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Healing Powers Within Your Reach

January 6, 2009 - 12:00pm 494 reads 0 comments

Also, twins or triplets progress more positively when kept in cribs together. It works for adults, too. In fact, many organizations like Healing Touch International have created specific programs to help patients through surgery, pain management, stress, cancer, and other ailments with the healing power of touch. It really doesn’t take much to imagine how this could be beneficial. Just think of someone holding your hand or giving you a hug; it’s comforting and reassuring. Simple and beneficial for any healing process in my book.

Prayer
One of the most debated and only recently-studied healing powers is prayer. Many say they’ve experienced healing just knowing that people who believe in God prayed for them. But scientists want to prove whether healing can happen if someone prays for you without your knowledge. A few studies have done little but stoke the flames of doubt. The first attempt was by Drs. Krucoff and Crater who completed the Mantra study, a study to determine whether prayer by strangers influenced medical outcomes, but it soon came under fire due to its small sample size of only thirty patients. Another researcher, Dr Elizabeth Targ, set out to prove this theory as well.

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