Prayer can heal you. It's not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliché.There is actual scientific evidence to support this. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health-a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It's a simple act that heals. According to Chet Tolson and Harold Koenig prayer helps people function at their best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the mind-body-soul connection. In The Healing Power of Prayer, these authors explain the nature of prayer, what happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize prayer, and much more. Their facts and insights will encourage believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to begin a life of prayer.

Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.

Why do we pray the way we pray? Our temperament and the way we perceive God radically affect our spiritual life and our prayer life. As Jean Maalouf affirms, when we invite God into our lives through prayer, things are bound to happen. Love heals. And God's love is the greatest healer.

Rooted in Christian tradition and Scripture, Bridget Meehan examines approaches to inner healing that will lead you to experience the healing love of God in your life. More than just another book about pray-ing, this book will teach you how to pray by praying.

Illness comes in many forms and too often we're told to ignore it, hide it, or simply run away from it. With decades of service in the healing ministry as both a teacher and one called upon to pray for healing, Father Richard McAlear has a different approach that recognizes - even embraces - the complex nature of illness. A cluster of emotions anger, anxiety, fear, hate, negative self-image, resentment, and self-pity affect our health. Therefore, a healing ministry must be handled in such a way that emotions and psychological factors are addressed with care and sensitivity. It must also embrace the vast beauty and power and depth of our Catholic Faith, keeping it: Christ-centered deeply rooted in the person and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scriptural utilizing the insights offered by Scripture to delve into the Holy Spirit's role in the work of healing. Holistic exploring the interplay and connections between the mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions relating to healing and health. Explore the healing power of faith as it mends your whole self -- mind, body, and spirit -- regardless of your pain, background, or personal baggage. The Power of Healing Prayer is also an effective guide for those you minister to.

In this book doctors and patients quote scientific surveys and relate personal experiences of healing through prayer.