Integrating Faith and Prayer into

Medical Practice

More and more research is showing the positive relationship  between a person’s faith and his well-being.  Dr. Harold Koenig, author of The Healing Power of Faith and Dr. Dale Mathiews, author of The Faith Factor, cite a great deal of research supporting how one’s faith and their degree of religiosity can have very beneficial effects on ameliorating physical and emotional illness.

Some key points include:

1.  “People who regularly attend church, pray individually, and read the Bible have significantly lower diastolic blood pressure than the less religious.”

2.  “People who attend religious services regularly have stronger immune systems than theirless religious counterparts.”                    

3.  “The deeper  a person’s religious faith, the less likely he or she is to be crippled by depression during and  after hospitalization for

       physical illness.”*

  The power of prayer is also under close investigation.  Dr. Randolph Byrd, cardiolgist at San Francisco General Hospital, performed a blinded study on the role of prayer for people in an Intensive Care Unit.  He found that there were fewer complications noted for the people being prayed for than than those who were not actively being prayed for.  Since then other studies have been embarked upon showing the same types of significant findings.

*Koenig, Harold, The Healing Power of Faith, Touchstone, New York, NY, pg 24, 1999.

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