Some things shouldn’t work, but they do. Homeopathy is a classic example .However, this too is bilge because if water has memory then all the water in the world should by now remember everything that has ever been dissolved in it and be the ultimate panacea for all diseases. Be that as it may, the fact still remains that homeopathy works about 30% of the time.No one knows how placebos work 30% of the time, either. It’s another thing, like homeopathy, that shouldn’t work but does. Yet, placebos are so important in the allopathic drug manufacturing process that without it no real drugs could ever be made.
Nevertheless, the one thing that becomes clear is that expectation or belief in getting results works.The real purpose of prayer is to elevate us from physical to spiritual.Can prayer alter the events of life? The answer is 'No' and 'Yes'. Destinies of human beings are karmically interwoven. An example - a person falling sick has to be attended by doctors/nurses/family members/pharmacist, etc, -so sickness creates karmic interaction of the patient with others who are connected with healing process. Illness cannot be prevented as karmic matrix cannot be interfered. But 'yes' -prayer, provides spiritual strength to mind for abiding in 'thy will' and this facilitates that period of illness be lived through with patience and fortitude. Prayer thus reduces severity of distress and to that extent the course of life stands altered. The real prayer is done in solitary intimacy with the lord. It might have tears of emotional turbulence of heart - a blessed sadness of separation from the heavenly father. When a child holds the hand of heavenly father, he has nothing to fear. Then come what may, mystery and mess of life can be lived through peacefully.
In other words, faith works. It’s sort of official, too.I have found that regular churchgoers were more likely to live longer by — you guessed it! — a margin of 30% and itz can be taken as anti-poppycock too is it !!
