Archive for the ‘Prayer that heals’ Category - Keith Wommack - Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Health, Thought and Spirituality
Posted by Keith Wommack on Sep 3, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Let the real games begin. No, not the Olympics, we’re talking football. Goal line stands. One-hand catches. Last second touchdowns.
College spring practices and intersquad performances are finished. The preseason NFL (National Football League) games are finally over. It’s good to get back to contests that matter.
Although I spend more time watching games than I would like to admit, I spend even more time helping to heal the pain and suffering of others. Therefore, it caught my attention last season when Dallas Cowboys’ safety, Gerald Sensabaugh was quoted as saying, “Pain is just mental.”
Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Gerald Sensabaugh, National Football League, NFL, pain, Prayer, spiritual, Stanford University's Neuroscience and Pain Lab
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Aug 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
There seems to be an urgency when it comes to health care. Perhaps, because of this, more consideration is being given to thought, spirituality, and the powerful connection they have to well-being.
Last year, the American Psychological Association revealed that the use of prayer for health concerns significantly increased from forty-three percent in 2002 to forty-nine percent in 2007.
Many studies have examined the effectiveness of prayer. Most of these studies state that prayer improves health. Some suggest otherwise.
Why the confusion?
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Aug 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Just as the microwave seemed weird to me in ’73, the thought of providing prayer for illness or pain can seem the same to you when you first encounter it. However, both are effective. Both utilize laws. The microwave transforms food. Spiritual treatments can transform people. Both accomplish this from the inside out.
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Jul 30, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The London games have begun. Does your favorite athlete have a leg up? Are they aware of the latest formula for speed? The newest way to win?
The development of bigger and stronger bodies brought many record-setting Olympic performances in the past. However, some feel the growth spurt is waning.
France’s National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance examined track and field and swimming events from 1891 to 2008 and reported that record-breaking performances have declined sharply since 1988. They concluded, “Our physiological evolution will remain limited in a majority of Olympic events.”
With the decline in physiological evolutionary advancement and more consistent programs of nutrition and training, there has been a leveling of the playing field, so to speak. This has increased demand for the utilization of new ways to improve performances.
Tags: BMX cycling, Greg Bishop, injury, London, Michele Joan D. Valbuena, New York Times, NPR, Olympic athletes, Olympics, Philippa Oldham, Prayer, Spirituality, Sport psychology, Texas Longhorn, The University of Texas
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Jul 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
If you were made, assembled, like a car or truck, there would be no need for compassion and care when it came to your health needs, to fixing you up. Switch out a part or two, bang out a dent when needed, and you would be good to go.
Yet, you know there is more to you than body parts, and health care means more than just cleaning out a filter and changing spark plugs, so to speak.
Francis W. Peabody, M.D., in 1927, wrote The Care of the Patient. Peabody’s piece is one of the most recounted articles in medical literature. In part, he penned, “The good physician knows his patients through and through, and his knowledge is bought dearly. Time, sympathy and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”
Here in 2012, really knowing the patient “through and through,” should, to some degree, include the healer being aware of a patient’s mental and spiritual needs.
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Jun 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Many years ago, I taught Michelle in Sunday School. A few years later, when she was a teenager, she went to a party and drank until she was drunk. Friends took her to a house and left her alone for several hours. When they returned at 3:30 in the morning, they found her unconscious and not breathing.
When firemen were unable to revive her, she was immediately taken to a hospital. At the hospital she was found to have alcohol poisoning and wasn’t expected to live.
When Jill, Michelle’s mom, arrived at the hospital, Michelle was comatose and on a number of life support machines. A doctor told Jill that Michelle had an alcohol content of .5 in her system. “At .1 you’re drunk,” he said, “.4 is usually fatal.” He also said he did not think they could save her. He stated that even if she did survive, she would suffer brain damage because of being deprived of oxygen for so long. He also stated that damage to her lungs was irreparable.
Tags: alcohol poisoning, American family physicians, Bible, body, Fred Alan Wolf, God, life support, miracle, Pew Research, pneumonia, Prayer, quantum, quantum mechanics, Ross Rhodes, spiritual healing, spiritually-based treatment, Taking the Quantum Leap
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Jun 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
In 1981, I had the opportunity to perform in Paris while I was visiting Freddy Koella and his drummer, Jean-Michael. Freddy is a virtuoso on the violin and guitar. He has worked with Bob Dylan, k.d. lang, Willy Deville, Francis Cabrel, and many others.
While I was with Freddy and Jean-Michael in France, I told them I was quitting my band (The Wommack Brothers Band) and was going into the full time practice as a Christian and spiritual healer. My twin brother, Kevin, and I started the band together and for ten years, we’d performed over two hundred shows a year, performing at times with Journey, Elvis Costello, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others.
Freddy and Jean-Michael wondered why I would stop writing and performing. Music was everything. It was the best.
Tags: Bob Dylan, Christian Science, Elvis Costello, Francis Cabrel, Freddy Koella, God, health, Journey, k.d. lang, melody, music, Paris, Pew Research, Prayer, spiritual healing, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Wommack Brothers Band, Willy Deville
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Posted by Keith Wommack on May 14, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Henry Garza, guitarist and vocalist with Los Lonely Boys, wrote the lyrics to their song, Heaven. It was a prayer; a prayer motivated by his families financial and emotional hardships, combined with the death of his first-born son from sudden infant death syndrome. The prayer expressed his deep desire for healing. “I know there’s a better place/Than this place I’m livin’/How far is heaven?”
Henry’s heartfelt plea touched hearts worldwide. Because of the strength of the message, the album that included Heaven sold over 2 million copies.
Melodies move us emotionally and change us physically.
Tags: autism, Christian healer, dementia, depression, God, Heaven, Henry Garza, hymn, Los Angeles Children’s Hospital, Los Lonely Boys, Mary Alice Dayton, Mayo Clinic, melody, music, Prayer, schizophrenia
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Posted by Keith Wommack on May 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
What can fear do to you? It seems a lot. Anxiety, fear, and worry are reported to be mentally and physically harmful. Jere Daniel in a Psychology Today column,Learning to Love Growing Old, wrote, “Fear of aging speeds the very decline we dread most. And it ultimately robs our life of any meaning.”
I’m discovering that we experience what we think and that fear seems to be able to negatively touch every part of the body, if we allow it. Because of this, I’ve found it effective to filter my thoughts through spiritual reasoning. Many call this prayer.
Tags: Bible, Fear, God, God's pocket, health, Jeff Levin, Jere Daniel, Prayer, Psychology Today, Spirituality
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Posted by Keith Wommack on Apr 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You enter the room of a gravely ill friend where hope has vanished. Your thoughts weigh heavy. The family expects a quick passing. Doctors have proclaimed there are but a few hours left. The room is dark, both mentally and physically. You feel helpless.
But, what if you could do something, something that made a difference?
Tags: Bible Mary Baker Eddy, body, cancer healed, Christian healer, Deepak Chopra, divine consciousness, Duke University, God, Handbook of Religion and Health, Harold Koenig MD, Jesus, Prayer, Truth
Posted in God, Healing, Health, Health care, Jesus, Mental nature of health, Prayer, Prayer that heals, Spirituality, Spirituality in healthcare, Spirituality in Society, The Bible | 2 Comments »
Let the real games begin. No, not the Olympics, we’re talking football. Goal line stands. One-hand catches. Last second touchdowns.
Columnist / Christian Science practitioner & teacher / Legislative
advocate for spiritual healing. -- Keith Wommack is a nationally
syndicated columnist on health, thought, spirituality and the powerful connection they have to each other.