At the 2005 Kaiser Permanente National Primary Care Conference in Maui, I convened a distinguished panel, diverse in disciplines, to address the topic of meditation, prayer, and spiritual healing. The following symposium is an edited transcript of that session. Meditation in the form of a relaxation response was first brought to conventional medicine by Herbert Benson, a Harvard cardiologist in...

This article traces the intellectual history of scientific studies of intercessory prayer published in English between 1965 and the present by focusing on the conflict and discussion they prompted in the medical literature. I analyze these debates with attention to how researchers articulate the possibilities and limits medical science has for studying intercessory prayer over time. I delineate...

This is a very brief review of some results from Refs. [2] and [3]. In holographic renormalization, we studied the RG flow of a 2d N = (4, 4) CFT perturbed by a relevant operator, flowing to a conformal fixed point in the IR. Here, the supergravity dual is displayed, and the computation of correlators is discussed. The sample stress-energy correlator given here provides an opportunity to explic...

Introduction: health is one the greatest blessings of great lord to people. many researches have been done that analyzed relation between prayer and health that most of them was about mental health. Physical health is a dimension of life that is importance and few researches have been done about it then in this article, we want study the relationship between pray and physical health among the i...

introduction: health is one the greatest blessings of great lord to people. many researches have been done that analyzed relation between prayer and health that most of them was about mental health. physical health is a dimension of life that is importance and few researches have been done about it then in this article, we want study the relationship between pray and physical health among the i...

background one of human’s psychological needs is to have a transcendent relationship with an omnipotent and superior force. prayer and praise is one of the manifestations of human relationship with the lord of the universe. objectives the study aims to comparatively examine the effect of prayer and praise on peace of mind and physical health from male and female students’ points of view in gona...

aim and background: prayer is one of the commandments of god and has an essential role in human’s mental relaxation. many text saboutreligion, spirituality and healing exist, and in many of them there lationship between prayer and mental health and the protective eeffec to fthese concepts have been noted. depression is more common among students. it decreases their academic success and achievem...