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Science & Alternative Science / The Science of Faith Healing
« on: February 07, 2025, 06:11:07 PM »
I came across a book at my local alternative science book peddler titled "Where Science Meets Spirit: The Formula for Miracles". This book was purportedly written by an MIT-trained engineer who developed a life-altering muscular sickness, which kept him in constant pain and prevented him from working. He began trying every traditional and non-traditional healing protocol without success, finally reaching the bottom of the barrel in his desperation: Faith Healing. He found a practitioner and Faith Healing apparently helped his issues dramatically. He even proceeded to change careers in pursuit of this practice and now helps others, with many interesting testimonials and anecdotes shared in the book.
The procedure can be simplified as thus: If you have a pain, all you need to do is touch near where it hurts and tell the pain to go away. The pain will then go away and you feel better. Some suggest that it is helpful to command that the pain dispel and leave, and to tell it that you have the right to live your own life. This process will need to be repeated when the pain recurs, which results in the pain becoming less and less prominent until full healing is achieved.
Other elements of the protocol appear to be related to convincing yourself that you are ready to heal, which is a necessary component. Surprisingly, none of what is described appears to directly deal with faith in the religious sense at all. Faith appears to refer to the faith that it will work despite not knowing how it can work. My own interpretation is that this is the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a known curiosity where if someone thinks that a false pill will heal them, somehow it does help them. The placebo effect is pretty much equivalent to how faith healing is described in this work, since a non-active pill apparently results in healing based on the faith of the patient.
The author of the book describes that he believes that something metaphysical is occurring, and there are apparently a number of spiritual interpretations. However, I tend to believe that placebo effect and faith healing anecdotes can be described with known concepts. We know that the body is able to clear out its diseases naturally. There is no disease that which kills 100% of the people it infects, or makes all people chronically ill, and many recover on their own from the same disease, which proves that there is a possible physical self recovery process in the bodily machinery. Once you choose to heal your mind, your body physiology can then relax the the countless stressed tissues and components in your body, allowing plumbing and connections to work better with a more normal state and flush out the disease. The body may also be able to utilize water and nutrition more efficiently to create what is necessary to heal.
The connection between good psychology and good health has been recognized throughout history. Ancient Buddhists describe that a healthy mind creates a healthy body. It is not necessarily to know exactly how the placebo effect and faith healing works, only that there are enough accumulated anecdotes that there may be something there. Faith healing practitioners have refined their techniques over the years, and now offer an array of engaging courses and programs to prepare the mind and compel the action of the placebo effect for our own benefit.
The procedure can be simplified as thus: If you have a pain, all you need to do is touch near where it hurts and tell the pain to go away. The pain will then go away and you feel better. Some suggest that it is helpful to command that the pain dispel and leave, and to tell it that you have the right to live your own life. This process will need to be repeated when the pain recurs, which results in the pain becoming less and less prominent until full healing is achieved.
Other elements of the protocol appear to be related to convincing yourself that you are ready to heal, which is a necessary component. Surprisingly, none of what is described appears to directly deal with faith in the religious sense at all. Faith appears to refer to the faith that it will work despite not knowing how it can work. My own interpretation is that this is the placebo effect. The placebo effect is a known curiosity where if someone thinks that a false pill will heal them, somehow it does help them. The placebo effect is pretty much equivalent to how faith healing is described in this work, since a non-active pill apparently results in healing based on the faith of the patient.
The author of the book describes that he believes that something metaphysical is occurring, and there are apparently a number of spiritual interpretations. However, I tend to believe that placebo effect and faith healing anecdotes can be described with known concepts. We know that the body is able to clear out its diseases naturally. There is no disease that which kills 100% of the people it infects, or makes all people chronically ill, and many recover on their own from the same disease, which proves that there is a possible physical self recovery process in the bodily machinery. Once you choose to heal your mind, your body physiology can then relax the the countless stressed tissues and components in your body, allowing plumbing and connections to work better with a more normal state and flush out the disease. The body may also be able to utilize water and nutrition more efficiently to create what is necessary to heal.
The connection between good psychology and good health has been recognized throughout history. Ancient Buddhists describe that a healthy mind creates a healthy body. It is not necessarily to know exactly how the placebo effect and faith healing works, only that there are enough accumulated anecdotes that there may be something there. Faith healing practitioners have refined their techniques over the years, and now offer an array of engaging courses and programs to prepare the mind and compel the action of the placebo effect for our own benefit.
