Benefits of Prayer (Prayer of Surrender)

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Benefits of Prayer (Prayer of Surrender)

Kenneth Cooper, author of `it's Better to Believe', says that having deep

personal convictions and values can do wonders for almost every aspect of your

physical and emotional well-being. He listed several specific enhancements to

health that have been linked to firm, inner commitments to moral principles,

social values, God, or even oneself.Less Depression, Smoking, And Alcohol

AbuseIn a study of more than five hundred African-American men conducted by

Wayne State University in Detroit, significant correlation between the

participants' religious involvement and their health. The researchers

identified a number of indicators of true religious commitment, including

overall religiosity and church attendance. They found these were linked to

various beneficial health effects, such as less depression, little or no

smoking, and infrequency of alcohol consumption. (Source: November 1994 issue

of the Journal of the

National Medical Association)Healthier Mothers And BabiesMaternity patients with

a strong religious commitment, and their newborns, who were studied at the

Department of Family Medicine, East Carolina University, had fewer medical

complications than maternity patients without a religious affiliation. (Source:

November 1994 issue of Southern Medical Journal)Protection From Colon And Rectal

CancerIn an Australian study of patients with cancer of the colon or rectum, 715

cancer patients were compared with 727 "controls" without cancer.The researchers

found that the respondents who saw themselves as most religious were less likely

to have cancer than those who were not as religious. In other words,

self-perceived "religiousness" was a statistically significant protective

factor against the disease!Another interesting finding in this study was that

self-reported or perceived religiousness was associated

with median survival times of sixty-two months. In contrast, those patients who

reported themselves as "non-religious" had a median survival time of only

fifty-two months. (Source: November 1993 issue of the Journal of the Royal

Society of Medicine) Improved Coping With Breast CancerA number of studies have

associated a deep religious faith with an ability to cope more effectively with

cancer, including breast cancer.Researchers at the University of Texas Health

Science Center at San Antonio published a study about the impact of deep faith

on the condition of women with breast cancer. They found that with a group of

Anglo-American patients, "intrinsic religiousness" was a strong predictor of

spiritual well-being and hope- both of which are important factors for

successfully coping with cancer. (Source: Oncologocial Nurse's Forum, September

1993)A Healthier Emotional BalanceA study at Brigham Young

University in Provo, Utah, ranked participating young men and women as high,

medium, or low in the quality of their personal religious commitment. Those in

the high religious category, regardless of their religious denomination, scored

highest for self-esteem, emotional maturity, and nondepression. (Source: June

1993 issue of Psychological Reports)Lower Blood Pressure, Healthier

Cardiovascular System And Reduced StressA commitment to maintain significant

social ties, including marriage and religious community involvements -and a

willingness to act on such commitments-can have tremendous beneficial effects

on health.A study on this issue, involving more than 1,100 healthy men and

women aged seventy to seventy-nine, was reported by Yale epidemiologist Lisa

Berkman at a January 1995 meeting of the American Medical Association. She

confirmed that strong emotional support and social ties can help lower blood

pressure and enhance survival after

a heart attack.Berkman also found that significant social ties, including close

friendships and family relationships, improved the levels in the brain of the

chemicals norepinephrine and cortisol, which have been associated with

excessive stress.Stronger Marriage TiesReligious compatibility between spouses

at the time of marriage has a large influence on marital stability. A study,

conducted by E. L. Lehrer and C. U Chiswick of the Economics Department of the

University of Illinois at Chicago, also found that spouses of different faiths

generally break up more often than those with a common faith. (Source: August

1993 issue of the journal Demography)A commitment to a meaningful

marriage-rather than just cohabiting with a partner or remaining single-has

also been linked in scientific studies to some specific health benefits.

Researchers from the University of Chicago found that divorced men had twice

the rate of alcohol abuse as

married men. Divorced women also had more problems with alcohol than their

married counterparts. Other researchers reported that those who live together

before marriage have higher divorce rates, are more likely to be sexually

disloyal, and are generally less happy than married couples. (Source:

Conferences of the Population Association of America, April 1995)

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