Prayer and Distant Healing

A few weeks ago, an article in the Daily Mail stated “Prayers for the sick ’do no good’”.

This sweeping statement must have upset many people and left others wondering if their spiritual work had been in vain.

The U.S. study of 1800 heart surgery patients concluded that prayer was worse than useless, and in some cases caused extra complications!

One wonders whether the researchers knew anything about absent healing, and how the technique should be applied? For instance, it was stated in the article that the study did not acknowledge the existence of God, the prayers had a restricted format, and there were no scientific or theological grounds to expect a result. Not exactly encouraging!

There are so many other factors which can contribute to a negative outcome that were undoubtedly overlooked. For example, a hospital ward contains so many ingredients to damage health. In ITU especially, other patients will all be very sick, electromagnetic fields from machinery and electrical cables, will all be contributing to the geopathic stress around the patient, and worried relatives will add their burden of negativity to the atmosphere. There will invariably be noise and often bright lights. Hospitals are truly the worst places in which to rest and recover!

Not a lot the would be healer can do to counteract this situation, physically speaking, but the mind is a powerful tool and there is much that a healer can do in terms of affirmation and visualisation to disperse negative vibrations, and surround the sick friend with thoughts of light, harmony and well being. So often healing groups will pray for Mr or Ms Smith to be cured of cancer, or whatever afflicts them, and by simply naming the condition of the patient, one ‘pins it on them’ and makes it much more difficult to lift away. Expecting a positive outcome is crucial to success, providing this is right for that person at that time. Maybe the illness has some lesson to teach, or a karmic debt(?) to settle? Who but God knows? Then there is the amount of Universal love and intent which goes into the healing prayer. A plea mumbled at speed with no real depth of love will accomplish little – and is, sadly the tendency within Church services of all denominations.

And are the voices of many, more effective that that of one truly dedicated healer? We all know that absent healing can be a powerful force as demonstrated by thank you letters from those who have benefited.

We haven’t even touched on the assistance to be gained from helpers in the Spiritual realms, use of colour, crystals and much else. It would be so interesting to hear the views of others working in this field. Please do write in so that together we can assemble a truly potent format.

M.H.T.

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