My Personal Experience with Stuttering and Meditation

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Re: Meditative Therapy

From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 10/12/03
Time: 7:24:26 PM
Remote Name: 172.156.206.237

Comments

Jill,

Thank you for expressing your interest in my paper. I think you may find at least the beginning of answers to your questions in my responses to Sue Arkans and Melissa Kaufman above.

If you are not already a meditator, I would suggest that you undertake the practice yourself so that you can develop experience with the process to guide you as to who, i.e., which clients, would be more likely to respond to a recommendation to consider incorporating the practice into their lives.

Incidentally, neither you nor Sue or Melissa asked about the effects of prayer on stuttering problems. Some people apprehensive or unaccepting of meditation to help them bring their mind and body into sync and to deal constructively with their feelings may find developing a practice of daily prayer, perhaps, overseen by a spiritual advisor, to be very helpful in living a full life and constructively managing their stuttering. (Patti Bohlman's comments above also attest to this possibility.)

Also, praying for the well-being of our patients may be something to consider. There is considerable research regarding the positive effects of prayer on medical patients. One study found, as a group, patients prayed for by strangers evidenced more rapid healing, fewer post-surgical infections, and a quicker discharge from hospital settings than a control group of surgical subjects hospitalized at the same hospital at the same time, when they were prayed for by a group of individuals who only were told they were surgical patients in a hospital.

Some surgeons openly pray with their patients before surgical procedures.

Larry Dossey, M.D., has written a couple of informative books for the professionals and the public on prayer containing many references to published research, one of which is entitled, "The Healing Power of Words."

Best wishes to you,

Ellen-Marie Silverman


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