Post by Boomer Chick on Jul 28, 2004 23:46:15 GMT -5
Prayer Heals!! ;D
Prayer Heals, But Doctors Don't Know Why
26-Jul-2004
Does prayer really help heal? Medical researchers investigated the role played by prayer in both physical and emotional healing. The results? Prayer can help—but only if you believe it can.
Researcher Randall Fitzgerald writes in Phenomena Magazine that prayer studies in the past have produced mixed results. In this new study from the University of Texas Health Science Center, 86 male and female patients were assigned to either be prayed for or to non-prayer control groups. Two-thirds of them were church members, and each one filled out a questionnaire about how much they believed prayer could heal.
Eight volunteers from a local prayer group, along with four women living in a Christian retirement home, prayed twice a day for three minutes at a time for the patients in the prayer intervention group. These volunteers knew the names and health problems of the people they were praying for, but the patients did not know that prayers were being said for them.
Here's what happened: Pain was much lower in the prayed-for group than in the control group. For those who believed the most in prayer, there were "significant improvements in physical functioning," in contrast to the control group. Patients who were being prayed for who had less belief in the power of prayer "had a significantly worse physical function outcome."
The authors of the study ask these questions: "While belief or hope is a significant factor in the recovery from illness, why would belief modify the treatment effect in a randomized trial of intercessory prayer? Participants in the study did not know they were being 'treated;' nonetheless, their belief was a condition under which intercessory prayer demonstrated an effect." In other words, a strong belief in the power of prayer helped people to heal, even though they didn’t know they were being prayed for!
Explore shamanic healing by learning ancient secrets.
www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=3973
Prayer Heals, But Doctors Don't Know Why
26-Jul-2004
Does prayer really help heal? Medical researchers investigated the role played by prayer in both physical and emotional healing. The results? Prayer can help—but only if you believe it can.
Researcher Randall Fitzgerald writes in Phenomena Magazine that prayer studies in the past have produced mixed results. In this new study from the University of Texas Health Science Center, 86 male and female patients were assigned to either be prayed for or to non-prayer control groups. Two-thirds of them were church members, and each one filled out a questionnaire about how much they believed prayer could heal.
Eight volunteers from a local prayer group, along with four women living in a Christian retirement home, prayed twice a day for three minutes at a time for the patients in the prayer intervention group. These volunteers knew the names and health problems of the people they were praying for, but the patients did not know that prayers were being said for them.
Here's what happened: Pain was much lower in the prayed-for group than in the control group. For those who believed the most in prayer, there were "significant improvements in physical functioning," in contrast to the control group. Patients who were being prayed for who had less belief in the power of prayer "had a significantly worse physical function outcome."
The authors of the study ask these questions: "While belief or hope is a significant factor in the recovery from illness, why would belief modify the treatment effect in a randomized trial of intercessory prayer? Participants in the study did not know they were being 'treated;' nonetheless, their belief was a condition under which intercessory prayer demonstrated an effect." In other words, a strong belief in the power of prayer helped people to heal, even though they didn’t know they were being prayed for!
Explore shamanic healing by learning ancient secrets.
www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=3973
