, and physical health—into a description of whole life health.
Read more about Laura and the blog: About
Note: Posting here is intermittent due to doctoral program load; when I do post, it will be early in the week.
If you have any questions about the blog, email me at lkspringer AT gmail DOT com
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Intellectual Health Archive
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Pondering the Opposable Mind
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsHow does everything fit together? That's what I've been wondering. Well, I’m back with a short post flowing out of my current academic distraction: dreaming up an Institute for Integrative Christian Thought (ICT). Tall order and it’s only in the early embryo stages, but, if... -
What is the Best Temperature for Intellectual Work?
Posted on April 22, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH In an intellectual workspace, temperature should be invisible, for noticing it at all means it is a distraction. In the Ezine article, What Temperature Should Your Office Be to Increase Your Productivity?, Francis Lui offers a suggested temperature range for office productivity. Lui... -
Creating a Separate Workspace to Encourage Productivity
Posted on April 21, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH Enjoy Success From Home: How to Minimize Your Work Time So You can Maximize Your Free Time, a post over on Jobs and Business, offers helpful suggestions for creating a productive work space away from an "official" office. Productivity Tip #1: Have a... -
Customizing a Healthy Intellectual Work Space
Posted on April 19, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH Through continuing trial and error, I have discovered a few elements that must make up the atmosphere for my solitary and communal intellectual work. Open space provides the best atmosphere for my solitary intellectual work. I prefer to think under the open sky,... -
Think When You Can Think!
Posted on April 9, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH I have been a graduate student for ten years, earning a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology (at least honors in both) during that time, all while working a full time job and serving in ministry. I am now working toward... -
Sorry About the Lull
Posted on April 7, 2010 | No CommentsIt's been awhile, I know, but life happens. Good news: a couple of new series are on the way. Tomorrow I'll post the first installment asking for some communal wisdom on my metabolic stuckness: I've plateaued in my health improvement plan and I need to... -
Making Time to Think Well is not as Easy as I had Hoped
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH I have discovered an unfortunate truth: If I do not make time to think well, I will not think well. The other half of the unfortunate truth is that, as a doctoral student, thinking well is a big part of my job description.... -
My Intellectual Cultivation Plan
Posted on February 15, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH A Christian intellect is a human mind, functioning well in relation to Christ and for the good of the church. In Klaus Issler's class, Philosophical Issues in Educational Studies, one of the final projects was outlining our Intellectual Cultivation Plan, describing what we... -
Thinking Well—Insight from James Sire
Posted on February 4, 2010 | No CommentsINTELLECTUAL HEALTH Thinking well depends on rest and play. “The best and freshest thinking often takes place when the mind is at ease, not trying to think but simply, say, paying attention or reflecting, not so much pursuing ideas down endless corridors as letting ideas... -
Learning Across the Random Bits of Life
Posted on January 12, 2010 | No CommentsApart from submission to the one true Lord, the freedom within a learning context and the freedom resulting from honed skills and knowledge are illusions. If this is all there is, if existence is merely the span from birth to death, then what is the...
