Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer

By: Larry Dossey

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Synopsis: Prayer moves into the center stage of Western medicine Prayer Is Good Medicine acts as a modern-day prayer book as well as an ethical touchstone for healers and seekers. Unlike medical practitioners in the East, many physicians in the West argue that the healing power of science is far superior to, and often incompatible with, the healing power of prayer. Yet, physician Dossey, attentive to the ways in which spiritual health affects bodily health, demonstrated in his Healing Words that the capacity of prayer to heal, combined with the capacity of science to heal, is far greater than the healing power of medicine alone. Using evidence from scientific studies regarding the beneficial effects of prayer on health, Dossey has here fashioned a kind of how-to manual for incorporating prayer into the process of healing. After first defining prayer as an attitude of the heart whose content is neither shaped by nor limited to a single religious tradition, Dossey then proceeds to explore the infinite variety of forms that prayer may take. Dossey's holistic vision challenges narrow religious views of prayer as well as conventional medical method of healing.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 249 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780062514240
Publisher:: N/A
Date of Addition:: 01/28/08
Copyrighted By:: Larry Dossey, M.D.
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Self-Help, Health, Mind and Body, Religion and Spirituality, Medicine
Submitted By:: jnuttallphd
Proofread By:: Jim Homme
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.