| Can prayers really help you get healing?
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| | began to get the message. Ballerina's
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| Are angels or spiritual guides just
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| | all had magnificently straight spines!
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| fantasy or are they really at the other
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| | It was difficult starting ballet at 28
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| end of your whisper for help?
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| | years old but after each lesson, she
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| Laura, a shy 17 year old, could not wait
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| | would feel and look straighter, taller
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| to get home from the world renowned
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| | and more symmetrical. One day after
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| Hospital For Special Surgery that
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| | about a year into this, her mother
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| excruciatingly hot day in New York, July
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| | exclaimed, "You are getting straighter!
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| 1970. As soon as she arrived, she leapt
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| | This is a miracle!" Laura already knew
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| to her bedroom throwing her face on her
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| | it was working and smiled secretly to
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| pillow, sobbing uncontrollably. No
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| | herself.
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| amount of pounding fists or furious tears
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| | Her spine continued to improve. Laura
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| could change her fate. The doctors had
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| | moved from being the quiet girl to being
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| recommended an operation, which would put
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| | a sought out social butterfly. She even
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| her in a body caste for a year and would
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| | became an avid ballroom and Latin dancer,
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| force her to learn to walk again! She
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| | an entire social life and artistic
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| was devastated.
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| | expression blossoming around it. She had
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| She had been diagnosed with scoliosis and
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| | been led by her dreams after praying for
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| a severe lower back injury, which could
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| | help, to a healing and it had worked!
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| cause her to lose the ability to walk
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| | I can testify this story is real, because
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| later in life. She had heard about
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| | it is about myself.
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| scoliosis, but now she was the one
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| | We all have access to the power of
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| burdened with this deformity beneath
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| | spirit. However, your spiritual
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| baggy clothes and a "great personality."
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| | resources are not going to rally to your
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| On that hot July day Laura decided, "No
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| | support until you firmly and deliberately
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| way. I am not going to have this scary
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| | ask for it.
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| operation." She decided to live with her
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| | Try this little exercise. Identify a
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| twisted body and lower back pain well
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| | challenge you are now having in your
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| into young adulthood, accepting her
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| | life. Now get into a relaxed state,
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| "ugly" fate stoically.
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| | either through deep breathing and a
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| In her late twenties, she began
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| | quieting of your mind, or just before
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| experimenting for a healing, trying
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| | falling off to sleep at night. After you
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| different, unorthodox treatments, since
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| | relax, ask a higher power, God, to help
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| the medical establishment had no hope for
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| | you solve the problem. See it being
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| her.
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| | solved; see yourself shining and
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| At one point she even bought a bar on
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| | exuberantly happy with a solution.
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| which to hang upside down from special
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| | Keep a journal next to your bed at night.
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| "gravity boots." Every day she would
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| | If you are awakened with a dream write
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| hang there for 30 minutes or so hoping
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| | down what you saw. Within these dreams
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| gravity would be her ally and readjust
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| | you might have found the answer to your
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| those crooked bones.
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| | problem. The answer might come from
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| One day as she hung upside down she
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| | reading an article, which prompts a
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| decided to pray for a solution from God.
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| | solution. You might speak to a friend
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| Perhaps it was the extra blood rushing
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| | who tells you a story about someone who
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| to her head, but until that moment, she
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| | had a similar concern and how they solved
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| had never had the inspiration to ask in
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| | it. The answer can come from anywhere.
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| prayer for help.
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| | But you have to ask for guidance, and
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| Shortly after she began those prayers,
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| | then remain open and alert to receiving
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| she started having dreams of being a
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| | the answer.
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| ballerina. She had so many of them she
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