There is ample proof that prayer works. Many scientific studies have been conducted that validate this observation.
In the most widely publicized studies of the effect of intercessory prayer, cardiologists have numerous cases that they have come across. Some were prayed for by home prayer groups, others were not. All the men and women got medical care. In this randomized, double-blind study , neither the doctors and nurses nor the patients knew who would be the object of prayer.
The results were dramatic and surprised many scientists. The men and women whose medical care was supplemented with prayer needed fewer drugs and spent less time on ventilators. They also fared better overall than their counterparts who received medical care but nothing more. The prayed –for patients were significantly less likely to require antibiotics.
Significantly less likely to develop pulmonary edema (a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid because the heart cannot pump properly) significantly less likely to require insertion of a tube into the throat to assist breathing. Less likely to die.
Even more outrageous experiments in distance healing involve nonhuman subjects. In a survey of 131 controlled experiments on spiritual healing, it was found that prayed-for rye grass grew taller; prayed-for yeast resisted the toxic effects of cyanide; prayed-for test tube bacteria grew faster.
Experiments have shown that prayer can take many forms , but praying for nothing specific is more powerful than when specific results were held in mind.
A simple attitude of prayer fulness, an all pervading sense of holiness and a feeling of empathy, caring, and compassion for the entity in need, seemed to set the stage for healing.
It doesn’t matter the whether the praying person was with the person who was prayed for the power of prayer,to work. You can pray for someone else who is far away and still will have an influence on the outcome.
The processes that has been influenced by prayer were:
- Mutation rates of bacteria
- Healing rate of wounds
- Activity of enzymes
- Firing rate of pacemaker cells
- The size of goiters and tumors
- Germination and growth rates of various seeds
- Time required for awake from anesthesia
- Autonomic effects such as electrodermal activity of the skin, rates of hemolisys of red blood cells and hemoglobin level
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The other kind of prayer in which sick person do for their own recovery, is far easier for science to explain. Given the proven health benefits of meditation- lowering blood pressure, reversing heart disease- it’s not difficult to see how prayer, which can be equally meditative and relaxing , might induce the same effect.
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