Faith healing is real!
We are fortunate to live in a time when many healthcare advances are often able to support healing and good health in a myriad of ways. We also have knowledge about living our best via nutrition, healthy approaches to social and lifestyle dynamics, and so on. Further, faith traditions provide opportunities for faith-based healing and wellness. All of these avenues can intersect to usefully support our well-being. In addition, there is faith healing.
For example, the leader at A Parish Catechist became ill in 2008 with what turned out to be a rare and difficult-to-treat chronic pain disorder. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) – it turns out – involves chronic hyper-stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system, perpetuating a continuous “flight or fight response” that aggravates chronic pain and a variety of additional “multi-system dysregulation” symptoms. Despite various attempts at medical treatment, chronic pain and “multi-system dysregulation” symptoms persisted. In time, yoga combined with a gifted state of Catholic prayer (in a modest sense, following the contemplative tradition of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross) led to a slow calming of the sympathetic nervous system and a subsequent reduction of CRPS symptoms. This led her to join contemplative prayer communities and she now communicates about “the calming, healing power of prayer” with people who need healing.
God loves us and Christ came to heal us The Gospels are full of stories of Christ healing the sick. On an ongoing basis, God wants us to live ever closer to God and to let God transform our lives toward becoming the people God wants us to be. Approaching God in prayer and through faith communities can – indeed – result in us allowing God to incrementally heal us, on all kinds of levels, toward becoming healthier and happier…toward becoming the person God wants us to be.. “For God so loved the world….”
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