Prayers don't help heart surgery patients

50443248 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:10:41 -0400

Many - if not most - people believe that prayer will help you through a medical crisis such as heart bypass surgery. If a large group of people outside yourself, your family, and your friends add their prayers, that should be even more helpful, or so such reasoning goes.

Meditation dramatically changes body temperatures

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:20:51 -0400

Harvard researcher Herbert Benson, who has been studying a meditation technique known as "g Tum-mo" for 20 years, says that "Buddhists feel the reality we live in is not the ultimate one. There's another reality we can tap into that's unaffected by our emotions, by our everyday world. Buddhists believe this state of mind can be achieved by doing good for others and by meditation." Benson is an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He firmly believes that studying advanced forms of meditation "can uncover capacities that will help us to better treat stress-related illnesses." Experiments with Buddhist monks practicing g Tum-mo produced dramatic results.

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Prayers don't help heart surgery patients

Meditation dramatically changes body temperatures