In This Chapter
■Exploring the ancient and modern links
between religion, spirituality, and healing.
■Effective healing and lifestyle practices can
be fostered by faith and religious obser-
vance.
■Ways to begin tapping the healing powers
of faith.
22 Faith and Prayer
22 Faith and Prayer.
Health care sciences have begun to demonstrate that faith and religious
commitment may play a role in promoting health and reducing illness.
Clinicians and researchers, as well as others, are becoming more inter-
ested in the connection between religious faith and survival.
Increasingly, people are beginning to recognize that faith is good med-
icine.