Researchers have found that people who are more involved with religious
organizations seem to be able to cope with stress. Why? The healing
power of prayer, of course. And even if conventional medicine doesn't
get it, Americans certainly believe.
According to a joint poll conducted with ABC News and Stanford
University, researchers found:
Prayer (90 percent) worked slightly better than drugs (89 percent)
to control pain.
Such results are no surprise, to say the least, to preachers and
doctors who have witnessed the impact personal faith has on a patient's
reaction to different kinds of pain -- psychological or physical.
Spiritual Support
One doctor, and pastor of a Baptist church in Little Rock, explained
that prayer enables people to grab their mind and put it in a new
perspective. Further, by focusing on prayer, believers are able
to reduce stress and gain control over pain.
Conversely, advocates of conventional medicine find it difficult
to assess the beneficial effects of prayer. A Columbia University
psychologist says prayer is no better or more useful than any other
activity designed to distract a patient from his or her pain. That
opinion flies in the face of a recent study of sickle cell patients
that found those who attended church weekly had the lowest
pain scores.
USA
Today May 10, 2005
Gary Craig's Comment:
The value of prayer can be further enhanced by the use of EFT.
Here is what Gary Craig of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has
to say on this vital issue ...
"EFT has a clear spiritual element built within it that
enhances the effectiveness of our prayers. There are, for example,
countless examples on the EFT website of people performing EFT in
behalf of others surrogately. This is a form of prayer (positive
intention) that doesn't require the presence of the other person.
As an example, here is an excerpt from an article on our website
entitled "Surrogate
tapping for a 2 year old with Cancer" by Julia Allen.
They "gave her" 1 year to live, as the type of cancer
was very aggressive ... I have been tapping (at first with the
help of a counselor, and later on my own -- for all kinds of things).
I did not tell her parents that I intended to do this, but I did
do some tapping for the little girl ... 1 week later our friend
called saying they re-assessed her condition and determined she
might live 3 years ... Well, about 1 week later she had another
check-up and as her dad put it, "they have cleared her",
she is free of all cancer, not remission, and is expected to live
just as long as anyone else. Her doctors say it's incredible.
A mystery. In fact the family is coming to visit us for 4th of
July (which is a huge deal, as they haven't done anything in years!)
Please note that while not all EFT applications provide such
spectacular results, we get enough such examples to motivate us
to try EFT on just about everything, regardless of our ingrained
beliefs about what is, or is not, possible.
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Gary Craig is a pioneering developer of EFT, a profoundly effective
emotional/mental healing approach. I learned it from Gary and have taught
it to patients in my clinic for years, and they have experienced truly
incredible and permanent results with it.
Read
more about Gary Craig's EFT Course.
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