According to Wikipedia, faith healing is a concept that religious belief (“faith”) can bring about healing—either through prayers or rituals that, according to adherents, evoke a divine presence and power toward correcting disease and disability in particular indicated individuals. My opinion is slightly contrary to that popular held view. You see, my belief is that if you have belief, or faith, in the course of treatment you are undertaking, then this has enormous power.
I also have a further belief that most ‘disease’ starts with thought, the law of attraction and all that. Of course, if you get attacked by a malaria laden mosquito the debate could rage whether you have attracted that mosquito towards you. So, at this stage, I think I’ll get off while the going is good, enough to say that if thought creates disease, then thought, or belief, or faith, can cure that disease. I know there are some mighty leaps, of faith, contained within that statement but if you have gotten to the stage where traditional mainstream medicines and healthcare are nor working for you, then now might be the time to explore the myriad of alternative treatments available to you.
One of those is faith healing. Again, to quote WIkipedia:
Belief in divine intervention in illness or healing is related to religious belief in general. In common usage, “faith healing” refers to notably overt and ritualistic practices of communal prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are claimed to solicit divine intervention in initiating literal physical healing.
Claims that prayer, divine intervention, or the ministrations of an individual healer can cure illness have been popular throughout history. Miraculous recoveries have been attributed to myriad techniques commonly lumped together as “faith healing.” It can involve prayer, a visit to a religious shrine, or simply a strong belief in a supreme being.
You see, imho, this is where a lot of people get it wrong. You don;t have to be religious or even believe in a supreme being for faith healing to work. After all, we are all energetic beings, by which I mean that we are all made up of pure energy. If that is the case, then thought is merely another manifestation coming from that energy, along with the disease that thought has created. There lies the secret in faith healing. If you believe that it will work and I mean, REALLY believe, then I think that is half of the cure.
Back to Wikipedia:
The term is best known in connection with Christianity. Some people claim that the Bible, especially the New Testament, teaches belief in, and practice of, faith healing. Advocates say that legitimate faith healings do occur today just as they did in the early Christian church—that faith healing has wide-ranging successes. There have been claims that faith can cure blindness, deafness, cancer, AIDS, developmental disorders, anemia, arthritis, corns, defective speech, multiple sclerosis, skin rashes, total body paralysis, and various injuries.
Critics say it is “not effective” and have voiced concerns that those who pursue it may depend on it instead of (or delay seeking) conventional medical care. Death, disability, and other negative outcomes have been known to occur when faith healing was elected instead of medical care for serious injuries or illnesses.
Healing of this type is also used by practitioners of other religions and beliefs, including Wicca and other forms of paganism.
The increased interest in alternative medicine at the end of the twentieth century has spawned a parallel interest among sociologists in the relationship of religion to health
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And I think that is the crux of the issue. I think it is dangerous to see faith healing as a replacement for conventional medicine. But, I do think it has great potential as an adjunct to the more traditional treatments, especially when those traditional treatments have failed to work.
As in the Field of Dreams, if you believe it, they will come. So it is with faith healing and the cure of whatever ails you.
Wishing you a very speedy recovery, whichever way you get there.
