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