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Meditation, Mindfulness, and Prayer: Three Spiritual Modalities Utilized for Healing
Jeff Levin1,2
1Institute for Studies of Religion and Medical Humanities Program, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA. jeff_levin@baylor.edu.
Abstract:
This paper describes three spiritual practices utilized for healing. These modalities-meditation, mindfulness, and prayer-share a spiritual foundation and appear to operate, in part, through mind-body connections that can be accessed to ameliorate physical and psychological symptoms and to promote health. For each modality, this paper discusses pertinent conceptual issues, summarizes empirical evidence suggestive of a role in healing, and outlines theoretical support for such a relationship. Also discussed is a fourth modality, energy healing, and how it might be studied, as well as why further investigation of spiritual healing is merited and a worthwhile topic for medical research.
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