A Prayer to heal

Hello, how have you been?

I had been busy with work last month, but also managed to take an off to visit my parents in the last week of July.
So, after my vacation, I started thinking about my next blog post.

That’s when I found a question from a girl named Rhea, related to mind power and healing. It said “.....pls help me........my mom has a problem in her backbone.....it can be cured....but psychologically she is more ill....she is a negative thinker...she’s always worrying about her health n situations around her......she gets hyper every time she listens to something bad......”


Some of the people in the forum, had asked her to pray for her mother, for healing , and so did I.

After that day, I started reading articles on studies done in the area of mind power, healing powers of the subconscious mind, prayers, to find out whether scientific progress has kept up with ancient wisdom.

So, does praying for sick people actually help heal sick people? For thousands of years some people have believed so. I believe it works and at least the some scientific studies confirm that as well.

It seems a huge number of experiments had been conducted in North America alone between 1965-2006 on the healing power of prayers. One of the few people to research this topic was Wendy Cadge, an expert on the intersection of religion and medicine in contemporary American society. Cadge discovered. some studies suggested that prayer worked, while others said it didn't.

Finally I found a recent new article which said that a team of medical doctors and scientists led by Indiana University professor of religion Candy Gunther Brown found in the study, conducted in rural Mozambique, that prayer brought “highly significant” improvements to hearing-impaired participants and significant changes to the visually impaired.

Likewise there have been several experiments, which confirm that, if the patient believes that he is getting healed, he actually becomes healthy once again, even if he is being given a sweet pill, instead of the real medicine. This is also known as the placebo effect.

There have also been lots of books written about self healing, and intercessory healing. Most of this healing is based on faith.

According to the Bible when Jesus healed the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years, he said to her, "Daughter, Your faith has healed you..." (Mark 5:34). When Jesus healed two blind men, He said, "…According to your faith will it be done to you" (Matthew 9:29).
Conversely, healing may not take place due to lack of faith. Lack of faith can be because of many things, like anger, anxiety, depression etc.

So , even if Rhea’s mother has negative thought pattern, Rhea could pray for her mother with faith, for her healing. She can pray not only her mother’s physical health, but mental health as well. She can make sure that her mother has less stress in her life. I am sure, with time her mother would find a better thought pattern, and become healthy as well.
Sometimes, it may happen that we may pray for a healing, and our prayers go unanswered. In those situations we must remember that, there are certain things we need to accept, like, we will not be young forever, we will not live forever and we have to learn to let go sometimes. God is merciful and his ways are higher than ours!

And we can only pray and say –
“How much faith there's
Let this be our prayer
In my prayer
When shadows fill our day
Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe”

Namaste