Why Consider Spiritual Healing?
As demonstrated by the studies on prayer and healing, one can enhance his or her medical care and state of health by adding healing prayer to one’s medical regimes. In addition to your own praying and seeking the prayers of others, there are additional ways to receive spiritual healing work as a compliment to your allopathic or more conventional care. Dr. Herbert Benson, director of Harvard’s body-mind clinic, says in his book, Timeless Healing, “… I became impressed with the human trait to turn to beliefs and faith in times of illness and need, so I spent more than thirty years developing the findings I now present. Practicing medicine and conducting medical research, I’ve learned that invoking beliefs is not only emotionally and spiritually soothing, but vitally important to physical health.” So what is spiritual healing and why is it enjoying a resurgence at a time when there are so many advances in medical technology? Spiritual healing covers a broad range of offerings designed to