newsbriefs The Healing Power of Prayer
Piotr Ulmer
or all those who’ve heard about—but never experi- enced—“the healing power of prayer,” Piotr Ulmer has stories to tell. “Ever since I dared pray with patients, I have been in awe of how much it changes the human body,” says Ulmer, owner of CTS Physical Therapy in Knoxville. “I’ve worked with people hands-on for the last 20 years, and I’ve developed a certain sensitivity to what happens
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under the skin. The more I learn about the human body, the more I know I don’t know. But a pattern has emerged: prayer puts the body in a state of harmony.” Ulmer says prayer is conducive to completing or advanc- ing all regular body functions, like digestion, healing or re- building injured tissues. “When we open ourselves to God’s grace, we’re plugging in for restoration and rebooting,” he says. “All the frequencies and motilities of the body harmo- nize and return to an effortless way of living. The adrenals, liver, heart and other organs begin to relax when we switch focus from finite, problem-filled realities to a divine mode of harmony and joy.” Prayer opens us to “holy radiation” that can restore health to organs and joints and even the heart and skin—no pills or surgery involved, Ulmer says; when the body works in harmony, the result is improved posture and fitness and emotional and mental health, whose benefits ultimately spill over into personal relationships. “I recommend prayer to all women for better health, inside and out,” he says.
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Sustainable Future Founder Wins White House Award
I David Bolt
n an April ceremony at the White House, David Bolt, founder of Knox- ville-based solar energy company Sustainable Future, was presented the Champion of Change Award, part of President Barack Obama’s “Winning the Future” initiative honoring leaders who embody a sustainable mission. “I have dedicated my life to elimi-
nating waste,” Bolt says. “Whether it was trying to reduce the number
of steps to cut the lawn as a child, reduce the time it took a computer program to run as a software developer, or today, trying to get more done with less energy.” He says he spent over a year and a half reading, discussing and thinking about
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societal issues, fi- nally concluding that Americans’ malaise was a result of our living above our means—unsustain- ably. And that unsus- tainable lifestyle goes beyond the environ- mental, he notes. “We’re not just pol-
luting faster than nature can clean it up,” he says. “We’re also spending money faster than we make it; using energy faster than it can be replaced; losing agricultural topsoil faster than it is being created; and depleting social capital faster than it is being created.” Bolt says the successful transformation of the United States to sustainability will require a combined effort from government, nonprofits, corporations and individuals. He founded Sustainable Future, LLC, as a model of and oppor- tunity for sustainable living at the company and employee level.
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