Faith Healing
Faith healing: the notion that prayer, divine intervention or the ministrations of an individual healer can cure illness, has been popular throughout history.
Miraculous recoveries have been attributed to a myriad of techniques
commonly lumped together as faith healing. During the past forty
years, several investigators have studied faith healing closely and written about their findings.
More than half of the medical schools in the country now offer courses in faith healing - up from just three a decade ago - largely because patients are demanding more spiritual care. According to a NEWSWEEK Poll, 72 percent of Americans say they would welcome a conversation with their physician about faith; the same number say they believe that praying to God can cure someone (faith healing) - even if science says the person doesn't stand a chance. There is even a web site called Beliefnet that hosts an online prayer circle for faith healing.
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Loved ones - as well as total strangers - can log on and send prayers into the electronic ether for faith healing, hoping to heal all illnesses and addictions. Popular practices like these, as well as the growing belief in the medical community that what happens in a person's mind (and possibly soul), can be as important to health as what happens on the cellular level, are leading many doctors to embrace God and the idea of faith healing through prayer.
Our natural state is to have perfect health. Disease happens when we become unbalanced. We can become unbalanced by changes in events, environment, both inside and outside our being, perhaps due to our individual belief system. Faith healing requires belief and trust, as well as taking personal responsibility to allow the healing to occur.
Many philosophies and religions, including Christianity and Buddhism,
reinforce the importance of the power of our thoughts to create our reality, as well as in faith healing.
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises
With our thoughts.
With our thoughts,
We make our world."
The Buddha
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