The Healing Power of Prayer: The Surprising Connection between Prayer and Your Health

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It’s not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliche. It’s a scientific fact: Prayer heals.

Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health—a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It’s a simple act that heals.

According to Chester Tolson and Harold Koenig, prayer helps people function at their best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the mind-body-soul connection. In The Healing Power of Prayer, these authors explain the nature of prayer, what happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize prayer, and much more. Their facts and insights will encourage believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to begin a life of prayer.

It’s not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliche. It’s a scientific fact: Prayer heals. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health—a triple preventative that guards against anxiety an...

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Harold Koenig, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of medicine at Duke University. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke and has written extensively on mental health, geriatrics, and religion. Koenig is board certified in geriatric psychiatry and geriatric medicine. He is the editor of International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, a medical research journal, and the founder and editor in chief of R Phil Gigante has narrated over 70 audiobooks including Audie Award winner The Dark Highlander, Savage Season, and The Defector. He is also an actor, director and producer with over 20 years experience in theatre, film, television, and radio. Based in Chicago for many years, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children's Theatre.
Harold Koenig, M.D., is associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of medicine at Duke University. He is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Religion/Spirituality and Health at Duke and has written extensively on mental health, geriatrics, and religion. Koenig i...

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