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