How Prayer Heals: A Scientific Approach (Healing (Hampton Roads)) [Paperback]

Walter L. Weston (Author)

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One of the most common phrases Walter Weston hears when someone makes a miraculous recovery is "That's impossible!" Weston has spent over 30 years making the impossible possible, and shares his secret with us in How Prayer Heals, an in-depth explanation and analysis of healing energy. How Prayer Heals has a definite religious focus (the author is a Methodist minister, after all) but at no point does he insist that healing is a purely Christian power. In fact, anyone of any religious background can develop his or her own healing ability.

Weston recounts his personal experiences and backs them with the results of others' experiments to develop a picture of how healing energy travels between people and how it can make incredible differences in one's health. How Prayer Heals progresses logically from individual healing to group-energy fields--a fascinating chapter on the raising and interaction of energy among collaborators--and finally explores the transformative power of peak religious experiences.

Though the photographs in How Prayer Heals are less than stellar (instead of pictures showing hands holding a towel, photos illustrating how human energy fields are detected and measured would be much more valuable), this can be easily overlooked among the wealth of information that this book offers readers who have a desire to heal. --Brian Patterson

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Co. (May 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571740929
• ISBN-13: 978-1571740922
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,925,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anyone can be a healer, December 15, 2003

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This review is from: How Prayer Heals: A Scientific Approach (Healing (Hampton Roads)) (Paperback)

Some people are born with the gift of healing and some discover it later in life, but this author says anyone who wants to heal can learn to pray for healing effectively. The book is full of techniques to boost the power of prayer, and the author's Christian perspective is refreshingly open and supportive of pray-ers of other religions. This book can teach you to focus your healing abilities for better and faster results. The information on group healing and partners praying for each other is especially useful. This is the first book I've read by this author, but I plan to get all of them. In only a few days, my prayers are more powerful and meaningful, and my healing efforts are more focused and effective. Thank you, Dr. Weston, for this much-needed work.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A helpful look at the science behind prayer and healing, July 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: How Prayer Heals: A Scientific Approach (Healing (Hampton Roads)) (Paperback)

How Prayer Heals is what I have been looking for all my life. It provides detailed data on research studies. It draws a scientic picture of how prayer heals. It expands on the implications of the scientific data. It tells how to achieve predictable and consistent healing outcomes.