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