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Quote by: Derach  Are there studies showing that people who are prayed for, but don't know it, have a better rate of recovery than those who are not prayed for? I am not aware of any. The same could be said for people who are told they are being prayed for but are not ... do they recover differently from the first group of people?
Besides, the whole prayer-speeding-recovery theory can easily be interchanged with positive mental attitude theory (or the Anthony Robbins motivational speech theory). On top of that, different people heal differently in any case ... much of the reasons some people recover from cancer and some don't are still a mystery ... you can call it 'God's will' ... I'll just chalk it up to your metabolism, genetic makeup, lifestyle, mental attitude ... and really the roll of the dice. |
I was certain there was such a study, I will try and dig one out for you.
But if you take into account the placebo effect surely that to a large degree explains away the positive mental attitude theory (well its hardly a theory, someones mental state does effect their health).