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.