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PRAYER COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!!
Although it is difficult to prove definitively the relationship between prayer and curing disease, many studies have demonstrated the recuperative benefits, both physiological and psychological, of meditation and prayer. It is easy to see how prayer might give us greater optimism, promote faster recovery, allow us to manage stress more effectively, prevent addiction, and assuage feelings of depression and anxiety.
Dr. Dale Matthews, Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and a practicing physician, has documented the connection between faith and healing. After years of observing and recording the ways his patients benefited from an active spiritual life, Matthews concluded that faith:
1. Helps us to stay healthy and avoid life-threatening and disabling diseases such as cancer and heart disease;
2. Helps us to recover faster and with fewer complications if they do develop a serious illness;
3. Helps us to live longer;
4. Helps us to avoid and reduce life-threatening encounters and unanticipated terminal illnesses with greater peacefulness and less pain;
5. Helps us to avoid mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety and to cope more effectively with stress;
6. Helps us to avoid clear of problems with alcohol, drugs and tobacco;
7. Helps us to enjoy a happier marriage and family life;
8. Helps us to find a greater sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.
