Prayer Can Change Your Life: Experiments and Techniques in Prayer Therapy

by Elaine St. Johns and William R. Parker

Book Overview

A guide to helping you to pray and teaching you to pray the right way. Also helping you realize not all prayer gets answered immediately. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136947867
• ISBN13: 9780136947868
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Fireside Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An impeccably written book about the power of prayer

This is a comprehensive book about the power of prayer. The authors begin by describing experiments carried out in the 50's with a group of people in need of psychological help, who each chose one of three different methods of obtaining such help - psychotherapy, random prayers, and prayer therapy. On conclusion of the 9-month experiment, the first group (undergoing psychotherapy) was deemed to have obtained 65% improvement, the second (using random prayer = petitionary prayer) no improvement, the third (undergoing prayer therapy) 72% improvement It is the latter "treatment", which was so successful, that this book attempts to teach us. It contains detailed information about how we should go about learning how to pray in the optimal way. The key factors are recognizing the four "trouble-makers" in our unconscious - fear, guilt, inferiority feelings and misguided love (hate), learning to cast out these demons, and then praying in the correct manner. Prayer should not be petitonary, focusing on the problem, but affirmative, focusing on the loving power of God. This book, published in 1957, is impeccably written and goes into absolute detail about how to carry out effective transformative prayer. I can't begin to express the wisdom in this book, but would highly recommend it for those eager to learn this optimal form of prayer, though it will need to be read a few times in order to fully integrate the process.

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This book was on the New York best seller's list in the 50's. I read it then. It proves to "seekers" that the principles laid down in the scriptures are practicle; that they are vital to a full productive life. One of the most important findings, to me, is that "the 4 demons that Christ cast out were likely (1) fear, (2) guilt (3) inferiority and (4) hate/resentment." The same type of research was done on prayer as that of medicine or other treatments. There is a God given amount of energy to operate our lives...physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially, etc. , when that energy is directed to confusion or oppression, it throws a monkey wrench in the works. It is a "how to" book. Two years ago Dr. Parker's findings were being used at the Cancer Center's of America in their treatment of the whole person. Thank God for these studies. Yea God!

Prayer can change your life

A awesome book on self discovery. A help to get your self cleaned out with the help of the Almighty God.

Prayer Can Change Your Life

This book poses an inescapable challenge for every reader. It proves beyond the slightest doubt that prayer does work as surely today as it did 2,000 years ago, for anyone who is willing to make the effort to change his or her direction and follow the path to a more abundant life. Here is a story of forty-five men and women - some not even believers - who participated in an unusual experiment with prayer therapy. The results of their spiritual search show conclusively that prayer, correctly used, completely dissolves the troubles of modern life and brings us into creative, joyous harmony with ourselves, our loved ones, and the world. You'll meet the small band of people who, doubtful at first, "made themselves whole." And you'll learn how to use the practices they found as a beam of light and happiness for your own life - regardless of your personal religious beliefs. Inside, among many other things, you'll find valuable guidelines on: * four keys to successful prayer * ten steps to a richer, fuller life * how to be sure your prayers will be answered * and how to relate to God every minute of your life. --- from book's back cover

Studying the Effects of Prayer

Prayer is both understood, yet mysterious. Some things about it are straightforward, others are not as easily perceived. This book seeks to answer some of the mystery behind prayer. It views the process of prayer and the people doing the praying. Results are viewed, i.e., what happened following prayer?The authors concluded, that "prayer, properly understood and practiced, could change the individual life anywhere, any time, at any age." They discuss the proper way to pray, that is, without using religious cliches, they talk about praying the solution, not the problem and expecting results. In writing about wrong attitudes, they note, "hate always impoverishes the hater."Any book that points one to Jesus is doing a worthy deed. This book, by talking about prayer, is describing a relationship with God. It makes you think about praying in the right way, with the proper attitude.