Larry Dossey
Larry Dossey
Larry Dosseyis a physician and author who has become known for asserting the importance for healing of prayer, spirituality, and other non-physical factors...
views needs form
Our relatedness with other living forms provides us something we sorely need: a reverence for the life of all creatures great and small, and an expanded view of our place in nature–not as rulers over it, but as participants in it.
healing knowing world
Health and healing are about more than the eradication of disease. Health is related to wholeness and holy-knowing who we are and how we are connected with the world around us.
prayer drug patient
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
attitude positive-thinking impact
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking.
oneness focus healthy
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues
spiritual garden path
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.