Health effects from spirituality

I’ve come to expect it. “It” being healthy effects from prayer/spirituality.

I’ve been in the healing ministry as a Christian Science practitioner since 1983. Therefore, its exciting to see studies corroborating what praying-people have been discovering since Biblical times: Prayer can make you feel better, emotionally and physically.

Take for example: Spiritual expression and immune status in women with metastatic breast cancer: an exploratory study.

This exploratory study examined relationships between spirituality and immune function in 112 women  …Upon examination of relationships with lymphocyte subsets, both helper and cytotoxic T-cell counts were greater among women reporting greater spirituality.

Apparently, spirituality helped boost the healthy cellular activity of these women.

Spirituality is vitally important to well-being. In fact, I’ve found that the more we understand our actual spiritual nature, the more our bodies become subordinate to our spiritual understanding.

The body yields or bends according to what controls thought. This is why it’s so imperative for us to allow the harmony and goodness of God to hold the controls. When we do so, the fears, anger, and hate, which are so noxious to health, dissolve. (Example of healing)

I’m confident that more and more people are discovering that physical conditions, and the thoughts that produce them, yield to the spiritual might found in prayer.

Yes, those who pray improve their health and experience an enhanced quality of life. I’ve come to expect it.

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