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Finally, there is prayer...
And I don’t just mean pray because you are going to die. I mean prayer as a
healing tool!
In section 12 I talked about the incredibly powerful influence of mind over health
and how negative emotions MUST be addressed, in order to survive cancer—
otherwise it will probably come
back!
Going further than that we can
look at the spiritual dimension of
healing.
We can call on God, or simply look
to Higher Self, or both. There are
people who call for guides and
angels to help them in the healing
process. This is all valid stuff at the
individual level.
Prayer, or course, is part of this
dimension. Many people have been
willing to testify that prayer alone
and God’s intervention is what
saved them.
In Medicine, we see the touch of
God all the time, but it is called
“spontaneous remission.” If it
happens at a prayer meeting, then
God gets the credit, otherwise it is
just one of those inexplicable marvels of the human body.
Dr. Randolph Byrd, a Christian cardiologist, conducted a study in 1984 that has
led to a resurgence of scientific evaluation of the effect of prayer on healing.
393 patients, admitted to the coronary care unit at San Francisco General