Faith Healing
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This is the practice of prayers and hand gestures in a belief that healing can occur as a result. Faith is usually (but not always) part of a religious practice. It can be exercised individually or through a collective of similarly inclined people
Caution
Faith healing is safe when used in conjunction with recognised medical interventions
Choosing faith healing over medical care for serious injuries or illnesses may lead to death and disability
Many people have died doing so, and many continue to die
Parents can be sent to jail if they choose faith healing over lifesaving medical care for their children
Therapy for:
It offers hope to the individual, for all conditions
Spiritual upliftment
Promotion of wellbeing
Comments
Placebo effect will help many believers experience an improvement in symptoms after prayer healing
Although the improvement is not directly due to the prayers, the faith healer actually helps the individual to achieve that peaceful state of mind that hope brings
This effect can-not be more than the body’s own natural abilities; therefore, an established ailment will rapidly overcome this initial placebo improvement and overwhelm the body until it succumbs and die
There are similarities with positive thinking. This is not far-fetched from the aptly termed ‘wishful thinking’
Positive thinking is beneficial to the mind, hence the effect of prayers on the mind is positively significant. This effect is however not directly transferrable to the physical body structure
Although the physical body may be initially empowered by a positive mind after faith healing, the effect will disappear as the disease condition continues to overwhelm the body
Faith healing offers hope, but conventional wisdom suggests that medical care is a must for serious illnesses and injuries
Faith healing can be a complementary intervention to support other forms of healing, but it does not appear to be an alternative to conventional wisdom
Wisdom in the modern world is measured by evidence available. Although evidence cannot exist for all suitable interventions, the available body of evidence is best taken into account when necessary
Faith healing that preaches the rejection of conventional medical wisdom seems to contradict the Abrahamic religion view: ‘Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. Wisdom is supreme; therefore, get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding’ (Book of Proverbs 4:6-7)
Hope without wisdom is unlikely to be sustainable
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