spiritual healing
Prayer-based recovery
Spiritual healing is the practice of treating illness or distress through religious faith, prayer, meditation, or channeling of purported divine or cosmic energy.
Practitioners may lay hands on the afflicted, invoke supernatural forces, or guide patients toward inner peace.
The term encompasses everything from faith healing in evangelical Christianity to Reiki and shamanic traditions.
She turned to spiritual healing after conventional medicine offered no relief.
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- prayerAddress to deity
- prayer circleGroup gathered for collective worship
- meditationFocused attention practice
- inner peaceMental and emotional tranquility
sound bath · divine grace · sanctification · atonement · rituals · Ayurveda · holistic · divination · animism · deliverance · transcendence · intercessory prayer · laying on of hands · channeling · higher power · holistic health · healer · wholeness
- Pacific healingkahuna, traditional healers, traditional medicine, native healers, herbal medicine
- healing practicesacupressure, Ayurveda, chiropractic, herbal medicine, herbalism
- Japanese religionShinto, kami, Shintoism, Buddhism, torii
- alternative medicineacupuncture, acupressure, Ayurveda, ayurveda, homeopathy
- faith healingfaith healers, faith healer, laying on of hands, miracle cure, miracle cures
- faith healthcarehospital chaplain, chaplaincy, health ministry, faith-based counseling, Catholic hospitals
spiritual healingsurgery
Invasive medical procedure
evidence-based medicine · drug therapy · chemotherapy · radiation therapy · clinical treatment
spiritual healingscience
Systematic study through observation
evidence-based medicine · rationalism · empiricism · evidence-based · scientific method
spirit, heal, healing, spirited, spirits, spiritual, spirituality, dispirited, dispiriting