Types of prayer, heart rate variability, and innate healing

Zygon

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 825-846

  Stanley, Ruth ^a  

^a U of MN St Cloud Hospital FMR   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Christian healing tradition; Contemplative prayer; Desert fathers and mothers; Desert tradition; Devotional prayer; Gratefulness; Healing; Heart rate variability; Innate healing; Integrated spirituality; Intercessory prayer; Intrinsic religiousness; Meditation; Monastic prayer; Prayer; Prayers of gratitude; Psychophysiological coherence; Supplication prayer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950597650     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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