When I talk about miraculous healing, many refuse to take it as proof that the system works. They brush it off as a result of faith. How convenient. Surprisingly, I never find people saying that an operation cured a person because of faith. I say surprising, because thats exactly what it is. Why is it that some operations fail, while the same operation done on another person is a complete success? Why is it that on one occasion, some pill works perfectly for you, but on another day, it just doesn’t seem to work?

A study was conducted, where a group was divided into two; one group was given a paracetamol (crocin) and the other was given a placebo ( a fake pill), but told that it was a paracetamol. For every five that were given a paracetamol, 2 were cured. For every 5 given the placebo, 2 were cured as well. It is, afterall, all in the mind.

For all those who refute alternative therapy as ‘just faith’, I have only one question to ask. If faith can cure people without medicines, then why shouldn’t we have faith? There are thousands of instances where doctors gave a person 2-6 months to live, the patient trashed the medical system and decided to live life on his/ her terms, and then went on to live many, many more years. Google Maya Tiwari, if you want a living example. There are others who had similar experiences with pranayama, laughter therapy, etc.

Science has also proven that having unshakable faith opens us up to a host of things normally not available to us. Reader’s Digest recently published an article on how those who believe in ghosts and ESP were able to access information from their subconscious minds. They did a test where people were shown a set of cards on a computer screen and asked to predict the card which the computer will choose.

What the participants did not know, was that for a fraction of a second the card which would be chosen, was flashed on the screen. The time interval was short enough for the eyes not to register it, but long enough for the subconscious mind to note. Those who believed in the supernatural got most of the cards right, and those who didn’t got most of the guesses wrong. The ‘intuition’ in this case, was just a simple connection with their subconscious minds. By having faith, you might be helping yourself evolve.

To sum it all up, I’ll put it this way. If faith can cure people of even terminal diseases, then they are utter fools, who do not believe.