Prayer and Healing
The Secret Cure

Nothing New Under the Sun

Recently a Gallup Poll revealed the following about healing:

94% of Americans believe in God
75% think their physicians should address spiritual issues
Nearly 50% want their physicians to pray for them and with them

Although there is a resurgence of spirituality in this decade, healing through prayer has origins dating back thousands of years.

.The Christian Bible talks about Jesus healing the lame from a touch of his robe.
.The Buddhists talk of praying to the power of The Healing Buddha, The Physician Buddha, The Spiritual Doctor who heals all ills and afflictions.
. The Hindus use mantras, phrases repeated over and over again. One in particular, the Maha-Mrityunjaya Mantra is said to be a vibration that pulsates through every cell, every molecule of the devotee's body and tears away the veil of ignorance. It is said to ignite a fire that consumes negativity and purifies the system. It is also said to have a powerful healing of diseases declared incurable even by the doctors. It is a Mantra used to connect the devotee to his/her own inner divinity.

Distant Prayer

Here is some research as reported by the Southern Medical Journal:

In a controversial study carried out by cardiologist Randolph Byrd, nearly 400 heart patients were randomly assigned to either a group that was prayed for by a home prayer group or a control group. This was a rigorous double-blind study designed to eliminate the psychological placebo effect. In such a study, neither the patient nor doctor knows who is receiving the intervention (i.e., prayer). Patients who received prayer had better health outcomes, including a reduced need for antibiotics and a lower incidence of pulmonary problems.

In a more recent study, Duke Clinical Research Institute did a research project called the Mantra project. They selected 150 heart patients and put them into five groups. One group received high tech cardiac care, the other groups received therapies such as imagery, stress relaxation, touch therapy and distant intercessory prayer.

Duke cardiologist Mitchell Krucoff says patients receiving the alternative therapies had better outcomes and fewer complications than those who received standard care alone. And in the prayer therapy group, there was more than 50% overall reduction in complications. He says intercessory prayer has also shown promising results in studies with HIV patients and infertility. He believes, “the human spirit obviously has a potential role both in how we get sick and how we recover…”

“The Secret” of Prayer

Last year, a phenomenon known as “The Secret” appeared. The book sold over 7 million copies and the movie became a cult favorite. When I first read about it my reaction was, “This is the teaching I’ve been learning for almost thirty years.” Rhonda Byrne, the author of "The Secret" said it herself. She told one reporter that she took complex theories and simplified them into one – the law of attraction.

The Bible told us 2000 years ago. “As within, so without.” Comedian Flip Wilson said it another way in the 1970s, “What you see is what you get.” Both of those quotes mean that whatever ideas you have, whatever perceptions you have inside yourself, that’s what you will see in your outer world.

For instance, some people see the world as a safe place, others a dangerous one. Most people who view the world as dangerous have lots of negative incidences in their life which prove them right: auto accidents, disappointments with people, money problems, etc. Those who see the world as safe seem to sail through life with few problems.

"The Secret" is Nothing New Ernest Holmes, an early 20th century New Englander, founded a philosophy called Religious Science. (www.religiousscience.org or www.rsintl.org). One of its main tenets is, “Whatever you believe and accept will happen in your outer world”. Dr. Wayne Dyer wrote about “The Power of Intention”, which tells the same story. Your outer world is a reflection of what you feel and believe and expect.

This type of spirituality also teaches what is called ‘affirmative prayer’. That means you pray believing that you already have what you want. The theory behind that premise is that God or the Universe has everything you want, need and desire. You just have to open up to it all.

With the foregoing in mind, I offer you some affirmative prayers for health and other conditions. Our suggestion is to print out the one that applies, read it aloud at least once each day. And if you don’t believe what it says, then “fake it ‘til you make it.”

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